We Are the Champions
Aug. 7th, 2019 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redrikkiUnsurprisingly, I didn't get much reading done while entertaining my mother. I did, however, read volume 2 of Marvel's Champions between when she left on Monday and today. This volume had a bunch of short stories instead of a real arc, but story number one gave me such Young Justice: Outsider feels in the way that they both involved the manipulation of social media.
In the comic, a group of assholes with superpowers they sell to the highest bidder decides to start a smear campaign against the Champions and Kamala slowly loses her mind about people hating them on social media. The back half of this season's Young Justice has had a similar obsession with what off-brand twitter has to say about the team. To me though, the Young Justice version feels really cynical. Like, both groups start because they want to do the stuff that the adult teams can't, but Garfield bakes the social media campaign right in as part of a deliberate PR strategy to stick it to Granny Goodness and Lex Luther. For the Champions, it just sort of happens. When their rep goes to shit thanks to the Freelancers, they just keep trying to do and be their best, while Batman arranges a false flag operation to keep the Outsiders trending.
I recently read that Marvel decided to cancel Champions which is a real shame. Not only did it have a diverse cast, a good message, and decent writing, it was fun in the most Gen Z way possible. Maybe if they'd done more to push it to it's intended audience instead of the Hydra!Cap nonsense...Oh, well. There's always Yuletide, I guess.
In the comic, a group of assholes with superpowers they sell to the highest bidder decides to start a smear campaign against the Champions and Kamala slowly loses her mind about people hating them on social media. The back half of this season's Young Justice has had a similar obsession with what off-brand twitter has to say about the team. To me though, the Young Justice version feels really cynical. Like, both groups start because they want to do the stuff that the adult teams can't, but Garfield bakes the social media campaign right in as part of a deliberate PR strategy to stick it to Granny Goodness and Lex Luther. For the Champions, it just sort of happens. When their rep goes to shit thanks to the Freelancers, they just keep trying to do and be their best, while Batman arranges a false flag operation to keep the Outsiders trending.
I recently read that Marvel decided to cancel Champions which is a real shame. Not only did it have a diverse cast, a good message, and decent writing, it was fun in the most Gen Z way possible. Maybe if they'd done more to push it to it's intended audience instead of the Hydra!Cap nonsense...Oh, well. There's always Yuletide, I guess.
