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** Let's not even mention the whole plagiarism issue, will you?
* Cassandra Cain, decent character ruined by being given to a horrible writer or horrible [[Canon Sue]] that needs to be killed off as soon as possible? Also occurs to a lesser extent with X-23.
* Ask comic book fans who is right in the ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'': pro-regs or anti-regs, and watch how in less than 3 minutes [[
* The ''[[Watchmen]]'' [[Watchmen (Film)|film adaptation]] has caused a particular ping-ponging back draft, as the movie seems to inspire a clear amount of [[Love It or Hate It]]. Topics include whether it should have been made against the creator's wishes, the quality of the final product as a whole, or just the altered ending in the film and whether it worked or not. Note that this a vast understatement of how these arguments usually play out.
* Mention ''[[Young Justice (Comic Book)|Young Justice]]'''s cancellation. Chances are, someone will go on a soapbox about how ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' ruined the characters or [[Demoted to Extra|ignored the good ones]], or just say that YJ <s>fans</s> were a bunch of immature kids.
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*** Pretty much any posting which addresses race, sexuality and gender in comics can create a firestorm in the right conditions. Or even the wrong conditions.
** Say you think [[The Modern Age of Comic Books]] is the best age of comic books.
** Even [[Gail Simone]], one of the community's favorite writers and a semi-frequent poster there, isn't immune from their wrath. Recently, she wrote an issue in which a gay character apparently commits suicide. The community yelled at her to [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]. When she explained that they should wait and see how the arc resolves, they fired back at her that it doesn't ''matter'' how the arc resolves, as it's still a stereotype. Simone said [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]. She got the last laugh, though, as the next issue revealed the character to be alive!
* Almost anything and everything about [[Wonder Woman]] and what's been happening to her in the last few years will provoke screaming matches in the right places:
** Whether she should have pants or not.
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* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' spinoff ''[[New Mutants|New X-Men]]'' is something of a [[Cult Classic]], never reaching astronomical sales numbers but maintaining an enduring fanbase all the same, and it had two diametrically-opposed runs in its time: the first, by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christine Weir, was essentially a lighthearted high school drama, and the followup run by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost was a [[Darker and Edgier]] traditional superhero book. Now, you can quite easily get away with saying you liked either of these runs, but what you should ''never'' voice your opinion on is which you thought was ''better''. DeFilippis/Weir had no conflict! Kyle/Yost was gratuitously gory and insulting to fans! The title's been canceled for years and bringing up this subject is still a barrel of TNT waiting to go off. DeFilippis, who is active in fan communities, has repeatedly come out to defend Kyle and Yost from angry fans, for what it's worth.
* Go onto any ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' forum and bring up the comics. Sit back and watch a battle erupt over whether they're a good addition to the canon or totally screwed up and little better than glorified fanfic.
* A recent ''[[Life With Archie the Married Life]]'' story was highlighted by the marriage of Kevin Keller to his life partner. Groups such as [[Non
* Doing a series of prequel to ''[[Watchmen]]'' was always going to be controversial, as it's one of the most loved works in comics history. Add in the fact that [[Alan Moore]] has a well-publicised beef with the [[DC Comics]] higher-ups over the rights to the series ''and'' has vocally spoken out against the prequels, however, and you're just creating the perfect circumstances for a wank of megaton proportions. And so it was when ''Before Watchmen'' was announced...
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