#spencer ackerman

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Bucky Barnes

Iron Man (2024) #9

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Iron Man 1 (2024) by Spencer Ackerman & Julius Ohta

Cover: Leinil Francis Yu (variant)

The Stark-Roxxon War

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Spencer Ackerman captures the spirit of the moment.

https://www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-9-11-era/

This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era

Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fuck

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Iron Man 2 (2024) by Spencer Ackerman & Julius Ohta

Cover: Taurin Clarke (variant)

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Iron Man #6 variant

By lan Bertram

THIS IS SO SICK!!!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

These amazing dividers were made by @sister-lucifer

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Previews have gone up for #4 of Iron Man (2024), which will guest star Wanda, as she helps Tony unravel his enemies' magical machinations, starting with an amulet he recovered from Justine Hammer. You can read the full preview here.

I want to talk about two things. First and foremost, the coloring-- we've only seen her in one page of interiors, but Wanda looks fully white. You can't even excuse the dramatic lighting, as she is barely any warmer than Tony in the following panels. These days, conversations about Wanda's skin tone are taken in bad faith on all sides, but it is a well-known fact that lightwashing is an endemic problem in the comics industry. Fans demanding accountability and consistency is the only thing that's made a difference. If, indeed, this is just a matter of lighting, then that's bad artwork. Local hue doesn't work like that.

Second, and more pressingly, I do not trust the writer, Spencer Ackerman, with this character at all. I will never, ever, forget the time that he went on Cerebro and called her the Stephen Miller of mutants. It was so gross and inappropriate, and moments like that perfectly encapsulate how the vitriol directed towards towards Wanda, in-universe, has encouraged writers and fans to say & do racist things with the character, without thought or consideration. If nothing else, it reveals Ackerman's warped perception of the Decimation and Wanda's trajectory in the years since, and shows that he, like many others, would rather project blame onto this fictional character than the writers who placed her in the center of such a politically fraught, insensitive storyline.

And this isn't old news either-- this little on-page gag from Iron Man #1 makes it clear that, even if only in the context of the Decimation, Ackerman still thinks that drawing a direct line between Wanda and genocidal nazis + right-wingers is not only appropriate, but funny.

Ackerman is more politically savvy than I'll ever be, and as a veteran journalist, he has the commendable career to prove it. By all accounts, his outlook and praxis are generally aligned with what you and I would call the right side of history. I won't dig too far into his prolonged proximity to Zionist outlets and individuals, or past expressions of concerning liberalism-- to my knowledge, this is not a reflection of his current stances.

My point is, Ackerman is well-informed on the ugliest elements of modern politics and media, and draws on this wealth of experience in his artistic endeavors. That's all well and good, but when combined with uncritical bias towards a character who happens be both a racial minority, and the subject of several enormously insensitive storylines, the end result can feel incredibly nasty and mean-spirited. And in a book which quite seriously approaches its protagonist's relationship with politics and the military industrial complex, it's hard to take any such comment lightly. I certainly hope he'll leave well enough alone, but having expressed such disdain for Wanda in the past, I seriously question Ackerman's motive in bringing her into the series so early.

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The Wages of Leaving Guantanamo Open Have Arrived

It was always going to be a matter of time until someone filled it up again. Know your rights

A worthwhile read from Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

“The entire point of doing this at Guantanamo is to apply the machinery of the post-9/11 state to this latest version of the Enemy. It is to entrench in the public mind a conflation of migration and terrorism.

"THE THING TO UNDERSTAND—the thing that can be difficult to convey to people who've never been to Guantanamo—is that abuse at Guantanamo is guaranteed.

"Guantanamo is a black hole. It is difficult for the outside world to get to Guantanamo, even more than most U.S. military bases. You can't fly to a civilian airport nearby, rent a car, and, if base access wasn't already arranged in advance, wait at a nearby motel while your request gets worked out. There is no civilian airport or seaport nearby, only Cuban territory. Just travelling to Guantanamo requires pre-approval from the Pentagon.

"Accordingly, there will be very few outside monitors as the cages fill back up. What happens inside will take a long time to filter out. The command atmosphere, it seems obvious, will not be one that rewards treating the people inside as human beings. Everyone who reported from Guantanamo can tell you that the military controls information at Guantanamo very tightly—I was much freer to report on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan than I ever was at Guantanamo—and I expect that to be a feature of the migrant camps. When the gut-wrenching stories eventually emerge from Gitmo, they will be vigorously denied by the Pentagon and DHS.

"They will call the people sent to Guantanamo the worst of the worst. Some of them will indeed turn out to be frightening, violent people. But all of them, the innocent and guilty alike, will experience inhumanity, degradation and the anxiety of being caged for unknown periods of time. Many of them will certainly be children. Most of them will have wanted nothing more than to live in a rich, safe country, rather than somewhere likely destabilized in some fashion and in recent memory by the United States. More of them will keep coming as climate change intensifies, and so the Guantanamo migrant cages will expand and expand."

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Waller vs Wildstorm 4 (2023) by Spencer Ackerman, Evan Narcisse & Jesús Merino

Cover: Alvaro Martínez Bueno (variant)