BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What if What if 08/21/2021 DTSTAMP:20250526T213039Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:311-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n What if What if 08/21/2021\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Wa s asked by someone online\, the following is my answer\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Its fine. I rarely hate any art. I never say any art is bad. No artists is trying to make bad work. So\, an artist may fail to achieve what they wan ted in terms of audience response or I may dislike a works aspects but it wasn't for lack of trying. .... I will specify a question. IF the question is\, how does the what if series settle into the modern media of comic bo ok story discussions? I think it settles into a pit. Modern media is for m any the nonviolent warzone. How many black characters? how many female cha racters? how many white characters? how many christian characters? how man y muslims characters? how many young characters? how many old characters? How many hetero characters? how many lgbtq+ characters? how many atheist c haracters? and then once people get past the quantity of representation. N ow the condition of the characters. He is black\, but do black people like him? she is fat\, but do fat people like her? They are lgbtq+ but do the lgbtq+ like them? The couple are bdsmers but do the bdsmers like them? Num ber of characters and then how are the characters portrayed. What If is a pander to those questions. People sadly think\, that when a character has their traits it means something. I have said this in the past and I will s ay it now and I will say it in the future. No artist is blockaded to creat ivity\, in my view\, but I look at the originators of characters as import ant to how I define their essense. Give me a black written /black drawn ch aracter and I will associate them to being black. I have always been a sto rm fan. Always will be. But\, Storm wasn't designed by a black person. and \, a black artists later manipulating what a white artist created. While i n no need of validation as art\, I do not see or will accept as a black ch aracter. What if captain america is a woman? What if Thor is transgender? What if Iron Man\, a fiscally spoiled rich kid engineering genious\, is Bl ack? What if will have many lovers cause it gives visual form to a small s et of infinite possibilities. What if is in my view\, a video form of what comics originally were. We forget\, before characters became so popular t hey had their own comics\, and became rigid or cultural identifiers\, most comics were what ifs? Most comic characters started out in what ifs. A wr iter has an idea and pitches it to the audience. If the audience like it y ou will see them in another edition.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Original Post\n\n\ n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1608&\;type =status\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210821 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR