How Marvel's New Superhero Developed Inflammatory Bowel Disease
>The story starts off conventionally enough for a comic book: A handsome and brilliant young scientist invents an advanced suit of armor, nurses a crush on the girl next door, and harbors a dark secret.
>But here’s the thing that sets our hero, Samarium, apart from the nearly 10,000 characters already created by Marvel Comics: He’s got inflammatory bowel disease.
> Custom Solutions takes that real-world market penetration further by creating superheroes designed to appeal to very specific clienteles, including the roughly 1.6 million Americans currently suffering from IBD.
>It’s also an illness that, despite awareness raising efforts over the last several years, isn’t the easiest to diagnose. Simply put, people are embarrassed to go to the doctor and talk about uncontrollable diarrhea, vice-grip constipation, or IBD’s many other unpleasant evils. These people need someone on their side.
>“It wasn’t about needing to be a superhero to live with IBD; it was much more about how everybody has some part of their identity that may be hidden, and has a life that they live beyond that hidden identity,” Rubin explained. “The whole point of this character and creating a superhero was to teach people that despite any kind of illness or disability that you can be an extraordinary person in many ways.”
It's Marvel, baby. Nothing surprises me at this point.
Isaac Brooks
Hi, welcome to the world you helped create if you've not been talking out about modern comic practices.
Buckle in, it's only going downhill from here.
John Phillips
>creating a comic trying to help these """"""""people"""""""""" >literally makes them a laughing stock
YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP WHATS NEXT, AN INDIAN SUPERHERO THAT INSTALLS TOILETS?
Leo Garcia
Mark Millar has IBD, why didn't they hire him for this?
Charles Perez
>YFW you will never be rich enough to have Marvel custom create you a superhero whose flaw is hemorrhoids or jock itch.
Jeremiah Evans
I want to reinstate concentration camps and the liquidation project of degenerates.
Ian Campbell
>You will see the creation of a superhero who is a pedophile. >You will never see Hank Pym forgiven for that slap.
What a world we live in. What an awful fucking world.
Jack Martin
Please don't tell me that he uses his diarrhea as a coat of armor.
Connor Fisher
Do IBD patients shit grey?
Alexander Taylor
Okay, I won't tell you that in times of distress he uncontrollably sharts out his armour coating.
Thomas Jenkins
>Marvel panders to the shit fetishests now
How far will this go?
Adam Brooks
Behold, your newest Avenger: Captain Uncontrollable Constant Diarrhea!
Jackson Wood
Just make your own hero and then sell the rights to Marvel when it gets popular.
Colton Martinez
you what
Michael Ortiz
When is this guy getting added to the MCU?
Picture this: A standard marvel movie, action, comedy, little bit of romance, that kind of thing.
But every 20 minutes the plot and action COMPLETELY STOP and the audience watches this guy take a painful, loud, messy shit.
Noah Jones
>yfw we got an official Marvel comic about a guy that has flaming shits before one about someone who is transgender
Elijah Reed
>You will see the creation of a superhero who is a pedophile Well yeah, Byrne wrote plenty of superhero books
Liam Adams
>>You will see the creation of a superhero who is a pedophile.
Batman has been around since forever.
Easton Jackson
Hurr hurr, you know what I meant.
A character who is developed to show a sympathetic side to pedophillia WILL arrive, you'll see. It's the next big thing being pushed.
Carter Evans
Which company had that orange juice guy?
Robert Wilson
There are far more people with IBD in the world than trans-people
Parker Roberts
Marvel
Aiden Perry
So he's Johnny?
Lucas Rivera
Sergeant Hatred was an example of a good pedo character: full of intense self-loathing for what he is, and tries so fucking hard to be better than his dirty little urges.
Levi Jackson
I have no doubt. The question is merely when. It's still looked down upon by even most LGBT and most of the normal population.
Hmmm, 3-5 years would be my guess.
Jaxon Hill
1.6 Americans according to the article.
Kayden Carter
you're still missing my meaning, Sgt Hatred wanted to be a better man.
This new character, whenever they arrive, it'll probably be a woman btw, will be absolutely at peace with what they are. They'll be designed to show pedophillia, not themselves, in a good light.
Hunter Rivera
>Marvel Custom
Marvel will make a comic to order for any business. Apparently these people paid a bunch of money for their very own superhero with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Carter Gonzalez
>be doctor >get sad seeing little kids succumb to nasty diseases >you just want to cheer them up >kids like super heroes especially those they can relate to >here you go Billy, your new favorite super hero, he has Inflammatory Bowel Disease just like you!
Andrew Morris
Okay, so who in Marvel editorial has IBS? It's gotta be one of them.
Benjamin Turner
Don't they already have the poster child for disabled superheroes? Are Marvel this desperate for new readers?
Jaxson Watson
They have Xavier too
Alexander Rogers
>Blind >Can't walk
FAR too mainstream, holy shit they're basically not disabled, you understand that right?
This isn't about the disability, it's about social nonsense. Not enough people use the IBD hashtag, that's what's really going on.
People who are blind and people who can't walk? Fuck those, there's lots of them!
Kayden Moore
Finally a hero for me.
Luke Sullivan
Wait. You're telling me that they decided to make a character whose base concept is having chronic diarrhea? And nobody thought this might be a REALLY FUCKING STUPID IDEA?
Ethan Wright
It's the House of Stupid Ideas, user.
Julian Davis
I'm pretty sure I'm at some mild or early stage of that disease, but I don't really need a superhero, my very own 'Captain Novolin' for it
Asher Perez
>Power to make armor out of your own shit at will Man I remember that tabeltop rpg ruleset...
Owen Hernandez
Eh the Orange juice guy was a fine hero compared to this one, had a much better look even though he only existed as a mascot for Florida's OJ
Logan Ross
The funniest part is, this is dead from the start as a concept. Because the guy is a hero and will see lots of action, but they'll never have him shit himself during his heroing, despite that being the most likely time for that. So you get a hero with the shits who can control his shit with no problem, which defeats the entire point.
Also, they straight up say having diarrhea is something too embarassing for most people, yet they expect those same people to go in comic stores and buy the adventures of poopypants man.
Alexander Flores
HAHAHAHA >We want the vitiligo audience
Connor Ortiz
>it'll probably be a woman btw
Cameron Bailey
>having the shits is more disabling than going blind or becoming a paraplegic >implying having said shits is uncommon enough to deserve especial attention
If anything, Marvel ought to write about supers with rare and actually debilitating conditions that really could use more recognition (read: funding for research). But we all know that won't happen due to their writers' and executive's collective superpower to function without a spinal cord.
Jason Morgan
What are his powers and how OP is he?
Daniel Perry
But rare and debilitating conditions are rare and debilitating. Rare and debilitated people don't go out and buy lots of comic books. Because yes, they're apparently doing that to pander to people with chronic shits. It's fucking amazing. Marvel needs to fire their entire marketing department, because they're very quickly turning into parody.
Landon Smith
IIRC he was some kind of solar-powered, low-key Green Lantern (as in made hard light constructs but not everything you can think of level, mostly simple stuff)
Easton Parker
This isn't sold in comic book shops.
Jacob Stewart
He's sort of like a solar-powered green lantern, has these pods that absorb sunlight and then let him do stuff like create objects or fire energy blasts, also gives him the ability to fly.
Also the ability to prolcaim to others the wonder of drinking your orange juice, its one of your daily 5! His family have an orange grove or something, its where he found the sun pods that give him his powers.
William Thompson
that's honestly pretty cool
Justin White
Try within the next two years.
It's being pushed hard.
Good. Don't encourage people to mutilate themselves.
Evan Roberts
>It's being pushed hard Where at? Ironically or are they serious?
Matthew Powell
Salon did that article about it, for one. There's more if you look around.
Being totally serious. This is why I hate progressives.
Christopher Walker
There was a Hitman villain about this.
Julian King
You hit the nail on the head. The sole reason they chose to inflict this on a superhero is because it's common and intractable enough to be a real issue, yet embarrassing enough to avoid public discussion (in person, at least). Worst of all, they'll just pay lip service to it for brownie points due to the reasons gave; they simply can't get down to grips with it without disgustingly derailing the story. You'd think they'd at least have enough intelligence to have the hero angst over a skin condition.
It's a bad idea with worse execution, and the only thing it has going for it are people whose egos are as easily stimulated as their digestive tracts.
Gavin Barnes
>brownie points Keked.
Nolan Morales
Imagine you had the power to make people shit their pants.
Even if you couldn't maintain it to the point the target suffered dehydration you'd still be a menace, no respectable hero could fight you. Even if they beat you no problem they still have to deal personally with the aftermath.
Joshua Russell
So, a more child-friendly version of Sunfire?
Jackson Edwards
That's strange because most progressives I see on the internet are anti-pedo
James Peterson
>Making Superman shart in public Do you think he would throw me into the sun?
Adrian Gomez
How would the power actually work?
Because Superman could just not eat anything for a few days, then he'd have nothing to shit out.
Jack Edwards
Sunfire is just shooting you with fire or giving you cancer via radiation, because Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
It really is closer to green lantern with the objects made out of sunlight energy side to it.
Samuel Jenkins
Then an energy-powered superhero or Batman with a WayneTech buttplug comes along and boots my ass to Ryker's, where I proceed to make life even shittier for the inmates.
Eh, still worth it for the laughs, I guess.
Brandon Rodriguez
>You will see the creation of a superhero who is a pedophile. Byrne created plenty of characters.
Christopher Smith
Don't forget the hearing impaired duo of Blue Ear and Sepheara.
Jacob Sanders
Why even add these, Hawkeye has been deaf for decades
Bentley Torres
hahahahahaha...i mean, just give up Marvel, pls just stop.
Christopher Carter
Because most casuals don't know that.
William Perez
These are custom one shots that companies pay marvel to make, why are they going to say no to easy money?
Gavin Long
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Evan Diaz
I'M READY! I'M READY! I'M READY!
Easton Green
Actually, I could get on board for a 1.5 hour-long movie like this.
Like a scene where the girl is waiting for him, wondering if he's off being a superhero or if his life is in danger. Then the scene switches to him screaming, red tears falling down his face, as his bowels recreate the eruption of Pompeii.
Nathan Ward
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Isaac Phillips
>Being cellmates with Gorilla Grodd >Instantly the most feared man in prison
This is gold, son.
Justin Foster
Is that Usher?
Jaxson Mitchell
Remember that time that the avengers had to save wakanda with an audi.
Logan Adams
Remember when the Hulk teamed up with Sleepy's?
Brody Young
>Custom Solutions takes that real-world market penetration further by creating superheroes designed to appeal to very specific clienteles, including the roughly 1.6 million Americans currently suffering from IBD.
I have IBD. Why would I want to read a comic that reminds me about it? You read comics for escapism, this is retarded.
Carson Perez
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Samuel Campbell
>Imagine you had the power to make people shit their pants.
It's called Transmetropolitan .
Landon Perez
You don't see DC pulling shit like this. It's called having some artistic integrity.
Nolan Edwards
I have IBD. Why the fuck would I want to read about characters that have to go through the same shit I do? Comics are supposed to be where one can go to escape the real world, not be reminded of it.
Actually, if her family had died in Hurricane Sandy despite her preparations, that'd make for a killer origin story.
Nicholas Ramirez
I don't think Marvel owns these characters, or if so it might be a co-ownership deal.
Logan Smith
Even when it comes to advertising, DC does it right.
Isaac Ramirez
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Adrian Gomez
Well, when it comes to original comics created for the purpose of advertising. The KFC ones, mostly.
Brody Carter
...
Hudson Wood
I remember taking a welding class for a gimme credit in college and they passed out one of these Marvel Custom comics about Iron Man and WELDING!
Ian Carter
...
Jackson Wood
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Cooper Richardson
What's she ready for? Is it dick?
John Torres
hurricane preparedness
Jason Carter
This is the first time I've been pandered to. I'm so honored.
Lucas Barnes
So she moved beyond the Superhero in Training level?
Sebastian Cooper
That's the one.
Jayden King
Are these actually effective advertisements? I mean yeah they get passed around in these threads because of the absurdity, but is anyone out there gonna eat fresh or become a welder because of these?
Nolan Kelly
Netflix series when?
Owen Peterson
>Marvel will make a comic to order for any business
How much you want to bet they wouldn't make a comic that disagreed with their politics or criticized their company?
Charles Fisher
Now I know I said Marvel was turning to shit but I wasn't being literal.
Zachary Hughes
fuck you you made me remember f.a.t.a.l.
Nathaniel Anderson
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John Evans
>everybody tries to make a superhero >Harley just wanted a blonde chick who rides a bike
Stay true, H.O.G, stay true.
Leo Nelson
Western union just wanted a comic about heroes getting money orders.
Landon Campbell
>Kamela tries to make a money order >Gets stopped by the NSA
Actually, that would make a good story where creepy SHIELD agents try to steal her powers or something under the guise of a "security investigation".
Would rich guys like Cho or Tony even need to use money orders?