Come on, are you going to tell me nowadays with it mentioned int he news as much as it is that a good editor can't see that line as being taken the wrong way? Please. I'm not saying Robinson meant it that way but please, ESPECIALLY after all the flack a few months ago with Cap.

I'm more offended by Lois Lane being married to Superman and knowing his secret identity than any tea party mention.

Read between the lines, bitch!

When's the next reboot?

Me too.

Well, Man of Steel lasted about 15 years, Birthright about 5, since we are in the middle of Secret Origin, I'll say..next year.

Yes. I am telling you that.
Not everyone is looking to find something political in their comics.
The way this phrase was used, is the same way it's been used for decades.
Just because "Tea Party" had been overhyped in the media recently, does not mean every mention of one has to do with anything.
Should the editor have pulled the writer aside and said "Hey, you know with all that's going on lately, could we use another phrase instead of Tea Party?", just because of the chance that a few people who seem to be looking for a reson to be bent out of shape might take offense?
Certainly not.
If he/she were like most people, they would read it as it was probably intended, and not given it a second thought.
It just seems to me that too many people out there these days are looking, even digging deep to find something to be butthurt over in their comics. People who don't want any politics in their comic books, are the ones that seem to be finding it the most, while everybody else just gets on with their lives.
Truthfully, I do agree that a comic book is no place to debate politics on either side of the coin, mostly because you are going to piss off half your readers regardless of which side you take. But worry about the stuff that really IS there in black and white/four colors, not something you are desperately trying to fit into the subtext.
Freud once said, sometimes a banana is just a banana.

I agree.

Should the editor have pulled the writer aside and said "Hey, you know with all that's going on lately, could we use another phrase instead of Tea Party?", just because of the chance that a MANY readers might take offense? Yes.

Exactly.

"Tea Party" is now a radioactive term?

A reboot may be sooner than we know. I have a crazy theory but I think it just might be true...

DC has a problem in that they are bringing Bruce Wayne Batman back and they don't know what to do with Dick Grayson without him looking like a lame duck. They just went through the same thing with Barry Allen and Wally West. The Superman marriage is another narrative hole I am sure they wish they could get out of.

DC Is about to begin the Booster Gold led time travelling mini-series Timepoint. it is said to be leading up to the next line wide crossover, the Flash led Flashpoint, which is suuposed to deal with time in the DCU and lead to major ramifications.

I think DC is going to address the aging rates of it's characters and somehow many, maybe all, will de-age a bit. By the end of the series Dick Grayson will be Robin, Wally West will Be Kid Flash, Donna Troy will be Wonder Girl. It might even be a way to undo the super-marriage. Tim Drake, Bart Allen, et al will still exist but possibly in new identities.

Just a hunch, but I bet they have something like that up their sleeves.

That makes a lot of sense.

The way they do it, there will still be continuity problems. This is what you do, just undo Crisis and have everyone go back to their right earths. And have the real Earth 1 return, with the heroes the proper ages and just wipe out this horrible one already.

Or just do a new earth where Superman is the first, Wonder Woman is the first superheorine and keep it classic

They really shouldn't assume their audience is made of rational human beings who don't cry about being offended over the slightest thing.

Because really, even if the tea party this was a "jab" at the Tea Party?

It's fucking kid's gloves.

Hear, hear.

The editor should have taken the writer aside and said, "Don't worry about these crybaby pansies that are more than happy to lob grenades at the people on the other side but get a sandstorm in their vaginas over even the slightest possible criticism of anything they're for."

Marvel Universe and DC Universe titles are not the place for partisan politics.

You know, Last Son of the Planet Krypton. What, they're more of them? Oh, well. Never mind.

One gorilla would have been better than this entire storyline and all its supporting characters, I think.

The editor should have done his job. Your, or his, judgments aren't relevant to the job. Part of the job is to avoid losing customers through inadvertently offending the readership. That means dealing with how the readership might react, regardless whether or not the editor agrees with their reaction, and regardless whether or not the writer even intended the meaning which generates that reaction.

I totally agree. That moment where Wolverine and Spidey fist-bumped over Bush not being in office? Totally lame and totally inappropriate for a superhero comic.

That said, there's no evidence that this is even referring to the Tea Party and we've got people saying that DC should have put the kibosh on this even if it WASN'T intended as a slam because people might make it up in their heads that is. Sorry-- bullshit. Grow a thicker skin if something that HASN'T BEEN PROVEN to be an insult offends you.

Honestly, you have to just write the way you like it and if some lunatic out there invents in their heads that you're shitting on them, you can't worry about it. Don't cater to nutjobs.

From now on, I'm gonna get offended every time I see the letter "U" in my comics. Because goddammit I find that letter offensive. Also, I want to know what a sandstorm in the vagina feels like.

Again-- Wolverine & Spidey slamming Bush-- editor should have done his job.

But now they can't use the term "tea party" because there's an actual Tea Party out there? Seriously?

How far do we have to go in our society to protect everyone's precious feelings? If Superman said, "Zod, you're almost as bad as those Tea Party lunatics...", I would be 110% with you guys on this.

But they can't even say "tea party"? If Spider-Man burst in on the Sinister Six and said, "Sorry to burst in on your little tea party...", that would be inappopriate for a superhero comic?

To me, that's totally insane.