Just found out that my friend's 40 year old wife is one of the people throwing salt for this shit. Like she's obviously WAY too old to have been part of the Teen Titans original cartoon demo, but then again she's decorated their entire house in Comic Book and Star Wars bullshit from the 5 cons a year she goes to. She's been trying to spread some dumb facebook petition I hear and getting mad at people who have replied with "My kids like that show, I don't see the problem"
So of course I had to tell her, in person "The original was just a shitty mellow drama soap opera for edgy 12 year olds, you were almost 30 when it came out, why do you give a shit?"
And then she had some rant about the old school Wolfman/Perez Titans runs, which yeah, were good, but the thing is, I knew her in high school, she wasn't a comic nerd, she didn't start that shit until 2007 or 8. She was never a nerd until her 30s. I grew up reading comics and I don't give two shits what happens in them anymore or with their properties because I really shouldn't be their target audience, my kid and his cousins should be, ya know?
So I had to listen to some hilariously whiney ass shit from my buddy's terrible fat wife about the importance of a comic series from the 70s/80s in teaching kids about art. Or something, honestly I spaced her out and just gave my buddy a look of empathetic regret on his life choices.
They seriously have an oil painting of R2D2 in a Victorian suit over their fireplace mantel and a Deadpool picture signed by a penciler on their bedroom door. They're good folks normally, but this whole geek-chic thing has made them borderline insufferable