#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[MisterCH 86]

A wordmark trademark protects the literal text of a brand name, slogan, or logo without restricting it to a specific font, size, color, or design. It offers the broadest protection by covering the words themselves, allowing the visual style to change over time without losing legal coverage.

This isn’t just a sticker, Trademark Class 16 is the classification for both stickers and comic books, as it covers paper goods, printed matter, and stationery.

It’s DED because the status of it is quite literally “dead”.

It’s just information, don’t be so defensive, especially when you’re wrong.

if a wordmark trademark is lost, abandoned, or cancelled, it often means that someone else can use and potentially register that mark.

That being said, this was an obvious procedural failure, it’s not necessarily loss of rights, but until this is resolved, there are no USPTO protections.

Yeah well when they make another issue of it, we'll see how DED it really is. Also if it's not that big of an issue why even bring it up in the first place? You're showing a picture with no source to back it up, which at this point has become predictable and extremely stupid. I'm no fan of the guy, but the stupid gossip, the sad attempts at the gotchas and the whole giving yourself false hope of something bad happening to people like him has gotten old a long time ago. Posting this was completely random, and it had nothing to do with comicsgate, which tells me you did this to shit post.... well you did it in the wrong place because like Eric July, we don't agree with the Rippaverse hate or conspiracy theory gossip here...in fact most of us consider it boring and overdone, as well as overblown to look worse than it actually is. If that's not clear by now, then I don't know what to tell you.

 

[dukejinsen22]

Yeah well when they make another issue of it, we'll see how DED it really is. Also if it's not that big of an issue why even bring it up in the first place? You're showing a picture with no source to back it up, which at this point has become predictable and extremely stupid. I'm no fan of the guy, but the stupid gossip, the sad attempts at the gotchas and the whole giving yourself false hope of something bad happening to people like him has gotten old a long time ago. Posting this was completely random, and it had nothing to do with comicsgate, which tells me you did this to shit post.... well you did it in the wrong place because like Eric July, we don't agree with the Rippaverse hate or conspiracy theory gossip here...in fact most of us consider it boring and overdone, as well as overblown to look worse than it actually is. If that's not clear by now, then I don't know what to tell you.

You’re arguing feelings, not law. A trademark doesn’t magically come back to life because someone “makes another issue.” Once it’s abandoned for non-response, it’s dead—legally. That’s not gossip, that’s how the USPTO works.


And the “no source” point just makes you look uninformed. Trademark status is public record. Anyone can verify it in about 30 seconds, which you clearly didn’t bother to do before writing all that.


Also, pointing out a dead trademark isn’t some conspiracy or “gotcha”—it’s literally just stating an objective fact. If that bothers you, that’s a you problem, not a “wrong place” issue.


If they want protection again, they have to refile—preferably with someone competent this time. There’s no workaround, no sequel issue that fixes it, no amount of fan defense that changes it.


You can call it boring all you want, but reality doesn’t stop being true just because you’re tired of hearing it.

And for the record, I don’t have a stake in any of this—I just understand how trademarks actually work.

Link is below:

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/98589015

 

[MisterCH 86]

@dukejinsen22 feelings have nothing to do with it. It's just repetitive and dumb. You don't have to like Yellow Flash or whatever, but it's obvious you're doing this just to shitpost. Just know that nobody cares enough to make a big deal out of it now, then they did the first several million times it's been done.

 

[CAnthony]

@dukejinsen22 feelings have nothing to do with it. It's just repetitive and dumb. You don't have to like Yellow Flash or whatever, but it's obvious you're doing this just to shitpost. Just know that nobody cares enough to make a big deal out of it now, then they did the first several million times it's been done.

This whole thread is about shitposts. Let’s not clutch our pearls just because it involves Dillard, he’s hardly the gold standard of men to begin with.

Everyone shitposts about Evan, Liam and the rest of them all the time.

 

[MisterCH 86]

This whole thread is about shitposts. Let’s not clutch our pearls just because it involves Dillard, he’s hardly the gold standard of men to begin with.

Everyone shitposts about Evan, Liam and the rest of them all the time.

I don't care about Dillard, and you be surprised to find out how many other people don't on here as well. My point is Evan, Liam and all of CG actually do things worth shitposting about.....When's the last time Dillard did anything worth shitposting about? Please let me know, so I can at least pretend to have a clue on why I should care about him on here.

 

[CAnthony]

Dillard ripped off several fans, that’s what bugs me about him.

 

[FluffyJackal]

@dukejinsen22 feelings have nothing to do with it. It's just repetitive and dumb.

repetitive? He just brought the topic for the first time...

 

[Miniluv]

Posting this was completely random, and it had nothing to do with comicsgate, which tells me you did this to shit post.... well you did it in the wrong place because like Eric July, we don't agree with the Rippaverse hate or conspiracy theory gossip here...in fact most of us consider it boring and overdone, as well as overblown to look worse than it actually is. If that's not clear by now, then I don't know what to tell you.

Nigger who the fuck are you, the mayor of the Comicsgate thread? Did you take a fucking poll to see what "most of us" think about your comics daddy? I know you're the biggest Rippadick rider in the thread but that doesn't mean you speak for most users in it. Yeah, the EVS/CG hate boner for him is pathetically sad and fucking gay, which is why we point and laugh at it. That doesn't mean we've collectively decided to reflexively defend Eric July or anyone remotely involved in his bidness against anything slightly negative ever said about them. This is absolutely NOT an Eric July fan thread. You can stop projecting your ridiculous parasocial infatuation with all things Rippa onto the rest of us.

And while I disagree with the characterization of @dukejinsen22's comment as a shitpost, I'll be the first to say if you have an aversion to shitposting, I regret to inform you that it's you who are "in the wrong place", chief.

I don't care about Dillard, and you be surprised to find out how many other people don't on here as well. My point is Evan, Liam and all of CG actually do things worth shitposting about.....When's the last time Dillard did anything worth shitposting about? Please let me know, so I can at least pretend to have a clue on why I should care about him on here.

Who said you should care? If you don't care, don't reply. This thread does not revolve around what you deem worthy of discussion. If you have something to add, add it. If not, keep it moving.

 

[Mr Processor]

Even when they pay them to talk about Zack, they only mention him almost as an afterthought...

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"Actually, I don't think about you at all."


I don't want to watch either of these. I'm curious about their contents though. I'll say this:

1. I don't think even people in Hollywood defend Zeigler anymore.
2. If he's trying to re-brand as woke, attacking the two women he's fixated on again (while attacking his latest Black Beast) isn't going to endear him.

He's become quite an unpleasant old crank.

 

[Contemptive Court]

Even when they pay them to talk about Zack, they only mention him almost as an afterthought...

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This is a 5 page rant by the standards of this one-sided feud. Over the summer, some jilted Rambo backer (or clever shitposter) confronted Drinker with alleged non-fulfillment by Meyer, and Drinker pretended that "Splatto Comics" was a real entity and not one semi-employed unmotivated houseguest.

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Ben Fis says, "Yo, Drinker, what's the word on your Rambo comic? Some of us
backers are still waiting on your hardback copies. No disrespect to you. Just wondering if you knew what was up. Thanks." That is that is baffling if you still haven't received your copies. I mean, as far as I know, everyone got
theirs like 2 years ago. Um, yeah. Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, I just I was...

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I don't want to watch either of these. I'm curious about their contents though. I'll say this:

1. I don't think even people in Hollywood defend Zeigler anymore.
2. If he's trying to re-brand as woke, attacking the two women he's fixated on again (while attacking his latest Black Beast) isn't going to endear him.

He's become quite an unpleasant old crank.

RCM's contempt for people who got into comics after he did exceeds even his contempt for people who got into comics before he did. Even in his relevant years, he often couldn't conceal his disdain for X-Men cartoon millennials, even though X-Men cartoon millennials constituted a plurality of Big 2 sales and the majority of his audience.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

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So he's a fake geek guy for not remembering a flash book from the 90s? When he was still in single digits?

 

[Strix454]

I don't want to watch either of these. I'm curious about their contents though.

1) The first one is just Richard repeating his defense of Rachel Zeigler. Its mostly male feminism. Its tone deaf and stupid. Nobody likes Rachel anymore or bothers to defend her.
2) In the second one, Richard searches back in Eric July's 18 years of videos. Richard discover a video ten years ago where Eric July bought an MCU wall sign ten years ago which explains everything. Richard determined that Eric July isn't a "real" comics guy because he didn't do videos about them ten years ago. So he is just like Heather Antos because the only problem ever with Heather Antos turns out to be that she was making comics while not being A REAL COMICS FAN.

Real comics fans are comics fans from birth. And if you are not a real comics fan, you have no right whatsoever to make comics like a true artist like Richard.

Eric July also proved that he was unfit to make comics because he couldn't remember the issue number of Flash that he bought as his first comic when he was six years old.

I guess the only funny irony in the video is that Richard erased all his old videos to prevent anyone from doing what he just did to Eric July.

 

[Vida]

Zack asks ChatGPT to tell him why Eric July is a fake fan

Zack trying very hard not to call Eric a nigger

 

[Mr Processor]

2) In the second one, Richard searches back in Eric July's 18 years of videos. Richard discover a video ten years ago where Eric July bought an MCU wall sign ten years ago which explains everything. Richard determined that Eric July isn't a "real" comics guy because he didn't do videos about them ten years ago. So he is just like Heather Antos because the only problem ever with Heather Antos turns out to be that she was making comics while not being A REAL COMICS FAN.

Real comics fans are comics fans from birth. And if you are not a real comics fan, you have no right whatsoever to make comics like a true artist like Richard.

Eric July also proved that he was unfit to make comics because he couldn't remember the issue number of Flash that he bought as his first comic when he was six years old.

I guess the only funny irony in the video is that Richard erased all his old videos to prevent anyone from doing what he just did to Eric July.

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The thing Richard craves more than anything is authority, and I can demolish any authority he thinks he gets from reading old G. I. Joe comics pretty quickly. He is not intelligent, creative, artistic or original. He's also very lazy. So, it doesn't matter if he somehow read the entire Marvel catalog back to the beginnings, he wouldn't really understand it. The only reason he managed to make comics that look somewhat professional was because he was carried by actual professionals. When he tries to make comics on his own he comes up with stuff like ComicBook: The ComicBook, which he then doesn't finish either out of laziness, cowardice, or figuring out that he's going to get a cease and desist (if he hasn't already and kept it quiet to fleece the rubes).

If we ignore his failings as a comic book... publisher(?), well, as a comic book essayist he's much worse. Unless he's just basically explaining the plot of a comic book he's read with as much detail as he can remember, usually when he talks about them he completely misses the point and wants to rewrite them into something stupider. As a cultural critic he tends to like stuff that fails miserably. I think he's being a deliberate contrarian there because it would be almost impossible to like stuff that fails so consistently otherwise.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

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This nigga using chat gpt for conversations. It's kinda a no brainer a guy born in 1990 on the dot is going to have a large comic profile based on the 90s. It's ironic considering Richard lawbreakers is no different than Rob leifield's captain america run.

 

[KiwiChud]

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[Captain Manning]

Nigger who the fuck are you, the mayor of the Comicsgate thread? Did you take a fucking poll to see what "most of us" think about your comics daddy? I know you're the biggest Rippadick rider in the thread but that doesn't mean you speak for most users in it.

He's Enlightened Fan. @COMMI3 MARK and @Fleetwood proved it last year, in case you missed it.

I thought the attempt to force lolcow status on Eric July was annoying (and I still do), but the demand from some corners that we all get kneepads out and suck Eric July's cock is equally fucking annoying. It might even be more so at this point, because I think most people on KF are in general agreement now that Zack and EVS have completely lost the plot when it comes to their hateboner for July. Deifying Eric July is absolutely not a precondition to mocking Zack and EVS as they continue to circle the drain.

IMO, this dude has always been a drag on the thread and makes any attempt at a discussion even tangentially involving Eric July, outside of mindlessly worshipping him, extraordinarily unpleasant.

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[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

It's crazy how much a successful black man in comics really pisses off certain people to the point that they're willing to piss away what little careers they have in order to spend years taking shots at him. EVS is a narcissist so it's on point for him, but why is Zack so mad at him? It reminds me of all those anti-racist liberals who spent days calling Clarence Thomas a nigger because of the Roe reversal, completely ignoring the white justices and laser-focusing right on the black guy.

 

[KiwiChud]

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It's crazy how much a successful black man in comics really pisses off certain people to the point that they're willing to piss away what little careers they have in order to spend years taking shots at him. EVS is a narcissist so it's on point for him, but why is Zack so mad at him? It reminds me of all those anti-racist liberals who spent days calling Clarence Thomas a nigger because of the Roe reversal, completely ignoring the white justices and laser-focusing right on the black guy.

It's crab bucket mentality they hate that some newbie is more successful than them and they can't stand it. Especially with Ethan because Eric July is proof that you don't need to lick the frog taint to be successful in indie comics, with Iconic he could write them off because cyberfrog made more money with Rippaverse however not only do they make more than cyberfrog they make more than all of CG. The funny thing is if Ethan wasn't such a control fag both he and CG could have benefited from working with the Rippaverse either with variant covers. Posters or even interiors for a comic. IMO Eric July makes Mid comics but at least he's not a gay control freak like Ethan Van Sciver

 

[Miniluv]

He's Enlightened Fan. @COMMI3 MARK and @Fleetwood proved it last year, in case you missed it.

I sure did miss that. Thank you, Cap. I knew he was a retard, I just didn't know he was that particular retard. Christ, it's worse than I thought.

I thought the attempt to force lolcow status on Eric July was annoying (and I still do), but the demand from some corners that we all get kneepads out and suck Eric July's cock is equally fucking annoying. It might even be more so at this point, because I think most people on KF are in general agreement now that Zack and EVS have completely lost the plot when it comes to their hateboner for July. Deifying Eric July is absolutely not a precondition to mocking Zack and EVS as they continue to circle the drain.

It's a little too easy for me to lean into a sort of reactive devaluation as a heuristic. It's fine in a general sense sometimes. I can reasonably infer that if the redditor faggot class are vehemently opposed to something I don't know much about, that thing is probably not that bad or even flat-out great. But discernment is a gift of the holy spirit and even a blind hog finds a truffle now and then.

EVS and Zack are both nearing the bottom of their particular barrels and the fantastic pressure of those depths has wreaked havoc on their brain tissue, BUT their impotent, retarded bleating doesn't mean Eric July's comics are necessarily good. On the contrary, that's what makes the pitiful hate boner so funny. Eric July makes mediocre, run of the mill capeshit that he manages to deliver in a timely fashion and he makes good money doing it. EVS and Zack can't even manage that and it has broken their fucking minds to the point of insanity.

Two things can be true at once: Ethan and Zack are retarded assholes driven to insanity by the threat of Eric July's success AND Eric July makes a meh product.

IMO, this dude has always been a drag on the thread and makes any attempt at a discussion even tangentially involving Eric July, outside of mindlessly worshipping him, extraordinarily unpleasant.

Amen. A few times I've tried to be charitable and cordial about his taking offense to any and all sentiments remotely critical of Rippathings, but it just doesn't stop. Then he did the whole "wHy EvaN doNt haB a tHreAd" shit, which I tried to explain, once politely and again rather curtly, to no avail. I wasn't planning to call him out like I did but his pretending to represent the opinions of most Farmers here, acting like some kind of authority on what is or isn't up for discussion on this thread, and just his general faggotry was too much.