#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[Emperor Julian]

I think his influence is the symptom rather than the decease. The artists spend way too much time online with total cretins theyve mistaken for peers

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I think his influence is the symptom rather than the decease. The artists spend way too much time online with total cretins theyve mistoken for peers

I would say he was certainly a driving force at the very least.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

http://archive.is/2eoTA

Colin Spacetwinks (worked on Zoe’s chuck tingle failure) has written another screed, this time less than 10k words, on why comics “journalism”/criticism doesn’t exist but you can summarize it as begging for money.

 

[PrincessHomura]

I honestly have no idea who Linkara is besides that people on /co/ seem to hate him. I've tried to look him up in the past but never understood what makes him so supposedly significant.

 

[Done]

I honestly have no idea who Linkara is besides that people on /co/ seem to hate him. I've tried to look him up in the past but never understood what makes him so supposedly significant.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/linkara-lewis-lovhaug.1442/

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

I have high doubts it's ever been said before, either here or anywhere else on the internet, but I think a metric fuckton of the blame for the current atmosphere of the comics industry can be laid solely at Linkara's feet. The current state of events in the industry is everything Linkara has ever advocated for. Just to show what an influence he is, here's some examples of artists slipping him into their books for a cameo.

Well, they got the smug, "HMMMMMMM?" face down pat.

 

[damian]

http://archive.is/2eoTA

Colin Spacetwinks (worked on Zoe’s chuck tingle failure) has written another screed, this time less than 10k words, on why comics “journalism”/criticism doesn’t exist but you can summarize it as begging for money.

God I hate when people use twitter like a blog. He’s acting more narcissistic than usual too, he thinks this one dig about a “80k worded essay” is about him, when pretty much everyone had ridiculously large “essays”, videos, social media posts, etc... on how Nick Spencer fucked up Captain America royally. You aren’t special, just another furry with a bdsm kangaroo fetish.

 

[Keep Yourself Safe]

http://archive.is/2eoTA

Colin Spacetwinks (worked on Zoe’s chuck tingle failure) has written another screed, this time less than 10k words, on why comics “journalism”/criticism doesn’t exist but you can summarize it as begging for money.

I was just asking about him in Animal Control:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/furry-fandom-and-drama-general.1102/page-395

Kieran Shitache has retweeted/followed him

https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/990636199407742976

 

[One Man Bland]

I have high doubts it's ever been said before, either here or anywhere else on the internet, but I think a metric fuckton of the blame for the current atmosphere of the comics industry can be laid solely at Linkara's feet. The current state of events in the industry is everything Linkara has ever advocated for. Just to show what an influence he is, here's some examples of artists slipping him into their books for a cameo.

And yet the only comic gig he can get are his self-published indie shit.

 

[AJ 447]

I was just asking about him in Animal Control:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/furry-fandom-and-drama-general.1102/page-395

Kieran Shitache has retweeted/followed him
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https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/990636199407742976

@Ride has the info on him.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I was just asking about him in Animal Control:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/furry-fandom-and-drama-general.1102/page-395

Kieran Shitache has retweeted/followed him
View attachment 438116
https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/990636199407742976

Spacetwinks keeps popping up in timelines when there’s drama about social justice but he spends most of his time (like all day) just spewing out random diarrhea.

He’s not really special, just another poor, gay “indie” gaming/comic autist who runs in the same Circles as Zoe Quinn.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

We've got another slapfight within the CG "community"! The players are Yellow Flash and Maroyasha (Who?).
Yellow Flash - (Twitter, YouTube) See for his previous spergouts:

Maroyasha - (Twitter, YouTube) I had no clue this guy was even part of comicsgate but he seems to think he's a big shot in CG when he only used the comicsgate # a whopping 3 times (11 total including non-#) He seems to be the turd on the punch bowl that has to moralfag at every chance he gets.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from:maroyasha comicsgate&src=typd

He's also whiteknighted for Mag's 'Transformer vs Visionaries' and thinks only people who religiously read IDW should review it:

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/949057082740768768
(https://archive.li/nlyK8)
Maroyasha's review
https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=XhEYw16n9uM;t=1Zack's review
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOxJ1zWasHgIt's fine if maroyasha likes it and all but he shouldn't say no one except himself should review the transformer books.

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/948937341472837633
(https://archive.li/vGQQG)

"How dare you review something without reading EVERYTHING that came before this issue, unless you have an above average knowledge of the IDW-verse, don't even bother!"

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/979192783431962624
(https://archive.li/S9Und )

Maroyasha has forgotten that any book could potentially be someone's first book and is a bit of an ass. Only reason I'm focusing more on Maro is because i don't think anyone here even know he exists, even on Youtube this guy is an unknown compared to YF:

This isn't the first time these 2 have clashed, but this time it got my attention because YF got the imgur link that @DickJet made of Matt's tranny furry porn comic book and publicized it to all the other YT comic reviewers so they wouldn't have to pay for it (AKA condoning piracy) and set off another spergout.

This is how this all started:

(He deleted the tweet but I managed to find an archive)
https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989355743303421953
http://archive.is/cCsap

It's a pretty long slapfight (18hours of tweets), so I will just keep it to the highlights, I will be attaching long screenshots so you guys have enough to point and laugh at.

YF made a tweet in which he draws attention to the imgur scans of Matt's "book", and he decided to tag a bunch of people from the community. Predictably it backfired on him, because YF is desperate to be the king of the CG hill and now he had to deal with pretty much the same backlash as when he did the black list. Now comes Maroyasha running in (he wasn't tagged) and starts sperging as well:

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989378797450530818
https://archive.li/KkBi1

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989379432690475010
https://archive.li/6PWGi

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989380270917812224
https://archive.li/OaKOl

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989382662606458880
https://archive.li/T49XF

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989383750378237952
https://archive.li/gkB64

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989393272282996736
https://archive.li/6DVWt

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989383544492437504
https://archive.li/W5Jzv

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989507179433652225
https://archive.li/UdDLi

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989396500613607424
https://archive.li/rkUTC

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989397278816423936
https://archive.li/058ly

Just like last time (Blacklist), the voices of reason won out and YF apologized again for being a moron:

https://twitter.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/989401234833575936
http://archive.li/mzoQy

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989578790820073472
https://archive.li/N7dR9

Sounds like something you should have done as well instead of sperging about your mentions for hours:

https://twitter.com/maroyasha/status/989471045940899840
https://archive.li/d3hlR

Muh Mentions #1

Muh Mentions #2

Muh Metions #3

Yellow Flash is more of a liability than an asset to CH. One of the lessons that CG could learn from GG is that being less toxic than the other side goes a long way to winning over the community.

Fighting over comics piracy is stupid, like we're all just gonna pretend the book wouldn't have been up on readcomicsonline soon anyway?

People who pirate comics weren't going to buy them to begin with. It's kinda like how some computer games went over board trying to protect their games, but only inconvenienced and alienated their customers. In the end, the pirates still pirated. It's funny how quickly their defenses against piracy are overcome.

Part of this is that they're getting sold out. For example, in Mexico, there was a raid against an operation that was pirating video games. It turned out that insiders were helping them break consoles and games. A theory is that the companies involved knew that they were going to get pirated anyways, so they made money by selling out. The other is that it was employees trying to make a quick buck.

Comics are even easier to pirate and don't need sell outs. All it takes is screenshots and an electronic copy of the comic. Trying to prevent it is just a waste of time and money.

 

[AJ 447]

People who pirate comics weren't going to buy them to begin with

With a lot of the tumblristas who barely read any comics anyway, yes. I'll read scans online because I don't really have an LCS, and I'm poor anyway, but if I like a story I will try and save up to buy it as a trade.

 

[damian]

With a lot of the tumblristas who barely read any comics anyway, yes. I'll read scans online because I don't really have an LCS, and I'm poor anyway, but if I like a story I will try and save up to buy it as a trade.

Given the convenience of just reading scans online it's impossible to stop in any real way. I myself do it sometimes but I at least always get the trades when they come out. Gotta support what you like and all if you want more of it.

 

[8777BB5]

This is why I now read Mexican Comics

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Fighting over comics piracy is stupid, like we're all just gonna pretend the book wouldn't have been up on readcomicsonline soon anyway?

Moral highground.

 

[FP 208]

http://archive.is/2eoTA

Colin Spacetwinks (worked on Zoe’s chuck tingle failure) has written another screed, this time less than 10k words, on why comics “journalism”/criticism doesn’t exist but you can summarize it as begging for money.

Hi Animal Control, I don't suppose any of you know about this guy, he has some crossover with comics circles and I was wondering if he had cropped up before, he seems exceptional:

someone asked if colin spacetwinks has been doxed and i got your man:

Colin J Meyer / Spacetwinks / Portland ME / Topsham ME

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beautiful-souldier#/ - http://archive.is/xplMW

he posted the first 11 pages of Beautiful Souldier on his blog here:
http://spacetwinks.tumblr.com/post/60128058828/beautiful-souldier-the-first-11-pages-more - http://archive.is/RoagQ

https://www.instantcheckmate.com/people/colin-meyer/?state=Maine
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Colin-J-Meyer/Maine?q=colin j meyer&l=Maine

he has a tie to this address
5 fair circle topsham, maine
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/results?streetaddress=5 fair circle&citystatezip= topsham, maine

http://archive.is/5dI07

http://archive.is/Q3FJo

 

[CIA Nigger]

So if he's white and he's writing queer black fiction, does it count as cultural appropriation?

 

[Slowboat to China]

he posted the first 11 pages of Beautiful Souldier on his blog here:
http://spacetwinks.tumblr.com/post/60128058828/beautiful-souldier-the-first-11-pages-more - http://archive.is/RoagQ

I read all eleven pages, and I sincerely hope this was a first draft that's been heavily revised since then. It's choppy, disconnected, and not exactly compelling ... Though I daresay it will be given a pass because it's a YA novel about a 15-year-old black transwoman with anger issues who's apparently slated to be given superpowers by a magical egg gateway into another reality.

The flat egg window throbbed and pulsed which made Gloria curiouser as well as further unnerved. Still uncertain if this was all really happening or if she had simply fallen asleep back home and was dreaming this all up, she was trying to make up her mind on what to do with the shimmering window before her.

Show, don't tell, eejit.

 

[Next Task]

Moral highground.

In terms of piracy, for what seems a large number of SJWs, pirating *is* the moral high ground - if you disagree with the creators. I saw a tweet from a lolcow saying that you should just steal shit from creators rather than try and consume 'vegan' - that is, not supporting anyone they find morally offensive.

Of course, this means that they can feel good about themselves pirating everything, because they find everyone morally offensive. It's exactly like when people - again, usually SJWs - defend shoplifting because it's stealing from large corporations and so you're inherently in the right to do so. And yes, this is classic 'it's fine when I do it' logic, because we all know the REEEEEing that results if they ever feel they deserve payment for something and don't get it.

I pirate, sure. Mostly for ease of access rather than anything else, but it's still pirating. But I don't think I'm morally in the right for doing so.