#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

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OK, maybe I missed it, but Ethan is Comicsgate again. Apparently. That's what he just said on The High Council. Am I the last to know? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere. I guess I need to go on Twitter more.
(he talks about it in the first 15 minutes of the show)
 
Oh yay. Another preachy comic book/anthology piece. These things are almost as boring to see pop up as I'm sure they are to read.

How weird is it that it's become novel to see a comic book that's just trying to tell an entertaining story? I'm not even talking just about superheros fighting villains or stopping crimes, I'm throwing any comics in there too. I remember seeing these Flintstones comics a year or so ago that were talking about freakin' genocide of all things. I don't get it.
 
I remember seeing these Flintstones comics a year or so ago that were talking about freakin' genocide of all things. I don't get it.

Or Jughead in the Archie comics being asexual. It's like these degenerates just have to filth up anything decent.
 
EVS posted the pics of his donation to PayPal to the Hero Initiative charity from his livestream superchats on twitter.
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He doubled the superchat money that was donated from fans.
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http://archive.is/LXZlJ
 
Oh, this is good. All these people who can't believe that people would pay $25 for (what they felt was) an ideological comic book are now going to put up or shut up.

I'd have thought the problem was you were paying $20 plus $15 shipping for a book that, given the way it looked, could have been sold for half the price, but that's just me.

OK, maybe I missed it, but Ethan is Comicsgate again. Apparently. That's what he just said on The High Council. Am I the last to know? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere. I guess I need to go on Twitter more.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9mZiNO17d94 (he talks about it in the first 15 minutes of the show)

I wonder how all the people who called him a carpetbagger feel now?

I remember seeing these Flintstones comics a year or so ago that were talking about freakin' genocide of all things. I don't get it.

DC's been taking the classic Hanna-Barbera characters and doing comics for adults with them. They did a Snagglepuss one where he's essentially Tennessee Williams - a gay playwright in the 50s, and it had an ending that knocked me over with how clever it was. There's also one in which Dastardly and Muttley are reimagined as normal guys who are exposed to radiation that turns them into cartoon characters...
 
They did a Snagglepuss one where he's essentially Tennessee Williams - a gay playwright in the 50s, and it had an ending that knocked me over with how clever it was.
That kind of sounds interesting. I might check that one out.
And also crossovers, like Batman and Elmer Fudd. They've been received very well, though I don't know what that means for their actual quality, considering the state of written comic-book journalism.
With the Flintstones comic I referenced before, all I ever saw about its quality was how "political" and "culturally relevant" it was. Two descriptors that are really loaded from past experiences. From the little I read, I didn't see much that made me want to keep reading.
 
Everything about that cover just looks, amateur. The lining is weak, of only one type, so nothing really pops out, the coloring is "fifth grader with only three colored pencils", making it look simultaneously flat, dull, garish, and ugly, the limb proportions can be justified by " muh elasticity powers", but not whatever's going on with Miss Marvel's face.

Iesoun Christon this is bad.
I'm late and it doesn't really matter but that's something everyone gets wrong. Ms. Marvel is not elastic. Kamala's power is actually shapeshifting and the misconception arised from her creator later deciding shapeshifting is "overpowered" thus only making her do dumb stuff like make her hands big or change her size on the rare occasion. They do an EXTREMELY terrible job getting it across though and it's usually other writers that make her do it.

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An anthology collection of more than 40 stories from an all-star roster of comics creators united against hatred, bigotry and racism.

So, I'm sure they'll be stories about the Chinese removing Kebab (imagine the surreal sing-a-long), Burmese doing same, Coptic Christians being murdered in Egypt and/or nummy nummy Pygmy snacks in the Congo (do they even taste like chicken?).

j/k - None of that is racism. Would anyone bet against this being 40 stories with white male villains in all of them?
 
Apparently to Gail, YouTube videos calling out SJWs throwing mud at Stan Lee’s name is bad:
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It was more than 2 people, almost all of them come from the Social Justice camp:
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Weird, how Aaron left out that detail:
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IIRC wasn’t Aaron the same guy that tried to get YaBoi’s donation to the lgbt suicide prevention call center rejected. Does this guy just hate the idea of charities?
 
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IIRC wasn’t Aaron the same guy that tried to get YaBoi’s donation to the lgbt suicide prevention call center rejected. Does this guy just hate the idea of charities?

He wants people to die because he needs the exercise he only gets from constantly dancing on the graves of everyone who dies.
 
And also crossovers, like Batman and Elmer Fudd. They've been received very well, though I don't know what that means for their actual quality, considering the state of written comic-book journalism.

The Joker/Daffy book & the Flash/Speed Buggy book were both great. Simple straightforward superhero/super villain stuff. Origin story for Speed Buggy & a little bit of a heartfelt story too. Daffy fucking with the Joker cause he realized he’s in too deep. Both with excellent art by Brett Booth & written by Scott Lobdell. I highly recommend them. No woke nonsense.
 
Can someone who's better at words point out exactly why "Eat The Universe" is an extremely off putting title? It'd be easy to say "it's cringy" but I think it's because it conjures up....certain imagery.

I'm late, but: it's unreasonably grandiose to the point of delusion for a bunch of grown-ass people talking about comic book shit. And it sounds "wacky" in the extremely formulaic way "woke humor" usually is.
 
The Joker/Daffy book & the Flash/Speed Buggy book were both great. Simple straightforward superhero/super villain stuff. Origin story for Speed Buggy & a little bit of a heartfelt story too. Daffy fucking with the Joker cause he realized he’s in too deep. Both with excellent art by Brett Booth & written by Scott Lobdell. I highly recommend them. No woke nonsense.
There was a weird JLA/Looney Tunes crossover a while back which cracked me up because at one point, Green Arrow (Ollie's son) gets the singing frog. You know, the one that sings 'Michigan Rag' but nobody believes it?

He spends the rest of the goddamn series trying to convince the other JLA members that the frog sings. By the end, Flash and Green Lantern are musing that poor Green Arrow might need some time off, the stress is getting to him...
 
they hit $15k already, with 350 supporters

i'm really surprised how easy it is to get hundreds of people to throw an average of ~$50 at a project that is essentially just a colorful album full of ORANGE MAN BAD propaganda
I guess tv, games, comics, netflix, news, social media and everything else that screeches "Orange Man Bad" all day, everyday still isn't enough.
 
NPR's 1a show just finished a circle jerk about how awesome nu-comics are for expanding diversity and empowering wamen I kinda want to bleach my ears now.
 
they hit $15k already, with 350 supporters

i'm really surprised how easy it is to get hundreds of people to throw an average of ~$50 at a project that is essentially just a colorful album full of ORANGE MAN BAD propaganda

But look at the buzz! There's TWO comments already!

I wonder what the "enthusiasm" to "grim duty" ratio is for those 350+ backers on this project.
 

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