#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[WhimsicalTrolli]

He didn't. He cared about the many gay CGers being lectured.

Name 3 gay cgers that actually cared about the tweet? It's no different than white sjws virtue signaling about a issue the black, Latin and Asian community doesn't care about.

 

[X Pac Heat]

YBZ is not going to hang onto his success for much longer.

This kind of depends on how you define "success"

Remember, we're talking about a guy who lives in his friends spare room. How little money does something have to make for it to be a failure for him? I want to see just how many people get refunds for this because based on some of the comments I read in his video he still has enough hardcore dickriders to stay very very comfortable it seems.

 

[Brother Maynard]

Guys, I'm telling you... There's a certain "subtext" to this choice of color scheme.

It's either that, or a My Little Pony clomped in and vomited all over Narwhal's drawing table.

Either one is pretty horrifying, TBH.


There's a market for Trump books, even if you don't like Trump or Trump fiction. I personally didn't and wouldn't buy them, but somebody would. Plus it's not like Tim could get it past a lot of publishers that SJW's have already dug their hooks into. Nothing in a Trump book should conflict with CG's goals. A Trump comic book gaining traction is a win against SJW gatekeeping.


Absolutely.


I thought about saying this. I have suspected it for a while now. The issue is that... for right now... FROG is gonna point to his big pile of money, and it's hard to argue with that.

I'm interested in monitoring how Lim does vs. CG-branded creators moving forward. Unless he epically fucks up somewhere, I think he might be poised to knock FROG off his pedestal one day.

The bunny is building a brand and growing his audience book by book. He's more Brian Pulido than CG. And like Pulido, all he has to do is keep delivering and keep growing, and eventually he'll surpass what Frog is doing, at least as far as customers. He probably won't milk his cows with repackaged versions of the same single book he started with for 3 years, and his audience is probably to smart to fall for that kind of BS anyway.

Frog milks his base like a pro. And they're all too dumb to recognize it.

 

[Rupin]

This kind of depends on how you define "success"

Remember, we're talking about a guy who lives in his friends spare room. How little money does something have to make for it to be a failure for him? I want to see just how many people get refunds for this because based on some of the comments I read in his video he still has enough hardcore dickriders to stay very very comfortable it seems.

i mean he’ll still get his books funded but, he’s never going to have the fanbase he once had aside from those hardcore dickriders. I mean, when everyone one of his books is late and they come out looking like the exact same thing he rails against in all of his videos, even those hardcores will start getting tired of it. We can already see it with 499.

 

[Mister Dongs]

But let's just get this out of the way, it's impossible to keep all politics out of play if that's what truly resonates with you. It might not be a book on Trump, but it will find it's way into the story if you believe it strongly enough. And that should be okay. The only thing Ethan seems to really treasure is loyalty which might as well be an unattainable thing that only a magic power like drawing purty pictures can temporarily grant. The problem he had with Tim was really just projecting an insecurity over someone he could not control as far as I'm concerned.

I agree. What's considered "no politics" is incredibly subjective. Even Cyberfrog isn't devoid of values and sentiment expressed by the author, which when taken from the individual to the social level are inherently political. Anyone who seriously argues for "removing all politics from x" is just operating from the position that what they consider "normal" is the objective normal and is either dangerously stupid or dangerously disingenuous. A more solid footing would be to say: people don't want trash no matter what ideological flag it's wrapped up in, but should be free to make whatever they want without interference.

That said, the Tim Lim business was all in the wake of Vox Day and his own attempt to steer it toward a radical political movement. Asking comic book fans and career professionals to go from "My copy of Amazing Spider-Man is shit because of woke editorial" to asking them to rally behind Vox Day and Alt-Hero, a comic about a European heroine who fights rapefugees while he made moves to trademark "Comicsgate" for himself was a step too far. That situation, combined with Meyer's idiotic thesis of "no politics!", created a demand for "no politics" that couldn't be ignored and here we are.

 

[Absurdity]

I thought about saying this. I have suspected it for a while now. The issue is that... for right now... FROG is gonna point to his big pile of money, and it's hard to argue with that.

I'm interested in monitoring how Lim does vs. CG-branded creators moving forward. Unless he epically fucks up somewhere, I think he might be poised to knock FROG off his pedestal one day.

But that's just it: you can't separate out that money to every decision Ethan's made regarding his brand post DC. He spouts off on how much he knows what customers want, but if he really did know then how could Reignbow (it's going to be bigger than Cyberfrog!) underperform? The single biggest factor in my mind is that he's been coasting on his salad days as a major comic book artist for the biggest comic book characters in the world. The farther he drifts away from that on these one note characters of his, the more disappointments are to be expected.

Sure I could be wrong, but this is why people don't learn the most from their successes. Proud people never learn. What did he learn about RB?

Lim has much more of that ability to crank out product like an actual comic book artist is supposed to do and therefore has a bigger chance to really develop his ideas much further. It may not make him richer in comparison to Ethan, but if he can make a decent living off it and can do it without all the other nonsense, he'll be far more respectable for it. There's already enough here that I don't think anybody needs to worry about where he'll be in the next few years. So as of this moment, they can't really do any damage to each other anyway.

At this point I'm all about dissecting the agitprop and the revisionist history coming out of our comic saviors.

Edit:

That said, the Tim Lim business was all in the wake of Vox Day and his own attempt to steer it toward a radical political movement. Asking people and career professionals to go from "My copy of Amazing Spider-Man is shit because of woke editorial" to asking them to rally behind Vox Day and Alt-Hero, a comic about a European heroine who fights rapefugees while he made moves to trademark "Comicsgate" for himself was a step too far. That situation, combined with Meyer's idiotic thesis of "no politics!", created a demand for "no politics" and here we are.

Vox was a problem, but that goes back to how lazy Ethan was in researching whom he chose to associate with. Vox has been around a very long time. He's internet infamous. Ethan is a larper, he had no idea what Vox writes about on a regular basis and it's not like Vox didn't run an active blog or had a gigantic trail of juicy passages to tell you exactly where he stood. That's what you get when you model your show after a cross between IBS and Howard Stern then check in with your gayops unit or Kiwi Farms to find the goods on someone.

He also could just as easily have said "I don't believe in this, I don't believe in that, and I don't want to be associated with you" except actually standing for something on principle is probably the hardest thing you could ever ask of Ethan. The principle of having no principles doesn't count!

 

[Pilule Noire]

I'd thought it was Narwhal being artsy fartsy and just sort of chalked it up to that.

I should have realized it was a nonsensical decision guaranteed to alienate people and was therefore Zack's doing.

He said the commie muppets panel is his favourite panel in the book! What an absolute terrorist, absolute monster.

I wonder if he reads this thread.

Zack, go and look at 'Scenic Simpsons' on Instagram please!
Hoo boy did you trigger me with your facetious Simpsons line of questioning.

Have I seen The Simpsons, yes I HAVE seen them! I HAVE seen them!
(I've got them BURNT into memory, in fact. At least the 5 1/2 good seasons, not the 20+ shit ones which I obviously wouldn't waste time watching)

I'm not going to be cruel to Narzack by posting 499 pics alongside these. I don't want to make the little Narzack monkey-beaver thing sad.

 

[TESTEFY-HD]

LIAM GRAY of CON-quest comics has been #ROMANCE with yet another FEMALE CREATOR!
- Who is going to be next?

Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/VCanadianBeef/status/1391179366671994883

NEW TREEHOUSE BUILD:

 

[Newman's Own]

Anyone who seriously argues for "removing all politics from x" is just operating from the position that what they consider "normal" is the objective normal and is either dangerously stupid or dangerously disingenuous.

My money is on disingenuous.

That said, the Tim Lim business was all in the wake of Vox Day and his own attempt to steer it toward a radical political movement. Asking people and career professionals to go from "My copy of Amazing Spider-Man is shit because of woke editorial" to asking them to rally behind Vox Day and Alt-Hero, a comic about a European heroine who fights rapefugees while he made moves to trademark "Comicsgate" for himself was a step too far. That situation, combined with Meyer's idiotic thesis of "no politics!", created a demand for "no politics" and here we are.

Tim got the boot before Vox didn't he?

In fact maintaining the 'no politics' mantra might be the reason that Ethan turned on Vox to keep continuity after excommunicating Tim for political books.

But it's more likely that Ethan recognized the inherent risk in playing footsie with a proponent of the 14 words. Especially with guys like Antonio in the clique.

"No politics" was a convenient excuse.

 

[Captain Manning]

this is true. YBZ is not going to hang onto his success for much longer. But I was comparing the numbers Rock and Roll Ninja got to Kamen Rider 3 and that’s where I came up with my consensus. In fact, a few months ago they had campaigns at the same time and Zach’s spaceship book with a shitty cover still outsold Kamen Rider 3.

Ummm... no.

Kickstarter:

Indigogo:

Total: $122,343. I predicted Tim was gonna break into six digit revenue with KA3, and I was right.

Meanwhile:

DO NOT make the same embarrassing mistake Liam did and just look at one crowdfunding site. You have to apply some addition. Tim is double-barreling this shit through both KS and IGG. KA3 (one issue!) has made more than twice what Rock 'N Roll Ninja did.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Look out everyone, I've got fresh droppings from a certain incredibly fertile mind:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pe1PkF49Vqs
I'm only six minutes in but I'm very entertained, let's say that much at least.

Great title too, RE-PITCHING 499- Or...How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love "Bisexual Lighting"

Haha! Only problem is it's not technically bisexual lighting, but rather horrific MSpaint coloring, that is the problem.

But I'm glad he rejects Frog's stupid bisexual lighting art theory though. Frog and his theories.

Pretty much if Frog has a theory about anything, you'll want to just pop that in the bin quietly when he's not looking. Don't let him see or he'll start crying.

Everyone's kissing his ass in the comments, is he using a mod to clean his comments?

 

[Rupin]

Ummm... no.

Kickstarter:
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Indigogo:
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Total: $122,343. I predicted Tim was gonna break into six digit revenue with KA3, and I was right.

Meanwhile:

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DO NOT make the same embarrassing mistake Liam did and just look at one crowdfunding site. You have to apply some addition. Tim is double-barreling this shit through both KS and IGG. KA3 (one issue!) has made more than twice what Rock 'N Roll Ninja did.

shit I forgot about that. Oops! I stand corrected.

 

[Miniluv]

Ummm... no.

Kickstarter:
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Indigogo:
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Total: $122,343. I predicted Tim was gonna break into six digit revenue with KA3, and I was right.

Meanwhile:

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DO NOT make the same embarrassing mistake Liam did and just look at one crowdfunding site. You have to apply some addition. Tim is double-barreling this shit through both KS and IGG. KA3 (one issue!) make more than twice what Rock 'N Roll Ninja did.

Interesting. I'd been led by certain CG pros to believe that KS considered non-lefty creators personae non gratae and that using both platforms for one campaign would possibly confuse your audience and you'd make less money in the long run.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

Everyone's kissing his ass in the comments, is he using a mod to clean his comments?

He doesn't live stream so it would be hard to tell if he mod people.

 

[Newman's Own]

I wonder if he reads this thread.

Of course he reads this thread.

Who do you think he was responding to when he "repitched" 499?

 

[Mister Dongs]

Tim got the boot before Vox didn't he?

In fact maintaining the 'no politics' mantra might be the reason that Ethan turned on Vox to keep continuity after excommunicating Tim for political books.

But it's more likely that Ethan recognized the inherent risk in playing footsie with a proponent of the 14 words. Especially with guys like Antonio in the clique.

"No politics" was a convenient excuse.

I wasn't so sure myself so I went ahead and double-checked. Vox Day moved to trademark Comicsgate in August-September of 2018, going by this, and Tim Lim formally announced his disassociation with Comicsgate according to ThatUmbrellaGuy ("neutrallly" reporting the gayop he was instrumental in) back in November 5th, 2018.

While Frog's motives for denouncing Lim's Trump comics as not CG are debatable, I think it's been established that Vox Day's incredibly shortsighted actions in trying to put himself and his political messaging in the forefront of a revolt of Marvel-DC fans had left an easily exploitable reaction to any political expression in CG 2018.

 

[Captain Manning]

Interesting. I'd been led by certain CG pros to believe that KS considered non-lefty creators personae non gratae and that using both platforms for one campaign would possibly confuse your audience and you'd make less money in the long run.

Yeah, @FROG was (is?) of that opinion. So were a lot of CG sycophants. I imagine Lim rolled his eyes, said "yeah, whatever," and used it anyways.

And wouldn't you know it... it worked. Most normal-ass people just want to know where to input their credit/debit card info.

It was really fucking funny watching Liam trip on his own dick concerning this. If anybody hasn't seen it, here's pure cringe:

Liam Gray - Sex vs. Substance - Kamen America volume 2

A rare stream from the smooth brain Liam Gray of Conquest Comics. Here Liam goes on a 30 minute rant about Tim Lim and his campaign for Kamen America 2. he gets corrected and eats humble pie in real time. Due to this, Liam had to contrive an excuse …

www.bitchute.com

Suffice it to say, KA2 beat out Xenotype. KA3 did even better.

Anyways, my point is that if you compare KA to Jawbreakers, Lim isn't quite there yet. However, to be fair, Zach isn't there anymore either. Right now, watching Tim is like watching a race car move up through the pack at a pretty good clip.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Oh my God, what even is this shit? His hands are inverted on his carpels, his fingers are steak fries, his trigger hand is just an amorphous blob, he's holding the gun parallel to his forearm and the scope is angled away from his face. The gun is nothing more than a warped metal pip attached to a block of wood.

Was Zach just trolling everyone the whole time? How could you promote this garbage?

Try and read that description, it reads like the plot to Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero but the Angry Sniper is name-swapped with 499.

And what is that abomination underneath the billboard? A Silent Hill monster?

Also if it's a Spartan culture, does that mean they're eugenicists who kill babies for abnormalities or signs of frailty?

 

[FROG]

Look, we can argue semantics if you want, but the fact of the matter is that Ethan took a hard line that political oriented comics were not welcome in CG. It doesn't matter that he had little means to stop Lim from doing what he wanted to do. What matters is that FROG didn't want CG to go in that direction, and Lim was shunned from a movement that is supposed to allow greater creator freedom.

And that's not only a fucking stupid hill to die on, but he's looked the other way when Meyer did it.

I don't care if ComicsGaters do political comics. My "I don't think it's 'ComicsGate' and I think it's a waste of Chuck Dixon's time" wasn't an edict, it was just my opinion.

The reason I'm still here is because it wasn't a hill and I didn't die on it. Lim was shunned for reasons other than the comics he was producing. He's an asshole. He hasn't been missed.

I wasn't so sure myself so I went ahead and double-checked. Vox Day moved to trademark Comicsgate in August-September of 2018, going by this, and Tim Lim formally announced his disassociation with Comicsgate according to ThatUmbrellaGuy ("neutrallly" reporting the gayop he was instrumental in) back in November 5th, 2018.

While Frog's motives for denouncing Lim's Trump comics as not CG are debatable, I think it's been established that Vox Day's incredibly shortsighted actions in trying to put himself and his political messaging in the forefront of a revolt of Marvel-DC fans had left an easily exploitable reaction to any political expression in CG 2018.

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My motives were, "I'm collecting blacklisted mainstream creators and trying to get them to create new stuff, so that we can fund campaigns as a group. Chuck Dixon should be with us. What is he doing making exploitation comics? Waste of his energy."

 

[Captain Manning]

He hasn't been missed.

With all due respect, I'm not sure I buy that.

You might not miss the personality clashes, but I think you're lamenting that his success could have been associated with Comicsgate if you were a little more flexible.

Regardless, I'm eager to see what the future holds.