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If Marvel's track record with the 5,000 relaunches of Ms. Marvel, Carl Manvers, and the Unreadable Wasp are any indication, expect the book to get relaunched next year.
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If Marvel's track record with the 5,000 relaunches of Ms. Marvel, Carl Manvers, and the Unreadable Wasp are any indication, expect the book to get relaunched next year.
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The old colored inserts for Judge Dredd in the late 80's into the early 90's looked so good, I had a couple in mind that I was going to post but found these instead.
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Scraping the arse end of the barrel for these.
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She's so fucking ugly. I've seen hentai artists draw better than this and this is zero exaggeration.
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Why haven’t any of the SJW writers ever learn from people who came before them?
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I can't imagine anyone cares about it at this point but The Walking Dead just did a thing.
Ricks dead. Got shot 3-4 times by the son of the leader of the Common Wealth and died and turned in his bed. Carl goes to see Rick in the morning, finds him zombified and immediately puts him down and then breaks down. I imagine they're going to go with another time skip for 200, or the arch immediately following. A new character who mirrors Rick is also going to be introduced soon, Kapoor who is just a black version of Rick and a full Sheriff. Nothing to say about him character wise though, hes only shown up in covers.
Still not an amazing read but i'm interested to see where they are heading.
Ricks dead. Got shot 3-4 times by the son of the leader of the Common Wealth and died and turned in his bed. Carl goes to see Rick in the morning, finds him zombified and immediately puts him down and then breaks down. I imagine they're going to go with another time skip for 200, or the arch immediately following. A new character who mirrors Rick is also going to be introduced soon, Kapoor who is just a black version of Rick and a full Sheriff. Nothing to say about him character wise though, hes only shown up in covers.
Still not an amazing read but i'm interested to see where they are heading.
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The impression I got with the Squirrel Girl stuff was that everyone loathed the art, but when the writing avoided being an SJW screed it was actually quite fun. Which if true makes me wonder if some fan who doesn't draw intentionally ugly pictures has made the comic more pleasing visually, at least.
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Everything about Squirrel Girl is bad, including the writing. Squirrel Girl is suddenly a STEM major going to a college in Canada because god forbid a female character not also be into the science. She has two friends of color who exist solely to fill a quota and cheer on Squirrel Girl during her adventures. They have no personalities or lives of their own, and might possibly blink out of existence when Squirrel Girl isn't around. Ryan North, the writer, is also needlessly wordy. He reminds me of Mark Evanier in that he doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and let the artist sell the joke. Ryan also does the alt-text thing you see in web comics where he constantly pats himself on the back for how clever he is. Its obnoxious.
I will say that the new artist, Derek Charm, is better than Erica Henderson. His Squirrel Girl may look a lot like Tintin, but at least she's not fat (there seems to be some confusion among Marvel artists over whether Squirrel Girl is fat. The confusion stems, I think, from Henderson's terrible design). Derek also seems to be jamming a lot more visual jokes into the comic, which is something Henderson never, ever did.
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now the transfolk are eating another warrior alive because only actual females can menstruate?
Ask Chelsea Cain About Her Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist Agenda
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Chelsea Cain Deletes Twitter Account
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She's a talent-free comic book "writer" that attempted to court lefty dollars with some "hot button" political opinions, all the while selling a very low number of actual books. She then went to create her own book, something about women turning into werecats when they start on their rag, which has no enraged those that think that anything other than females have periods.
Ask Chelsea Cain About Her Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist Agenda
Ask Chelsea Cain About Her Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist Agenda
Chelsea Cain spiraled this weekend after posting a reader's critical tweets of Man-Eaters in the latest issue, Man-Eaters #9.
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Writer Chelsea Cain has had a tumultuous past relationship with social media. Cain briefly quit social media in 2016 after backlash to the cover of Mockingbird #8 (which Cain wrote, though the cover was drawn by Joelle Jones), in which the titular hero wore a t-shirt which famously invited readers to “Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda.” It was a defining moment for the comics medium presence of Cain, who is known primarily as a novelist. Cain announced her return to comics in 2018 with Man-Eaters, a comic in which girls are transformed into killer were-cats, a transformation caused by menstruation.
Cain responded to some of that criticism, including in an interview with Women Write About Comics:
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But 9 issues into Man-Eaters, that binary view of gender is still present in the book and continues to be criticized. Cain has occasionally responded to that criticism, most relevantly for this story to one particular reader, who stated on Twitter back in May, “I want to like @ImageComics #ManEaters so bad, but it is SO HEAVILY founded in bio essentialism and TERFness that it’s impossible to not feel like it perpetuates the same misogyny/systemic violence that it’s attempting to tackle.”
TERF is an acronym that stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, in other words, someone who espouses feminist beliefs but does not believe that transgender women count as women, attempting to exclude them from women’s spaces.
“I appreciate any comic on menstruation and the literal violent eating of men—I super duper do—but #ManEaters further cements the toxicity of a gender binary in a heavy-handed, sad way,” another tweet from the same person said.
At the time, Cain responded to these tweets, saying, “Again, thanks for the feedback. Seems like you’re a regular reader. Which is…weird. Because you hate us. I’m so grateful for the work of our three 14-year-old contributors. And then I read comments like yours, and I think WHAT HAVE I DONE?” and “We will work on being more nuanced. And less specific. I guess I think of stories as points-of-view. As in, a person’s story in the world. I guess I thought that being specific was kind of the reason I was doing this.”
However, in the recently released Man-Eaters #9, both of the reader’s tweets were featured in the pages of the comic, plastered on billboards on the wall of the forced reeducation camps in the book. As the panels blew up on social media, the original reader noted that she was feeling overwhelmed and was turning off her notifications, which is why her tweets have been quoted, rather than embedded, above, in an attempt to respect anonymity as much as possible, even if that cat is already out of the bag, thanks to all of this.
Once pointed out, this has, as one might expect, not gone over very well, with fans, critics, and fellow comic book creators taking to Twitter to comment on it.
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Though some did come to Cain’s defense.
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After remaining silent for the early part of the day Saturday as the furor grew on Twitter, Cain initially responded:
Which led to further discussion of Cain’s reaction to criticism.
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A few hours later, Cain took another try at a response, tweeting a public statement:
And responding to a few tweets directly:
And then one more statement:
As Cain notes, Man-Eaters has three more issues yet to hit stores, with Man-Eaters #12 tentatively scheduled for release in September, though September’s solicitations have not yet come out. On Sunday morning, Cain returned to Twitter, this time to solicit trans sensitivity readers for the remaining issues.
However, the work would be done without monetary compensation, with Cain offering to send comics instead. Can you guess that this didn’t go over very well either?
Eventually, Cain said she would speak with Image Comics about funding a sensitivity reader for the comic.
Though she then continued:
Before finally tweeting:
For publisher Image Comics, it’s the latest in a series of recent controversies surrounding transgender issues in the comics they publish, with Airboy in 2015 and Divided State of Hysteria in 2017, which, like this time around, also occurred during Pride Month. Image keeps a tweet pinned to the top of their timeline with the following disclaimer:
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We reached out to Image Comics, but they declined to comment.
As a follow-up to the controversy of the Mockingbird t-shirt, the satirical concept of Man-Eaters is thumb in the eye to those who complained about that feminist agenda. However, the comic immediately fell under criticism for its focus on menstruation as the defining characteristic for women in the comic, thus excluding the experiences of transgender or nonbinary people in Man-Eaters‘ dystopian metaphor.
Cain responded to some of that criticism, including in an interview with Women Write About Comics:
As well as on Twitter:
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Replying to @ChelseaCain and 4 others
In “Maneaters”, is it just cis women who can turn into werepanthers and strike back against their oppressors? Is the the catalyst for the transformation womanhood or vaginas/periods? If the latter do ppl w/ vaginas who aren’t women still transform?
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Thank you for this question! We aren’t authorized to share spoilers, but Minister @ChelseaCain says, “Abso-fucking-lutely. Man-eaters is a story about physical transformation, and living in a society that sometimes makes us (too many of us) feel like monsters.” 1 of 2
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“Kinda the whole point of the series is this: being a homicidal werepanther does not require a uterus or a vagina...in the end we all get to decide what kind of cat we're going to be.” We hope you’ll feel welcome in our colony of cats.2 of 2
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But 9 issues into Man-Eaters, that binary view of gender is still present in the book and continues to be criticized. Cain has occasionally responded to that criticism, most relevantly for this story to one particular reader, who stated on Twitter back in May, “I want to like @ImageComics #ManEaters so bad, but it is SO HEAVILY founded in bio essentialism and TERFness that it’s impossible to not feel like it perpetuates the same misogyny/systemic violence that it’s attempting to tackle.”
TERF is an acronym that stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, in other words, someone who espouses feminist beliefs but does not believe that transgender women count as women, attempting to exclude them from women’s spaces.
“I appreciate any comic on menstruation and the literal violent eating of men—I super duper do—but #ManEaters further cements the toxicity of a gender binary in a heavy-handed, sad way,” another tweet from the same person said.
At the time, Cain responded to these tweets, saying, “Again, thanks for the feedback. Seems like you’re a regular reader. Which is…weird. Because you hate us. I’m so grateful for the work of our three 14-year-old contributors. And then I read comments like yours, and I think WHAT HAVE I DONE?” and “We will work on being more nuanced. And less specific. I guess I think of stories as points-of-view. As in, a person’s story in the world. I guess I thought that being specific was kind of the reason I was doing this.”
However, in the recently released Man-Eaters #9, both of the reader’s tweets were featured in the pages of the comic, plastered on billboards on the wall of the forced reeducation camps in the book. As the panels blew up on social media, the original reader noted that she was feeling overwhelmed and was turning off her notifications, which is why her tweets have been quoted, rather than embedded, above, in an attempt to respect anonymity as much as possible, even if that cat is already out of the bag, thanks to all of this.
Once pointed out, this has, as one might expect, not gone over very well, with fans, critics, and fellow comic book creators taking to Twitter to comment on it.
Sarah Horrocks@mercurialblonde
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Is this our pride month image transphobia scandal for the year? Happened so early this year! (Assuming this is real and not shopped. I'm not buying that comic to find out)
they, girl, they ! !@ameliameman
O k a y ? #ManEaters @ImageComics
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This is bizarre. Breaking the fourth wall to... call out random readers who criticized your comic's transphobic subtext? A new standard for popular creators using their platform to punch down.
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In case you had any doubt that @ChelseaCain is a TERF, these are from her most recent issue of Man-Eaters published by @ImageComics where she takes tweets of people critical of her and her work and plasters it as a billboard in an... anti-menstruation concentration camp...
Yeah.
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✔@Hello_Tailor
Chelsea Cain came to prominence in the comics community thanks to this "ask me about my feminist agenda" cover, which provoked backlash from sexist fanboys, and made her into a feminist figurehead. Now she's using that platform to punch down at trans people. Very disappointing. pic.twitter.com/ReNBT3aI1y
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If your "feminism" doesn't include trans folks, your "agenda" is bullshit.
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· Jun 8, 2019
Does Chelsea Cain have to release a variant cover with a character wearing a shirt that says "Ask me about my TERF agenda" for some people to acknowledge she's got a problem or what
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I just flat out do not understand how anyone could actually believe a feminist concept comic that excludes trans people does not meet the criteria of trans exclusionary radical feminism.
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Though some did come to Cain’s defense.
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· Jun 8, 2019
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Just because it’s not about us doesn’t make it terfy. I can’t believe I have to even say this.
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Chelsea did an imperfect book about how it felt to go through puberty and how her own body was communicated to her. I don’t see the problem with that.
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After remaining silent for the early part of the day Saturday as the furor grew on Twitter, Cain initially responded:
Which led to further discussion of Cain’s reaction to criticism.
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· Jun 8, 2019
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The fucking self-importance of this tweet is the same exact thing as “I speak for all women.” No wonder her ego tumbled so easily it must’ve been too big to stand on it’s own
C.P. Hoffman@CPHwriter
I'm starting to think we can construct a working definition of privilege built entirely around the extent to which people react disproportionately to reasonable, polite critiques of the status quo.
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No. You don't get to sic 13K followers on a fan with concerns about your book and then say you didn't know. You don't get to say you represent all women while simultaneously shitting on most women. You said this in response to those tweets and just... blew it for pettiness. https://twitter.com/ChelseaCain/status/1137523160750759936 … pic.twitter.com/wHvLj0dDzE
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What I can't understand is why you came back. I know you have some hefty, encouraging friends. If you're being peer pressured into staying in comics, please just stop. It's not working. You're hurting and disappointing people and you can't even find it in you to say you're sorry.
bisexual lighting and murder [unionize comics!]@swindlesoiree
It's just that you don't seem to love this medium. You don't love the fans. So...why?
Comics can be awful and mean and unfair. It's also a baby of a medium, still finding itself. I don't want to find an identity if it's punching down, constantly and unapologetically.
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A few hours later, Cain took another try at a response, tweeting a public statement:
And responding to a few tweets directly:
And then one more statement:
As Cain notes, Man-Eaters has three more issues yet to hit stores, with Man-Eaters #12 tentatively scheduled for release in September, though September’s solicitations have not yet come out. On Sunday morning, Cain returned to Twitter, this time to solicit trans sensitivity readers for the remaining issues.
However, the work would be done without monetary compensation, with Cain offering to send comics instead. Can you guess that this didn’t go over very well either?
Eventually, Cain said she would speak with Image Comics about funding a sensitivity reader for the comic.
Though she then continued:
Before finally tweeting:
For publisher Image Comics, it’s the latest in a series of recent controversies surrounding transgender issues in the comics they publish, with Airboy in 2015 and Divided State of Hysteria in 2017, which, like this time around, also occurred during Pride Month. Image keeps a tweet pinned to the top of their timeline with the following disclaimer:
Image Comics
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https://twitter.com/ImageComics/status/979439474965872640
Just a reminder: Creators are not employees of Image. They are independent and speak for themselves.
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Chelsea Cain Deletes Twitter Account
Chelsea Cain Deletes Twitter Account
Novelist and comic book writer Chelsea Cain has apparently deleted her Twitter account following a series of botched responses to a social media furor
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Novelist and comic book writer Chelsea Cain has apparently deleted her Twitter account following a series of botched responses to a social media furor stemming from the reprinting in Man-Eaters #9 of tweets critical of the book by a reader.
Man-Eaters has been criticized since its announcement for presenting a binary view of gender that excludes experiences of transgender men, transgender women, and nonbinary people. The comic’s central premise is a dystopian satire where girls turn into ferocious were-cats when they get their periods and the book’s patriarchal society outlaws periods as a result, leading to repeated criticisms that the book fails to address how the premise would affect transgender men who menstruate, transgender women who do not, and nonbinary people who may or may not. Cain initially responded to some tweets from a private individual on Twitter back in May, but then reprinted two of their tweets on a poster on the wall of menstruation reeducation camps in last week’s Man-Eaters #9, sparking a series of critical tweets from comic book industry critics, pundits, professionals, and readers on Saturday to which Cain repeatedly attempted to respond, only to further stoke the flames when those responses were viewed as ignoring the substance of criticisms or focusing on Cain’s own distress.
You can read our detailed account of the weekend’s events here. That report ended after Cain offered to bring on transgender sensitivity readers to the book, but noted that she could not pay them, which was not well-received. Cain later said she would speak to Image about obtaining funding for the service. Cain has previously described the production of Man-Eaters as “financially ruinous.” Image has found itself in hot water over transgender issues multiple times in recent years, most notable with Airboy in 2015 and Divided State of Hysteria in 2017. Image declined to comment on the weekend’s events when asked.
Following the publication of our initial report, Cain apparently deleted her Twitter account Sunday night after posting one final statement in now-deleted tweets.
“Man-Eaters has meant a lot to a small group of people and we will finish the last three issues for them,” Cain tweeted. “I’m sorry that I’m not who you want me to be, and I’m sorry that [Man-Eaters] can’t be inclusive to every experience.”
“We just wanted to make a comic about periods, to say to middle school age girls that they are okay,” Cain continued. “Thank you to everyone who posted that they’d be willing to read future issues for trans sensitivity. I’m sorry I can’t get back to you.”
Though Cain’s Twitter account is currently unviewable, Twitter allows 30 days after the initial deactivation of an account to restore it. Cain has left social media before, following backlash to the publication of Mockingbird #8 at Marvel, which featured a Joelle Jones cover of the book’s star wearing a t-shirt that read “ask me about my feminist agenda.” That incident initially earned Cain goodwill from the same community she found herself at odds with Saturday and Sunday.
Another account of the events was posted Monday morning at Women Write About Comics, which is worth your time to read if you’re interested in a deeper understanding of the issues.
Man-Eaters has been criticized since its announcement for presenting a binary view of gender that excludes experiences of transgender men, transgender women, and nonbinary people. The comic’s central premise is a dystopian satire where girls turn into ferocious were-cats when they get their periods and the book’s patriarchal society outlaws periods as a result, leading to repeated criticisms that the book fails to address how the premise would affect transgender men who menstruate, transgender women who do not, and nonbinary people who may or may not. Cain initially responded to some tweets from a private individual on Twitter back in May, but then reprinted two of their tweets on a poster on the wall of menstruation reeducation camps in last week’s Man-Eaters #9, sparking a series of critical tweets from comic book industry critics, pundits, professionals, and readers on Saturday to which Cain repeatedly attempted to respond, only to further stoke the flames when those responses were viewed as ignoring the substance of criticisms or focusing on Cain’s own distress.
You can read our detailed account of the weekend’s events here. That report ended after Cain offered to bring on transgender sensitivity readers to the book, but noted that she could not pay them, which was not well-received. Cain later said she would speak to Image about obtaining funding for the service. Cain has previously described the production of Man-Eaters as “financially ruinous.” Image has found itself in hot water over transgender issues multiple times in recent years, most notable with Airboy in 2015 and Divided State of Hysteria in 2017. Image declined to comment on the weekend’s events when asked.
Following the publication of our initial report, Cain apparently deleted her Twitter account Sunday night after posting one final statement in now-deleted tweets.
“Man-Eaters has meant a lot to a small group of people and we will finish the last three issues for them,” Cain tweeted. “I’m sorry that I’m not who you want me to be, and I’m sorry that [Man-Eaters] can’t be inclusive to every experience.”
“We just wanted to make a comic about periods, to say to middle school age girls that they are okay,” Cain continued. “Thank you to everyone who posted that they’d be willing to read future issues for trans sensitivity. I’m sorry I can’t get back to you.”
Though Cain’s Twitter account is currently unviewable, Twitter allows 30 days after the initial deactivation of an account to restore it. Cain has left social media before, following backlash to the publication of Mockingbird #8 at Marvel, which featured a Joelle Jones cover of the book’s star wearing a t-shirt that read “ask me about my feminist agenda.” That incident initially earned Cain goodwill from the same community she found herself at odds with Saturday and Sunday.
Another account of the events was posted Monday morning at Women Write About Comics, which is worth your time to read if you’re interested in a deeper understanding of the issues.
She's a talent-free comic book "writer" that attempted to court lefty dollars with some "hot button" political opinions, all the while selling a very low number of actual books. She then went to create her own book, something about women turning into werecats when they start on their rag, which has no enraged those that think that anything other than females have periods.
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Squirrel Girl as a character goes back to the 80's or something and is meant to be ridicilous and laughable, also meant to be rarely used because she's a bit like that Shaggy-meme that was popular a while ago. Her entire shtick was that she took down the most powerful villains in the Marvel universe with confused squirrel powers and with no intention of doing it in a Mr. Magoo kind of way and then apologizes.
She's polite and Canadian, the anti-wolverine.
Her team was the Great Lakes Avengers, they got a humorous special every once in a while. Then they got a cease-and-desist for calling themselves "Avengers" so they re-branded themselves the Great Lakes X-men and started being about mutant pride. I think they were the Westcoast Avengers once when they moved.
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Another woman in geek media threatened and harassed off of Twitter for having the wrong opinion. Gamergaaate!
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Good News: The Legion od Super-Heroes is back.
Bad News: Bendis is writing it and the costumes look like this...
Bad News: Bendis is writing it and the costumes look like this...
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What in the twink porn hell.....
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Those fucking haircuts. I just can't
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1. Where'd Saturn Girl's breasts go?
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2. This will be cancelled in 6 months like all the other woke trash Marvel/DC publishes.
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What has Frank Miller been up to? I sorta miss his crazy rambling of a comic. I’d take that over these gay shit.
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Bendis is a big fan of the Richard Spencer look.
He's got a new book with John Romita Jr. in August.
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At least they don’t have the whole Captain Marvel lesbian haircut.