Wesley Snipes is now on Fraga's stream. Did this get silently changed as i recall this being on friday at 2:30 eastern?
As an interview it was pretty bad with Fraga constantly shouting out people in the chat and interjecting $2-5 superchats over Wesley Snipes' answers, which quickly tanked his attempts to a build a repoire with the temperamental hollyweird diva and beloved cultural icon (Snipes comes off as a strange combination of Bruce Lee and Gwyneth Paltrow). On the other hand, we (and Snipes)
did get to hear about how Wesley Snipes inspired CiderHype's outlook on life and his personal philosophy, shedding some light on the longstanding mystery that is the uncanny similarity between the two individuals. So y'know you win some, you lose some. While it was clear that Fraga was more than a little starstruck,
like when he asked Snipes if he listened to hip hop, ("
No, I'm all about listening to Taylor Swift"), his falling back on good livestream practices probably should have taken a backseat to more formal interview etiquette here to be honest.
All that said, Dan Fraga did manage to avoid the unspoken Sword of Damocles hanging over the whole enterprise, which was the possibility of a Comicsgate repeat of the "Zack Snyder incident" and him being forced to fight for his internet movement's honor. Except it would be against Wesley fucking Snipes instead of a mere gayopping mormon superhero blockbuster movie director. And by the metric of that not happening alone the stream was an overwhelming success.
However, this wasn't the only unlikely high profile interview that happened recently.
Robert Willing, personally characterized by
@FROG as "
Nerdette's credulous simp" last week and
currently defending Nerdette against accusations that she's exploiting his crippling autism, managed to land an interview with Frog's (along with most of the CG Kings) former boss and one-time Publisher of DC Comics, Dan DiDio. After Frog was given the ole heave-ho,
it wasn't that long before it was Dan's head on the ole chopping block as part of a rumoured internal coup orchestrated by lead Batman writer Scott Snyder. How has Dan DiDio been faring since then?
Not good... Not... good...
Between Willing's... "Corky-esque" verbal affect and Dan Didio's non-working audio (which Willing was I guess too nervous to try and fix and make DiDio intelligible), the interview was almost completely unwatchable for people uninterested in witnessing the absolute state of a former industry leader.
JDA though showed up near the end to dab on him and promptly got banned.
The bulk of the stream consisted of Willing's sharing his rose-tinted glasses fan enthusiasm and nostalgia over DiDio's work and tenure on
ReBoot,
Metal Men, Outsiders, etc, but beyond that there were a few kernels of interesting information. First was in response to a question by Willin about how
when Didio did queer sexual raceswaps of established characters like Greg Rucka's Batwoman and the Question, it was organical and natural (100% lie)
vs the recent "unnatural forced virtue signal" lesbian Batwoman flop on the CW. DiDio candidly answers that he doesn't watch the televised versions of DC superheroes as he considered them competition, describing his role as Co-Publisher of DC Comics as a (losing) struggle against television to be considered the "source material" for characters like Superman or Batman in the eyes of the viewers. He follows that by adding that when he was in charge, he always stipulated that any proposal for a homo or black version of a character put on his desk "had to have a good story" for him to approve of it (Then of course he was ousted by those applicants and those restrictions were removed).
Finally, there was an unguarded response
when Willing forwarded some kind words Aaron Lopresti had for him about being a good employer who at least made sure that long-time loyal artists and creators were able to get enough work to live on even after they were considered to have "aged out". Cryptically and through garbled audio, Didio says something about how it's always been about networking - those oldtimers he looked out for back in his day were simply his friends. They're not friends of whoever is in charge now. Willing expresses even his exasperation at the rate of DC homosexualization of characters, simps a bit for Nerdette (who's in the chat) and relates to DiDio how she's one of his biggest champions in the comic community, and then the stream ends.
The face of a man with regrets.
