Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[Super-Chevy454]

Sorry if it's in the wrong thread to mention this but CBR will go into a major overhaul since the Comicgate beginned. Could we said it's a subtle way to said they'll go the way of Vice and Buzzfeed?

https://www.thepopverse.com/cbr-is-going-through-a-major-overhaul-due-to-culture-and-performance-issues

https://archive.is/HKlnB

Following the news that CBR.com has lost its editor-in-chief, Popverse has learned that two more senior executives at the site have been laid off by owners Valnet Inc. as part of what’s being described as “major structural changes” intended to change the culture of the site as a whole.
In addition to letting Adam Swiderski go from the position of editor-in-chief, Popverse has learned that Valnet has also laid off senior new editor Stephen Gerding and senior features editor Christopher Baggett. Gerding had been with CBR for 18 years, beginning as a freelancer in 2005 before working his way up to his current position; Baggett, by comparison, had been with the site since 2017.

A statement from George Edelman, Valnet Inc. content director, that was shared in CBR’s internal Slack channel explained that “CBR will be undergoing major structural changes related to turning the corner on both culture and performance,” with those changes meaning that “as a result certain roles no longer exist, and we are focusing on individuals who can create a more positive culture going forward.”
The statement continues, adding that contributors to the site are encouraged “to share your throughs, reach out with any questions, and most importantly try to help us bring about this new era for the CBR brand.”

 

[Fascist Kirk]

Comics gate has become animal farm. I listened to Finatra's recent forced stream, where he is openly smoking crack, or meth, saying fuck the cg world! very wiggerish in emeneim like spirit.

CG is going on 6 or 7 years, and with all the shit that has gone in that time the biggest problem is loyalty to a third party crowdfunding service? come on wtf. comics used to be for kids, how many comicsgate books have been bought for children, compared to how many man children bought a comic book to fight against muh wokeness?

its 2023, cg is a retiremant plan for former sjw's who switched sides when they saw the wind change, and no one would notice..... You man kids buying this shit should be preparing for your own future, and childrens if any before supporting the 90's comics retiremant plan. How many times has the message changed who runs CG town? Master Blaster Eaton Van Sciver and Jon MAlin, both took the clot shot, both are set for life, while you man children buy there over priced shit late books, as the world your world burns around you ....

if you think comic books can save the culture war, then you are already lost

Comicsgate is a joke and if you in it and not receiving money, even worse you a pay pig, your the punch line........

after 6 years these man baby faggots could have created a paypig donosite ..... Fundmycomic fine great 6 years late but good ..... lets not even consider CG skeptics, people new or on the side lines looking into what CG is, they see late books, unfullfilled books, and Slick jim pedofuckers ....... CGnow has been around for 4 years but no one pramotes it its like it never existed...... Bancroft stop being a simp, and you so called christians should stop fucking weith liam, the fuck is wrong with you, JDA you used to finger fuck prestonm poulter you tranny devil.

Also Tranthany why do you have so much clout? you and your brother saving comics? For fucksake you created a comic with preston poulter's x wife that has yet to see day, and you recreated light bringer the worste comic of all time with a tran sexual named iron liz, Comicsgate is so fucking woke.

First based statement JDA has ever made in stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hailHIWLipE

Jon Del Arroz

END THIS DEGENERATE STREAM

 

[JudyGemstone]

Not sure if you saw this but it was pretty funny. Speaks to your point. https://youtu.be/gSnike8HF-I

how is a black guy, who started his own business to break away from woke white liberal comics companies an uncle tom
he's literally doing his own thing and not subservient to anybody.
he even now has white people working under him, and answering to him. hes paying them, but still.

 

[Ike Aim]

Dunno if this thread is still active in a post-Tor world, but I was moved by Patrick Thomas Parnell's ordeal on Saturday night's EVS/Rippa/Dick Masterson dust-up on FlashCast. I decided to grab a few of my favorite highlights including @FROG's most impassioned appeal to Eric July as well as Dick Masterson dicking YellowFlash (thanks to a likely 40 IQ pt spread) and present them from the perspective of long-suffering PTP.

https://rumble.com/v2rwabw-flashcast-john-campea-meltdown-marvel-cancels-the-punisher-new-bud-light-tw.html

https://odysee.com/@cornbreadman:f/FlashCast_LSA_06_03_2023:7

 

[Miniluv]

Not sure if you saw this but it was pretty funny. Speaks to your point. https://youtu.be/gSnike8HF-I

The Eric July/Dick Masterson spat continued on Twitter after July's response to Matt Jarbo's review of ISOM.

Matt feels the Isom character is a "Karen" as well as a blatant self-insert, implying that Eric July himself is "the equivalent of a 2022 nosy white woman":

Not being one to let even the dumbest internet criticism go unanswered, July fires back that if he really was that assmad about being disrespected he would have already resorted to physical violence against his critics:

Dick chimes in with a shitpost his take on the situation. He sees Eric's statement not as a hypothetical scenario from some parallel world where Rippa can't take criticism, but as a genuine threat against a "qualified media reviewer". Yes, he's talking about Mundane Matt.

Cecil takes a break from simping on e-thots to simp for Rippa by taking anything Dick Masterson has to say seriously.
He throws a little shade at Ethan for good measure.

Enter Frog with a reasonable take, pretty much reiterating what he said on the stream. Cecil completely misses the point.

Ethan gets accused of platforming Vito and one count of first degree Dick riding and he has had enough!

 

[JudyGemstone]

Thank you for the breakdown. I didn't have the energy to follow it all day -- nor could I follow it all over Twitter.

This all just looks like a bunch of men getting their panties in a twist. If Eric doesn't like Dick or respect his opinion -- FINE! If it doesn't matter, why keep responding?

If Dick didn't like the book -- FINE! Say your critiques and move on. I don't get why this all has to get dragged out even more after the Yellowflash stream Saturday... Oh wait! It does generate an audience and income. Ahhh the internet...

The Eric July/Dick Masterson spat continued on Twitter after July's response to Matt Jarbo's review of ISOM.

 

[newuser131]

Saturday night's EVS/Rippa/Dick Masterson dust-up on FlashCast.

Eric July vs Dick: July comes across as a know it all bitch. Dick's criticism was vaild but he came in hot so Eric won't listen. Then again EVS had the same criticism and Eric dismissed it. So, even if Dick was more tactful, Eric is too full of himself to listen. I hate everyone on that panel who were to scared of Eric to critic his book. Especially Nina. You know if it was a Isom was a book written by some Marvel SJW and had the same plot and structure, they would all hate it.

Flash vs Dick: Flash want-a-be tough guy. If you want to kick Vito's ass for being a pedo, then just say it.

When Dick "pedo guard" Masterson and Ethan "comic books late as fuck" Van Scriver are the most rational ones on your panel, your show has problems.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Eric might be the most thin-skinned creator I've ever seen, and it's kind of sad that EVS is clinging to him like grim death because he can't afford to burn any more bridges.

Speaking of which, what happened to that little white boy who was pushing out daily videos defending Eric? His name was something like booradley57. I searched around a bit and can't find anything.

Also, I wish comicbookhut would come back. His weekly homeless reports were hilarious.

 

[Mister Dongs]

If Dick didn't like the book -- FINE! Say your critiques and move on. I don't get why this all has to get dragged out even more after the Yellowflash stream Saturday... Oh wait! It does generate an audience and income. Ahhh the internet...

Dick's a piece of shit but riling up these people with basic, obvious criticism is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Faced with someone they can't just block and mute, they're circling the wagons and mouthing word for word the same replies Marvel creators did when criticized by Ernst and Simple Zack.

What accomplishes more towards establishing the main hero of the story: the first page of Action Comics #1 (1939) or all 109 pages of Isom #1 (2023) put together?

Character's origin story: Action Comics #1 p. 1
Definition of protagonist's superpowers: Action Comics #1 p. 1
Nature of protagonist's superpowers: Action Comics #1 p. 1
Farm management style: Isom #1
Character motivation: Action Comics #1 p. 1
Appearances of the superhero costume: Tie

 

[Ike Aim]

Flash vs Dick: Flash want-a-be tough guy. If you want to kick Vito's ass for being a pedo, then just say it.

When Dick "pedo guard" Masterson and Ethan "comic books late as fuck" Van Scriver are the most rational ones on your panel, your show has problems.

100 IQ YouTuber marketers bickering with 80-IQ Twitter schizos from the safety of "fan"-enforced hugboxes (spam 199 in the chat!). Fast forward a few years, they become really lazy and delusional and full of themselves turning a quick buck off sad rubes walking down the midway confused about why Supes is a fag now. Some of these YouTubers are possibly perpetually drunk like YellowFlash, all to numb the sting of conscience reminding them that the public gaze turns you gay. That numbing then knocking-off another 10-20 brain horsepower while making a guy like YellowFlash sound like he's always about to choke on his own tongue. Then, any ole' midwit with whatever moral alignment can roll up and extract some smug energy by laying down Community College -tier creative writing notes and checking retard YT hubris with "so, you're pretty tough...?" cross-examination on Flash's own channel. You can neg these chucklefucks like they're girls.

idgaf I really enjoyed this entire stupid thing for the clarity. Sorry I couldn't be the one to summarize it if you don't know what this is about but posting on Tor to what may be 4 people has been vexing.

Eric might be the most thin-skinned creator I've ever seen, and it's kind of sad that EVS is clinging to him like grim death because he can't afford to burn any more bridges.

Eric July's ego and stubborness is pretty tragic. He may never find out if he has any talent or not because white people will just keep blowing smoke up his ass from now until the end. He's made it pretty clear that he doesn't consider EVS or anyone in CG to be his peer. That's what the whole "different aspirations" cope is about. He's basically boundary-setting and putting on notice the people who really really really really really really want this very black black man to be a peer to respectfully fuck off because if the choice is hugbox millions that grant him "respect" or humbly paying his dues as an indie comic artist to a bunch of corny white guys who want to re-circumcise him, well...

And that's where the tragedy comes in. Creative people often ARE this delusional and stubborn and retarded and thin-skinned. He could be shit or he may have greatness within but a constant need to save face and an audience of paying customers willing to help him do that, he's limiting himself, which is sad. This is a guy who didn't know who Brandon Sanderson was a little over a year ago.

Rippa on Rekieta, 2022-03-11

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/comicsgate.38138/page-1811#post-11397324

After releasing 1 comic book less than a year ago, he's just this week giving advice to a great big fat famous boomer writer with 4 Emmy's and like 6 Hugo Awards. Eric July thinks GRRM needs Eric July to point out where he went wrong and he thinks he can do that with just "aspirations" and not, well, actually doing it himself. I sincerely do not hate anyone I make fun of here. On some level, I want them all to get better because heel/face turns make for pretty cool reality show arcs. But Eric July's stubbornness and arrogance is really hard to watch without feeling your blood boil. Who the fuck are you, dude? This isn't the ghetto where people all want to get all crabs-in-a-bucket on your black ass but you gotta pay your dues...

 

[Gar For Archer]

I haven’t followed the situation in a while, has Mr Eric D Rippa July put out any books after Isom #1? I recall one of his selling points was that he had a lot of stuff in the pipeline already and you wouldn’t need to wait half a year for a new book.

 

[Arcade Gannon]

I haven’t followed the situation in a while, has Mr Eric D Rippa July put out any books after Isom #1?

Not yet, but he's about to start selling the Isometric Boogaloo:
https://rippaverse.com/can-we-do-it-again-isom-2-pre-order-launches-6-12-2023/

 

[Gar For Archer]

Not yet, but he's about to start selling the Isometric Boogaloo:
https://rippaverse.com/can-we-do-it-again-isom-2-pre-order-launches-6-12-2023/

Well… half a year (probably 9 months by the time it actually drops) is significantly better than the 2-3 years you see in between most CG books, but if this is the pace he plans to release things at, I just can’t see sustained interest in the “Rippaverse”. If he wants the “Rippaverse” to actually be a thing I think he needs at LEAST a quarterly release schedule.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Thank you for the breakdown. I didn't have the energy to follow it all day -- nor could I follow it all over Twitter.

This all just looks like a bunch of men getting their panties in a twist. If Eric doesn't like Dick or respect his opinion -- FINE! If it doesn't matter, why keep responding?

If Dick didn't like the book -- FINE! Say your critiques and move on. I don't get why this all has to get dragged out even more after the Yellowflash stream Saturday... Oh wait! It does generate an audience and income. Ahhh the internet...

The thing I do have to note is that Dick did say himself that he didn't read it but doesn't like it because others didn't like it, which....honestly, I do kinda hate. There's criticism, and then there's not giving a shit. And Matt Jarbo is a fat faggot who does like to lie (see his Quarry King saga).

But July doesn't have to respond to every single person talking shit. There's a little insecurity to that.

Not yet, but he's about to start selling the Isometric Boogaloo:
https://rippaverse.com/can-we-do-it-again-isom-2-pre-order-launches-6-12-2023/

There's also the Dixon stuff mentioned regarding Alphacore #1, and the Soska sisters writing Yaira #1, if that means anything.

 

[Ike Aim]

A couple of missing streams from this week:


ComicArtistPro Secrets
@FROG covers Dick Masterson's very seriously-taken review of Cyberfrog on Thursday. Now Unlisted.

JACK Show
JACK Show on Cecil's channel from later Thursday night. He took it down, said he needed to edit. Never did. Dunno what's in this shit show so caveat spectator.
Link [Odysee]


ComicArtistPro Secrets
EVS drunk stream from Friday night that he pulled. He covers his trip to a baseball contest with his father and then angrily rescinds apology to Az and FNT for the umpteenth time. Picked up the stream immediately after this. Sorry 'bout that.

Part 1

Spoiler: Timestamps

Part 1

0:00:00 EVS is here to make toys
0:05:15 Dick Masterson's review of Cyberfrog re-re-re-revisited
0:06:30 EVS reads chat ...
0:11:45 EVS on Isom #2
0:12:40 EVS reads chat ...
0:13:55 EVS gets mad at Az again / Eric July criticism re-re-re-revisited
0:17:40 EVS reads chat ...

Part 2

Spoiler: Timestamps

Part 2

0:01:35 Doing work for YellowFlash / Chuck Dixon comments
0:05:30 Man-ga looks like gay kids
0:09:00 More butt discussion
0:11:45 EVS is here to make toys / still mad at Az and FNT
0:18:20 Depeche Mode. EVS struggles and can't admit that he got old and they got old. Instead, he decides he was never a fan of Depeche Mode and was only a fan of one of the Depeche Mode members.
0:20:55 Depeche Mode (gets worse). omfg dude just say you're gay no one is judging you
0:28:30 EVS gets mad at Az yet AGAIN

Part 3

Spoiler: Timestamps

Part 3

0:00:00 Gaybe Eltaeb
0:01:45 co-dependent relationship with his last friend in the world, Jon Malin
0:09:20 Is Kiwi Farms back?
0:10:45 EVS reads chat ...
0:12:00 Tries to end stream / streamsniping Ballers talking about tanning man ass
0:18:00 "Butthole" topic continues / What children think of "buttholes"
0:19:00 Shitting on Michael Franzese, who EVS has met and likes
0:28:45 Michael Franzese (cont.) / Pride Month / EVS wants Cecil to cum into his own mouth
0:30:20 EVS calls for Christo-fascism / forced conversions / new Inquisition.
0:33:20 "They're cutting off the little dicks and eating them"

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Well, July's doing it again.

 

[Fleetwood]

The woman on ISOM #2 cover B by this @FROG fella looks real familiar. I don't feel so good about this one Rippabros.

 

[Ike Aim]

JACK Show
2023-06-08

Deets for JACK Show from Thursday that Cecil pulled. Had to find out what the fuss was about and I'll never get that 4 hours back. Cecil pulled it because he's showing gore with a shark attack at around 55:20. It would take 15min to edit out but ya know...

Stream opens with an awkward minute or so where Jon implies he wanted to vote Kelsey off the show he's never on anyway. No clue if Jon Malin will in the future be packing the JACK Show with two new regular co-stars in order to vote out Kelsey for good. Kelsey's abject drunkenness seemed to charm them all, so he's probably got another 3 months to avoid this non-show. They only did one descrnible bit over the course of 4 hours and Cecil managed to fuck that up.

Spoiler: Timestamps

JACK SHOW - 2023-06-08
0:00:00 Intro
0:06:35 Jon informs Kelsey he is almost voted off the Show. Awkward.
0:07:45 Cecil is hungover / Cecil bullshitting / Everyone's gay dieting
0:15:45 10min in and Cecil is already mining superchats for show banter
0:20:55 JACK Show origin story / Anna calendar simping
0:28:00 More Kelsey getting caught-up on his own show / Flash Gordon stream
0:29:30 Anna booby calendar simping (cont.) (they can't stay on topic)
0:32:00 Sam J. Jones (Flash Gordon) campaign (cont.) into more Anna simping because they literally have nothing to talk about
0:40:00 Fitness models (Kelsey accidentally admits he doesn't even check the show chat anymore)
0:44:30 MORE creepy simping for Anna
0:46:50 Mining superchats for banter (cont.) / Fighting (Kelsey might be mentally unstable)
0:55:20 Shark attacks (Kelsey is already shitfaced) / Chokeout shows up. / Animal attacks / eating weird animals
1:20:00 Even more creepy simping for Anna (Kelsey creeps) / superchat banter / rastlin'
1:32:20 Cecil interrupts banter for "Let me read some superchats" (ok?)
1:34:20 Cara "Claire" Delevingne / Ben Shapiro
1:48:45 Chokeout using women / Ben Shapiro continued
1:59:40 More superchats / Kelsey shitfaced
2:10:25 Shane Davis arrives
2:15:50 Shane's stupid topics: Toilet Paper
2:20:00 Shane's stupid topics: Jaime Foxx / clot shot discussion (Anna disappears)
2:27:00 Shane's stupid topics: 3 dudes having 3 daughters / gross-out banter
2:41:00 Florida meet-up
2:44:00 Sam J. Jones / Flash Gordon stream (revisited)
2:45:20 Shark / animal attacks (revisited) / Cecil streaming gore / superchats continue ...
3:09:20 Ghetto videos / barbers / Jaime Foxx (revisited) / superchats continue ...
3:15:50 Kelsey: "Anna is a keeper" "Her shit smells like candy" / superchats continue ...
3:23:30 Jaime Foxx (re-revisited) / Anna returns / more celebrity tinfoil
3:33:00 Shark attack (re-re-revisited)
3:36:10 Superchats continue ... / birth defects
3:53:30 Celebrity tinfoil (revisited) / superchats continue ...
3:58:30 Kelsey leaves / random gore/freaks banter / stream winds-down

Link to full stream archive: [Odysee]


Anna reframes the "Ben Shapiro" narrative during some riveting Cara Delevingne talk (with special consideration for our very own @TheAlchemist):

Jon Malin pulls a Jon Malin which no one wants to touch.

A minute or so later, Cecil does his best to keep his simping together. Almost pulls an accidental Jon Malin.

 

[Rodeo Roadrunner]

@Ike Aim Just want to credit you with watching that schlock, I think I lost some brain cells in the 34 seconds I did watch, 4 hours would kill me.
BTW Captain Chokeout was way funnier as a bit @FROG did on the Disney fight review video he did years ago now with Jeremy "Grift" Griggs and that WCBS guy I forgot the name of. This Captain Chokeout on the livestream is just some drunk bong.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

>starts shit with Az just for giggles
>expects Az to promote his toys anyway
>"he's sabotaging me!" - guy who won't promote people who use kickstarter

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