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

[Grunka Lunka]

That was six years ago Zack, not current day Zack who mocks the very people he used to hang out with and be.

Norman Osborn had wavy hair in the comics, so for that reason alone it makes absolute sense he should be black now! No other reason.
No really, not even being sarcastic. What makes SENSE about Norman Osborne being black now? Because of his hair? Good grief, if that's all it takes, then I guess it really wouldn't be weird for me to change any one of Zack's characters to a female or a black man

Funny enough, I think the hair is a reason why some people think April is black in Ninja Turtles. Not like perms were commonplace in the 80's or anything.

 

[Captain Manning]

Buckaroo Banzai is the very definition of a cult film. It failed at the box office, most critics hated it, and it's gained a small but dedicated audience since its initial release. I'm not a big fan, though I think there are some interesting ideas in it.

I tend to cut a lot movies from the 80s that were negatively reviewed at the time a lot of slack. Film critics were, and still are, stupid.

I do this partly out of childhood nostalgia, and partly because lot of them were from a simpler time when movies weren't overly preachy, or up their own ass. Screenwriters also knew how to write pithy dialogue, and SFX people actually had to put in work (little CG, and still mostly practical effects).

I liked Buckaroo Banzai. I liked Remo Williams. I liked The Last Starfighter. I liked Willow. I liked Tron. I liked Ishtar. I loved most everything John Carpenter put out in the 80s. Hell, even though I get shit for it, I even think Howard the Duck was a fun ride, and unfairly maligned for what it was.

Zack seems to be going in the opposite direction. Talking up current Hollywood garbage. Which is really fucking weird from the guy who started a movement that claims to hate forced social messaging in popular media.

Seeing the way he's acting now makes me feel bad for assessing him as a chill, good-natured sort of guy back in 2017.

Don't feel bad. A lot of people did. I did too.
Ditto with FROG.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

Funny enough, I think the hair is a reason why some people think April is black in Ninja Turtles. Not that perms were commonplace in the 80's or anything.

Eastman wanted her asian. April's hair was made a perm into 4 or 5 issues and even stated she wanted a perm because it was trendy.

 

[Grunka Lunka]

I think it's actually really hard to create and market successful comics without the resources of the big two or even the larger indies. Back when comics were a much smaller industry there was a lot of copying of successful ideas between comic book companies. Sometimes the copy was more successful than the original. Back in those days, comics had less competition. I mean comics were important to young people in a pre-VHS world. Can they even be as important in a post-VHS, streaming video world? (Except... there's an ever expanding manga section in the local Books A'Million that I suspect might be carrying the store. Odd that.)

Dixon sort of talked about this last night on his podcast.

Jump to 35:15 if it doesn't do it for you.

 

[That Other Dude's Persona]

Zack, you can only crowdfund books for 15k, you're not making a profit, that barely covers writers & artists.

https://kiwifarms.st/attachments/screenshot_20240814_140250_youtube-jpg.6307908/

https://archive.ph/TzB4L

LMAO, they're like battered housewives.

The community posts are purged again.

By the way, I saw a comment saying "these people think only 7-digit campaigns are successful", which RCM had "hearted". That, along with his "my belly is full" cope, reminded me of the following banger of a video where Meyer discusses how much money you need to make campaigns worth the effort and how one creator's deranged behavior makes everyone involved suffer.
Posted April 2023, it aged as well as you'd expect.

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=WE3-q18XIhE

I notice Zack is defending Rachel Zeigler & Amanda Stenberg because both of them have white Jewish fathers. I guess it kinda hits close to home.

It was one dad's effort to support on-screen representation for his mixed race kids all along.

I'm watching the latest Trashcast

Listening to another LateNightTrash.

 

[Train Operator]

Don't feel bad. A lot of people did. I did too.
Ditto with FROG.

Isn't it funny how 90% of the people from the 2017-2019 internet we all use to watch just imploded on themselves?

CG turned out to be a bunch hypocritcal grifting faggots who can't do their job

Rekieta is a degenerate narcissistic coke head who also turned his 8 year old into a coke head.

Ralph is a psycopathic evil rage hog who pops pills like breath mints

Dax herrera is also a degenerate psychopath who hangs out with pedos and ruins peoples lives for fun.

Tonka went back to the reservation in disgrace and drowns himself in fire water, failure might be actually dead.

Warski got hooked on coke for a long while and took a long fall needing a fat Canadian preacher to get him out of it.

The only ones who didn't fall from grace was metokur and null. And even then Jim is literally dying and null is just too busy trying to keep this site from being destroyed by trannies to have time to really do anything else. Lol

 

[Absurdity]

Buckaroo Banzai is the very definition of a cult film. It failed at the box office, most critics hated it, and it's gained a small but dedicated audience since its initial release. I'm not a big fan, though I think there are some interesting ideas in it. The humor falls flat more often than not, but Peter Weller is good, John Lithgow goes hard in it, and I get a chuckle out of Jeff Goldblum's cowboy getup. Zack thinking there's a "large contingent" of Buckaroo Banzai fans telling people they have to like their pet movie is a retarded exaggeration. Although Alamo Drafthouse is playing it this summer as part of a 1984 retrospective, so there may be more people who enjoy it than we think.

Zack just can't stand that people like things he hates. Like Gary's content.


I'd be miserable too if I was a middle aged man who had to live on another guy's couch.

All you need to be a cult classic is to have elements that people like. I liked the parts, but it needed a couple more rewrites before it could really cook as a good movie, and more risks taken by Weller. I already knew Zack wasn't a big sci-fi guy, which is great because he won't be tempted to try to ruin that genre too.

Visually trying to capture the mood of a quirky 1950s pulp sci-fi comic book is where it succeeded most. I don't want to say Weller was miscast but he underplayed a role that needed him to be more reactive. He had no chemistry with Barkin, and was too humorless and calm around the bad guys. He's said he didn't understand Buckaroo which shows. A character like Bonzai needed to pop and Weller erred on the side of playing the role as if it was a side character from Egon Spengler's origin story. He always knew what was going on but his expressions ranged from bored to annoyed. It also might have helped if they figured out a way to make the 8th dimension's psychedelic electron microscape an actual setting rather than making a mere cameo appearance.

But I liked Lithgow's batshit performance, I liked the oddball aliens, the biomech tech, and the cool car which should have been used throughout the movie.

Interesting trivia: the same costume designer on this film worked on Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Weller is even wearing the same suit as Pee-Wee in the end credits. Pee Wee also got to wear a hokey cowboy suit.

 

[Flexo]

Buckaroo Banzai is the very definition of a cult film. It failed at the box office, most critics hated it, and it's gained a small but dedicated audience since its initial release. I'm not a big fan, though I think there are some interesting ideas in it. The humor falls flat more often than not, but Peter Weller is good, John Lithgow goes hard in it, and I get a chuckle out of Jeff Goldblum's cowboy getup. Zack thinking there's a "large contingent" of Buckaroo Banzai fans telling people they have to like their pet movie is a retarded exaggeration. Although Alamo Drafthouse is playing it this summer as part of a 1984 retrospective, so there may be more people who enjoy it than we think.

Buckarro Banzai is to the old pulp stories what Galaxy Quest is to Star Trek. So just as the more familiar you are with Trek, the better GQ gets, the more familiar you are with stuff like Doc Savage, the better BB gets. (And just like GQ is one of the best Trek films, BB is one of the best pulp films.)

 

[Mr Processor]

Dixon sort of talked about this last night on his podcast.

Jump to 35:15 if it doesn't do it for you.

I think he makes good points.

Buckarro Banzai is to the old pulp stories what Galaxy Quest is to Star Trek. So just as the more familiar you are with Trek, the better GQ gets, the more familiar you are with stuff like Doc Savage, the better BB gets. (And just like GQ is one of the best Trek films, BB is one of the best pulp films.)

Zack mentions Doc Savage in his review, and he even seemed to know a little bit about him. He still hates Buckaroo Banzai though. My own opinion is that the villains are pretty quotable and that's usually enough for me.

LMAO, they're like battered housewives.
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The community posts are purged again.

By the way, I saw a comment saying "these people think only 7-digit campaigns are successful", which RCM had "hearted". That, along with his "my belly is full" cope, reminded me of the following banger of a video where Meyer discusses how much money you need to make campaigns worth the effort and how one creator's deranged behavior makes everyone involved suffer.
Posted April 2023, it aged as well as you'd expect.

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https://preservetube.com/watch?v=WE3-q18XIhE

It was one dad's effort to support on-screen representation for his mixed race kids all along.

Zack has joined the Jerk Squad. Hey, Zack, the Jerk Store called, and they are running out of you!

 

[Miniluv]

I tend to cut a lot movies from the 80s that were negatively reviewed at the time a lot of slack. Film critics were, and still are, stupid.

Interestingly, two of the most respected film critics in the country at that time (Pauline Kael and Vincent Canby) gave Banzai positive reviews.
As I said, I think the movie had some good things going for it but the world wasn't really ready for that particular ride in 1984.

I do this partly out of childhood nostalgia, and partly because lot of them were from a simpler time when movies weren't overly preachy, or up their own ass. Screenwriters also knew how to write pithy dialogue, and SFX people actually had to put in work (little CG, and still mostly practical effects).

I liked Buckaroo Banzai. I liked Remo Williams. I liked The Last Starfighter. I liked Willow. I liked Tron. I liked Ishtar. I loved most everything John Carpenter put out in the 80s. Hell, even though I get shit for it, I even think Howard the Duck was a fun ride, and unfairly maligned for what it was.

Oh for sure. David Lynch's Dune adaptation is one of my favorite films of the 80s. It's one of those movies I can watch over and over and always have a good time with it. I own it in 3 different formats because I obviously have mental problems. I feel the same way about Beastmaster, Altered States, Night of the Comet and about a million other shlockfests of the time. I really wish Remo Williams had been better received. Some of those Destroyer stories are insane and would make killer movies/TV.

Also, Carpenter's 80s run is unparalleled. A hot streak broken only by the disastrous decision to follow They Live with Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Eeesh.

Zack seems to be going in the opposite direction. Talking up current Hollywood garbage. Which is really fucking weird from the guy who started a movement that claims to hate forced social messaging in popular media.

It's super fucking weird. As late as last year he was bitching about "woke" messaging in every form of media. Now he seems to think the only medium it has no place in is comics. I can't figure out why he's making that distinction after all this time and focusing his autistic rage at people who make the same sort of content he built his name on. All I can come up with is that it's a potent combination of retardation and jealousy.

 

[Absurdity]

The short answer is that he's trying to break up with his old fan base like he breaks up with his baby mamas. He had a few mutant babies with CG, now it's time to pull out belatedly and go shoe shopping at Liefeld's Just Feet with some frumpy SJW Karens.

 

[WhimsicalTrolli]

It was one dad's effort to support on-screen representation for his mixed race kids all along.

I guess he wanted to be Michael bendis without the talent.

Zack deleted his Wednesday morning yappings.

I think more people are more interested in the rippaverse than splatto comics. It's safe to say he's jealous of Eric/FNT or Eric rejected his request for rippasend.

 

[ronnal]

I guess he wanted to be Michael bendis without the talent.

Zack deleted his Wednesday morning yappings.

I think more people are more interested in the rippaverse than splatto comics. It's safe to say he's jealous of Eric/FNT or Eric rejected his request for rippasend.
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It sounds like he wasn't interested in the rippaverse anyway, so I don't know what he's upset about.

 

[Stupor Mario]

Oh for sure. David Lynch's Dune adaptation is one of my favorite films of the 80s. It's one of those movies I can watch over and over and always have a good time with it. I own it in 3 different formats because I obviously have mental problems. I feel the same way about Beastmaster, Altered States, Night of the Comet and about a million other shlockfests of the time. I really wish Remo Williams had been better received. Some of those Destroyer stories are insane and would make killer movies/TV.

Also, Carpenter's 80s run is unparalleled. A hot streak broken only by the disastrous decision to follow They Live with Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Eeesh.

Movies peaked in the 20th century. We got to see some of the greatest pop culture cinematic creations of all time by very talented creators. So much was going right for Hollywood at the end of the 20th century. The special effects in particular were so good, because they were still doing practical things with prosthetics, puppets, models, costuming, matte paintings, stunts etc. that lazy CGI cannot improve upon. The creation of Lucas' Industrial Lights and Magic just kicked up everything that was good to a whole other level.

I really do miss those kind of '80s/'90s B movies you mentioned that we don't get anymore. They had charm. They were schlocky, but they were fun. My whole childhood was spent watching stuff like The Running Man, Gymkata, Cobra, The Road Warrior, Bloodsport, Enter the Dragon, Conan, etc. over and over again on TV reruns.

What is it with these guys and their oh-so-delicate ears?

Do you think Zack whipped off his earphones, smashed something, and had a little hissy fit when Az got a little shouty the same way Ethan did?

 

[Gee Willows Wilson!]

It sounds like he wasn't interested in the rippaverse anyway, so I don't know what he's upset about.

His view used to be 'if I can lose your interest that quick, then I know you weren't ever interested'

Zack continues to beat himself into a position he used to be against even a year ago.

 

[Mr Processor]

I really wish Remo Williams had been better received. Some of those Destroyer stories are insane and would make killer movies/TV.

This is the thing with movies that Zack doesn't get when he starts crying about Furiosa. Lot's of good movies don't get sequels. Furiosa was, itself, a sequel (well a prequel). Instead of being happy that a movie that was not a mega hit got a sequel he enjoyed, he becomes a hateful turd to his fan club. Not every movie property becomes a franchise, there never was a Running Man 2 or a Total Recall 2 (it did get a somewhat baffling remake). It's actually better that some movies don't get sequels rather than getting terrible sequels.

Really though, I think it was all a performance because he wanted an excuse to go after the "birthday party clowns" who are doing better than him with their channels.

 

[Flexo]

I don't want to say Weller was miscast but he underplayed a role that needed him to be more reactive. He had no chemistry with Barkin, and was too humorless and calm around the bad guys. He's said he didn't understand Buckaroo which shows. A character like Bonzai needed to pop and Weller erred on the side of playing the role as if it was a side character from Egon Spengler's origin story. He always knew what was going on but his expressions ranged from bored to annoyed. It also might have helped if they figured out a way to make the 8th dimension's psychedelic electron microscape an actual setting rather than making a mere cameo appearance.

They approached Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton but decided they wanted a more unknown. It was the makers who approached Weller and asked him to do the film. SFDebris goes over it in his background video.

 

[Tepes Thot]

I guess he wanted to be Michael bendis without the talent.

Zack deleted his Wednesday morning yappings.

I think more people are more interested in the rippaverse than splatto comics. It's safe to say he's jealous of Eric/FNT or Eric rejected his request for rippasend.
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I’ve repeated myself enough, but I’ve always believed this was his major issue. He kept nudging at people around Eric until he felt comfortable enough to name him.

I wouldn’t have a problem if he was going to give an honest critique of EJ’s comic like he used to do, but this is clearly not about comics. He only talks about comics now when he wants to appear like he isn’t obsessively switching between rage posting, stalking pros, locating Tee Franklin, and hearting his fanclub.

 

[That Other Dude's Persona]

He's shitting on his collaborator Critical Drinker now, the man who's arguably the reason Meyer's belly is full (even if it's just burritos). Full psycho mode.

https://archive.ph/R8Mdk

 

[Miniluv]

He's shitting on his collaborator Critical Drinker now, the man who's arguably the reason Meyer's belly is full (even if it's just burritos). Full psycho mode.
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https://archive.ph/R8Mdk

He's even using the feminine leftoid Twitter clap emoji between words. Meyer is officially a crazy faggot.