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I like reading blockbuster movies too. Those are the best comics alongside poptart boxes and t-shirts.
Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!
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These clowns are just dying to hasten the demise of an already dying medium, ain't they?
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Ethan Van Sciver has returned to twitter. Also, he apparently did decline to comment on the Bleeding Cool hit piece about him. I didn't see the tweet where he mentioned it before he took his account down.
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Some guy named Yellow Flash made a Black List of the "Portland Mafia" and added other spergs that qualify as SJW in the comics indutry. Yellow Flash is a small time youtuber and has all the "Pros" going nuts about it.
A bunch of spergery from both sides: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=comicsgate list&src=typd
A bunch of spergery from both sides: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=comicsgate list&src=typd
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Making blacklists is fucking stupid. All you're going to do is feed their victim complex, and for the spergs who write these comics that's their favourite hobby. What's more it gives weight to their claims that they're being hounded out by evil racist/sexist/homophobic readers. If pros are going mad over it no wonder, this is Christmas come early for them.
Anyhow, so long as lists are being made, this one is wrong. Saladin Ahmed needs to be on there, and while Jim Zub is a pathetic manlet he's not malicious like others.
Anyhow, so long as lists are being made, this one is wrong. Saladin Ahmed needs to be on there, and while Jim Zub is a pathetic manlet he's not malicious like others.
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No. Make a thread for him, if you think he warrants it.
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And if we do get a thread on this guy, there must good amount of info and examples unless one just wants a really shitty OP that gets mocked and locked.
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An article I found via D&C. Comicsgate is Gamergate's Next Horrible Evolution. (Archive)
Yeah, Zub is harmless from what I have observed.
Yeah, Zub is harmless from what I have observed.
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I honestly never understood how articles like this get written outside the writers being ignorant of the problem. Objectively comics are in a low-point, that is something people can agree on. Customers are also getting told to fuck off or drop dead for things like professing their desire for the original characters. How can you claim there isn't some merit to the argument that creators need to clean their act?
"But muh Marvel Studios" someone cries. You mean the same Marvel Studios that got so sick of Marvel Entertainment's shit that they broke off and now only have to listen to Disney? The Marvel Studios that's centered around the characters people give a damn about is your big "take that, fading white hegemony in geek culture"?
You might as well just write "Shut the fuck up, nigger" and call it a day if your input has nothing to do with improving a situation and is going on about how people's hobbies should be turned into farms for people's terrible ideas.
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This is what I don't understand about the whole Comicsgate thing. Sure, the writers at Marvel may suck and do things to characters the fans don't like, but if comics are pretty objectively in a low point (and yes, that's something everyone can agree on) why should we want to take something shitty and make it maybe 1% less shitty by getting rid of the SJWs? What does this do in the long run for the medium?
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Usually they argue that eventually other mediums like the movies could use the material.....even though I can guarantee you that you'll never get Natalie Portman playing "Thor" in the MCU.
Now why it has to be an IP farm that can't stand on it's own or how you expect to test the waters if everyone is gone is beyond me. "Let comics die" helps no one in any way.
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The rebel part of all this makes poor to little no sense, and D&C is stroking his ego way too much. The core idea is to simply try to save comics from dying. If it can remain a little niche of decently-made products why not
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Most of the people who write these things are failed journalists looking for clickbait, you'll notice Erics tone and style are completly unremarkable and nothing about his writting sticks out from the crowd. Most of his articles are low key native advertising, most of his work is mimicked elsewhere and sometimes he does a puff piece on a social issue which he has neither the intelligance nor education background to effectively analyse.
I genuinly believe Eric's prep work for this article was reading other articles from his peers and nothing he did could count as journalism
It's very likely that I've spent more time contemplating Eric as a journalist than anyone else who isnt eric or his family in the last 10 minutes because writters like him are a dime a dozen and the articles he writes have effective duplicates on any other geek site.
These sort of articles are a dime a dozen because the nature of online journalism writting is so flawed the desire for clicks has ensured that articles are total shit and the medium is stillborn. Left, Right doesnt really matter because the oversaturation, native advertising and low standards means what ever you read is total shit.
And thats how articles like this get written/copy pasted from twitter quips and armchair observations.
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Honestly from what I've seen a lot of comic "journalists" are just craving for an actual #Comicgate to happen in the same vein as #Gamergate for at least a few years now because a comics scandal getting half the attention of a video game scandal would be a net positive for people who's job or is to write clickbait for an increasingly irrelevant medium. It's why all these sites like the Mary Sue pretty much jump on every "ZOMG FEMALE CREATOR GOT MEAN TWEETS ON TWITTER (no we won't show you proof stop asking)" for every single scandal, regardless of context. Most egregious examples of this being the articles written about Chealsea Cain, where several articles were written about her being harassed off Twitter for the "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda" cover before anyone even bothered to contact Cain personally, at which point it later turned out the reason she left was because the people she was blocking on Twitter were rape victims upset thar she retconned a character from being a rape victim who killed her rapist in self-defense to a cheater who murdered her lover to prevent him from telling her husband and then lied to her husband about being raped to cover it up, and Cain basically got out of dodge and spun the issue as being the fault misogynerds before her antics could be noticed. Whoops.
Gotta keep in mind that these people don't really give a fuck about comics, so long as they get their 15 minutes of fame out of it they couldn't care less about what their actions might mean for the rest of the industry.
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This list drips autism. Okay, most of the people on it are in fact total assholes, but still.
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There was a flip-side of this some months ago of a blacklist of internet artists made by some furry and it exploded right on their face. No matter your political position or intentions, "you are not allowed to like these creators" lists are always retarded. Callouts in general are stupid, unless the artist is a scammer or has actual history of predatory behaviors.