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

Senior Lexmechanic said:
A lot of Tumblrites are devout Anglophiles, though (at least, pop-culture anglophiles), and Dredd is a Brit product.
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Dredd comics aren't really widely available in the US outside of large omnibus collections, the IDW runs that sell like shit, and the occasional single of in a long box bin. Putting together a Judge Dredd collection can be a total bitch with contacting local stores just to find the books you're looking for - even worse if you don't live somewhere with a ton of comic shops. A big thing about Tumblrinas is that they only tend to gravitate towards stuff that's easily accessible and takes the least amount of effort to be invested in - hence the large influx of Marvel fanspergs who make/consume tons of content about the Avengers being one big gay orgy fest and screeching for representation in Marvel comics/movies that came suspiciously at the same time MCU movies got popular and made superheroes officially mainstream.

And while Dredd may have had the Urban adaptation, it was considered a financial failure when it was first released and this flew under most Tumblrina's radars. Maybe if the Netflix show that seems stuck in production hell ever gets off the ground you'll see a sudden insurgency of SJWs, but as it stands it looks like Dress dodged a bullet.
 
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Hatoful Dandy said:
The question isn't "would SJWs latch onto Dredd?", it's "How will it offend them first?"
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I guarantee it'll be Hondo City; and frankly, they'd kind of have a point. The early appearances of it were just on this side of having all the nips have huge front teeth and coke-bottle glasses.
EDIT: call me optimistic, but I honestly don't think they'd get up in arms about the Judges in general; aren't they what they really want, after all? An all-powerful nanny state that exists to perpetuate a life of mindless, empty hedonism and police the thoughts of others?
 
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EDIT: call me optimistic, but I honestly don't think they'd get up in arms about the Judges in general; aren't they what they really want, after all? An all-powerful nanny state that exists to perpetuate a life of mindless, empty hedonism and police the thoughts of others?
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I could see Twitter eating that up.
"#IfJudgesWereReal misgendering would be punished by summary execution"
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I could see Twitter eating that up.
"#IfJudgesWereReal misgendering would be punished by summary execution"
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Little do they know that, for all of the shoot-outs that happen in JD, Mega-City One reserves the death penalty for the most heinous crimes it's possible to commit: one of the only people in the comic to EVER get it to my knowledge only did so because he betrayed the Justice Department and sided with omnicidal demons from hell. At worst, misgendering would be corrected through neurosurgery, like with political radicals. More realistically, it might net you a week in an iso-cube. MOST realistically, a Judge wouldn't give a shit, or might shove both sides into adjacent 'cubes for a few days so they stop bothering Judges with shit that's stupid and trivial even for a legal body that outlawed sugar. Misgenderer could be got on public annoyance laws, and the troon for "Dressing in a Manner Likely to Cause a Public Disturbance". If they wanted to be REALLY mean, they could give the troon ten months for lying to a Judge if they keep insisting on pronouns.
 
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Senior Lexmechanic said:
I guarantee it'll be Hondo City; and frankly, they'd kind of have a point. The early appearances of it were just on this side of having all the nips have huge front teeth and coke-bottle glasses.
EDIT: call me optimistic, but I honestly don't think they'd get up in arms about the Judges in general; aren't they what they really want, after all? An all-powerful nanny state that exists to perpetuate a life of mindless, empty hedonism and police the thoughts of others?
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Or they'd just call them fascists...which they are, really.

I think it'd be Fatties in general (they sequester them in camps and monitor their eating habits till they lose enough weight to be let out...and get thrown back in shortly because of their celebratory meal). They may emphasize with Citizen Snork and that one show where contestants e-beg for money.
 
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Little do they know that, for all of the shoot-outs that happen in JD, Mega-City One reserves the death penalty for the most heinous crimes it's possible to commit: one of the only people in the comic to EVER get it to my knowledge only did so because he betrayed the Justice Department and sided with omnicidal demons from hell. At worst, misgendering would be corrected through neurosurgery, like with political radicals. More realistically, it might net you a week in an iso-cube. MOST realistically, a Judge wouldn't give a shit, or might shove both sides into adjacent 'cubes for a few days so they stop bothering Judges with shit that's stupid and trivial even for a legal body that outlawed sugar. Misgenderer could be got on public annoyance laws, and the troon for "Dressing in a Manner Likely to Cause a Public Disturbance". If they wanted to be REALLY mean, they could give the troon ten months for lying to a Judge if they keep insisting on pronouns.
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To be fair mega city tech is way beyond our own in terms of altering your body. it would be remarkably simple to change your gender. Which effectively kills that transgender subculture stone dead. The limits of the technology are a plot point in the America arc where nobody gives a single shit that their's a guy wondering around in his brain-dead lovers body.

Theoritically Wu could turn herself into liv tyler tommorow and mega city one would not give a single fuck about anything which has happened to her. (which she's most likely find frustrating.)
 
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Hatoful Dandy said:
Or they'd just call them fascists...which they are, really.

I think it'd be Fatties in general (they sequester them in camps and monitor their eating habits till they lose enough weight to be let out...and get thrown back in shortly because of their celebratory meal). They may emphasize with Citizen Snork and that one show where contestants e-beg for money.
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That was only in the aftermath of the Apocalypse War: they let them go afterwards, and, of all the weird "hobby-as-lifestyle" groups in MC-1, fatties tend to be treated with the most dignity by the comics.
 
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damian said:
Found something, apparently the usual suspects (Mags, Darrylayo, Tim Doyle, etc...) receive a newsletter from this account through Patreon. Its an industry newsletter that only Patrons have access to. Its as cringey as you'd think it would be. Im including an article that was open to non-patrons in PDF form:
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>The Valkyries

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. For people who don't know, The Valkyries was a failed comic club full of chicks who worked in or owned comic shops. Their goal, from what I can gather on their website, was what kinda what #movetheneedle is now in that they were all about promoting women, LGBT, minority, etc. voices by using their position to recommend books to potential customers. Only problem with that was that The Valkyries were both founded and full of people like Kath Leth (who I'm still surprised she doesn't have her own thread) Annie Bulloch, and even got support from some so-called "pros" like Kelly Sue DeConnick, who you can thank for the current version of Captain Marvel and indie shit like Bitch Planet.

So basically it was a club of narcissistic twats who are comics more as a soapbox to show off their opinions and fridge doodles with rather than an actual medium, with the added bonus that many of hated their own consumer base or interacting with people in general. As such it was about as cringey as you'd expect with most of their efforts were self-congratultory nonsense where they were just selling their own (or their friends') shitty comics to each other and not a whole lot of effort to attract new readers.

I hadn't heard much from them since 2014, but from that newsletter article it sounds like it's disbanded for the most part because of high school-tier drama and toe-stepping. Which given the above information doesn't surprise me in the least.

Seems like their Twitter is still updating though, so if anyone wants to dig through it for the lols be my guest.
 
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This might be me going crazy but does "ThatUmbrellaGuy" sound like the Martin guy that D&C and EvS talked about? It could just be their accents though.
 
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OutRighGeek made a neutral article on #Comicsgate and #MoveTheNeedle:
http://www.outrightgeekery.com/2018/02/20/comicsgate-part-1/
http://www.outrightgeekery.com/2018/02/20/comicsgate-p-t-2/
http://www.outrightgeekery.com/2018/02/20/comicsgate-p-t-3/

RatKing Michelle Perez did not like that they were neutral and went on a rant (archive):
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More recent spergery (archive) and degeneracy (archive) from an Image Eisner Nominated Writer.

Bonus: Aubrey Sitterson Salt (archive)

UPDATE (archive):
 
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Edit: Jesus fucking Christ, they weren't making a joke and they do post images of their anus on Twitter. How the flying fuck is this person working for a publisher?
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That POS Calexit got published (admittedly, for one issue, but still). So did that "We Wuz Superheros" comic Black. Some indie publishers just have no taste nor sense.
 
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