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

[Least Concern]

Did KickStarter explicitly ban CG books, as she claimed? The way I remember it was that they were just giving Zack a runaround before accepting his campaign, and he eventually got frustrated and went to create a IGG campaign instead. Van Sciver and the rest then followed him over.

Perhaps KickStarter delaying his campaign was a silent deplatforming, but I don't think we have proof of that.

 

[RockVolnutt]

Did KickStarter explicitly ban CG books, as she claimed? The way I remember it was that they were just giving Zack a runaround before accepting his campaign, and he eventually got frustrated and went to create a IGG campaign instead. Van Sciver and the rest then followed him over.

Perhaps KickStarter delaying his campaign was a silent deplatforming, but I don't think we have proof of that.

No, that's more or less what happened if I recall correctly.

 

[Crabbo]

This may have been brought up before, but here is a pet project from the Anti-CG crew.
The autism is shining brighter than the sun at this point.

https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/

 

[Love Soze]

I thought HotPinkGeek leaked the shots of Kickstarter refusing to publish the Jawbreakers fundraiser?
Found it:

I doubt any of us are shocked by the (alleged) news that Kickstarter rejected Jawbreakers on the flawed premise that the project itself promoted racism.
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The wording isn't clear on how he received the screenshot:
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[Least Concern]

I thought HotPinkGeek leaked the shots of Kickstarter refusing to publish the Jawbreakers fundraiser?
Found it:

I stand corrected. I had forgotten about that. Thank you.

So KickStarter has left their cut of over a million dollars in pledges on the table. Get woke… Well, they're probably not going broke anytime soon, but…

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I stand corrected. I had forgotten about that. Thank you.

So KickStarter has left their cut of over a million dollars in pledges on the table. Get woke… Well, they're probably not going broke anytime soon, but…

I rarely back kickstarters to be honest. Too many just run away with your money or take too long. I don’t think they’ll go broke, but they’re pretty sketchy imo.

 

[damian]

I bet Kwanzer’s pissed someone stole his shtick:

The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes and D.J. Kirkland August 13, Teen

When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's "Magical Minority Initiative," begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all the way back to the American Civil War, and could cost Tom his very soul.

“The Black Mage is the kind of story my 13-year-old self would’ve freaked out about. It’s what would happen if Harry Potter fused with The Boondocks and started making a bunch of loud Final Fantasy references,” said Daniel Barnes. “It’s like the universe wanted D.J. and I to work together. We were on the same wavelength about nearly everything.”

“When Oni showed me the pitch and asked me to be the artist for The Black Mage, I said yes immediately,” said D.J. Kirkland. “Daniel has been an absolute dream to work with, and has encouraged me to really let loose and inject our love of video games, anime and manga, and putting a teenage black boy at the center. We’ve created something really special and I can’t wait for y’all to read it.”

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Did KickStarter explicitly ban CG books, as she claimed? The way I remember it was that they were just giving Zack a runaround before accepting his campaign, and he eventually got frustrated and went to create a IGG campaign instead. Van Sciver and the rest then followed him over.

Perhaps KickStarter delaying his campaign was a silent deplatforming, but I don't think we have proof of that.

YaBoi ran into some trust and safety council bs about his giant monkey book being against their rules, fuck knows what rules it broke. Everyone saw that as him getting unfairly roadblocked for no reason and decided on IGG as their platform.

This may have been brought up before, but here is a pet project from the Anti-CG crew.
The autism is shining brighter than the sun at this point.
https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/

Now that’s what I call :autism:

 

[Puddleduck]

This may have been brought up before, but here is a pet project from the Anti-CG crew.
The autism is shining brighter than the sun at this point.

https://thisiscomicsgate.wordpress.com/

While it's hard to deny that CG does have some crappy people within it, anything they have against EVS or YaBoi is really scraping the barrel.

 

[One Man Bland]

The money guys are never going to come downstairs. Go watch that video I posted a page back. The money involved with Marvel Comics is so minimal in Disney’s eye that it doesn’t even count as an accounting error. Marvel’s task is keeping IP’s Trademarks and Copyrights active and refreshed. Beyond that the Mouse really doesn’t care. Low readership or few customers are almost ideal to them. Disney hates being a publisher. They don’t want it. But they need it to keep refreshing the IP’s via official publication, so they don’t end up with a Shazam/Captain Marvel situation. As long as the comics clowns aren’t causing true legal liability nobody in Disney HQ gives a crap. It’s not like any of them read the shit Marvel puts out.

And even then Disney frequently elects to use other publishers for their various comic adaptations and spinoffs, which seems to indicate they’re at least somewhat aware that they shouldn’t use their own comic publisher if they want quality.

Or you can do what they did with Captain Marvel, throw all that pesky history and do a complete rewrite. Outside of the name and costume they didn’t use anything from the comics.

I don’t know, while you could maybe take out all the Inhuman shit that Kamala was shackled to, I think there’s still a snag that her origin is still “she walked into a fart cloud on her way home from a party and came out the other end with super powers” and that changing that kinda changes the dynamic/trajectory of the character. And with how little marketing/publicity Captain Marvel’s been getting (at least from what I’ve seen) Disney seems to know that Captain Marvel isn’t looking great, so who knows if they’d be willing to try again if that fails.

 

[Puddleduck]

What actually are Kamala's powers - I get the impression she's basically Jake the Dog?

 

[One Man Bland]

What actually are Kamala's powers - I get the impression she's basically Jake the Dog?

I think she’s supposed to be more like Plastic Man where she’s a mix of stretchy powers and shape shifting (she even turns into Carol in the first few issues), but from what I’ve seen the Marvel writers he was given aren’t very imaginative and just have Kamala spam the shut out of making her limbs grow and stretch, to the point casual readers assume that’s all she can do.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I bet Kwanzer’s pissed someone stole his shtick:

The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes and D.J. Kirkland August 13, Teen
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YaBoi ran into some trust and safety council bs about his giant monkey book being against their rules, fuck knows what rules it broke. Everyone saw that as him getting unfairly roadblocked for no reason and decided on IGG as their platform.

Now that’s what I call :autism:

Tom Token? Seriously?

Are we sure these two are 'woke'? Who the fuck would name their black protagonist 'Token'? Aside from South Park.

 

[Night Owl]

Tom Token? Seriously?

Are we sure these two are 'woke'? Who the fuck would name their black protagonist 'Token'? Aside from South Park.

They are probably being ironic or think they're being clever. "Hue hue, no one's ever thought of THAT before."

 

[AnOminous]

Are we sure these two are 'woke'? Who the fuck would name their black protagonist 'Token'? Aside from South Park.

At least make it Tom Tolkien so it is a bit of a pun.

 

[damian]

I don’t know, while you could maybe take out all the Inhuman shit that Kamala was shackled to, I think there’s still a snag that her origin is still “she walked into a fart cloud on her way home from a party and came out the other end with super powers” and that changing that kinda changes the dynamic/trajectory of the character. And with how little marketing/publicity Captain Marvel’s been getting (at least from what I’ve seen) Disney seems to know that Captain Marvel isn’t looking great, so who knows if they’d be willing to try again if that fails.

Among the nerd circles I run with, they really want to salvage Ms Marvel by retconning her into a mutant instead of an inhuman. Her being an Inhuman is probably her biggest setback, not only is she part of a bargain bin (in-Universe) knock off X-Men, her powers are massively underdeveloped.

The Inhumans have never been as popular as the X-Men, outside of very few characters (Black Bolt, Medusa), it would be very difficult to find someone saying their favorite character is an Inhuman. The Inhumans would have been fine if Marvel didn’t try to replace the X-Men with them, because of that one move, they turned apathy to genuine hatred and it has massively damaged the marketability of them. They went from having 3 ongoings (Black Bolt, Secret Warriors, Royals) to just 1 event (Death of The Inhumans) without any current ongoing (not counting Ms. Marvel and Moon Girl/Devil Dinasaur).

I think she’s supposed to be more like Plastic Man where she’s a mix of stretchy powers and shape shifting (she even turns into Carol in the first few issues), but from what I’ve seen the Marvel writers he was given aren’t very imaginative and just have Kamala spam the shut out of making her limbs grow and stretch, to the point casual readers assume that’s all she can do.

It’s really a shame that the writers assigned to Ms Marvel barely even try to play around with her powers. At most all she’s done past the first 3 issues with her powers is enlarge, shrink, make her hands and feet big.

Shapeshifting powers requires a very imaginative person to write, when you don’t have one you get shit like:

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And when you do, you get stuff like:

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[Capsaicin Addict]

Among the nerd circles I run with, they really want to salvage Ms Marvel by retconning her into a mutant instead of an inhuman. Her being an Inhuman is probably her biggest setback, not only is she part of a bargain bin (in-Universe) knock off X-Men, her powers are massively underdeveloped.

The Inhumans have never been as popular as the X-Men, outside of very few characters (Black Bolt, Medusa), it would be very difficult to find someone saying their favorite character is an Inhuman. The Inhumans would have been fine if Marvel didn’t try to replace the X-Men with them, because of that one move, they turned apathy to genuine hatred and it has massively damaged the marketability of them. They went from having 3 ongoings (Black Bolt, Secret Warriors, Royals) to just 1 event (Death of The Inhumans) without any current ongoing (not counting Ms. Marvel and Moon Girl/Devil Dinasaur).


It’s really a shame that the writers assigned to Ms Marvel barely even try to play around with her powers. At most all she’s done past the first 3 issues with her powers is enlarge, shrink, make her hands and feet big.

Shapeshifting powers requires a very imaginative person to write, when you don’t have one you get shit like:

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And when you do, you get stuff like:

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It's almost not fair, but it's not like Plas hasn't had some AWESOME shapeshifting moments over the years prior to Kamala Khan's debut. They could at least borrow a few and make an homage.

 

[wes]

It's almost not fair, but it's not like Plas hasn't had some AWESOME shapeshifting moments over the years prior to Kamala Khan's debut. They could at least borrow a few and make an homage.

I'd be interested in Kamala using her shapeshifting powers to explore her connection to Islam that everyone who writes her is so desperate to bring attention to. Her stupid facemask could be morphed into the various Islamic forms of female modesty with enough stretching of her already ill-defined powers. She could have a friend that is revealed to be in an arranged marriage and has parents making her dress more strictly, to the point Kamala can't hang out with said friend because she doesn't wear a hijab. The friend's parents find out the girl doesn't want to get married to Mr. Snackbar and secretly arrange an honor killing or to shun her, if the honor killing route would be too dark. Kamala uses her powers for some espionage type shit and finds a way to help her friend. Cue her manipulating her body in scary situations and doing other things besides making her hands YUGE

Obviously, this would never happen because Islam is the religion of peace and saying anything bad about it is strictly verboten. Ms. Marvel tries to address social justice issues in its own inept way, and making Kamala deal with actual social justice issues that exist (ie. not Drumpf MAGA strawmen) could be her gimmick. What I suggested wouldn't be something for Ms. Marvel's current demographic, but the concept behind it could be adapted into something more tween-friendly.

If SJW Marvel wants to throw away the escapism that propelled comics into cultural relevancy, they may as well commit to the bit.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

If I remember correctly, isn't part of the reason for Kamala's powers being undeveloped and bland that her creator thought writing a character with shapeshifting was too hard more or less?

 

[gobbogobb]

You're all forgetting one very important thing. Drawing shapeshifters well requires artistic talent.

 

[Puddleduck]

If I remember correctly, isn't part of the reason for Kamala's powers being undeveloped and bland that her creator thought writing a character with shapeshifting was too hard more or less?

I guess I can see what she meant - if someone can shapeshift, nearly any foe or problem can be beaten by changing shape to accomodate it. So the writing would need to make it so either a)the situations can't easily be solved by changing shape or b)overpowering the enemies.