From another angle: if you're a fan of Cyberfrog, does that hinge on believing he isn't a terrible person: that you don't believe he's a leader of all or part of the CG shenanigans behind the scenes?
If you don't believe Ethan was part of it, could you foresee anything Ethan might do to sour you on Cyberfrog? What if he openly admitted to gayops sometime in the future?
Every and any book that isn't a deplorable SJW fantasy is comparatively "great." What are you looking forward to the most from this character?
I'll be fine with any. Pond level to start? I'm trying to filter out what is purely enthusiasm for Ethan's personal story versus the Cyberfrog property. I've had times where I really could have done without hearing one more thing about Stan Lee's earlier career as a two-bit writer taking complete advantage of Jack Kirby's mega talent. But the fact is my enjoyment of these characters is quite independent of my appreciation for the character of Stan Lee, at least at that stage in his life.
I am not a fan of Cyberfrog nor of EVS.
But I do remember stumbling upon his artwork while reading DC comics, but it really fits Cyberfrog and his more slow progress (or Kyle's colouring) actually makes it better. He is good at making aliens and cool mosters and overdetailed scenery. If he could make one or two high quality albums a year (like the French do) he would be making even more money imho.
@FROG is a pussy that canceled his collaboration with Dave Sim because of ridiculous social pressure. He's no better than the "sjw" types yells about.
He'll capitulate to whatever social pressure because he's a money whore.
If there is one cow in the North American comic book industry, it is Dave Sim.
And I say that after witnessing all the twitter retardation of comicbook pros.
Yes, the first 5 or 6 Cerebus phonebooks are works of genious. His essays on the indy comicbook industry? Amazing.
After that, there are glimmers of greatness throughout Cerebus, but most of it is pendantic, unreadable trash.
For those not aware of Dave Sim or Cerebus, He was a Canadian dude who did a funny animal Conan parody that evolved into a sociopolitical satire and then a literary comicbook. At some point early on, he had a bad acid trip and got hospitalized. While there, he had a vision that he was going to make a huge epic graphic novel that would be 300 issues long.
His material could probably fill 200 issues and so he just padded it out to 300 issues, while throwing in famous authors, Woody Allen and a ton of very slow progression, because "he wanted it to feel like one of those European movies" and "wanted to write dialogue like real people talk".
And we talk about a comicbook that, during its golden age, could spend an issue of Cerebus explaining a joke or issues of him running up a tower.
So, Dave Sim in his prime was an awful pick for a superhero comicbook paying tribute to the 90's.
He is also the man responsible for writing for trade (since he was the first to collect all his issues in trade and offer them forever) and Cerebus is what inspired Neil Gaiman to write Sandman.
He convinced a lot of chumps to self-publish their trash comics (and lose their houses) and he was the one to start throwing parties at conventions and had a rock star thing going for him.
Now, Dave Sim had a gradual breakdown.
His anti-feminist essay was some great writing of his own ideas, that were therefor quirte some time. In his "Church and State" comicbook arc, he had evil feminazi mujahideen taking over the world.
The way his political ideas went into the story of Cerebus though was not that great. His "Women" "Reads" "Minds" "Guys" arcs were a dip into insanity (but Guys was sort of good). and the essays in those issues were walls of text of someone who was already lost.
I skipped most of "Latter days" and "Last days" arcs simply because my eyes were bleeding with the stupidity of it all, but then again the final issues were a Masterpiece.
His antics, like challenging Jeff Smith (of Bone) to a boxing match was what kicked him out of the industry (he, himself created). Most of his work in the 90's and 00's is unreadable trash. His essays turned into some pendantic trash and he got lost in some sort of a fantasy world where he was a champion of Abrahamic religious values while evil feminazis where trying to destroy male society.
His coming clean about the pedo stuff is actually redeeming compared to his entire life's work.
I have read that he is bipolar and I believe it.
He is a great example of a very disturbed artist who made some great works in the early days, then got lost to his derangement.