Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[CharlesBarkley]

Bob: Tuck is a bad man who relies on outrage politics and will eventually get people killed. He is worthless.

Also Bob: Here is another tweet where I am outraged over dumb political shit and constantly wish for death on people I do not like. I am important.

The hypocrisy is legendary. It's like legit impossible for this fat fuck to look in a mirror.

 

[Bolo]

One of the worst scenes I ever read.

The hilarity is it exemplifies rich white liberalism perfectly more than any black experience.

If Bendis wanted to give her a real struggle it could had been perfectly done with out using race or gender but something all can relate too economics. Simply show Riri growing up admiring Tony Stark and being a genius like him but denied all the opportunities he had due to him being born rich. Hell make her a fan of Howard Stark since he was a self made man.

But instead Bendis created a fake Victimhood because it's all his and Blobby ilk know and they clap because it validates in their eyes their own ridiculous claims of Victimhood.

To throw Bendis a bone here, I don't think he meant for this flashback scene in Riri's story to be taken a 100% seriously, or at least not to be the whole motivation she had for her character, because Riri lost both of her father and Step father in shooting incidents. (she is from Chicago after all). By the way, her father faked his death so he could join the ten rings, some criminal organization I guess, with links to the Mandarin, Idon't know much, I just skimmed much of Iron Heart's comics.

But the point of that infamous teacher scene was to show Riri to be a bit of a oddball, since Bendis first characterized her as being a introvert with difficulties of making friends, but as we can tell, he completely misses the mark and further the first impression of Riri being insufferable, and it doesn't help she acts like a absolute self-rigthous cunt during her first issues.

At this point, editorial should have stepped in and said "fuck no, re-write this shit", but as we have learned recently, Marvel editorial devolved into poorly paid interns with little to no experience who just seem to hire their friends tumbrl artists and say yes to whatever the writers wanted.

Also at this point it was painfully evident that Bendis was overestimating his own talents. He had a somewhat unique voice in comics when he started for his natural flowing dialogues and more down to earth characters, back when capeshit writing was still very stiff and utilitarian.

However, when the MCU started to hit big, every marvel writer started to copy the quirky witty filled dialogues from the movies, and Bendis was one that went hard on the paint with that, writing as if he can bring Riri Williams to be have a "charming asshole" charisma to her, and failing spectacularly,

But like Quixotic Man said, when other writers came in, they tried to fix her, and now she more less likeable, but much like most of these new heroes that marvel keeps trying to push, Riri Williams falls into the bland side of things, like Miles Morales, she is just there now.

Still, first impression are the ones that stay, and poor Riri had a rough start. I feel a bit bad for Bendis, he meant Riri to be an inspiration for his two adopted black daughters, but fuck, his introduction of the characters reads like a first draft with little to no critical exercise on his part, you have to be way, WAY up your own asshole to not see the backlash like Riri got coming a mile away.

 

[Berrakh]

Coping Poorly, Seething Interminably.
The Bob Chipman story.

 

[Pomniman]

I would agree with you there, but recently I don't think most of these people want to "get there" at all. I know it is a basic bitch argument to say that "actvists just want the fight to feel rightous and self-important", but have you seen the people that took over the spotlight for these racial/social grievances of late?

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this is Travon Free, bi-sexual comedy writer for Samantha Bee and the Daily Show (you know, the funniest shit around), who made a short film about a black guy stuck in a time loop where he gets shot by a white cop no matter what he does. The short is a piece of shit racist flick, but what he wore to get his Oscar encapsulate this bizarre moment we are living, on his dolce gabbana suit and nike Tennis he had them inscribed with the name of black people who were killed by cops.

In short, he made dead people his fucking BRAND! In these days of fast media consumption, where everything needs to be a reconizable name to have any staying power, this guy made a fucking brand out dead people, grifting doesn't even start to describe this shit.

I mean, fuck common sense and any semblance of respect for the dead am I right, who needs those when we are living in crappy, rejected Black Mirror episode.

Professional activists have always been tactless subhuman grifters who'll pounce on any opportunity to get on their soapbox. The idea of civil rights activism has been mythologized to the point where all of the same unsavory and degenerate shit one might assume represents a decline of these movements was always a prominent feature and only got selectively edited out of the history books by academics who want to fool the average public school, university educated, and/or MSNBCNN/Hollywood-trusting tard into thinking it was a great heroic undertaking and everyone involved was beyond reproach.

 

[Mr._Blonde]

One of the worst scenes I ever read.

The hilarity is it exemplifies rich white liberalism perfectly more than any black experience.

If Bendis wanted to give her a real struggle it could had been perfectly done with out using race or gender but something all can relate too economics. Simply show Riri growing up admiring Tony Stark and being a genius like him but denied all the opportunities he had due to him being born rich. Hell make her a fan of Howard Stark since he was a self made man.

But instead Bendis created a fake Victimhood because it's all his and Blobby ilk know and they clap because it validates in their eyes their own ridiculous claims of Victimhood.

Nice, dude (or dudette). I want to add more. Instead of stealing Tony's armor, she actually built her own armor from scratch from whatever material available and constantly tinkers with. She just test drives it and sometimes tries out the weapon system in a junkyard. Nothing more, nothing less. Than one day, she had the bad luck of bumping into a Supervillain terrorizing shit. She was trying to get out of it, but the villain had some hostages and the Police and the SWAT couldn't do much. She decided to help. Thanks to her armor and quick thinking, she manages to subdue the criminal. Barely. She almost died and her armor was practically falling apart at the end of it. This gotten the attention of Tony Stark, who than gave a Internship at Starktech. Or she gotten an Internship from Night Thrasher (Which would made her pout and said "Taylor Foundation? I wanna work in Starktech.).

I would have revealed that "Riri" is actually a nickname that she makes everybody call her as because she's actually embarrassed about her real name; she thinks it ugly; or one of the two or both. ((FYI: I read a little bit of her and it said she was named after her Biological Father. I figured her Bio Dad's name was Richard. That makes her Richard "Riri" Williams. And yes, I know Richard is traditionally a Boy's name, but I cracked open the Baby Names for Girls and I looked under names that starts with "Ri".))

 

[John Carmack]

OK, light refreshment: Chris in 2009 wearing the outfit of that Chris:
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Craft beer. Not even once.

 

[Oliver Onions]

To throw Bendis a bone here, I don't think he meant for this flashback scene in Riri's story to be taken a 100% seriously, or at least not to be the whole motivation she had for her character, because Riri lost both of her father and Step father in shooting incidents. (she is from Chicago after all). By the way, her father faked his death so he could join the ten rings, some criminal organization I guess, with links to the Mandarin, Idon't know much, I just skimmed much of Iron Heart's comics.

Still, first impression are the ones that stay, and poor Riri had a rough start. I feel a bit bad for Bendis, he meant Riri to be an inspiration for his two adopted black daughters, but fuck, his introduction of the characters reads like a first draft with little to no critical exercise on his part, you have to be way, WAY up your own asshole to not see the backlash like Riri got coming a mile away.

I can definitely see how this scene could be re-written to have the desired effect, but it's so exaggerated to the point of parody (why the fuck would she just be carrying around a photo of the first black, female astronaut??) that it carries all the tact and subtlety of an anti-weed PSA.

That's my problem with all woke writing though, and why I can't stand when people like Bob snidely mischaracterise those complaining about the politicisation of modern comics by saying shit like 'um, you ever heard of Captain America, my good sir???'

These dribbling mongos don't seem to understand you can write stories with a political bent or any kind of message you want, but good writers will weave that shit into the narrative, as opposed to modern writers blatantly having FemThor beat up a criminal, not for doing crime, but because he insulted feminism.

It's so petty and spiteful and, more than anything, abundantly clear these hacks care more about pushing an agenda and virtue-signalling than they do about putting out good stories that I'm glad when I hear all their numbers fucking suck, that Marvel and DC's comic divisions are haemorrhaging staff and that manga is absolutely cleaning house in western markets.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

I forgot to include the page where the teacher gives in, and tells RiRi that she will never be Tony Stark after noticing her pouting.

Pouting, staring like the killer in a horror movie, who's to tell with this art?

One of the worst scenes I ever read.

It'd be pretty good... if she was a villain. It's the kind of dramatic irony "This is the point where everyone should have realized Riri was broken, but they didn't actually notice until she had a deathbot army coming over the horizon." moment that can make for interesting backstory.

 

[UserAccess]

Well now we're getting into the difference between the true believers of a movement and the exploiters of said movement.

It didn't sink in until you said this. This is the missing piece that explains everything.

Let's examine the evidence. He calls unassociated acts on Youtube "colleagues." Tries to tie himself to Lindsay Ellis and Anita Sarkeesian. Bends his fat knees for China. Shouts atheist drivel anywhere he can. Loves trans sacks of mutilated meat like nothing else. Waves his fist at rednecks. This is standard tilted leftist small talk where normal people discuss if the Lions are going to beat the Packers this year.

Here's the kicker. Bob wept like a fucking woman because he couldn't leave the house during Covid. Blamed Trump for the whole thing. I doubt he leaves the house on a day that's 76 degrees out with a cool breeze and no humidity A shit ton of people are collecting checks for fucking nothing. Doordash will gladly bring a fairly small amount of food to you. 2020 should have been the happiest year of Bob's life.

I may be showing my age, but in high school, I had friends that were metalheads to the bone. Same for hardcore rap enthusiasts. Suddenly these same people tell me they love No Doubt. When questioned, they say they have from the very beginning. They heard songs from the original singer before he died and Tragic Kingdom is the poseur album. You'd wonder about the shift in attitude, but every now and then you'd see this friend nervously chatting up some girl with a No Doubt T-shirt. Ah, so that's why you're the No Doubt expert overnight.

Like a seasoned stripper, some purple haired skeeze waitress at the crappy barcade Bob went to twice a week touches his shoulder and occasionally says he's cute. Investigating, he discovers she's a tranny apologist atheist boilerplate leftist. Over time, Bob tries to rack up evidence that he's the OG leftist with deeds to prove it. This is a long con and he's been doing it for years. Maybe with different ladies over the past decade. "Check out my picture with Lindsay Ellis" he says, while boasting he can bench press ALL the plates. She takes his 50% tip and tells him to come back again soon.

Covid happens. They lock the doors of his crappy barcade. His dream girl is getting her gross hatchet wound blown up by a furloughed derrick hand from Pennsylvania with a monster truck that voted for Trump twice because oil puts six figures in his pocket every year. If the government listened to Bob, that shitty barcade would be open again and he'd be the one getting it instead of some MAGAtard.

So Bob keeps blaming people for blowing his chance with substandard dangerhair puss. Remember the verbiage - superior future he earned. This is the most classic "nice guy" language I've ever seen. I deserve that girl instead of some dude in good shape with a lot of money and the guts to ask her out.

TLDR: 96% of Twitter are performative leftists angling for garbage cooze that's out of their league.

 

[Bolo]

That's my problem with all woke writing though, and why I can't stand when people like Bob snidely mischaracterise those complaining about the politicisation of modern comics by saying shit like 'um, you ever heard of Captain America, my good sir???'

I always laugh at this Captain America argument to have the gotcha "Comics has ALWAYS been political", when the simple answer is "yeah, no shit, we know" but these posers only know Captain America for that Hitler punching cover, when a better case for comics being political is pretty much the whole Marvel output from the 70's onward.

Look, if liberal takes were a deal breaker for comic readers, then no one would have read Marvel and a lot of DC stuff for decades, and that because the vast majority of comic writers and artists were very much the self-satisfied libs caricature we have of them now. And a lot, and I mean A LOT liberal causes made into comics, and I'm not talking about some throw away issue of fucking power pack, nah, I'm talking about Clarimont's X-men and other heavy hitters.

But there was a decisive difference between back then and now, and that is editorial. When guys like Jim Shooter, legendary Marvel editor in chief and all around bastard, were running the show, there was just one law, sell comics.

Shooter wasn't particularly political engaged, at least not publicly, and from his run on Marvel, seems like he didn't mind the writers letting everybody know their liberal policies (they were a bunch of hippies after all), but he reigned in a lot of more "progressive" ideas in favor of "we make stories about people in silly costumes fighting other people in silly costumes, and we need to sell these to 12 year olds".

Not that we didn't get more "mature" stories from the Jim Shooter times (I mean, as far as capeshit goes), but back then capeshit comics never lost the tone of, well, being capeshit comics, never devolving into nonsensical, unaware self-parody bullshit.

Yeah, comics were stories about silly people in stupid costumes, but at least there was a professional varnish over it, it was a job done by pros.

But now the mask is off, and we can see what comics is like when the children, or adults that act like children, take over the wheels.

And it's funny how manga is taking over the market, because if we go what mangakas have describe what is like working for Shueisha and kodansha (the marvel and DC of Japan if you will), their editorial process is one of the heaviest and more intrusive they have worked with, either you follow thier line, or you get the fuck out.

Also, they don't give a singular fuck if you are famous or not. The guy who created Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, Shonen Jump's best seller that ain't Dragon Ball, tried a new series about Space Samurais with some cool organic armor designs, and the story was a pretty standart shonen afair. Kishimoto was planning for at least 10 volumes.

it didn't catch on, people found it to be a poor man's Naruto, Shueisha canceled the series 5 volumes in. Kishimoto went back to be one of the writers in the Naruto's kid spin off, after saying he has done with Naruto (he spend over 15 years with that title and pretty much gave up his life for that)

Fuck, talk about being brutal... but maybe if Marvel had some of that spine, more people would be reading their comics, who knows.

 

[glib]

Bobby continues his inchoate rant against the "worthless" Tucker Carlson.

The following is an example of projection. Carlson's conclusion -- that because Liberal insists on wearing masks and Liberals are found to have a high degree of mental illnesses, thus wearing masks is a sign of neuroticism -- is unfounded, but he points out the truth: that maskers hold strong, emotional animosity against people who refuse to wear mask. Carlson (contra Bobby) did not in anyway suggest that no-maskers should assault or harass maskers. He does, however, advocate using the Liberal's trick against them: "Your mask is making me uncomfortable. Would you please remove it."

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.”
- St. Anthony the Great

 

[glib]

LAPD has super incestuous relationship with Hollywood: they get paid BIG bribe money to cover up stars scandals and crimes and Hollywood also rewards the LAPD by dolling out cushy "consultant" work on their LA filmed cop shows, along with private off-the-book paid in cash security gigs and cameos on shows and such to keep the LAPD docile and under their thumb and not doing anything to stand up for their fellow officers when Hollywood shits on them.

Most of the officers that are on sets to lock up traffic AFAIK are retired.
To be fair, it would be a huge safety issue if there wasn't some sort of coordination between film crews and the city, considering the kind of work they do. There's a little "tax" that gets paid for this.
t. Hollywood

 

[Laughingjoke2]

I always laugh at this Captain America argument to have the gotcha "Comics has ALWAYS been political", when the simple answer is "yeah, no shit, we know" but these posers only know Captain America for that Hitler punching cover, when a better case for comics being political is pretty much the whole Marvel output from the 70's onward.

Look, if liberal takes were a deal breaker for comic readers, then no one would have read Marvel and a lot of DC stuff for decades, and that because the vast majority of comic writers and artists were very much the self-satisfied libs caricature we have of them now. And a lot, and I mean A LOT liberal causes made into comics, and I'm not talking about some throw away issue of fucking power pack, nah, I'm talking about Clarimont's X-men and other heavy hitters.

But there was a decisive difference between back then and now, and that is editorial. When guys like Jim Shooter, legendary Marvel editor in chief and all around bastard, were running the show, there was just one law, sell comics.

Shooter wasn't particularly political engaged, at least not publicly, and from his run on Marvel, seems like he didn't mind the writers letting everybody know their liberal policies (they were a bunch of hippies after all), but he reigned in a lot of more "progressive" ideas in favor of "we make stories about people in silly costumes fighting other people in silly costumes, and we need to sell these to 12 year olds".

Not that we didn't get more "mature" stories from the Jim Shooter times (I mean, as far as capeshit goes), but back then capeshit comics never lost the tone of, well, being capeshit comics, never devolving into nonsensical, unaware self-parody bullshit.

Yeah, comics were stories about silly people in stupid costumes, but at least there was a professional varnish over it, it was a job done by pros.

But now the mask is off, and we can see what comics is like when the children, or adults that act like children, take over the wheels.

And it's funny how manga is taking over the market, because if we go what mangakas have describe what is like working for Shueisha and kodansha (the marvel and DC of Japan if you will), their editorial process is one of the heaviest and more intrusive they have worked with, either you follow thier line, or you get the fuck out.

Also, they don't give a singular fuck if you are famous or not. The guy who created Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, Shonen Jump's best seller that ain't Dragon Ball, tried a new series about Space Samurais with some cool organic armor designs, and the story was a pretty standart shonen afair. Kishimoto was planning for at least 10 volumes.

it didn't catch on, people found it to be a poor man's Naruto, Shueisha canceled the series 5 volumes in. Kishimoto went back to be one of the writers in the Naruto's kid spin off, after saying he has done with Naruto (he spend over 15 years with that title and pretty much gave up his life for that)

Fuck, talk about being brutal... but maybe if Marvel had some of that spine, more people would be reading their comics, who knows.

You're right but the real irony of the "Gotcha Cap punched Hitler" argument they love to point to is that wasn't done for political reasons but marketing. Jack Kirby was a straight shooter and there are plenty of interviews where he states him and Joe Simon created a Patriot hero who punched Hitler on the cover of issue 1 because they thought it would sell.

 

[Red Hood]

I always laugh at this Captain America argument to have the gotcha "Comics has ALWAYS been political", when the simple answer is "yeah, no shit, we know" but these posers only know Captain America for that Hitler punching cover, when a better case for comics being political is pretty much the whole Marvel output from the 70's onward.

Look, if liberal takes were a deal breaker for comic readers, then no one would have read Marvel and a lot of DC stuff for decades, and that because the vast majority of comic writers and artists were very much the self-satisfied libs caricature we have of them now. And a lot, and I mean A LOT liberal causes made into comics, and I'm not talking about some throw away issue of fucking power pack, nah, I'm talking about Clarimont's X-men and other heavy hitters.

But there was a decisive difference between back then and now, and that is editorial. When guys like Jim Shooter, legendary Marvel editor in chief and all around bastard, were running the show, there was just one law, sell comics.

Shooter wasn't particularly political engaged, at least not publicly, and from his run on Marvel, seems like he didn't mind the writers letting everybody know their liberal policies (they were a bunch of hippies after all), but he reigned in a lot of more "progressive" ideas in favor of "we make stories about people in silly costumes fighting other people in silly costumes, and we need to sell these to 12 year olds".

Not that we didn't get more "mature" stories from the Jim Shooter times (I mean, as far as capeshit goes), but back then capeshit comics never lost the tone of, well, being capeshit comics, never devolving into nonsensical, unaware self-parody bullshit.

Yeah, comics were stories about silly people in stupid costumes, but at least there was a professional varnish over it, it was a job done by pros.

But now the mask is off, and we can see what comics is like when the children, or adults that act like children, take over the wheels.

And it's funny how manga is taking over the market, because if we go what mangakas have describe what is like working for Shueisha and kodansha (the marvel and DC of Japan if you will), their editorial process is one of the heaviest and more intrusive they have worked with, either you follow thier line, or you get the fuck out.

Also, they don't give a singular fuck if you are famous or not. The guy who created Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, Shonen Jump's best seller that ain't Dragon Ball, tried a new series about Space Samurais with some cool organic armor designs, and the story was a pretty standart shonen afair. Kishimoto was planning for at least 10 volumes.

it didn't catch on, people found it to be a poor man's Naruto, Shueisha canceled the series 5 volumes in. Kishimoto went back to be one of the writers in the Naruto's kid spin off, after saying he has done with Naruto (he spend over 15 years with that title and pretty much gave up his life for that)

Fuck, talk about being brutal... but maybe if Marvel had some of that spine, more people would be reading their comics, who knows.

There used to be at least some level of self-awareness among the better writers. When they overhauled Green Arrow into a crusader for liberal causes, though the writers usually obviously sympathized with the character's viewpoints, they also made him a hothead that most people (other heroes included) found insufferable because he never shut up about it. IIRC ironically Mark Waid of all people wrote a good issue (90' Brave and Bold?) where Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Flash were trying to eat lunch and Arrow wouldn't shut up about his causes and if I remember right he called Flash a fascist just for being a police employee.

Ah, what a couple of decades in an echo chamber can do to people.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

But there was a decisive difference between back then and now, and that is editorial. When guys like Jim Shooter, legendary Marvel editor in chief and all around bastard, were running the show, there was just one law, sell comics.

Shooter wasn't particularly political engaged, at least not publicly, and from his run on Marvel, seems like he didn't mind the writers letting everybody know their liberal policies (they were a bunch of hippies after all), but he reigned in a lot of more "progressive" ideas in favor of "we make stories about people in silly costumes fighting other people in silly costumes, and we need to sell these to 12 year olds".

Not that we didn't get more "mature" stories from the Jim Shooter times (I mean, as far as capeshit goes), but back then capeshit comics never lost the tone of, well, being capeshit comics, never devolving into nonsensical, unaware self-parody bullshit.

Yeah, comics were stories about silly people in stupid costumes, but at least there was a professional varnish over it, it was a job done by pros.

But now the mask is off, and we can see what comics is like when the children, or adults that act like children, take over the wheels.

Interesting that you say that because Marvel was in danger of going tits up until Shooter became editor-in-chief because the company was having chronic problems with lateness. He brought back a high degree of professionalism and there are many creators that resented him for his editorial policies, John Byrne being an infamous case. Tom DeFalco kept the ship on course after the new management forced Shooter out and there still many other editors like Mark Gruenwald who maintained a degree of quality. Today editors are simply spineless and either let the inmates run the asylum, or are inmates themselves.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

as opposed to modern writers blatantly having FemThor beat up a criminal, not for doing crime, but because he insulted feminism.

I wouldn't say banging on about your beliefs in a book or whatever is new.

Case in point; Atlas Shrugged.

 

[glib]

I wouldn't say banging on about your beliefs in a book or whatever is new.

Case in point; Atlas Shrugged.

Sad thing is that Ayn rand is a "strong independent woman who didn't need no man" yet all these wokistanis hate her. All the woman insinuated is that man's purpose in life is his owns happiness, and no one has a right to interfere with that as long as he is not interfering with theirs. It's like saying the golden rule is the path to self-advancement, and thus happiness. The problem is the people who don't follow that code, thus "Atlas Shrugged" where everyone smart says fuck this and leaves.

 

[Steelatlas]

The only rightist Marvel superheros I can think of where some iterations of the Punisher, early MCU Iron Man, Ultimate Cpt America and US Agent.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I wouldn't say banging on about your beliefs in a book or whatever is new.

Case in point; Atlas Shrugged.

It's definitely not new or unique to comics. It's just very, very badly done in the modern woke stuff, to the point where a lot of them only exist to serve as a pulpit for the writer; they may as well use an AI bot to grab tweets from anyone with #BlackLivesMatter and pronouns in their bio to make the scripts.

Conversely, take something like Watchmen where, even if you knew absolutely nothing about Alan Moore's politics or the real-world events that inspired it, you'd still have a really interesting take on the superhero genre filled with memorable characters.

Meanwhile, if you removed the copy-paste SocJus soliloquies from woke comics there'd be literally nothing else left; they are pure propaganda and nothing else.

And it's funny how manga is taking over the market, because if we go what mangakas have describe what is like working for Shueisha and kodansha (the marvel and DC of Japan if you will), their editorial process is one of the heaviest and more intrusive they have worked with, either you follow thier line, or you get the fuck out.

Also, they don't give a singular fuck if you are famous or not. The guy who created Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, Shonen Jump's best seller that ain't Dragon Ball, tried a new series about Space Samurais with some cool organic armor designs, and the story was a pretty standart shonen afair. Kishimoto was planning for at least 10 volumes.

it didn't catch on, people found it to be a poor man's Naruto, Shueisha canceled the series 5 volumes in. Kishimoto went back to be one of the writers in the Naruto's kid spin off, after saying he has done with Naruto (he spend over 15 years with that title and pretty much gave up his life for that)

Fuck, talk about being brutal... but maybe if Marvel had some of that spine, more people would be reading their comics, who knows.

True, the manga industry is legendarily brutal (the amount of Author's Notes I've read where they talk about ending up in hospital to make deadlines is crazy) and extremely cut-throat, but being a manga fan over comics one thing I will say is that the depth of variety in titles you can find is staggering compared to here in the west.

I used to buy Shonen Jump occasionally a long time ago, and it would have Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh, Shaman King and Hikaru No Go...so, series about ninjas, pirates, kick-punch men, card games, voodoo and Japanese Checkers, respectively. Hell, one of my all-time favourite manga is about a dude who climbs mountains. That's it. Motherfucker just really loves to climb shit.

All that variety in one monthly anthology, while Marvel and DC were offering us...the umpteenth reboot of the exact same heroes they've been putting out for almost a century. The manga industry definitely isn't perfect, but I can see why they're thriving while the old guard of the west are crumbling.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I don't detract this guy often, is he more vile than usual or this is normal Bob?