How low can they go? I understand Eric July made a comic book out of sheer love for the genre - yet was this because he proved it is possible and perhaps ruined the grift of many. Yet only because of this, you have to try and ruin his life, and go after someone's deceased members???
It's a mystery honestly, Eric July's crimes were making a somewhat mediocre but successful comic, being Black, and not taking criticism well at first. There's literally nothing else. He did issue a copyright takedown because Juju's gimp was making replicas of his logo, it was a petty but ultimately a legitimate takedown. Any one of Juju and his faggots did (includes Nick Rekieta, Ethan Ralph and a couple paedophiles) things that were astronomically worse.
It makes sense. Right...
I lump all YouTubers and streamers in with each other. There's no point in picking through the massive heap of low effort losers. It's meaningless to take screen figures serious. Eric July is also a disingenuous faggot and all those books he's putting out are abysmal, assembly line crap with even less personality than Vito's half story. As sad as that is, the production, aesthetic and business end critiques of ISOM ring true, and it's a shame that the cope is at least Rippaverse is fulfilling orders. These are all grifts, a link of cons, but then again it's capeshit in the 21st century. There's no possibility of sincerity. Both SUPERKILLER and ISOM are mockeries of the genre, not worth the paper.
The Simpsons pointed how fucking gay comics were in the early 90s.
This guy is allright he was a poster on the comicsgate board (one of several) that left after Dick and Vito started going at Eric July. At that time you could not be critical at all about July or were accused of being a Juju Vedo plant or simp. It ran off some of the best posters there that had been talking about this stuff way before BPITU. He's eased off of Eric July videos a lot after Ethan Van Sciver started stealing his bit, but it's still a crazy rant show of schizoposts and conspiracy stuff.
It's good you're able to be critical of July, he's not sacred. If you said this a while back you would get attacked here. I think it's all comic book people that have a defect, they are all fucking speds. See : comicsgate & all other mainstream or indie US comics creators and fans.
He deliberately facedoxxed 80's girl on livestream while covering Ralph's infamous bowling alley party, I can understand the washed up has-been not wanting his pet to make nice with the guy.
I don't know how much of that they themselves believed as Matt Groening wasn't that great of a comic book artist or writer, despite having taken the endeavor very serious. There were multiple Simpsons comic book spinoffs in the 90s, some superhero oriented or at the very least related, not always parody. Capeshit stuff isn't great, but we're probably living in the greatest period ever as far as comic books and picture books are concerned. Just have to skip the mass market stuff because reading and looking at pictures off screen still can't be beat, better for your eyes, senses, etc. It's worthwhile, especially now with how dumb and illiterate people younger than us will be. Places like Floating World Comic and Fantagraphics put out great books, but I get what you're saying and there's a lot of people hacking it up now and then. The 90s were a much darker time for comics. Resellers and speculators (like Vito, the failed gambler) sucked the genuine thrill out of everything.
I remain convinced that 99% of the comicsgate people and what passes for the comic book fandom nowadays don't actually read comics and never have, beyond the nerd cred staples like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. The vast, vast, majority of western comics, especially capeshit, have always been disposable trash for kids.
These comicgate people forget their work is supposed to be printed on pulp. It's disposable media for kids. Someone obsessed with these stories is obsessed with bad story telling. Sunk cost fallacy, they spent so much time gathering/reading that shit they feel it has to have some importance.
I wouldn't agree. I can't begin to know what people really do in their free time. That's too far beyond me. There's been millions and millions of comic ads, editorial comics, comic strips and comps aimed at adults that are still very poignant, provocative, creatively rich and artistically valid. Western comics are as great as any comics. Traditional superhero books here like professional wrestling broadcasts had been stunning forms of escapism for decades. It's amazing what you receive at that click and work frequency, not exactly high brow drama and tragedy but still very much trade worthy. Since we're living within an increasingly perverse prison system the normal person of tomorrow will be even more hardwired to love and fanatically worship escapism at the total detriment of themselves. Until the collapse comes a devotion to what's outside will barrel ahead and become much more extreme.
Can you name any? I like Calvin & Hobbes as much as the next guy but it's really not that deep.
You are massively overstating their significance. Wrestling and comic books are both low-brow entertainment primarily aimed at entertaining kids and young adults. Like I said there's nothing wrong with that, and it can certainly be profitable, but trying to hold them up as these lofty transcendent works of art is absolute nonsense.
Given that the popularity of film and TV are rapidly waning in favour of browsing Tik Tok, especially amongst younger people, reality doesn't line up with your assertion. People will want to be distracted as society crumbles around them but that can far more easily be achieved by doomscrolling 3-4 second meme videos than watching or reading the latest goyslop.
I read Calvin & Hobbes as a kid and it's always stuck with me, but there's Peanuts, Popeye, Dilbert, Gasoline Alley, L'il Abner, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, Mickey Mouse, The Spirit, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, Phantom, Blondie, Felix the Cat, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Annie, Captain Easy, Zippy the Pinhead, Fritz the Cat, B.C., Trashman, the old underground stuff, Heavy Metal, RAW magazine, stuff from ZAP and witzend, Playboy Magazine comics, Saturday Evening Post comics, the list really goes on and on and are exploited well on places like Instagram now. Newspaper strips were always meant to be read by both children and adults.
You didn't list Pogo though so therefore lmao fag.
Pogo deserves a mention, and I like how Alan Moore shoehorned those characters into Swamp Thing.
December 2023. If you mean when did he most recently promise them, then October 2024. He has around 6-9 more weeks until he misses his fifth new deadline.
My bad, I thought it was the end of September.
