#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

Strix454 said:
I think Richard realized how old doing simpsons memes in 2026 made him look and so all that stuff had to come down to protect "zoomer zach" - the cultural voice of youth on youtube.

But tonight he reached kind of peak richard with this:

"I missed out on so many good comics because I listened to dork-ass loser YouTubers instead of judging for myself. No more. This run is EPIC."

Its kind of amusing because he is talking about Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky back in maybe the 2019-2021 timeframe which as far as I remember he didn't miss years ago and talked about in fairly positive ways about at that time. I would go back and find the clips where he did this but for the fact that he purged his channel of nearly all his old videos.

I'm struggling to think of who was going hard after Zdarsky's daredevil back then and I'm not sure who he could even be talking about.

But old dork-ass uncs apparently somehow made zoomer zack not read a series of comics that he actually did read. When are those dork-ass old uncs going to stop ruining comics for young boys like our Zack.

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Anecdotal proof from the farms itself that Richard did talk positively about Zdarsky's daredevil back in 2019:
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Zack had both good and bad things to say about Chip. He missed nothing. He was reading him. This is Zack retconning the past.
 
Strix454 said:
"I missed out on so many good comics because I listened to dork-ass loser YouTubers instead of judging for myself. No more. This run is EPIC."
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He even made a video


If you such a retard to blindly let reviewers blind you but claim to be a reviewer. That's your fault, Richard.

Also, negrating is gay if you can't contribute to the thread. It's a community thread, not a evs thread.
 
Richard has now "remembered" as of this morning that he did read Zdarsky's daredevil back in 2019. "But it was only a couple issues" that he read. He heard how it was really good at the beginning when he just happened to be reading it....but then those darn unc's and their channels PREVENTED him from reading any more of it. They (still no idea who "they" was) told Richard it got worse after those issues he reviewed and liked because woke stuff.

Richard also reveals how all the anti-woke channels use the word "weird" to describe things they don't want you to read but they can't find anything legit to be critical of. Then he describes a story from the 2nd Zdarsky run where Daredevil is leading a literal army, has billions of dollars and the Punisher is a Japanese demon (according to Richard) leading Ninjas and Dardevil is running around in literal hell trying to save people. (How could "weird" apply to that)

Covering up your mistakes or lies doesn't make it better Richard. Like blocking your critics, it only makes you look worse to that literal handful of people you still have left simping for you.
 
WhimsicalTrolli said:
He even made a video


If you such a retard to blindly let reviewers blind you but claim to be a reviewer. That's your fault, Richard.

Also, negrating is gay if you can't contribute to the thread. It's a community thread, not a evs thread.
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"I'm an internet critic that's too stupid to try out a book for myself, it's da burfday qwawns fault! Not me!"
Strix454 said:
Richard has now "remembered" as of this morning that he did read Zdarsky's daredevil back in 2019. "But it was only a couple issues" that he read. He heard how it was really good at the beginning when he just happened to be reading it....but then those darn unc's and their channels PREVENTED him from reading any more of it. They (still no idea who "they" was) told Richard it got worse after those issues he reviewed and liked because woke stuff.

Richard also reveals how all the anti-woke channels use the word "weird" to describe things they don't want you to read but they can't find anything legit to be critical of. Then he describes a story from the 2nd Zdarsky run where Daredevil is leading a literal army, has billions of dollars and the Punisher is a Japanese demon (according to Richard) leading Ninjas and Dardevil is running around in literal hell trying to save people. (How could "weird" apply to that)

Covering up your mistakes or lies doesn't make it better Richard. Like blocking your critics, it only makes you look worse to that literal handful of people you still have left simping for you.
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I swear I remember him saying Yellowflash kept telling him to check out Chip’s run, but Zack was the one who was vehemently anti-Zdarsky (not scrolling up to check the spelling). Was it Spider-Man?

He was really bothered by Chip’s humor, I remember that much, so blaming anyone else is just bold faced lies and retardation.
He should name exactly who told him, but atp I’m pretty sure it was one of the voices in his otherwise-empty-head.
 
Tepes Thot said:
I swear I remember him saying Yellowflash kept telling him to check out Chip’s run, but Zack was the one who was vehemently anti-Zdarsky (not scrolling up to check the spelling). Was it Spider-Man?
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I remember him hating on Spiderman wearing a suit over his suit. He didn't find it funny and made a big stink about it every time. He was very vocal on not finding Chip funny but liking his other stuff.

Tepes Thot said:
He was really bothered by Chip’s humor, I remember that much, so blaming anyone else is just bold faced lies and retardation.
He should name exactly who told him, but atp I’m pretty sure it was one of the voices in his otherwise-empty-head.
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"He is cuckoo, dude!"
 
YaSoiWack said:
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He is the perfect mainstream culture consumer. He doesn't question re-making a vigilante criminal murdering character into a demon-worshipping Ninja leader of a Ninja Army. Hur Dur his name is Frank Castle so of course its the punisher. Its called punisher so you buy it because it says punisher right there. And of course if Frank Castle became the ninja leader of a ninja army he would re-design his skull logo. That makes sense to all the young zoomers like Zack. And questioning the decision is just anti-woke politics.

Zdarsky's stories in Daredevil were interesting in their own way, but they honestly didn't have much of anything to do with the characters the books were nominally about. But from a commercial point of view its easier to sell new characters skinned as 1960s & 1970s characters than it is to sell an entirely new book/new character. Especially to readers like Simple Zack.

And speaking of re-skinning old properties.....

Gee Willows Wilson! said:
Zack should think about this, and understand this is what it's like to be a Star Trek fan with modern Trek.
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He thinks about it. Then he remembers how much he loves Star Fleet Academy as a show. How Star Trek reimagined as YA slop is the best star trek he has ever seen.

What I really wish Richard would do is re-visit his love for "the Last Jedi" as a film. Its wrong that he took down his original positive review years ago because of those old uncs. He needs to tell the world why Last Jedi was for him peak Star Wars. He can't let those old uncs win.
 
KiwiChud said:
Star Wars has got to die. Star Trek's got to die. Marvel's got to die.

Comics got to die. Freaking Windows Update's got to die. Everything has to die because these people are in the last few innings.
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I didn't post the below as a reaction image, it's the image attached to one of Richard's recent posts.
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SERIOUS QUESTION: I just saw a video responding to claims that comics sales now are the "Best Ever" or the best in 10, 20 or 30 years...but I'm not aware of anyone actually claiming that. Can anyone point me in the direction of who is making these claims? Or is it just an amorphous "they"? -- The Word of Zack
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I honestly don't understand this AI picture that Richard made, but I did have an idea based on the rant @KiwiChud posted. Based on the principle of "write what you know," I think Richard should write a comic about the mental disintegration of a 50+ bisexual comics fan with multiple failed relationships. It wouldn't be a smash hit, but it would probably get some interest as outsider art.

It's not the Gen Xer's killing Star Wars, Richard. If anything we're the ones who refuse to let it go. Star Trek is a little different, since I don't think Star Trek is dead, I think it just had a bad run of shows, including Richard's favorite series. Financially, though, both are doing pretty badly these days. Marvel, again, is a little different. Disney has certainly run Marvel into the ground, but Marvel isn't dead. Some Marvel stuff still makes money, I think. Then he goes off into Windows Update, where bad updates are messing up people's computers that we need for work, but we should just accept it. I guess if a big corporation does it, for Richard, it's perfection and we just need to accept it.
 
Richard did a video today about how HARD it would be to cancel "comic book the comic book". It would actually be far more work for Richard to give people their money back than to not just do SOMETHING ELSE and send it out to the people who bought it. I mean you have send emails and send money and stuff. And the something else is going to be a new AI comic by Richard.

Richard wanted to explain how great it was to buy comics in the 1980s in comic book form. But now he realizes that only a dumb unc would want to do that. Because old comics suck and new comics are better now. And British people speak dumb. They don't know english good like Richard.

And the culture war was never real according to Richard. It was all based on circumstantial evidence.
 
Strix454 said:
Richard did a video today about how HARD it would be to cancel "comic book the comic book". It would actually be far more work for Richard to give people their money back than to not just do SOMETHING ELSE and send it out to the people who bought it. I mean you have send emails and send money and stuff. And the something else is going to be a new AI comic by Richard.

Richard wanted to explain how great it was to buy comics in the 1980s in comic book form. But now he realizes that only a dumb unc would want to do that. Because old comics suck and new comics are better now. And British people speak dumb. They don't know english good like Richard.

And the culture war was never real according to Richard. It was all based on circumstantial evidence.
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If he tries to cancel Comic Book: The Comic Book and then send some pamphlet with AI generated images to his backers, that's theft. I'm not sure how much blowback he'll get from that given that I think by the time people were backing Comic Book: The Comic Book he had already shown everyone who he was and it was a horrible idea in the first place. Not that a book about comic books is necessarily terrible, I've seen a few out there:

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It's just that if you are going to do it, you need to get permission or at least legal advice, so you don't end up with a cease and desist or in court again. Also, Richard isn't an authority on comic books, but he pitched a history on mainstream comics. It would have made more sense for him to do a book on ComicsGate as an insider. That's not what he did though, he promised a book of commentary about random mainstream comics and that is what he needs to deliver.

He can probably still back out and steal the money, but it's a scummy thing to do and puts him in the Zoey Quinn category (well as far as as Kickstarters go).
 
Vida said:
Zack talking about comicbook the comicbook.
How much he now thinks the idea sucks, how much of a bother is it to give refuns, how much old comic books were actually shit and modern comics are all great.
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The least painful of his retard rambles.
So what did we learn from this?
He's lazy, he's stupid and his opinions are inconsistent and move with who he likes and who he hates.
This has some "moviebob hates predator now" energy.
 
Because there's a comic book store on every corner of America :stupid:

This guy used to name the various comic shops that closed and opened (guess which one had more names)

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YaSoiWack said:
This guy used to name the various comic shops that closed and opened (guess which one had more names)
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now he tells people directly to go out and just read pirated comics like he does. who needs stores? When are the uncs going to learn. Comics are fine.
 
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