Shit like this is why this thread jumped the shark a while ago. It's more of the participants sniping at each other than laughing at anything going on in CG-proper at this point.
True. It's more reflective of the thread at this point than CG itself: participants in the thread have either stopped following CG figures/streams/content years ago and are unable to contribute anything new, or are here to baldfaced pursue some gay agenda in lieu of contributing. If not both. Neither are conducive to quality posting.
The most interesting matter over the last week would be when Bounding into Comics
ran this article about Frog's formless musings about a government-funded comics conspiracy and the mainstream SJW industry figures like Mark Brooks and Donny Cates gathered to roundly laugh at him.
Were this the end of it, this would be mildly amusing. What happened next though was something novel when Robert Romano, feeling the need to intervene in Frog's favor once again, cast aside his Comicsgate identity as DarkGift's keyboardist on "CG karaoke nights" (
seen here playing backup keyboard while an Australian on qualuudes interviews Shiela Allen, a working lady from Burbank) and take on his daytime role as Vice President for Public Policy of Americans for Limited Government.
Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver recently contended on his popular YouTube channel ComicArtistPro Secrets that the government is funding left-wing comics and other media, causing a stir in the i
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Summarizing Romano's essay as best I can, prior to 2015, investment managers were legally required that the funds they were in charge of were directed in profitable ventures, as a safeguard against embezzlement. However in 2015, the Obama administration introduced legislation (ERISA) that made it so pension fund managers, retirement and government Social Security fund managers could invest in either profitable ventures
or environmental or socially progressive causes (ESG funding). Since it's far easier to show that token gestures towards "diversity and inclusion" are being made than prove one is operating under a profitable business model, especially in print media, and given that DC Comics's owner AT&T is heavily in debt and no doubt in need of investment capital, this creates a heavy incentive for large corporations to 'go woke'.
Now, I'm not necessarily inclined to believe something just because a lobbyist said so, but coincidentally Bill Willingham, dropped an interesting story last week
on his Shahin interview regarding the influence investors have on DC editorial when, back in the 80s when Jason Todd was killed off, DC Comics publisher Paul Levitz was forced by investors to create a new Robin on the grounds that their putting money in actions amounted to "destroying valuable IP" and would be illegal. So DC tasked Chuck Dixon with creating Tim Drake who, in the fullness of time, was rewritten due to another investor-influenced editorial decision to be made bisexual.
Bill Willingham 1:20:02 Okay. So here's the problem. They did it and they were patting themselves on the back on what, you know, the numbers were up, the interest was up. But DC, part of Time Warner was a publicly owned company. And the higher ups got poor Paul Levitz, I think on the phone and said, "You get Robin back right away, you can't, you cannot dispose of a valuable corporate asset like that." And the truth is, you can't. There is a law that says, that prevents a company from disposing of corporate assets in a way that doesn't, you know, reap any benefit to the stockholders. It's to prevent, you know, malicious guys on the inside, you know, crooks "Yeah, let you have this for $1, even though so, you know, gold bullion, whatever" to embezzle, it's to prevent that, okay, in IP, intellectual property, those corporate assets are all worth a lot of money. You can't just get rid of them. So they had to bring that's that's why
Dan Shahin 1:21:13 So this is why we've got five Robins to this day?
Bill Willingham 1:21:16 Yeah! And Robin came back immediately because they were told to do this or, or pack your bags, you guys are in a shitload of trouble. Corporate assets cannot be disposed of. So all those villains and heroes, etc, etc, etc, are going to be around forever. And that corporate world, except for now, when a bunch of it is about to go into the public domain. And so they're DC and Marvel are changing the characters so radically right now, to try and escape the it's the old. Well, that version may be in the public domain, but this version is our creation that we-
Dan Shahin 1:21:56 You think that's what's going on?
Bill Willingham 1:21:57 Oh Yeah. Oh, god. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they got to, they've got to hold on to those assets. Anyway, they can by hook or by crook. There's only so many times you have the clout to go into Congress and get them to push the the trademark and copyright can down the road a bit to let you keep profiting off these things. Eventually, public domain has been rewritten so many times to to allow Disney and Marvel etc, etc. They just they sure can do only
So mainstream comic publishers are coerced by their corporate conglomerate owners to
not kill off characters but
do make them gay.
Following that, this stream was put together where Robert Romano went on to "explain it to us like we are five years old, just walk us through it". For God knows why, Cecil was also on there as well, but he at least the decency to wait until Romano left before talking about matters more in his interest, like getting drunk with Anna last week and JACK show developments regarding Anna, some real doll collector and the chick that got drunk pissed on stream that one time, reminding us all of the importance of rejecting the mainstream in favor of one comic coming out every two years and piss streams.
The masses, motivated by this rare bit of substance, went out on social media where most memorably, Marvel's top writer Donny Cates got assblasted at RGE's artist "Toxic Manbaby" who vowed Cates would be his janitor some day, before deleting everything (either by his choice or another Marvel fiat about Cates interacting with CG)
lol
Anyways, as for this thread. I encourage everyone to step up and adopt their own lowlevel Comicsgate streamer.
Oz might be dried up these days, but there's so many to choose from. Will someone pick up homeless disheveled Comicsgater "Pops Van Zant" today?
Not your taste? Newcomer
Fizzchozo looks to have promising amounts of insanity between the below video and his incoherent indiegogo campaign
Goofenoid, about a schizophrenic crimefighting murderclown, appropriately launched with zero planning or marketing whatsoever.
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I don't know what the fuck is going on with CG's only Slovenian manga artist
Nyriam, but if making high production press release statements to defend your co-campaigner against rumours of embezzlement doesn't signal an impending shitshow, nothing does.
