#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

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Fleetwood said:
Team 7 is the one Richard is into
While it's better than pretty much every comicsgate produced book, it's also a good example of why Chuck Dixon is considered mid and not on the higher level with Alan Moore etc. It's kind of terrible by normal non-CG standards.
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Richard's God-King arc is way better than that, to be real. That comic is just pure cliche from front to back complete with boomer references that were dated from the time it was published. Carol Merrill? I could have written a similar script in an hour using dated 80s action tropes. It's obvious Chuck Dixon just got done watching Predator when he farted this out.

Problem with Richard's writing is that he only had a couple of good ideas to draw from after around 50 years of living. Once he got those out there was nothing much else he had to say.
 
Dafuqisdis? said:
Richard's God-King arc is way better than that, to be real. That comic is just pure cliche from front to back complete with boomer references that were dated from the time it was published. Carol Merrill? I could have written a similar script in an hour using dated 80s action tropes. It's obvious Chuck Dixon just got done watching Predator when he farted this out.

Problem with Richard's writing is that he only had a couple of good ideas to draw from after around 50 years of living. Once he got those out there was nothing much else he had to say.
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Bro, it's Zack.
Don't slander my man Chuck Dixon just because he played make a wish for a retard back in the day.
Also Chuck is famous for filling out other people's Ideas, so it's all Zack.
 
Absurdity said:
I'm starting to believe Richard joined the military in the first place as an alternate form of gay conversion therapy. Didn't work.
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Though few probably remember, Richard wrote a whole long book on his time in the military before he started making comics. Its title is "Four in the Corps" and it will answer any question you have about this particular subject.

Richard joined the military because he got into serious legal trouble over fighting with some guy. Joining the military was a way to get out from under the various consequences of the charges. He tried to join every other branch of the military, but only the marines were willing to take him given his criminal situation.

He actually did quite well on in his tests when he joined. And they actually offered him a whole bunch of relatively good jobs within the marines. But because of GI Joe Cartoons and Star Wars movies, Richard's dream was to be a rifleman and eventually a machine gunner. As I remember, the recruiters eventually got a colonel on the phone talking to Richard and begging him to take a more technical job than marine rifleman. But Richard could not be talked out of it.

Richard eventually discovered that the marines were not like GI Joe cartoons and fighting in a war really wasn't like the star wars movies said it was.
 
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Strix454 said:
Though few probably remember, Richard wrote a whole long book on his time in the military before he started making comics. Its title is "Four in the Corps" and it will answer any question you have about this particular subject.

Richard joined the military because he got into serious legal trouble over fighting with some guy. Joining the military was a way to get out from under the various consequences of the charges. He tried to join every other branch of the military, but only the marines were willing to take him given his criminal situation.

He actually did quite well on in his tests when he joined. And they actually offered him a whole bunch of relatively good jobs within the marines. But because of GI Joe Cartoons and Star Wars movies, Richard's dream was to be a rifleman and eventually a machine gunner. As I remember, the recruiters eventually got a colonel on the phone talking to Richard and begging him to take a more technical job than marine rifleman. But Richard could not be talked out of it.

Richard eventually discovered that the marines were not like GI Joe cartoons and fighting in a war really wasn't like the star movies said it was.
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I can't fathom Richard as a marine. The things he says in YouTube videos and on his community posts are so weird and have become so unhinged that I can't picture him functioning in a work environment with regular people.
 
Edgeymcedgename said:
Bro, it's Zack.
Don't slander my man Chuck Dixon just because he played make a wish for a retard back in the day.
Also Chuck is famous for filling out other people's Ideas, so it's all Zack.
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Agreed. Zack would not accept a final product that was not filled with his peculiarities even at the expense of quality.

Stupor Mario said:
I can't fathom Richard as a marine. The things he says in YouTube videos and on his community posts are so weird and have become so unhinged that I can't picture him functioning in a work environment with regular people.
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From what I know, marines are weird as far as military men go.
 
Strix454 said:
Richard joined the military because he got into serious legal trouble over fighting with some guy.
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Do we know anything more about the context of the fight? Was he the aggressor? Was the other guy talking about not liking The Princess Bride or something before the first punch was thrown?
 
Anybody caught up with current events about Frog man Ethan? He was smoking crack or weed depending on who you ask, and he was hitting on transsexual lesbian prostitutes. Oh and he was also caught kissing Tom as well
 

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ronnal said:
Do we know anything more about the context of the fight? Was he the aggressor? Was the other guy talking about not liking The Princess Bride or something before the first punch was thrown?
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"This clown over here doesn't like Ella Enchanted! WELL THAT PISSES ME OFF!" *Zack then lumbers with his Frankenstein head over to the handsome drunken foreign man and begins to grind on him thinking it's a fight*

The rest is history
 
Strix454 said:
Though few probably remember, Richard wrote a whole long book on his time in the military before he started making comics. Its title is "Four in the Corps" and it will answer any question you have about this particular subject.

Richard joined the military because he got into serious legal trouble over fighting with some guy. Joining the military was a way to get out from under the various consequences of the charges. He tried to join every other branch of the military, but only the marines were willing to take him given his criminal situation.

He actually did quite well on in his tests when he joined. And they actually offered him a whole bunch of relatively good jobs within the marines. But because of GI Joe Cartoons and Star Wars movies, Richard's dream was to be a rifleman and eventually a machine gunner. As I remember, the recruiters eventually got a colonel on the phone talking to Richard and begging him to take a more technical job than marine rifleman. But Richard could not be talked out of it.

Richard eventually discovered that the marines were not like GI Joe cartoons and fighting in a war really wasn't like the star wars movies said it was.
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Well that's something I didn't know! I would have backed Richard's decision if for no other reason than giving him an opportunity to actually shoot himself in the foot, which he has done metaphorically ever since.
 
ronnal said:
Do we know anything more about the context of the fight? Was he the aggressor? Was the other guy talking about not liking The Princess Bride or something before the first punch was thrown?
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Its not in his book. I vaguely remember from years ago that it was over a girl but I'm not totally sure. He got into more trouble than usual because 1) He threatened the guy before he beat him up. 2) He deliberately traveled to the guys location with the intent to beat him up and 3) when he got there he beat the guy up. Because of all those details, he ended up with a whole list of charges rather than just a simple disorderly conduct or a simple assault. The one detail that suggests it was over a girl is that Richard says the fight happened "after a bad breakup".

It wasn't a spontaneous fight between two guys who just ran into each other. It seems from the details that the guy wasn't really someone who could evenly fight with Richard. At the time of the fight, he was in his second year of working as a temp at dell computer and when he got the charges, they fired him.

Richard's book on life in the marines is by far the most serious thing he ever did. Its a real book and its 428 pages of text long.
 
Strix454 said:
Its not in his book. I vaguely remember from years ago that it was over a girl but I'm not totally sure. He got into more trouble than usual because 1) He threatened the guy before he beat him up. 2) He deliberately traveled to the guys location with the intent to beat him up and 3) when he got there he beat the guy up. Because of all those details, he ended up with a whole list of charges rather than just a simple disorderly conduct or a simple assault. The one detail that suggests it was over a girl is that Richard says the fight happened "after a bad breakup".

It wasn't a spontaneous fight between two guys who just ran into each other. It seems from the details that the guy wasn't really someone who could evenly fight with Richard. At the time of the fight, he was in his second year of working as a temp at dell computer and when he got the charges, they fired him.

Richard's book on life in the marines is by far the most serious thing he ever did. Its a real book and its 428 pages of text long.
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Every biography is filled with bullshit details in order to puff the subject up and sell copies.

I don't think I buy the story of him given the "jail or military" ultimatum from a judge. It's just way to much of a cliche and I doubt any judge would do that over a threats and battery case. What would the jail time be for something like that, 6 months maybe? Honestly if it was a first time offense probably probation. It just doesn't have the ring of truth.
 
Dafuqisdis? said:
Every biography is filled with bullshit details in order to puff the subject up and sell copies.

I don't think I buy the story of him given the "jail or military" ultimatum from a judge. It's just way to much of a cliche and I doubt any judge would do that over a threats and battery case. What would the jail time be for something like that, 6 months maybe? Honestly if it was a first time offense probably probation. It just doesn't have the ring of truth.
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I'd still like to see proof that he actually served, call me crazy but if he ends up on the Farms even for something small he probably has some skeletons in his closet.
 
Edgeymcedgename said:
I'd still like to see proof that he actually served, call me crazy but if he ends up on the Farms even for something small he probably has some skeletons in his closet.
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If he hadn't I think it would have been uncovered by now based on the number of enemies he has.

But he has said some things in the past that made me questionthe details of his CV. I remember in one video he made the assertion that "a near miss from a .50 cal machine gun will strip flesh from bone" which is an old wives tale and laughably untrue. A miss from a bullet can't hurt you. But honestly it's something a jarhead might believe and repeat without thinking about it critically.
 
Dafuqisdis? said:
Every biography is filled with bullshit details in order to puff the subject up and sell copies.

I don't think I buy the story of him given the "jail or military" ultimatum from a judge. It's just way to much of a cliche and I doubt any judge would do that over a threats and battery case. What would the jail time be for something like that, 6 months maybe? Honestly if it was a first time offense probably probation. It just doesn't have the ring of truth.
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Its difficult to tell. The stuff about the other services rejecting him because of the charges but the marines being willing to take him rings true to me. The other possibility I see is that he was maybe living with his parents at the time and after he screwed up, he was encouraged to go into the military to "fix" him. His father was supposedly in the military and I've seen that situation before where parents use the military to get a screw-up of a kid out of their house.

I agree that the judge would likely not have given him a "jail or military" choice. But the other way it can play out is that Richard joins the military, then announces it to the judge and he gets off lightly because the judge knows he is going away.

Its possible that his dead-end life and dead-end job which he had lost convinced him to go into the military and that his pending charges made the marines his only option at the time.
 
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