#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

Strix454 said:
Richard has taken to yelling at his handful of remaining viewers again. One of them tried to make a point about physical comics disappearing as impulse purchases from retail spaces and digital zoomer Ya Boy Zack went after him hard.

Oh my God Shut the fuck up why are you here?Comics are accessible on the device you used to type that they aren't accessible. FOR FREE. 24 HOURS A DAY.

This is the same Richard who not so long ago was totally against the entire concept of digital comics and refused to even consider selling digital versions of his own comics. Digital comics at that time were just wrong and a crime against nature. I didn't bother checking, but I would assume he STILL isn't selling digital comics.

The "for free" comment is really interesting in that I would take it as confirmation that these days Richard is a pirate site reader who doesn't pay for any comics. That he is using the pirate sites for more than doing online reviews.

And one of Richard's remaining fans non-ironically said that the real problem today is that comics just cost too much. With no seeming awareness of how much more Richard's own comics cost than normal comics.
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Mr Processor said:
What he was responding to.
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I guess the fan took it seriously.
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BlankSpaceBaby said:
Good heavens, so everyone in CG is over 50, male, ugly/fat/unfuckable, retarded, or all of these?

It's like a Black Mirror version of a Smash convention.
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Just a bunch of white, half-century old fatherless men who populate cg. The fact they called EVS "Uncle E" despite being the same age if not older or "Human Sunbeam" kinda explain the cultish behavior CG became. I think the only people under the age of 35 who wad affiliated with "Peak" CG was Lim, Dervish & Nerd Wonder.
 
MisterCH 86 said:
And speaking of Rippaverse, why do people keep calling it generic?
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Its mostly people looking down at any sort of traditional superhero comic not published by Marvel or DC. The comicsgate people themselves used the generic label in bad faith. The people who are genuine about calling them that want indy comics with bold artistic choices and original content......that don't end up selling to much of anyone.

Its possible to be critical of traditional superhero comics from an artistic point of view. But the thing is, there is a market for them. People want them. Whereas if you go out with bold artistic choices, you may well wow people but not sell anything at all or just alienate almost everyone (see Richard/Ya Boy Zack's 499).
 
MisterCH 86 said:
The 200 plus trashcast profile pic on the videos portraying Eric July as a primate wasn't enough? Doesn't take a genius to see that he has a problem with him because of that reason among many others.
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It doesn't matter if they are not watching those videos. They do not really care about racism after all.
 
Strix454 said:
The people who are genuine about calling them that want indy comics with bold artistic choices and original content......that don't end up selling to much of anyone.
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Speaking of which!

While I don’t think this guy has ever slandered another book on camera as “generic”, Kenneth Rocafort, who was a semi regular CG presence five years ago, is currently crowdfunding the fourth issue of his avant gard sci fi fantasy Groken. (Which Ethan was deeply skeptical of, because in his words, avant gard means like, Yoko Ono shit, and nobody likes that so you shouldn’t say it.)

To date the books have been released in a timely fashion. To my knowledge he hasn’t said one word for or against Eric July. And he just sort of quietly drifted off out of Ethan’s orbit of his own volition, well before any of his great public implosions or purgings (Zach Snyder incident, Dungeoneer kristallnacht,,etc)

So where is this man’s book today?

Well not only did he say fuck IndieGoGo for Kickstarter, he’s sitting at about $60k with two weeks yet to go:

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Imagine that—he didn’t need Uncle Ethan, the JACK Show, or nine months of Indemand to get 3/4ths of what he made on the third issue. It’s almost like creators are completely better off without CG and any of its bullshit!
 
chalkyresidue said:
Speaking of which!

While I don’t think this guy has ever slandered another book on camera as “generic”, Kenneth Rocafort, who was a semi regular CG presence five years ago, is currently crowdfunding the fourth issue of his avant gard sci fi fantasy Groken. (Which Ethan was deeply skeptical of, because in his words, avant gard means like, Yoko Ono shit, and nobody likes that so you shouldn’t say it.)

To date the books have been released in a timely fashion. To my knowledge he hasn’t said one word for or against Eric July. And he just sort of quietly drifted off out of Ethan’s orbit of his own volition, well before any of his great public implosions or purgings (Zach Snyder incident, Dungeoneer kristallnacht,,etc)

So where is this man’s book today?

Well not only did he say fuck IndieGoGo for Kickstarter, he’s sitting at about $60k with two weeks yet to go:

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Imagine that—he didn’t need Uncle Ethan, the JACK Show, or nine months of Indemand to get 3/4ths of what he made on the third issue. It’s almost like creators are completely better off without CG and any of its bullshit!
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CG was ruined the moment they realized that they do not actually have to deliver. EVS also enforces lateness to not look bad when he is late. When non-delivery became dogma, it was over.
 
Strix454 said:
The people who are genuine about calling them that want indy comics with bold artistic choices and original content......that don't end up selling to much of anyone.
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Yeah, good luck finding or even making anything 100% original in this day and age. What hasn't been done involving entertainment leading up to 2026? It's not even just superhero stories Rippaverse does at this point.....in fact they just started a pre-order for a western.
Strix454 said:
Its possible to be critical of traditional superhero comics from an artistic point of view. But the thing is, there is a market for them. People want them.
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Yeah, I can agree with that. But they may as well get upset about westerns having cowboys and outlaws in it as well. Sometimes the original formula is the best formula, regardless of how "generic" these people try to say they are.
 
Today's journey into the Zack-verse started with him bragging about all the cool pirated comics he is reading for free. He brought them all up in his browser to show how great it all is. He talks about how we have forgotten grandpas in modern media and how getting old is going to be really rough.

Then he dunks on 74-year old former comics writer turned troon Tony Isabella. Of course Richard isn't one of those bad uncs talking about this for sensationalist reasons or 2018 reasons. Richard is doing, as he says, this for IMPORTANT reasons.

He shits all over Tony's career for no particular reason other than to pretend once again to be zoomer zack. Tony is a old dumb unc who is too in love with comics which are really for eight year olds. Richard literally tells tony to go be a wal-mart greeter because he is obviously too old to be involved in comics.

Richard literally calls him a "fat old gross dude" whose only accomplishment was creating lame black stereotypical characters as a white man. HE IS SO OLD AND STUPID according to young Richard. And his BEING OLD is more of a problem than being a troon.

Richard also explains that while young troons are an understandable no big thing, OLD TROONS are just disgusting.

Nothing makes Richard happier than when OLD PEOPLE "clinging to scraps" leave comics. Those old people just need to get out of comics. "What are we supposed to do with you man".

Richard isn't trying to be mean, but fuck gross stinky old people who mostly don't wash themselves. These stinky old people need to "take the hint".

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There is alot not to like about Tony Isabella, But going after him like this because he is old is just beyond stupid. Especially for a guy who isn't in any way young himself.
 
Strix454 said:
Today's journey into the Zack-verse started with him bragging about all the cool pirated comics he is reading for free. He brought them all up in his browser to show how great it all is. He talks about how we have forgotten grandpas in modern media and how getting old is going to be really rough.

Then he dunks on 74-year old former comics writer turned troon Tony Isabella. Of course Richard isn't one of those bad uncs talking about this for sensationalist reasons or 2018 reasons. Richard is doing, as he says, this for IMPORTANT reasons.

He shits all over Tony's career for no particular reason other than to pretend once again to be zoomer zack. Tony is a old dumb unc who is too in love with comics which are really for eight year olds. Richard literally tells tony to go be a wal-mart greeter because he is obviously too old to be involved in comics.

Richard literally calls him a "fat old gross dude" whose only accomplishment was creating lame black stereotypical characters as a white man. HE IS SO OLD AND STUPID according to young Richard. And his BEING OLD is more of a problem than being a troon.

Richard also explains that while young troons are an understandable no big thing, OLD TROONS are just disgusting.

Nothing makes Richard happier than when OLD PEOPLE "clinging to scraps" leave comics. Those old people just need to get out of comics. "What are we supposed to do with you man".

Richard isn't trying to be mean, but fuck gross stinky old people who mostly don't wash themselves. These stinky old people need to "take the hint".

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There is alot not to like about Tony Isabella, But going after him like this because he is old is just beyond stupid. Especially for a guy who isn't in any way young himself.
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At this point is a significant part of Richard Meyer's engagement people posting about him here?
He seems like the sort of needy closet faggot who would thrive on having people discuss him here. Because I'm pretty sure no one anywhere else even knows who he is.
 
RaptInPlastic said:
At this point is a significant part of Richard Meyer's engagement people posting about him here?
He seems like the sort of needy closet faggot who would thrive on having people discuss him here. Because I'm pretty sure no one anywhere else even knows who he is.
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Probably. He has gotten weird enough and strange enough that I find him interesting to write about again. And its got to a point where I can't say that about anyone else around comicsgate. But yes. Giving him any attention at all at this point is worth thinking twice about. He is only interesting though because he is burning his own channel and his own audience to the ground right now. At some point it does get redundant to cover him though.
 
Strix454 said:
Today's journey into the Zack-verse started with him bragging about all the cool pirated comics he is reading for free. He brought them all up in his browser to show how great it all is. He talks about how we have forgotten grandpas in modern media and how getting old is going to be really rough.

Then he dunks on 74-year old former comics writer turned troon Tony Isabella. Of course Richard isn't one of those bad uncs talking about this for sensationalist reasons or 2018 reasons. Richard is doing, as he says, this for IMPORTANT reasons.

He shits all over Tony's career for no particular reason other than to pretend once again to be zoomer zack. Tony is a old dumb unc who is too in love with comics which are really for eight year olds. Richard literally tells tony to go be a wal-mart greeter because he is obviously too old to be involved in comics.

Richard literally calls him a "fat old gross dude" whose only accomplishment was creating lame black stereotypical characters as a white man. HE IS SO OLD AND STUPID according to young Richard. And his BEING OLD is more of a problem than being a troon.

Richard also explains that while young troons are an understandable no big thing, OLD TROONS are just disgusting.

Nothing makes Richard happier than when OLD PEOPLE "clinging to scraps" leave comics. Those old people just need to get out of comics. "What are we supposed to do with you man".

Richard isn't trying to be mean, but fuck gross stinky old people who mostly don't wash themselves. These stinky old people need to "take the hint".

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There is alot not to like about Tony Isabella, But going after him like this because he is old is just beyond stupid. Especially for a guy who isn't in any way young himself.
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Honestly this detail from the Tony Isabella (aka Jenny Blake Isabella)
Wikipedia article, "Isabella's wife is Barbara.[35] They have two children, Eddie (born c. 1989) and Kelly (born c. 1992).[3]," struck me as terribly sad. Inflicting your sexual fetish on your normal family at that age seems cruel.

But you are right about Richard's absurd hatred of old people. I haven't been able to definitively find out Richard's age. Apparently he guards that information as well as some women I know.

Well, what I found is supposedly he was reading G. I. Joe at 10 years old in 1983, which would make him 53 today. (I checked the issue, which does seem to line up. https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_(Marvel)_13 ) However, supposedly that wouldn't line up with his military enlistments which would more plausibly put him in his 40s. However, it isn't impossible that he enlisted late in life.

This is what I got from Grok:

Richard C. Meyer's exact age and birth date are not publicly available in reliable sources (such as Wikipedia, interviews, or biographical profiles).Here's the context from what is known:
  • He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2000 as an infantryman/machine gunner (served until 2004, including a 2003 deployment to Iraq).
  • He then finished his bachelor's degree while in the Army National Guard and enlisted in the active-duty U.S. Army in 2006 (served until 2010, with additional deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan).
Typical U.S. military enlistment age is 17–35 (with parental consent possible at 17). Enlisting in 2000 at a standard age would place his birth year roughly in the early-to-mid 1980s, making him approximately 40–45 years old as of April 2026.He has referenced being a comics fan since reading G.I. Joe #13 in 1983, which he said influenced him "at the age of 10." This would suggest a birth year around 1973, but that conflicts with enlisting in 2000 (which would make him ~27 at enlistment—a possible but less common age for a first-term infantry enlistment). The "age of 10" comment may be approximate or anecdotal rather than precise.No confirmed birth year, birthday, or current age appears in public records, obituaries, or profiles associated with the modern Richard C. Meyer (the Comicsgate/Diversity & Comics figure). Older individuals with similar names (e.g., a film editor born 1920 or others in obituaries) are unrelated.If he has shared his age in a recent video, podcast, or post under his current channel (Comics MATTER w/ Ya Boi Zack), it isn't documented in widely indexed sources. Let me know if you'd like help checking a specific video or social media mention!
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I tried some other search AIs and got similar results.

Well, he can always kill himself before he gets old if that's how he feels about it, though honestly he doesn't seem like the type.
 
Mr Processor said:
Well, what I found is supposedly he was reading G. I. Joe at 10 years old in 1983, which would make him 53 today.
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There are hits in databases for a Richard C. Meyer that is 53 and living in the Austin, TX area. That would make him around 27 when he enlisted in the marines and 37 when he left the army. Both are very plausible dates.

His enlistment in the marines was non-traditional. According to his own account, he got into a fight which seems to have resulted in him getting several different criminal charges filed against him. The charges were bad enough that the marines were his only option for enlistment. No other branch would take him in 2000. It also seems like going into the military was a means for him to either duck criminal charges or duck the consequences of a failed life.

The comics he has up on his channel also fairly reasonably date him. His avatar is from a comic (what if #38) published in 1983. Its so obscure that I don't think anyone who had not read it back in the day when it came out would ever reference it.

The joke here is that Richard himself is one of the old men he was making fun of for going to conventions in that video today. Tony Isabella was still making comics when Richard started reading and collecting them in the early 1980s. Richard himself is of the Tony Isabella era.
 
Strix454 said:
The comics he has up on his channel also fairly reasonably date him. His avatar is from a comic (what if #38) published in 1983. Its so obscure that I don't think anyone who had not read it back in the day when it came out would ever reference it.
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I actually found that issue in a Half Price Books' longbox 5 or so years ago. Literally the only thing I remember about it was thinking, huh, isn't that the logo from Diversity & Comics channel?
 
dukejinsen22 said:
DED
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Ok..... They canceled a sticker. Cool.


They're still selling everything else.

HOW exactly is this DED?

Delany's Donkey said:
What does that mean in this context? Does it mean the IP is dead and there will be no more stories about those characters or does it mean a book that was suppose to come out now isn't?
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It just means that they canceled a sticker..... that's it, nothing more.
 

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MisterCH 86 said:
Ok..... They canceled a sticker. Cool.


They're still selling everything else.

HOW exactly is this DED?


It just means that they canceled a sticker..... that's it, nothing more.
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A wordmark trademark protects the literal text of a brand name, slogan, or logo without restricting it to a specific font, size, color, or design. It offers the broadest protection by covering the words themselves, allowing the visual style to change over time without losing legal coverage.

This isn’t just a sticker, Trademark Class 16 is the classification for both stickers and comic books, as it covers paper goods, printed matter, and stationery.

It’s DED because the status of it is quite literally “dead”.

It’s just information, don’t be so defensive, especially when you’re wrong.

if a wordmark trademark is lost, abandoned, or cancelled, it often means that someone else can use and potentially register that mark.

That being said, this was an obvious procedural failure, it’s not necessarily loss of rights, but until this is resolved, there are no USPTO protections.
 
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