#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!
- Thread starter Done
- Start date
-
Want to keep track of this thread?
Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
Create account
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2013
He's not wrong. And that could honestly be the unofficial slogan of the Farms.
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2013
You've heard "The Future is Female", you fell in love with "The Future is Brown", you were in awe of "The Future is Queer" but I present to you....."THE FUTURE IS COSPLAY"!
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2018
You've heard "The Future is Female", you fell in love with "The Future is Brown", you were in awe of "The Future is Queer" but I present to you....."THE FUTURE IS COSPLAY"!
The future of comics are a bunch of speds who cosplay at Comic-Con, a convention that has long since abandoned its roots in comics in favor of movies, tv, collectibles, celebrity meet ups and weeb shit.
Might as well make a topic out of this. My local Comic-Con barely has anything comics related since at least 8 years straight. It practically an WeebCon and barely a couple of comics related “celebrities” actually show up to do signings (most overcharging for the signature, seriously fuck you Frank Miller, $40 for a single signature). If I have to pie-chart it, I’d say 50% is weeb shit, 30% is movie shit, 15% is other and that last 5% is comics-related, mostly rare comics being resold.
I’ve asked around and the comics section of most cons just keeps getting smaller and smaller each year. I’m curious if it’s the same for you guys as well.
If the future is a bunch of cosplayers, the comics industry might as well just close up shop, these sped are only interested in the movies and couldn’t care any less about the source material.
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2013
I just want to know how they found Mike Stoklasa and didn't say anything about him constantly staring at that woman's boobs.
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
He probably doesn't want to do it at all, and also wants to cut out the market for these professional dickheads who go around getting autographs just so they can go sell them on eBay to morons.
superscript
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2018
What's even more pathetic is that they think it works. 2 years after 2016 and none of them learned a thing. If it doesn't work, it's just a failure of messaging and the audience doesn't understand why they're wrong. They can't even comprehend people understanding their message but have different opinions. Must be Nazis.
- Joined
- May 30, 2018
The salt from the D&C interview is fantastic:
View attachment 503765
View attachment 503747View attachment 503746
View attachment 503745
View attachment 503758 View attachment 503759 View attachment 503760
Darryl, buddy how’s the job search going:
View attachment 503763
Bonus Darrylayo wokeness:
View attachment 503762
D&C made a vid apologizing to Heather:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRANMqGqhZwHe’s sorry it’s a big deal to Heather and that he wishes she could move on.
So basically comicgater people are like 'fuck you Jim for cutting up Richard's interview and making him look bad you hack fraud' and the other SJWs are like 'REEEEE EXPOSURE TO COMICHITLER REEEEE IT'LL RECRUIT MORE which only tells me that they are SO afraid of our boy Zach because they realise he has legitimate points and the general public who don't suck SJW cock on Twitter because they have lives can see it too.
Also I can see now why Zach has so many illegitimate kids. I'd probably hit it.
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
For all their "right side of history" bullshit, even SJWs know they're so obviously and completely full of shit that given a fair hearing, they'd lose every time.
Emperor Julian
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2015
You've heard "The Future is Female", you fell in love with "The Future is Brown", you were in awe of "The Future is Queer" but I present to you....."THE FUTURE IS COSPLAY"!
The future is fucked, the culture is so diluted than any sort of cohesion is impossible so your efforts to make the culture a safe-space are doomed by that alone but regardless the chinese are going to take the jobs the robots can't do so their's no money for the cosplay or any of this shit and DC and Marvel have their heads in the sand about the pricing models and target audience.
On the bright side we're all going to be cosplaying mega-city one shortly and 2000ad is pretty cheap Have fun guys.
Last edited:
Emperor Julian
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2015
If anything I appreciate the loss of mutually contracting stances, sjws previously viewed opposition as both dumb basement dwelling pissbabies who couldnt do anything but also evil people who were put people in real danger. If anything this a step forward for them since they are now aware of cognitive dissonance.
Pol Pots Pooter
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2018
Most cons nowadays are owned by large-scale event organizer companies and they're going to go where the big bucks are. Comics just don't draw the cash cows who pony up the big bucks for event and panel attendance, merch, and celebrity photo ops so of course they're going to sideline comics in the pursuit of turning cons into soulless money printing machines.
A few years ago one of the Z-lister celebs whose main source of revenue is con appearances blew the whistle on how they're organized and run behind the scenes. I think it may actually have been Wil Wheaton, and it if was it was the one good thing he's ever done. Basically they're paid, brought in with their comp shit, do their panels, but not allowed to appear on the event floor or interact with fans outside heavily-controlled PR stuff and scheduled booth appearances. Con staff and spokespeople always say it's for the safety and security of guests, but everyone knows it's bullshit. Con organizers don't want featured guests anywhere they can interact with fans without paying first, so they babysit and shepherd featured guests around which keeps them from actually enjoying the con and/or local hotspots.
The article pointed out that's why walking convention floors incognito is so popular, and why they know the security thing is bullshit. As long as the celebrity isn't recognizable, con staff doesn't give a shit. I want to say Adam Savage halfway blew the whistle once without admitting it outright when talking about his convention costumes, because he said after Mythbusters going incognito is the only way he gets to walk the floor, interact with people, and just enjoy the con. You might think he was talking about getting to walk the floor without being mobbed by fans, but he's consistently on record as enjoying that sort of thing.
"The future is cosplay"? I can see that, cosplayers are cash cows.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2018
The only thing I disagree with is this part. The future of COMICS isn’t these people, merch and movies definitely.
Also, Luna is adorable:
One Man Bland
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2017
The local Comic convention near me recently announced they'd no longer be hosting/inviting comic book shops or anyone/thing comic specific because "Comics don't reach the key demographics we wish to appeal to."
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2018
What a depressing thought.
I know that it was (well, is) considered 'good manners' to not harass or bug guests if they're making their way around the convention, but that sort of manipulation I find incredibly dispiriting.
I'm not the type to fanboy, but it'd be nice to run into these ladies and gentlemen and just politely ask 'Having fun? Everything okay? Awesome -- enjoy the convention!'
Though if I run into Shatner, I'm going to insist he say 'Denny Crane'. At least once.
superscript
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2018
Not saying you're wrong, but how's that? I've heard whispers of how cons court cosplayers and how they ruin cons but the reasoning is unclear. The cons I go to tend to be smaller so it's not as big of an issue.
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2013
So comics are simultaneously the work of white devils AND beating off the bigots manchildren who don't get they're making millions on "Coloured People" digital sales which we'll never see?
Surely these aren't conflicting ideas like being a massive consumerist who'll call themselves "Communists" and believe the revolution will happen by Disney putting gay black people in Spider-Man costumes.
WaltherPPGAY
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2018
The panel of "cosplayers" in this picture consists of 2 women in mediocre cosplay outfits that look at least partly off the rack, a man not cosplaying, a black woman dressed as a generic prostitute and a black man in a literal child's Halloween costume.
May want to clarify that the future is half-assed as well
Pol Pots Pooter
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2018
Don't get me wrong, the "geek celebrity" class is still comprised of people and they certainly run the gamut of "only here for the money" all the way to "live for this shit and the money is a bonus". If they can bank on their celebrity and charge exorbitant fees for autographs and photos, more power to them I guess. Some are more outspoken of their opinions of cons than others, and the few stupid enough to run their mouths about fans tend to be cows in general. Whatever individual celebrities' opinions are, at least the big cons are organized and run more like human zoos or 19th Century freak shows than any other comparison I can make, and it makes my skin crawl. There's nothing about it I don't find exploitative one way or another.
The way I see it, either you're a cosplay thot and bring in cash cows, and if not you have the time and disposable income to cosplay marking yourself a potential cash cow.