#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[Ponderous Pillock]

Post rivalling War and Peace about a Superhero everyone hates by this point

Like, seriously guys.

 

[Grimm856]

winner. That one big hit in the bottom left may have stuck, but most of his shit is low triple digits.

Here's another video that this Anti-Social Media guy made regarding comics and SJWs. Although, this video is mostly about him bitching about Steven Crowder saying how killing people with a high-heel shoe from the film Atomic Blonde is unrealistic. While I know that many action films have moments breaking physics, but it still does take away that it's still stupid and most likely impossible to do in real-life.

 

[damian]

Delayed... again:

LATE: Doomsday Clock #10 Slips From March to April

archived 28 Feb 2019 21:04:26 UTC

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As we posted that Doomsday Clock #9 has slipped all the way from the beginning of January to the beginning of March, it seemed inevitable that Doomsday Clock #10, scheduled for the end of March would also slip.
Optimistically however, DC Comics is listing it as only slipping a week, from the 27th of March to the 3rd of April. Four weeks after the scheduled date of Doomsday Clock #9.

Do you believe them? Your call of course, and for a comic book called Doomsday Clock, there are all sorts of meta-narratives about the payoff being late. And to stop it from feeling too conspicuous, Electric Warriors #5 is also slipping a week, from the 13th to the 20th….

DOOMSDAY CLOCK #10 (OF 12)
(W) Geoff Johns (A/CA) Gary Frank
This stunning issue of the critically acclaimed hit maxiseries reveals the secrets behind Dr. Manhattan and his connection to the DC Universe.In Shops: Mar 27, 2019
Final Orders Due: Mar 04, 2019
SRP: $4.99

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Oh yes, and Doomsday Clock is the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. Sorry I may have forgotten to mention that. I know you’d miss it if I didn;t.

Releases so far:

Issue	Release Date
Doomsday Clock Issue #1	11/22/2017
Doomsday Clock Issue #2	12/27/2017
Doomsday Clock Issue #3	1/24/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #4	3/28/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #5	5/30/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #6	7/25/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #7	9/26/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #8	12/5/2018
9	Jan > March 2019
10	March > April 2019
11	May 2019
12	TBA

 

[RodgerDodger]

The backlash made the early fan press scene and create enough bedlam, that Claremont was given the following year's Avengers Annual to "fix" it: granted, the solution made more problems (Claremont depowering Carol to prop up Rogue as a new big bad, which he promptly abandoned out of the blue in favor of making Rogue a good girl nearly three years later let alone the fact that Rogue's power stealing gimmick only permanently stole Carol's and not the rest of the Avengers was considered hackery). The ending of the issue, had Carol (her memories haphazardly restored by Xavier) be reunited with the Avengers, at which point Claremont "addressed Avengers #200 and Carol being raped. Claremont retconned that Carol was still under Marcus's mental control the entire time she was pregnant with him and after he gave birth. As such, when Carol left with Marcus, she was still his thrall and he effectively made her go with him against his will.

I never understood the (limited) fan outrage over Rogue permanently stealing Carol's Ms. Marvel Powers. For those that knew Ms. Marvel's origins it actually made sense. Carol's powers weren't natively hers. They were an overlay of Mar-Vel's of sorts accidentally cut and pasted onto Carol by some Kree Machine exploding. Rogue's powers functioned similarly to the Kree Machine hence she could unintentionally undo or alter what it had done.

 

[KingofNothing]

Delayed... again:

LATE: Doomsday Clock #10 Slips From March to April

archived 28 Feb 2019 21:04:26 UTC

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Releases so far:

Issue	Release Date
Doomsday Clock Issue #1	11/22/2017
Doomsday Clock Issue #2	12/27/2017
Doomsday Clock Issue #3	1/24/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #4	3/28/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #5	5/30/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #6	7/25/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #7	9/26/2018
Doomsday Clock Issue #8	12/5/2018
9	Jan > March 2019
10	March > April 2019
11	May 2019
12	TBA

How many times has Doomsday Clock been delayed now? This event started in 2017 and they're still only at 8 issues. How are you supposed to market that when other plot arcs have to move forward and come out on time?

 

[damian]

How many times has Doomsday Clock been delayed now? This event started in 2017 and they're still only at 8 issues. How are you supposed to market that when other plot arcs have to move forward and come out on time?

It was supposed to be a monthly title, then it got delayed into a bi-monthly title and now there's a 3 month wait period for the next issue. By issue 11 we'll be on a bi-yearly time table.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I never understood the (limited) fan outrage over Rogue permanently stealing Carol's Ms. Marvel Powers. For those that knew Ms. Marvel's origins it actually made sense. Carol's powers weren't natively hers. They were an overlay of Mar-Vel's of sorts accidentally cut and pasted onto Carol by some Kree Machine exploding. Rogue's powers functioned similarly to the Kree Machine hence she could unintentionally undo or alter what it had done.

It's weird how much damage they've done the Carol as a character over the last few year sanding away her personality traits to make a shitty superman knock off that I don't even really connect the two characters anymore.

Here's another video that this Anti-Social Media guy made regarding comics and SJWs. Although, this video is mostly about him bitching about Steven Crowder saying how killing people with a high-heel shoe from the film Atomic Blonde is unrealistic.

To be fair Crowder is a cunt and that point is asinine. Is it possible to overeact over an overeation?

 

[KingofNothing]

It was supposed to be a monthly title, then it got delayed into a bi-monthly title and now there's a 3 month wait period for the next issue. By issue 11 we'll be on a bi-yearly time table.

I feel bad for the comic shops. DC has pretty much killed the momentum this event had. People used to get hyped up and speculate about the button, Dr Manhattan, and all that all of the time and even though I still don't agree with Watchmen officially crossing into the canon, I was following the theories. Now, I honestly forgot it existed until you posted that article

 

[damian]

Ok wow I didn’t expect to see this guy get targeted by cosplay whale:

Here’s the teeet:

https://archive.is/r7lAh

In response to that, he called her a “HOE ASS NIGGA”

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I feel bad for the comic shops. DC has pretty much killed the momentum this event had. People used to get hyped up and speculate about the button, Dr Manhattan, and all that all of the time and even though I still don't agree with Watchmen officially crossing into the canon, I was following the theories. Now, I honestly forgot it existed until you posted that article

I keep thinking Doomsday Clock is done until someone posts that it's delayed (again). I wonder if anyone working at DC will one day explain what is really going on with this book as I bet the story there is more interesting than the shit in their actual books.

 

[MirrorNoir]

I never understood the (limited) fan outrage over Rogue permanently stealing Carol's Ms. Marvel Powers. For those that knew Ms. Marvel's origins it actually made sense. Carol's powers weren't natively hers. They were an overlay of Mar-Vel's of sorts accidentally cut and pasted onto Carol by some Kree Machine exploding. Rogue's powers functioned similarly to the Kree Machine hence she could unintentionally undo or alter what it had done.

The outrage came due to the fact that it was extra misery for a character already having been raped by way of hypnosis and decided, "screw it! I'm going to shack up with my rapist". Especially in what was one of the most glaring attempt at a mulligan by a major comic company to undo another story.

It was gratuitous, along the lines of Claremont smashing a toy of his because he caught Shooter playing with it in a lewd manner he didn't approve of. Granted, he gave Carol new powers, but that again was more Claremont backpeddling a third time relating to depowering Carol. To the point that the character basically became DeSade's Justine; who existed only to have horrible things happen to her and breaking her as a viable character for nearly two decades.

It also heavily complicates Rogue's entire purpose/being. Which is super funny, given that Rogue herself was supposed to have been brutalized by various forces (the Hellfire Club's Black King and Carol herself) in the originally planned story Claremont was going to do before the rape storyline/cancelation kept him from doing it. Claremont repeatedly stated/referenced said aborted storyline in Uncanny X-Men in the 80s and had been promised about 4-5 issues of Marvel Fanfare to tell it (which never happened, because Claremont wanted to canonize Mystique being gay and Shooter instituting his "no gays" rule the same time the issues were promised him).

It also created a slew of problems for Rogue, who by a miracle, was able to overcome them when Claremont decided to make her a good guy after she spent several years as an X-Men/Dazzler/ROM villain.

 

[Comicsgeist]

It's weird how much damage they've done the Carol as a character over the last few year sanding away her personality traits to make a shitty superman knock off that I don't even really connect the two characters anymore

I think we all know the reason.
DC have always had an iconic female superhero in their top tier line-up, and they've even successfully launched her onto the big screen ahead of Marvel.
Naturally Marvel are seething about this and Feige, who has a reputation for a competitive streak and loves dunking on the DCEU, was pissed that DC has the trophy for the first successful, female, superhero franchise. Especially since it also saved the DCEU single handed.
Marvel have always been a bit embarrassed at their lack of a flagship super-heroine, sure they have plenty of female superheros, but none that aren't derivative like She-Hulk or members of a team like Storm.
Given their current 'woke' ethos, that's a bit embarrassing .
So naturally they have to have one and clearly, (no matter how many times comics buyers have said no thanks), they have backed Captain Marvel as that horse and bet the farm on her. Hence the current hysteria.
They've taken her character and tried to make her Marvel's Wonder-woman... or Supermanvers....
They need her to be as beloved by the audience as a DC character with 60 years of much better story telling behind her. And the twats at Marvel seem genuinely baffled they can't just engineer a progressive flagship character, just to virtue signal that 'there are strong whamen here too!' , and force people to like it by endlessly pushing her on an utterly indifferent audience.

 

[MirrorNoir]

How many times has Doomsday Clock been delayed now? This event started in 2017 and they're still only at 8 issues. How are you supposed to market that when other plot arcs have to move forward and come out on time?

Two rumors are floating around:

1. The artist is super freaking late and Geoff won't allow fill-ins because he sees Doomsday Clock as his magnum opuses and as such, it has to have the same artist all the way through

2. DiDio stabbing Geoff in the back by greenlighting Bendis's Superman run, Metal, and Heroes In Crisis (which killed Wally West off); has led to Geoff having to rewrite huge parts of Doomsday Clock. Either to remove Wally from the final act of the book (due to HiC killing him off) or to allow HiC and Bendis' Superman run to end, so that Geoff can retcon them outright out of existence/explain them away as Manhattan's manipulations in the final four issues of Doomsday Clock.

 

[kidatari]

Ok wow I didn’t expect to see this guy get targeted by cosplay whale:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R_llAJbt1Hk
Here’s the teeet:

https://archive.li/r7lAh

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In response to that, he called her a “HOE ASS NIGGA”

This white woman lied about a African American and got him suspended from a platform
That's prejudice plus power
Lauren is nothing more than a racist, white supremacists, Alt-Right Nazi.
And this is nothing more than a modern day lynching of a innocent African American man trying to express himself in a white supremacist world run by people like Lauren.

 

[KingofNothing]

Two rumors are floating around:

1. The artist is super freaking late and Geoff won't allow fill-ins because he sees Doomsday Clock as his magnum opuses and as such, it has to have the same artist all the way through

2. DiDio stabbing Geoff in the back by greenlighting Bendis's Superman run, Metal, and Heroes In Crisis (which killed Wally West off); has led to Geoff having to rewrite huge parts of Doomsday Clock. Either to remove Wally from the final act of the book (due to HiC killing him off) or to allow HiC and Bendis' Superman run to end, so that Geoff can retcon them outright out of existence/explain them away as Manhattan's manipulations in the final four issues of Doomsday Clock.

1. Understandable if true, but Geoff needs to bite the bullet and get someone who can stick to a schedule if this is the case. People won't have fond memories of something that doesn't come out.
2. That would be fucked up, but this is why when the bigwigs make an event, they need to sit in a room and make a list saying these characters are safe, don't do crazy shit with them until it's over and hand that list out to everybody.

 

[RockVolnutt]

Two rumors are floating around:

1. The artist is super freaking late and Geoff won't allow fill-ins because he sees Doomsday Clock as his magnum opuses and as such, it has to have the same artist all the way through

2. DiDio stabbing Geoff in the back by greenlighting Bendis's Superman run, Metal, and Heroes In Crisis (which killed Wally West off); has led to Geoff having to rewrite huge parts of Doomsday Clock. Either to remove Wally from the final act of the book (due to HiC killing him off) or to allow HiC and Bendis' Superman run to end, so that Geoff can retcon them outright out of existence/explain them away as Manhattan's manipulations in the final four issues of Doomsday Clock.

Heroes in Crisis is a really out of place story considering we've had years building up to an existential "something's off about everything" plot. Say what you will about Metal, it at least thematically lined up with the direction of the DCU at the time compared to HiC being a very mundane "gun violence and mental health" story. Tom King should've been told to scale it back to becoming a small scale Batman story or saved for when the characters aren't dealing with bigger things.

 

[AnOminous]

In response to that, he called her a “HOE ASS NIGGA”

He's not wrong.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

((("It's okay to chip away at that.")))
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YF3m5QZoJxQ
Seems the black non-binary lesbian crippled women failed you Gail. But at least you GOT EM dirty white males amirite? BAZINGA BAZINGA!

I wonder how many other stupid tidbits she has out there, just buried by time. These days, most of them at least go through the motions of trying to disguise what they really mean. It is a bit interesting that she was already infected with troon sympathies even in 2012.

 

[MirrorNoir]

1. Understandable if true, but Geoff needs to bite the bullet and get someone who can stick to a schedule if this is the case. People won't have fond memories of something that doesn't come out.
2. That would be fucked up, but this is why when the bigwigs make an event, they need to sit in a room and make a list saying these characters are safe, don't do crazy shit with them until it's over and hand that list out to everybody.

Part of the problem is that, after Trump got elected, Geoff pulled an audible and pretty much told DiDio that he was making changes to the plot to reflect the fucked up nature of America (basically everything going to hell socially and Superman/Manhattan having a no holds barred brawl after all, as far as Manhattan/Veidt representing SJW nihilism and Superman representing centrist/moderate sane folk that just want everyone to get along) post-2016 election.

Geoff, who apparently has full creative control over Doomsday Clock, also made it clear to DiDio that there would be NO TIE-INS. No crossover issues, no spin-off minis running at the same time, no one-off side issues.

This pissed DiDio off mightily, so much that Metal was pretty much created EXPLICITLY to have tie-ins and basically beat Geoff to the punch as far as rebooting the universe Flashpoint-style to steal Doomsday Clock's thunder and provide the canon explanation for a good number of continuity fixes/revamps Didio wanted Doomsday Clock to set up.

 

[damian]

Is IDW cursed? Their new CEO stepped down after just 7 months. I expect to see TUG covering it soon.

IDW CEO Steps Down After 'Challenging' 7 Months On the Job

archived 1 Mar 2019 02:23:13 UTC

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Kerry McCluggage has stepped down as CEO of IDW Media Holdings, Inc. (the parent company of IDW Publishing) just seven months after taking up the position. IDW Board Chairman (and the company's biggest stockholder) Howard Jonas has stepped in to assume the role of CEO.

"We are grateful to Kerry for leading and growing our team during a challenging period," said Jonas. "We wish him well in his new endeavors, and thank him for the dedication and hard work that he put into the company."

While Jonas didn't specify what about the recent period was "challenging," IDW recently informed stockholders that Jonas loaned the company $28 million for "necessary operating costs" for its tv & film division, IDW Entertainment. In March 2018, Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall left the company, followed by Group Editor Sarah Gaydos in April. The company's President/Publisher Greg Goldstein exited the company in December, with Ryall returning to replace him.

McCluggage became associated with IDW in late 2017 when he joined the company's board, and then in July 2018 took over the CEO role after company co-founder Ted Adams took a sabbatical. McCluggage is a longtime television executive who helped launch the UPN Network.

"As both a board member and CEO I have enjoyed helping the company with its current slate of new programming and working with the extremely talented group assembled to execute on these new series," McCluggage said. "I wish the entire IDWM team the best of luck going forward."