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Don’t know if anyone else posted this but the dedicated anti-CG people are ripping themselves apart. Brought about by Hut accusing Preston of getting high before coming on his show. Phil Cummings, as is typical, goes into a weird psychotic rage calling @VIkkiVerse a “drama whore” and a “thot”. All very entertaining stuff. I’ll have pics shortly.


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This is exactly what happens when your "side" or "group" (cg, anti cg, whatever) is based off internet drama. Everyone has to keep fighting over anything and everything.
 
I’m rarely of the mind that I want to see money taken out of someone’s pocket for short-sighted dickish behavior, but in this one instance I truly hope King’s treatment of Jae Lee is a career killer.

I don't know why executives tolerate it.
Don’t know if anyone else posted this but the dedicated anti-CG people are ripping themselves apart. Brought about by Hut accusing Preston of getting high before coming on his show. Phil Cummings, as is typical, goes into a weird psychotic rage calling @VIkkiVerse a “drama whore” and a “thot”. All very entertaining stuff. I’ll have pics shortly.


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It's what happens when you throw in with OBVIOUS RETARDS like Comic Book Hut just to own EVS.
 
Yeah, sales were really flagging under King, right? and they've picked back up again with Tynion?

Yes King was down in the low sixties/ hi 50's for 6 of his last 7 batman issues, in 6 issues Tyrion had it back in the hi 80's before wuflu shut everything down.

#70 - 83,518
#71 - 82,704
#72 - 80,585
#73 - 81,919
#74 - 78,544
#75 - 70,252
#76 - 58,539
#77 - 81,215
#78 - 80,979
#79 - 61,095
#80 - 61,999
#81 - 59,507
#82 - 71,310
#83 - 60,307
#84 - 58,597
#85 - 60,318

King out

#86 - 61,739
#87 - 56,307
#88 - 74,423
#89 - 73,390
#90 - 87,385
#91 - 88,735

Wuflu happens

Numbers from comichron

Edit: turns out at some point comichron started fusing different varients together (card stock covers) and at a quick glance they are about the same.
 
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Since Cummings initially bitched out on EVS back in 2018, I have been unable to determine the motivations behind anything he does. This is an offshoot of the argument I posted earlier.

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Yes King was down in the low sixties/ hi 50's for 6 of his last 7 batman issues, in 6 issues Tyrion had it back in the hi 80's before wuflu shut everything down.

#70 - 83,518
#71 - 82,704
#72 - 80,585
#73 - 81,919
#74 - 78,544
#75 - 70,252
#76 - 58,539
#77 - 81,215
#78 - 80,979
#79 - 61,095
#80 - 61,999
#81 - 59,507
#82 - 71,310
#83 - 60,307
#84 - 58,597
#85 - 60,318

King out

#86 - 61,739
#87 - 56,307
#88 - 74,423
#89 - 73,390
#90 - 87,385
#91 - 88,735

Wuflu happens

Numbers from comichron

These numbers are wrong. For a time (maybe they still are) DC was releasing two different versions of the same comic at different price points because one of them had cardstock covers or something like that. For example, your lowest King's issue, #76 actually sold 84,879.

At later time they changed the reporting by automatically fusing these different releases, but you can still split them to see how they look. For example here: https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020/2020-03.html click "Fused" header and you'll get two listings for Batman #91, one with 66 thousands and another with 22 thousands.
 
These numbers are wrong. For a time (maybe they still are) DC was releasing two different versions of the same comic at different price points because one of them had cardstock covers or something like that. For example, your lowest King's issue, #76 actually sold 84,879.

At later time they changed the reporting by automatically fusing these different releases, but you can still split them to see how they look. For example here: https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020/2020-03.html click "Fused" header and you'll get two listings for Batman #91, one with 66 thousands and another with 22 thousands.

ok that's retarded.

So by the looks of it they're doing about the same right?
 
This is exactly what happens when your "side" or "group" (cg, anti cg, whatever) is based off internet drama. Everyone has to keep fighting over anything and everything.
All anti- movements tend to split up as soon as they get some traction, because people got in against something, not towards a goal. At some point, goals diverge and intermovement tension ensues
 
All anti- movements tend to split up as soon as they get some traction, because people got in against something, not towards a goal. At some point, goals diverge and intermovement tension ensues

People who bond over hatred of something have no goals they'll ever achieve together besides trying to take out the object of their hatred, or destroy each other in frustration when they fail to do so. Everything else is secondary.

I'm pretty sure they're all gonna be acting like "we were never a group, we were never together, we always didn't like so and so, we knew and suspected so and so" now. Funny, this is also how WC is trying to excuse themselves now. This is why internet movements have, and will always be, gay and autistic.
 
People who bond over hatred of something have no goals they'll ever achieve together besides trying to take out the object of their hatred, or destroy each other in frustration when they fail to do so. Everything else is secondary.

I'm pretty sure they're all gonna be acting like "we were never a group, we were never together, we always didn't like so and so, we knew and suspected so and so" now. Funny, this is also how WC is trying to excuse themselves now. This is why internet movements have, and will always be, gay and autistic.
SJWs too are like that, cancelling eachother once their hatred for "Patriarchy" stopped bonding them. They knocked off some older white men, they gatekept some younger white men, yet they still have to take out more of their peers to get the control THEY want.
 
SJWs too are like that, cancelling eachother once their hatred for "Patriarchy" stopped bonding them. They knocked off some older white men, they gatekept some younger white men, yet they still have to take out more of their peers to get the control THEY want.
This all just proves that you should just be yourself and not part of any group.
 
It is not surprising, at the time King looked like the next big thing, while someone like Claremont hasn't done anything "big" in decades.
IIRC, part of that is because Claremont is under a contract with Marvel that keeps him from writing anything. Not that I really liked X-Men Forever, but I think I'd take that over whatever the hell is up with the current X-Men.
 
Alright, I've been reading some old stuff, for the most part, but I heard Marvel got their shit together with their "A Fresh Start" relaunch that has actually stayed in place since the latter half of 2018. Is this true? Cause I read the first 5 issues of the new run of The Amazing Spider-Man by Spencer, and it, alongside the Mary Jane stand alone series seemed to communicate to me they've cut back on the pandering, (downright offensive at times) forced diversity? Cause even Willow Wilson admitted that stuff didn't work if you forced it, which is probably why Kamala Khan is still around and Chavez got pushed into a box, never to be seen again.
 
In Dynamite fallout, BFG Simone tweeted a long thread so she could make it all about her & how her ethics are the best:
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This part really stood out to me:
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Excuse me, Gail throws around "family" but has no fucking clue about what that means. A publisher offers you money for nothing to help you out when you're in a bad way, & you throw them over to the woke crowd because they have cooties from someone you don't like? If that's what it's like to be Whale Simone's family, I'm sure most of us are thrilled to be on her bad side. She's created the woke mob & she has to appease it, friends & family be damned. What a sociopath.

Gail, I'm not CG, but I'd like to offer you a sincere fuck you.
 
Chavez got pushed into a box, never to be seen again.
Chavez got binned because Gabby Riviera made that character poison. There was nowhere to go with her and just having America in a book was going to be a hit to their already-fragile sales (and guarantee mockery). Before The Coof, there were plans for an America Chavez mini (notably without Gabby involved) that I think was going to be an attempt to course-correct but who knows if that's ever going to happen. Personally, after the original creators for America went to Image and basically remade her there, I'd just let everyone forget about Chavez but Disney probably has some ridiculous idea for her in the MCU.
 
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In Dynamite fallout, BFG Simone tweeted a long thread so she could make it all about her & how her ethics are the best:
This part really stood out to me:
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Excuse me, Gail throws around "family" but has no fucking clue about what that means. A publisher offers you money for nothing to help you out when you're in a bad way, & you throw them over to the woke crowd because they have cooties from someone you don't like? If that's what it's like to be Whale Simone's family, I'm sure most of us are thrilled to be on her bad side. She's created the woke mob & she has to appease it, friends & family be damned. What a sociopath.

Gail, I'm not CG, but I'd like to offer you a sincere fuck you.
Pure made-up drama bullshit. On June 17th she tweeted that she had stopped working for Dynamite several months before the Dynamite/CG blowup.

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[I clipped that screencap on June 18]
 
"I'm not gonna throw you under the bus and try to cancel you because that's mean, now excuse me while I throw you under the bus and try to cancel you" -Gail Simone

Holy shit, what an awful person. The guy offers to help you financially recover from a robbery from the kindness of his heart but because he tried to spin some covers from guys you don't like for a quick buck, fuck that guy forever? Clearly his friendship didn't mean as much as you claim it did.

Dynamite has been doing these covers for months, pretending to suddenly be deeply offended is horseshit.
 
Chavez got binned because Gabby Riviera made that character poison. There was nowhere to go with her and just having America in a book was going to be a hit to their already-fragile sales (and guarantee mockery). Before The Coof, there was plans for an America Chavez mini (notably without Gabby involved) that I think was going to be an attempt to course-correct but who knows if that's ever going to happen. Personally, after the original creators for America went to Image and basically remade her there, I'd just let everyone forget about Chavez but Disney probably has some ridiculous idea for her in the MCU.

But for the coof she'd be back already, by Disney mandate, because she's going to be in Dr Strange 2 as part of the new 'MCU Phase: Woke', along with Ms Marvel who's getting her own show.
Nobody could figure out how Captain Marvel dodged cancellation with such poor sales, until the movie was announced and it became clear that Disney had wanted the character pushed hard regardless of sales.
 
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I think last couple Tynion issues are a bit higher that what King had towards the end, but probably not statistically significant. And yeah, totally retarded.

Either way King was not good for Batman sales.

To be complete, look at where capullo and Snyder ended up. The wound up leaving with the book generally hitting six figures.

https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2016/2016-01.html

fast forward to rebirth, and the book was hitting six figures.


Note, Tom King followed the Snyder script for the start of Rebirth.

David Finch, image 90s art and crossovers like the button. It was until issue 50 he blew a Rain Johnson sized whole in the book. It wasn't just one decision though. Rumor was, he pushed to have Janin replace Finch.

Its not the entire audience, what, ten percent?

Since Cummings initially bitched out on EVS back in 2018, I have been unable to determine the motivations behind anything he does. This is an offshoot of the argument I posted earlier.

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He went from being a key figure in a consumer movement to being eclipsed by mainstream figures cashing in on a movement he helped start. Add to that he's a hot head who holds a grudge together with @FROG trolling his enemies thru proxies like WC and CG and its not hard to figure Cummings out.
 
Chavez got binned because Gabby Riviera made that character poison. There was nowhere to go with her and just having America in a book was going to be a hit to their already-fragile sales (and guarantee mockery). Before The Coof, there were plans for an America Chavez mini (notably without Gabby involved) that I think was going to be an attempt to course-correct but who knows if that's ever going to happen. Personally, after the original creators for America went to Image and basically remade her there, I'd just let everyone forget about Chavez but Disney probably has some ridiculous idea for her in the MCU.
It's a shame, cause I heard she was an OK character prior to Marvel using her in the way they did, much like Ms. Marvel before she became Captain Marvel, and they shilled the ever living hell out of her. I know Carol Danvers was always a flawed character, but from what I can tell, she was an interesting one that was decently written, even if she was in the background. Ever since 2012, though, she's just become Marvel's Female Superman, which is stupid, since they already HAVE a Superman equivalent, possibly multiple; but I guess they needed to needlessly change a character and shill her so much that her reputation is now ruined. Couldn't just make more good She-Hulk comics or nothing, nope. Seriously, she doesn't even feel like the same character nowadays. I know she was literally raped in Avengers #200, but now it feels like she got a lobotomy 8 years ago and just never was the same person after.
 
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