Recently in Comicsgate,
Frog entered a debate with an SJW who's credentials were that worked in a comic shop for a couple of years. Originally the debate was scheduled to be be a two versus two but "Aidan" - the one who apparently did all the research beforehand - backed out at the last second. In the interest of fairness the moderator offered to not let Frog on to keep the debate even, but Croz, a person with zero familiarity with comics or Comicsgate, evidently figured that wasn't necessary and he'd just go ahead and stomp both of these dumb incels in one go.
- Adam Friended: Youtube sophist wanting to cash in on Comicsgate
- Frog: Undisputed leader of Comicsgate, an online comic-themed hate and shitpost movement.
- Rei Murasame: An ambiguously accented globalist socialist and feminist "working in the defense sector" glownegro. The moderator.
- Cody "Croz" Crozman: A fucking leaf in the Magic: The Gathering fandom who worked in a comic shop for 2 1/2 years.
- Aidan (not present): Some guy who also worked in a comic store that talked to Cody once
Next are the introductions. Adam Friended says his motives are he hates the SJWs. Frog specifically requests for special time allotted to dab on his former colleagues being forced into unemployment. Croz says he pwned the Quartering one time on twitter and now he's looking to add some fresh skulls on his pike.
Following this are opening arguments. Like any good sophist, Friended starts by immediately moving to define terms, specifically what constitutes "ruining comics". But this is a prudent move since "comics" from a retailer perspective have grown 36% in 2019 alone, but all that growth is attributable to childrens' and YA comics. This is articulated by Frog after Friended simplistically on "indie" and "mainstream" definitions, along with his stance that the collapse of non-children's/YA genre comics is attributable to the boilerplate CG rallying points of overt political content and customer antagonism. Croz argues that every example can be chalked up to confirmation bias from Comicsgaters but within the first response Frog's command of Comicsgate-related talking points and overall rhetorical skill starts running roughshod over the debate.
This goes on for some time as Friended and Frog list off the long list of grievances Comicsgate has had with the mainstream industry with practiced tongue while Croz takes the stance that diversity and inclusion are smart corporate decisions to gain new demographics of readers and that diverse creators are needed for authentic product. Frog runs with this saying Tony Isabella for creating a minstrel show with "Black Lightning". Every argument Croz makes is hijacked by Frog in this manner to be used to shit on a creator Frog dislikes, from Dan Slott to Gail Simone.
Things start getting interesting at around an hour in when moderately infamous CGer "reinoe" starts superchatting; reinoe superchats are not to be underestimated - once he donated Mitch Breitweiser into bashing his skull into a keyboard on livestream. Frog starts looking into space away from his camera as if to pretend he doesn't know who reinoe is. Croz gets increasingly testy. Reinoe superchats that he is a black trans lesbian and that they will not be invalidated by the racist Croz. Finally, the debate closes on whether the movie or comic ending of Watchmen was better. So concludes another thrilling CG debate.
In other news, Liam Gray and his artist Odysseus Theodoratos have released 110 pages of free content in two 55-page works, the short story
Xenotype: Pursuit and gag comic/shonen contest submission
X-Roads: Strive. Although credit given where it is due this is more pages released than most Comicsgaters have put out in their entire careers, the question remains of whether the content is good. After reading both works, I recognized many psychological themes and indeed philosophical stance expressed by the author in the work so I was thoroughly entertained and intrigued by the insight into the author's inimitable mind, but a full exploration of my mediations on these works are a greater project best left for another time.
The lure of reviewing creative output by Liam was more than enough common ground to get Preston Poulter and "Mecha McCheese" to put their differences aside regarding Frog's reveal of their mutual friend, humble space merchant Zombienomicon. The internecine conflicts and intricacies of "Anti-CG" politics are difficult to decipher but from what this humble kiwi was able to gather, Mecha was extremely defensive after belatedly denouncing Zombienomicon.
Preston expresses his confusion at a narrative, scenario and protagonist that resolves all the obstacles and antagonist in their heroes' journey by a continual escalation of brutal violence; McCheese considers the story an extended metaphor of the author crafting an extenuating circumstance in which it is excuable to beat a woman. Keeping with the spirit of #Comicsgate, Liam responded in the comments section by threatening legal action and channel strikes against these negative reviews that are damaging his career as a comic creator.
Of course, within 24 hours of this shaky truce being made, DA Talks released an expose of Mecha McCheese's discord logs of him collaborating with Zombienomicon to oust Preston from his administrator role with the Comicsgate™ wiki, shown here in high anti-CG court.
I guess dean and mecha resumed their beef.
I look forward to $8,000-10,000.
