In my opinion, victory for ComicsGate is simply denying SJW elements of the mainstream, like Joe Glass or Stephanie Cooke or their ilk, the power to gatekeep Comics. We've done that, but there's still a ways to go. ComicsGate's ultimate victory is being able to traverse in and out of the mainstream if we want to, and to be sold at bookstores.
Cooke, Glass, De Campi, and the other talentless "nobodies" do hold a lot of power as influencers. People in comics are terrified of them, terrified of being canceled, excluded or gossiped about. They have ties to ferociously unscrupulous "journalists" in pop culture media, and even in the mainstream media, as we saw with the Miami Herald and the Washington Post. Mainstream comics creators will stay in line, and will continue to virtue signal and gatekeep, hoping they'll be spared this fate.
KickStarter was their begging post. It was their street corner. After all, as terrified as the mainstream seems to be of these SJWs, they aren't getting hired. They have no talent beyond their community organizing skills, and those skills don't lend themselves to getting along with other editors and creative people, or thinking outside of their own neurosis and egos to write or draw Tony Stark properly. They might get a short story or a miniseries at Marvel, DC or Image, but for those reasons, it doesn't last. They need Kickstarter to be their base of operations, from which horrific SJWs can fund unsellable, trashy comics, gain clout and populate the comic book industry with more SJW influencers who "make comics."
So what BOOM Studios and Keanu did, probably unwittingly, was gentrify their ghetto. They build a great big multiplex right in the middle of their community and started selling tickets hand over fist to interested patrons, rather than hipster passersby. Joe Glass, Stephanie Cooke and Zhang are outraged. They think BRZRKR and POWER RANGERS is going to change their neighborhood. So they're doing what unions do, or organized crime, and trying to extract protection money from BOOM Studios. "We'll let you operate as long as you fund our campaigns with a certain percentage of your earnings." Or Zhang's "Management" of Scott Snyder's Kickstarter. The corruption is as blatant as anything I've ever seen in comics.
The thing is, BOOM Studios is conceding to all of this. They're afraid of Camilla Zhang. This is definitely worth talking about.
Our talking heads on YouTube need to be laying this whole agenda out, plainly, every day for new listeners. It's repetitive for those of us who have been here for the past 4 or 5 years, but there's always going to be someone new who starts to recognize that something is wrong, and will go to YouTube looking for answers about why the comic book industry is behaving like this. Not talking about SJWs lets them operate without opposition. So I'm glad Zack and Yellow Flash yap about them every day.
