#comicsgate

[gamer2002]

Mark Waid has repeatedly abused his position within the industry to hurt businesses of indie comics authors he didn't agree with. Examples are Alison Tieman and Richard Meyer.

He can kindly leave.

[agramuglia]

excuse me? can i ask what comicsgate is? did weirdos on the internet just decide to hate women they dislike again? (i swear i have no idea whats going on with hate campaigns and i get, so confused, whys everything a gate??)

Absolutely. Comicsgate started as a "consumer revolt" led by Richard C Meyer against mainstream publishing for diversity. Specifically, they targeted female artists and writers for making diverse books. This was coopted by Ethan van Sciver and later Eric July to create fundraised comics. They took millions from fans on the back of their grift.

They also targeted and harassed dozens of women in the industry, as well as cosplayers, fan artists, and even yours truly. They ultimately destroyed themselves over their in-fighting. Remnants of ComicsGate became big players in the modern grifter landscape. Some, like Jon Del Arroz, still have ties to the grifter world.

The biggest name ever attached to it was the creator of Earthworm Jim.

[whereserpentswalk]

"They couldn't make blazing saddles today." My brother in Christ you'd be the one calling it woke blm propaganda.

[nerdby]

I really don't get sometimes how fans of the Joker miss the fact that whether they like it or not Harley Quinn saved his ass. Cause there's a chance DC would have had to shelve the Joker as a villain in order to avoid alienating their queer and leftist readers if she hadn't been created to distract from the fact that he was a very obviously queer-coded villain with absolutely NO redeeming features in what was not only the AIDS pandemic but also the worst decades for queer hate crimes since the Holocaust. Like he was a rapist (The Killing Joke) who killed children (A Death In The Family) for fuck's sake. And meanwhile Captain America was off saving his best bud's boyfriend👌🏻

And if you have an issue with the Joker being bisexual because of Harley's introduction to the Batfam -- guess what, peeps? He already was established as being bisexual in the 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke where it was revealed that before becoming the Joker he had been married to a woman and he then proceeded to rape Barbara Gordon.

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

Why did Dobson have a stick up his ass about GG and CG? He clearly doesn't read comic books, although he wanted his readers to think he did, and didn't care about gaming journalism.

Because he thought it made him a good male feminist and he’d be praised by people like Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and the like.

And if you think I’m exaggerating, I want you to take a close look at this map he put out for his reboot of Alex zero Pirate(that never actually happened.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Hey I’m a 23 year old superhero fan, is it wrong to say I found a lot of modern legacy characters from the 2010’s such as Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, Riri Williams as….boring?

Maybe i chemically mess up, but a lot of these legacy characters feel…safe I want to say? They never cause huge issues or conflicts themselves. Feel like 98% of the hero community easily accepts them and kisses their asses.

I’m been thinking making a Indian teen boy legacy character that becomes the Henry Ford to Tony Stark’s Thomas Edison.

Is something wrong with me? Idk, I just want something else besides the McDonald’s dc and marvel gives me.

Nah, there's nothing wrong with you. Comics just suck shit these days. Writing is all about presenting the right "representation", so minority characters are supposed to be liked by everyone because not liking them means you're racist, blah blah blah.

Remember that god awful Lady Thor comic where the bad guys were all spouting reddit-tier misogyny that sounded like it was ripped directly from a "and the whole bus clapped" tumblr post from 2013?

Comic book writing has gotten even worse since then.

If you want a recommendation for good comics, I'd suggest giving Eric July's The Rippaverse a try. It's a new comic universe built from the ground up to be like comics of old, where story and characters take center stage and politics and agenda pushing is left out completely.

There are already two comics out Isom #1 and Isom #2, written by Eric July, the latter of which is just wrapping up its pre-order campaign. They have three other books in the works too. Alphacore, written by Chuck Dixon who used to write The Punisher for Marvel and created the Batman villain Bane, and Yaira, written by The Soska Sisters, who make low budget horror movies and wrote a Black Widow series where Black Widow destroyed a child trafficking ring. Those will be released by the end of this year if all goes well. There's also an unannounced book also being written by Chuck Dixon that's probably going to be released next year, along with Isom #3.

Rippaverse - Rippaverse

A comic book company... for comic book readers. The American comic book industry has its issues, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a ma

You could also search the #IronAge tag on twitter. That has a lot of independent comics and other writing projects from people who don't like the modern woke comic industry and want to try and present something better than the current Marvel/DC/Image offerings.

[nyxqueen97]

c0micsgate also produces such shitty comics. why would they feel entitled to be acknowledged when that whole movement is run by p3dos,predators and unorganized toxic scamming ppl that don’t even like comics dfgdfgdgfdgd

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