#fuck comicsgate

[hellyeahheroes]

War on Comcisgate...or rather Richard Meyer and the Very Bad Horrible No Good Day

First of all thanks to @majingojira for making screencaps of this, since I could not get the whole thing due to being blocked by the main clown of this spectacle.

So for quite few days idiots of comicsgate are screaming how Eve Ewing has been hired to write new Ironheart series despite having no prior comics experience and more and more industry professionals bring up that they have gotten jobs at Marvel or DC despite having no prior experience writing comics. Neil Gaiman was the last one to chime in and say that when DC hired him to write Black Orchid he had no comics experience and was hired for his work as a journalist.

And then Richard C. Meyer a.k.a. Diversity & Comics decided to go “well actually” on Neil Gaiman and butted in saying Gaiman had published works before Black Orchid. I kid you not, he tried to explain to Neil Gaiman his own career. And Gaiman rather patiently pointed out that yes, he had other comics published before Black Orchid but he was hired by DC before any of them seen the light of day because making a 144-pages fully painted graphic novel takes fucking time. So yeah, Meyer apaprently thought that the time when he was humilated by Jim Jefferies wasn’t showing that he has replaced his brain with his own cock enough and needs to top it by making an even bigger fool of himself.

As someone on twitter put it, basically the real-life equivalent of this has happenned

But that is not all my dear friends. Because, in what might be the greatest display of irony, certain person entered the picture. For some time there were rumors that ComcisGate and Ethan Van Sciver in particular are getting close with Vox Day. You might have heard of Vox Day as an anthor of Arts of Dark and Light novels (which are so awfull there is an entire thread on Sufficient Velocity going through everything wrong with them) or that time he launched Sad/Rabbid Puppies movement to rig the Hugo Awards to not award works he deemed as too political or made by women or minorities (and failed as whenever he managed to domiante any nomination with his picks people would just vote for No Award) or as creator of shady foundraiser for an alt-right comicsbook Alt-Hero. He is so bad that when antifa put him on a list of Alt-Lite, people maisntreaming nazi views in media, they made a note “we’re not sure if we should just call him an outright alt-right at this point”. Meaning they found him more radical than fucks like Milo Yiannopoulous or Sargon of Akkad. To prove connection between Day and Meyer or Van Sciver would be pretty damning for their claims Comicsgate is not a hate group.

So how does Day enter the picture? He just launched a comics publishing company, which he named Comcisgate Comics. And he promptly trademarked (or copyrighted I’m not sure) the Comicsgate name.That’s right, a bigger, nastier bigot just fucking robbed these morons. I don’t know if Meyer or EVS invited him into them house and he promply robbed them them or if he just saw how they’re making fools of each other and decided they’re worthless allies but can be used for his next get-rich-quick scheme. I don’t know which I’d find funnier. 

Comicsgate wanted their world work like fiction they consume so much that their wish come true and they got hit with a fictional trope. This is a real-life equivalent of being Hijacked by Ganon.  I think there is one word to describe my feelings about it: schadenfreude.

So here we have the big bad boogey man, the supposed rising power that will change comics forever - face of the movement humilated by one of the most respected creators in the industry and their very name stolen by a white supremacist. As certain clown put it:

- Admin

[hellyeahheroes]

Found a great video by the Council of Geeks about fandom toxicity, making two especially good points that a) a lot of people making noise in regards to things like Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, She-Ra reboot or Marvel Legacy Characters seem to be people who just are toxic and against anything they see as left-leaning injecting themselves into fandoms they were not into before they had an excuse to attack them and b) that a lot of the toxic people in those groups seem to come not from a mindset “I hate I don’t have thing I liked anymore” as they claim, but more of a mindset “HOW DARE these other people have nice things?! I HATE THEM!”.

I wonder where ComicsGate’s shittiest asshole falls between the two...

Anyway, an insightful video, I recommend watching.

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[hellyeahheroes]

Garth Ennis, Steve Epting Team Up for WWII Russia Comic

Garth Ennis and Steve Epting are teaming up for Sara, a World War II graphic novel set in the Soviet Union.

Not related to teen superheroes but I want to say something.

Currently, there is a bunch of raging misogynists, mostly connected to a movement called GamerGate, losing their shit all over the internet about women fighting in Battlefield V, a game set during WWII.

There is also a bunch of raging misogynists called ComicsGate whining about how [old man voice] “back in the days” comics were “manly” and “badass” and about “real men” like Frank Castle, Jesse Custer, Tommy Monahan or Billy Butcher (nevermind his book was all about why he is a horrible monster...) - they use Garth Ennis characters and books as their standard of good a lot, which mostly serves as best argument against Ennis I’ve ever seen.

ComicsGate and GamerGate are basically two heads of the same monster.

Garth Ennis is now doing a WWII comics about a woman fighting on a front.

So how long before these idiots declare him a “traitor” who “joined sjws”?

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[hellyeahheroes]

I got account suspended on twitter. The reason? One Comicsgate guy was hating on Erica Henderson’s art in Squirrel Girl saying main character doesn’t look “like a real woman”. Me, giving CG no ground ever, just flat out told him he probably never seen a woman in his life. He said something along the lines “most women don’t look like butch dykes”, to which I respond with “ woman has short hair = BUTCH DYKE PROPAGANDA!” and called him a cretin. It was meant to mock his misogynistic and homophobic opinions but apparently twitter staff or bots confused it with me agreeing with them. Granted, this tweet could look homophobic out of context, I should have worded it in a way that makes it clear which side I am on, but these people HAVE the context, so this is really baffling.

I filled an appeal, let’s see if I get my account back.

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[hellyeahheroes]

In 2 hours on here will be a Kevin Logan live stream with Renfamous, an outspoken critic of ComicsGate who exposed multiple cases of their vile behavior and pushed back against them constantly. As you can see in the comments, CG trolls are already spewing vitriol because they magically know what is gonna be said, I guess. Meanwhile Ethan Van Sciver is losing his shit people will discuss him and he cannot butt in and try to spew his lies (this is despite him once hosting a stream where he and his goons openly fantasized about raping Renfamous so pot and kettle, Ethan). I think it might be interesting to watch.

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[hellyeahheroes]

Finally have done my video on the Top 10 Worst Comics of 2018.

Now I have to make like 4 videos about the good ones.

I’m trying to use my own voice speed up, this video I come off as rambly or outright incomprehensive at times because I was going off the script a lot in anger. I hope to do it better in the positive videos. If you have any advice or criticism of new format, please share.

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[hellyeahheroes]

War on Comicsgate: You Know They’re Getting Desperate When...

Just a heads-up, friends. On Twitter members of ComicsGate are now running around throwing all manner of possible FALSE accusations against their most prominent critics Including spreading false accusations of doxxing. If you see a member of this group making such claims, do not trust them and demand evidence for everything. Also, check with the person they are accusing.

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[hellyeahheroes]

But the alleged shooter’s history of racial hostility goes back further than these past few weeks. Bush, who self-identified as a comic book fan and posted frequently about comics and superheroes on social media, complained about “SJW reasoning” in casting POC actors in the role of traditionally white superheroes multiple times over the past 3 years.

Sorry for a) using Bleeding Cool link and b) bringing up as horrible subject as shooting in which two people were killed (and in case when you’re wondering which shooting was it, fucked up perspective as it is that I have to clarify that - it’s the one where shooter let a white guy go saying “whites don’t kill whites”).

Well, turns out this murderer has been a comics fan who has been pretty much echoing views of Richard Meyer and ComicsGate to a T, frequently tweeting about how he hates the idea of Asian Iron Fist or black Johnny Storm in respective show and movie, his response to the #GiveCapABoyfriend was to make a #StopFuckingWithOurComics hashtag that thankfully didn’t take, he once compared Pride Movement to Neo-Nazis and generally did all that horrible stuff that is now being said by Dickie and his cronies. 

As others have pointed out - this is what happens if you let these people be unchallenged. This is what happens if you let them “just troll” or “just complain” they build this new narrative of hate in their heads and then go and kill people because apparently they’re mad about fucking comic books and for them that’s enough of a reason.

- Admin