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I wish Dixon could achieve the status of the platonic journeyman solid writer instead of real life human shitstain. Either that or he should have retired after the 90's ended.
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Numero6 posted:Reminder, he did this comic: what the actual gently caress
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Aug 16, 2018 17:54
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Rhyno posted:The first year of the Ultraverse was almost universally loved. I remember some of them being quite hard to find because a lot of speculators thought they might get hot like certain Image and Valiant comics. Prime was referred to as "Captain Marvel done right" by a few reviewers. I wonder what Mantra would be like today. 'Guy wakes up in woman's body.'
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Aug 16, 2018 19:41
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Dawgstar posted:I wonder what Mantra would be like today. 'Guy wakes up in woman's body.' Ugh. It was pretty bad from what I remember, I doubt the concept would work well today.
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Aug 16, 2018 20:01
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Reading most of the old Ultraverse stuff from the perspective of someone who wasn't around to experience it at the time, it comes off as like...extremely "bog standard sci-fi writer plays with outre concepts in a superhero universe". Like apart from the intensely unsettling pedophile subtext Prime is loaded with, the gender swap stuff in Mantra comes off very much like a retro sci-fi writer trying to write about gender politics from the viewpoint of an extremely straight man. Like Lukasz/Mantra is constantly like, "this female body is so weak! But at least I can use my feminine wiles to charm men!". Also it's pretty pervy and Mantra/Lukasz is constantly winding up in these BDSM-esque scenarios where he's being captured by slavers in not-Gor, or the villain is trying to rape him. To some extent I think that this is trying to do a "how the other half lives" story where a macho guy is forced to contend with sexism, but it's also gigantically fetishy to a level that quickly becomes unignorable. There's a fair amount of dialogue to the effect of, "wow, I have tits, how crazy, I keep thinking about my tits and high heels and bra, and these magical outfits I keep finding myself dressed up in are so revealing! Oops! How embarrassing for me!".
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Aug 16, 2018 20:14
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Well, at least Firearm was good?
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Aug 16, 2018 20:20
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Numero6 posted:Reminder, he did this comic: LOL
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Aug 16, 2018 20:22
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AnonSpore posted:what the actual gently caress Yeah. Miller's been a running gag/edit target in the D&D political cartoons thread for years because of that. That's not even the worst one. Edge & Christian posted:This is hardly Chuck Dixon's really dismaying, "no need to bother searching for dog whistles in an old Punisher or Robin comic to prove he's a chud" comic project. I knew he was all in on the alt-right before now, but the fact that he appears to be involved in all of these projects, regardless of the flimsiness of the stated book, is vaguely unsettling. It's like that D&C guy has his phylactery, so now Dixon has to lend his name to whatever fever dream shows up on a crowdfunding site.
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Aug 16, 2018 20:30
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Numero6 posted:Reminder, he did this comic: I love the speed lines as he whips out the Yugioh cards for his unassailable logic attack. They also forgot the next panel where everyone reminds him that, yes, he is a retard because he's trying to dispute evolution by talking about Yugioh cards.
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Aug 16, 2018 20:32
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joehonkie posted:I love the speed lines as he whips out the Yugioh cards for his unassailable logic attack. They also forgot the next panel where everyone reminds him that, yes, he is a retard because he's trying to dispute evolution by talking about Yugioh cards. This comic reminds me of that Bill Nye Ken Ham debates about creationism where Ken just kept making these ridiculous assumptions and then using those assumptions to come to "logical" conclusions to support his argument. Then the camera goes to Bill Nye and you could see he was just slowly dying inside. Monaghan fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Aug 16, 2018 |
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Aug 16, 2018 20:39
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Rhyno posted:The first year of the Ultraverse was almost universally loved. I remember some of them being quite hard to find because a lot of speculators thought they might get hot like certain Image and Valiant comics. Prime was referred to as "Captain Marvel done right" by a few reviewers. Alan Moore had a strong run on it, right? That probably helped.
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Aug 16, 2018 20:49
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Yeah the only thing surprising about the Dixon thing is that anyone's surprised
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Aug 16, 2018 20:50
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Numero6 posted:Reminder, he did this comic: I... I don't get what point he's trying to spin here. Creationists always manage to look like they ran in and out of a library screaming GODDIDIT so the devil wouldn't make them too smart. Is he arguing that fossils of the same species are mold-perfect copies because Satan has a machine that makes them?
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Aug 16, 2018 20:50
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Here's the follow-up cartoon And the very I'M NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS BUT COME ON, OBAMA'S GONNA GET SHOT IN THE FACE :heh: cartoon  The above came hot on the heels of weeks of OBAMA THE RACIST AMERICA-DAMNING WEATHER UNDERGROUND TERRORIST MARXIST ABORTION LOVING FASCIST TOTALITARIAN ANTI-AMERICAN KENYAN USURPER OVERLORD HERE TO DESTROY ALL THAT IS GOOD AND AMERICAN AND WHITE cartoons, and he was shocked anyone took this an an anti-Obama cartoon and not as his sincere concern that America isn't ready for a President of Color perhaps it's you all who are the racists, something to think about...
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Aug 16, 2018 20:51
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Alan Moore had a strong run on it, right? That probably helped.
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Aug 16, 2018 20:51
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Edge & Christian posted:Here's the follow-up cartoon You see, I am calm and collected while my
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Aug 16, 2018 20:56
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I am the historian that only trusts a single unverified source for everything.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:13
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Madkal posted:am the historian that only trusts a single unverified source for everything. Which means all of those cultures were entirely wiped out and killed by the Biblical Flood. Which means Noah was real, and he made fossils. Wrap it up, historailures.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:22
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Madkal posted:I am the historian that only trusts a single unverified source for everything. It's odd to see cartoons from opposite day.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:28
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Out of context, "there's a good chance that the Great Flood has its roots in a real life ancient, given similar legends from cultures around the globe" is actually pretty solid. But yeah, that logical conclusion wouldn't be "the bible's version of the events are right".
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Aug 16, 2018 22:04
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Android Blues posted:Reading most of the old Ultraverse stuff from the perspective of someone who wasn't around to experience it at the time, it comes off as like...extremely "bog standard sci-fi writer plays with outre concepts in a superhero universe". Like apart from the intensely unsettling pedophile subtext Prime is loaded with, the gender swap stuff in Mantra comes off very much like a retro sci-fi writer trying to write about gender politics from the viewpoint of an extremely straight man. Like Lukasz/Mantra is constantly like, "this female body is so weak! But at least I can use my feminine wiles to charm men!". Yeah, I had a go at looking up some old panels. One of the first things Lukasz does is spitefully wish Warstrike had a woman's body that was weak and soft. And then he starts to get off a little on just how soft. It's kind of like one of those terrible gender-bending webcomics. Huh. Written by Mike Barr. Can't win 'em all, I guess.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:11
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davidspackage posted:I... I don't get what point he's trying to spin here. Creationists always manage to look like they ran in and out of a library screaming GODDIDIT so the devil wouldn't make them too smart.
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davidspackage posted:I... I don't get what point he's trying to spin here. Creationists always manage to look like they ran in and out of a library screaming GODDIDIT so the devil wouldn't make them too smart. So he's referring to an actual thing. The fossil record tends to cluster around discrete species rather than providing a smooth gradation between transitional forms. In is example. You are much more likely to find another copy of the Allosaurus Yu-gi-oh card than one of it's descendants like a Fukuiraptor. And we haven't found on of the transitions between the two at all. Now obviously this isn't because evolution is a lie, and the Flood killed all the dinosaurs. It's because A) the process of fossilization is not random you need to die and get buried in mud such that your bones get replaced by minerals in the water over a long period of time) and B) evolution is not a smooth process, but proceeds in fits and starts due to changing environmental conditions/competition from other new species.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:44
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I realized last night that that isn't even how TCGs work and that made me angrier than the casual use of retard
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Aug 16, 2018 22:55
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That comic is terrible but who the gently caress cares what Mike Miller thinks. Guy has 1800 twitter followers and I'm betting his comics get more play when people make fun of them than when people buy into them. Even the Nazis don't care what Mike Miller thinks.
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Aug 16, 2018 23:15
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Has DC finally booted Mike Miller? I noticed I haven't had the displeasure of seeing his name on Injustice in a few months.
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Aug 16, 2018 23:27
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X-O posted:Has DC finally booted Mike Miller? I noticed I haven't had the displeasure of seeing his name on Injustice in a few months. I don't know if he's been blacklisted, but April was his last time on Injustice 2 as far as I can tell.
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Aug 17, 2018 01:29
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Jordan7hm posted:That comic is terrible but who the gently caress cares what Mike Miller thinks. Guy has 1800 twitter followers and I'm betting his comics get more play when people make fun of them than when people buy into them. Even the Nazis don't care what Mike Miller thinks. He's funny as poo poo
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Aug 17, 2018 02:30
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Calling this a non sequitur would be an insult to non sequiturs.
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Aug 17, 2018 03:51
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Dawgstar posted:I don't know if he's been blacklisted, but April was his last time on Injustice 2 as far as I can tell. What did he do for Injustice 2?
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Aug 17, 2018 07:34
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Patrick Spens posted:What did he do for Injustice 2? Penciled some issues.
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Aug 17, 2018 12:45
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Dawgstar posted:Penciled some issues. With those "mad" art skills and "superior logic", I'm shocked he didn't do the whole book. (Sarcasm)
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Aug 17, 2018 13:48
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Adrienne Resha has written about the J. Scott Campbell Experience: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2018/08/about-those-j-scott-campbell-x-men-black-covers-social-media-discourse-in-the-blue-age-of-comics/
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Aug 17, 2018 15:23
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Is she getting upset with sexy/unrealistic women on magazine covers designed to sell to women?
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Aug 17, 2018 16:22
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That’s absolutely not what the piece was written about.
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Aug 17, 2018 17:01
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I wonder what J. Scott Campbell has taken from all this. https://twitter.com/JScottCampbell/status/1029499096623710210 Aha. I see. Hmm. Well. What a poo poo head.
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Aug 17, 2018 19:37
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The only silver lining to that is his response in the comments where people are like "awesome now vote Trump and join Comicsgate!" and as badly as he's handled the rest, Campbell at least goes "nah" to that.
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Aug 17, 2018 20:12
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Edge & Christian posted:The only silver lining to that is his response in the comments where people are like "awesome now vote Trump and join Comicsgate!" and as badly as he's handled the rest, Campbell at least goes "nah" to that. A sliver of hope for the future, at least.
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Edge & Christian posted:The only silver lining to that is his response in the comments where people are like "awesome now vote Trump and join Comicsgate!" and as badly as he's handled the rest, Campbell at least goes "nah" to that. People can be gently caress ups on things without being totally irredeemable. True story.
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:Out of context, "there's a good chance that the Great Flood has its roots in a real life ancient, given similar legends from cultures around the globe" is actually pretty solid. But yeah, that logical conclusion wouldn't be "the bible's version of the events are right". If they did not start with that... bold assumption, there would be hellfire involved, and no one wants that.
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