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One of the things that you saw in the last thread was Death Ray’s argument that by failing to engage people in conversation you lose out the chance to influence them. I think we can all agree that for Death Ray and guys like that this is a bad faith argument. Engaging them gives them credibility because they are actually in the conversation. They aren’t worth engaging. That said, and this is probably bigger than comics, I really want to figure out how to engage people in real life on stuff like this. The number of intelligent and genuinely good people I know who fall for poo poo like Jordan Peterson is really disheartening. I think these people do need to be engaged, if only to point them in the direction of good arguments to the contrary.
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Who gives a gently caress about no-talent hacks like that. Time spend dissecting their work is time that could be spent on literally anything else. The Brandon graham stuff is disappointing but moreso because this isn’t new.
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Kai Tave posted:Four days from account creation to being kicked out of an entire subforum probably isn't a new SA record but it's certainly something. yeah it's definitely something that someone created a smurf account to troll / harass people in this thread
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EVS is more of a Moe than a KirLee.
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Vince MechMahon posted:That's only with bullshit Hollywood math where it counts all previous attempts to make a third Ghostbusters film in it. The Hollywood Reporter article that claims that also has a Sony rep disagreeing with the numbers. Sooooo
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Looks like standard local indie comics.
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Puppy Time posted:EVS says comics are dying but they're not. I’m not sure this is true at all. This forum is pretty big on indie and smaller books, but go look in the shipping thread for a representative sample of what people buy even from here. The lauded resurgence of DC came when they dumped all the weirdness of the new 52 and focused on the core big heroes. Even here, we care about Batman and Superman and Spider-Man and the X-Men, and there’s only a handful of people who go really deep on indie books. My shop doesn’t stock indie books most of the time, because they don’t sell in high enough numbers to justify the investment. The comic buying public is still buying big 2 and cape books.
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Puppy Time posted:Most of it isn't via traditional distribution. Mainly because people know that comic shops are a dicey proposition if you're not an adult white straight dude. I’m curious what numbers you have to support this.
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Social media platforms are bad but the connections they enable are real and good.
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I found it in a dollar bin today. Did not buy.
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I love digging through the cheap bins and finding still sealed copies of gimmick books. So many untouched playing cards and such.
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Ignoring the way he handled his Kickstarter, I would. I bought Major X because of the promise of Liefeld art. I love that stuff.
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This is awful. Interesting to read the replies from various pros.
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Rhyno posted:Back in my day comics were mostly printed in the great nation of CANADA. Back in the very recent day we had a legit pulp and paper industry 
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Dawgstar posted:What happened, out of curiosity? The prematurely announced death of the newspaper and other paper media, the rise of the Canadian dollar through the first decade of the 2000s, the softwood lumber duties... there were a bunch of bankruptcies and closings at the end of the last decade.
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Dawgstar posted:He's already got a book coming out in - ha ha, almost got me - anyway, it's called Major X and is supposed to be Out Soon. That said one of the selling points of Rob was that he was by all accounts a very nice guy to deal with, and a friend of mine co-wrote the Deadpool Bad Blood TPB so I've got a first hand account. Major x is already out as a comic... Disappointing to see the racist tweet.
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So like is that an actual tweet or an edit? Because I feel like it maybe would have come up at some point before now.Prokhor Zakharov posted:https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/16/rob-liefeld-america-dont-freaking-nazi/ quote:“Don’t be a freaking nazi, white supremacist or bigot of any sort! It’s un-American and in fact it’s inhumane! Be good to each other and LOVE more! Embrace it as its far easier to love than hate. My wife’s grandma always said that ‘hate consumes and contaminates the vessel in which it is stored.’ I believe this to be true above all else.” Yes, this also made me think he's probably a nazi.
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SoftNum posted:What is That’s the best part. Because they do.
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TLDR is that liefeld had a partner and the partner sold to this guy.
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https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/1203078403353694208?s=20 Yooooo gently caress Jonathan Luna. Bad enough to do this kind of poo poo to a business partner, but to your younger brother? Scum.
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Skwirl posted:It honestly didn't start as a metaphor for racism, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby just got a little tired of origin stories. Most of the progressivism of it really didn't start until Claremont. Not a lot of non white anybody in those early days. If you wanted a black hero who showed up regularly, I hope you like the Falcon. Or Luke Cage. Both of whom live in Harlem.
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His nostalgia is for a certain era, and like many people he can’t see past his own likes.
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Skwirl posted:How many years went by between Sony getting the rights to Spider-Man and Sony actually making a Spider-Man movie? And that's loving Spider-Man. There's probably 100 things that get movie rights sold and never get a movie made for every one that does. Preacher was in development hell for like 15 years.
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I mean sgm obviously has a political bent (just read the work) but that’s a pretty mild take. Real passive aggressive though.
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That’s a good store. Also the 90s were good actually, but not for the reason comicgate weirdos think.
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E the Shaggy posted:https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1251504031241056258?s=20 Random twitter guy but lol what https://twitter.com/LarrysComics/status/1251504918629888001?s=20
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JordanKai posted:I think he's right in the sense that the sales of trades and manga in bookstores don't speak to the health of specialist comic book stores and single issue sales (I think that's the point he's trying to make??) That's a problem with what specialist comic book stores are selling. Why in gods name would you not sell trades and manga if you're a comic book store. It's dumb as hell that I have access to a broader range of comics in a chain bookstore than in my local specialty shop. "Comics are american-made superhero books" is the problem and why I won't mourn most of the shops that are forced to close (though I'll mourn my own shop, which is just as bad, but I like because the owner is a nice guy).
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Those late 60s comics are filled with "communist leaders are bad, but the people are good" stories. The best (worst) is when Thor randomly interrupts cool god poo poo to go deal with Vietnamese soldiers.
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I laughed. I think I like that more than most of Jeet’s comics criticism.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Did a Facebook live Q&A for a Canadian comic shops telethon thing, and of course: 
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How Wonderful! posted:I think John Romita Sr.'s Peter Parker is definitely handsome and hunky in a way that Ditko's isn't. Yeah was gonna say. JRSR drew hunky dudes.
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twistedmentat posted:Jesus loving christ. Time to get rid of my Batgirl of Burnside trades. While this is definitely legit, and I'd never question someone for removing poo poo from their lives, Kate herself has talked about how the other creators are great. That's a real challenge in this medium when so much of what gets produced is collaborative. That's why it's so important for people in positions of authority to actually do something when people act like this.
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Dawgstar posted:https://twitter.com/DonCardenasArt/status/1272996794839052288 Groth surprises me not one bit. Farinas and Pope are the two names that popped out to me but honestly nothing really surprises me.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Aside from some pretty retrograde views of masculinity and general reliance on shock value (especially the recurring theme of rape as hilarious comedy), what else has Ennis done to become persona non grata? Honestly that's enough. I still love Preacher and like Hitman (love, minus the wankjob that are the SAS issues) but man a lot of his stuff is just awful. Including in both of those books.
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I don’t think we can know what restorative justice looks like from afar, because as How Wonderful says, we’re outsiders to all of this. Our interaction is as spectators and consumers. We each have to make our peace with what we’re willing to consume. I’m still going to buy Fantagraphics books despite thinking Groth likely is a piece of poo poo because on balance I think the work they produce and the creators they work with are worth supporting. I’m probably not going to sell my transmet books. I’m not going to buy new Warren Ellis work, or Cameron Stewart work, just like I won’t support new Brandon Graham or Roc Upchurch work. I hope Ellis can do things to be better in the future, but I don’t know that I would be willing to change my stance on supporting his work.
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Also lol if you think taking away your 16 year old’s phone is going to be the thing that prevents them from loving, if they want to gently caress. Teaching your kids about consent and to recognize gaslighting, and that you really can be trusted to support them when bad stuff is happening, is way more important than controlling their access to the internet (which is impossible anyway).
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Clipperton posted:Follow literally any YA author on Twitter and you will see this is the case Except for rick riordan, who seems very good.
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