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site posted:Okay I guess I'm a terrible person but apparently Ron marz punched rich Johnston and all I can think is that's hilarious I find it hard to consider Rich Johnston as "comics media." He's the dollar store Perez Hilton of American comics. If it's the start of a disturbing trend, yeah, that's not great, but: Skwirl posted:It's not something I'd endorse, but I absolutely can't find it in me to give a drat.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 00:52 |
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Wanderer posted:I find it hard to consider Rich Johnston as "comics media." He's the dollar store Perez Hilton of American comics. Sadly he seems to be the biggest voice in comics journalism, air quotes around that last word as hard as you like.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 01:33 |
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This does remind me - with Comics Alliance (RIP) dead, and CBR and Newsarama basically being press release repositories with clickbait (don’t get me started on ComicBook.com), what’s the “good” comics journalism site?
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:35 |
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What is "good" here. Do you want CBR.com for the latest headlines. Or something like https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:40 |
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Johnston is mostly a gossip/rumormonger but when he is pushed into it has done more things resembling "investigative journalism" than pretty much any other site/person of his profile in the comics industry. He's also the most prominent comic voice that actually cares about superhero/superhero-ish comics and isn't entirely beholden to Access Journalism or whatever you want to call it. There are a hundred minor clownshow things he does -- I pointed one of them out yesterday in the DC thread -- but I'm not really psyched to see dudes high-fiving about punching him a decade ago. As for why they're high-fiving and laughing about it now, it might be because it came up during the Frank Tieri thing (because FBB4L never forgets) in which Frank kramered in to defend Dan Panosian's honor, like triples down on the hostility of an already weirdly hostile discussion of cover art with some comics critics/journalists, dredges up a decade-old beef with Marc-Oliver Frisch (another critic/journalist) and essentially threatens to kick his rear end at a comicon. Some people point out this is dumb, so he offers to kick their rear end too. Then a ton of comics pros feel the need to point out that their boy Frankie is a fuckin' angel, would never do anything bad, anyone he punches would totally deserve it, how dare you insult our little angel. Including Sean Murphy. Who a week later is all het up at Rich Johnston for reporting that DC has canceled a reprinting of Murphy's Batman: White Knight. Which they did. BUT THEY'LL BE DOING A NEW EDITION OF IT EVENTUALLY. Which the article also says. This is why Sean Murphy is relishing the idea of punching a man in the face. This sort of gross insult. https://twitter.com/Sean_G_Murphy/status/1106537040647200768
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:42 |
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Here's my thing Remember the time rich wrote a whole article defending a Nazi
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:44 |
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site posted:What is "good" here. Do you want CBR.com for the latest headlines. Or something like https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com Hoping for something which fills the void of Comics Alliance - news and thoughtful coverage/reviews. Thanks for the link to Women Write About Comics, I’ll be adding them to my RSS reader.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:50 |
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site posted:Here's my thing quote:Blind to problems that were not his own, possibly. Often not seeing the bigger picture, yes. Needlessly cruel and prone to taking a response too far, definitely. A bully? Sometimes. But white nationalist, Nazi, or someone who actually believes in fascist imagery? Less likely. Which yes, was a bad article. Though I also got my workplace doxxed for implying Ethan Van Sciver is a Nazi (as opposed to just a fascist rear end in a top hat, you can apparently get away with that). I do feel some kind of way about people (Marz/Murphy specifically, again not you) high fiving over a decade old revenge-punch (in vengeance for suggesting there was a speculator market for con sketches) less than a week after both of them argued it was cool and good for their friend to find my friends and kick the poo poo out of them at conventions for saying he's a bad writer and a bully. Though by transitive property if EVS is a Nazi and Rich is a Nazi for defending him and David Brothers is a Nazi for defending Rich and I'm a Nazi for not wanting David to get threatened online, I guess I had better watch my back again at comics. I thought I was safe after Rhyno turned down the hit.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 02:50 |
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Edge & Christian posted:I was going to say that was actually the head of Avatar that wrote the glowing Vox Day interview/profile, but I'm guessing you mean the older one saying that Ethan Van Sciver is not a Nazi. I was referring to Ethan is not a Nazi I have no idea who David brothers is site fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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fritz posted:Yeah after doing some investigation he ("dalabast") wasn't a mod, just a well-defended friend of some (https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3145535&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3145609) which in the context of 'one doesn't want personal information available to mods / admins' is still pretty close to an example. I dont have archives, can you share the relevant part here?
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 03:15 |
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Rhyno posted:I dont have archives, can you share the relevant part here? sigtrap probated (and i think maybe banned?) people who brought up and called out that a guy who had a thread about buying and rebuilding an old mustang also posted on a white supremacist website instead of just banning the white supremacist, its hard to tell because the original AI thread was moved to the mod forum and all thats left is that helldump thread. sigtrap's excuse in the helldump thread was "people should have posted about him being a white supremacist in helldump instead of in AI"
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 04:22 |
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I was active in the thread and didn't really remember him being protected by mods. I think he just wanted to cool project thread to reach the end and tried to use the "technically he didn't break SA rules" as an excuse. A few people got really mad about the thread being removed until the racism part was revealed.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 04:46 |
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Quote is not edit Cant believe cap shaved his beard in endgame
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 05:13 |
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site posted:I was referring to Ethan is not a Nazi David Brothers was hermanos, the mod of BSS before Waterhaul who was before X-O. He did some comics news blogging and still talks about comics on Twitter but I don't think he's formally involved in any news sites or publishing projects right now.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 06:06 |
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I thought he worked at Viz?
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 06:11 |
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He’s working at VIZ currently as an editor, I believe.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 06:13 |
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He was working at Image for several years and is currently an editor at Viz, yes.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 06:18 |
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Now would be a perfect time for publishers to stop working with Ron Marz and for cons to ban him from their shows, unless they endorse creators physically assaulting members of the press. I have never really understood the hate against Rich, most of the time he reports rumors or nasty things the industry prefers swept under the rug, which is pretty standard in any industry but for some reason comics seems unable to accept the free press. He definitely has his faults but nothing worth physically assaulting him for.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 07:27 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:He’s working at VIZ currently as an editor, I believe. You have no idea how weird it is to hear people talking about VIZ as a serious publisher. In the UK Viz is an obscene parody comic that at its peak in the late 1980s was selling a million copies an issue.
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Jedit posted:You have no idea how weird it is to hear people talking about VIZ as a serious publisher. In the UK Viz is an obscene parody comic that at its peak in the late 1980s was selling a million copies an issue. If it makes you feel any better, this is how I feel every time I hear the name "Manga Entertainment", who are still a company on your side of the pond and have been a husk here for years that Starz? I think? keeps squatting the trademark on and threatening to use for literally anything.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 11:58 |
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Jedit posted:You have no idea how weird it is to hear people talking about VIZ as a serious publisher. In the UK Viz is an obscene parody comic that at its peak in the late 1980s was selling a million copies an issue. The Drunken Bakers alone elevates Viz UK above 90% of what Viz US craps out.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 17:09 |
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site posted:I was referring to Ethan is not a Nazi This post made me feel incredibly old.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:07 |
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ryonguy posted:The Drunken Bakers alone elevates Viz UK above 90% of what Viz US craps out. Wrong
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:13 |
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David Brothers is also a really really sharp essayist. If you ever want to pleasantly wile away some hours reading a smart person write passionately about comics, look up his backlog of stuff on 4thletter.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:15 |
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I guess not terribly surprising but i know with the chud base there is some overlap between sa and kf so be on the lookout https://twitter.com/SjwSpiderman/status/1107324811590668289
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:20 |
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I saw that and it incensed me but I wasn't sure where to talk about it here. If New Zealand can do something to take them down, then go with God.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:22 |
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Remember when he took the site down because he got doxxed
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:24 |
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because i hate myself i just spent the last 20 or so minutes seeing if this thread was mentioned in either the cgate or sa kf threads and we havent been in the 5 most recent pages of each i checked, so that good but i tell you what, it's a trip reading a thread full of cgators who actually think people like evs are totally owning the sjws
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 18:49 |
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site posted:because i hate myself i just spent the last 20 or so minutes seeing if this thread was mentioned in either the cgate or sa kf threads and we havent been in the 5 most recent pages of each i checked, so that good How often does Renfamous or SJW Spidey get mentioned, he asked out of morbid curiosity?
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 19:05 |
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in th pages i read there was about a page of people talking about the claire napier thing and then 4 pages of them talking about how cool evs is
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 19:11 |
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Dont spend too much time on that, you might hurt yourself.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 19:19 |
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oh yeah, im not going any farther than i did when i made that post it did remind me that i needed to run block chain on evs again tho
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 19:33 |
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The only reason I keep twitteris so I can open the links posted on SA without issue so I don't have to worry about interacting with CHUDs really.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 20:36 |
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I see a lot less chuds nowadays, i only had to block 30k accounts first
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 20:44 |
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"Only." I'm trying to cut out of Facebook now as well but it's proving to be difficult.
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# ? Mar 17, 2019 20:57 |
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hey, someone mentioned comics """journalism""" and this is what I get when I google Brie Larson super glad that google is feeding me poo poo clickbait upfront as a "top story" this is more me venting about it than contributing anything meaningful to the discussion, but god drat seriously I would sure like to look at anything comics or comic movies related without having to wade through poo poo like this SJW poster LUNATIC SLEDGE gets blood pressure DESTROYED by GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
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# ? Mar 18, 2019 06:47 |
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Star Wars Girl destroys Brie Larsen by yelling at her in a video Larsen does not know exists and if she did she would ignore
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# ? Mar 18, 2019 09:38 |
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Lunatic Sledge posted:hey, someone mentioned comics """journalism""" and this is what I get when I google Brie Larson Wonder if it's regional? Mine looks like
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# ? Mar 18, 2019 13:14 |
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It's nice Cosmic Book Reviews is throwing off the shackles of just being an awful comic news site and is taking its seat at the table with Bounding into Comics and Bleeding Fool.
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# ? Mar 18, 2019 13:17 |
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Yeah I don't get any results like that either. Maybe it's something in your past searches? If you're likely to look for that kind of garbage (such as to showcase in this thread, not to actually want to read it) then maybe that's why you're seeing it?
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