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The group of people who were "targeted and manipulated by Warren Ellis" just posted an update that they are moving on from trying to work with him. https://www.somanyofus.com/updates#january-19-2023
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Well that sucks, I had kinda hoped there'd be a day I could buy a Warren Ellis comic in good conscience sometime in the future.
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Jan 21, 2023 09:27
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It’s worth noting something in Bleeding Cool’s coverage of the story: “Bleeding Cool understands that Warren Ellis believed he had been in constant contact with the facilitator, or mediator, throughout and believed that progress towards eventual conversations was being slowly made, so the update came as a surprise and disappointment to him.” I’m not saying it changes anything, but I found it worth mentioning. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/so-many-of-us-website-updates-for-2023-regarding-warren-ellis/
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Jan 21, 2023 09:46
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quote:With the guidance of our facilitator, we asked Ellis to take the steps necessary for community accountability work to begin. During the process, as far as was communicated with us, Warren Ellis did not take these steps. Despite numerous discussions and hours of writing, working with Ellis remained contentious; he and our group were unable to achieve community together. Our facilitator concluded that a community accountability process with Warren Ellis is impossible under current conditions, and we agreed. In October of 2022, in a conversation with Ellis which was conveyed to us with Ellis's consent and approval, our facilitator discussed this conclusion and our group’s intention to move on from working with him. Yet somehow Ellis doesn’t know and this update is a surprise despite it being something he knew about since last October. Disappointing and unsurprising, because my read is he doesn’t feel he’s done anything wrong in the long run.
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Jan 21, 2023 12:09
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Yet somehow Ellis doesn’t know and this update is a surprise despite it being something he knew about since last October. Disappointing and unsurprising, because my read is he doesn’t feel he’s done anything wrong in the long run. This is the guy who sprayed out a bunch of abuse and gossip about Heath Ledger after Ledger's death and when corrected by his fans, told them they were too stupid to understand that he hadn't really been serious. He absolutely doesn't think he's done anything wrong, ever. The only disappointment I have regarding Ellis is that anyone is still willing to give him money. I know I haven't since that incident. I mean, he told me I'm too stupid to understand his work, so why should I waste time and cash on something I can't understand?
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Jan 23, 2023 12:56
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I got strung along for a long time between ignorance (the Ledger remarks for example) and being a huge fan of his original work. Hell, I used to own the physical copies of his circa 2001 blog posts. I got rid of everything except Absolute Planetary because that book meant a lot at a certain time in my life, but it’s time to let go. Good thing I’m too stupid to understand character A looking at a kaiju flying overhead and asking “I thought you said they all died out” and character B responding “I did. Isn’t that great?” Fly on, Ellis, there will always be non-destructive creators on the ground learning to swim and leaving you less places to land.
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Jan 23, 2023 13:44
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Planetary still remains good, but Transmet aged like milk.
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Jan 23, 2023 13:47
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Jedit posted:The only disappointment I have regarding Ellis is that anyone is still willing to give him money. I haven't bought anything of his, though I kept up with his newsletter (only reading maybe 20% of them) until this weekend. I haven't gotten rid of the books, yet. They meant a lot to me, but I haven't had a reason to reread them. Though I still own (and have no plan on getting rid of) Cerebus, so don't look at me as an example of what to do with stuff put out by problematic people.
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Jan 23, 2023 14:16
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Planetary still remains good, but Transmet aged like milk. Yeah, Ellis' self-insert lecturing people on morals doesn't quite hold much appeal now.
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Jan 23, 2023 15:11
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, Ellis' self-insert lecturing people on morals doesn't quite hold much appeal now. He sleeps with his "Filthy Assistant" too.
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Jan 23, 2023 15:32
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Still not entirely sure what they wanted to get out of him, but I'm shocked the guy callous enough to take advantage of like 70 women in the first place didn't actually have any interest in giving it to them
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Jan 23, 2023 17:18
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Planetary still remains good, but Transmet aged like milk. It really sucks that Ellis used one of the people he abused as the model/inspiration for the shaman in issue 21 though. I think it taints (even more) the whole run.
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Jan 23, 2023 17:49
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for the most part, if Illynana's not jumping on Kitty, I assume I missed where Illyana jumped on Kitty.
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Jan 25, 2023 05:09
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:for the most part, if Illynana's not jumping on Kitty, I assume I missed where Illyana jumped on Kitty. Beg pardon?
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Jan 25, 2023 14:54
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looks like Titan Comics picked up Kamen Rider Kuuga for release and just completely boned it https://twitter.com/ThatDamienHedge/status/1618318044270559232 the pages in white are the preview images Titan put out, which look and flow much better then the actual books they put out which look machine translated. Also that first line of the second paragraph feels real sketchy, like that could be interpreted as false advertisement
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Jan 25, 2023 22:49
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Having worked for titan via their Forbidden Planet comic book store...I'm unsurprised it's as bad as that is.
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Jan 31, 2023 18:42
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It looks like Image is selling a comic with AI-generated cover art and characters that are, if not traced, at least extremely heavily sourced from things like Ciri from The Witcher.  https://twitter.com/ImageComics/status/1625999691157540864 https://twitter.com/kasia_nie_/status/1626618781739933699 And the title is presented in unaltered Impact font with a rounded black outline. All equally unforgivable crimes.
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Feb 17, 2023 19:13
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That cover is hideous, just like all AI art. I hope this fad goes away quickly.
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Feb 17, 2023 19:52
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I didn't spot that it was an AI cover, but I was surprised to see that was an Image book and not some self-published thing.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:00
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Shadowline too, I would’ve figured Valentino wouldn’t jump on the ai bandwagon, that really sucks.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:03
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Wanderer posted:I didn't spot that it was an AI cover, but I was surprised to see that was an Image book and not some self-published thing. clothes that make no sense are a good giveaway
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Feb 17, 2023 20:08
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I don't have a problem with AI art in general, but when it's a company that can afford to pay an artist, and is also making money off this cover then it's awful.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:08
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I have a problem with AI art in general.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:09
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Oasx posted:I don't have a problem with AI art in general, but when it's a company that can afford to pay an artist, and is also making money off this cover then it's awful. I don’t think that’s Image’s work model. They don’t hire artists to do books, they accept pitches from indie creators and then green light those projects, this is solely on the creators of the book, Image is just enabling those creators by giving them a distribution platform.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:12
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JordanKai posted:
it's like looking at a meme image also the fingers on the redhead in the interior art, you'd think someone would at least do an edit to make them look less misshapen always the god drat fingers
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Feb 17, 2023 20:45
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Gripweed posted:clothes that make no sense are a good giveaway It's comics. It would be weirder if the clothes did make sense.
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Feb 17, 2023 20:47
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Gripweed posted:I have a problem with AI art in general.  
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Gripweed posted:I have a problem with AI art in general. As soon as people were saying anything beyond it being a toy, it was a problem.
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Gripweed posted:I have a problem with AI art in general.
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Anora posted:looks like Titan Comics picked up Kamen Rider Kuuga for release and just completely boned it There's also something weird going on at Amazon with a digital version of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond. There's no publisher listed (Viz still has the rights to an American release,) the author isn't listed as Inoue but instead some lady named Amanda Howard who seems to mostly write true crime books and the quality is just garbage. Looking like a bad scanlation. https://a.co/d/9nkgc0W
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muscles like this! posted:There's also something weird going on at Amazon with a digital version of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond. There's no publisher listed (Viz still has the rights to an American release,) the author isn't listed as Inoue but instead some lady named Amanda Howard who seems to mostly write true crime books and the quality is just garbage. Looking like a bad scanlation.  I tried searching for it, but I guess they ended up taking it down.
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Feb 20, 2023 16:48
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https://twitter.com/comicsgateLs/status/1633956504352038913 "A deep cut."
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Back when Van Sciver’s popularity rocketed with the GL stuff I had friends who worked in a huge brick and mortar store and I’d hang out and help sort poo poo. One day the manager was digging through longboxes and showed me Cyberfrog, explaining it was Van Sciver’s original indie book and with people taking interest in him those issues that previously sold for a dollar or less were now going for $5 and up. I wonder if the Cyberfrog secondary market made more profit than any of sticker-on-a-quarter GFMs ever did.
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Boy oh boy, it should be interesting to see which comic company took him back. https://twitter.com/comicsgateLs/status/1635438645963378689?s=20 Also, Ethan has seemingly bashed Pedro Pascual, unleashing his fanbase on Robo Toad's creator so his comments are nothing but people making GBS threads on him. E the Shaggy fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 13:49
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It's probably like Frank Miller Productions or something that's technically "mainstream" but not really.
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E the Shaggy posted:Also, Ethan has seemingly bashed Pedro Pascual, unleashing his fanbase on Robo Toad's creator so his comments are nothing but people making GBS threads on him. Most of them seem to be from Chile. It's pretty great.
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A Chilean news site has picked up Van Nazi's hatred of Pedro https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias...ro-pascal.shtml
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Cool. Too bad chilean media is so poo poo (I'm chilean btw) that they never once mentioned that EVS is a nazi so now it just seems like a "marvel and dc comics artist" did an oopsie. And he's probably gonna get some more followers out of this one.
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mark please do the tiniest amount of research before posting tia https://twitter.com/LazlosGhost/status/1635754513436151808?t=exs5lp-ShD4t5Y4Lcs8gtg&s=19
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site posted:mark please do the tiniest amount of research before posting tia Guy who wrote Ultimates being a Tucker Carlson fan isn't a huge leap.
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