Edmund Lava posted:

Eric Powell is on there too. Very comforting considering I like The Goon, but some of it would fit right into the CG narrative.

CharlestheHammer posted:

I have a more cynical take, the people who usually do the all or none approach to free speech are generally centralists who pride themselves on being not black and white. Weirdly on this issue there is no nuance but slippery slopes as far as the eye can see.

Lunatic Sledge posted:

Conservative Upbringings Anonymous story

Wanderer posted:

I wonder at what point EVS will achieve a critical mass where he's more known and remembered for showing his rear end on Twitter over his political stances than he is for his X-Men or Green Lantern runs.

I think he's coming perilously close to being there, if he isn't there already.

Retro Futurist posted:

EVS is a legit great artist, but he’s not distinctive at all, just good at the DC house style. Like when Allred or Burnham are drawing a book you know it right away, with EVS it could be one of dozens of competent but easily replaced artists

Dawgstar posted:

https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1082425018280300549

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And instead of caring about the 13-year-old Sim ADMITTEDLY transported across state lines to stay in his hotel room

Fangz posted:

Even if you don't need the money, you should still not offer services like that for free. It's standard creative industries ethics.

Alaois posted:

I don't think loving Neil Gaiman is hurting for money

Space Fish posted:

Indeed, Amanda's doing quite well for herself.

Vince MechMahon posted:

People should bring up those things instead then. But they don't. I wonder loving why.

E: Let me add to this one thing. Amanda Palmer has said and done a lot of poo poo that's dumb as gently caress and hasn't owned up to all of it. But if you look at interviews with her she's the first to admit she's a flawed person. Constantly bringing up the things she has owned up to, apologized for, and course corrected on is lovely. It's doubly lovely to move the conversation off of her husband and somehow blame her for his lovely actions. If you don't see how basically saying "oh no, pure and good Neil has been corrupted by his evil witch of a wife," makes you sound like you should be on one of EVS's streams cutting up an Amanda Palmer record with a knife, then maybe you should take some time for self reflection.

Wanderer posted:

What a lazy pseudo-criticism of two works that share a surface-level similarity.

hadji murad posted:

It was also won by nuking women and children of a race deemed to be inferior so it’s important to remember that we ourselves can be so much better.

Edge & Christian posted:

Even as someone who still thinks large parts of Cerebus (and the dead-on-the-vine Strange Death of Alex Raymond art-history comic) are impressive and often genuinely enjoyable* works, this whole Cerebus in Hell run of books are just unreadable, baffling nonsense.

I know Sim was having wrist problems, combined with his studio burning down, and he just straight up couldn't draw anything for a few years and the entire concept of this run of comics is cutting and pasting old Cerebus figures on top of Gustv Dore engravings and other public doman artwork about Hell but then also doing a bunch of goofy superhero pop culture jokes and using it to critique Marxist-Feminist-zzzzzzz I literally do not know anyone who has made it through an issue of this. I have no idea who this is being made for.

* I haven't read any of it since Glamourpuss wrapped up 5+ years ago and even then I had to skip any of the 'humor' pieces and skip straight to the Art History stuff, and given some of the stuff said/revealed since 2013 I may well not be able to enjoy the pre-Tangent stuff in good conscience without seeing echoes of all of the poo poo to come.

site posted:

not technically comcis related but i guess jack is getting rid of counters on replies/rt's/likes because nazis keep getting ratioed into oblivion, dark lol

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.

Skwirl posted:

Seriously though, it's just about wanting good comics.

https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1107804190087237636

Dawgstar posted:

Apparently some people left a group called Indiecron and Doug TenNapel lied about talking to them beforehand? Some people are brutally upset he 'defamed loyal ComicsGators.' They're also upset at Jon Del Arroz (who you will remember as the leading Hispanic voice in science-fiction) for making noises that's he also in the group when he was apparently 'kicked out' along with Vox Day.

Now I am dumber.

Alhazred posted:

Covok posted:

Like most tech sites. There is no personal oversight. They put all faith in ~THE ALGORITHM~, blessings be upon her name. They basically treat it like a sheep pen where they let the sheep dog do all the work. 'Cept the sheep dog is lazy and suffering from rabbies. And, when it goes inevitably wrong, they claim no responsbility for their foolishness.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

The people handling reports are basically call center employees with even worse jobs

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

call center employees

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

People in those jobs are pressured to make hundreds of calls in a shift based on stupid rules that they don't make or necessarily agree with, with management to punish them when they gently caress up (for varying definitions there of), for not much money

Getting mad at them and not the people responsible for making the policies, official and otherwise, is asinine

Fake edit also the odds of the lowest ring of people actually working for/at twitter and not a company that is contracted to Twitter are pretty low, these people aren't selling their souls to get a cush gig, they're trying to pay rent

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Cool glad you blame the wage slaves for the decisions of their bosses I guess

But nah I guess anyone who takes a minimum wage job handling reports to try to make rent is actually a Nazi, way more plausible

Puppy Time posted:

I'm not sure how you're expecting a random wage slave to know the provenance of all the reporting accounts. Like, most of the ones I've seen quoted here don't have swastikas in the avatars or hitlerdidnothingwrong69 as a name. And that's assuming they have access to the reporters at all and not just like "this post had a bajillion reports for hat speech" or something.


I am sure that these people taking a thankless and lovely job because that's the only way to avoid starving on the streets are the people to blame for the nazi ideals of twitter.

Mr. Glum posted:

Any idea what this is referring to?

Dawgstar posted:

Nathan W. Pyle. He does Strange Planet, I guess? I've never heard of it or him.

Kojiro posted:

There's a pretty good reason for that latter part

Dawgstar posted:

And funnily enough part of the reason EVS is so slow is all that unnecessary detail he puts on his stuff. It adds nothing to it. You can tell he came up in the 90's.

Vince MechMahon posted:

The movie is actually better than the manga and the changes made a lot of sense.

IUG posted:

I want something like Mastodon to take off (and not just because I'm listening to Mastodon the band as I type this), just to kill those two companies. But I have no idea if it's any better, and also after quitting Facebook, I hardly see the reason to join another. I keep Twitter around to follow who I want to follow, and I never look at trending stuff, hashtags, etc. There is something also to say about how easy it is to embed a tweet, even this site embeds them.

Dawgstar posted:

Didn't they just buy up somebody, too?

Oasx posted:

that version of Cap is a rather conservative rear end in a top hat, that doesn’t mean that the character reflects the political opinions of Millar.

Puppy Time posted:

So was Black Widow and they fukken HATE her.