Tag: ed brubaker

jabberwockypie:

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historymiss:

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northstarfan:

gamoradorable:

i don’t even know what to say to this

While implying that things are better when people don’t think critically about what they read is clearly the mark of a free and enlightened society.

Critical thinking is bad and might be fascist. I could have sworn I saw that one on Fox News. 

what is happening today?

it is apparently time for comics writers to rally against their fans again

Nice use of scare quotes there, ‘Brubaker’.

(slow, sarcastic clapping) No, no. The GOVERNMENT telling writers what they are allowed to write, often under the threat of imprisonment, torture, or death, is how that ‘worked.’ The READERSHIP saying ‘we do not like what you’ve written, and we are not interested in paying for it or anything else you’ve written, and we are encouraging your current employer to replace you with someone who can do the job better, because we consume their product, you goddamn HACK’ is how CAPITALISM works. I know it’s confusing, but they’re a little different.

And is he really doing this? Are we really comparing the threat placed on legitimate journalists and authors under a violent dictatorship or regime to the fan lead efforts to get a 3rd rate, misogynistic HACK removed from a flagship title? A flagship comic book title whose circulation numbers that he has driven into the ground? That’s
 What we’re doing here.

Gotta say. I’m a little ‘outraged’ by his comparison.

This is one of those cases of bizarre “logic” that I don’t even know how to refute it because the person is operating from such a faulty premise.  You have to backtrack SO far just to even try to follow their train of thought.

I want to send vitriolic hate mail to every comics professional who has come down defending Remender, but I do not have the mental energy for it.

jabberwockypie:

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gamoradorable:

i don’t even know what to say to this

yes, ed brubaker, fascists and communists spent a lot of time telling the people under their control not to be sexist, racist bigots. yes what a perfect analogy

I think someone needs to explain to Ed Brubaker that there is a world of difference between telling someone what to write and telling someone that WHAT THEY ALREADY WROTE is gross and problematic, and explaining the reasons why.

This all comes back around to the free speech thing. Yes, you have the right to write gross stories that fridge women, but you’re not free from the consequences of having written gross stories that fridge women (loss of sales, criticism).

I am an AVID Captain America fan. If the Cap book were actually good, and if Remender weren’t writing it, I’d’ve been spending money on it for the past year and a half, like I have been with Captain Marvel.

*growls* Swear to Thor, half – ¾? – of comics professionals need to be smacked upside the head with a Clue-By-Four multiple times.

You know what’s depressing?  Feeling like “Wow! Comics have come a long way!” when you’re just reading, like, Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel and Hawkeye and She-Hulk and stuff.  Then you read mainstream comics and it’s just like “
 Fuck, I hate everything.”