Tag: fail

scifigrl47:

copperbadge:

gege-qurban:

fucknorickremender:

Sales figures from www.comichron.com.

In the month following the hugely popular Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie release, the Remender-penned Captain America solo comic book posted its worst sales since launch, shedding more than 4000 readers (>10%) and falling more than ten ranks. 

Way to pull in all those potential new fans!

His sales were tanking since issue 6. Journey into Mystery Featuring Sif sold 10,000 copies more and it was cancelled on the 10th issue. 

The drop from #1 to #2 cracks me up. I’m sure there’s a drop every time there’s a #1, but I bet its not usually this steep.

It’s almost like nobody cares to read about Steve Rogers in an alien dystopian landscape with none of his friends.

Steve on his own is fine.

As long as he has a sweet van, a vendetta against the government, and a hobo beard.

Remender missed that part of the ‘steve gets SAAAAAAAAAAAD and runs away from home’ arcs.  You know, the fun part.

Also the lady killing.  Puts a damper on things.

Hey, can you explain what Remender did that was so terrible? Because I see a lot of posts talking about how he did something horrible, but I can’t find what it actually is. Thanks!

scifigrl47:

1.  He killed Rogue and Scarlet Witch on his way out the door on Uncanny Avengers.  (Two female characters who feature heavily in just released/upcoming movies)

2. He fridged Sharon Carter for Steve Rogers’ manpain. (ANOTHER female character who features in a current movie, wow what are the CHANCES he’d find another one to kill?)

3. He just wrote a story that features a sex scene that a lot of people (especially females and POC, two groups that often feel that their concerns are not taken seriously by comics culture) are finding to be very problematic.  It involves alcohol, Sam Wilson (ANOTHER character that was just introduced in a major movie, WOW!) and a female character who may or may not be of age.  Although the narrative has established her to be an adult, the fact that Remender felt the need to clearly state her age in the middle of the sequence means that he was aware that most people did not take her to be an adult.  To put it another way, when Natasha Romanov has a morning after, it does not involve her saying, “I’m thirty-six.”  She doesn’t need to.  Everyone KNOWS she is an adult.  The fact that the character’s age must be stated indicates that the writer and the editorial staff KNEW it would be an issue, and they moved forward with it anyway.

4.  He wrote a speech where a (white, cis, het male who could pass for a non-mutant) character states that he does not approve of the “M-word,” or Mutant, that he considers it divisive.  IT IS BAD TO HAVE SUCH LABELS WE SHOULD DO AWAY WITH THEM.   This kind of speech, written and spoken from a position of privilege, does not feel like inclusion.  It feels like erasure.  Having a pretty blonde white boy dismissing the very real problems of people who CANNOT hide their minority identity, dismissing the way they define themselves, because he doesn’t like that word, but doesn’t offer an alternative, smacks of the worst kind of white male privilege, and it sticks in the craw.

4. I do not appreciate his writing aesthetic.  I do not appreciate how he treats female characters.  I do not approve of the choices he makes.  I do not appreciate how he handles his interviews or how he treats fandom.  I do not appreciate the fact that every time I get an ask saying, “I’m new to comics, but I love the movies, can you recommend a comic?” I cannot, in good conscience recommend Captain America.  I will not, especially to a new, female reader who loves the Cap she’s seen on the screen.  Because Remender does not write that Cap.

5.  He is a hack.  I’ve seen more compelling plots and character development from the average AO3 fic.  

I don’t like him.  I’d be happy to see him driven from comics.  I’d be happy to have Cap in better hands.  I will not buy anything else with his name on it.  I have let Marvel know as much, and I continue to support comics with creators who, in my opinion, treat their characters and their fanbase with more respect.

We Need All Voices in Comics (or, I Started the #FireRickRemender Twitter Tag and I’m Really Only Kind of Sorry About It)

weinersoldier:

I’d like to clear the air.

The past 96 hours have been some of the most stressful, anxious, and rewarding of my life.

Wednesday evening, following my first read of Rick Remender’s Captain America #22, I posted a series of entries to my blog reiterating my distaste for his work, and my renewed (and long-held) belief that he should no longer be writing it.

In my haste and anger, I asked other people who shared my opinion to tweet Marvel Comics, Rick Remender, and Captain America editor Tom Brevoort with their concerns, using the hashtag #FireRickRemender.

And I’m sorry.

I understand that the hashtag, and the arguments held under its banner, could have been (and were) seen as personal attacks. And for that, I apologize. I was coming from a place of upset, discomfort, disgust, and outrage, and I acted solely from that place.

I am genuinely sorry for any personal affront my actions may have caused.

What I am not sorry for is everything that came afterward.

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jabberwockypie:

scifigrl47:

historymiss:

brothasoul:

blacksupervillain:

invisiblelad:

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:

archwrites:

missbeckywrites:

americachavez:

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.”

#comics #rick remender

jabberwockypie:

pantslesslizard:

comics people defending Rick Remender: Mark Brooks, Cully Hamner, Mark Waid, Cullen Bunn, Dan Slott, Rob Guillory, Cameron Stewart, Ryan Stegman, Ron Marz, James Robinson, Jeff Parker, Tom Brevoort.

GOD DAMN IT!

I liked Waid on … something or other.  At least two things he wrote, I think?   And I liked Dan Slott on … was it She-Hulk?

Well good to know these people are dead to me now.

Maybe one day I’ll meet one of them and punch them in the crotch.  As they’re writhing on the floor in pain going “WHY? GOD, WHY?” I’ll simply say “You know why.” and leave.

jabberwockypie:

weinersoldier:

weinersoldier:

so far (since wednesday, meaning the beginning of the #firerickremender push on twitter):

I have been called a moron, a slut, an ugly bitch, a dumb cunt, a racist, and every other colorful, cruel, and sexist insult in the playbook.

I’ve been threatened with rape, been told to shut up, and been told explicitly that my opinion doesn’t matter.

I’ve been accused of trying to ruin someone’s life.

I’ve been infantilized, condescended to, pat on the head and told that my money doesn’t matter, that I was hysterical and irrational, that I was making too much out of nothing, that I was a prude.

I’ve had to answer the question “did you actually read the book?” more times than I can count, and every time the question’s asked with that cruel, invisible “sweetheart” at the end.

I’ve lost an incredible amount of respect for creators whose art and writing I enjoyed.

all because I had the audacity to raise my voice, to hold an opinion that differs from the norm.  because I refused to be silent about the worrying, ever-increasing acceptance of violence against and violation of women in the media I pay to consume.

but – I can’t stop now.  I won’t.  Comic books taught me – Steve Rogers taught me to never, ever give up on the things that are important to you.  I am standing by my truth, and I am not moving.

Sam Wilson taught me to take care of my own, and Sharon Carter taught me to never, ever, ever let anyone else make your decisions for you.

I’m not going away.  #firerickremender is not going away.

Not until comics is a safe space.  Not until comics is a escape for everyone, not just for people whose ideal world is one where women are subservient, sexy, and silent.  Not until I can carry on a conversation with a creator I admire and not be treated like I know nothing, and like my opinion doesn’t count.

I am not going away.

edited to add:

Been sent unsolicited pictures of stranger’s genitalia (i.e. dicks) by direct message on Twitter

Received more than one offer to “cure” me – i.e. “fix” the fact that I’m queer

Had my personal and identifying information – including name, age, location, and photograph – posted without my consent or knowledge as the butt of a post insinuating that I’m “hysterical” and that I have a “vendetta”

Tell me again that the glorification and excusing of rape in comics doesn’t feed rape culture in real life.

Tell me again that it’s “fiction”.

Tell me fucking again.

Oh my fucking god.

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL.

I was arrested once for – I was in college and I was back home in Western Massachusetts, and um I had a novel – I think I was reading Watership Down, a novel, and um, it was around midnight and I was looking for a good place to sit and read my novel and I saw that there was a little flood light in the parking lot of the bank. And a fire escape that went up to the roof of the bank. And so I thought, ‘well you know, that’s a perfect good place to go read after hours.’ So I climbed up onto the roof of the bank, and uh, and was reading my novel and about half an hour later floodlights came from adjacent buildings and a helicopter came over cause apparently there was a bank robbery in process or so they thought. And that was kind of difficult to explain my way out of. Like ‘Oh, no no no, officer you don’t understand.’ Oh, I actually was on the ground, my face in the ground, and handcuffs on and ‘Oh, no no no, I was just reading my novel.’ which doesn’t make sense. Like why do you go up onto the roof of a bank to read a novel a midnight.

Misha Collins (x)