Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.
Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.
Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?
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>>44986as a sandman enjoyer, gaiman of all people being a dick is a fucking shame
>>44986Didn't this guy get revealed to be an abuser or something?
>>45029Nah, just a creep.
>>44974I can't pretend that I'd prefer the pre 90s comics with their cheap paper and shoddy printing but it's impossible to deny that the individual comics themselves are ridiculously expensive and not very compelling on their own.
The last time I was seriously interested in marvel comics was back in the 10s when Thor got rebooted and plopped Asgard right down in podunk Oklahoma. That's the kinda thing I want to read about, ancient norse gods having to interact with a bunch of Oakey yokels and the effect this has on them both and the wider world.
But the interesting stuff never lasts. The manchildren just want to see the big men fight and the comics just became fodder for endless Marvel Events and to crib movie beats from.
>>45029He had kinky sex with a bunch of women who decided it wasn't consensual after the fact which makes him a monster even though his wife was a willing participant and contributor as well.
>>44986>>45027>>45029>>45037The woman who broke the Neil Gaiman story had nefarious transphobic reasons for publishing about Gaiman, and it didn't work out how she wanted at all. She wanted queers to rush to defend Gaiman so they'd end up looking bad, lol.
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/neil-gaiman-accusations-new-york-magazine-article-scarlett-pavlovich-b1207406.html >>45079>She wanted queers to rush to defend Gaiman so they'd end up looking bad, lol.What? Where are you getting that?
>But that denial has not prevented Dark Horse Comics being the latest one of his publishers, streamers, or other platforms from dropping the author. In a post on X, Dark Horse Comics this week said: “Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.”I dunno, I think there should be some kind of trial before someone is condemned for mere allegations.
>>45079>The woman who broke the Neil Gaiman story had nefarious transphobic reasons for publishing about Gaiman, and it didn't work out how she wanted at all. She wanted queers to rush to defend Gaiman so they'd end up looking bad, lol.Where at all this this said or alluded to in the story?
https://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/
>Gender issues don’t play well in comics. The most notorious example is Dave Sims’ Cerebus series, which, as soon the topic was raised, degenerated from a hilarious and inventive series into self-indulgent, misogynistic rants that quickly became unreadable. By contrast, though, Garth Ennis has not only been discussing gender issues repeatedly in his series, but doing so in with an artistry that makes what he has to say intelligent even if – as I do – you have reservations about his opinions.
>This suggestion, I realize, requires some defense. Garth Ennis? The hard-swearing, raunchy, ultra-violent, hilarious Garth Ennis, who had to start his own publishing company to write the sort of things he wanted? And there is no denying that Ennis is fascinated by machismo and war, so much so that his treatment of super heroes almost always involves men trained in violence overcoming those with super powers.
>Remember, though, that this is the same writer whose best-known work, Preacher, ends with the hero literally riding into the sunset with the love of his life – the same writer who gave loner John Constantine a major love interest in Kit Ryan, a tough, cynical woman from Belfast, and even managed to make their breakup poetic and sentimental.
>If you focus on the scripts and ignore the often gratuitously sexist artwork, he is also the writer who manages believable portraits of strong women like Deborah Tiegel and Bloody Mary. Yes, there is a large degree of male wish-fulfillment in female characters like Tulip O’Hare or Annie January, but there is also an effort to give them their own inner lives and concerns in a way that few male writers of graphic novels have even attempted.
>I have read much of Ennis’ work, but far from all of it. To say the least, he is prolific, and some of his work, such as his war stories, would only interest me because they were done by him. However, three of works stand out as places where gender roles play a major role. >>45252>Gender issues don’t play well in comics."Its impossible to depict someone talking to a woman" comics arts fans never escaping their reputation
>>46138used to be a big fan, i made my mom buy me the Toda Mafalda book like 20 years ago, some strips haven't aged a bit, they're as funny as when they were written, some aged terribly bad lol. also it's so funny that argentinians vandalize gaturro statues with mafalda graffiti
>>46138>>46160 (me)
also mafalda shitposting is next level
>>46138>>46161I don't understand any of those words
but this looks like a comic made by an ayn rand supporter
>>46311>Quino>Ayn Rand SupporterSome of you are rotten by your ignorance.
>>46352I don't understand any of those words
but this looks like a comic made by an Grigory Zinoviev supporter
>>46352>strip that is super currentyou have no idea how hard this guy fell off after 2015
>>46370Mafalda is Peak tho.
>>46376I think about this a lot. There's some Alex Ross comic where superman tries to fix the world or some shit. He tries to bring food to starving Africans and of course the evil dictator blows it up, and supes has a cry about it. Then I think about the scene in Marvelman where Marvs tells all the world leaders that we're doing socialism now. Margaret Thatcher tries to tell him no, and he basically tells her "I'm not asking" and glares at her so hard it damn near kills her.
>>46366Quite possibly one of the most evil people in entertainment today period
>>44148The bigger problem problem is Vivzie is stuck in the same mode of writing as other Tumblr-adjacent media where their style of dramatic writing is just characters talking about their feelings in upset monologues. Her drama is not that interesting and it's silly that every story that crowd makes about superheroes, alien warriors, and literal murderous demons is just about the same mundane problems of grief, trust, relationship trauma, sexuality and mental health.
I'm not saying the show should only be about violence and sex jokes and nothing else, but idk, seems
The success of some of the Absolute titles has strengthened my conviction that cape comics would be much more popular if they just stopped looking bland and indistinct and embraced a little formalism for flavor.
People talk about the relatability of early Spider-Man and so on but a big, possibly bigger part of the reason comics were popular with adults in the 60s was that people could easily see how visionary Kirby, Ditko, Steranko, etc. were as artists. They used their talents to sell the strange and superhuman nature of the characters and their worlds and that had an inherent appeal in the climate of the time.
I checked out the last few issues of Action Comics. I'm not saying the art is bad, but holy shit is it unexciting. People standing around in offices, houses, streets, talking and making faces at each other. This is a Superman story? Yes, the human side of the character is important, but come on.
>>47004I think she's cute.
>>47004>why did they pick a strange looking person to play a literal alien?a mystery for the ages
>>47004you didn't see who they casted for miss marvel I assume ?
>>47004>strange lookingWe need to get you outside brother
>>47030Do you even read comics? Superman/Supergirl is notoriously supposed to be hot. It's not martians in DC were talking about.
>>47032Brie Larson mogs this girl
>>47036No.
>>47054>Brie larsonit's Iman Vellani tho ? did you mean captain marvel ?
(also I'm biased as fuck,I've always been attracted by uncanny valley looks for some reason,so she's beautiful to me)
So what's going on lately in the world of marvel and dc
>>47110Marvel - Hiterlite cringe stuff in cap book as usual
Spider-man #1000 coming up, MJ is Venom
Thor is a mortal again with amensia and uses a sling and hammer as his weapons (Peak by Ewing)
X-Men, same old same old
DC is killing it with Absolute line
Marvel's Ultimate line is coming to an end, other than Ultimates, nothing has been consistently good
>>47110Absolute is okay-to-good, everything else is crap.
Begging people to read non-Big 2 stuff, the medium needs to be set free.
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