Welcome to my ComicsGate page!
Hey hey.
just a place to jot down some fun notes. maybe review some lore, etc. et.c.cece.ce. doesnt matter.
WHAT IS COMICSGATE?
Similar to GamerGate, a self-defense movement against far-left extremism in the comics industry. It's people crowd-funding comics instead of paying toxic companies like Marvel and DC. Richard Meyer was at least one of the "founders", creating his own crowdfunded comic called "Jawbreakers", which was supposed to be sold in stores until a bad comic writer named Mark Waid-- the kind of person everyone's sick to death of, like part of the reason for American comics being considered dead, and worse, *bad* now--threatened Meyer's publisher, forcing him to break his contract with Meyer.Meyer went on to sue, but everyone familiar with the American legal system knows that it cost Infinity Money to get anything done, even if you're a victim, so the lawsuit didn't really do much beyond humiliate Mark Waid. There was of course a similar situation with beloved voice actor Vic Lasagna*
It's effectively legal to defame people and interfere with their business contracts in the United States if you're weaselly enough about it.
But what does this have to DOOOOO with ComicsGate? Everything, I guess. ComicsGate was born out of some combination of readers being fatigued by relentless leftist social politics in comics, and comics artists and writers either being "cancelled" or getting fed up with their hostile work environments at Marvel/DC, and deciding to do indie projects. What makes ComicsGate cooler and more fun than GamerGate ever was, is that it's more than just ineffectual kvetching. It takes way less resources to make comics than games, so there's a lot of creators who you can actually support, instead of just seething at EA for whatever dumb shit they're doing. It's a productive movement, and therefore a positive one.
BUT ARE THE COMICS GOOD?
Yes lol. I can vouch for EVS and Davis personally, but I'll write more another time.
I'm a pretty normal guy, so I've never in my life really cared about comics. Read a few as a kid(Marvel, some team, will remember later one was The New Warriors #24 lmao), read Amory Wars because I'm a Coheed fan. But who the FFFFCK cares about comics? Especially when the people making them are like, evil freaks who want to mutilate kids? And even separating the "art" from the "artist"(as much as they'll possibly allow)whether you like it or not, manga is just better than capeshit. But EVS got me into Cyberfrog, and now here I am wishing he'd make more than 1 book a year.
Comics really are Heckin' Valid. The art's(by ComicsGate creators) fantastic, and the stories(by ComicsGate creators) are đ¤ and comics DESERVE better than to be buried by the glory of manga. They DESERVE better creators than disgusting millennial gender-lunatics inserting themselves into established characters. It's time for America to RETVRN to tradition, where the Green Lantern wasn't hiring male prostitutes. Comics are old American culture and it's cool that there's an answer to the disgusting mainstream slop being made now.
I'm just a filthy casual, I'm not qualified to talk about HOW MUCH trash there is. But there shouldn't even be a PERCEPTION that Marvel and DC have an obsession with anal "sex" and erasing White characters, whether or not it's even true(it is true)
So as a NORMIE, who's only been into comics for a SMALL while, I'm open to like-- maybe there's some cool Predator comics I'd like? I'm reading Green Lantern Rebirth rn and it's good. But really what I want rn is Inglorious Rex 2(edit: it was great, waiting for 3 now). I want Cyberfrog 3. I want to check out some SHI by Billy Tucci(edit: read all the old stuff, was awesome), I want to try BATTLE BRICK ROAD (edit: it was great, waiting for 2 now-- im going to stop editing these), I want to see Paul R(terrible at spelling names, will fix later)--thefriggin Canadian guy who competed with Mayazaki for Best Animation.
I don't really want uh... Hawk Girl telling me she might be a boy. She's not a boy, I'm looking right at her, and uhhhhhhhh-- I'm sick of the most harmful shit imaginable being pushed everywhere we turn in our society, and impressionable people are just having their little brains devoured by Pure Fucking Nonsense, and it's -- well I guess that's partially why manga is curb-stomping comics. At least when manga throws in a "trap" it's significantly less obnoxious and they're not actually insisting that they're literally a woman. Yes, it's Literally Okay When Japan Does It.
Anyway Cyberfrog is really goodlmao
ComicsGate/adjacent-books I've read & recommend
check out COMICSGATE KINGS on ComicartistproSecrets for a bunch of old pros presenting their new projects đCyberfrog(new + '90s)
New stuff is great(#1 Blood Honey, #2 Rekt Planet) Fun, heartwarming. Old stuff is '90s nihilism, but it has a ton of cool lore that's in the new books. And it's cool seeing Ethan Van Sciver grow up from a young punk to a Christian family man. '90s stuff supposed to be reprinted in 2025.Inglorious Rex
MMA with mutant dinosaurs. Very cool. 3's campaign goingg on rrrnnn -- older stuff available on their site & eBay store, 9 Lives ComicsGodlike by Jon Malin
Malin's bigg project is "Graveyard Shift", I think it might be too violent for me, so ayy, if you like violence, da, also check out GRAVEYARD SHIFT. eBay's your friend, Jon's notBattle Brick Road
Military Post-Apocyalypse Wizard of Oz. Absolutely awesome. #1 is available, Issue #2 can still be backed.Shi
by Billy Tucci is reallyyyy good. It's from the early '90s. Tucci has some omnibuses available on his website. Buy from him to support him & then read it online while you're waiting.Jawbreakers: Lost Souls
Preddy cool and whacky. Haven't read GĂD-K1NG. Campaigns are clooooosed, so get it on eBay I guess.Deus Vult
Jon Del Arroz might not consider himself ComicsGate, but he's a Christian author who also makes comics. Deus Vult is about a Crusader saving a race of cat people from a demon king, and it's pretty fun with some crazy cool art. Jon is pretty based.the following site is a more useful resource than this page, im just a guy who likes fun stories.
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*who was defamed by some voice actress and her fiance because she and Vic kissed, and fiance found out. Despite exposing them in court as having *literally* lied about him in HUNDREDS of Twitter posts, having him fired from his job, and having him blacklisted from conventions, Vic wasn't able to get justice beyond the Court of Public Opinion, which is *nice*, but it'd be nicer still if he'd gotten actual money from the harm they caused him.