Sit down.
The message of comicsgate has always, always, been that ideology has become the center of modern comics. Not that politics are in comics. Not that comics can't have political messages. It's that popular comics have become a propaganda machine for the progressives and their ideology at the cost of story. You listen to even five minutes of a single comicsgate video and that becomes obvious quite quickly. Anyone who says differently is lying. Period.
Like Mark Waid. Definitely him.
No, don't go and read an article about what people say it's about. Or any non comicsgate person.
These folks are on Youtube. They aren't hard to find. And they're not that hard to listen to either, particularly Perch.
I didn't say these people were saints. Or even that I like them. They're people, and thus are a decidedly mixed bag. Some folks "classified" as comicsgate don't even go by the moniker, because they just want to talk about comics, like Perch. But you have folks like Just Some Guy (a very much so black dude, as he frequently brings up), who seem to have mainlined the comicsgate Kool-Aid, despite having some points... sometimes.
But then again it's remarkably easy to dunk on Mark Waid. Dude's a genuine creep.
So maybe I'm giving Just Some Guy a bit too much credit.
Point is, I'm not necessarily a fan of comicsgate either.
So, why am I bringing this up?
Because Eric July's Isom #1 is currently at 3.2 million bucks and I've heard very little about it from the establishment.
Well, except this hit piece from Bleeding Cool.
He hit 1.5 without any form of advertisement. At all. And anyone who says differently is lying, best of my knowledge. It's absolutely bonkers!
Sure, at some point Fox propped him, but that was after he made that actually shocking sum in a day. Without any help from anyone in the comics industry. And the response on Twitter has been... I'm not going to copy some of those responses to him on Twitter. Go look. You'll find them. Some of them are just flat out racist. It's not subtle. Nor is it right. A black dude makes a comic book about a black superhero... and folks are calling him an Uncle Tom. And a whole hell of a lot worse. Not to mention calling him a liar and a fraud.
One of the rumblings from the Comics Gate folks is that, really, right when you get down to it, the "mainstream" only cares about power. They don't care about race, or minorities or whatever it is they're propping up, they specifically want power, and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it.
Which, by the way, factors into what socialism really is to begin with: the weaponization of disaffected lower classes by one element of the upper class against another.
But this isn't kind of blatant.
Why am I posting this? Why am I bothering to write at all?
Well, it ain't because I bought a comic from Eric July. I've not spent a red cent on his work. I took a look at the website, shrugged, thought "Not for me", and went about my business. The book could be great! I hope it is. But I have absolutely no stake in how Eric July does. I'm not sitting around and hoping he'll fulfill (he has it done and printed already, unless he's faking that warehouse I've seen), nor am I a comicsgate person myself. If a work is good and I'm interested I'll buy it. I've a full run of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man by Tom Taylor sitting in my closet right now and I love the ever-loving shit out of it. The incredibly woke Tom Taylor probably wouldn't want to be in the same room with me, nevermind be my friend. I don't care. His writing on that title was gold, and I bought every last issue of it. I wish he'd write like that more often.
I'm pointing this out because the fact that someone is knocking it out of the park like this and there is concerted effort to shut him down is enormously obvious. Again, go check Twitter if you don't believe me, cause I'm not blaspheming my hard drive or blog for you.
I'm pointing this out because a black dude making a black superhero, the very definition of what the left has called inclusivity, is getting called a traitor and an Uncle Tom (AND WORSE). There's not a lot of ways to go forward with that, folks. He doesn't share their politics. Therefore he is hated. It is truly that simple.
It's also exactly what comicsgate was saying would happen, the whole time.
No, really, I went and looked. They've been calling it for years.
I am not suggesting that comicsgate are great people. I certainly am not on their side, for the same reason I'm not on the establishment's side: I don't pick sides, best as I can. There is many a thing I disagree with comicsgate on, their idiotic and garbled non-Euclidean screaming about the sequel trilogy being one of them. I think libertarianism, Eric July's political leanings as pointless as Waiting on Godot. You can't call anything "apolitical", because that's impossible. And, with the exception of Perch and Razörfist, the rest of the group have some clear axes to grind. Perch is just too damn even keeled to have a grudge and Razörfist had been complaining about the issues that led to comicsgate and gamegate for years before either movement came to pass.
Oh, and Chuck Dixon (remember him??) seems to be a pretty even-keeled and standup guy from what I can tell.
But, c'mon. This is obvious. On this one spot the comicsgate people are 100% right: the mainstream comics industry is rotten from the inside out, having exchanged story for straight up propaganda, and it's playing out, in real time, if you know where to look.
The fact that you have to know to look should be enough of a reason to be deeply concerned.
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