Vox Day, screengrab.
Get those palms ready for some facin’, people. Whatever you do, no headdesking, you’ll kill yourself. Vox Day has decided to rescue comics from the horrible SJW hell they have become, because everyone hates them, and besides, Vox is sure he has hit on the perfect way to make all us lefties wail and gnash our teef.
Beale told his fans that major comic makers are “methodically, purposefully, absolutely attempting to destroy every value—every American value, every Western value, every Christian value that they can get their hands on” by creating spinoffs of popular comic series that depict classic characters as black, female and Muslim. Beale’s answer to that perceived attack is to fund the creation of a comic series that features “triggering” white characters that smoke cigarettes, wear Confederate flag costumes and combat left-wing protesters.
Hmmm. Well, I smoke, so I don’t think that will press the trigger. Every day, there are photos of assholes wandering about in Nazi regalia and waving confederate flags, and I haven’t swooned yet. I have an idea this won’t work the way ol’ Vox thinks it will, especially as us lefties aren’t exactly in the market for asshole comix.
The series promises “storylines, not social justice” and revolves around a collection of superhuman heroes that defy a United Nations “Superhuman Protection Council” and act as vigilante crime fighters who apparently use their rogue status to target undocumented immigrants and left-wing protesters.
Ooooh, gotta say, that’s right…boring.
What I found the most interesting was the idea that anything short of an undefined “success”, which as we all know will be redefined and re-redefined as Alt⭐️Hero meets with the usual metrics of success over time, is tantamount to “sad humilation”. Think about how twisted one’s psyche has to be to make that connection, and what a crushing fear of failure one would have to have in order to think that way.
That is the heart of the SJW, which is not only terrified of failure, but is terrified that someone, somewhere, will be successful doing something of which the SJW does not approve.
Of course, SJWs have good reason to be terrified of Alt⭐️Hero. Because they know they are the true villains and the enemy in the cultural war.
Hahahahaha oh my. I’m afraid sad puppy Vox is setting himself up for sad humiliation. (I have no idea if humiliation is the same thing as humilation, someone can ask Vox for me.) Is everyone ready?
I hope they get those fucking jay-walkers, too.
and the people who stick their gum on the bottom of chairs
I wish Mr. Day all the failure in the world.
And dogs who poop where people walk.
Dogs?
As I say about cats, It’s not cats I hate, it’s their owners.
Says a person who spends inordinate amounts of time bewailing the success of authors whose works he doesn’t approve of.
Seriously though, if we ignore the irony and the sneering hyperbole encapsulated in the word “terrified,” doesn’t this fit just about everybody, of any religious or political persuasion? None of us like people doing things we disapprove of. I mean, the opposite—”I like people doing that thing which I don’t like people doing”—is an obvious paradox.
robertbaden@5, Please adjust the sarcasm detector.
Daz:
Of course it does. It’s the constant cry of the so-called non-conformist “I’m not like them! We aren’t like them!” while being exactly like “them”.
Robert Baden:
You might want to pay a smidge of attention to the context of this thread, in light of the context of the post.
I stopped after the first paragraphs because I had to think out loud, “is he going to ‘save’ comedy the way he ‘saved’ science fiction?”
But but but… aren’t there already plenty of nazis in comics? I read a lot of Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos and I recall there were plenty of Beale’s kind of characters -- mostly speaking gothic and getting punched.
Marcus:
Yes. Now all the sad Nazi boys and girls will have a comic with very bad art, and worse plot lines, and that will make it all worth it, you see! That’s winning!
After successfully saving science fiction and fantasy from the evil black people who are totally not getting TV contracts, he will now rescue the failing comic industry.
Oh, that reminds me, Nnedi Okorafor’s second Akata Witch book is out on Tuesday! Excitement.
Didn’t Steve Ditko already do this? Plus, Ditko actually had talent…
I don’t even know who that is, so I wouldn’t be the right person to ask…
Steve Ditko was an important and influential artist and writer at Marvel, credited as the co-creator of Spiderman. He was also a Randian nutjob who kept trying to create characters that exemplified his political views, with very little commercial success. The character of Rorschach in “Watchmen” is a satire of one of Ditko’s Objectivist characters.
Alt Heros? Aren’t they just Villians?
Dunc:
*lightbulb* Thanks.
The solution to one crackerjack ideologically driven lunacy is not another even more crackerjack ideologically driven lunacy. I’m gobsmacked, I wouldn’t have thought it possible to produce something ten times more godawful than a Tom Kratman “novel”. This is spectacularly bad, but at least it keeps them occupied, off the streets and out of the grown-ups hair… Until someone tells the backers that the more money tied up here the less they will have for guns.
Come now, alleging that famed internet bigot Theodore Beale is a sad puppy rather than a rabid puppy would terribly upset both famed internet bigot Larry Correia, who invited said neo-nazi to be a member of the sad puppies, and famed internet bigot Brad Torgersen, who has both said that he worked with the above-mentioned proponent of murdering children as a part of political discourse and has denied working with the only person ejected from the SFWA for his racism.
I just don’t think I can work myself up to be bothered over whether or not the self-inflicted title of sad puppy would make them all upsetty. Tsk and all that.
It has been pointed out many times elsewhere, but that artwork almost makes Rob Liefeld look like Leonardo da Vinci.
Re: Ditko
I read part of a comic of that character of his, “Mr. A.” He certainly has that traditional and amazing superpower of Randian heroes, the rambling monologue. The guy explicitly and wholeheartedly promotes black and white morality with no shades of gray whatsoever, hence why his “hero” is plain white.
I also saw another of his comics, or rather a pamphlet of his in comic format, which was much worse. This guy was alt-right before it was a thing!
Ditko isn’t alt-reich; he’s a Randroid. As best I can tell, Ditko doesn’t have anything against minorities on the basis of their being minorities… but woe betide anyone, White or Black or Brown or whatever, who is not individualistic enough to march in intellectual lockstep with Ayn Rand.
As for the Rorschach character in Watchmen, it’s not quite “parody of the Question”. What happened was, Alan Moore pitched a story proposal to DC Comics which involved some characters DC had purchased from Charlton Comics. DC didn’t want to use those characters in that storyline, so Moore created pastiches of the Charlton characters to use instead or the original articles…
Rorschach: The Question
Dr. Manhattan: Captain Atom
Silk Spectre: Nightshade
Nite Owl: Blue Beetle
Ozymandias: Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
The Comedian: Peacemaker
Linkara needs to see this. We may soon have a comic worse than Holy Terror.
Yeah, I know the history of Watchmen… But there’s an interview with Moore in the BBC documentary “In Search of Steve Ditko” where he makes his intentions fairly clear. He doesn’t explicitly say “it was satire”, but he does relate an anecdote about somebody asking Ditko about Rorschach, to which Ditko replies “He’s like Mr A, except he’s insane”, before bursting out laughing. (That is, Moore bursts out laughing, not Ditko.) It’s probably on YouTube somewhere. I’s say that it’s highly likely that he would have gone in the same direction even if he had been allowed to use The Question.