Hey Factory Fans!
Well, it doesn’t look very hopeful for the Comic Book Peace Summit. I haven’t heard from anyone at comicsgate and the people I engaged on the other side were somewhat hostile to the very idea. Mostly, they criticized my pitch (and some criticized me personally). Apparently, SJW is a negative term for some, but not for others. No one seems to agree on anything other than the unwavering feeling that they’re right. I did get one or two comments on YouTube from guys that might be comicsgaters. There weren’t many, but some of the hostility was there.
Part of the problem seems to be that there’s no real spokesperson for the anti-comicsgate side. Most of that side is tripping all over themselves to show everyone how wonderful they are. Although there were a few voices of reason, most of the attitude seemed to be “you’re either with us or you’re comicsgate” or “why aren’t you as upset as us?” Things are just too raw. Too emotional. The echo chambers of the Internet continue to magnify the problem and there seems to be a real palpable fear that you’re going to be tarred and feathered by one side or another for taking the “wrong” position.
I don’t think peace going to happen, so I’ll stay in my webcomic bunker and watch the fireworks for a while. Perhaps an opportunity will arise to pitch the idea again. My prediction is that Marvel is going to get out of print comics collapsing the market. DC will follow suit. Image and a few other indy comics will hang on for a while, but the comicsgaters could end up kings of the print comic wasteland. The timeline is roughly two years. See you in the future, fanboys!
At Super Frat, it’s a new strip.
Validation is new.
And the Quote of the Day is from Bernard Meltzer:
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.”
I cannot say this reception surprises me though. I have experienced being told I am a Comics Gate..(er?) for being a fan of, out of all things, of a guy who talks about law on youtube named Nick Rekieta and his “Lawsplaining the Ierwebs” series.
I can hear you asking “wtf” from here, but hear me out. So Lawsplaining did interviews with Ethan Van Sciver and Diversity and Comics. He treated them respectfully, neutrally, and did a 3rd video about the whole thing where he explained his opinions of the legal side of the whole Comics Gate thing. Within less than a day Nick’s twitter is inundated with SJWs who think in absolutes (“If you are not with me you are my enemy!”) taking Nick to task for “defending misogynists”. A few of us more vocal, older, less give a $#!+ fans of Nick’s at first tried reasoning with them, then when that failed (cause they started calling us CGers… I mean I am sill not sure what Comics Gate is other than the SJWs seem to hate it) we stared mocking these SJWs openly on twitter, cause they cannot be reasoned with, so mocking them for sport is the only use the “SJW anti CGer” has in a society
Yeah, my friends tried to warn me not to wade into this. Boy they were right! Just did the follow up video. Don’t think the summit is happening. It sure is nasty in the wilds of the Internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFREkr0JBlU&feature=youtu.be