Bill Maher goes after capeshit "I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important"

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Oooh, is the establishment turning on capeshit now? Please, I can only get so erect.

They might after Disney singlehandedly destroyed Star Wars and redditors singlehandedly destroyed Marvel.

Marvel was shit from the get go.

Redditors made it far worse then.

what, you don't love all the LOL XD RANDOM quips and goofs!

Remember that time Rocket Racoon said TASERFACE! LOOOL! AND THEN HE SAID IT AGAIN! AND THEN HE KEPT SAYING IT WHILE HE WAS LAUGHING SO EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE GOT THE JOKE. The fucking madlad. Yeah, I would let James Gunn diddle me

I thought that was mostly a Joss Whedon thing, but no, Marvel flicks have in inherently shitty script/direction format.

don't forget their most genius recurring joke device: the interrupted dramatic moment. Its so genius in its simplicity. You have one character give a dramatic speech, or take a dramatic pose. The music swells....and then BAM! some comic relief character sticks his head around the corner, the music cuts out and Jokey McQuipster says "hey guys, I found my car keys!" Cut to a shot of all the main characters looking at each other confusedly and then cut to the next scene. Fucking kills me every time! (See "Are you finished yet?" in Black Panther, numerous moments in Dr. Strange, GotG2, Avengers, all the other shit etc.)

(See "Are you finished yet?" in Black Panther, numerous moments in Dr. Strange, GotG2, Antman, Avengers, all the other shit etc.)

Fuck you, I will not see them. Good day to you.

Sir I was only scouting out the Mayo's Capeshit Division General Brigadier Comedic Sans Sir

I was only scouting out the mayos sir

OUT OUT OUT

>implying negroids didn't go nuts over black panther the same as any mayo soyboy

idk for mayos it was like having a black friend to brag about. they got pretty excited

GotG and Thor Ragnarok at least were open about being fun action-comedies, not all this weird try-hard shit getting spoiled by stupid jokes like Iron Man.

They're all action comedies, that's the entire point

Comedies are meant to be funny though.

the problem with GotG2 and Ragnarok is just that they're not funny

I can't wait for the day that movies go meta and start subverting their own cliche trope subversions.

Infinity war didn't undersell the snap.

Whedon only ever did two movies for them?

Yes, He's do dumb. Only has made movies with billions of dollars at the box office. While your accomplishments in fleecing the stupid sheep that watch that capeshit include?

I'M ALWAYS LE ANGRY!!! XD

Crowd erupts in laughter, pissing themselves uncontrollably

Wait you actually saw it

Up against the wall

ok I'm a lapsed capeshit fan, you caught me. But I guarantee I hate it more now than you do

Fair enough, as long as you're reformed

very reformed, some might say autistically reformed

Have you accepted RLM as your lord and saviour?

No I hate film-youtube and if you make youtube videos about movies you might as well title your channel "I am the personfication of HIV". Fuck RLM, Fuck Every Frame a Painting, Fuck Patrick Willems, Fuck Moviebob, Fuck CinemaSins, Fuck Nostalgia Critic, Fuck YMS, Fuck Honest Trailers, Fuck every single pasty "look at how clever I am" saying banal shit about movies on youtube.

This post comes off as 'totally not mad.' Youre trying waay too hard.

How do you even manage to look like the pathetic ones when making fun of fucking comic books, the medium even losers think is for ultranerds.

comes off as 'totally not mad.'

not at all. Seeing downsies in control of pop culture gets me litty af, I'm more than happy to admit that

if you don't think Infinity War was a good movie, you're simply trying to be a contrarian

hate all the smaller movies all you want, but Inifnity War was about 1 million times better than any movie with that overloaded clusterfuck of a cast had any right being

Iron man 1 was good, the other films up until the Avengers was meh and then they made every film copy Whedon's Avengers quips. Iron Man 3 was dogshit. they have been coasting on goodwill for half a decade

Same with star wars

All Star Wars after Empire Strikes Back and Capeshit after Val Kilmer Batman are shit - most fans

Star Wars was destroyed long ago.

In a galaxy far far away 😏

The news ones never had a chance, but oh boy did they find a way to make things worse.

They might after Disney singlehandedly destroyed Star Wars

Imagine thinking the OG hyper-consumer movie franchise started being bad in the last few years

Capeshit is the worst movie trend. Literally any other movie trend (except maybe horror movies) would be better. Even historical movies.

I love periodshit.

Wet and stinky

From the bottom end of mommy

Red and brown

Wear it like a crown

Splat and shrap

Blood and crap

I love the periodshit too

is this broden’s alt

TwoX is "leaking"

It's peanut butter jelly time!

i giggled

Historical fiction is unironically the best genre

Problem is that when it’s unrealistic the historynerds complain, and when it’s realistic it’s usually lame/boring.

The former leads to good drama and I just disagree about the later

Realistic history is only boring for people who have the attention span of a goldfish.

oi m8

It comes pre-spoilered.

Good historical movies make the characters interesting anyway. Caring about spoilers is small brain shit

tbh if no one casts a fireball in the first 47 seconds im out

Fireballs would certainly spice up Downton Abbey

I love capeshit, read Pride and Prejudice, and unironically watch TCM. You need to go stick your head in a book and read.

Yep exactly

Some the of the shit Caesar got involved in is straight up more exciting than any movie, the siege of Alexandria is absurd

Clearly what we need is a pink haired poc mohawked trans girl with cyborg implants and a Samurai sword in medieval europe.

Ben Franklin as a transman.

Could work tbh.

she could have done so much work more work on Henry (and his administration) if that was the case. I call bunk on the theme.

Problem is that when it’s unrealistic

Exactly, like all those WW2 movies where they make the allies the good guys

and basically every movie where the irish are portrayed as victims, sure.

Bruh have you not seen the patriot or redtails?

They can just be as bad

I haven't seen (or heard of) redtails, what's up with it?

The Patriot is fuckin awesome tho

Patriot is mick revisionism

Redtails is just a mess all over

Patriot is mutt revisionism

REDCOAT DETECTED

Lol bongs

Lol septics

The Patriot is mostly limp dick patriotism fantasy

Imagine not seeing the patriot for the absolute masterpiece it is.

Ah yes, I love watching 3 hours of slow-motion musketball fights.

It does trigger the bongs though, so I will give it that.

3 hours of slow-motion musketball fights.

I see literally nothing wrong with this.

And I'm a haggisbong so I like seeing English people getting killed.

lol my scottish grandparents used to love any movie that had english people getting fucked up in it

They watched other movies besides braveheart?

technically

You were at zero and that's a travesty.

What crime did they commit to get deported to Australia?

Probably owed people money

scotch people don't have money

Except when they decide to be disrespectful and start modifying history to pander to modern politics.

Usually it'll get insane amounts of praise from critics, even if it is pure fiction and a dull film at best.

the same people that make capeshit end up making it though and you get nazi ufo zombies

Literally any other movie trend (except maybe horror movies) would be better.

I was gonna be offended, but the horror genre does best when it's not in the spotlight. See: late 90s teen slashers, torture porn era, and the zombie revival.

I'm longing for an actual good horror movie, why do they need to be so bad plot wise. Even though I somehow enjoy those shitty 90's slashers, the babadook is still the best one I've seen so far, and that says something.

Hereditary was very good. The Invitation is good, more thriller tho.

Highly recommend The Endless. It's on Netflix too.

overall good and worth a watch

but holy shit too many slow moving conversations. Like we're just gonna sit here and have a long slow talk about boring shit for a while. How bout no?

Yeah there's about a third of the brothers awkward conversations that you could easily cut

The Babadook

Oculus

Dark Skies

Trollhunter (not very spooky)

It Follows

The Witch

The Battery

The Invitation (not very spooky)

The Ritual

A Dark Song

It Comes At Night

Summer of 84

You're Next (kinda slashery, but a cut above imo)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Green Room

Hounds of Love

Evil Dead Remake was very good.

You missed Audition. The Descent is prettry neat too

Thanks for the list

Cult of Chucky is a masterpiece

"I want an actual hood movie, like the babadook"

Lmao

That's not what I said mate, quite the opposite actually

Horror would be way better

I want contemporary westerns to get big next. More movies like Hell or High Water and No Country for Old Men.

we need more spaghettis.

also how is No Country for Old Men even a western like niBBa what like

set in the west

dedicated sheriff

mysterious outlaw

desert shootouts

themes of the old kind of man vs the new

niBBa how is it not

ok I see yer point there

I think that Westerns made in modern times are arguably more creative than spaghettis, just because they require an update and transition of the themes of westerns.

This video has a great analysis on what it takes to make a western.

you can shove your video and your "westerns" up your ass

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is still my all time fav

also Fargo (the movie) > No Country For Old Men but both r good

Yes

What’s hell or high water about?

Essentially 2 brothers gone vigilante against predatory banks trying to foreclose and take ownership of previously worthless land which is now extremely valuable given today's unconventional west Texas oil discoveries, trying to save their family's land to break the cycle of poverty. One brother is 'honest', the other is an outlaw, both pursued by an old school lawman about to retire.

Hell or High Water

My boy. Good movie and the outro introduced me to Chris Stapleton

you have to think about those genres though

whos the antagonist? is there a twist?

these people just want "obvious good guy beats obvious bad guy with beefy punching"

except maybe horror movies

Literally the only movies worth watching

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

You weren't around for the late 90's CGI-apocalypse. The average marvel film looks like Citizen Kane compared to the shit we endured.

Maher isn't really establishment left, more like irl edgy shitposting left

He's still pro-establishment in most regards, it's just that he isn't the usual NPC and does edgy shit.

You're actually retarded.

Technically speaking, you're more retarded than I am.

I'm mentally healthy (as healthy as a drama user can be), whereas you have PTSD because your daddy flashed his dick in front of you once.

Wow, having no idea of my mental conditions beyond a quick conversation with someone and automatically assuming that makes ME retarded. GG

I didn't assume you are retarded. I assumed you are more retarded than I am.

Considering this, maybe you are retarded.

No you

Much better

Bill Maher isn't really establishment left.

He's been at odds with establishment Hollywood celebs before.

Maher is just the closest old-media host to new media. He is keenly aware old media is crumbling before him but that sweet HBO cash is what keeps him from jumping ship, or saying anything seen as too obscene. Though he does slip up from time to time.

Like saying the n word in live TV

B A S E D

Sad times we living in when Will Smith and Dwayne Johnson are the only two niggas able to bring in 400 million+ at the box office in non- DC, non-Marvel, non-Wizarding World movies.

|>thinking Bill Maher is establishment

Oh man, i really want to see the collective sperg out over this. If only he added Harry Potter and Star Wars to the mix.

I can practically see all the massive posts about how retards get their morals from stupid capeshit as justification.

Maybe know people will give a shit about Maher using the n word and saying he wants an economic collapse so they can get rid of trump.

Maybe know people will give a shit about Maher using the n word and saying he wants an economic collapse so they can get rid of trump.

"REEEEEEEE HE MADE FUN OF DADDY! REEEEEEEE"

Nah dude, wanting an economic downturn to spite drumpf is a very dumb thing to do.

Do we get that before or after the anti-gun nukes?

What?! An old guy saying comics are dumb?! This will certainly provoke the youth.

If reddit comments are anything to go by, yep.

Holy shit this is radical something.

capeshitcels B T F O

Here is my radical centrist view:

I like comics but they are a curse on modern culture and capeshit fans need to be taken down a peg -- and I mean taken to the fucking gulags.

By and tossed out of helicopters, sure

I hope the cultural pendulum eventually starts swinging back the other way on shit like comics and vidya.

this all started when we got rid of bullying #bringitback

Early, and often.

You'll be tossed too.

So you're a moron?

um sweetie, try again

I'll that as yes.

I'll take that as yes.

um sweetie, try again

Zero chance that he'll be able to recover from this

"But then twenty years or so ago, something happened – adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff," he said. "And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature."

Based.

Why do they bully Boogie like this

That's what happens when you kill the church and give people the option of capeshit or (((mandatory sensitivity training))) as its replacement.

Well, there's Maus.

And also manga.

Ever hear of a little somebody called Daniel Clowes? Yeah, you gotta have a big brain and a bigger dick to appreciate cerebral comics like his.

Weeeeeeeb

Maus is dogshit. It's about a rich guy who uses his connections to dodge all of the horrors of the war whole everyone around him dies.

He manages to save up like a year's worth of food in 3 months in a God damn concentration camp.

I'm no longer allowed to tell you to kill yourself.

The book is trash though. 100%.

My dad, the 1%, bought his way out of the Holocaust and now is a miserable miser while I profit off his life.

It runs in the family, that lust for coin.

Oh. You're an mdefugee. OUT! OUT! OUT!

probably the most brainlet review I have ever heard of anything.

"review"

Well, there's Maus.

thats such a bullshit unrealistic comic. where are the masturbation machines and rollercoasters.

Wat.

Unmarried No kids Smokes pot Used to grope models at the Playboy mansion with Hugh Hefner, who lived like a 13 year old his entire life Complains that adults read comic books

Bill really is something, isnt he?

He's been out of touch for awhile now. This is just him stirring the pot.

In other words, mod the man.

He's been out of touch for awhile now.

I would love to see faces in his audience when he said this about comic books.

In his head he probably thinks that only right wingers are into this shit.

He knows 100% how his fans feel on the subject. I doubt it's a coincidence he posted this like the day after his last show for the year.

He's been a hypocrite for ages, I stopped watching him must be what 10 years ago now, maybe more, in part due to his anti-vax stance, I mean you can't shit on people for not listening to science and then not listen to science. Makes you look like a buffoon

A consistent ideology is for cucks and foids, a chad like billy boy here doesn't have time for nonsense like that

Oh man, did Maher actually jump on the anti-vax train or was it his usual "both sides are dumb" bootleg r/dramaposting?

I'm not doing any more work than this, here is a small sample of his crazy:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/15/lkl.01.html

KING: You mean you don't get a -- you don't get a flu shot?

MAHER: A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

KING: Why? MAHER: Because it's got -- it's got mercury.

KING: It prevents flu.

MAHER: It doesn't prevent. First of all, that's...

KING: I haven't had the flu in 25 years since I've been taking a flu shot.

MAHER: Well, I hate to tell you, Larry, but if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease. I would stop getting your...

KING: What did you say?

MAHER: That went better in rehearsal but it was still good. Absolutely, no the defense against disease is to have a strong immune system. A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

KING: So you don't take any western medicine, don't take an aspirin?

MAHER: Never, an aspirin no. Thousands of people die from aspirin every year.


You can google around for more bullshit stuff he's said.

tbf flu shots are for old and infirm people, healthy adults that get them every year are legit retarded and just buying into marketing

oh fuck we actually agree on something

He was saying this to a 70+ year old man.

yeah he def counts as old and infirm

sorry if i came across as though i was arguing maher wasnt retarded

hes definitely retarded

yeah, but he was defending his own behavior, which Larry King questioned

what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

Any idiot understand that Larry king is immortal

Russian troll is immortal

Flu shots are for the old and infirm. By others getting them, the common strains of flu are less likely to spread to them. It's heard immunity.

healthy adults that get them every year are legit retarded and just buying into marketing

I think herd immunity actually applies here. If you work in contact with the elderly it also reduces the chances of carrying the flu to someone that can't fight it off

yeah vulnerable people and the ones that have to get close to them might get some benefit, obviously theres exceptions

its way less effective than people think too

its way less effective than people think too

It varies from year to year, as the Flu vaccination for any given year is changed based on what strains are forecasted to be common that year.

There was an 18 year old that died from the flu from where I'm at. Athletic, healthy, and that jazz. The flu killed him dead, it's definitely worth your time to get the shot.

You cant be healthy if your dead

Why the fuck would you NOT get a flu shot? It saves you ending up bedridden for a few days and feeling lethargic for months. What marketing is there to buy into? They cost all of $10, although both of my employers offer them to employees for free.

You're the legit retarded one if you actively allow yourself get sick because you think you're a tough guy.

Why the fuck would you NOT get a flu shot?

because the flu strain mutates constantly, and its basically a placebo unless you have a terrible immune system

you give it to old people so they dont die if they happen to get the same strain as last year, you dont just get as many injections as possible like a hypochondriac lol

Wow, he's not anti-vaccination, hes anti-medicine-as-a-basic-concept. That's even more impressively stupid.

i love Larry King he was like the proto-Tucker Carlson. He just let people prove how fucking retarded they were. When you can surprise a 70+ year old jew with your stupid opinions you know you're something

He's a Russian bot.

Wait what? He's anti vax?

His nose grows everytime he's hypocritical.

talking shit about Daddy Hef unironic posting in /r/movies about spacecapeshit

how do i delete someone else's existence

exposed

Guns

Tru

how do i delete someone else's existence

Reddit's next mass shooter?

Makes him a subject matter expert.

Are you suggesting a Hollywood liberal is a hypocrite about something? I DONT BELIEVE IT!

Bill Mahar is a Hollywood liberal the same way AnnoysTheGoys is a rich Jew.

Well he did short Elon

Also giggles at the idea of male rape and claims that kids whose hot teachers sleep with them are lucky.

Bill Mahr is a POS

The only thing he’s wrong about there is that it’s not the same with girls. He honestly thinks underage girls don’t rub their cunts thinking about nailing their history teacher Chad McBigdick. He’s a cuck.

Bill really is something, isnt he?

Yeah, fucking hilarious.

t. capeshitter

Capeshit is below that tho

Guy's a delusional. Literally every comic book guy I know is a soy-drinking male feminist who hates the orange man so even if his points about capefaggot manbabies is true, there's zero connection to Trump because he is a reactionary response to this culture than a symptom of it.

I used to hate Bill because of his retarded smug arguments, but after this he could literally bash on islam/religion for the rest of his life and I'll still pray for him to get into heaven lmao

Alan Moore's said something similar to this

To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence, it looks to me very much like a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite 'universes' presented by DC or Marvel Comics. I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times.

I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times.

Wat

we should be creating new things instead of rehashing shit thats 50 years old

Learn 2 read fagot

Read a fucking book you mong

TL;DR: 30-year-old boomer manchildren are making pop culture stagnate with their comic books and 80s fetishes.

The homogenization and blandness of most of Hollywood's film output comes down to the international market and the demand that every film be a blockbuster. No one will love it, but no one will hate it.

It feels bad to realize that we'll never see a good Star Wars movie again.

None of those movies were good, they were flash Gordon 2.0 come on man...

All starwars film suck ass

OT was great. *sips*

Alan Moore is smart as hell.

Isn't Alan Moore also a non-weeb pedophile with a magic cave underneath his house?

Not sure I'd call him a paedophile, but I won't deny he has some very weird sexual issues in his work. Nothing wrong with a bit o' magic though, and he's woke as hell about class issues and commodification/infantilisation of culture, among other things. Jerusalem would be the dirtbag Ulysses if Ulysses wasn't already the dirtbag Ulysses.

He's a mixed bag.

He's also a huge baby who never stops to cry about capeshit despite it being the reason anyone cares about him.

From Hell is over glorified serial killer fanfiction, too.

He's been typecast and he hates it. Trouble is, his smart, but not smart enough to let go of the past and move on.

Nah that's your dad

Man, I wish my dad had a magic cave...

Old Alan needs to chill with that thesaurus.

I can't find a single word above an 8th grade reading level there.

Ephemera threw me off of that sentence, but that's probably because I just haven't seen that word before.

Nah. He uses them well and naturally. There's a difference between trying to sound smart and being smart. The guy who linked /r/iamverysmart never will be.

Alan Moore also defended that trash series Uber and is a bitter old man whose last good comic was produced ages ago.

Read his literature and transmet again

I tried reading the latest League. I don't know how, but he made Harry Potter being the anti-christ, a school shooter, and a weird sex pervert seem staid and boring.

he made Harry Potter being the anti-christ

What? I thought the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was like, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and shitcetera. Does harry potter make a cameo?

He moves it out of the Victorian era. It gets progressively shittier the closest it gets to the modern day, because Alan Moore hates modern pop-culture. The Century series, the latest League volume, led up to the anti-climax of Harry Potter being the anti-Christ , which was boring because he hates those books for spreading disinformation about real magic and went too "meta" with the whole thing. It also goes into his weird-ass political views, best described as "anarchist but less interesting". Personally, if you're going to feature Harry Potter as the anti-Christ, I wouldn't. Instead, it would have been to have Neville actually being the chosen one, and the first panel of the comic book would feature the shattered remains of Harry's trademark glasses flying through the air surrounded by skull fragments, a fragment of scarred skin, a single green eye and bits of brain, as the later League is all about writing around trademarks hence "Jimmy Bond",and Moore still gets the whole tasteless "school shooting at Hogwarts" bit the whole book was written around as well as a horrifically tasteless "take that" against Harry Potter. Also Mary Poppins is not god. Mary Poppins is Mary Poppins, an that should be enough for anyone. There was a whole chapter in one of the books about that. Mary Poppins isn't secretly Hestia, God, Jesus, or the Whore of Babylon. She's Mary Poppins.

God that book pissed me off in all the wrong ways.

Ma'am we've been over this before. You need to stop.

I am a bot. Contact for questions

Lmao

No buy if Mary Poppins doesn't sex my boy HP

transmet

That's Warren Ellis

Alan Moore also wanted to make "tasteful pornography" and made a comic with underage rape, incest, prostitution and more.

Well, nobody ever said that Rasputin was perfect

Most people are garbage.

>and made a comic with underage rape, incest, prostitution and more.

Literally nothing wrong with that, unless the "more" includes cuckoldry.

what a great quote, hey what was stopping Moore from becoming a postman or something instead of writing comic books?

Also he pretends to be a magician something that even weird kids grow out of at like 7 when they discover masturbation.

His magic is real. He cursed Warner Brother's Comic book adaptions, and that's why they all suck. Zack Snyder is actually a homunculus he made in his basement, and sent to destroy all DC comic's live action film adaptions.

Because there's nothing wrong with quality creating media for children? Children learn a lot from the cartoons, books, etc. they consume and creating comic books for them isn't inherently pathetic at all. His point is about the adults whose main form of consumption is media that was made for children.

It's not as if comics like batman and superman are stopping anyone from writing and reading new stuff too. There are a ton of new comics that aren't re-using the same heroes in capes kids have been reading forever. Saga for example is hugely popular and entirely modern. You can argue that escapism is still a factor in their popularity but comics written explicitly for adults are happily exploring new ground in a peaceful co-existence with the timeless heroes in spandex punching baddies.

I've never totally bought Moore on this. Who did he write Watchmen for ? That's not for children.

He wants to have his cake & eat it. He may have a point, but he is a man who made a career writing stories about Batman & he knows it, and you cant say while trying to impress chubby middle-aged Midlands chavs at the local Wycca meet up.

Bro you can impress anybody with that comic book money

culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own

lmao comicels actually think this guy is smart and a good writer.

American comic books died with the newstand. The industry is on licensing life support. They only do new things, instead of just only publishing reprints, in the hopes that new, interesting stories will come about that can be adapted into other media.

> "And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature."

But muh Watchmen... it's more high-brow than Harry Potter at least.

Yeah if you tried to make sophisticated literature out of a comic book it would combust. It’s just scientifically impossible to tell high brow stories in comic panels.

Bout time someone with a little weight to their name called out capeshit

Have you seen what passes for sophisticated literature in modern circles? Comic books are a step up in quality.

I'd love to see him read anything by Garth Ennis and still hold the same beliefs

bill maher is one of those guys that makes me want to be a republican just so I don't share opinions with him.

Isn't "based" a synonym for "has a prepubescent foot fetish"?

It is strange how for years it was this semi-interesting niche thing to read and then because robert downey jr pranced about a mansion for an hour and a half one time every sub-20 year old drone from here to the pacific now thinks comic books suddenly mean anything.

Based and, dare I say it, redpilled.

I don't think Maher realizes his audience is solely comprised of the only people who think comic books are important.

He does, he just doesn't care. Same with his views on Islam. I genuinely respect the dude because he speaks his mind

The Ben Affleck episode is still golden.

its pretty funny looking back and seeing that is when Affleck started to lose it, like from then on he looks like he is living through hell.

Gigli didn’t set off a flare for you?

May allah grant him a place in heaven for this quote

What are his views on islam? Pretty out of the loop here, I'm not american

Maher is just the sole voice on the far left who dislikes religion enough to call out Islam as an affront to every value the far left holds.

It'd be refreshing if he weren't horrendously hypocritical and misinformed on tons of other issues.

In that case I would still say it is refreshing that someone who is very left-wing doesn't go to extreme lengths to make excuses for a lot of islam bullshit. I don't think you should discriminate muslims because of their religion, but if they do unacceptable shit you should be able to call them out on it.

Nah Maher ruins it by being retarded enough to have his valid takes completely discredited. He has very good points when he talks about Islam. He was also stupid enough to drop the N-bomb on his own fucking show last year. That he wasn't fired for it shows that nobody actually cares what Bill Maher says.

Inshallah, and Amen

I genuinely respect the dude because he speaks his mind

I don't. Being honest is only an accomplishment for people who are afraid of doing it. What you're revealing in your honesty is what matters.

Mahar's a political chameleon who will jump sides whenever he thinks he can get more views.

I bet a bunch of people think we're REEEEing over him besmirching the virginity of capeshit, but in reality we're salty that this substandard r/drama mod wannabe gets Boomerbucks for his routine and we don't

This dude told America 9-11 was an act of bravery. You think he cares about pissing off capeshit fans?

Based.

Also the title is a bit wrong. He got fired around 9 months later, and his show wasn't doing well to begin with so it's likely he was going to get sacked anyway.

He most definitely got shit canned for that individual show. There was a concerted effort to fuck with him and advertisers dropped him left and right. People were not happy over that. The show very quickly became very unprofitable.

I'm just parroting what he said on a podcast lmao, you could be right. I'm sure 9 months was the time til he got sacked, but at least the man himself claims he was doing shit anyway.

Hmm well I was a fan of the show and I remember the news being pretty relentless on ripping on the man that calls American soldiers cowards right after 9-11. It was not the greatest time to be brave with your shit talking about America. I don't know how you could even top that short of making a speech in Hawaii in 1941 celebrating the genius and bravery in Japanese strategy.

If the media is shitting on you, do you really sack the controversial man or soak up the view numbers (and then maybe sack him)? I mean we have social media now and so in 2018 it's the former, but I'm not so sure if they'd sack him immediately back in the 00s.

Again though, you could be right. Obviously Maher isn't the most reliable narrator on the issue.

During the 12 months after 9/11, you sacked him without that being question.

Which isn't even really a question if you were around for 9/11. Child.

During the 12 months after 9/11

I love how you downplay 12 months lmao.

I love how you downplay 12 months

Uh...what do you think "downplay" means?

I brought it up, frontloaded it and everything I said is conditionally based upon it. Have you even graduated from high school yet?

And "Child" too- are you a boomer?

I'm over 30, so, yup.

everything I said is conditionally based on it

Sweaty, I hope you know this has nothing to do with downplaying something.

I'm over 30, so, yup.

Well I'm sorry to hear that.

I hope you know this has nothing to do with downplaying something.

The other two things I said right before that sort of do.

So what do you think "downplaying" means?

Every time I see smug egotistical seriousposting on this sub it's always you. Do you huff your own farts between writing these retarded comments?

Oh I have a fan. Sorry, who are you?

Every time I see smug egotistical seriousposting on this sub it's always you.

I recently decided people who are bad with subtext(this means you) didn't have to be my audience. I appreciate that the occasional lack of /s can be confusing, but it's a little much to expect the rest of us to slow down for you.

Imagine this much unironic C O P E, it's OVER for sweaty!

Is that more your speed?

Hey guys I'm so great my comments have complex hidden meaning even when I'm just sperging out over shit noone cares about. *snifffff*

I'm so great my comments have complex hidden meaning

Imagine thinking saying the opposite of what you mean, dragging everything out into a petty slapfight and being needlessly belligerent all the time is a tough riddle to crack.

I'm just sperging out over shit noone cares about.

What do you think people here do care about?

ur mum lol

The problem was it is broadcast tv. Their only way to make money is ads. There was no ad money for the show. It was not just controversy from angry blue checkers like you see today. It was a concerted boycott of companies dropping his ass and more wanting to be attached to him. ABC isn't a charity. They made no money from it versus alternatives.

Actual live proof of a 12 year old on drama over here lmao

Talking shit about US troops during the biggest pro-war moment of the 2000s is beyond career suicide. If you weren't an actual baby back then you'd remember the sheer amount of American jingoism that Trump wishes he could stir up now

I don't have context for the very thing I was replying to because I'm a retarded child

Son, you ever talk back to me again and I'll take away your Fortnite priveledges

I already mentioned I was basing off my opinions on what he said on some podcast, and rest was speculation.

You have Amerilard education to thank if you weren't able to catch that, mutt.

I look forward to the day of ultimate reckoning, when we destroy every nation, including yours, with our surplus supply of Amerilard nuclear weaponry.

You should look up the Dixie chicks

Got a link to the backround image? I want to reuse it.

You mean the Amerimutt, or the ghetto street?

In either way, I only have this version of the image. The original had a /pol/ post which I replaced with this tard wrangler's poor attempt at being sentient.

Can you send me the exact image but without the tard wranglers post?

Thanks it's perfect.

I remember the same thing. It’s funny, because if you take what he was saying exactly is he seemingly intended to say it-only that, flying into a building is braver than remotely controlling a cruise missile, he has a point. But at that time, everyone was thinking about the cowardice of killing thousands of people who had nothing to do with any conflict at all. But yeah, you’re right-his career was thoroughly derailed at least for a long time based on that specific comment.

I’m of two minds about the guy, not particularly because I’m a Republican, but I do respect the man at least in part because he’s one of the only left-leaning people in Hollywood who continually calls out Islam, or really any religion, and a lot of the pussy PC culture. I feel like I know he’s an asshole, he knows he’s an asshole, and at least we can both get down on that. We might actually be able to figure some shit out because we both know we are idiots and assholes… There’s nowhere to go but up

This dude told America 9-11 was an act of bravery.

Say what you want about the guy, at least he isn't cowardly.

Trying to fistfight the bouncer at a stripclub isn't bravery, it's being stupid

Flying a plane into a building for a god you think is real is pretty fucking brave. I've never understood why people call suicide bombers cowards.

Because when it comes to Public Enemies, people cannot distinguish denying something bad about them from taking their side.

He said the people in the planes weren’t cowards, and they weren’t. A coward wouldn’t go kamikaze. He wasn’t praising their mission or saying they were good people.

You are a coward for killing off innocent people that aren't fighting you back.

Killing yourself doesn't take that much bravery, judging by suicide rates, and not having to see the result of your actions doesn't strike me as especially corageous either.

his audience is boomers who fancy themselves still being pretty cool.

you think retarded millennial monkeys are cool?

I will support anyone who bashes capeshit

Ok extremely unpopular opinion. Stan Lee set comics back, because while similar mediums like manga ended up explorer all facets of life American comics got stuck being majorly only about superheroes. This hurt the medium comic in a way that is only now starting to recuperate from.

Yeah compared to glorious Nippon and its manga,which fully explores the ways that the high scool setting can be inserted into... pretty much anything.

You can criticize manga but lack of variety it aint. You can find popular manga about almost anything, not even niche stuff. There is a very famous series about a gay couple during the 80s american gang wars. There are popular manga about a man trying to deal with political corruption as he starts working in politics. There are manga about people that wanna play jazz.

With american comics what is selling? Spiderman # 1546?

There's some really good series out there,no doubt about it,but its because the industry is not so centralized as comic books,there can come a one hit wonder type of author that gets his big break and then he wont release anything of note or hes gonna milk his series until the cows come home.Also they save costs and time by not coloring their series and how they are distributed in large books compared to flimsy comics that are what? 40-50 pages.So you can find the good stuff even on a whim.

But you cant deny that there's a ton of fluff out there.Especially the stuff that doesn't gets scanned and translated into English,shit is usually dime a dozen.

compared to flimsy comics that are what? 40-50 pages

24 pages per month. its amazing comics are even an industry. how fucking hard can it be coming up with 24 pages of content a month?

You're not wrong

No amount of differing variants will change anime waifu plot from anime waifu plot.

Hitler waifu, dragon wifu, jesus waifu, idgaf. It's all waifus in the end.

Implying capeshit comics don't design their female characters for waifu-bait too.

Weebs are just capecels who like their self-delusional masturbatory fantasy a little more under-age

What was the waifu in DBZ?

Princess Trunks.

That dirty boy.

Does it even matter when the Japanese can't even stop making all the characters the fucking same?

Is a tsundere in a mech suit any different than a tsundere in a "80's American gang war"?

I guarantee you the mc is still gonna be smug tryhard and be getting glomped by a overenthusiastic highschool girl.

If you were too look close enough you'd find shit that wasn't about superheroes the same way you have to find something in manga that isn't about fucking your little sister. Why even bother.

There is a very famous series about a gay couple during the 80s american gang wars. There are popular manga about a man trying to deal with political corruption as he starts working in politics. There are manga about people that wanna play jazz.

Is there Manga about people wallpapering a large auditorium in silence? Because that sounds more interesting than any of that shit.

I think so actually. I can't remember the name but i do remember something like that being a thing.

Frank Miller is the best thing to happen to comics because how little of a shit he cares about the medium

I don't understand this point.

If you look at the best selling graphic novels/trades (this is equivalent to manga volumes) from October.

There's currently Gideon's Falls a horror mystery in a city, My Heroes have always been Junkies which is a story about a girl going through rehab, and Death or Glory a series about heists during the 1960's.

You know what the best selling one was for manga? Actual capeshit Literally a manga version of the Justice League

The only way you get to this point is by being a weeb and not paying attention to comics.

They are the same thing, and I say this with a new volume of Yotsuba and a stack of the Over the Garden Wall comic at my side.

Imagine having an opinion about children’s picture magazines. Imagine being as retarded as you are. 😂😂😂😂😂

Manga is for faggots.

There’s also tons of American comics that explore shit loads of different themes...

>inserted

Maybe don't just read the same manga as pedoweebs?

I blame the adult fanbase who prefer shit like this over this

I'm the only capeshit fan alive that was bored as shit with New X-Men.

Velvet Glove is a fucking trip my dude. What a great book.

whiny indie comics

Just because I don't like cancer doesn't mean I want herpes

Rude but fair

There's a graphic novel, Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks, that has that as one of its underlying themes - that graphic novels could have been another great medium but were ruined by cookie-cutter capeshit.

Your transparent attempt to shill for the kiwi graphic novel industry worked. I'll check it out.

I enjoyed it, as someone who hates comics.

I looked it up as something to maybe read later. Apple thumb pay kicked in and I’ve now got this graphic novel on my phone.... in French!

The literary establishment is dead and rotting. Academia has murdered art. No new great works of art can be made, because we are incapable of appreciating them.

Lmfao, go home, dog. You're drunk.

I'm not, actually. You try reading modern literary analysis, as I had to, and you'll gradually realize that civilization has already ended. We just haven't noticed yet.

I have a post-grad degree in it, suck my dick 😂 😂 😂

How's working at McDonald's treating you?

I'm a lawyer. You tell me.

You just said you had a post-graduate degree in literary analysis, and now you claim you have a law degree. You'd have to be at least forty to have both of those. How boring and miserable must your life be, as a forty year old man, to be not only posting on r/drama, but also moderating it?

I'm not American, you fucking knob.

I didn't call you an American. Are you responding to a different comment by mistake?

It's very clear that your assumptions about how long studies take is entirely predicated on Burget schooling and not, say, the Oxbridge model where you can do undergrad alongside law degrees.

Suck my dick, ignorant Burger.

What's Burget schooling?

How did you deal with all the obnoxious political shit? Or does that just go away after freshman and sophomore year?

There wasn't any. That's a uniquely American form of retardedness.

You're a Kiwi or a Brit. Because the British NUS makes American college campuses seem like a saintly citadel of sensible sanity.

I have nice teeth, thank you.

I tried reading an academic about policing. It asked "Are Pakistani men the British Media's New Folk Devils"

You know when LE STEM majors talk shit about how useless LibArts degrees are?

I'm not saying the degree is useless; I'm saying most modern literary analysis is garbage and should be fed to pigs. I like good literary analysis, but the last work I read that I really enjoyed in that field was an examination of Japanese horror movies from ten years ago.

Oh whoops, misread your comment.

Yeah, lit critique is godawful because it's sounds so much time trying to connect the dots it sucks everything interesting out of stories and boils them down to academically-proven movements and universal cliches, not unlike the spergs over at TVTropes.

Stan Lee was just a fan of and as such just following an already well established trend of superhero favouritism. DC Comics is much, much more at fault.

Nah, that's just a symptom and not the real issue. Look at europe. They're not dominated by capeshit, but they're still not doing well.

The issue is that people think comics are for (man)children. In Japan shit directed at children is of course still king, but you also have lots aiming for older and more 'normal' demographics.

Gee, I wonder what could have given them that idea

The market is small. Capes are easy to understand and easy to read. They are the simplest, dumbest concept, and thus survive. Its like that one book that should have been awesome but wasn't where Superman was the last man on Earth and had to fight twin clones of Hitler.

Otakus are not normal lol

It had nothing to do with Stan Lee. It was the government getting involved and threatening to regulate comics and jail the creators for corrupting the youth and peddling “filth”. What was popular before superheroes were crime and horror, and due to government pushback and intervention in the industry these types of stories were abandoned and capeshit became king.

Even capeshit was heavily, heavily censored and took decades to slowly pull back those barriers. That’s why comics used to have the “comics code” which was basically comic companies self censoring in order to prevent a government regulatory board from censoring them. This is where the cheesy, campy style of superhero comics came from, because you couldn’t have Batman drop a guy off a building he would now be running around fighting dinosaurs and talking apes with Robin.

So yeah, the government censored an art form until only one type of that art form existed and that’s why capeshit became the most accepted form of comic book and other genres died off. Stan Lee was just one of the best creators of said shit, promoting the actual talents of creators like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, but if the industry had seen freedom at the time it’s doubtful those types of comics would have been so ubiquitous.

Cough, I mean capeshit is some faggot shit and comics are for gay bitches.

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It was the government getting involved and threatening to regulate comics and jail the creators for corrupting the youth and peddling “filth”.

Tfw not in the best timeline where the government followed through on this.

If they really wanted to get rid of filth they should have removed capeshit first and foremost.

Actually, superheroes didn't regain popularity until the 1960s. They were also big in the 30's and early 40s, but most people lost interest in them. Horror and Crime comics were the big thing until the early 1950s, and then it was science fiction and basic adventure stories for a while. Then the Silver Age happened, and superheroes ruled the roost. That's not getting into the sixties underground comic book scene, which latter blossomed into the eighties and nineties black and white boom which featured a lot of non-superhero titles.

propping up manga

out

Weebs OUT! OUT! OUT!

lol nerd

Comic books died a long ago, and superheroes are the sole survivors. They're like the Coelcanths: living fossils, only kept alive to keep the much more profitable licensing department going.

wrong, the comics code decades before pretty much sanatized comics to the point where only superheros comics could make money. Also the 1960s comics were pretty neat. They were in real time. Stan Lee even said he would keep aging the characters until they died and then he would write adventures for the next generation of heros. like Spiderman was only in high school for 2 years real time. 13 years in college, and the last 40 years in his 20s

No comics talk about really good stuff, the problem is how western culture has taken certain aspects like diversity and progressiveness and made them into the focal point of everything. Look at the story where Kraven impersonates Spiderman, or the dark knight series. Blame corporates trying to appeal to everyone instead of focusing their attention on a few topics.

Also check out non marvel and dc comics they're great.

What the fuck does that have to do with Stan Lee? That's like if when Ralph Emerson criticized theatre for being stuck in the past he went after Shakespeare instead of the people writing the god damned plays. Stan Lee wasn't the one pushing Spiderman issue #978, it was the executives at Marvel. Plus, comic books would be a dead medium without superheroes, and they're already dying anyway. People just don't like to read books full of still images and stilted dialogue when they can watch full length series with sound and animation and cinematography. The popularization of manga in Japan has also stilted creativity in anime. Hardly any anime is ever made that isn't based off of a manga or light novel, because studios can't take the risk or afford a few flops without going bankrupt. It's really just pick your poison with these more unique mediums.

Brian Lee OMalley made western graphic novels mega popular again for awhile and it was about growing up and romance instead of superheroes.

Cape autists = destroyed

Now that is a take

Wtf I love Maher now.

Bill "chad" Maher anally destroys capecel

This may be the first time I’ve ever 100% unironically agreed with something Bill Maher has said.

You don’t like when he roasts mussies 😒

You underestimate the strength of Capeshit. Be prepared to see obnoxious TIL about Maher on Reddit tomorrow.

TV's #1 shitposter. 😍

http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2018/11/16/adulting

Here’s the actual blogpost for the 3% here who can read

Speaking of comedy, how dare you mock a comedy legend like The Three Stooges. You've got some balls. Unfortunately, you're too good for such trivial stuff, what with your genius intellect and all them picture less books you done read. At least Stan Lee inspired people, and was well liked, unlike you. So shut your mouth and get off your high horse, asshole.

Accurate.

Accurate, Rightuous Rage.

over capeshit. goodstuff

This is not good for dramacoin

The irony of this coming from a comedian of all people is lost upon him.

He is really comes off as smarmy.

Bill Maher's entire schtick was being a smug reddit douchebag decades before reddit was founded.

Eh it is the fact that he supports pets yet ears meat.

someones gotta eat all the animals they kill

You can't let all that meat go to waste.

damn that's pretty much spot on

"boohoo he said mean things about my picture books"

I really, don't care about le capeshit. I just increasingly find Mahr to as obnoxious as those he mocks.

Wtf I love bill Maher now.

Lol, it’s like he doesn’t know that the comicbook community is largely liberal and hate Trump.

this is the same comicbook community that had an aneurism when they made comics about a black spiderman and a woman thor?

Woman Thor was hot garbage, though. The industry is mostly elderly, in spirit if not in body, white leftist males trying to appeal to young women so they can fuck them at this point. Its embarrassing.

as i recall, the backlash was certainly not "this comic is not high quality enough"

She also had cancer she could cure with her magic powers, but didn't, for no good reason.

lol

Last I checked, Miles Morales is actually pretty well liked by the fans currently. Riri Williams (black female Iron Man) on the other hand, is not, from what I've seen at least.

What kind of name is riri

The kind someone who thinks black woman = Rihanna would think up?

My first thought is it's a name for a dog, but yeah that works too.

Black spiderman did ok I think, woman thor was simply too stupid even by capeshit standards

Liberal men are still racist, they just feel really bad about it and are easily manipulated.

Yes, and that's why they lose.

Well he's not wrong. New movies suck now. I'm a 38 year old woman. What the fuck do I care about superpower man? And star wars too for that matter.

SHOW US YER TITS.

He's not wrong, but I have a hard time trusting a guy who voluntarily fucked Ann Coulter.

Ok that’s gross, I hate Bill Maher now

How could you say no to hate fucking Ann Coulter.

Comparing trump's election with capeshit popularity is incredibly stupid, but I do think its silly that some people actually think that capeshit is deep or meaningful in anyway.

wtf I love Bill Mahar now

WAT U SEZ ABOOT ME COMICS, CUNT?

This nigga is an anti-vaxxer - he's the epitome of retardation.

Doesn’t he just think the flu shot is dumb?

I want to see Alan Moore, Neil Gaimen, and Grant Morrison ritually rape, murder, and sacrifice Bill Maher to their dark gods. And then Frank Miller just stabs his corpse with a katana while Rob Liefeld sits in the corner in shame.

that's implying frank miller and alan moore wouldn't stab each other first

Alan Moore and Grant Morrison also hate each other.

Holy shit, I actually agree with him for once.

I like capeshit. Fight me.

Maher’s been an out of touch douche for a while now.

Jesus, the majority of people in this thread are actually on Maher's side?

🚨🚨🚨 Basic bitch detected. 🚨🚨🚨

lol imagine liking capeshit in current year

Irrelevant has-been's cocksucker detected.

I'm pretty damn liberal, and so from a very liberal point of view, I say this:

Fuck you, Bill Maher.

Fuck you for shitting on something people love just so you can condescend to them to make yourself seem superior.

Fuck you for making a medium you don't understand the scapegoat for society's ills, much as people have done with videogames, rap, rock and roll, and yes, even stand-up comedy.

Fuck you for using the death of an admired and beloved figure as a sleazy excuse for you to grandstand.

Fuck you for acting like any art medium should be considered a lesser medium, something for idiots and children.

Fuck you for trying to politicize something that was largely politically benign.

Fuck you for your unnecessary insult to people who are hurting, the rhetorical equivalent of kicking someone while they're down.

Fuck you, Bill Maher. As a liberal who likely agrees with you on a lot of stuff, fuck you, you piece of shit hack.

Nerd

^ Classic triggered libtard.

REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Yeah. But why shit on a Poors man slowly cooling corpse.

Why does this sub hate comics wtf it's just another nerdy medium of entertainment

he's definitely ourguy

Saying stupid shit to get attention. Political talking heads really are just shitposters.

He isn't wrong.

Based and redpilled

I’ll never understand these people who insist that certain mediums are only for kids/teens and can’t contain “mature adult stories”. If you took a mature adult story (however you define it) and made it into a comic/anime/cartoon the paper isn’t going to spontaneously combust and the story’s still going to be the same.

Maher just won a lot of respect from me at least: he truly has balls.

And now when adults are forced to do grown-up things like buy auto insurance, they call it “adulting,” and act like it’s some giant struggle.
Yep, hit the nail on the head there.

What a chud

LULZ

Do people on the left not comprehend that not everyone shares their views, and Donald trump got elected because people didn’t like the other choice?

I’m not defending republicans or the right but it’s always the same shit when a democrat is the president. People on the right freak out.

Bill maher edgelord

"On top of being a clueless Berniebro

They're still mad at bernie for hillary losing?

So the plan to make sure Trump loses the next election is to insult the population of people potentially voting? Worked last time like a charm...

I'm not a comic book guy but bill maher is one of those guys that makes me want to be a republican just so I don't share opinions with him.

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