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Today we're discussing something no one cares about: comic books! Don't worry, there's also racism, r*pe, bitter old men, the nature of fiction and its influence on reality, school shootings, and blackface in here. I'm posting in chunks because the automod is the devil. : Drama

https://old.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/q3o3it/today_were_discussing_something_no_one_cares

								

								

Repost but it’s a great one. Also there’s this that got cut off by reddit.

A black woman reacts to Alan Moore ibcluding the living incarnation of blackface in his comic

https://andweshallmarch.typepad.com/and_we_shall_march/the_black_dossier/

The main problem with this is that LoEG was always about exploring the baggage of characters. The parts that got left behind as they got cleaned up and sanitized. Like Allan Quartermain’s drug use or Nemo’s casual murderousness and racism. You can’t feature the Golliwog in a work like that and not mention racism or how uncomfortable it is talking to a living breathing blackface caricature. Even Dianey knew better than to use the Mandarin from the comics. That’s why he’s a more civilized Genghis Khan instead of Fu Manchu in Legend of the Ten Rings.

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The OP of that thread is a total sperg, nice find.

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We should invite him to RDrama.

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Look how dynamic your posts used to be

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Why put effort in when no one appreciates it?

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I appreciate you

:#marseymarseylove:

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>hugging without written consent

:marseytrollcrazy:

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I made a low effort train post the other day and it bested my last 10 posts, it really doesn't matter lol

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People enjoy trussyblasting more than bussyblasting :marseydepressed:

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You guys just don’t appreciate quality drama.

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I had to walk uphill both ways to bussyblast and now kids are trussyblasting on tiktok :marseysigh:

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We need a "pearls before swine" Marsey.

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I appreciate the effort you put into that post dissecting where Moore went off the rails, solid work


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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Authors often don’t understand how their own work works. I know this from experience.

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Yeah, it's a funny kind of blindness, because we see how we connected some things but can't always see why we connected them that way.


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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better than all the cute twinky self posts littered across this site.

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Leftists still seethe over Alan Moore and his r*pe fetish.

Hes also stupidpol pilled :marseywhirlyhat:

I understand that it may not be considered good form to suggest that class issues are as important as issues of race, gender or sexuality, despite the fact that from my own perspective they seem perhaps even more fundamental and crucially relevant. After all, while in the West after many years of arduous struggle we are now allowed to elect women, non-white people and even, surely at least in theory, people of openly alternative sexualities, I am relatively certain that we will never be allowed to elect a man or woman of any race or persuasion who is poor.

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I am relatively certain that we will never be allowed to elect a man or woman of any race or persuasion who is poor.

Reagan was born to a low-income family

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Get help


:chad!black2: :marseybear::marseyrefrigerator:

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This is cheaper and easier than therapy.

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Loving comic books is pain. Don Rosa once referred to the modern comic book market as “miserable” I hate the arrogance and contempt in that statement. I hate the smug condescendion in it. I hate the dismissiveness of it. I also hate that he’s completely right.

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Cheap animation killed comics as an art form. Doesn't help that the writers all suck.

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What are your thoughts on the manga market vs western comic market. Manga seems to be doing well no?

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Manga still has variety. It ain’t all Shonen. There are three or four Golf mangas going right now. Golf manga. What do American comic books have to offer? Superhero comics are the only game left in town, and those haven’t been good since the nineties, and I’m being overly generous here. The American comic book industry is dead, and we are just vultures tearing at it’s corpse. Alan Moore tried to do new things, but his essential spark seems to have been snuffed out. Cinema Purgatoria was like a fricking Chick Tract. I don’t even know if Arachnae or Top Shelf is still publishing comics.

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Manga is even worse imo when it comes to variety, despite going into "new" territory the stories are all the same, doesn't matter if it's tennis, golf, lazer tag, or hacky sack. Japanese readers are even more conservative than western ones, and require an almost slavish adherence to tired tropes, to the point where even the subversion of those tropes becomes unoriginal and repetitive.

One of the most interesting things to me is that the further back you go in Japanese manga/anime the more relatable the characters and artstyles are to western audiences. The stories, the characters, the lives depicted are very obviously written by people who were at least somewhat normalstrags. Especially in seinen works, the working adults/college students/high schoolers depicted went from people that most normies could sympathize with to almost exclusively some variant of an outcast/loser/nerd. Otaku culture has almost completely absorbed all of anime and manga, and it's ultimately a net negative.

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Japan has slowly become a less and less human friendly society

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True, the developments I'm complaining about are probably accurate to how Japanese society has changed. It's just weird, even as recently as the early 2000s you could find works that depict relatively normal relationships that western audiences could relate to.

The one thing that has remained constant though is the rampant libertarianism, maybe it's less overt now with the main characters usually matching the age of their paramours, but back then it wasn't uncommon to see authors seriously depict idealized relationships between adult men and teenaged girls. Japan's obsession with high school girls hasn't changed a single bit.

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Nuke Japan again.

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But Black Dynamite, I live in Japan

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I prefer the sequel where 20 foot tall antichrist harry Potter murders the protagonists with a laser blast from his giant uncircumcised peepee.

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>you just entered a carp thread

(source is Neonomicon)

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An entire generation of fat scrote weirdos experienced their sexual awakening to Creature from the Black Lagoon during a late night showing in like 1968.

It's the only explanation for all the fish-fricking media we now have

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I never bought the romance in The Shape Of Water. It always felt more like she was molesting a small child.

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Why are they keeping the fishman in a public swimming pool? Does he have to get out of the pool to use the bubbler because he can’t actually drink chlorinated water?

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It's not well explained, the swimming pool. No, the water doesn't matter to him. There's crime, full penetration as Carpy r*pes her for a while then the comic just sort of ends. I'm not joking

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Even Lovecraft didn’t have the Deep Ones as male feminists. They actually married the humans before mating with them. Part of the horror of the story was normal New England townsfolk voluantarily laying root to a bunch of freaky viswyf. Yes, it wasn’t just woman riding the fish stick. Blokes were also supposed to sleep with the fishes.

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We get it, you prefer manga

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I actually got in contact with him to make a comment about ur post he said:

“Oi everyone it’s mea, Alun Moooor. Noin elehven roofah is slandurring mea by cauling me uh raisist. And ow will not stan’ for ‘at. Just because some uppity blakuh woahman doesunt like mea comac book doesunt make mea uh racist. She’s jus’ bein a whoiny tuuuuurd”

Hes got a fun voice to imitate

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