Everyone remember that famous quote: "If you don't like my politics, Don't Buy My Book. End of discussion." I wouldn't be surprised if she used it too.
People like her have destroyed absolutely _everything_ within society and culture. They not only infiltrated comics, games, and movies, but they’ve infiltrated higher education, Iegacy media, big tec, grammar school, private schools, school boards, major corporations, corporate boards, medicine, and psychology. They are lawyers, judges, cops, teachers, congressional representatives, and senators. They’re at the top levels of the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS, the U.S. Military and they’re dug in like tics within the bureaucracy of our all institutions within the govt. It’s no accident, no coincidence that we see the subversiøn of all aspects of traditionaI American society and cuIture. They all have the same goal, and that goal is to infiltrate and destroy our Republic from within. Fortunately people are starting to wake up to this madness, this rot within.
Her ilk have destroyed society. Children and men are being failed but women are getting higher education results, jobs they are not qualified for and scholarships just to study STEM without being in the top level or disadvantaged. Earlier pension age and lower punishment for similar crimes as men.
SJW's for years in the industry: "My abhorrent opinions on social media are not a factor in the consumer buying product, because I have nothing to do with consumer relations...I am above customer service; such petty capitalistic necessities are beneath me and they are a terrible economic model to follow anyways..." SJW's now: "Oh, we have to watch what we say on social media, be polite and listen to the consumers, because customer relations are clearly a part of the gig...Spread the word around fellow narcissists, I just came up with a brilliant idea on how to solve this crisis we created that has nothing at all to do with literally every single consumer of comics that have been screaming at me for years about...I swear I came up with this strategy on my own, super cereal...Oh, wait, is it already too late, as we brought the industry to its knees and there are no consumers remaining, they've all fled to manga...Oh well, guess I'll apply for a gig in manga then and repeat this abhorrent process all over again, so who do I know in the manga industry that can fast track me, who are the cis het huwite sum premises's that I may extort, exploit and falsely accuse in order to garner position within manga..."
It happened in game journalism too. People noticed a lot ot talentless women who didn't play games getting into journalist mags like the Escapist and when news came out they were snogging their way into positions of power people called them out. What happened? these women cried misogyny low interest people flocked around them and plugged their ears when presented with facts. That's how gamer gate started, and they spent 15 years crowing about how evil GG was while they bled customers. Those same types are how we ended up with the failed G4 reboot, how comics ended up the way it was. all of it.
Facts they stopped making content for the hardcore fan and focused on the casual vocal minority. It’s sad byproduct of something becoming mainstream. Hopefully anime doesn’t take that route
Hearing other people talk about the real reason behind the fake movement they called 'gamergate' is so refreshing. Everyone knows that gg was started to hide the fact that fake writers and developers that are female were banging men for positive media attention. Now that they can't get free money for spreading lies and destroying an industry, they are trying to come back to sucking off the head men for work.
@@r.l.royalljr.3905 People still believe most of that like many misunderstood stuff that has happened over the past few years. People these days just believe one narrative and don't bother to really look into other angles of the stories. It drives me f$$king nuts much of the time!
Gail Simone sounds like Gavin Newsom, standing in the ruins of California. "Everything is destroyed, who is responsible for all this? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bravo! You said everything so many of us have been thinking for years. As a woman who has collected comics for over 30 years, I believe that allowing weak, narcissistic women like Gail and her ilk into comics is hands-down the worst thing to happen to comics since their inception. Ruined, all of it.
As another comic collecting woman, I agree! Holy crap, not even Transformers, my mainstay in the geekdom, has remained safe from these by these weak willed, talentless ideologues. The recent run of comics have just sought to add division into the fandom. No one cares about the writer's shitty politics or confused sexual identity, we care about Optimus Prime, Megatron, the Autobots, the Decepticons, and their civil war.
This shitshow is only phase 1. Now they have supplanted genuine creators with talent and vision and turned the comic industry into their playground for intersectional feminism it’s time to hand the baton over to their friends in the movie industry. Marvel and DC now introduce these new failing characters into their films. Out with the old successful straight white male legacy characters, in with the new unpopular intersectional replacements. Speak up and be told that this is ‘canon’ now. “It’s in the comics bro. Do you think you know better than Marvel/DC?” The comic industry will die. The m-she-u won’t be far behind, and Manga will rightfully dance on their graves.
You should also take note of all the kiss-ass men who attacked the fans and were just as insane as them. like Dan Slott and others like him helped them out BIG time and they couldn't have done it without them. I think it was 2015 or whenever Marvel came out with the "All New All Different" lineup that ACCELERATED the downfall of comics which also FAILED SPECTACULARLY and then TRIED IT AGAIN in phase 4 to the same result. It isnt a surprise to me that those TV shows and movies have ALL BEEN DUDS so far. The same bad writing, the same unlikable characters, AND bad CGI to boot have all added up to Phase 4's utter disappointment.
I have never been a comic book fan. Ever. But when I looked into what happened to the Industry via Az, Gary and Eric, I realized, “Oh crap. THIS is what is gonna happen to the rest of the entertainment industries if you don’t say anything.”
This is one of the main reasons I'm willing to put up my money for these people. I'm not able to support a lot of people but I will support those trying to change this. What they've done to people likes those in comics gate is evil and if I can help them fight back and get awesome comics at the same time I'm gonna do it.
@@draxxzakuto5735 Yep. I do what I can as well because what's scary about it is this could easily happen to any of our entertainment. Video games and anime seem the most resilient due to the sheer size of the audience but music and movies are getting destroyed because too many people said, "What's the big deal?"
It's already happening in entertainment and has been a while now. Today's movies and tv shows have been turned into propaganda machines for feminism and wokeness.
It started with video games and then moved into comics. I didn't care back then and thought people were just exaggerating until it started affecting the movies and TV shows. These progressive people are just incapable of writing anything good no matter what genre or medium they are working in. It's frustrating.
... it's already happened. ...I can't even count how much money I've saved on movies, books, games and tv series I didn't check out past 4 years because I'm not paying someone to berate me based on the colour of my skin, sexuality, or blame me for events from 100+ years ago.
The reason there are so few news sites and message boards is because the people who ran them destroyed their own credibility by yelling "THE MESSAGE!". I do feel sorry for the Comics Store owners ... they were forced by the corporate publishers to buy dozens, even hundreds, of titles that sat and rot on shelves so they could get the one or two series that actually sell. It's been years since I bought a comic book, because the last time I looked at any of the mainstream titles it was ... ugly and boring. All of the women turned into chunky, muscular, hyper-masculinized lumps and all the men turned into losers. Why, oh why, would I spend money on something I literally pulled out of the garbage can?
These people and those like her should be mocked and shamed for what they did to the comics industry and movies as well, they’ve brought about a cultural dark age that will take decades to recover from and their insidious invasion of the video game industry is still ongoing to this day.
They’re doing the thing we always said they would: when there was nothing else to wring out of comics they’d stand their and say right to our faces “what happened to comics?” This is the EXACT correct response to them when they do it. Shame them, denigrate them and call them all the things that they are. NEVER let them gaslight and NEVER let them forget.
This is how I feel about the Star Wars franchise. I avoid any mention of it these days because of how far down it has gone. People like Simone took it over and continue to run it into the ground, abuse it, and disrespect the hardcore fans who have long left and stopped paying. Comics are the same. It's altogether a shame and a disaster.
Wait Gail Simone was the first to use fridging as a term?! I've been faced with that numerous times, but had no idea where it came from. That whole thought process was just one of the things that ruined wheel of time TV show.
It goes back to the early days of Kyle Raynor as Green Lantern. His gf is killed and shoved into a fridge. Gail then insistently moaned about women being "fridged" to crated agency for heroes.
Meanwhile Eric July pulling in how much in 2 days? Fully self-funded with no corporate overlords or advertisers to appease & not having to worry about industry politics, creating jobs for people & giving the customer what we want: a traditional superhero story with no preaching, pandering or politics. His only agenda is getting paid for his work & building a sustainable business
I feel your anger and frustration Az, I really do. I was a kid of the 70s and 80s and the stories and characters of Marvel and DC gave me some of the most enjoyable years of my youth. Artists and writers like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Siegel and Shuster and John Romita had more talent in their little finger than all these self-absorbed piece of shit nobodies combined. it truly breaks my heart to see all these classic characters of comics and films alike get torn to shreds and torn down by these nasty, miserable empty husks that have completely destroyed a once great and thriving industry.
Totally agree and mad love for the greats! I'm a huge Ditko, Kirby and Joe Kubert fan. Even later, from the 80's through the 90's we had some amazing artists and writers: Todd McFarlane, Frank F'n Miller! Dillon & Ennis, Texeira, Bill Sienkiewicz; Neil Gaiman even wrote some comics. So much great ART - Spiegleman's Maus, R. Crumb, Joe and Tim Vigil, Hernandez Brothers--the 90's had STRONG indies. I could go on and on. It's just so sad to see the state of the comics medium today as a whole knowing what is once was and could have been if it had not gotten destroyed by self-absorbed talentless hacks. It's funny how prattling on about the old stuff can make me nostalgic and winsome--I wonder how many of today's titles will give anyone the same feeling in the future....
Couldn’t agree more. Grew up on 60s Marvels and left comics when Stan and Jack left the building. Can’t believe how absolutely twisted and perverted this industry has become although I have nothing to do with it anymore. Stan Lee had the formula all figured out for doing outstanding comics and NO ONE since then has learned a damn thing (lower case lettering for word balloons? Wha-??). Marvel died in the seventies. That’s it.
The indie scene trumping the big publishers also goes to show you don't need publishers if you know what you're doing. The doujinshi scene in Japan and indie authors in the States and elsewhere all reinforce that point.
The irony here is not only do they not care about comics but they also are completely oblivious to the ecosystem around comics, which they seemingly have destroyed, all by their lonesome. I sincerely hope it gets worse before it gets better, so these talentless hacks can move on to destroy something else, leaving the industry to rise from the ashes again, anew.
Gail reminds me of the sort of person who'd reach past a driver to use a knife to tighten a screw. She seems to be a perennial fork in the plug socket kinda gal.
This is why I love and respect Az, he says it how it is and has the balls to say what we all are thinking and want to be said! Love you big boy, you're wonderful!
well said. comic readers have seen their favorite characters systematically undermined by these so called writers for years now and the majority have simply walked away.
I stopped buying comics because of her. No desire to go back. I have better things to spend my money on, and trust me, my children won't waste money on comics either.
Gail Simone is as her name is... Fake. She made a brand on a fake name, promoted a fake name.... She isn't real, because her real name would expose her to everything associated with her past - which, when I have heard this referenced from comic book creators has told me, it must be a F'd up history of Grifting amongst being rich from her Mummy and Daddy.
@@amadeusagripino6862 YES. Its a fake name. I have heard people openly challenge her on YT (when she seemingly threatened EVS for some reason) and say he can easily push back and just name her, then its over for her. Sounds like it might be a nameable person easy to search up the history of. Likewise I heard it from someone else that worked with her, and it seemed they had a mini-falling out... Suggesting the name is fake, and that she's one of those needing a job so she doesn't look an adult-child to everyone she associates with - so yeah, that hints the money handed down aspect....... Tribe? Well, I don't know what you mean by that, but let me tell you this, I can't imagine who, long term, would consider themselves as wanting to be associated with her... Maybe she is the Tribe of one....
@@harbingerofchaos6720 Simone is a wrecker, she was one of the biggest and main pushers of all this nonsense, and we should expose her on every single oportunity
@@amadeusagripino6862 I hear you and agree. BUT I don't know her real name. Now, as I was saying above, she tried threatening EVS in some manner, and seemingly as a result to that EVS (on a stream) was polite yet straight down to the point and named her (as Gail )- basically try picking a fight with me and I'll destroy you, then said her name was an alias. The other person who fell out with her still does some DC comics, so I'm betting that won't come out (they don't get involved in Culture War stuff anyhow)... I AM SURE there is a YT video exposing her for who she really is, comprehensively and unredacted removing alias's, etc waiting to be produced... I'm sure that when everything goes NUKE in the future THEN the real shit will fly with the losers that killed comics going after those that still make comics (and profits)... And yeah, that clown will just come in thinking she has nothing left to lose because she won't be able to help herself... and #1 target for those people EVS (or Eric July)... Causing the mother of all clap-back. This is going to be inevitable (in my opinion).
And this is why, when I bought my first tablet specifically for comic reading, I downloaded almost every superhero comic from the 1940s to 2000 and NOTHING beyond that. 60 years worth of multiple comic ranges are enough to keep me going til I die.
This woman is insane! They have destroyed the comic book industry i loved and grew up with. Politics was never the main thrust of comics. It was about the characters. facing moral and personal dilemmas, and then making sacrifices and personal losses and doing the right thing. I'm lucky i grew up in the golden age of comics and i didn't even know it . I just read those stories to this day and they still move me, they are timeless.
It all boils down to "my life sucks, I feel threatened by women and guys won't sleep with me, so I'm going to make everyone's lives as bad as possible". It's literally nothing more.
The thing about the Rippaverse is that with any flaws in the range we are willing to cut him some slack and know that these will get better over time. Why? Because Eric and his team react to the customers just as Stan Lee and his team did in the 1960s when they created their most famous superhero lines. If we say the writing could be better he hires experience writers, same with artists. We cut him slack because his UA-cam personality has proven the kind of person he is when it comes to comics. Whereas with these folk in the mainstream comics they have proven that they're happy to do the same old crap over and over again, either through incompetence or laziness. They take their social media posts and put them in speech bubbles, assuming that's how the world talks. They talk down to their audience and insult them for not liking the shit served up to them.
The late and great Denny O'Neil once said that something he learned in the wake of "A Death In The Family," when they killed Jason Todd Robin was "when you are the editor of the Batman and Superman titles, you aren't just a comic book editor. You are the 'custodian of folklore.'" I totally agree, but I extended it to being a comic creator of any stripe, who works on any of the iconic characters. People like "Fail" Simone either never learned that or didn't care. And now the industry is where it is because of those like her.
“Fridging” is such an obviously stupid concept. Was Uncle Ben fridged? How about Thomas Wayne (and Martha) or Dick Grayson’s parents? Oh, it’s only “fridging” if a female love interested is killed to motivate the hero? It shows a complete lack of understanding of the hero’s journey
I'm 42. Bought comics my whole life. (Bat & Cat) The simple fact is that I can now create my own Catwoman panels and my own stories using A.I. I know that's a kick in the balls to genuine artists and writers but what choice do I have? I don't want her to fade away... I ALREADY own every issue (and most appearances of) Catwoman! You're got giving me any new stuff that's worth buying! Jim Balent and Frank Miller have more talent in their left nuts than I will ever have and that's WHY I BOUGHT STUFF!
I'm a casual fan of comics (mostly the stuff from the 60s and Transformers in the 80s), but even I know the names of legends like Lee, Ditko, Romita, Clairemont, Eastman & Laird, Larry Hama, Simon Furman, Geoff Senior, John Wagner. People like this ARE nobodies compared to those legends and will never have accomplished anything that those guys did.
Thank you for saying what so many feel. My father and 6 uncles left me their comic collection which numbered in the thousands and I fell in love with so many stories and worlds and artists and it all came to an end when the politics got involved and those golden age heroes became modern age zeros.
They took for granted or even cast aside their core audience and chased the tourists. Now they're all gone and likes of Gail or Kelly go "wha' happened?!?" after they literally told everyone to go away. I'm glad the owner of my local comic shop saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and got into sports cards & memorabilia. He's still in business and sells comics, but he admits the comic side is more of a public service to a medium he grew up on.
The Punisher was always one of my favourite characters, he had some great runs even in the darkest days of overprints back in the day. Who knew we would have another great comic book crash in my lifetime? I know there's no excitement there, nobody is interested in new issues, I pick up the occasional collected work as a graphic novel and that's it.
Comic books today, and entertainment in general, reminds me of when I was a kid. My family moved from a small Texas town where I knew everyone to upstate New York in the middle of nowhere. My closest neighbor was a mile away. My mom tried to play with me, and was very bad at it. She tried her best but she had no imagination. That is modern entertainment in a nutshell.
When I was moving, I gave my comics to the local libury. The 2 liberians were happy to have american comics for the kids. Asked them what do the kids read? They told me all they read is manga
Az! You absolute BEAST of a human being! I stopped buying comics on the regular in 2015 because of all the b.s. that you stated in this video. Those "creators" ruined the comics experience. Btw, I had you on speaker and my wife heard you say "twat waffle". She started laughing and will now probably be using that term of endearment on someone who pisses her off(me) in the near future. Epic video, my man!
Amazing way to sum everything up! The insane thing about it as well is they made them so adult oriented and perverted that kids can't go near them at all. Marvel and DC have the most iconic characters of all time. On top of the charts as the biggest shared universe/Multiverse in all of media and that was before these movies came out. They pushed it all down and threw it in the garbage. Doing stupid stuff like making Joker become pregnant and Superman's son being gay with the ugliest character I have ever seen.
I live in a college town that use to support several comics shops. There is now one that mostly sells games, cards, and Magna. D.C. and Marvel are only being kept open to keep copyrights active.
A friend of mine who passed away not long ago and he felt the same way and was a big BIG comic book fan and he would be with you with bells on with wot you have said here.
I was never majorly into comics, although I enjoyed many of the older Batman runs of the past, but seeing the passion of people like AZ and Gary and creators like Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan is fantastic and it's great to see creators like Eric July doing their own thing as mainstream comics have abadoned good storytelling for agenda politics!
Well said young man! I've been buying and reading comics since the 1960s. Current day mainstream comics are a joke. I buy and read independent comics from individual creators.
Funny how these industry giants like gail can’t even respect romita’s passing…. Eric July cares and I hope isom has a long successful run. Long live the Iron Age
Another issue regarding these, uh..."pros" is the fact that upper management isn't putting their foot down, and making these people work. Whereas in the Jim Shooter era of Marvel, he was on their necks. Especially if someone missed a deadline. Being a writer, artist, inker, colorist, letterer, and editor at any major comic book company, makes you an employee. Being an employee means that you're still required to work. Not spending all your time on Twitter complaining about how capitalism is bad, or why can't healthcare be a human right.
It's this very reason that I an avid comic fan, created the Omega Gene Saga comic. Sure I've barely gotten it off the ground by myself. But that's to be expected especially when you know they're only looking for people like this one these days.
SUPERB VIDEO! Spot-on analysis delivered with real passion. You've said what the majority of comic books fans believe and you said it eloquently. Keep up the great content. Hail
OUTSTANDING!!! So very well said my good Sir! I have 36 long boxes of comics (bagged + boarded), they include some key Golden Age, MANY key Silver Age (including some entire runs (i.e. Thor; from JIM #84 to year 2003) and a host of key Bronze Age. Last comic I purchased, was in approx 2004, I believe it was a Venom one-shot. I saw even back then the way the tide was turning and after purchasing one too many disappointing story-lines with shit for art I decided that was enough. Oh, I now have x4 - 6 ft bookcases, filled with Manga, as my love for beautiful artistic stories is still strong. This includes All Berserk, Hellsing, Blade of the Immortal, Claymore, Sword of the Stranger, Monster, and a host of others. "Some" of the Anime produced to compliment these books are also excellent (i.e. Hellsing) and put the MCU and DCU to ABSOLUTE SHAME. There has been NOTHING put forth to entice me to return to purchasing NA Comics. I've been told by these SJW freaks of nature so often they don't want me as a customer, I granted their wish. For those still grasping with the thought of supporting it in the hopes it will turn around, I suggest you would be MUCH better served grabbing up older back issues, preferably pre-2000 as you will be far better rewarded for your time and money spent. Thanks again Az, great vid, as usual.
This rant is my #2 favorite rant from AZ! Hail to you my friend, you are a savant of the F-bomb and king of the rant hill. The only thing that tops this is your Batwhamen video rants. Keep up the great vids and I hope you have an awesome one. Oh, also, are you planning on playing Starfield? I have every intention of losing a tiny piece of my soul in the amount of hours I'll play that game. Only if they deliver on the awesomeness though.
Every time AZ goes on an epic rant I think to myself “there’s no way he’s gonna top that one…” Then he goes on to one-up his last rant! HAIL A to the Z. I’m very much looking forward to playing Starfield.
I was one of those silent customers who stopped buying after seeing how Slott and Wacker treated fans on message boards. These guys didn't have even a shred of professionalism.
Epic rant brother. I've never been a comic book fan, even as a kid, and now when I see this utter shite into which they've turned comics, I'm really glad. It's truly amazing to me that the current generation of CXOs and directors care more about their social credit scores and Twitterazi adulation than about the actual business. What kind of absolute bottom feeder loser seeks out products and industries to intentionally destroy them just because they hate them and their customers? These people have absolutely nothing in their lives or in their souls except hate.
"Pit crews" A useful little phrase I picked up from our old friend Keffals. Organised groups of people who flood Twitch, Twitter, comments, message boards etc with a particular message or position to support a person or ideological standpoint.
Remember when comics were innocent fun for kids? In the 60's & 70's I'd grab comics from the spinner rack in my grandparent's drug store then while away a few hours reading them. Fun kid's stuff, right? How did it come to this current day mess?
Everyone remember that famous quote: "If you don't like my politics, Don't Buy My Book. End of discussion." I wouldn't be surprised if she used it too.
I love watching that clip.
It was great advice👍
I was waaaaay ahead of the curve as I never bought her books to begin with so my problems were so solved!!!
Famous Last Words. (of her writing career)
I don't care about a writer's politics unless they inject them into the book.
Chuck Dixon called Gail Simone a cancer tumor in human form.
She needs to be cut out
@@lostsignal4359 Dude, your comment got shadowbanned I only can read it in notifications.
The Legend said nothing wrong.
And I strongly approve this insult to the comic book greats evil opposites
And he's not wrong.
Gail Simone is complaining about the situation that she and her ilk have created.
They have destroyed the comic industry.
When she said that men are not needed as comic fans, was certainly a key point of it failing.
People like her have destroyed absolutely _everything_ within society and culture. They not only infiltrated comics, games, and movies, but they’ve infiltrated higher education, Iegacy media, big tec, grammar school, private schools, school boards, major corporations, corporate boards, medicine, and psychology.
They are lawyers, judges, cops, teachers, congressional representatives, and senators. They’re at the top levels of the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS, the U.S. Military and they’re dug in like tics within the bureaucracy of our all institutions within the govt.
It’s no accident, no coincidence that we see the subversiøn of all aspects of traditionaI American society and cuIture. They all have the same goal, and that goal is to infiltrate and destroy our Republic from within.
Fortunately people are starting to wake up to this madness, this rot within.
Her ilk have destroyed society. Children and men are being failed but women are getting higher education results, jobs they are not qualified for and scholarships just to study STEM without being in the top level or disadvantaged. Earlier pension age and lower punishment for similar crimes as men.
I'm a girl who read comics. I stopped reading comics because of women like her.
Same!
Props to Louise Simonson who was a great storyteller , not a feminist writer. Big difference, y' know?
I feel bad for y’all they are making every female character so unlikable to feed their own egos.
I've seen similar talk in movie and video game circles.
I saw this pandering backfiring years ago.
Ditto
She can enjoy the world she created. Great rant brother.
Eeeeyyyy another critic I watch? Cool!
HAIL YellowFlash
SJW's for years in the industry: "My abhorrent opinions on social media are not a factor in the consumer buying product, because I have nothing to do with consumer relations...I am above customer service; such petty capitalistic necessities are beneath me and they are a terrible economic model to follow anyways..."
SJW's now: "Oh, we have to watch what we say on social media, be polite and listen to the consumers, because customer relations are clearly a part of the gig...Spread the word around fellow narcissists, I just came up with a brilliant idea on how to solve this crisis we created that has nothing at all to do with literally every single consumer of comics that have been screaming at me for years about...I swear I came up with this strategy on my own, super cereal...Oh, wait, is it already too late, as we brought the industry to its knees and there are no consumers remaining, they've all fled to manga...Oh well, guess I'll apply for a gig in manga then and repeat this abhorrent process all over again, so who do I know in the manga industry that can fast track me, who are the cis het huwite sum premises's that I may extort, exploit and falsely accuse in order to garner position within manga..."
Fortunately, most of Japan is based. Manga is still hanging in there… and succeeding by leaps and bounds.
It happened in game journalism too. People noticed a lot ot talentless women who didn't play games getting into journalist mags like the Escapist and when news came out they were snogging their way into positions of power people called them out.
What happened? these women cried misogyny low interest people flocked around them and plugged their ears when presented with facts. That's how gamer gate started, and they spent 15 years crowing about how evil GG was while they bled customers. Those same types are how we ended up with the failed G4 reboot, how comics ended up the way it was. all of it.
But but but
They told me GamerGate was about misogyny/racism/white supremacy/identity-based outrage of the week!
Facts they stopped making content for the hardcore fan and focused on the casual vocal minority. It’s sad byproduct of something becoming mainstream. Hopefully anime doesn’t take that route
@@XBullitt16X No. Atheism+ was the first feminist takeover. Gamergate was next.
Hearing other people talk about the real reason behind the fake movement they called 'gamergate' is so refreshing. Everyone knows that gg was started to hide the fact that fake writers and developers that are female were banging men for positive media attention. Now that they can't get free money for spreading lies and destroying an industry, they are trying to come back to sucking off the head men for work.
@@r.l.royalljr.3905 People still believe most of that like many misunderstood stuff that has happened over the past few years. People these days just believe one narrative and don't bother to really look into other angles of the stories. It drives me f$$king nuts much of the time!
Gail Simone sounds like Gavin Newsom, standing in the ruins of California. "Everything is destroyed, who is responsible for all this? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bravo! You said everything so many of us have been thinking for years. As a woman who has collected comics for over 30 years, I believe that allowing weak, narcissistic women like Gail and her ilk into comics is hands-down the worst thing to happen to comics since their inception. Ruined, all of it.
As another comic collecting woman, I agree!
Holy crap, not even Transformers, my mainstay in the geekdom, has remained safe from these by these weak willed, talentless ideologues. The recent run of comics have just sought to add division into the fandom. No one cares about the writer's shitty politics or confused sexual identity, we care about Optimus Prime, Megatron, the Autobots, the Decepticons, and their civil war.
Bingo!
They try to weasel their bs politics in their work and good artists connected to a book have to suffer with is bs!
This shitshow is only phase 1. Now they have supplanted genuine creators with talent and vision and turned the comic industry into their playground for intersectional feminism it’s time to hand the baton over to their friends in the movie industry.
Marvel and DC now introduce these new failing characters into their films. Out with the old successful straight white male legacy characters, in with the new unpopular intersectional replacements. Speak up and be told that this is ‘canon’ now. “It’s in the comics bro. Do you think you know better than Marvel/DC?”
The comic industry will die. The m-she-u won’t be far behind, and Manga will rightfully dance on their graves.
You should also take note of all the kiss-ass men who attacked the fans and were just as insane as them. like Dan Slott and others like him helped them out BIG time and they couldn't have done it without them. I think it was 2015 or whenever Marvel came out with the "All New All Different" lineup that ACCELERATED the downfall of comics which also FAILED SPECTACULARLY and then TRIED IT AGAIN in phase 4 to the same result. It isnt a surprise to me that those TV shows and movies have ALL BEEN DUDS so far. The same bad writing, the same unlikable characters, AND bad CGI to boot have all added up to Phase 4's utter disappointment.
Need count Dankula going 'oh no, what happened? that's terrible! That's just awful, oh no'
I prefer Clarkson: "Oh no! Anyway..."
I have never been a comic book fan. Ever.
But when I looked into what happened to the Industry via Az, Gary and Eric, I realized, “Oh crap. THIS is what is gonna happen to the rest of the entertainment industries if you don’t say anything.”
This is one of the main reasons I'm willing to put up my money for these people. I'm not able to support a lot of people but I will support those trying to change this. What they've done to people likes those in comics gate is evil and if I can help them fight back and get awesome comics at the same time I'm gonna do it.
@@draxxzakuto5735 Yep. I do what I can as well because what's scary about it is this could easily happen to any of our entertainment. Video games and anime seem the most resilient due to the sheer size of the audience but music and movies are getting destroyed because too many people said, "What's the big deal?"
It's already happening in entertainment and has been a while now. Today's movies and tv shows have been turned into propaganda machines for feminism and wokeness.
It started with video games and then moved into comics. I didn't care back then and thought people were just exaggerating until it started affecting the movies and TV shows. These progressive people are just incapable of writing anything good no matter what genre or medium they are working in. It's frustrating.
... it's already happened.
...I can't even count how much money I've saved on movies, books, games and tv series I didn't check out past 4 years because I'm not paying someone to berate me based on the colour of my skin, sexuality, or blame me for events from 100+ years ago.
The reason there are so few news sites and message boards is because the people who ran them destroyed their own credibility by yelling "THE MESSAGE!".
I do feel sorry for the Comics Store owners ... they were forced by the corporate publishers to buy dozens, even hundreds, of titles that sat and rot on shelves so they could get the one or two series that actually sell. It's been years since I bought a comic book, because the last time I looked at any of the mainstream titles it was ... ugly and boring. All of the women turned into chunky, muscular, hyper-masculinized lumps and all the men turned into losers. Why, oh why, would I spend money on something I literally pulled out of the garbage can?
I was the same but I'm loving the indie comics now. It's actually a great time for real comic creators and fans. I hope marvel and DC fall.
Failure was a Side Effect of their Career, Losing is their Product and Nobody wants to Pay
Well fucking said
Funny how Gail Simone had no problem fridging everyone she ever worked with.
She looks like she goes to the fridge a lot
These people and those like her should be mocked and shamed for what they did to the comics industry and movies as well, they’ve brought about a cultural dark age that will take decades to recover from and their insidious invasion of the video game industry is still ongoing to this day.
There is no cultural dark age as long as Japan keeps making good content.
@@MK_ULTRA420 That's true. Thank goodness.
They’re doing the thing we always said they would: when there was nothing else to wring out of comics they’d stand their and say right to our faces “what happened to comics?”
This is the EXACT correct response to them when they do it. Shame them, denigrate them and call them all the things that they are. NEVER let them gaslight and NEVER let them forget.
I believe even the man with no legs just gave you a standing ovation for that one AZ. Way to go!
This is how I feel about the Star Wars franchise. I avoid any mention of it these days because of how far down it has gone. People like Simone took it over and continue to run it into the ground, abuse it, and disrespect the hardcore fans who have long left and stopped paying. Comics are the same. It's altogether a shame and a disaster.
Wait Gail Simone was the first to use fridging as a term?! I've been faced with that numerous times, but had no idea where it came from. That whole thought process was just one of the things that ruined wheel of time TV show.
It goes back to the early days of Kyle Raynor as Green Lantern. His gf is killed and shoved into a fridge. Gail then insistently moaned about women being "fridged" to crated agency for heroes.
Disparu nice to catch you here, love your channel too m8
@@HeelvsBabyface then again I feel no sympathy for Ron Marz lol
Spot on Az. They tried to hide their utter lack of talent, but everyone could see it . They are the definition of lame.
Meanwhile Eric July pulling in how much in 2 days? Fully self-funded with no corporate overlords or advertisers to appease & not having to worry about industry politics, creating jobs for people & giving the customer what we want: a traditional superhero story with no preaching, pandering or politics. His only agenda is getting paid for his work & building a sustainable business
"he has fans, how dare he"
-marvel/DC employees & "fans"
Me: what type of phucking argument is that????
Good for Eric!
I creates a little computer thing that was useful. Word spread on the online systems. Sold a bunch of them.
That was a mighty powerful video indeed.
Let them inherit the ruins of the mainstream comic book industry.
RIP Frank Castle.
I have a bet...the character will return, soon.
As a Blond, Black Lesbian......$100.
"And weird women came." - Ethan Van Schiever
I feel your anger and frustration Az, I really do. I was a kid of the 70s and 80s and the stories and characters of Marvel and DC gave me some of the most enjoyable years of my youth. Artists and writers like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Siegel and Shuster and John Romita had more talent in their little finger than all these self-absorbed piece of shit nobodies combined. it truly breaks my heart to see all these classic characters of comics and films alike get torn to shreds and torn down by these nasty, miserable empty husks that have completely destroyed a once great and thriving industry.
Totally agree and mad love for the greats! I'm a huge Ditko, Kirby and Joe Kubert fan.
Even later, from the 80's through the 90's we had some amazing artists and writers: Todd McFarlane, Frank F'n Miller! Dillon & Ennis, Texeira, Bill Sienkiewicz; Neil Gaiman even wrote some comics. So much great ART - Spiegleman's Maus, R. Crumb, Joe and Tim Vigil, Hernandez Brothers--the 90's had STRONG indies.
I could go on and on. It's just so sad to see the state of the comics medium today as a whole knowing what is once was and could have been if it had not gotten destroyed by self-absorbed talentless hacks. It's funny how prattling on about the old stuff can make me nostalgic and winsome--I wonder how many of today's titles will give anyone the same feeling in the future....
Couldn’t agree more.
Grew up on 60s Marvels and left comics when Stan and Jack left the building.
Can’t believe how absolutely twisted and perverted this industry has become although I have nothing to do with it anymore.
Stan Lee had the formula all figured out for doing outstanding comics and NO ONE since then has learned a damn thing (lower case lettering for word balloons? Wha-??).
Marvel died in the seventies.
That’s it.
The indie scene trumping the big publishers also goes to show you don't need publishers if you know what you're doing. The doujinshi scene in Japan and indie authors in the States and elsewhere all reinforce that point.
The irony here is not only do they not care about comics but they also are completely oblivious to the ecosystem around comics, which they seemingly have destroyed, all by their lonesome.
I sincerely hope it gets worse before it gets better, so these talentless hacks can move on to destroy something else, leaving the industry to rise from the ashes again, anew.
When Az speaks from the heart, you can really feel the passion and where he is coming from. I agree 100 percent with you Sir.
Ah yes Gail "Ask me about my collapse of the comics industry agenda" Simone. What is she dribbling about now?
She complained about the comic book market condition is in which she and people like her have caused
Gail reminds me of the sort of person who'd reach past a driver to use a knife to tighten a screw. She seems to be a perennial fork in the plug socket kinda gal.
You don't know much everyone wish she actually was a perennial fork in the plug gal before she got into the comic book industry
This is why I love and respect Az, he says it how it is and has the balls to say what we all are thinking and want to be said! Love you big boy, you're wonderful!
well said. comic readers have seen their favorite characters systematically undermined by these so called writers for years now and the majority have simply walked away.
"Daddy, what's a twat waffle?"
- my future kid.
I stopped buying comics because of her. No desire to go back. I have better things to spend my money on, and trust me, my children won't waste money on comics either.
Agreed I read old Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, DC, darkhorse, image comics from 1930s -2016 that’s it
Comics used to be fun and engaging to people. Seems like ages ago. Then these politically motivated slags slimed their way into the genre.
Window licker? Oh no. Az, I caught my 2yo toddler licking the window yesterday. Should I be concerned?
To blokes i like to listen to on here
Gail Simone is as her name is... Fake. She made a brand on a fake name, promoted a fake name.... She isn't real, because her real name would expose her to everything associated with her past - which, when I have heard this referenced from comic book creators has told me, it must be a F'd up history of Grifting amongst being rich from her Mummy and Daddy.
Gail Simone is a fake name? Is she from the tribe too?
@@amadeusagripino6862 YES. Its a fake name. I have heard people openly challenge her on YT (when she seemingly threatened EVS for some reason) and say he can easily push back and just name her, then its over for her. Sounds like it might be a nameable person easy to search up the history of. Likewise I heard it from someone else that worked with her, and it seemed they had a mini-falling out... Suggesting the name is fake, and that she's one of those needing a job so she doesn't look an adult-child to everyone she associates with - so yeah, that hints the money handed down aspect....... Tribe? Well, I don't know what you mean by that, but let me tell you this, I can't imagine who, long term, would consider themselves as wanting to be associated with her... Maybe she is the Tribe of one....
@@harbingerofchaos6720 Simone is a wrecker, she was one of the biggest and main pushers of all this nonsense, and we should expose her on every single oportunity
@@amadeusagripino6862 I hear you and agree. BUT I don't know her real name. Now, as I was saying above, she tried threatening EVS in some manner, and seemingly as a result to that EVS (on a stream) was polite yet straight down to the point and named her (as Gail )- basically try picking a fight with me and I'll destroy you, then said her name was an alias. The other person who fell out with her still does some DC comics, so I'm betting that won't come out (they don't get involved in Culture War stuff anyhow)... I AM SURE there is a YT video exposing her for who she really is, comprehensively and unredacted removing alias's, etc waiting to be produced... I'm sure that when everything goes NUKE in the future THEN the real shit will fly with the losers that killed comics going after those that still make comics (and profits)... And yeah, that clown will just come in thinking she has nothing left to lose because she won't be able to help herself... and #1 target for those people EVS (or Eric July)... Causing the mother of all clap-back. This is going to be inevitable (in my opinion).
And this is why, when I bought my first tablet specifically for comic reading, I downloaded almost every superhero comic from the 1940s to 2000 and NOTHING beyond that. 60 years worth of multiple comic ranges are enough to keep me going til I die.
"We destroyed everything, now no one reads or cares, so it's up to YOU ten people left to make websites and promote MEEEEE!!!!"
I'm a silent customer and I know when I'm not wanted so I stopped 3 years ago. Couldn't even buy a book for a great cover, as there weren't any.
Chuck Dixon has created his own vigilante since the Punisher was shelved. It's called Black Warrant and the concept art looks awesome.
This woman is insane! They have destroyed the comic book industry i loved and grew up with. Politics was never the main thrust of comics. It was about the characters. facing moral and personal dilemmas, and then making sacrifices and personal losses and doing the right thing. I'm lucky i grew up in the golden age of comics and i didn't even know it . I just read those stories to this day and they still move me, they are timeless.
Man I love me a good AZ rant. Bless you good sir🙏🏼
Just watched a Clownfish video about it, and thought: “I wonder if Az already has a rant out on the subject”! And what do you know…😂
One of biggest crimes is treating a industry as a community and telling uncreative people that comics were for everyone..
It all boils down to "my life sucks, I feel threatened by women and guys won't sleep with me, so I'm going to make everyone's lives as bad as possible". It's literally nothing more.
“Fine. I’ll do it myself.”
Eric July
The thing about the Rippaverse is that with any flaws in the range we are willing to cut him some slack and know that these will get better over time. Why? Because Eric and his team react to the customers just as Stan Lee and his team did in the 1960s when they created their most famous superhero lines. If we say the writing could be better he hires experience writers, same with artists. We cut him slack because his UA-cam personality has proven the kind of person he is when it comes to comics. Whereas with these folk in the mainstream comics they have proven that they're happy to do the same old crap over and over again, either through incompetence or laziness. They take their social media posts and put them in speech bubbles, assuming that's how the world talks. They talk down to their audience and insult them for not liking the shit served up to them.
Get woke go broke, Gail Simone.
I am seriously astounded by how her trash Birds of Prey run is considered so great by so many.
The late and great Denny O'Neil once said that something he learned in the wake of "A Death In The Family," when they killed Jason Todd Robin was "when you are the editor of the Batman and Superman titles, you aren't just a comic book editor. You are the 'custodian of folklore.'" I totally agree, but I extended it to being a comic creator of any stripe, who works on any of the iconic characters. People like "Fail" Simone either never learned that or didn't care. And now the industry is where it is because of those like her.
“Fridging” is such an obviously stupid concept. Was Uncle Ben fridged? How about Thomas Wayne (and Martha) or Dick Grayson’s parents? Oh, it’s only “fridging” if a female love interested is killed to motivate the hero? It shows a complete lack of understanding of the hero’s journey
These hacks make a new term for anything they dont like so they can present it as a bad thing. Its like "review bombing".
Az is like that minigun the guy cuts down half the forrest with in Predator! ...but none of the bullets miss! :D HAIL AZ!
I love a good ole rant with AZ before bedtime
I'm 42. Bought comics my whole life. (Bat & Cat) The simple fact is that I can now create my own Catwoman panels and my own stories using A.I. I know that's a kick in the balls to genuine artists and writers but what choice do I have? I don't want her to fade away... I ALREADY own every issue (and most appearances of) Catwoman! You're got giving me any new stuff that's worth buying! Jim Balent and Frank Miller have more talent in their left nuts than I will ever have and that's WHY I BOUGHT STUFF!
You've gotta love a good Az Rant, it's like visiting an old friend.
I'm a casual fan of comics (mostly the stuff from the 60s and Transformers in the 80s), but even I know the names of legends like Lee, Ditko, Romita, Clairemont, Eastman & Laird, Larry Hama, Simon Furman, Geoff Senior, John Wagner. People like this ARE nobodies compared to those legends and will never have accomplished anything that those guys did.
Looking good Az!. Weight loss is amazing. New setup looks dandy. And the return to original format is a good idea. Bravo.
Thank you for saying what so many feel. My father and 6 uncles left me their comic collection which numbered in the thousands and I fell in love with so many stories and worlds and artists and it all came to an end when the politics got involved and those golden age heroes became modern age zeros.
They took for granted or even cast aside their core audience and chased the tourists. Now they're all gone and likes of Gail or Kelly go "wha' happened?!?" after they literally told everyone to go away.
I'm glad the owner of my local comic shop saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and got into sports cards & memorabilia. He's still in business and sells comics, but he admits the comic side is more of a public service to a medium he grew up on.
The Punisher was always one of my favourite characters, he had some great runs even in the darkest days of overprints back in the day. Who knew we would have another great comic book crash in my lifetime? I know there's no excitement there, nobody is interested in new issues, I pick up the occasional collected work as a graphic novel and that's it.
Comic books today, and entertainment in general, reminds me of when I was a kid. My family moved from a small Texas town where I knew everyone to upstate New York in the middle of nowhere. My closest neighbor was a mile away. My mom tried to play with me, and was very bad at it. She tried her best but she had no imagination. That is modern entertainment in a nutshell.
When I was moving, I gave my comics to the local libury. The 2 liberians were happy to have american comics for the kids. Asked them what do the kids read?
They told me all they read is manga
Az! You absolute BEAST of a human being! I stopped buying comics on the regular in 2015 because of all the b.s. that you stated in this video. Those "creators" ruined the comics experience. Btw, I had you on speaker and my wife heard you say "twat waffle". She started laughing and will now probably be using that term of endearment on someone who pisses her off(me) in the near future. Epic video, my man!
Amazing way to sum everything up! The insane thing about it as well is they made them so adult oriented and perverted that kids can't go near them at all. Marvel and DC have the most iconic characters of all time. On top of the charts as the biggest shared universe/Multiverse in all of media and that was before these movies came out. They pushed it all down and threw it in the garbage. Doing stupid stuff like making Joker become pregnant and Superman's son being gay with the ugliest character I have ever seen.
I love a fired up Az! Absolute verbal curb stomp and I love every second of it.
Go Az . I love the passion you have. If only modern creators had that passion.
you need more exposure, this is great and I don't even read comics
Im not a comic guy but I appreciate a great rant when I hear one.
I live in a college town that use to support several comics shops. There is now one that mostly sells games, cards, and Magna. D.C. and Marvel are only being kept open to keep copyrights active.
Berserk has more fans than any Marvel/DC books. It’s a disgrace. These women are a disgrace.
I missed angry Az! This is what I like about him, his passion about things like this.
A friend of mine who passed away not long ago and he felt the same way and was a big BIG comic book fan and he would be with you with bells on with wot you have said here.
I'm giving you the first standing ovation I have ever given to any UA-camr. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
"Don't like my comic, don't buy my book!"
6 months late
"Why won't people buy my comic!?"
Az always speaks TRUTH to power, and that's why he's an international treasure!
I was never majorly into comics, although I enjoyed many of the older Batman runs of the past, but seeing the passion of people like AZ and Gary and creators like Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan is fantastic and it's great to see creators like Eric July doing their own thing as mainstream comics have abadoned good storytelling for agenda politics!
Rants like this are why Az will always be my number one. Love to you for saying what so many of us feel.
Classic Az Rant. Pure beauty.
I haven't seen him go this hard since the ending doctor who
Well said young man! I've been buying and reading comics since the 1960s. Current day mainstream comics are a joke. I buy and read independent comics from individual creators.
Funny how these industry giants like gail can’t even respect romita’s passing….
Eric July cares and I hope isom has a long successful run. Long live the Iron Age
Another issue regarding these, uh..."pros" is the fact that upper management isn't putting their foot down, and making these people work. Whereas in the Jim Shooter era of Marvel, he was on their necks. Especially if someone missed a deadline. Being a writer, artist, inker, colorist, letterer, and editor at any major comic book company, makes you an employee. Being an employee means that you're still required to work. Not spending all your time on Twitter complaining about how capitalism is bad, or why can't healthcare be a human right.
It's this very reason that I an avid comic fan, created the Omega Gene Saga comic. Sure I've barely gotten it off the ground by myself. But that's to be expected especially when you know they're only looking for people like this one these days.
Your rants gives me life the passion in your voice I feel it man, every word rings true.
Hadn't seen such a passionate and angry rant in a long time. Thank you.
SUPERB VIDEO! Spot-on analysis delivered with real passion. You've said what the majority of comic books fans believe and you said it eloquently. Keep up the great content. Hail
Fucking brilliant, AZ. As someone with his own fantasy universe, I am 100% with you. More of these rants, please.
“If you don’t like my comic book then don’t buy it”
So we didn’t buy it
Az you’re killing it with the consistent high-quality content!
OUTSTANDING!!!
So very well said my good Sir!
I have 36 long boxes of comics (bagged + boarded), they include some key Golden Age, MANY key Silver Age (including some entire runs (i.e. Thor; from JIM #84 to year 2003) and a host of key Bronze Age.
Last comic I purchased, was in approx 2004, I believe it was a Venom one-shot. I saw even back then the way the tide was turning and after purchasing one too many disappointing story-lines with shit for art I decided that was enough.
Oh, I now have x4 - 6 ft bookcases, filled with Manga, as my love for beautiful artistic stories is still strong. This includes All Berserk, Hellsing, Blade of the Immortal, Claymore, Sword of the Stranger, Monster, and a host of others.
"Some" of the Anime produced to compliment these books are also excellent (i.e. Hellsing) and put the MCU and DCU to ABSOLUTE SHAME.
There has been NOTHING put forth to entice me to return to purchasing NA Comics. I've been told by these SJW freaks of nature so often they don't want me as a customer, I granted their wish.
For those still grasping with the thought of supporting it in the hopes it will turn around, I suggest you would be MUCH better served grabbing up older back issues, preferably pre-2000 as you will be far better rewarded for your time and money spent.
Thanks again Az, great vid, as usual.
This rant is my #2 favorite rant from AZ! Hail to you my friend, you are a savant of the F-bomb and king of the rant hill. The only thing that tops this is your Batwhamen video rants. Keep up the great vids and I hope you have an awesome one. Oh, also, are you planning on playing Starfield? I have every intention of losing a tiny piece of my soul in the amount of hours I'll play that game. Only if they deliver on the awesomeness though.
Every time AZ goes on an epic rant I think to myself “there’s no way he’s gonna top that one…” Then he goes on to one-up his last rant!
HAIL A to the Z.
I’m very much looking forward to playing Starfield.
😂 Gail, Professional NOTHING 💯🤣🤣🤣
I was one of those silent customers who stopped buying after seeing how Slott and Wacker treated fans on message boards. These guys didn't have even a shred of professionalism.
Preach on Brother Az!!!
Stay strong Az I can tell you really want a drink after this one.
Az, I love your raw ranty vids. You're naturally funny and entertaining. You dont need any editing or faff. "Manga, stop laughing!" Its a classic!
Epic rant brother. I've never been a comic book fan, even as a kid, and now when I see this utter shite into which they've turned comics, I'm really glad. It's truly amazing to me that the current generation of CXOs and directors care more about their social credit scores and Twitterazi adulation than about the actual business. What kind of absolute bottom feeder loser seeks out products and industries to intentionally destroy them just because they hate them and their customers? These people have absolutely nothing in their lives or in their souls except hate.
That was a good rant.
"Pit crews" A useful little phrase I picked up from our old friend Keffals. Organised groups of people who flood Twitch, Twitter, comments, message boards etc with a particular message or position to support a person or ideological standpoint.
Hell yeah Az. That was an AMAZING rant. 100% true!!! Keep em coming!
Nothing like a solid Az rant to kick off the work morning. Keep at it brother.
Remember when comics were innocent fun for kids? In the 60's & 70's I'd grab comics from the spinner rack in my grandparent's drug store then while away a few hours reading them. Fun kid's stuff, right? How did it come to this current day mess?