DC = Dead Company!! Why Mainstream Comics Have IMPLODED!!

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  • @MajorTomFisher
    @MajorTomFisher Рік тому +319

    "People can only relate to characters who look like them or bang like them"
    **proceeds to make comics with characters who look and act like the tiniest minority of people**
    "Why isn't anyone buying our comics?!?"

    • @paulseifert6598
      @paulseifert6598 Рік тому

      That's something I've noticed too - Write a comic full of straight white guys? "We won't publish this, no one can relate to it!" say the comics establishment. Write a comic full of gay trans lesbian Eskimos? "We can't relate to this" say the fans - to which the comics establishment will always say "NO, you can totally relate, unless you're just all BIGOTS!" I'm not sure if its hypocrisy or they are just so stupid and sheltered they don't even get they did anything wrong by having a double standard in the first place?

    • @ranzera
      @ranzera Рік тому +11

      Ironically, the stated quote serves as a bad faith explanation. The majority of people do not relate to people from the tiniest micro-minorities.
      If these people believed what they were saying, they would never target very small minorities because their own premise stipulates that to be a terrible idea.

    • @rihotihane1367
      @rihotihane1367 Рік тому +9

      We are not buying them coz we do not see us in them. Or anything good in there at all.

    • @MajorTomFisher
      @MajorTomFisher Рік тому +7

      @@ranzera Exactly. If people can only relate to characters who look like them, then that would imply the best way to earn money is to depict primarily white people and Asian people if the comic is selling abroad. And considering comics by their nature appeal to men, they should stop trying to add in female characters and instead focus almost entirely on men.
      Of course, the truth is, men _will_ read comics about girls... _if_ you try to appeal to them instead of disrespecting men and trying to make every female superhero superior to her male counterpart. There are plenty of characteristics about women that men like to see, besides the obvious of course. It's also shockingly easy for most people (especially in the West) to get invested in stories about people of other races, as long as you're not trashing their own race or forcing discussions about racial politics. White people enjoy movies with Will Smith or Jackie Chan as leads as it turns out, just as long as neither are explaining to us how we need to do better.
      And believe it or not... it is _possible_ to get straight people invested in the story of some member of the Alphabet Squad, but unfortunately that's where you start to alienate everyone who considers that a deviation from normalcy. You can't treat being gay like being black or Asian, they're not the same thing. By implying it's just another thing that a person can be, you're promoting a competing vision of "family" that people will be antagonistic toward. You can accept this risk and acknowledge your audience will be made smaller by including this in your comic, but you can't demand everyone in the world should see this as normal. Sorry, natural selection and evolutionary psychology say otherwise.
      See, it's very easy to include diversity in comics as long as _you know what people consider relatable aspects._ A fight against patriarchy or protesting in the streets is not something most comic readers can relate to. Struggling with parental relationships, suffering from a disease, having serious personality flaws, _these_ are relatable. Even an alien or an anthropomorphic animal can be relatable if he has one of those characteristics.

    • @MrPGC137
      @MrPGC137 Рік тому

      Yeah, really... Appealing to 2% of the population _isn't_ a successful business strategy??? Who knew???

  • @Pat.Mustard.
    @Pat.Mustard. Рік тому +94

    This is why I stopped buying comics.

    • @rrnonya5472
      @rrnonya5472 Рік тому +7

      yup

    • @Mr_E_Nigma
      @Mr_E_Nigma Рік тому +5

      Yeah, I made the mistake if buying Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic and they have this fkn weird furry character and Terry reveals his identity to this character on their 1st meeting.
      Needless to say, I didn't buy the 2nd issue.

    • @farharbor3178
      @farharbor3178 Рік тому +7

      Ha! This is why most of the world stopped buying comics. (well... American ones)

  • @yoomazir
    @yoomazir Рік тому +164

    Can't wait for the copystrike claim from DC 🤣

    • @opinionatedlookinboy5555
      @opinionatedlookinboy5555 Рік тому +11

      LoL, like it would mean anything. Guaranteed, this is more promotion to more people watching this video than it would have *_ever_* gotten on its own. lol

  • @rickh6963
    @rickh6963 Рік тому +96

    I love the trope of the half shaven head lesbian. How to say your character is gay without saying your character is gay.

    • @DeetotheDubs
      @DeetotheDubs Рік тому +31

      For people that supposedly hate stereotypes, they certainly use them a lot.
      The dye must be seeping into their brains.

    • @jimthar17
      @jimthar17 Рік тому +5

      Did you just assume her gayuality?! BIGOT! :)

    • @dorn0531
      @dorn0531 Рік тому +8

      I misread your comment as ‘half Skaven’. Poor ratmen don’t deserve that comparison

    • @rickh6963
      @rickh6963 Рік тому +3

      @@dorn0531 I wonder how many people got that reference, 3?

    • @rickh6963
      @rickh6963 Рік тому

      @@jimthar17 OK, you got me in a box here!

  • @JackPool-lq8ux
    @JackPool-lq8ux Рік тому +381

    Who else loved Hawkgirl in the Justice league animated series? Her's was one of the best story arcs.

    • @GloriousSmite
      @GloriousSmite Рік тому +48

      The episode with grundy...

    • @shadowofthenorthstar989
      @shadowofthenorthstar989 Рік тому +23

      me thats where i became a fan of her

    • @Tacoguy1000
      @Tacoguy1000 Рік тому +26

      That Grundy episode was sad beyond belief...

    • @Adamguy2003
      @Adamguy2003 Рік тому +21

      ​@@GloriousSmiteThat was sad, yet so poignant!
      Grundy got his reward.

    • @Thermool
      @Thermool Рік тому +15

      The crossover with Batman Beyond and she and Lantern meet their son. And they describe her pregnancy l. Had me rolling. Though not my favorite character, I did enjoy her story

  • @jakehenderson2959
    @jakehenderson2959 Рік тому +268

    That’s a bit harsh Az. Don’t mock Jabba the Hutt like that

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm Рік тому +21

      Wasn't his fault, Hutts are born big and sluggy.

    • @jakehenderson2959
      @jakehenderson2959 Рік тому +4

      @@Blodhelm that’s true

    • @TibiConstantine
      @TibiConstantine Рік тому +16

      Jabba packed more charisma and depth that's for sure.

    • @alberto5770
      @alberto5770 Рік тому +2

      Was expecting the "whatever podcast" meme of Jabba...

    • @toothgrinder2760
      @toothgrinder2760 Рік тому +1

      @@alberto5770 “Raja naba doa golla Wookie nippIe pinchie.” GorIock the Destroyer

  • @midnightmic5644
    @midnightmic5644 Рік тому +174

    This is why rippaverse is making millions. Keep going DC, you can't die fast enough.

    • @SupremeCommanderBaiser
      @SupremeCommanderBaiser Рік тому +4

      Uhm, yes and no. If ISOM 2 was bad, it would have flopped. Yet it thrives like nothing else. So yeah. An audience is needed, but you have to sell a good product to keep that audience.@@SapiaNt0mata

    • @above.average.gaming.natio3026
      @above.average.gaming.natio3026 Рік тому +1

      Making millions? Or Bringing in Millions of readers each issue?

    • @nmr7203
      @nmr7203 Рік тому +2

      @Verhoeven1980 No one's talking about Isom as a story. So it's kind of clear the actual contents of the book are irrelevant, they're buying it for Eric.

    • @above.average.gaming.natio3026
      @above.average.gaming.natio3026 Рік тому

      pretty much. Let's face it, Insomnia will never be a household name like Batman, Superman, and the like are.. Nor will it ever have acclaimed story-lines like they had either.@@nmr7203

    • @markmunroe-hz8rf
      @markmunroe-hz8rf Рік тому +5

      And why Japanese manga, despite their cliches, are currently outselling DC and MARVEL.

  • @seefoghall
    @seefoghall Рік тому +221

    AHHH! We weren't ready for that author photo! Warn us before you put up graphic content, please.

  • @beowulfsrevenge4369
    @beowulfsrevenge4369 Рік тому +35

    "I might not be woman, still poking that with a stick."
    WTF?

    • @MephiticMiasma
      @MephiticMiasma Рік тому +18

      🤣😂 "tell me you're not a functional adult without saying you're not a functional adult"

    • @yagamifire7861
      @yagamifire7861 Рік тому +3

      Also a divorced college student

    • @cheeseburgersuperior1874
      @cheeseburgersuperior1874 Рік тому +5

      a reminder, a literal god of dc addresses her as a woman and even presented her future CHILD. she even talk to him. yet she isn't possibly a woman? lol.

    • @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516
      @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516 Рік тому +3

      Lmao

    • @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516
      @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516 Рік тому +1

      ​@@cheeseburgersuperior1874
      Didn't you hear?
      Men can birth children now.
      (I'm playing around by the way.)

  • @sevrengrey3689
    @sevrengrey3689 Рік тому +176

    Funny how double standards work with these people. If a guy in any comic or whatever said what that tumblr artist eyesore said to a woman they would be enraged.

    • @sheepthehack
      @sheepthehack Рік тому

      This is because their entire ideology and ethos is based solely on BAD MENTAL HEALTH!!! They are all one psychotic break away from a lobotomy!!!! You cant expect them to keep their own moral ideals in check when they cant even go the day without crying out in victimhood!!!

    • @user-vg8ox3he1i
      @user-vg8ox3he1i Рік тому

      If DC made a comic where a man hit on a woman and then she burst into his bedroom half naked and seemingly unconscious, there would be outrage.

  • @farawayfindlay4775
    @farawayfindlay4775 Рік тому +352

    More of these videos please. Current day comic's getting ripped a new one by a veteran comic book reader is content gold

    • @ReinoldFZ
      @ReinoldFZ Рік тому +20

      Miss those days when UA-camrs would do that 🎉

    • @sheepthehack
      @sheepthehack Рік тому +10

      couldnt agree more chaps!!!!

    • @SumDumGy
      @SumDumGy Рік тому +6

      Az swore off buying new DC comics though so there’s no way he can do that.

    • @farawayfindlay4775
      @farawayfindlay4775 Рік тому +4

      @@SumDumGy I know and I respect him for that decision. I made the same choice,but we could send super chats so he could buy them second hand for our entertainment

    • @SumDumGy
      @SumDumGy Рік тому +1

      @@farawayfindlay4775 I quit watching a few minutes in. I don’t find any entertainment value in this, but that’s me.

  • @forceghostpepper
    @forceghostpepper Рік тому +17

    Not only that, look at all those ads, its like having a potato chip bag full of air.

  • @blowfish1702
    @blowfish1702 Рік тому +11

    "I'm exploring who I am, I'm divorced, gay, I might not be a woman"
    Jesus christ, multiple self inserts from the writer. Everything I don't want from a comic 😂
    Then it's "F*** you Cops" from a women who beats criminals to death with a mace 😂

    • @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516
      @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516 Рік тому +1

      That was one of my favorite sections of the entire video because it shows how ridiculous comics have become.😂

  • @foxon172
    @foxon172 Рік тому +68

    I feel dumber just watching this video....even with AZ's amazing commentary!
    Compared this shite too the legendary comics of old, no wonder the graded comic market is in the shitter....thankfully I dont have mine for financial profit, but it still hurts!

    • @zachhughes9149
      @zachhughes9149 Рік тому

      Comic book shops ran by muppets who can’t do math is another big drag on the graded market.

  • @asura48
    @asura48 Рік тому +11

    Anyone else notice every two pages is an ad for the other comics people probably won't read??

  • @timothysullivan
    @timothysullivan Рік тому +51

    Remember when DC and Marvel comics were based on great stories?

    • @toothgrinder2760
      @toothgrinder2760 Рік тому +1

      I do. I used to love the X-Men as a kid in the 80’s and 90’s.

    • @johnpenguinthe3rd13
      @johnpenguinthe3rd13 Рік тому +4

      DC comics HawkWorld. During 1989, it starts as a three issue mini-series written & drawn by Tim Truman. It's a really good Hawkman story with Hawkgirl eventually showing up. This leads into the HawkWorld ongoing series (from 1990 till 1993, with 32 issues and 3 annuals) and the ongoing series gets VERY AWESOME as it goes on. It's Hawkgirl (Hawkwoman) and Hawkman in superhero / COPS style scenarios. Written by John Ostrander, the ongoing series is REALLY awesome (and HawkWorld, specifically the ongoing series, has the best Hawkwoman and Hawkman stories in DC comics history. It kicks ass. It's also stories that won't be replicated in modern day DC comics since the HawkWorld ongoing series is VERY Pro-Cops. Granted, Hawkwoman is like a Dirty Harry style cop (sometimes mixed with the Punisher at times) while Hawkman is the good cop who plays by the book (arguably sometimes too much, but it's needed to balance out Hawkwoman's Dirty Harry style), but it's a Pro-Cop story... HawkWorld is something that won't be allowed in modern day DC comics. If it were allowed, it would most likely be like this current day 2023 HawkGirl comic, which is really terrible).

  • @donmynack
    @donmynack Рік тому +15

    This comic will sell hundreds of copies! HUNDREDS!

    • @jimthar17
      @jimthar17 Рік тому

      The sad part is it will sell because it's a number one.

    • @lesterchua2677
      @lesterchua2677 Рік тому +2

      I think you overestimate the sales number there.

  • @paulmurgatroyd6372
    @paulmurgatroyd6372 Рік тому +14

    I didn't realise comics had become so depressing.

    • @ASoberBear
      @ASoberBear Рік тому +1

      These people are mentally not well. We see what they classify as a hero and they relate more to monsters.

  • @zedhiro6131
    @zedhiro6131 Рік тому +18

    I am a little disappointed the line "foooking scissoring!!!" wasn't used in this video.

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Рік тому

      "He/Him, They/Them"🤣🤣🤣 That line always slays me. Love that song

  • @basementbrotherscollectibles
    @basementbrotherscollectibles Рік тому +31

    From Degenerate Comics to Dead Company. The best way to expose DC Comics is just to read a current comic issue verbatim.

  • @AP-ng1bm
    @AP-ng1bm Рік тому +9

    Az, I hope you fully sanitised yours hands after handling that filth.

  • @Arassar
    @Arassar Рік тому +93

    It's my theory that the cost for running DC and Marvel is such a small amount compared to everything else that Warner and Disney does that they can basically operate indefinitely, even if they lose a ton of money. DC and Marvel are such colossal failures that I don't know what they could do at this point to be shut down.

    • @iangiovanni6555
      @iangiovanni6555 Рік тому +31

      disney once commented that they make more from one parks parking fees than the entirety of marvel comics

    • @stephenlawrenson2380
      @stephenlawrenson2380 Рік тому +9

      They have a loss leader with the comics. They are small fry in the larger corporate structures that they exist in meanwhile those corporates gain ESG points from the Equity and (non) Diversity that they pump out in the comics - and this means that Blackrock et al will invest their clients money into them

    • @sheepthehack
      @sheepthehack Рік тому

      I want to know when everyone lost their calculators and switched over to spending their feelings.. wanting to see 2 fat lezzers nosh off in their comics instead of cultivating a healthy bottom line..

  • @scottpalmer053
    @scottpalmer053 Рік тому +11

    Mate if we were in the pub I would buy you a pint for this ,nailed it.

  • @SoSezTheDude
    @SoSezTheDude Рік тому +6

    Might not be the topic of the video, but one thing sure stood out to me. Its been a long time since I read a comic book, those ads are unreal! Literally every 2nd page! how long have they been this watered down? It looks like its 50% ads.

  • @tugaric
    @tugaric Рік тому +24

    Bro this is so sad... I remember as a kid looking up to the idea of heroes. Saving others, conquering bad odds, always following your morals. God damn so sad what it has become

    • @Krysnha
      @Krysnha 10 місяців тому +1

      modern day, no morals, no spirituality

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370

    They done Shayeera dirty in this shite.
    Newsflash for the writer: She's not, nor _can't_ be a lesbian. She's destined to love Hawkman.

  • @jaycordray3642
    @jaycordray3642 Рік тому +36

    Az, I don't know why I've not heard this idea from anyone before but when I worked in a comic book store in Ohio in the 90s, we had a small area sectioned off from the mainstream titles that was clearly labeled GAY COMICS. Retailers just need to create that section for books in their stores if they don't already have one, and put all the DC titles there. That way, readers have a clear indication of the book's content before they buy it. Especially if a publisher has changed a character's sexuality and that change has now become the focus of the book.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 Рік тому +5

      We had that at our local video stores in the 80's and 90's too. It was a niche market and most people wandering through the shelves didn't want to come across those movies so they just set them aside. No big deal, nobody screamed about being oppressed, probably because the only people who heard it were the people in the store and not their 100k followers on social media.

    • @Tundra.
      @Tundra. Рік тому +9

      "Excuse me, where's the new Superman #18?"
      "In the Gay Section."
      "Oh... Well, how about Batman #7?"
      "Gay Section."
      "Green Lantern?"
      "Gay."
      "Hawkgirl? Spider-man? Dare Devil? Hulk?"
      "All gay."
      :|

    • @JustTooDamnHonest
      @JustTooDamnHonest Рік тому +4

      The problem with that is no one wants to see their favorite character that has been established for years to be changed for no real reason and by doing so destroying them in the process. Plus if a villain is attacking a city and a hero says that he is gay or if another hero said that they are a they/them and this is when the villain would laugh at them and just kill them anyway for that villain doesn't give a damn about their sexuality or their pronouns.
      When we say make your own comics or stories we mean that. But the problem with that is that they do not have the talent or the merit or respect for the old stuff and so that is why they change the old stuff and that is an insult.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 Рік тому +1

      @@JustTooDamnHonest "...the problem with that is that they do not have the talent or the merit or respect for the old stuff" - very true, but it sounds like you're still giving these new 'modern' authors way too much credit. It's not like they read comics as kids and admired the characters and wanted to re-create what they loved about them. They're late-comers to the art, just like in film and TV and literature, and only see it as a vehicle for promoting their social agendas.
      If one of them HAD been a comics fan as a kid, saw some aspect of their favorite hero that didn't jibe with the mainstream view of them and wanted to explore that aspect in a new comic, I could at least respect their effort - because they were coming at it as a fan of the art. Even terrible writing and story structure could be seen as an amateur's attempt to recreate something. But they're not even doing that. They're barging their way into fandoms, taking them over in order to subvert characters and stories that represent what they hate. It's not merely a lack of talent, it's more malevolent than that.

    • @JustTooDamnHonest
      @JustTooDamnHonest Рік тому

      @@Raskolnikov70 Thank you for agreeing what is obvious and correction I wasn't giving these "new modern authors" any credit for I was calling them out for being hacks(which they are) and trying is not doing.
      I read a few comics in my life. But my jump into the world of comics was the TV shows of the 80s and 90s and that is where I saw one of my all time favorite superhero in Batman(he is my number 3 in my top 5 fictional characters list).
      So in truth no matter how you look at it for it all started with BlackRock who poisoned Disney and it spread to the point where everything in entertainment turned into woke BS and as time past the cracks were showing and so they started hiring activists with no talent or merit or skill or respect for the source material and their views of the world is completely anti to the comic characters in question and since they know that they can't make their own they co-opt established characters of long standing IPs and pollute them with their narrow minded views and twisting ironic characters into something that is not them and the situation in entertainment went from bad to worse and now the strikes and people rejecting the trash that has come out within the past 9 years. There are a few talents within the woke trash in Hollywood and it is those whom I feel for since they are going to be getting the shaft along with the hacks.
      I have been calling the woke out since the ST of Disney Star Wars and I'm not stopping until Hollywood comes to its senses(most likely they will not) and if not then we support the indie scene and they are turning up some good material both comic wise and indie film wise, but they are few in-between and yet we still have a taste for it. But Hollywood is losing its once mighty paying customer and it we can see the bleeding and it is getting worse and AI is not a universal cure all and as long as those woke mandates and checkbox requirements are on then Hollywood will continue to bleed until there is nothing left.

  • @barelymanilow7079
    @barelymanilow7079 Рік тому +56

    This is unfortunate. I was a DC guy in anocean of Marvel guys. I collected until 2009 and quit. I remember DC being really good for a long time, it's sad.

    • @kennethgibson456
      @kennethgibson456 Рік тому +4

      I hated American comics except batman and Spiderman... I was Judge Dredd 2000AD all the way!

    • @shahman76
      @shahman76 Рік тому +2

      I hear you. It was a sad day I hung up my DC badge and walked away. I recognised that DC just didn’t want me as a fan or a customer anymore, after almost twenty years of loyalty. But hey! I have my old collection and the old animateds. And so do we all. Life is still good 😊

  • @madkabal
    @madkabal Рік тому +14

    Defective Comics

  • @capthavic
    @capthavic Рік тому +69

    As always I've never had an issue with characters being gay, etc. My only problem is them forcing it into everything and using it to defend terrible writing.

    • @maguffintop2596
      @maguffintop2596 Рік тому +1

      The problem is intrinsic to the perversion. There is no satiation point w/ some of these creatures. They rebel for the sake of rebellion. They are at war with what is, unappeasable misery monsters. Just wait till furries become part of the LGBTQ2S-AIF!!

    • @jimthar17
      @jimthar17 Рік тому

      I just don't understand why we need to know who EVERY character is fucking. I mean, it's Hawkgirl. Not exactly a high tier character. Do we really need to know her relationship status or should she just be out there saving the planet? We truly don't need to know the sexuality of every single character in the DC or Marvel universes. It's just annoying. That and they're turning everyone gay anyway so it's not even a surprise anymore. Nor is it even original.

    • @Likexner
      @Likexner Рік тому +5

      So you like seeing dudes kiss?

    • @capthavic
      @capthavic Рік тому +3

      @@Likexner Does guys kissing bother you? ;)

    • @Likexner
      @Likexner Рік тому +2

      @@capthavic Answer my question first, then i will answer yours.

  • @CatH4ck
    @CatH4ck Рік тому +2

    Wow, I'm surprised, half of that comic is just ads of other comics... Is worse than the free apps, you read 1 page and ad page, another page and 2 ad page, damn.

  • @pauls4784
    @pauls4784 Рік тому +27

    My recollection is superhero comics used to be 90% the fun adventure and action and 10% the personal life stuff. Looks like these days it's the other way round.

    • @ericfrancisco6615
      @ericfrancisco6615 Рік тому +8

      It's because those chronically stuck on Twitter think fictional characters have modern progressive feelings. That nonsense of action, adventure, aspirational characters must now be tokenized and appease that minority that never read these comics and characters we loved.

  • @OldyAlbert
    @OldyAlbert Рік тому +4

    When self-insert fanfiction writers get the actual writer job.
    Like - imagine a young boy without any context of culture war and such - picking up a comic like that. He will not be angry, he would just be very confused and deside that comics lame and go find something else to do

  • @paulturner4684
    @paulturner4684 Рік тому +25

    I just don't get it, man. They don't seem to even be telling stories at this point. It's just sexual perversion wish fulfillment over and over and over again. Can't figure out what to do with Tim Drake? Well, let's queer him up, because the shippers have been clamoring for that for years. Jon Kent dull as dishwater? Better queer him up too! Who even knows Hawkgirl's personality at this point due to the character being retconned to hell and back. What an absolute mess. If these people are "writing what they know" then they lead very depraved and pointless existences. Why would you allow your company to be overtaken by this? The sales numbers don't lie. People do not want to read this dreck.

    • @jimthar17
      @jimthar17 Рік тому +3

      I had the unfortunate luck of getting TWO copies of that Jon Kent pink haired boy kiss book in multipacks on the same day. As soon as I pulled it out i thought, "I'll bet this is the gay kiss book" and yep, it was. They keep it till the last page of the book but it's there just the same. Lucky me I got the regular and variant cover. Maybe I can sell the set for five bucks or something.

    • @TruthLives-ee6sf
      @TruthLives-ee6sf Рік тому

      It's not hard to understand, people worship materialism and hedonism and nihilism and can't justify why something is true or right or wrong and they become subjective nihilistic promoting the inversion of reality and its financed by the bankers that want to collapse and depopulate the globe and rebuild it in there own image aka brave new world and gottaca, been going on for centuries if you read your pdfile rulers

  • @bloodrunsclear
    @bloodrunsclear Рік тому +4

    How an entire entertainment industry decided to make material for no one…and wondered why nobody paid for it

  • @discouraged-author
    @discouraged-author Рік тому +28

    I absolutely LOVE hawk girl. I’m currently re-watching the justice league 2001-2006 series. Can’t say the same about the comics.

    • @cheeseburgersuperior1874
      @cheeseburgersuperior1874 Рік тому +7

      the real hawk girl.

    • @theunknowngamer5477
      @theunknowngamer5477 Рік тому

      Try some of the preserved history of Hawkgirl, found in Alter Ego.
      Yes, ancient fanzine stuff. Roy Thomas fleshed out ALL the old characters,
      the Golden Age canon is well documented, the new membership just may
      do the same into your era of interest. Black Orchid is a strange origin.

  • @sbarnes7240
    @sbarnes7240 Рік тому +2

    Those morons have destroyed everything, and now the corporations say but where have our customers gone????? We've had enough! I just buy classic back issues now. Modern new comics are totally dead.

  • @moveit987
    @moveit987 Рік тому +3

    Very much wondered where those comics disappeared .to ...
    The stores are also closing down, so now-a-days it is very difficult to purchase those like it was many many years ago .

  • @Ashkihyena
    @Ashkihyena Рік тому +10

    It’s like that Ronald McDoanld meme
    “What the fuck am I reading?”
    8:09 Don’t forget being a domestic terrorist organization as well as a slush fund.
    9:55 You could take it out and burn it.

  • @abooreal
    @abooreal Рік тому +11

    I admit that I'm no comic reader. I grew up with the x-men batman animated series and really love those. I never imagine how bad it is now.
    Hawkgirl: 2 pages of fighting, the rest is "are you gay?" "can we get together?" "kissing"....
    man.....

    • @gusty9053
      @gusty9053 Рік тому +1

      I spent a week re watching the Berserk anime. I ended up ordering the first three volumes of the manga (deluxe version). I plan to get them all. ”American comics” don't stand a chance anymore.

  • @MySayThingsNStuff
    @MySayThingsNStuff Рік тому +6

    When you threw that... That combination of disgust, betrayal, and sadness, man. Been floating in that exact sentiment societally for the past 4 years.
    I don't know man. Feel for you because I'm feeling it too. Thank you for your content. It really helps. Sincerely, my soul.

  • @stitch3163
    @stitch3163 Рік тому +8

    Belle wouldn’t use the cat box if you lined it with that comic… just put it in the bin, Az.

    • @animeangel1983
      @animeangel1983 Рік тому

      Or burn it, need the heat somehow for the coming winter since they want to destroy all sources of heat in that country.

  • @jadestar0883
    @jadestar0883 Рік тому +8

    This is why I love indies and manga. These people only worth laughing at.😂🤣

    • @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516
      @ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516 Рік тому

      Those those industries is also facing issues.
      Manga also has a ped*phile problem.
      I doubt any of you read anything other than North American comics.
      You guys never know what you are talking about when it comes to manga and most of you were against manga before the quarantine.
      You people just worship Japanese people because you believe Japanese manga isn't "woke" or has degenerate content.
      You clearly never read a mainstream manga or maybe you are deliberately lying or delusional.
      Take a pick.
      Manga has been losing sales in the last ten years in NA.
      Also depending on what category or demographic you are viewing
      Shojo manga tend to have less sales that shonen manga and action series are more popular than slice of life series.
      Many companies has shut down divisions or moved out of the U.S. and Canada due to low sales or copyright issues.
      Manga are often serialized in magazines by different publishers so comparing manga to DC or Marvel as if manga is one entity is misleading.
      There are many reasons why a manga would lose sales.
      The stories are losing their originally and the art isn't very appealing.
      I see very few series in the Jump magazines in English that are decently written and isn't filled with scenes sexualizing children,abuse or s*icide.
      Manhwa (Korean comics) has similar issues.
      There is a reason why some people are skeptical of certain manga series particularly manga and manhwa series especially manga labeled "seinen"
      I keep hearing in the anime community that the industry is "struggling" and in the comic book community that it isn't.
      It's strange that people keep using sales of manga against U.S. comics as if both can't co-exist or sales makes manga more superior to comics.
      Both manga and comics has their pros and cons.
      I explained all this before on this channel.
      Many manga has the same cringe messages like any other form of literature.
      However the unlike in the States or in Canada I doubt most mangaka who push this crap into their stories actually believe what they write.
      I know I'm possibly the only manga reader on this channel but you guys should research more about this industry or at least read manga instead bringing it up needlessly.
      I find it bizarre how little comics readers know about any other media other than comics.
      I read other kinds and types of literature and I watch TV shows that aren't related to manga and comics.
      Why is it so hard for guys to do the same?
      It's embarrassing.

  • @CRIMI0N
    @CRIMI0N Рік тому +6

    This is what happens when Tumblr writes comics.

  • @saschaberger3212
    @saschaberger3212 Рік тому +1

    Completely sickening

  • @ArinJager1
    @ArinJager1 Рік тому +3

    gone are the days... (when some hot girl-on-girl action was a reward... now it's a punishment)

  • @geofft.1959
    @geofft.1959 Рік тому +5

    A hilarious UA-camr once summed up the situation best, "Manga stop laughing"

  • @thesaltyweeb
    @thesaltyweeb Рік тому +2

    The way Az threw that comic in a fit of rage or maybe frustration really shows how low comics have sunk.
    MANGA STOP LAUGHING!!!

  • @NotTomS
    @NotTomS Рік тому +1

    I walked from comics when the genderswapping/DEI/ESG happened at Marvel... never looked back... Walked from the MCU when it became the M-she-U... DC is copying Marvel's train wreck... nothing new here... Not looking back...

  • @oddz-modz1369
    @oddz-modz1369 Рік тому +24

    When I was a kid in middle school (I'm 42 now) I dreamed of being a comic book artist/writer, because I wanted to create in the same world as the greats that came before me, Kirby, Ditko, Romita and so many more. The current state of comics is a massive slap in the face to the legacy that it once was. Hope you're doing well Az ✌️

  • @magnemoe1
    @magnemoe1 Рік тому +6

    So many free web comics who has not only way more superior story but also better graphic.
    I was mostly surprised that the purple lady had boobs. I thought that was illegal.

  • @British_Rogue
    @British_Rogue Рік тому +1

    _"Run by an egg producer with a bonus hole."_
    Both hilarious and horrifying.

  • @freeport48
    @freeport48 Рік тому +13

    Keep speaking the truth Az love it.

  • @stoopidpursun8140
    @stoopidpursun8140 Рік тому +6

    Anyone who has ever been involved in a fan community in any way knows there is always some jackass who insists on dragging their fetish into whatever that world is. Then they make that fetish the most important part of everyone's experience until everything is ruined. Then they move onto another fandom, dragging their fetish with them and ruining that fandom too. These writers are those jackasses, now getting paid to do what they used to do for free on various fan sites.

    • @yagamifire7861
      @yagamifire7861 Рік тому

      Yup this is why people don't like furries. It's too often their entire identity and they inject it into EVERYTHING

    • @ItsaKindOfMagic86
      @ItsaKindOfMagic86 Рік тому +3

      lived through it since the late 90s on Livejournal, deviant art and tumblr. it actually drive me to get redpilled because they ruined every fandom out there with their fetishes and bullying fans that dont want any of that crap flooded all over the place

    • @stoopidpursun8140
      @stoopidpursun8140 Рік тому

      @@ItsaKindOfMagic86 What?! You don't want to hear all about anime ripoff gay lucario and his muscle fetish (version 374)? You are clearly a fascist.

  • @wiskyjack_7143
    @wiskyjack_7143 Рік тому +2

    AZ hit on the most important issue here. All that potential talent out there that has zero chance of being hired simply because they don’t subscribe to this awful ideology. This is what is actually intended.

  • @donmynack
    @donmynack Рік тому +6

    If you look at new releases for the Big 2, they are selling reprints like crazy. It's all epic collections and ultimate editions and new printings of trades. They know their current stuff blows and nobody wants it.

  • @bubbahclem6133
    @bubbahclem6133 Рік тому +3

    I just finished watching some farming videos. Then I came here and you said "egg producer with a bonus hole". I admit. I sat here with a 1000 yard stare after that.

  • @barelymanilow7079
    @barelymanilow7079 Рік тому +5

    I just started to collect comics again. Of course I am buying back issues when it comes to DC and Marvel. I sold my old collection and I am wanting to rebuild. It will take awhile.

  • @TheWorryingWolverine
    @TheWorryingWolverine Рік тому +13

    Well, for a moment i thought they were using AI to write the comic dialogues, but i doubt even they could manage to warp AI into something that insane...
    Any AI would probably try to run away before being involved in something like that.

  • @findinggodswisdom
    @findinggodswisdom Рік тому +1

    This is why I stopped reading any comics from DC or Marvel.

  • @ogreofgormley
    @ogreofgormley Рік тому +2

    At this point, it's quicker to list the characters in DC and Marvel who aren't gay.

  • @flowsilver-valhallagc
    @flowsilver-valhallagc Рік тому +11

    Hope you have something to restore your sanity after stuff like this. Keep it up, you and the gang (Nerdrotic &co) are great.

  • @Bazelf
    @Bazelf Рік тому +10

    I can hear Az ranting about anything, all day. Guy has a gift!

  • @JKS-mv5kv
    @JKS-mv5kv Рік тому +1

    We’re not making stories for customers but for future companies to buy… What company is gonna buy a story with absolutely no audience?

  • @elperrodelautumo7511
    @elperrodelautumo7511 Рік тому +7

    A comic about Floppa meme cat would sell hot cakes 🥞 better than what DC comics could have.

  • @RichWards-Wins
    @RichWards-Wins Рік тому +3

    Left Disease Comics a looong time ago.
    Stories and movies are s#!t.

  • @cheeseburgersuperior1874
    @cheeseburgersuperior1874 Рік тому +2

    so hawkgirl is gonna a relationship with hawkMA'AM.

  • @DABranche
    @DABranche Рік тому +1

    Glad that you have suggestions in the end. I fell off on collecting comics and art around 2010 back when "current day" things were just "tumblr/sjw" shit seeping in. Seems like they fully took over Disney and Warner now so I don't have mainstream options anymore.

  • @DeflatingAtheism
    @DeflatingAtheism Рік тому +3

    The Sideshave Girl Funko Pops and their twenty variants have been loaded onto dump trucks and transported directly from the factory to the landfill. They’re cutting out the middle man!

  • @markcarpenter6020
    @markcarpenter6020 Рік тому +6

    The people at DC and marvel comics don't seem to get that to create the "next big IP" they have to create something that's actually popular with the customers.(yes customers not consumers)

  • @doomspud6302
    @doomspud6302 Рік тому +2

    The fact that Bionicle, a toyline for kids, had better comics than this, is just pathetic. Those comics were basically just a fancy ad for the toys. But back then, LEGO and DC knew that the best way to sell those toys was to make them look super cool. So they hired writers and artists with the skill to do just that. They didn't pander or preach to anyone, and they didn't treat their audience like idiots. They just wrote cool stories with cool characters.
    And yet, they somehow still managed to turn non-human toys into interesting and relatable characters, while inspiring positive virtues in kids. Imagine that!
    Plus, actual story content aside, the way these new books are like 60% ads is disgusting. You get what? 14 pages of actual story in a 30 page book? That's just insulting.

  • @AuthoritativeNewsNetwork
    @AuthoritativeNewsNetwork Рік тому +1

    That bit about them writing not for customers but for future IP royalty checks, felt like they looked at Manga and tried to copy its business model.
    Unfortunately, they missed two important steps:
    - Web novel > Light novel > Manga > Anime, some of our favourites come to us through this method. A period of refinement that is lacking in Western Binge Culture.
    - Those that went Manga > Anime, how many one-shots had to be summited before they got picked up (and managed to garner enough support to continue) serialisation. Very different from DC/Marvel printing to fill a quota and then having Diamond shit it out to all its captured audiences.

  • @xavierhollander6521
    @xavierhollander6521 Рік тому +1

    Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Hawkgirl, Poison Ivy are all gay now. I'm sure there's no agenda......🤨

  • @frankiepatterson1417
    @frankiepatterson1417 Рік тому +1

    FOOKING SCISSORING. They've destroyed comics, it's sad really

  • @HexKitty
    @HexKitty Рік тому +2

    I stopped reading comics around 1994 or so... do comics really have that many full-page ads in them these days?

  • @DEATH-THE-GOAT
    @DEATH-THE-GOAT Рік тому +1

    1:42 WARNING, WARNING, *_SELF INSERT FOUNDED,_* WARNING, WARMING

  • @swokatsamsiyu3590
    @swokatsamsiyu3590 Рік тому +6

    Your rant is something to behold, and brings out many a chuckle when watching your videos. I understand your anger completely. As a teenager, all my weekly allowance would go to comics, both DC and Marvel. I collected them well into the 90s. Still have a box of them upstairs, and reread them on occasion. Will be holding on to these for dear life. Some of them have been read to pieces because the story telling was just so good. Seeing what they put out these days is so utterly depressing. What absolute sh¡te, it's an insult to the paper it's printed on.

  • @tonyceci8237
    @tonyceci8237 Рік тому +1

    Wow, can't understand why the industry is in toilet. Never would have imagined I'd have to ban my kids from reading marvel and dc

  • @ericfrancisco6615
    @ericfrancisco6615 Рік тому +2

    Az, mate, don't use that shite to line your cat's litter. That's tantamount to animal abuse.

  • @Finn2885
    @Finn2885 Рік тому +50

    “Gay representation was a mistake” -Random DC Fan

    • @toothgrinder2760
      @toothgrinder2760 Рік тому +3

      ldentity poIitics was a mistake in all aspects of society and culture.

    • @jackbower9087
      @jackbower9087 Рік тому +2

      ​@@toothgrinder2760identity politics absolutely fulfilled its intended purpose

  • @midwestfinest9563
    @midwestfinest9563 Рік тому +6

    Another great rant Az! Well worded and passionate it jolts me up every time

  • @matiaspizarro7960
    @matiaspizarro7960 Рік тому +2

    Oh my god... I haven't read comics in years and I never imagined the state of comics was this low! I'm speechless. How come they haven't gone bankrupt yet...

  • @aulvinduergard9952
    @aulvinduergard9952 Рік тому +2

    If all they were doing was "writing stories for future IPs," they wouldn't be releasing them as independent products to be bought by the comic book audience, they'd just be writing scripts.

  • @Nameheret
    @Nameheret Рік тому +1

    Jesus, how many pages of ads are in that comic ?

  • @farawayfindlay4775
    @farawayfindlay4775 Рік тому +2

    The comic will come in handy lining Bell's litter tray

  • @georgebrice8329
    @georgebrice8329 Рік тому +1

    I really got out reading and buying comics at the right time it seem it get worse and worse this is some b.s.

  • @headp3
    @headp3 Рік тому +29

    We need a FNT comic series. Imagine how much fun it would be to get super hero characters based off the whole crew going out and fighting against "Modern Ideological Garbage" as the villain. Flip She Hulks narrative on the twat waffles head. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

    • @Unicron187
      @Unicron187 Рік тому

      i would love to see az punching off a face at a van down by a river as a part of his arc...
      i still remember him calling s01e01 of batwhamen "not that bad", but he hadn't seen nothing yet XD

    • @zonzillamagnus5902
      @zonzillamagnus5902 Рік тому +3

      Sounds cringey asf

    • @francissantos5518
      @francissantos5518 Рік тому +1

      Peeping Tom with sidekick Xray Girl needs to be real

  • @The_Tony_G
    @The_Tony_G Рік тому

    No talent in TV, Movies, or Comics. "You check a box we are looking for! YOU'RE HIRED!"

  • @brusiermonster9545
    @brusiermonster9545 Рік тому +3

    Sad to say some of what they call violence is needed aka calling them on their sh1t

  • @longtsun8286
    @longtsun8286 Рік тому +1

    This garbage comic book will EPIC FAIL to be the hit the writer, artist, and PUBLISHER desperately hope it will be, because the writer and artist made it for themselves, and ONLY THEMSELVES- no one else wants to read this garbage story, or see the garbage art.
    And DC Comics wonders why it's not making any money. Seriously, HIRE BETTER TALENT- PAY YOUR TALENT MORE, if necessary!

  • @generaltso5592
    @generaltso5592 Рік тому +1

    It's like people at marvel and DC watched Mr metokur's DeviantArt and Tumblr videos and instead laughing at it like a sane human being they said too themselves my god I've just stumbled on the future of entertainment I must hire them all.

  • @tohafi
    @tohafi Рік тому +1

    i never owned a modern comic and wow 😳 a fullpage ad on every other page...this looks worse then TV...seems very distracting.

  • @beowulfsrevenge4369
    @beowulfsrevenge4369 Рік тому +2

    So what you're saying, Az, is that Hawkgirl likes eating trout...?

  • @warriorontheedgeoftime4224
    @warriorontheedgeoftime4224 Рік тому +2

    As a kid I grew up reading 2000ad comics in the 70's, the stories were graphic, intelligent and were more adult oriented than the crap that's being written and printed these days. I have a name for these crappy comics, MFI... Made for idiots!

  • @Rhamsody
    @Rhamsody Рік тому +3

    Anyone else listen to his rants when he gets fired up and just...smiles? 😂👏🏾👍🏾

  • @dankato6380
    @dankato6380 Рік тому +1

    I like the little laughs in-between the ranting and raving... I find it funny

  • @Divertedflight
    @Divertedflight Рік тому

    Yeah, living in a small city of half a million people, used to be two comic book shops and now there's none.

  • @Martynde
    @Martynde Рік тому +6

    The only comics I read now are from the 90s and older.

  • @XadrumLtd
    @XadrumLtd Рік тому +1

    Urrmm.. you could turn them into a Papier Maché sculpture of a middle finger salute to display on your set. Or, even better, send back to Dire Comics as customer feedback. 😈

  • @spykemxd
    @spykemxd Рік тому +1

    Soon as I saw that giant sexy purple alien chick in a modern comic, I knew there had to be a catch.