Visited a comic shop out of the way I hadn't been in for six years and asked owner how it was going. He made a face and said, "lot of my customers are cancelling their subscriptions. I'm not pulling new books much anymore." "Really? Why?" I asked. The guy only knows me on sight and says without a single hesitation, "Because of the agendas in the books. I'm doing pretty well selling back issues online." And there we have it: A medium that once had promise reduced to yard sale items. Thanks, Big 2!
It’s always funny how Casually Comics can roast something while sounding really nice about it at the same time. It’s a good inversion of Thinking Critical where even when he likes something he sounds like a dad who’s surprised his son isn’t an idiot today (which is also hilarious).
well said, both call things out in the industry with different styles..better than alot of the shills who pretend everything is great...looking at you Comics Explained
The plotline with Fire inviting supervillans to gain clout is the sort of thing that would have ended with her being spanked by one of the male heroes in a 30's or 40's comic. And it would have been a better story.
Nickelodeon and Disney Channel's sitcom writing fried the brains of a whole generation. It's like they are physically unable to write cohesive stories or anything other than "lol so random humor" anymore
Ha! The Disney Channel fried _my_ storytelling brains back in the days when they had no original programming, so they had to pad out the schedule with third-party, nightmare fuel glazed movies. So I guess if I got tapped to do a slice-of-life DC comic, it'd end up being about Batgirl going insane and having a scrawny frog-man bite off her finger, while a drunk skeleton points and screams at 'em. But it'd have really nice watercolor backgrounds.
8:30 the almost nuzzling and head patting isn't what women who are friends do, its what a mother does to a daughter. Its like some sort of fantasy where the writor is acting out what she wishes she was. Popular and everybody loves her (a mary sue) and her new mommy loves everything she does.
Got to the part with the shark. I know who these comics are for now. There is a meta on youtube where creators, often with special needs, will adopt a character. Usually a character from a cartoon or video game as a self insert. These comics are for the enjoyment of writer not the audience. There is no audience beyond the writer.
She's trying to do an anime-style "sweet and innocent" character, which is demonstrated, in part, by the mother treating her like she's 6. This could potentially work, but it needs a lot more groundwork than this comic has, especially given the use of pre-established characters and a world that isn't really conducive to this style of anime trope.
I've commented on this before, but it's like there's an edict to write every single character in every single scene as a 20-something Brooklyn hipster. The historical equivalent would have been if Claremont wrote every single scene with the vibe of a 1970s disco instead of just the scenes of Dazzler performing.
Nah, say what you want about Jim Lee and how he’s running DC, but dude definitely isn’t lazy. He has always been one of the hardest working guys in comics, in one way or another. You’re just not always seeing what he’s doing on the exec level. Now, why he’s letting all of this bullshit happen is another issue.
In much the same way the modern "Girlboss" fails by mis-imagining what a real boss/leader is, and then trying (but failing) to imitate it with a coat of pink- the modern comic writer similarly mis-imagines what a real fan is like, and then tries (but fails) to cater to it with unwanted hard rights into the author's own life and political beliefs..... It's like, I wish I could sit these people down and tell them "Hey, I remember being 9 years old, and reading comics, know what I didn't ever, not once, think? Even as a snot-nosed kid? I never once thought "Boy, I wish this comic was about me and my personal problems so I could be represented. Why can't Super Dude have problems at school with bad math grades and few friends, just like me?!" I only thought "Wow, Super Dude punched that robot through a BUILDING, that's so cool!"
That's the best description of a fan's expectation when he reads a superhero comic. These new writers need to understand one thing; fans don't care about the writer or his life, but we do care about a superhero comic having superheroics in it.
Breaking news; Portland/LA/NY SJWs have such a narrow worldview/depth of life experience that they can't even fathom moving to a small town and being able to afford to live without a roommate/vaguely sexual life partner. The author clearly doesn't have a concept that the middle of nowhere allows one to rent an entire ranch style house for $600.
I don't even think they understand that you might need satellite internet if you're in the boonies enough, your water might come from a well in your land, and you may not even be connected to the sewage mains and have to get your septic tank pumped every few years. Let alone the other things that differentiate city life from rural life like the smell of fields when the farmers fertilize them with silage, or that all the nature around them isn't a public park but someone's property and if you get told to leave, LEAVE.
@@VallornDeathblade Exactly, and in addition to knowing nothing about rural life, they HATE rural people. They see America as being two coasts, with the entire center of the country being a frightening, dangerous wasteland marked "Here there be cisheteronormative racists."
“And you’re going to miss the person you were before I read this to you” I laughed out loud so loudly! I needed this phrase, I have felt it often, but did not have a way to describe it until now - thank you!!! And then you’re little sincere sounding “sorry” and description afterwards were more chuckles.
"You haven't heard of me, that's embarrassing for YOU" One sentence in and I am gone. Could they make the character sound like more of an asshole? She invited villains to a small time for fame... because that's what a hero does. I am so dead, almost as dead as DC...
Honestly I think it would be funny as hell to have one some d list villain try to take over a small mid-western town, and immediately get lit up by a bunch of 2nd amendment enthusiasts.
@@kyriss12 To be fair, that sounds like a good idea. Someone like the Midnight Bomber Who Strikes at Midnight from the Tick would be a good candidate or mold for such a story.
It’s because people are designed to reproduce. We grow up, we learn, we pass along our knowledge, we care for the next generation. Women especially are wired to do this. But when you don’t progress to the next stage in life, you don’t take some alternate route in psychological maturation; your lizard hindbrain doesn’t have a “chose not to have kids” setting. So you arrest. You spend the rest of your life as a teenager, because you refused to move up to that next level.
The art is okay, like a Scooby Doo comic for a cereal that is already on sale, I mean if the artist added more curves to those figures and a little less noses of old women with the bodies of girls entering adolescence, there are the fundamentals for beautiful women, which does not solve the problem that they are lesbians and that the panels, instead of having action scenes destroying public and private property alike by throwing out the villains or the heroines, are like story boards for a pitch from a rejected season of Harley Quinn. In some RUclips live, I heard from a writer nicknamed script doctor that the writers on strike have the alternative of migrating to the comics industry to survive, which seems to be a total ignorance of the situation of this industry, but at least it is positive .
To say the obvious, a lot if rural towns have bad crime and drug problems, and probably Supes works really hard to keep.that out of Smallville. Also, if a salon closes, they sell off the equipment and often the decorations. Dryers like that are not left in place.
Calling out the Coronado Bay Bridge specifically, wow. For those that don't know, the bridge is over two miles long, and at its peak has 200ft of clearance over the water. The intrusive thoughts while driving over that bridge... yeah, I get it.
I'm guessing the audience are emotionally stunted, sheltered middle-aged feminists who love social media. That's a...very niche demographic. And the art style feels like a back to school pamphlet.
I'm gona ask a few questions that I had more thought put into them then the thing that sparked it in the first place. 1. Why move to Smallvill? If it was just to get away from it all why not buy a small farm away from everything, rent some space on Kent land if possible. 2. Why move to Smallvill wearing your superhero outfits. (I guess they can't control the color of their hair) 3. Wouldn't Superman be concerned with other heroes moving to his hometown, especially heroes who are still active who could bring their threats there to where his family lives.
3. Yes. They want to endanger the Kents for cloutchasing and a feeling of superiority. 1. Because living your own life independently does not virtue signal and perform superiority.
Oh, you should check out the Giffen-DeMatteis era of the Justice League. Zack doesn't like it, but he's wrong; it was brilliant. Just bear in mind that if you think of it as the Bwahaha-era of the League, you may be in for a bit of a shock. Yes, it was funny, but it also got pretty dark a lot of the time, even before the "Breakdowns" arc (when it got extremely dark). And Fire and Ice are actually quite interesting characters when they are being written in character.
There will NEVER be enough women acting as actual paying customers to maintain the hobby after they chase away all the male readers who are quickly aging out anyway. Turning away new male readers to pander to 5% of your clientele is another huge nail in the coffin.
Very true, franchises that appeal to men don’t generally work for women, marvel,DC, Star Wars appeals to more to men than it does to women. The opposite is also true romance and true crime have large female audiences compared to male
That lettice joke was almost surreal. I thought for a moment I was in the twilight zone or reading a book about it. These people are twisted in very strange way.
Watching DC, who could've swooped in and ate Marvel's lunch with Rebirth, go back and do all the tired trash that failed to sell books 6-7 years ago is depressing. The story fails to establish anything or make you like the characters and that dull webtoons art guarantees no one will buy this. The Birds of Prey relaunch looks even worse. How you can have so many women in a comic and refuse to draw any of them as sexy as mind boggling. Just pathetic. I can't wait until toxoplasmosis takes out all of these idiot hacks.
13:06 I'm going to assume the joke is that the dialogue is supposed to be bad because it's meant to be bad acting on purpose (I hope), but it sounds like a Dr. Suess book. If this wasn't intentional, someone needs to be fired quickly. 😳
This 'made for a demographic that doesn't exist' comic reminds me of how Disney used to be known mainly for Disney princesses, and they wanted to diversify into men's marketing, which is part of why they bought Marvel and Lucasfilm. So now they can have content for boys and girls! Smart right? Well now the MCU is all cliche girlbosses, Indiana Jones got one-upped by a woman, and the force is female. Its all girlbosses. But like this comic, thats not what girls want or give a shit about. Now princess content with feminine characters isn't made by Disney. Now like comics Disney is a brand for nobody.
Man, this art is amateur-hour. After seeing the inks of the most recent Jawbreakers in your earlier community post, this looks like the kind of stuff I doodled on the back of my Trapper Keeper in jr. high.
It screams that they have to lower the bar for girls and it’s insulting (despite being written by women). It’d be more ironic if it wasn’t so embarrassing.
Intrusive thoughts are normal. They're your brain processing potential dangers. But unlike the people in the comic book industry, most people don't actually act on them.
I can't imagine the industry will ever go back to its roots. Being fun, imaginative, spectacular, or interesting. Still can't wrap my head around how it festers in something far less than mediocrity. Thankfully we have Indy writers like Zack and his ilk that keep the spirit alive.
You know, this reminds me of one sing more than anything else. The latest generation of My Little pony. Superheroes go to a small town, open a salon, sing random songs, and crazy stuff happens. It even goes into the same befriend everyone with wacky nonsense. Since when has DC comic been doing knockoff MLP?
I like that Beatrice and Tora stayed in Smallville where they had to talk about their feelings, meet Martha Kent and the citizens of Smallville, and have funnily JLI-esque moments (i.e. Clark Kent Superman stopping the Shark from attacking Smallville and Ambush Bug working a Big Belly Burger). Also, JLI variant cover, which is hilarious.
Booster Gold and Blue Beetle comics had a bromance but it worked because the writers actually knew how real people worked. This book looks like it was written by an alien who has only been on earth for a few months.
@@MrDman21 tbh, that describes a majority of women (excuse me “transmen” and “nonbinary”) doing fan(F)arts on Tumblr - people with very low emotional IQ but a high capacity to be “triggered”. I think aliens would UNDERSTAND that they don’t understand and wouldn’t knee jerk have narcissistic rage about EVERYTHING.
Man I haven't listened to you in years, but your impressions of Comic Book Executives had me in stitches. It's good to know foodsies are yumsies. That said I like the green chick's hair. It's nice hair.
Can someone tell me why the graphic design of the intro page looks like the text is printed on a dirty toilet paper roll that is be observed through a ripped paper bag???
If this was written properly, like Rhino or Juggernaut or basically any big muscle character, they might say one line while charging, not read an entire sonnet from a Shakespeare play because he'd need the length of the street to say all that while running. This gave me PTSD from reading and looking like that Squirrel Girl run from way back. I miss the days when you'd rip books like this in half, but I wouldn't want you wasting real money on stuff like this.
I'm sorry, but Eminem is not so popular that his songs have permeated American culture to the point that people know his songs without knowing who he is (except possibly Lose Yourself or Rap God). If she was singing Bohemian Rhapsody or Sweet Home Alabama, without knowing who Queen or Lynard Skynard are, I could see it.
I'm confused. Why are they in Smallville? Is crime in Smallville really high? Is Smallville the center of some place? Why are they hanging out with Martha Kent? Does Superman no longer have a secret identity? And wouldn't Fire and Ice know that if trouble occurs in Smallville, there's a near certainty that Superman is going to show up? Why are they hanging out in their uniforms while having a book club over or moping in their room? When was this book club meeting arranged? They just got to Smallville and they're having a book club meeting the next day? Also, I really dislike calling people "Karens." I know two women whose name is Karen and they're both really nice. Isn't calling a woman a "Karen" a bit sexist?
Why is it that Archie comics - which are slice of life comics that have a kind of kitchy vibe to them - are better than these comics? I don’t understand who looks at this and says that what female-led comics need are low-effort, low-stakes stories where everyone eats stuff and talks about things. I don’t even know anything about Fire other than she’s Brazilian, and yet I *still know that this comic is writing her wrong.*
Oh my god... I can't believe people actually paid money for this comic book. 🤢 Granted, we're probably not talking about THAT MANY people, but still...
She is using Karen in its Bailey meaning. The Motte that is easy to defend is that 'Karen' means a woman acting unreasonably in an entitled way. The Bailey, or word as regularly used is 'any white woman complaining for any reason'. That is why Fire defends with Ethnicity.* A mixed race woman cant be a Karen (ignoring how many Brazilians are just Meds or Aryans)
Dodson's cover art compared to what you actually get inside the book is the main reason I went from spending $30 a week to $4.99. I don't care how "good" the storyline is (and that doesn't matter once said storyline eventually gets retconned), if the art sucks I'm not buying.
Why are your videos so quiet Zack? I gotta crank the volume to double just to be able to hear you. Otherwise it was a great roast. The only thing missing was you ripping up the comic at the end of the video.
I feel like instead of dragging established characters through the mud, Marvel and DC should just let these idiots make their bootleg versions of Lucky Star. The comics would still be trash, but at least the diversity hires are doing what they really have enthusiasm for.
![ARGENTINA vs. BOLIVIA [6-0] | RESUMEN | ELIMINATORIAS SUDAMERICANAS | FECHA 10](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/C3wPtKNbAOA/mqdefault.jpg)
The writers for DC and Marvel are so diverse that they've been writing the same story since 2016.
Visited a comic shop out of the way I hadn't been in for six years and asked owner how it was going. He made a face and said, "lot of my customers are cancelling their subscriptions. I'm not pulling new books much anymore." "Really? Why?" I asked. The guy only knows me on sight and says without a single hesitation, "Because of the agendas in the books. I'm doing pretty well selling back issues online."
And there we have it: A medium that once had promise reduced to yard sale items. Thanks, Big 2!
Fire & Ice are friendzies, but the people who write them are not. 😏
It’s always funny how Casually Comics can roast something while sounding really nice about it at the same time. It’s a good inversion of Thinking Critical where even when he likes something he sounds like a dad who’s surprised his son isn’t an idiot today (which is also hilarious).
She gives a "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed in you," vibe which can really hit you hard.
well said, both call things out in the industry with different styles..better than alot of the shills who pretend everything is great...looking at you Comics Explained
The plotline with Fire inviting supervillans to gain clout is the sort of thing that would have ended with her being spanked by one of the male heroes in a 30's or 40's comic. And it would have been a better story.
and she is mad! like bitch, you are putting people in danger! thats what a supervillian would do!!!
“I can just smell the cat piss when I read this” should be a t-shirt on the next Jawbreakers campaign.
😂
Nickelodeon and Disney Channel's sitcom writing fried the brains of a whole generation. It's like they are physically unable to write cohesive stories or anything other than "lol so random humor" anymore
Ha! The Disney Channel fried _my_ storytelling brains back in the days when they had no original programming, so they had to pad out the schedule with third-party, nightmare fuel glazed movies.
So I guess if I got tapped to do a slice-of-life DC comic, it'd end up being about Batgirl going insane and having a scrawny frog-man bite off her finger, while a drunk skeleton points and screams at 'em. But it'd have really nice watercolor backgrounds.
Think of how bad it’s going to be when AI is writing everything
I trash those shows when my kids watch them. I tell them they are substantially empty of anything but gags every other scene.
8:30 the almost nuzzling and head patting isn't what women who are friends do, its what a mother does to a daughter. Its like some sort of fantasy where the writor is acting out what she wishes she was. Popular and everybody loves her (a mary sue) and her new mommy loves everything she does.
Got to the part with the shark. I know who these comics are for now. There is a meta on youtube where creators, often with special needs, will adopt a character. Usually a character from a cartoon or video game as a self insert. These comics are for the enjoyment of writer not the audience.
There is no audience beyond the writer.
She's trying to do an anime-style "sweet and innocent" character, which is demonstrated, in part, by the mother treating her like she's 6.
This could potentially work, but it needs a lot more groundwork than this comic has, especially given the use of pre-established characters and a world that isn't really conducive to this style of anime trope.
@@Selrisitai Yikes I think you're right, she's trying for moe!
Instead she's created a really bizarre and creepy image that's not at all adorable.
"The soft bigotry of low expectations" - George W Bush
I've commented on this before, but it's like there's an edict to write every single character in every single scene as a 20-something Brooklyn hipster. The historical equivalent would have been if Claremont wrote every single scene with the vibe of a 1970s disco instead of just the scenes of Dazzler performing.
As President, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, Jim Lee approves of and gave the go-ahead for this comic.
There's no hope for Jim Lee now. He's soy infused.
Nah, say what you want about Jim Lee and how he’s running DC, but dude definitely isn’t lazy. He has always been one of the hardest working guys in comics, in one way or another. You’re just not always seeing what he’s doing on the exec level.
Now, why he’s letting all of this bullshit happen is another issue.
In much the same way the modern "Girlboss" fails by mis-imagining what a real boss/leader is, and then trying (but failing) to imitate it with a coat of pink- the modern comic writer similarly mis-imagines what a real fan is like, and then tries (but fails) to cater to it with unwanted hard rights into the author's own life and political beliefs..... It's like, I wish I could sit these people down and tell them "Hey, I remember being 9 years old, and reading comics, know what I didn't ever, not once, think? Even as a snot-nosed kid? I never once thought "Boy, I wish this comic was about me and my personal problems so I could be represented. Why can't Super Dude have problems at school with bad math grades and few friends, just like me?!" I only thought "Wow, Super Dude punched that robot through a BUILDING, that's so cool!"
That's the best description of a fan's expectation when he reads a superhero comic.
These new writers need to understand one thing; fans don't care about the writer or his life, but we do care about a superhero comic having superheroics in it.
Breaking news; Portland/LA/NY SJWs have such a narrow worldview/depth of life experience that they can't even fathom moving to a small town and being able to afford to live without a roommate/vaguely sexual life partner. The author clearly doesn't have a concept that the middle of nowhere allows one to rent an entire ranch style house for $600.
I don't even think they understand that you might need satellite internet if you're in the boonies enough, your water might come from a well in your land, and you may not even be connected to the sewage mains and have to get your septic tank pumped every few years. Let alone the other things that differentiate city life from rural life like the smell of fields when the farmers fertilize them with silage, or that all the nature around them isn't a public park but someone's property and if you get told to leave, LEAVE.
@@VallornDeathblade Exactly, and in addition to knowing nothing about rural life, they HATE rural people. They see America as being two coasts, with the entire center of the country being a frightening, dangerous wasteland marked "Here there be cisheteronormative racists."
OK, not gonna lie here. "In my mind I've already hired her 100 times" made me laugh.
Oh, yeah... Zack devolving into full insanity and despair while reading an AWFUL comic book.
Good times 🥰🥰🥰
I can feel Zacks pain when he goes, "Oh my God" at 12:19 into the video.
oh yeah. pained for sure.
I laughed way more than usual on this one. The "ya boi hates this comic" videos are always gold.
"I'm from Brazil."
Okay Katarina.
At 12:22 Fire is doing the Floss
There is nothing, NOTHING, more "How do you do, fellow kids?" than having a characters doing the floss.
“And you’re going to miss the person you were before I read this to you”
I laughed out loud so loudly! I needed this phrase, I have felt it often, but did not have a way to describe it until now - thank you!!! And then you’re little sincere sounding “sorry” and description afterwards were more chuckles.
Me: "Nice cover art. Maybe the interior-"
*Tumblr hell*
I love how Ethan Van Schiver trashes modern DC comics art 😂
"You haven't heard of me, that's embarrassing for YOU" One sentence in and I am gone. Could they make the character sound like more of an asshole? She invited villains to a small time for fame... because that's what a hero does. I am so dead, almost as dead as DC...
DC = dead comics
Of all the villains to throw at a small town in Kansas, King Shark is probably the dumbest one possible.
Nothing about this is any good or makes any sense.
Honestly I think it would be funny as hell to have one some d list villain try to take over a small mid-western town, and immediately get lit up by a bunch of 2nd amendment enthusiasts.
@@kyriss12 To be fair, that sounds like a good idea. Someone like the Midnight Bomber Who Strikes at Midnight from the Tick would be a good candidate or mold for such a story.
For a "Nickelodeon" humor type book, I'm surprised there's not a lot of feet jokes in it.
Middle-aged, childless women are functionally 10 year olds. This is why the comics read like they are written for a dull child. 😂
Middle-aged childless women who have never had a real job, just intern and cool jobs. And their families probably have money, if they wish they had..
It’s because people are designed to reproduce. We grow up, we learn, we pass along our knowledge, we care for the next generation. Women especially are wired to do this. But when you don’t progress to the next stage in life, you don’t take some alternate route in psychological maturation; your lizard hindbrain doesn’t have a “chose not to have kids” setting. So you arrest. You spend the rest of your life as a teenager, because you refused to move up to that next level.
They don't want to have children because they never stopped BEING children. . . they want to act 10 forever.
The art is okay, like a Scooby Doo comic for a cereal that is already on sale, I mean if the artist added more curves to those figures and a little less noses of old women with the bodies of girls entering adolescence, there are the fundamentals for beautiful women, which does not solve the problem that they are lesbians and that the panels, instead of having action scenes destroying public and private property alike by throwing out the villains or the heroines, are like story boards for a pitch from a rejected season of Harley Quinn. In some RUclips live, I heard from a writer nicknamed script doctor that the writers on strike have the alternative of migrating to the comics industry to survive, which seems to be a total ignorance of the situation of this industry, but at least it is positive .
To say the obvious, a lot if rural towns have bad crime and drug problems, and probably Supes works really hard to keep.that out of Smallville.
Also, if a salon closes, they sell off the equipment and often the decorations. Dryers like that are not left in place.
I mean, this is more proof that the writers and artists are not human. They have never seen a salon that went out of business a few months back.
Calling out the Coronado Bay Bridge specifically, wow. For those that don't know, the bridge is over two miles long, and at its peak has 200ft of clearance over the water. The intrusive thoughts while driving over that bridge... yeah, I get it.
I was stationed at North Island for the majority of my Navy service.
I'm guessing the audience are emotionally stunted, sheltered middle-aged feminists who love social media. That's a...very niche demographic. And the art style feels like a back to school pamphlet.
Maybe the world is now ready for my comic, Oil and Water
I'm gona ask a few questions that I had more thought put into them then the thing that sparked it in the first place.
1. Why move to Smallvill? If it was just to get away from it all why not buy a small farm away from everything, rent some space on Kent land if possible.
2. Why move to Smallvill wearing your superhero outfits. (I guess they can't control the color of their hair)
3. Wouldn't Superman be concerned with other heroes moving to his hometown, especially heroes who are still active who could bring their threats there to where his family lives.
2. Because having colored hair is too normal now. They want to flaunt their superiority, not their unique differences.
3. Yes. They want to endanger the Kents for cloutchasing and a feeling of superiority.
1. Because living your own life independently does not virtue signal and perform superiority.
Of course they can control the color of their hair. Bea's hair is not naturally green. She dyes it that color.
@@redrackham6812 Oh, my only foreknowledge of them was the one episode of JL Unlimited.
Oh, you should check out the Giffen-DeMatteis era of the Justice League. Zack doesn't like it, but he's wrong; it was brilliant. Just bear in mind that if you think of it as the Bwahaha-era of the League, you may be in for a bit of a shock. Yes, it was funny, but it also got pretty dark a lot of the time, even before the "Breakdowns" arc (when it got extremely dark). And Fire and Ice are actually quite interesting characters when they are being written in character.
Writing to a ten year old is about what the average woman thinks of the other average women, Remember, they hate each other.
Zack, you gotta remember Live, Laugh, Love!! Lol.... I just died a little inside seeing this.
Threw me for a loop for a second there; Thought you were talking about Frank Frazetta's Fire & Ice which got it's own comic series as well.
There will NEVER be enough women acting as actual paying customers to maintain the hobby after they chase away all the male readers who are quickly aging out anyway. Turning away new male readers to pander to 5% of your clientele is another huge nail in the coffin.
Very true, franchises that appeal to men don’t generally work for women, marvel,DC, Star Wars appeals to more to men than it does to women. The opposite is also true romance and true crime have large female audiences compared to male
That lettice joke was almost surreal. I thought for a moment I was in the twilight zone or reading a book about it. These people are twisted in very strange way.
"I can just smell the cat piss when I read this" hahaha, amazing!
Yeah, Sasha really went in on this one, LOL.
I use the same site to read comics. The comments are always more entertaining than the actual Marvel and DC comics.
Watching DC, who could've swooped in and ate Marvel's lunch with Rebirth, go back and do all the tired trash that failed to sell books 6-7 years ago is depressing. The story fails to establish anything or make you like the characters and that dull webtoons art guarantees no one will buy this. The Birds of Prey relaunch looks even worse. How you can have so many women in a comic and refuse to draw any of them as sexy as mind boggling. Just pathetic. I can't wait until toxoplasmosis takes out all of these idiot hacks.
Yeah, you BETTER apologize for reading that King Shark dialogue.
Goddammit, why did I have to watch this?! Oh no, where have my braincells gone?! Come back, little ones, daddy needs you!!!
13:06 I'm going to assume the joke is that the dialogue is supposed to be bad because it's meant to be bad acting on purpose (I hope), but it sounds like a Dr. Suess book. If this wasn't intentional, someone needs to be fired quickly. 😳
I only buy back issues now, it’s actually a great opportunity to go back and grab all the stuff I’ve needed to but haven’t got around to.
That BATMAN : GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM advert was sweet though.
This 'made for a demographic that doesn't exist' comic reminds me of how Disney used to be known mainly for Disney princesses, and they wanted to diversify into men's marketing, which is part of why they bought Marvel and Lucasfilm. So now they can have content for boys and girls! Smart right? Well now the MCU is all cliche girlbosses, Indiana Jones got one-upped by a woman, and the force is female. Its all girlbosses. But like this comic, thats not what girls want or give a shit about. Now princess content with feminine characters isn't made by Disney. Now like comics Disney is a brand for nobody.
Reminds me of the Futurama willy wonka episode, where the professor is talking about the Oompa Loompas, ‘Tell them I hate them.’
Man, this art is amateur-hour. After seeing the inks of the most recent Jawbreakers in your earlier community post, this looks like the kind of stuff I doodled on the back of my Trapper Keeper in jr. high.
It screams that they have to lower the bar for girls and it’s insulting (despite being written by women). It’d be more ironic if it wasn’t so embarrassing.
I just got this issue, Cover art: Great, interior art: Not so much.
It’s almost like a bait and switch, huh?
Intrusive thoughts are normal. They're your brain processing potential dangers. But unlike the people in the comic book industry, most people don't actually act on them.
I can't imagine the industry will ever go back to its roots. Being fun, imaginative, spectacular, or interesting. Still can't wrap my head around how it festers in something far less than mediocrity. Thankfully we have Indy writers like Zack and his ilk that keep the spirit alive.
"King Shark is a shark" is better dialogue...
You know, this reminds me of one sing more than anything else. The latest generation of My Little pony. Superheroes go to a small town, open a salon, sing random songs, and crazy stuff happens. It even goes into the same befriend everyone with wacky nonsense. Since when has DC comic been doing knockoff MLP?
The sorry at 13:30 after reading us the most atrocious dialogue known to man😂
These comics are worst than the old Hostess ads in the 70s & 80s.
I like that Beatrice and Tora stayed in Smallville where they had to talk about their feelings, meet Martha Kent and the citizens of Smallville, and have funnily JLI-esque moments (i.e. Clark Kent Superman stopping the Shark from attacking Smallville and Ambush Bug working a Big Belly Burger).
Also, JLI variant cover, which is hilarious.
WTF even is this?!
For God's sake, have some of these so called superheroes stop a bank heist or something!
Painful as it is, it's good to see you reviewing terrible comics again
Ok... "I like to get my fingers in a little bit o' everything... gotta try it all to see what fits" is a bit too on the nose.
Superhero comics shouldn't have a Love & Rockets type interior.
Booster Gold and Blue Beetle comics had a bromance but it worked because the writers actually knew how real people worked. This book looks like it was written by an alien who has only been on earth for a few months.
That's insulting to Love and Rockets though. Los Bros are much better cartoonists than this and aren't afraid of drawing women in a sexual way.
@@nivekleveb8872 No disrespect to the Hernandez Bros, just saying that this art should be in a slice of life type comic than a cape comic.
@@filter021 fair enough, I think I just hate this style of coloring and presumably digital inking, it looks too synthetic for me
@@MrDman21 tbh, that describes a majority of women (excuse me “transmen” and “nonbinary”) doing fan(F)arts on Tumblr - people with very low emotional IQ but a high capacity to be “triggered”. I think aliens would UNDERSTAND that they don’t understand and wouldn’t knee jerk have narcissistic rage about EVERYTHING.
Why are their eyelashes below their eyes on the cover? And the hand? No wonder AIs can't draw hands if this is the kind of shit they're being fed.
we are now at an age where fanfictions are now canon and the real continuity of our superheroes are now fanfiction
Dame your boy Zach got little spicy in this one kinda took me back to 2017 Zach 😂
I just had a dry heaving session when you mentioned cat piss. 🤢
Look at how they massacred my girls😢
Ok, I clicked on it just because the title was funny. Also, is it intrusive thoughts or intruder thots? Deep think.
Edgar Allen Poe called those thoughts "The Imp of the Perverse" which I think is a better name. Great little story.
Belongs in fan fiction, not major print. Or libraries.
Man I haven't listened to you in years, but your impressions of Comic Book Executives had me in stitches. It's good to know foodsies are yumsies.
That said I like the green chick's hair. It's nice hair.
Can someone tell me why the graphic design of the intro page looks like the text is printed on a dirty toilet paper roll that is be observed through a ripped paper bag???
As a brazilian, i dont approve her message lol
This comic's dialog hurts my soul.
If this was written properly, like Rhino or Juggernaut or basically any big muscle character, they might say one line while charging, not read an entire sonnet from a Shakespeare play because he'd need the length of the street to say all that while running. This gave me PTSD from reading and looking like that Squirrel Girl run from way back. I miss the days when you'd rip books like this in half, but I wouldn't want you wasting real money on stuff like this.
ROFL "I can just smell the cat piss.' LOL
I'm sorry, but Eminem is not so popular that his songs have permeated American culture to the point that people know his songs without knowing who he is (except possibly Lose Yourself or Rap God). If she was singing Bohemian Rhapsody or Sweet Home Alabama, without knowing who Queen or Lynard Skynard are, I could see it.
What the hell does comedy with a conscience mean?
Run. And block your ears as you get far, far away from it.
it means its not comedy at all!
Look up the terms of the agreement that comedian Konstantin Kisin refused to sign. That would give you the best idea.
I'm confused. Why are they in Smallville? Is crime in Smallville really high? Is Smallville the center of some place?
Why are they hanging out with Martha Kent? Does Superman no longer have a secret identity?
And wouldn't Fire and Ice know that if trouble occurs in Smallville, there's a near certainty that Superman is going to show up?
Why are they hanging out in their uniforms while having a book club over or moping in their room? When was this book club meeting arranged? They just got to Smallville and they're having a book club meeting the next day?
Also, I really dislike calling people "Karens." I know two women whose name is Karen and they're both really nice. Isn't calling a woman a "Karen" a bit sexist?
I'd suggest watching Casually Comic's video on it
The thing is the idea of sending them to Smallville isn't bad it's just the how,why and what they do there that doesn't work
That shark dialogue coupled with the black girl doing a "okay, this just happened" joke makes that probably the worst panel in the history of comics.
Why is it that Archie comics - which are slice of life comics that have a kind of kitchy vibe to them - are better than these comics? I don’t understand who looks at this and says that what female-led comics need are low-effort, low-stakes stories where everyone eats stuff and talks about things.
I don’t even know anything about Fire other than she’s Brazilian, and yet I *still know that this comic is writing her wrong.*
Oh my god... I can't believe people actually paid money for this comic book. 🤢
Granted, we're probably not talking about THAT MANY people, but still...
Ah, yes, of course, a hot Brazilian superheroine would be the least popular on social media...in BIZARRO WORLD
Sasha is the best, so funny ☺️...
She is using Karen in its Bailey meaning. The Motte that is easy to defend is that 'Karen' means a woman acting unreasonably in an entitled way.
The Bailey, or word as regularly used is 'any white woman complaining for any reason'. That is why Fire defends with Ethnicity.* A mixed race woman cant be a Karen (ignoring how many Brazilians are just Meds or Aryans)
Okay, but the new Batman Gargoyle of Gotham and Dawn of DC Superman are really good.
19:56 - “Next Time: You do not talk about Smallville fight club!”
Ha Ha! That Is a Reference That I Recognize!
Your review is actually funnier than the comic itself, LOL!
Dodson's cover art compared to what you actually get inside the book is the main reason I went from spending $30 a week to $4.99. I don't care how "good" the storyline is (and that doesn't matter once said storyline eventually gets retconned), if the art sucks I'm not buying.
Nha. If they ran on intrusive thoughts we will have more Crossed, this is like even worse than that.
Feminism- saving the world one pajama party at a time.
Treating your readers as if they are stupid two year olds should be an insult. 😑
Ya boi!
Intrusive Thots
Why are your videos so quiet Zack? I gotta crank the volume to double just to be able to hear you. Otherwise it was a great roast. The only thing missing was you ripping up the comic at the end of the video.
oh boy. 10/10 script
Sad what they are making with Fire, i liked her, she was one of the original brazilian characters (and not a token)
The one time I dont have intrusive thoughts are when I see my favorite things get ran into the ground and its not even for money.
I feel like instead of dragging established characters through the mud, Marvel and DC should just let these idiots make their bootleg versions of Lucky Star.
The comics would still be trash, but at least the diversity hires are doing what they really have enthusiasm for.
14:55 what is with that spagwetti street light yo?
10:50 I literally went, 'Where are the men in this town?' and 4 seconds later, you went, 'Everyone's a woman.'