I agree. I honestly cannot see how this elevates him and his.....company in any positive way. I don't know what happened to him, or what changed behind the scenes that we're not seeing....Maybe he's hemorrhaging money from all the books he should have had in his backer's hands moths. YEARS ago. And he's trying to garner some type of attention. Even outrage attention. I don't know. But this sudden swing against just.....Everyone here recently is just damn strange.
100, He does not get involved in the youtube drama, more like just hates Wade on X. Thinking Critical and Weird Science Comics have been my go to for years.
So basically Zack is reeeing at Drinker for not absolutely gooning over every nano second of some random Netflix show, and yet Zack wants us to believe everyone else is insane.
It's just scummy that he is spending his days attacking someone he asked to write a comic for a croedfunding project with him to juice his numbers. I only backed that project because I was curious about the Drinker doing a comic. Beyond that the whole "they hate evetything" stuff is just low information as all of the youtubers ge's bitching about give tv shows and movies positive reviews when they think they are good. They just dunk on things they hate which if anyone should relate to it's Zack reading his 70th Mags Vassagio book.
He really has become jus another sjw. Now he's attacking anyone that doesn't like the casting for the Minecraft movie saying " of course the characters look goofy, it was made for kids". I remember he tore up a comic book without even reviewing it because the characters on the cover looked like the characters in the Minecraft movie. If i remember correctly aren't comic books made for kids?
Even worse, he pretends there is zero woke agenda driven propganda infused into movies, as he still refuses to see that everything that infested and destroyed the comic book industry, has found it's way into almost every other form of western entertainment. This is largely the reason as to why he continues to attack the likes of Drinker or Nerdrotic.
I think it really started with the Piskor thing. I think that really broke his mind because he got really into him and then he was gone and the injustice of it and that current law isn't able to touch anyone and that the industry is rewarding the people to blame. That really seemed to hurt him. From there he started attacking people for calling the X-Men continuation Woke or labeling (or mislabeling) Furosa a girl boss and then it snowballed from there. It's been sad and more and more he's reminding me of Spoony.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Ah, I see. Well, Zack mentioned TikTok around 2019. It was around the time he gave up on trying to win the trial against Mark Waid.
@@AloiseHandle That may be too. I was just saying that was when I noticed it. He seemed fairly normal up until he got fixated on the Piskor and I could swear he was about to break down and cry in some of those videos. I am shocked that the people he named didn't try and sue him or something calling them out by name and calling them murderers.
Yeah I used to enjoy his work. Its crazy how he can correctly see the problems in the main stream comic industry and be completely blind to it in movies.
Wes is like the nicest bloke out there ! even when theres been fk all to choose from he's always at least TRIED to recommend a comic to read . i swear furiosa fkn broke zac.
I don’t want Zack back on track. I want to watch his sad little “empire” burn. I spent months after Furiosa trying to reason with him on his unhinged community notes. I never insulted him. I calmly explained that he was being hypocritical and I explained that people on the right go to places like Fox News or in this case RK Outpost/Geeks + Gamers/etc in order to have their opinions validated. Whereas, leftists go to MSNBC to RECEIVE their opinions. Conservatives have principles and they like to hear those principles reinforced. But they already know what they believe. The point is Geeks + Gamers does not have the power to convince people who want to see Furiosa to not buy a ticket. That’s not how it works. Not only did Somebody Else’s Boi Zack not grasp what I was saying, but he literally would block all of my comments or hide them or delete them. I don’t know what controls RUclips gives to people with channels, but they have some ability to censor individual comments. I only know this, because I went back and looked at one of my comments in incognito mode. I had found it weird that none of Zack’s parasocial defenders (apologists) ever commented on my posts. I checked over and over. Every time I would comment, within 20 minutes, my comment would disappear. Again, I wasn’t saying anything mean or edgy. At worst, I would be a bit snarky. It was actually creepy. One time I pointed out that I was a customer and I hope it’s some sort of misunderstanding or RUclips glitch. And his next community post was a “blind item” specifically directed at me. He said something about how people claim to be customers and then whenever he checks his records the person hasn’t bought anything since 2018. Which I know was referring to me. He literally deleted my comment, looked me up on one of his obsessive Excel spreadsheets, and then threw shade at me for not being a good enough customer. First of all I didn’t claim to be his number one backer. I was making the point that it’s weird to delete the comments of someone that has bought his books. And, I also didn’t say that the reason I only bought a few of his books is that I finally got around to reading Jawbreakers, the book EVS and company had been hyping for years, and it was awful. I mean fucking unreadable. I always thought Zack seemed like a bit of an autistic bitch. I mean, I always find it funny when he talks about autistic lesbians. It’s 100% projection. And he’s also catty. Like for a veteran (and I don’t take that away from him. It’s frankly the reason I never went out of my way to insult him. That, and the fact that he actually seems like he’s on the verge of some kind of mental breakdown), he’s got kind of a feline energy. Despite listening to him for 7 years, I don’t know much about him. I don’t know if he has a wife or kids. It’s none of my business, really. But I can’t picture that dude being the man of any household. Wes and Kneon from Clownfish seem to be the only people on the RUclipss that are halfway fucking sane. Anyway, I finally blocked Zack’s channel a month ago, so I’m no longer getting triggered by his community posts. I couldn’t help myself when they were still popping up in my timeline. I never understand when people pivot between extremes. Like, I could see an agnostic person being like, “Hey, I’m thinking about reading the Bible. Maybe I’ll get something out of it.” But when a hardcore atheists turns into a born again Christian and becomes super religious, or the opposite, it’s suspicious to me. Like how do you go from one extreme to the other extreme without steps in between? Zack is so obviously sounding like an SJW, I don’t get how he doesn’t see it. For the first two months or so I thought he must be trolling to get a reaction, because it seemed impossible to think he wouldn’t recognize the hypocrisy. He makes fun of people for criticizing an entitled millionaire actress, but he literally calls women who are practically homeless, autistic lesbian retards. I’m frankly surprised RUclips hasn’t banned him. I didn’t know you could even use the R word on RUclips. But the point is, you can’t talk about a powerful, rich, attractive actress, but it’s fine to kick poor women with no power anywhere. That’s one of a thousand things that any sane person would recognize. So, yeah, let it burn.
it's shadow banning, basically you're effectively blocked while nobody can read your posts, BUT you never get informed this occurred. he's been doing that for 2/3 weeks now for everyone not one point/alignment away from his opinions, there are still people disagreeing but anything more then 2-4 lines with a who-cares-vibe get's banned. he's also admitted to have ADHD and generally people agree he has a very bad opinion/take on movies(which explaines sooo many things about him). I 100% understand the autistic line and have to agree with that, the man always came of a tad left from perma butthurt
Don’t disagree with anything you said in essence but as one of those detail obsessed autists - Jeremy absolutely could influence people away from something they thought they’d like; he could tell them it’s woke. If the viewer respects him enough to trust his word and hates wokeness enough they now will not go see it. People are physically and intellectually lazy, if they have their biases reinforced at the first stop and nothing raises any flags a *lot* of people will just stop there. “I’m thinking of going to see movie x, Hollywood has burned me before with bait and switch though, hopefully this doesn’t do that… I know, I’ll go watch my favourite reviewer they have a video on it” Reviewer: “woke trash, avoid” “Ok then bullet dodged”
Mark Waid BRAGGED about threatening Antartic Press at a convention. He was proud of it. That's when I told him he was an idiot because as an agent of Marvel, he put them front and center into a lawsuit, and gave Richard the ammo to post the phrase, "The book Marvel doesn't want you to read!" And, boom! $200,000 crowdfund. Mark made sure to call me a white supremacist before blocking me. But after that lawsuit, he got broken. Big time. He seems to jave forgotten that Mags wanted to use his head for a baseball, that they wanted to put landmines on his car, and found his son and threatened to harm his own kid! And he is now defending these people?!?
even worse, he just keeps making video's doing the same thing he accuses the ''clowns'' of doing about the writers at marvel, as if he didn't know they have nothing to contribute, his channel is just his way to went his frustrations with his inability to change the comic industry
I didn't even know that all of this was going on, I haven't watched his channel for a long time. I gave up on modern comics, and i didn't care for his uh movie reviews lol. This is sad
Do you think Zack is aware that you can click the 3 dots next to any video and select "do not recommend channel" and then all of those complaining middle-age men will disappear from his feed? Or is it that, despite whatever he says, he NEEDS those channels since all he does now is react to them, and if he removed them from his feed he'd have no videos to make?
only because he has way more control over the youtube stuff, twitter is to wide-used for him to hide anything or control the narrative, on the community tab he can posts whatever crap hew can think off while banning who he wants and it's not like someone is gonna make a channel PURELY calling out zack so people can gather there and talk etc
yeah that video popped up in my feed, it let me go in and hit unsubscribe. Whatever, guy, I don't care. Want to be miserable, you can do it without me.
Zach is the only one I see calling people out of their names everyday. Guys like drinker and nerdrotic look more humble and professional by not engaging.
It's funny how he keeps saying "You can gaslight yourself, but you can't gaslight me." Dude has done a pretty good job of that himself. EDIT: Anytime anyone spouts the "media literacy" crap all it tells me is that person is a douche. Also going to blow Zack's mind on this one. Minecraft when it came out......was played by adults. A lot of people I knew in college were playing it. Now yes it became more of a kids thing later, but Minecraft wasn't always for kids. And even the Minecraft fans hated the trailer. It's so bizarre that Zack has taken this stance of fans not being able to criticize the franchises they are fans off when it was clearly not made with them in mind. Star Wars fans are not allowed to criticize Disney Star Wars, Borderlands fans are not allowed to criticize Borderlands movie, Crow fans are not to criticize the Crow remake, Minecraft fans are not allowed to criticize the Minecraft movie. How does your brain not melt from that kind of logic.
I used to watch everysingle one of his vids. I stopped watching Zack when he was trying to gaslight us about Diapers of Destiny. I have not missed much.
One of the tragic things is that he is mostly parroting arguments that he picks up from Twitter and TikTok. For example this "The Minecraft Movie is made for Kids. Why are you commenting on this?" trope.
Literally everyone is making fun of that movie literal kids, and teenagers are making memes right now on tiktok. Not to mention adults today grew up with minecraft, so of course they'll have a laugh about it. These days even teens meme on, and know about dei/ woke slop too he's way behind trying to get ahead of the imaginary curve. It's almost like people have pattern recognition, and once it's pointed out you can't unsee the literal script.
Yeah what made me hate him is a old vid of him nagging about SJW’s but going over a YoungBlood issue saying how awful it is saying 90s comics are trash I’m sitting there like heck Liefeld’s old art is still better than 90% of the comics today. Zack is literally gone off the rails.
2020 was what broke Lucas and I think JSG really got some hangup about DeSantis and couldn't let go. Like he had to make sure people knew he was a Democrat.
At this point, I believe Ya Boi Zack desperately needs to take a break from social media for a few weeks. I think the reason he has changed is that he has come to realize that the "woke" movement will be around for decades to come, and as a result, he will never be accepted by the mainstream.
I would say the turning point of Zack was when he really started liking Perch. That dude is the worst kind of fence-sitter and gaslighter in this space. He would never point out the blatantly obvious elephant in the room and say that comics aren’t as good. It’s like saying HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?! as the killer literally was just running away and left his weapon, MO and fingerprints behind.
This actually the second time I’ve heard him take a shot at Wes’s channel. Complaining about a guest Wes has on, Jim from Weird Science. It’s a shame honestly. Glad I stopped backing his books. I grew tired of them being late. But I was hoping he’d turn it around and I’d start backing him again. But I’m done, unsubscribing. He’s become the villain of his own story.
@@kevintanza6968 I like him, but he gets aggravating with the narrative and talking points. He has good nerd cred though and has a lot of real nerd knowledge. I'm really tired of the culture war. I tune it out.
Head trauma, hoping for a Hollywood deal, or what is most likely, a liberal girlfriend. I think he'll come round in the end, but man it's not pretty at the moment.
The Green Lantern casting has nothing to do with "MeDIa LitERaCy." I don't care how much of Lindsey Ellis's bathwater Meyer is swilling these days, media literacy does not even come in to play here. It's not in the ballpark, not in the league, not even the same sport. Josh Brolin is too old to play a superhero. He is a fantastic actor, but he is 56-years-old. He'll likely be 58 or even 60 by the time the picture is released. Anyone with a functioning brain knows that Warner is going to be looking to squeeze several pictures out of this character. None of these superhero flicks are ever one and done, it's always part of a planned franchise, and presumably they are going to want continuity in that franchise in the form of recurring actors playing recurring characters across the multiple planned entries. You're not getting much in the way of convincing superheroics out of a 60+ year old actor, and they'll be recasting the role maybe two pictures deep (presuming DC has better luck this time around). I know Dick Meyer is and his rapidly dwindling cult of super-sycophants balk at this, but... nobody is asking for this, and nobody wants it. The recent failure of Indiana Jones and the Pensioner's Paycheck showed that.
Think at this point. Zack is trying to turn media literacy into the next buzzword. For he seems to be treating this like goblin slayer, where twitter got upset. That the villains were punished for doing bad things. Trying to twist it as the show promoting the bad things the goblins are doing. When no one in their right mind, would ever view it that way. Given punishment is meant to stop someone from doing something, not promote doing it. When in truth, people unlike the goblin slayer case. Have good reasons for thinking the way they do.
I’m still salty about the Dial of Dysentery. How could he not know that movie was going to flop? Then he tried to make it about Harrison Ford when everyone clapped back at him.
@@rileyjfosbre6383 things like him liking the indiana movie is just a red flag he has bad tastes in movies and worse, isn't willing to acknowledge his own shortcomings, he used to be able to take an L or 2, now you can only move 1 point away from his stance or it's the shadowrealm for you
He does sound like an sjw because no matter what drinker does he’s wrong. If drinker doesn’t like it, it’s because he hates everything. If he likes something then he don’t like it enough. Also hate the argument that because lots of people worked really hard on something f it automatically deserves respect. Nope. You can respect their hard work but you don’t have to like the product. By this logic we must like everything because even the worst movies had people working hard.
9:14 Thinking Critical posts about good comics more than Zack does (and has defended not posting positively himself.) Zack's channel is primarily based on not liking things and people. This is super hypocritical.
I had to stop following him during his two week tantrum over us not watching Furiosa. It wasn’t even about us not liking it. He was pissy because we didn’t want to watch a Mad Max film without Mad Max.
Zack used to gush over old comics and their artists/writers and even compare them to the modern drek he was reviewing - he probably thinks that means his videos aren’t complaining but constructive (yes Zack ‘this sucks it should not suck, like this’ is way better than ‘this sucks why can’t it not suck’) No idea if his format is still the same haven’t watched him in years
It’s because all these guys collaborate and help each others success. But Zack is a “lone wolf”. Who refuses to be friends with anyone. That HAS to be the real reason why
Yeah, he’s a consummate contrarian who has to be the smartest person in the room, despite being comically misguided at everything non comics related. His reasoning for why Indiana Jones would make a billion dollars easy was pure schizo posting.
@@Tatian4191 Yeah, that movie was doomed. We have already seen that Indy cannot be simply replaced. I mean at this point it's just best to let Indy go. You can't just shove a new character in or recast him.
I hope Zack isnt actuality insane enough to think he'll work in the mainstream. He'd like everyone to forget this, and lies to his current audience, pretending he was never some controversial, culture war figure, but he was at the center of Comicsgate. Marvel and DC, especially Marvel, used to demand that creators publically condemn this guy. He cant possibly think he can work with them after that level of animosity.
The funniest thing I remember Zack saying, was that he thought that Bloody Mary (where you say Bloody Mary three times in mirror) was actually the Virgin Mary returned as vengeful spirit
I actually forgot that. How dumb can you be? There are various origins given to Blood Mary but is not one of them. Most of the time she's a witch or just some random woman named Mary.
The bit with Drinker is a head scratcher... until one remembers the side story that was to be with the 1st Kill book. Something happened in the background, figure to see answers in a few years. 😂😮😢
"You just forgot how boring this channel always was" is pretty much the Ya Boi equivalent of "comics were always woke" or "superheroes were always about social justice". Also, Drinker has been doing a lot better job at highlighting current comics that are actually good, even from Marvel\DC.
I'm sad for Zack but I stopped to care sometime ago. Oh, and unsuscribed from his two channels. Did the same to EVS. I remember Zack even attacking Midnight's Edge when they started to talk about DEI without name them. He thinks he knows everything.
I think I officially tuned out when he did the third "Guys, remember how COOL Black Guys uaed to be? Isn't it a shame how SJWs ruined black guys." As if that was the biggest issue with woke writing.
They tear them down just as much as they do huwite males. They make them gay or weak. Even with Black Panther. Even if he'd not died, they were going to make him a background character in his own movies.
@@debanydoombringer1385 It's really not the same, but keep telling yourself that. Black men might be ignored, but whites are actively villainized and de-personed by the left.
can we skip to the point where EVS and Ya Boi Zack are broke and off on the local streets? Watching them steadily progress to that stage day by day is just hard to watch and not really funny. Failing on purpose is only funny when a person is actually creative and has a clear goal, not just destroying life with stupidity on a day by day basis.
@@DanyTV79 I guess that's the key problem, Ethan doesn't really want to work in comics anymore, not for a long while when streaming provides the immediate monentary hit and attention.
Never heard of 'Thinking Critical' but I unsubbed from Zack weeks ago and no longer even occasionally watch his stuff to see if he's regained his sanity. There are too many other good RUclipsrs to watch.
i bought all jawbreaker books with the 1 dollar book so i could support Zack.... it's been like what, 4 years? and i dont know what happeend to those books, i havnet received shit I also supported EVs and it took me years to receive my books..... I like thes people but they spend more time sperging against other creators on youtube than working on their books
I posited a theory that he was just looking to pick a fight with someone who will react so that he can drama farm. He's just scrolling though targets until he gets a reaction.
Zack's "media literacy" is horrible. He always had really bad taste in movies and TV. He even had a 2nd channel for said reviews and nobody watched them b/c frankly they aren't very good. Also Josh Brolin played Thanos and Cable in Marvel movies.
Tell us the truth, @splattodelgato8645 ; you were NEVER outraged about Ed Piskor’s suicide, were you? You, Richard Meyer, were feigning outrage for donos, am I right?
I have to think this is purposeful on Zack's part. Like he's trying to get rid of all his subs (or at least most of them) so he can justify turning off his channel. Literally no one would care if he kept his movie reviews/complaints about other youtubers on his actual movie review channel. But no one actually watches the videos he has over there (and now at least half of the videos on his channel called COMICS MATTER are about everything but comics).
I've been there commenting on his recent stuff and the majority of comments are folk telling him to chill out. Something changed. I'd love to know what it was.
I saw this morning that Richard's channel had fallen to 98.3K subs. He'll be into the 97K range in just a day or two, at this rate. For his channel to have devolved into "jealous, grumpy coughing man lashing out at other RUclipsrs" is sad.
Mark Waid as a person is one of the worst people ever, that said, he has more talent in his mood ring wearing pinky than Richard will ever have. Seriously I am loving the fact that I outright REFUSED to waste any money on Boi Sack and EDS (Ethan Dan Slott) garbage “comics”.
Sucks to see Rich doing the typical gaslighting and historical revisionism SJWs do. And apparently you can LIKE things, YOU can like things, and you CAN like things, unless they're "made for kids," in which case you need to grow up and be drafted into a war so you can have real problems, according to Richard. He used to review Squirrel Girl comics and others that were "made for kids," he made videos about how Thundercats Roar was anti-male, and he used to tell a story about how he learned bravery from Kermit the Frog. I'm positive that my comments have been shadowbanned on his channel, so there's no use engaging with him anymore. He wants attention, and he's not gonna get it.
I get getting tired of hearing negative criticism over and over. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I don't watch every FNT. But to go full reetard Zack, what the hell is he doing. First EVS and CG, then Nick and Zack what happened?
Doesn't Zach always bitch about comic pros that are on the internet all the time and not meeting deadlines? Must suck to be waiting for your book to come but see Zach online all the time whining about CHUDS!
Hal Jordan hasn’t been “portrayed as being from an older generation of superheroes” as compared to SUPERMAN. It makes no sense to have Hal Jordan (or Guy Gardner) be older than Superman.
While he is not wrong that Hal has been portrayed as being older for decades (probably since the 90s when they gave him white streaks at his temples, which BTW was undone when he came back from the dead and was retconned as being caused by Paralax and not being natural), this is starting point so it makes little sense to make him older except to get rid of him to push John Stewart, which they only ever do these days because of his race. They literally did an animated movie called Beware My Might whose whole reason for existing was to dump all over Hal and build up John as being better and replacing him which is (most likely) what this is going to do. They spend the whole movie trying to find Hal, Oliver is determined to save him, and when they see him and find that Parallax is posing him Oliver just kills him without even trying to save him. What? You're telling me that Oliver doesn't have any non-lethal knock-out arrows or anything on him? Really? That there isn't any way to restrain Hal and safely remove Parallax? Really? Nope. they just kill him so they can tell us how much better John is and how HE is the greatest Green Lantern (even though he is depicted as a new recruit and hasn't done anything yet). That is exactly what this is going to be and it's all because John isn't white.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 Well, the whole thing with him going bad was poorly handled because it was an editorial mandate to get Hal out of the way for a new 'hip' replacement that was only (as far as I can tell) moderately successful. I mean I liked Kyle well enough (what little I've read) but he's not really all that special and taking away the weakness to yellow was just dumb and made GLs too powerful. I swear there were a lot of people working in comics even in the '90s and 2000s before the woke took over, who thought that because something was made up before they were born it was bad and had to be changed.
@@matane2465 What's really funny is, if you go back and look at comics before the animated series made John interesting, he was pretty much nothing. I'm pretty sure the stuff about him being a marine and being an archtech was either added after I quit reading or by the animated series because I don't remember them in the comics I read and they're not in any old Who's Who they did on him (most of the ones I remember start with him getting the ring). Other than one mini-series they did set around him and, later, Mosiac he was a non-entity.
@@matane2465 Yeah, that's how you know it's about race because Kyle is just another straight white dude. Now, some of it may be trying to draw in fans of the animated series who never read comics but just loved the series, but it is awfully funny that they're pushing John these days.
At this point I’m pretty sure he is being compromised in some way. In what way exactly, I know not, but it’s too unreasonable for someone to make this dramatic a change in a short period of time and not have either blackmail, a carrot being dangled in front of him by someone or some form of promised compensation.
What I remember about the lawsuit is that it was thrown out due to the court not fully understanding internet drama; (remember most judges and jury members are normiess.) and the fact that this was around his first several successful kickstarter books. There was no damages, since he actually made more money after Mark Waid got him cancelled then he would have if he was with the original intended publisher. Or something to that effect. Ironically, he wasn't all that upset about the lose, and wanted to focus on actually getting all of his books out in a timely manor, instead of continuing with the drama. Personally, I don't think he's trying to get into the good graces of DC and Marvel. He has changed, and something is wrong with him, but I'm not sure what. Tragically, he has fallen into the same trap that the main stream comics are in, and are spending way too much time attacking other people, instead of just creating.
I used to watch EVS, and Zack time ago, and I understand you should comment on this topic but be careful, remember they used to do the same before they went the weird route, and they're not the only ones which ended up being what they critize
some comic creator called ed piskor killed himself after being repeately bullied etc, I don't know the full details but people told me zack went OFF in a video calling people murderes etc, it's somewhat understandably but then the Furiosa movie did bad (because the movie was mediocre) and he went full cope/butthurt mode and went on a subscriber ''purge'' don't go to hard agaiinst him or you'll be perma shadowbanned (still being able to comment/watch his video's but nobody sees yours)
Well I'm just assuming that the way Richard obsesses over Mags, who's 15 minutes of fame was used up hours ago, is he wants dibs on being first using Brian's new equipment.
Alan Scott was from the older generation of superheroes, Hal Jordan was from the current generation of heroes in the DCU. How is it that I'm a more casual comics reader, and yet I know YaBoiZack is wrong on this?
Now he’s just resorting to what leftist channels do where they start drama for clicks and clout chasing when they are spiraling. It’s a real shame because he was one of my favorite channels and he introduced me to so many entertaining people like Nerkish, Doug Tennapel, Drinker, Rippa, the FNT crew and many more. To see him just lambast everyone he praised and even worked with is shocking and shows he needs help.
I started watching Zack a couple of years ago. I'm not that into comics. I just like hearing people talk about them. I had to unsub a month and a half ago. I truly believe Ed's passing is the thing that broke him. The main thing, at least. He was calling it murder and I understood the sentiment, but he was dead serious. Once that domino fell......
Uh no. Hal was stupidly made older in 1990. It was such a dumb decision that only about 5 years later Parallax happened bc no one was buying GL. So Hal was aged older for 5 years and then Kyle came, not "decades". The truth is Richard actually knows nothing about comics. He knows G.I Joe and some Marvel from the very early 90's and that's about it. That being said, I think Brolin will actually make a great Hal.
As others have pointed out, he's simply too old to start staring in a multi movie franchise. They wouldn't cast Henry Cavil as Superman because of that, but they'll cast someone even older?
@@debanydoombringer1385 That's a fair point. I think he'll be great but he is older. However, with who's in charge and how things look, I don;t think the new DCU is gonna last very long.
Does anybody know what "media literacy" even means ... especially the people bandying that phrase about. Like, best case scenario, they're being vague as fuck, because media refers to all forms of story and news mediums ... media refers not to the stories or the news (events/happenings) themselves, but various forms in which they are shared and distributed. The story of Robin Hood, for example, isn't media, but a book, comic book, or movie is a medium for the story to be shared. With a book or comic book, the media is the paper and the ink, not the story told within. So, do these people even know what they're saying?
"Media literacy" is the phrase leftists use to be against interpretation... but only of certain things. You can make a "queer interpretation" of Shakespeare, but don't you dare make a right wing interpretation of Starship Troopers
@@ironrex6979 Almost all the definitions people will give for what media literacy is are extremely liberal ones where their beliefs are taken for granted because of course they don't want people demanding a justification for liberal positions. When people talk about it, like with democracy, it's not just media+literacy where you might want to know the reasoning behind things, the symbolism the author put behind it, etc, rather it's promoting lgbt and diversity
@@TheThreatenedSwan then as always they have high jacked it because media illiteracy is a thing. I’m tiered of seeing great games and anime getting trashed because people are too ignorant or lazy to understand it. Worst is when the woke waltz in, trying to force their bs lies into it. People have to become better readers in order to keep the alphabet soup mafia or any sjw faction out of our fandoms.
@@TheThreatenedSwan seeing that my post got deleted I’ll put it simpler if we do not take academia and bring back in-depth though and thinking skills we are doomed. Media literacy is a thing and we have to take it back away from the left. I’ll use an example the left are rewriting Saint Thomas Moore’s book Utopia for their own agendas. The book is anti communist but due to right abandoning academia we have allowed these charlatans to high jack and ruin story telling. Worst of all younger generations can’t analyze anything without the lens of the left. So you are causing more harm by allowing them to high jack the term. The truth is media illiteracy is a danger and it will ruin younger generations.
Josh Brolin looks fine as an older Hal, his personality is what's off for me. Hal should be cocky, but mostly likeable, not a gruff jerk. Chris Pine is the best choice from the actors that are supposedly being considered. And he's not a perfect choice, either lol
I feel like Zach feels guilty for destroying the comics industry and pushing people away from comics. Problem is the industry is so far gone i don't think theres anyway to rebuild it without first demolishing it. He feels it can be saved by just removing some people. Not defending him. I dont agree with him hardly at all.
Throwing shade at Critical is just fucking scummy.
Definitely!
I agree. I honestly cannot see how this elevates him and his.....company in any positive way. I don't know what happened to him, or what changed behind the scenes that we're not seeing....Maybe he's hemorrhaging money from all the books he should have had in his backer's hands moths. YEARS ago. And he's trying to garner some type of attention. Even outrage attention. I don't know. But this sudden swing against just.....Everyone here recently is just damn strange.
100, He does not get involved in the youtube drama, more like just hates Wade on X. Thinking Critical and Weird Science Comics have been my go to for years.
@@TheWastelander75 It's like we are phasing in and out of different timelines.
@@grandmarquee we truly live in the most bizarre of timelines.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the real Zack got bodysnatched, and got replaced by a woke alien.
A woke lesbian in a wheelchair
You mean a Mexican?
LOL I was just thinking this. He’s a pod person now.
waxed by alien clowns
Yeah it’s pretty rare that a conservative flips to brain dead marxist. You have to do a lot of make belief and logic crushing to get there.
So basically Zack is reeeing at Drinker for not absolutely gooning over every nano second of some random Netflix show, and yet Zack wants us to believe everyone else is insane.
Zack needs to go watch the Drinker Recommends playlist. Maybe it will cheer him up.
Furiosa broke him
@RetroPages No, those are too tepid. If you're not slobbing the knob of something constantly, you wre never a real fan!
@@RetroPages I told Zack about the Drinker doing recommendation videos. Oddly he never replied to that comment
It's just scummy that he is spending his days attacking someone he asked to write a comic for a croedfunding project with him to juice his numbers. I only backed that project because I was curious about the Drinker doing a comic. Beyond that the whole "they hate evetything" stuff is just low information as all of the youtubers ge's bitching about give tv shows and movies positive reviews when they think they are good. They just dunk on things they hate which if anyone should relate to it's Zack reading his 70th Mags Vassagio book.
He really has become jus another sjw. Now he's attacking anyone that doesn't like the casting for the Minecraft movie saying " of course the characters look goofy, it was made for kids". I remember he tore up a comic book without even reviewing it because the characters on the cover looked like the characters in the Minecraft movie. If i remember correctly aren't comic books made for kids?
its funny because even kids have higher standards than just putting a short, fat bearded has-been in a blue shirt and calling it a day.
No comics aren't for kids. Some are, most aren't.
no the comic books are the highest form of art and entertainment and as such are held to a much higher standard. According to Zack
@@marcogenovesi8570 all comicbook these youtubers are drama queens.
@@jimbokilo Comics were successful when they were meant to be for kids.
Zack liked the Last Jedi
And Discovery S1. 😂😂😂😂
Even worse, he pretends there is zero woke agenda driven propganda infused into movies, as he still refuses to see that everything that infested and destroyed the comic book industry, has found it's way into almost every other form of western entertainment. This is largely the reason as to why he continues to attack the likes of Drinker or Nerdrotic.
I think Zack's decline began when he first mentioned TikTok on his channel. TikTok is contagious brain rot.
I think it really started with the Piskor thing. I think that really broke his mind because he got really into him and then he was gone and the injustice of it and that current law isn't able to touch anyone and that the industry is rewarding the people to blame. That really seemed to hurt him.
From there he started attacking people for calling the X-Men continuation Woke or labeling (or mislabeling) Furosa a girl boss and then it snowballed from there.
It's been sad and more and more he's reminding me of Spoony.
Na when he told us he was going to work with EVS again, it was downhill since😂
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Ah, I see. Well, Zack mentioned TikTok around 2019. It was around the time he gave up on trying to win the trial against Mark Waid.
@@draggoon9121 Again? Did they work together before? I missed that and missed him saying that.
@@AloiseHandle That may be too. I was just saying that was when I noticed it. He seemed fairly normal up until he got fixated on the Piskor and I could swear he was about to break down and cry in some of those videos. I am shocked that the people he named didn't try and sue him or something calling them out by name and calling them murderers.
Zac's next campaign will be "Birthday party Clowns: why everyone except me is wrong"
Don't SJW's also always treat criticism/disagreements as "attacks?"
Seeing how many commenters here have been banned from Zack's comments for disagreements with Richard's opinions....... The answer would be YES.
It's a basic defense system of most humans.
I say this again : I am very sad Zach went this route.
Yeah, it's sad how Zack sold out so hard, assuming he wasn't always a fraud and just let the mask slip recently.
Yeah I used to enjoy his work. Its crazy how he can correctly see the problems in the main stream comic industry and be completely blind to it in movies.
Wes is like the nicest bloke out there !
even when theres been fk all to choose from he's always at least TRIED to recommend a comic to read .
i swear furiosa fkn broke zac.
I don’t want Zack back on track. I want to watch his sad little “empire” burn. I spent months after Furiosa trying to reason with him on his unhinged community notes. I never insulted him. I calmly explained that he was being hypocritical and I explained that people on the right go to places like Fox News or in this case RK Outpost/Geeks + Gamers/etc in order to have their opinions validated. Whereas, leftists go to MSNBC to RECEIVE their opinions. Conservatives have principles and they like to hear those principles reinforced. But they already know what they believe. The point is Geeks + Gamers does not have the power to convince people who want to see Furiosa to not buy a ticket. That’s not how it works. Not only did Somebody Else’s Boi Zack not grasp what I was saying, but he literally would block all of my comments or hide them or delete them. I don’t know what controls RUclips gives to people with channels, but they have some ability to censor individual comments. I only know this, because I went back and looked at one of my comments in incognito mode. I had found it weird that none of Zack’s parasocial defenders (apologists) ever commented on my posts. I checked over and over. Every time I would comment, within 20 minutes, my comment would disappear.
Again, I wasn’t saying anything mean or edgy. At worst, I would be a bit snarky. It was actually creepy. One time I pointed out that I was a customer and I hope it’s some sort of misunderstanding or RUclips glitch. And his next community post was a “blind item” specifically directed at me. He said something about how people claim to be customers and then whenever he checks his records the person hasn’t bought anything since 2018.
Which I know was referring to me. He literally deleted my comment, looked me up on one of his obsessive Excel spreadsheets, and then threw shade at me for not being a good enough customer. First of all I didn’t claim to be his number one backer. I was making the point that it’s weird to delete the comments of someone that has bought his books. And, I also didn’t say that the reason I only bought a few of his books is that I finally got around to reading Jawbreakers, the book EVS and company had been hyping for years, and it was awful.
I mean fucking unreadable.
I always thought Zack seemed like a bit of an autistic bitch. I mean, I always find it funny when he talks about autistic lesbians. It’s 100% projection. And he’s also catty. Like for a veteran (and I don’t take that away from him. It’s frankly the reason I never went out of my way to insult him. That, and the fact that he actually seems like he’s on the verge of some kind of mental breakdown), he’s got kind of a feline energy. Despite listening to him for 7 years, I don’t know much about him. I don’t know if he has a wife or kids. It’s none of my business, really. But I can’t picture that dude being the man of any household. Wes and Kneon from Clownfish seem to be the only people on the RUclipss that are halfway fucking sane. Anyway, I finally blocked Zack’s channel a month ago, so I’m no longer getting triggered by his community posts. I couldn’t help myself when they were still popping up in my timeline. I never understand when people pivot between extremes. Like, I could see an agnostic person being like, “Hey, I’m thinking about reading the Bible. Maybe I’ll get something out of it.”
But when a hardcore atheists turns into a born again Christian and becomes super religious, or the opposite, it’s suspicious to me. Like how do you go from one extreme to the other extreme without steps in between? Zack is so obviously sounding like an SJW, I don’t get how he doesn’t see it. For the first two months or so I thought he must be trolling to get a reaction, because it seemed impossible to think he wouldn’t recognize the hypocrisy. He makes fun of people for criticizing an entitled millionaire actress, but he literally calls women who are practically homeless, autistic lesbian retards. I’m frankly surprised RUclips hasn’t banned him. I didn’t know you could even use the R word on RUclips. But the point is, you can’t talk about a powerful, rich, attractive actress, but it’s fine to kick poor women with no power anywhere. That’s one of a thousand things that any sane person would recognize. So, yeah, let it burn.
it's shadow banning, basically you're effectively blocked while nobody can read your posts, BUT you never get informed this occurred.
he's been doing that for 2/3 weeks now for everyone not one point/alignment away from his opinions, there are still people disagreeing but anything more then 2-4 lines with a who-cares-vibe get's banned.
he's also admitted to have ADHD and generally people agree he has a very bad opinion/take on movies(which explaines sooo many things about him).
I 100% understand the autistic line and have to agree with that, the man always came of a tad left from perma butthurt
Don’t disagree with anything you said in essence but as one of those detail obsessed autists - Jeremy absolutely could influence people away from something they thought they’d like; he could tell them it’s woke. If the viewer respects him enough to trust his word and hates wokeness enough they now will not go see it.
People are physically and intellectually lazy, if they have their biases reinforced at the first stop and nothing raises any flags a *lot* of people will just stop there.
“I’m thinking of going to see movie x, Hollywood has burned me before with bait and switch though, hopefully this doesn’t do that… I know, I’ll go watch my favourite reviewer they have a video on it”
Reviewer: “woke trash, avoid”
“Ok then bullet dodged”
By Jeremy I refer to G&G not sure if I’m remembering that name correctly
Also ‘somebody else’s boi Zack’ is brilliant, I loled
Mark Waid BRAGGED about threatening Antartic Press at a convention. He was proud of it. That's when I told him he was an idiot because as an agent of Marvel, he put them front and center into a lawsuit, and gave Richard the ammo to post the phrase, "The book Marvel doesn't want you to read!"
And, boom! $200,000 crowdfund.
Mark made sure to call me a white supremacist before blocking me.
But after that lawsuit, he got broken. Big time. He seems to jave forgotten that Mags wanted to use his head for a baseball, that they wanted to put landmines on his car, and found his son and threatened to harm his own kid!
And he is now defending these people?!?
even worse, he just keeps making video's doing the same thing he accuses the ''clowns'' of doing about the writers at marvel, as if he didn't know they have nothing to contribute, his channel is just his way to went his frustrations with his inability to change the comic industry
I miss the days when he actually gave deep insight to older comic books and gave recommendations
I didn't even know that all of this was going on, I haven't watched his channel for a long time. I gave up on modern comics, and i didn't care for his uh movie reviews lol. This is sad
I always remember the video of him tearing up an issue of Squirrel Girl without saying anything.
Do you think Zack is aware that you can click the 3 dots next to any video and select "do not recommend channel" and then all of those complaining middle-age men will disappear from his feed? Or is it that, despite whatever he says, he NEEDS those channels since all he does now is react to them, and if he removed them from his feed he'd have no videos to make?
Zack thinks youtube community posts is Twitter
He thinks youtube is social media. He calls others media illiterate
only because he has way more control over the youtube stuff, twitter is to wide-used for him to hide anything or control the narrative, on the community tab he can posts whatever crap hew can think off while banning who he wants and it's not like someone is gonna make a channel PURELY calling out zack so people can gather there and talk etc
Ya boi Zack didn't die a hero like the Marine he is 🪖, he lived long enough to see himself become the villain.
yeah that video popped up in my feed, it let me go in and hit unsubscribe.
Whatever, guy, I don't care. Want to be miserable, you can do it without me.
But don't you see, _you're_ the miserable one! Zach is "allowed to like things!"
Zach is the only one I see calling people out of their names everyday. Guys like drinker and nerdrotic look more humble and professional by not engaging.
Yeah Ya Soy Boi went full Simple Zach
I hear EVS and YBZ are getting married once YBZ has the full transition 🤔
@@db7314 Very believable.
It's funny how he keeps saying "You can gaslight yourself, but you can't gaslight me." Dude has done a pretty good job of that himself.
EDIT: Anytime anyone spouts the "media literacy" crap all it tells me is that person is a douche. Also going to blow Zack's mind on this one. Minecraft when it came out......was played by adults. A lot of people I knew in college were playing it. Now yes it became more of a kids thing later, but Minecraft wasn't always for kids. And even the Minecraft fans hated the trailer. It's so bizarre that Zack has taken this stance of fans not being able to criticize the franchises they are fans off when it was clearly not made with them in mind. Star Wars fans are not allowed to criticize Disney Star Wars, Borderlands fans are not allowed to criticize Borderlands movie, Crow fans are not to criticize the Crow remake, Minecraft fans are not allowed to criticize the Minecraft movie. How does your brain not melt from that kind of logic.
I used to watch everysingle one of his vids.
I stopped watching Zack when he was trying to gaslight us about Diapers of Destiny.
I have not missed much.
Same, he and EVS are two peas in a pod.
I call it Dialysis of Destiny.
(Adult Incontinent) Diapers Of Destiny
what was diapers of destiny?
@@skidooshlayman12 dial of destiny
That half assed Indiana Jones movie from last year
One of the tragic things is that he is mostly parroting arguments that he picks up from Twitter and TikTok. For example this "The Minecraft Movie is made for Kids. Why are you commenting on this?" trope.
Which just shows how out of touch Hollywood is. The largest Minecraft audience is adults. Kids play roblox.
It's sad because he doesn't grasp that the same thing is easily said about comics which he's invested years of his life in.
Literally everyone is making fun of that movie literal kids, and teenagers are making memes right now on tiktok. Not to mention adults today grew up with minecraft, so of course they'll have a laugh about it. These days even teens meme on, and know about dei/ woke slop too he's way behind trying to get ahead of the imaginary curve. It's almost like people have pattern recognition, and once it's pointed out you can't unsee the literal script.
@@debanydoombringer1385 Kids still love Minecraft. Why they didn't just do a machinama movie with a bunch of 'tubers as guest voices is beyond me.
Yeah what made me hate him is a old vid of him nagging about SJW’s but going over a YoungBlood issue saying how awful it is saying 90s comics are trash I’m sitting there like heck Liefeld’s old art is still better than 90% of the comics today. Zack is literally gone off the rails.
This seems to be a trend I remember AmazingLucas and JustSomeGuy seemed to be against far left politics and suddenly their turned to be the same.
fr, never watched JustSomeGuy again
2020 was what broke Lucas and I think JSG really got some hangup about DeSantis and couldn't let go. Like he had to make sure people knew he was a Democrat.
At this point, I believe Ya Boi Zack desperately needs to take a break from social media for a few weeks. I think the reason he has changed is that he has come to realize that the "woke" movement will be around for decades to come, and as a result, he will never be accepted by the mainstream.
He's taking checks from Disney for sure, or maybe Warner like Grace Randolph.
Bitter self sabotaging individual much like EVS
I would say the turning point of Zack was when he really started liking Perch. That dude is the worst kind of fence-sitter and gaslighter in this space. He would never point out the blatantly obvious elephant in the room and say that comics aren’t as good. It’s like saying HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?! as the killer literally was just running away and left his weapon, MO and fingerprints behind.
This actually the second time I’ve heard him take a shot at Wes’s channel. Complaining about a guest Wes has on, Jim from Weird Science. It’s a shame honestly. Glad I stopped backing his books. I grew tired of them being late. But I was hoping he’d turn it around and I’d start backing him again. But I’m done, unsubscribing. He’s become the villain of his own story.
Yet he defends crap like Perch. Maybe Perch brainwashed him?
Why go after Wes and Jim??? Sparrow I can see, but he has a ton of nerd cred.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 Nah, Sparrow is cool.
@@kevintanza6968 I like him, but he gets aggravating with the narrative and talking points. He has good nerd cred though and has a lot of real nerd knowledge. I'm really tired of the culture war. I tune it out.
He's attacking Wes, now?! I swear Zack had a massive head injury recently. That's the only thing that makes any kind of sense.
It was only a year ago that Zack said thinking critical was one of his favorite channels.
Head trauma, hoping for a Hollywood deal, or what is most likely, a liberal girlfriend. I think he'll come round in the end, but man it's not pretty at the moment.
Supposedly he has terrible ADHD and this may be something that has his attention. ADHD would explain his awful taste in movies, but so would CTE.
It's called being black pilled. Black pilled people are worse than SJWs since they are completely hopeless.
The Green Lantern casting has nothing to do with "MeDIa LitERaCy." I don't care how much of Lindsey Ellis's bathwater Meyer is swilling these days, media literacy does not even come in to play here. It's not in the ballpark, not in the league, not even the same sport. Josh Brolin is too old to play a superhero. He is a fantastic actor, but he is 56-years-old. He'll likely be 58 or even 60 by the time the picture is released. Anyone with a functioning brain knows that Warner is going to be looking to squeeze several pictures out of this character. None of these superhero flicks are ever one and done, it's always part of a planned franchise, and presumably they are going to want continuity in that franchise in the form of recurring actors playing recurring characters across the multiple planned entries. You're not getting much in the way of convincing superheroics out of a 60+ year old actor, and they'll be recasting the role maybe two pictures deep (presuming DC has better luck this time around). I know Dick Meyer is and his rapidly dwindling cult of super-sycophants balk at this, but... nobody is asking for this, and nobody wants it. The recent failure of Indiana Jones and the Pensioner's Paycheck showed that.
Think at this point. Zack is trying to turn media literacy into the next buzzword. For he seems to be treating this like goblin slayer, where twitter got upset. That the villains were punished for doing bad things. Trying to twist it as the show promoting the bad things the goblins are doing. When no one in their right mind, would ever view it that way. Given punishment is meant to stop someone from doing something, not promote doing it. When in truth, people unlike the goblin slayer case. Have good reasons for thinking the way they do.
I’m still salty about the Dial of Dysentery. How could he not know that movie was going to flop? Then he tried to make it about Harrison Ford when everyone clapped back at him.
@@rileyjfosbre6383 things like him liking the indiana movie is just a red flag he has bad tastes in movies and worse, isn't willing to acknowledge his own shortcomings, he used to be able to take an L or 2, now you can only move 1 point away from his stance or it's the shadowrealm for you
He does sound like an sjw because no matter what drinker does he’s wrong. If drinker doesn’t like it, it’s because he hates everything. If he likes something then he don’t like it enough. Also hate the argument that because lots of people worked really hard on something f it automatically deserves respect. Nope. You can respect their hard work but you don’t have to like the product. By this logic we must like everything because even the worst movies had people working hard.
9:14 Thinking Critical posts about good comics more than Zack does (and has defended not posting positively himself.) Zack's channel is primarily based on not liking things and people. This is super hypocritical.
Wes is a great guy.
His channel is excellent, and his guests are top notch - especially Aaron Sparrow 👍🏻👍🏻
I had to stop following him during his two week tantrum over us not watching Furiosa. It wasn’t even about us not liking it. He was pissy because we didn’t want to watch a Mad Max film without Mad Max.
Thinking Critical did a negative Acolyte review. That was the trigger, I bet.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. A shame, Zack.
Bro doesnt even realize he is just criticizing HIMSELF, he "hates" people who do the EXACT thing he does
Zack used to gush over old comics and their artists/writers and even compare them to the modern drek he was reviewing - he probably thinks that means his videos aren’t complaining but constructive (yes Zack ‘this sucks it should not suck, like this’ is way better than ‘this sucks why can’t it not suck’)
No idea if his format is still the same haven’t watched him in years
It’s because all these guys collaborate and help each others success. But Zack is a “lone wolf”. Who refuses to be friends with anyone. That HAS to be the real reason why
He can be a true lone wolf then. That includes not having an audience
Yeah, he’s a consummate contrarian who has to be the smartest person in the room, despite being comically misguided at everything non comics related.
His reasoning for why Indiana Jones would make a billion dollars easy was pure schizo posting.
@@Tatian4191 Yeah, that movie was doomed. We have already seen that Indy cannot be simply replaced. I mean at this point it's just best to let Indy go. You can't just shove a new character in or recast him.
I hope Zack isnt actuality insane enough to think he'll work in the mainstream.
He'd like everyone to forget this, and lies to his current audience, pretending he was never some controversial, culture war figure, but he was at the center of Comicsgate.
Marvel and DC, especially Marvel, used to demand that creators publically condemn this guy. He cant possibly think he can work with them after that level of animosity.
I think he is getting checks from Warner right now like Grace Randolph or Disney.
Zack is going the way of Mundane Matt, and that's not a path recommended
Never go full Mundane Matt.
Zack is now the kind of guy who loves Geico commercials, and will gladly sit through any ad that's shows on RUclips, or A movie theater.
Ya Soy Zack
😂😂😂😂😂 His new earned name!
Technically his channel always was pretty boring, but it used to have funny bits about mainstream comics.
The funniest thing I remember Zack saying, was that he thought that Bloody Mary (where you say Bloody Mary three times in mirror) was actually the Virgin Mary returned as vengeful spirit
I actually forgot that. How dumb can you be? There are various origins given to Blood Mary but is not one of them. Most of the time she's a witch or just some random woman named Mary.
@@LibraGamesUnlimitedIt's generally linked to either Elizabeth Bathory or Mary Stuart. This take is definitely pure fantasy 😂
@@AgentStargrave I've heard that. Like many such stories there are various versions and different locations have local versions of their own.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Yeah, there's a positively shocking amount of evidence that points to her actually being Mary Poppins.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited There's not, I made that up.
Lets talk about what Richard did to lose Malin a load of cash with kickstarter.
He's a total mong.
What happened? I see people mention this beef but never go into details.
Please explain
Has anyone told Zack he has a booger in his nose?
The bit with Drinker is a head scratcher... until one remembers the side story that was to be with the 1st Kill book. Something happened in the background, figure to see answers in a few years. 😂😮😢
Good point.
What side story ?
@@LanceMartin-gn3fi If I remember right, drinker was/did write a short story on Col. Truatman, whether as a Tier perk or bonus.
@@MerrimanDevonshire was the original book ever published ?
@@LanceMartin-gn3fi It's on fulfillment now, so its allegedly getting shipped. The campaign ended in november 2022 so it's "just" a year late
"You just forgot how boring this channel always was" is pretty much the Ya Boi equivalent of "comics were always woke" or "superheroes were always about social justice". Also, Drinker has been doing a lot better job at highlighting current comics that are actually good, even from Marvel\DC.
not disagreeying with you but I watch critical drinker and I've missed these comic recommendations, do you perhaps
remember the comics or video??
@@draakgast Sorry, I had a bit of a brain fart, lol. I meant Thinking Critical, not Critical Drinker.
I'm sad for Zack but I stopped to care sometime ago. Oh, and unsuscribed from his two channels. Did the same to EVS.
I remember Zack even attacking Midnight's Edge when they started to talk about DEI without name them. He thinks he knows everything.
Is here really defending the Minecraft movie, with how uncanny it looks... Zack has really oost it.
he is also defending the Crow cash grab trash movie
I think I officially tuned out when he did the third "Guys, remember how COOL Black Guys uaed to be? Isn't it a shame how SJWs ruined black guys." As if that was the biggest issue with woke writing.
Those videos were love letters to Just Some Guy
They tear them down just as much as they do huwite males. They make them gay or weak. Even with Black Panther. Even if he'd not died, they were going to make him a background character in his own movies.
@@debanydoombringer1385 It's really not the same, but keep telling yourself that. Black men might be ignored, but whites are actively villainized and de-personed by the left.
@@debanydoombringer1385 it's not the same. They will actively denominze white people or whiteness.
can we skip to the point where EVS and Ya Boi Zack are broke and off on the local streets? Watching them steadily progress to that stage day by day is just hard to watch and not really funny. Failing on purpose is only funny when a person is actually creative and has a clear goal, not just destroying life with stupidity on a day by day basis.
Yes agree it's sad and bizarre
I can't wish that to EVS due to his daugther. But he has to really work in order to have a job.
@@DanyTV79 I guess that's the key problem, Ethan doesn't really want to work in comics anymore, not for a long while when streaming provides the immediate monentary hit and attention.
Never heard of 'Thinking Critical' but I unsubbed from Zack weeks ago and no longer even occasionally watch his stuff to see if he's regained his sanity. There are too many other good RUclipsrs to watch.
I remember it was like 2019, Richard said he wouldn't use Twitter any more, now he is Memory Holing that?
I could care less about mags whatever the name is, when is the last time we saw that name published in anything?
i bought all jawbreaker books with the 1 dollar book so i could support Zack.... it's been like what, 4 years? and i dont know what happeend to those books, i havnet received shit
I also supported EVs and it took me years to receive my books.....
I like thes people but they spend more time sperging against other creators on youtube than working on their books
I posited a theory that he was just looking to pick a fight with someone who will react so that he can drama farm. He's just scrolling though targets until he gets a reaction.
This is the only way he can be relevant so he keeps doing it.
Ya Boi Zack is Just Some Guy. 😊
Zack thinks "media literacy" is reading media.
Zack, HEATHER WILL NOT DATE YOU! Just give it a rest and deliver the absolutely late books to your disappointed customers x'D
He really wants her lol
@@mshake7056yuck. Have you seen her recently? She’s about two milkshakes away from girls trips to Lane Bryant with Gail Simone.
Have you seen the recent photos he may have a shot these days.
He wants to knock her up so he can have a FOURTH kid he can walk out on.
Zack's "media literacy" is horrible. He always had really bad taste in movies and TV. He even had a 2nd channel for said reviews and nobody watched them b/c frankly they aren't very good. Also Josh Brolin played Thanos and Cable in Marvel movies.
It's so strange how furious Zack was at Ed killing himself because of these people AND HE JOINED THEM??
He wants to stay relevant so badly
Tell us the truth, @splattodelgato8645 ; you were NEVER outraged about Ed Piskor’s suicide, were you? You, Richard Meyer, were feigning outrage for donos, am I right?
I have to think this is purposeful on Zack's part. Like he's trying to get rid of all his subs (or at least most of them) so he can justify turning off his channel.
Literally no one would care if he kept his movie reviews/complaints about other youtubers on his actual movie review channel. But no one actually watches the videos he has over there (and now at least half of the videos on his channel called COMICS MATTER are about everything but comics).
Boi Zack's not all there.
I've been there commenting on his recent stuff and the majority of comments are folk telling him to chill out. Something changed. I'd love to know what it was.
I saw this morning that Richard's channel had fallen to 98.3K subs. He'll be into the 97K range in just a day or two, at this rate. For his channel to have devolved into "jealous, grumpy coughing man lashing out at other RUclipsrs" is sad.
Zack has always been a liberal, so this was inevitable
There is a quantifiable causal link between not having a principled foundation in life and self sabotaging
I never saw Zack as a Liberal. This is something else? He’s been infected by Woke Body Snatchers!? What did they do to our Cable Boy!? 😮
Truth!
@@xenn4985I agree.
Mark Waid as a person is one of the worst people ever, that said, he has more talent in his mood ring wearing pinky than Richard will ever have. Seriously I am loving the fact that I outright REFUSED to waste any money on Boi Sack and EDS (Ethan Dan Slott) garbage “comics”.
Want the cookie?
@@seminolewind158 want some frosting?
Sucks to see Rich doing the typical gaslighting and historical revisionism SJWs do.
And apparently you can LIKE things, YOU can like things, and you CAN like things, unless they're "made for kids," in which case you need to grow up and be drafted into a war so you can have real problems, according to Richard. He used to review Squirrel Girl comics and others that were "made for kids," he made videos about how Thundercats Roar was anti-male, and he used to tell a story about how he learned bravery from Kermit the Frog.
I'm positive that my comments have been shadowbanned on his channel, so there's no use engaging with him anymore. He wants attention, and he's not gonna get it.
I get getting tired of hearing negative criticism over and over. Honestly, it's one of the reasons I don't watch every FNT. But to go full reetard Zack, what the hell is he doing. First EVS and CG, then Nick and Zack what happened?
Doesn't Zach always bitch about comic pros that are on the internet all the time and not meeting deadlines? Must suck to be waiting for your book to come but see Zach online all the time whining about CHUDS!
Hal Jordan hasn’t been “portrayed as being from an older generation of superheroes” as compared to SUPERMAN. It makes no sense to have Hal Jordan (or Guy Gardner) be older than Superman.
While he is not wrong that Hal has been portrayed as being older for decades (probably since the 90s when they gave him white streaks at his temples, which BTW was undone when he came back from the dead and was retconned as being caused by Paralax and not being natural), this is starting point so it makes little sense to make him older except to get rid of him to push John Stewart, which they only ever do these days because of his race.
They literally did an animated movie called Beware My Might whose whole reason for existing was to dump all over Hal and build up John as being better and replacing him which is (most likely) what this is going to do. They spend the whole movie trying to find Hal, Oliver is determined to save him, and when they see him and find that Parallax is posing him Oliver just kills him without even trying to save him. What?
You're telling me that Oliver doesn't have any non-lethal knock-out arrows or anything on him? Really? That there isn't any way to restrain Hal and safely remove Parallax? Really? Nope. they just kill him so they can tell us how much better John is and how HE is the greatest Green Lantern (even though he is depicted as a new recruit and hasn't done anything yet).
That is exactly what this is going to be and it's all because John isn't white.
It was done right after Crisis, if I remember right, before he went bad. There were a lot of bad changes after Crisis which people memory holed.
Kyle was the torch bearer. They gave Kyle's story to John.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 Well, the whole thing with him going bad was poorly handled because it was an editorial mandate to get Hal out of the way for a new 'hip' replacement that was only (as far as I can tell) moderately successful.
I mean I liked Kyle well enough (what little I've read) but he's not really all that special and taking away the weakness to yellow was just dumb and made GLs too powerful.
I swear there were a lot of people working in comics even in the '90s and 2000s before the woke took over, who thought that because something was made up before they were born it was bad and had to be changed.
@@matane2465 What's really funny is, if you go back and look at comics before the animated series made John interesting, he was pretty much nothing.
I'm pretty sure the stuff about him being a marine and being an archtech was either added after I quit reading or by the animated series because I don't remember them in the comics I read and they're not in any old Who's Who they did on him (most of the ones I remember start with him getting the ring).
Other than one mini-series they did set around him and, later, Mosiac he was a non-entity.
@@matane2465 Yeah, that's how you know it's about race because Kyle is just another straight white dude.
Now, some of it may be trying to draw in fans of the animated series who never read comics but just loved the series, but it is awfully funny that they're pushing John these days.
I think he’s trying to get attention, maybe even trying to ride the coattails of more successful RUclipsrs
Drama farm. I think he's getting bad advice from EVS. Picking fights and drama farming is his whole thing.
I really feel sad for him now ):
At this point I’m pretty sure he is being compromised in some way. In what way exactly, I know not, but it’s too unreasonable for someone to make this dramatic a change in a short period of time and not have either blackmail, a carrot being dangled in front of him by someone or some form of promised compensation.
Well, Zach's going after comic guys now. All his targets these days are on a whisper network list. Its official, Zach's been compromised.
That must be how people keep backing his books also.
Comic book the comic book has nothing but covers of marvel and dc books on the promo page.
What I remember about the lawsuit is that it was thrown out due to the court not fully understanding internet drama; (remember most judges and jury members are normiess.) and the fact that this was around his first several successful kickstarter books. There was no damages, since he actually made more money after Mark Waid got him cancelled then he would have if he was with the original intended publisher. Or something to that effect. Ironically, he wasn't all that upset about the lose, and wanted to focus on actually getting all of his books out in a timely manor, instead of continuing with the drama.
Personally, I don't think he's trying to get into the good graces of DC and Marvel. He has changed, and something is wrong with him, but I'm not sure what. Tragically, he has fallen into the same trap that the main stream comics are in, and are spending way too much time attacking other people, instead of just creating.
Going after Thinking Critical is like the Amazon Rings of Empower shill going after Rainbow Dave of Tolkien Untangled!
I used to watch EVS, and Zack time ago, and I understand you should comment on this topic but be careful, remember they used to do the same before they went the weird route, and they're not the only ones which ended up being what they critize
I don't know what happened, but TCD wrote a story for his Rambo book that has yet to come out. Now, YBZ talks shit about him...
Man this is crazy going on. Zack and now EVS accuse you(jon) for doxed his home address.
Seriously, when the hell did this start? I used to listen to Zach years ago, what happened?
some comic creator called ed piskor killed himself after being repeately bullied etc, I don't know the full details but people told me zack went OFF in a video calling people murderes etc, it's somewhat understandably but then the Furiosa movie did bad (because the movie was mediocre) and he went full cope/butthurt mode and went on a subscriber ''purge''
don't go to hard agaiinst him or you'll be perma shadowbanned (still being able to comment/watch his video's but nobody sees yours)
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Wow.
We all knew something was wrong with this dood, when he started using "Mags'" pronouns.
Well I'm just assuming that the way Richard obsesses over Mags, who's 15 minutes of fame was used up hours ago, is he wants dibs on being first using Brian's new equipment.
Alan Scott was from the older generation of superheroes, Hal Jordan was from the current generation of heroes in the DCU. How is it that I'm a more casual comics reader, and yet I know YaBoiZack is wrong on this?
Now he’s just resorting to what leftist channels do where they start drama for clicks and clout chasing when they are spiraling.
It’s a real shame because he was one of my favorite channels and he introduced me to so many entertaining people like Nerkish, Doug Tennapel, Drinker, Rippa, the FNT crew and many more.
To see him just lambast everyone he praised and even worked with is shocking and shows he needs help.
I started watching Zack a couple of years ago. I'm not that into comics. I just like hearing people talk about them.
I had to unsub a month and a half ago. I truly believe Ed's passing is the thing that broke him. The main thing, at least.
He was calling it murder and I understood the sentiment, but he was dead serious.
Once that domino fell......
I agree with Zack, his channel was always boring, but he has changed into a bitter consoomer.
Always boring but he felt authentic and that was the draw. That sense of authenticity is elsewhere these days.
@@RetroPages Exactly
Wes is one of the coolest guys on this side of RUclips and always had something positive to say about Zack. What the F?
Stay alert Perch, Yaboi Zack is also coming after you!!
Shout-out to Comics By Perch 👍
Uh no. Hal was stupidly made older in 1990. It was such a dumb decision that only about 5 years later Parallax happened bc no one was buying GL. So Hal was aged older for 5 years and then Kyle came, not "decades". The truth is Richard actually knows nothing about comics. He knows G.I Joe and some Marvel from the very early 90's and that's about it. That being said, I think Brolin will actually make a great Hal.
It was one of the many bad changes right after Crisis. Brolin would be 50s to 80s GL.
As others have pointed out, he's simply too old to start staring in a multi movie franchise. They wouldn't cast Henry Cavil as Superman because of that, but they'll cast someone even older?
@@debanydoombringer1385 That's a fair point. I think he'll be great but he is older. However, with who's in charge and how things look, I don;t think the new DCU is gonna last very long.
Does anybody know what "media literacy" even means ... especially the people bandying that phrase about. Like, best case scenario, they're being vague as fuck, because media refers to all forms of story and news mediums ... media refers not to the stories or the news (events/happenings) themselves, but various forms in which they are shared and distributed. The story of Robin Hood, for example, isn't media, but a book, comic book, or movie is a medium for the story to be shared. With a book or comic book, the media is the paper and the ink, not the story told within. So, do these people even know what they're saying?
"Media literacy" is the phrase leftists use to be against interpretation... but only of certain things. You can make a "queer interpretation" of Shakespeare, but don't you dare make a right wing interpretation of Starship Troopers
I hate to write this but media illiteracy is a thing and I am worried. Between the woke and shallow readers we are slowly becoming idiocracy.
@@ironrex6979 Almost all the definitions people will give for what media literacy is are extremely liberal ones where their beliefs are taken for granted because of course they don't want people demanding a justification for liberal positions. When people talk about it, like with democracy, it's not just media+literacy where you might want to know the reasoning behind things, the symbolism the author put behind it, etc, rather it's promoting lgbt and diversity
@@TheThreatenedSwan then as always they have high jacked it because media illiteracy is a thing. I’m tiered of seeing great games and anime getting trashed because people are too ignorant or lazy to understand it. Worst is when the woke waltz in, trying to force their bs lies into it. People have to become better readers in order to keep the alphabet soup mafia or any sjw faction out of our fandoms.
@@TheThreatenedSwan seeing that my post got deleted I’ll put it simpler if we do not take academia and bring back in-depth though and thinking skills we are doomed. Media literacy is a thing and we have to take it back away from the left. I’ll use an example the left are rewriting Saint Thomas Moore’s book Utopia for their own agendas. The book is anti communist but due to right abandoning academia we have allowed these charlatans to high jack and ruin story telling. Worst of all younger generations can’t analyze anything without the lens of the left. So you are causing more harm by allowing them to high jack the term. The truth is media illiteracy is a danger and it will ruin younger generations.
Didn't Zack and Drinker collab on a project before? Did Zack forget that? Is this one of his late campaigns?
Zack, the clown car, is once again drama farming while living in 2018.
Point and laugh
Josh Brolin looks fine as an older Hal, his personality is what's off for me. Hal should be cocky, but mostly likeable, not a gruff jerk. Chris Pine is the best choice from the actors that are supposedly being considered. And he's not a perfect choice, either lol
EVS claiming you doxxed him. Tf is going on?
I feel like Zach feels guilty for destroying the comics industry and pushing people away from comics.
Problem is the industry is so far gone i don't think theres anyway to rebuild it without first demolishing it. He feels it can be saved by just removing some people.
Not defending him. I dont agree with him hardly at all.
That intro ... lols 😅