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That Absolute Batman Annual really struck a cord with a certain demographic. cw: racism
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lmao these losers actually think their point of view is popular enough to hurt comic sales.
These people don't buy comics either
The only people who buy comics anymore are a select few nerds who are dedicated to filling their longboxes until they're buried alive under an avalanche of cheap paper
And me, who waits for the trades
Though, I don't buy many anymore because both DC (fired a trans creator for making a Charlie Kirk joke and scrubbed her work in its entirety) and Marvel (owned by Disney, dedicated to making all its characters boring) are shitty
I've been trying to get into Anerican comics-- do you have recommendations? I've been liking Free Planet for the effort in worldbuilding/politics.
One really good one going on is The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen, its like x-men with geopolitics. Also the writer/artist for this batman annual also wrote Transformers (2023), which is also really good
In every comic of theirs I read there's always that anti-leftist or anti-global South (imperialist?) commentary there; in Luther Strode you had an ancient woman give a whole speech about how modern feminists don't know what real persecution/misogyny really is and call everything that; in another Lovecraftian one they portrayed countries in Africa and the Middle East in a very scary, orientalist manner (and this was before anything Lovecraftian had even happened). In another comic you had heroes who were sent to a Middle Eastern country to get rid of a dictator (one of those heroes specifically) tell the violent dictator that actually he agrees with him and that he knows how to manage his people well (but that he was going to kill him anyway because that's what he was hired to do). I also recall the creators of the company gave off some weird reactionary vibes too. EDIT: Also in invincible, one of the villains is a satire of a leftist; the guy with (earth?) powers; he talks about the founding fathers being slave owners and fascists (he's being played for laughs).
I'm sure because they employ so many creators, there's probably lots of stories that don't have to drop in an anti-leftist or imperialist commentary, but after every comic of theirs I touch I find this stuff I personally decided to give their company a miss.
Well, its an indie comic publisher, the quality depends on the writer, Kieron Gillen is someone who i have read before in immortal x-men (which is x-men with geopolitics lol) and doctor aphara which was also really good. So i trusted in him when i started power fantasy (back then there was only 2 issues) and now at isuue 12 its currently my favorite ongoing comic right now
I also didnt like invincible very much. Another really good Image comic right now its Transformers (2023) the guy who wrote this absolute batman annual wrote the first 24 issues, and they are great super good (sadly kirkman took over in 25 so i dont have much hope for it)
Also i havent read them but i have heard really good things about Radiant Black and Rouge Sun both are in the same universe
Oof, I should've checked who Kieron Gillen was first before I said anything; the dude wrote 'Once & future', and that comic series opened with anti-white supremacist messaging; this dude is definitely writing good stuff. I'll look up more of his comics and give the series you mentioned earlier a check! I'll look into some of your other recommendations as well; thanks!
Read some of it. It features a sassy woman superman who, in her centrism, decides on her own to personally intervene in the Cuba Missile Crisis by... setting off all the nukes in Cuba and Turkey...
Jesus fucking christ
Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but Charles Burns stuff is pretty good. Other stuff I like is TMNT (the original comic series), Y: The Last Man, The Maxx, and I can’t remember what else right now.