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Matt Murdock has more girl trouble in his fridge then I have edible food in mine.  Brief clip summarizing his comic book love life; 

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In regards to Daredevil: I think what a lot of people miss about Matt and Karen’s relationship after the end of season 2 and whatnot is that when they go around complaining that somehow it would tarnish Karen’s character to go back with him after he treated her the way he did is that thing called “redemption.” and the fact that -some- people can in fact change, and relationships can evolve.  Just because something once was true, doesn’t mean it will always be true...

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Mark Waid Is a Star.

In the sense that he’s a bloviating ball of gas held together by his own ego which happens to have just enough gravitational pull to get the job done.  Capn Cummings reply has since been deleted, but what it had was some messages exchanged between himself and Waid in which Cummings admitted that he really like Waid’s work. Shocking! Appalling! Booo!  Apparently that wasn’t good enough for Waid since he hit back with “Oh do you have a recording of you falling all over yourself as we talked over the phone trying to set up things up?” I can’t find the tweets now that Cummings has been suspended, if anyone has shots of them, hit me up on twitter. Or w/e.  Back to the point;  Its apparently a problem for Mark that Capn Cummings LIKES his work (most likely because WAID doesn’t even like his own work.) and tells him he does because no doubt in Waid’s mind if Cummings REALLY liked his work he wouldn’t say all those mean things about him. Which means to Waid there are really only 2 options, and only ONE can be true. 1. Cummings likes his work and and only says shitty things about Waid to make that $$$$ 2. Cummings DOESN’T like his work and still only criticizes him to make that $$$$. What Waid falls to realize is that multiple things can be true at once. 1. Capn Likes your work. 2. He dislikes some of your work. 3. He likes you as a writer sometimes and 4. He DESPISES YOU as a human being/twitter jackass.  Lets give Waid the benefit of the doubt and say Cummings was falling all over himself, totally star struck, stammering and rambling. So. What? for all that crusading against “bullying and Harassing” and “Not punching down.” its exactly what Waid did when he pulled this stunt. He went to twitter and SHAMED a man for liking his writing. if Waid were really against all the things he SAYS he’s against he should have just kept his mouth shut. But that’s the problem, People like him are armchair warriors who don’t practice what they preach, Like you know him knowing about a serial sexual harasser and doing fuck all about it. 

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They Think Richard C Meyer is a God.

They literally think Diversity and Comics (D&C) runner Richard C Meyer (He who MUST be named.) is a omniscient being with a persuasive mind controlling voice.  Somehow, subliminally he tells his followers to harass people without ever actually SAYING to harass them. In fact SOME HOW when R.c.M says “yo its ur boi Zack, flippin’ and rippin’...don’t dox, don’t track, don’t harass. I’ll handle it.” What he’s REALLY saying is “GET THEM MY PRETTIES, GET THEM ALLLLLL.”  And since all his followers are a bunch of basement dwelling lemmings with no scruples or conscience we just do it. No questions asked, no qualms.  These people think that because D&C tweets some dude or mentions them in a video and they suddenly find their mentions and their notifications filling up its LITERAL harassment. Newsflash, that’s not harassment that’s called the internet. This person ( almost anyone can tell who it is, but to be nice I redacted the name...) and I have already had this debate before. Being talked to by people you don’t want to talk to is harassment in their mind, despite the fact that they have access to a mute button and a block button. ( My sister harasses the sanity from me and I all have is a lousy door.) Susan Auger/Gary Drama+ co, have been saying for some time D&C fans have been sending out death threats and “Harassing” them. They have been asked repeatedly to compile them and release them in the form of screenshots. Doing that it gives the “Community” the names of the people they need to call out, or avoid but they REFUSE to actually do it because they know what they have either isn’t enough or it doesn’t even exist.  They keep demanding He who Must Be Named Always; Richard C Meyer ( you know the same boogeyman who they claim is getting his followers to give out death threats and harassment by “targeting” them) stop the harassment from occurring with the simple guideline that all he has to do is stop “targeting” the recipients.   The problem with this is two fold:  1. When they say “Targeting” what they mean is he needs to stop mentioning them at all, ever.. Because if he mentions them, all his little “fiends” will have something to say, and god knows if their Notifications and Mentions blow up its a LITERAL harassment campaign.  2. They expect he is a God and can be everywhere at once, and his commands cannot be disobeyed.  Is Richard supposed to bust down the door of these “harassers”  and smash their computers? is he supposed to snipe their phones from a rooftop? HOW is he supposed to stop people from all over the world from doing something he already ASKED them not to do? Does he know the name of everyone who follows him? Can his voice mystically stop shitty people from doing shitty things? No, because he’s not a God. He’s a Person. The power to stop Death threats and Harassment is solely in the hands of two people. The person who is being harassed and has all the proof, and the person who is giving them the proof by being a horrible human being.  Stop Blaming D&C for things he can’t control, stop giving him more power then he actually has. Stop making a victim of yourselves and start taking action against the people who are actually at fault. 

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Here we gooooo again. 1. There is no such thing as hate speech for you people. Only speech you DISLIKE. Your mythical boogeyman version of Diversity and Comics does not exist. He is not INCITING people to do anything.

2. Heather Marie ADMITS that “he’s not telling them to do it.” Whatever it is they are apparently “doing” because so far the evidence of these threats has been sorely lacking. You guys are all accusation and no evidence.

3. Do you realize how petty and jealous you sound nitpicking how much money this guy is getting a month? People like his stuff, they pay him. Maybe you should make things people actually like so YOU can get some money and stop being assholes.

4. Where did he admit to not being doxxed, because I have been following and listening to this guy for some time now and I have yet to get that episode. D&C has been pretty consistent on the events. He’s been consistent with showing EVIDENCE of said events. He keeps his receipts. 5. Susan Auger posting shit from Gary Drama? lmao thats not suspicious at all. 

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Don’t be daft.

If being a male some how makes one more likely to be a predator, doesn’t that up your own chances Mags? I mean remember that time you said you wanted to beat Cis people with a bat? Just because you now identify as another gender doesn’t change how you were raised priorly, or your DNA.  So what is it that makes a predator what they are? their inherent male DNA or living as a man for any period of time?

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Anti-ComicGates Didn’t lose it.

They just never had it. I might be a bit off with my time frame, because I frequently go camping where i can’t get a signal and lose track of days but....Over the last week or so there have been 3 incidents that I know of; 1. Sock puppet wannabe journalist/documentarist Melissa Morgue has claimed there are no female Comicgaters. I honestly hate calling us that but what other term fits besides “People who want good comics and want to be treated like decent people rather then boogeymen/Phantom Nazi’s.” Its accurate but a bit long.  Now I know for sure that I am; A. A woman. B. A critic of current comics and therefore a Pro-comicgate "Fiend.” C. A follower of their most hated nemesis Diversity and Comics.  D. Reasonably sure that there are other women who are in this “movement.”  For a while my Twitter handle was my real name. With the state I ACTUALLY live in at this moment. It had, and still does have my real picture on it. Do I look like a man? Don’t answer.  I’ve talked with Melissa Morgue before she block-botted a bunch of D&C’s followers. She saw my real face and my real name and still had the audacity to make that claim- WHILE she’s/he’s hiding behind a cutesy cartoon avatar with a fake name. Hypocrite.  2. PTSD GasLighting. B. Clay Moore and Jody Houser are both trying to convince people that they never had a Facebook discussion about trying to trigger a PTSD attack out of Diversity and Comics, despite there being actual proof of this discussion. First it was “we’re could never collude we’re such a mess hahaha lol lyke omg we’re incapable of something like that.” Yes. We. Know. That’s why you got caught doing it, because you’re a bunch of inept idiots who dig their ditch deeper with every attempt at denying it. Now the new excuse is “we were JUST saying it, we were never actually going to do it!” So now you’re a bunch of inept cowards who think its funny to fantasize about triggering a mental break in someone who put their life on the line overseas? Lets leave out the massive stereotype assumption you made about Diversity and Comic’s mental state, and focus on your wanton lack of care about another human beings health. B.Clay Moore, you wanted to follow this man around the Con, in YOUR own words, and GOAD him into throwing a punch, so that you could either later claim he harassed you, or so you would have an excuse to punch back.  Thats some pretty sick thinking. It takes real trash to DREAM about doing something like that.  3. Dan Slott Claims ComicGaters are just a bunch of Pixels on a screen talking shit behind anonymooooooouse names.  Hey Dan--speaking as a woman do you know WHY we need anonymity on the internet? It has to do with the fact that there are insane people in the world.   Again, I was using my real name, and my real face until Diversity and Comics got doxxed and I was reminded of a similar situation i faced on Facebook the year before.  The incident:  Some guy from a forum I frequented tracked down my  admittedly--naively public Facebook page and began routing for dirt on me. As soon as i realized what was happening i blocked him and changed my privacy settings. I got lucky, this guy was an idiot and let me know what he was doing inadvertently.  Recalling that event I realized that I was once again putting myself at risk; I changed my Twitter name, and maybe in the future When I feel “safer” or “braver” It will go back. But for now, no thanks.  Diversity and Comics was not lucky. His real name got put out not by his choice but because some psycho doxxed him. That same freak tried to hassle his job. This is why we have “Anonymous” names. Because there are INSANE people out there and they seem to FLOCK to your side.   Does it occur to you that some of your followers don’t even like you? That they follow you to mock the shit you post behind your back? or to feed info to Comicgaters? or that many of them are bought and paid for by the company you work for?  TL;DR version: We’re not super realistic A.I’s, we’re not bought and paid for followers like some of yours probably are-- We’re Women and Men, we’re not going to be gas-lighted by you. IF we’re anonymous its because you created an environment in which we needed to hide ourselves from you. Our opinions DO matter and the more you spit this toxicity the more you dig yourself a figurative grave.  This situation is not going away. 

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Civil War: The Right Way to Use Politics In Comics.

                          To begin with, there is no factually correct choice. At the end of the day whether you lined up on Iron-Man’s side or Captain America’s side it had to do with your perception of right and wrong. Your choice was decided by what you felt was acceptable and unacceptable. It is fundamentally the age old question of Individual rights and liberties VS Society’s. It doesn’t matter who came out the victor. You can win and be wrong; you can lose and be right when it comes to morality. Each of us has to answer if only to ourselves how much of our civil liberties do we trade away for safety? How dirty do we think we would be willing to get our hands to do what we think is right and where do we ultimately draw the line? Civil War begins after a major catastrophe in a town called Stamford. In an attempt to apprehend a group of villains a unit of inexperienced reality star heroes inadvertently cause a hefty amount of casualties, many of which were children. Unsurprisingly it sparks national outrage, everyone is questioning what can be done, why are superhumans allowed to run amok without training, without credentials, without accountability? These questions have always been brewing under the surface but now they’ve exploded to the forefront of American discussion. In the aftermath of Stamford the superhuman community is already debating amongst themselves about what they think will be the next step of public outrage. Many of them can already see the writing in the air, there will be a push to make Super Heroes into Super Cops. Many of them are at first not too bothered by the idea, others are deeply disturbed. Most character’s whose identities have never been secret or out for some time are unbothered by the idea of a great unmasking and why should they be? Hiding themselves has never been a concern for them; therefore no one else should be worried. Or so they think for its often very difficult to understand what you’ve never experienced. Let me fully admit my bias; I backed Captain America. The reasons to me were simple on the surface. People have a right to anonymity; the government cannot be trusted to adequately keep that anonymity—especially when so many lives are on the line and we’re not just talking about the lives of the super humans here; we’re talking about them and the lives of every person who has ever been remotely connected to them or ever will be connected to them. Let’s say that there is a hack by some villain, it’d be like a great big doxxing of epic proportions. All that personal info spilled into nefarious hands. Or imagine the government goes full on dictatorial and begins to do wide spread targeting of individuals within the registry for whatever reasons—they’re no longer satisfied with a registry, now they want to contain everyone, or even kill them. We’ve seen things like this happen in the real world and we’ve seen it in the source material; the Mutant community knows this all too well. These are all possibilities that the characters have to weigh, not knowing if their fears will come true or not but anticipating that they will. When you expect the worst you can only be pleasantly surprised. Their wildest fears are not unfounded as we later see, it’s no longer JUST about registering names and faces; the superhumans will be FORCED to work for the government, live under the radar if they have the capability, or be imprisoned, and last but not least they can resist and perhaps die. When people with powers who don’t even use them are suddenly demanded to sign their name on the dotted line or ELSE, resistance in the end becomes self-defense. They have no choice but to fight or in their minds lose their way of life. At the end of the day the SRA (Super-Human Registration Act) is not only about knowing the identities and whereabouts of its applicants, it’s a draft. The government will be deciding what action the hero takes, where they go, when they go. There will be times when they MUST act but are told to with-hold, there will be times when they don’t want to act, but are demanded to do so. Their personal judgments will no longer matter, they become unwilling soldiers. Luke Cage referred to it as “A form of slavery.” And he isn’t wrong. You either capitulate or you are crippled. You either join or you are labeled a criminal and will be brought to heel. In this light they’ve no other choice but to resist. The SRA is a threat to their world, their freedom. It is an existential crisis to their autonomy, their anonymity. They might be super, but at the end of the day they’re also just people who want to do the right thing on their own terms. They want the freedom to make their choices without the threat of a figurative and literal gun to the head. With that said, just because I believe in the cause of the resistance does not mean I don’t understand where Tony and co. are coming from. That is in itself is an example of how Marvel did things right. I can disagree with him but understand his view. I can be against him and not hate him. I can dislike the things that he does disagree with the decisions he’s made but still want the best possible outcome for him. I have many, many gripes with the Pro-SRA movement. I will save such long, detailed complaints for another time and simply focus on the major premise. The one thing that I DO agree with is that there must be accountability when things go wrong.   I understand that if it’s not the SRA, it will be some other program—a worse program as theorized by Tony and Reed. The government will skip the step of registration and go directly for attempts at utter elimination. Perhaps, as in Reed’s opinion the world will be consumed into chaos in such an event. But that is only if I allow myself to believe that Reed and Tony are beyond reproach, that they are infallible, and I don’t believe they are. We know they aren’t. I can even sympathize with the Pro-SRA side, I can look to Tony and see he’s not a monster, and he’s NOT wrong about everything, nor is he right about it all. He wants to regain the trust of the public; he wants to put their fears at ease. He wants to promise there will never be another Stamford again; he thinks that the registration is a step towards that. Tony wants to make a better, safer world; working within the system he’s been provided. I don’t believe that such a thing is possible—I don’t believe the SRA could have prevented Stamford—or that if the SRA is followed to the letter that there will never be another Stamford.  But I understand where he is coming from and cannot fault him for his conclusion, for his belief that his way is the right way.   To Tony the SRA represents redemption for his own failings and the failures of others. It is a gesture of good will to the public, and while he does believe in the movement it hurts him to have to turn on his compatriots . To have to turn on what he considers his own community, to be viewed as Judas is no doubt a heavy burden. He doesn’t want it to come to violence but if it does, he’d rather it be at the command of someone who cares. Not some faceless bureaucrat who will shrug off the guilt of having harmed someone they don’t even know. Not some person who will look at the law as it is and not what it could be.  Nothing he does if from a place of cruelty but perceived necessity. I’m not excusing the atrocities committed in the process, I mean, using known criminals to bolster their ranks? Cloning a monster Thor-bot? Knowing that the implementation of the SRA is utterly disgraceful but committing to the task none the less? I may abhor that that they do it, I might be screaming at them inside my head, but I never reach the moment where I think to myself “They are forever beyond redemption.”   We, the readers just the same as the two factions are meant to feel torn, anguished that things have come to this. We see the bad choices each side has made, we see the damage they’ve wrought on one another emotionally and physically. We know that it’s unfair to ask people to put themselves into the hands of the government and that it’s also unfair to society not to have a system in which these people can be held accountable. What Marvel did right is that neither group was “The Good Guy” or “The Bad Guy.” They were two opposing factions who believed what they were doing was the best thing to do. The Marvel writers of this period played it straight; they gave both sides their due and left it to the reader to make their choice. They didn’t demonize Steve or Tony, you knew their head and you knew their hearts. They were not cardboard people. They were REAL, conflicted, messy and pained by the choices before them. Both sides made mistakes, both sides were consumed with high emotion, inflaming tension between them. Both groups have done questionable things in the name of their cause. Tony is compromising his own principals for a better tomorrow; Steve is sticking to his principals for a better tomorrow. Neither stance is a bad one, they are simply ideologically opposed and the further the tension mounts the less each side thinks logically. As the war progresses neither are truly fighting for their ideals anymore, they’re just FIGHTING for ego. The ends don’t justify their means anymore. To himself and no one else, Tony admits “It wasn’t worth it.” And yet they’ve gone too far to turn back. You’ll be hard pressed to find someone without some glimmer of regret by the end of things. Everyone is mangled by the end. No one is untainted. Civil War is artfully brutal in how raw it leaves you by the end. We can all look at parts of the arc and think of all the ways the horror could have been avoided, we can see the things the characters themselves cannot see preparing to bite them later down the road and we’re helpless. We don't need the writers to hammer us over the head with what THEY believe is right, we don't need to have our differing world views not only perverted but out right demonized. We don't need nor want the same jab taken over and over again to the point that we can accurately predict it will be coming.

If you want to talk about politics—If you want to involve them in comics, at the very least do the audience and the character's justice. Present both sides without turning one into a caricature. You aren’t convincing us when you are presenting a false view to topple, you’re preaching to us.

In short, it is humanity that current marvel lacks. Everything is one sided, everything is a hammer without subtlety. There are no layers. There is but one side, the “Right” side. The opposing force cannot be viewed as having any legitimacy whatsoever. RiRi Williams takes over a sovereign nation? Everyone around her congratulates her. Every comment is on how smart, how perfect she is. Despite the fact that we ourselves do not see those qualities in her, we’re simply told that she has them. To compound the issue there is not a soul within her inner circle to add a counterpoint.  She’s better then all who have come before her, she is without compelling conflict. This one toned outlook doesn’t just apply in the comics; it applies in the actual thinking of the creators. You voted for Trump? You are a bigot. You don’t like the direction they’re taking a character in? You have no clue what you are talking about. You want the old characters back? You’re old and stuck in your ways. You’re a rube, you’re the minority of readers, they DON”T want you to buy their books and you will be blocked. There is no respect, there is no dissension. Can you think of ONE or even more than one Marvel comic in the last two years where two ideological opposites were presented with the opportunity to explain their side without one of them being portrayed as villain? Where you were actually left to draw your own conclusion?

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One of the very many reasons why Comicsgate is even happening. Hypocrisy, double speak. “This is a targeted campaign against ____!” ____ shows up, offers their opinion on why the speaker is wrong and the speaker dismisses them because while they may be part of the group they were claiming was being attacked they’re not “really” part of it.  So while I  might be a woman, I’m not WOMAN ENOUGH because i haven’t been attacked. Having a discussion on why his opinion is wrong is = to trying to exert control over him. Just another ploy to avoid criticism.