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Hey, I definitely think that more diversity, complexity, and marginalized voices need to be in comics. Nothing I wrote implied otherwise. The problem here is that Mage isn’t bad because there are other more diverse voices that could do Matt Wagner’s Mage better, that’s nonsensical. It’s presumably bad due to a host of…

Good lord. Where am I telling you how to do your job? And why would I know what 90 percent of your interactions are? I mean that’s shitty for you and is too bad if it’s something you have to deal with daily, but that doesn’t have anything to do with a good faith question. Man, hope the rest of your day goes better, I…

wow, Is that directed at me? Kinda at a loss on how mentioning one thing I was curious by (one I’m not even sure I disagree with) is as confrontational and insulting as you’re implying. I would think that something you wrote would be up for, y’know, discussion on a comments section. Good to know that any gentle…

Hey, good to know. I have read more than a bit of previous coverage and have noticed that you do cover alternatives to the norm. It seems like an odd criticism in a Mage book is all — I think most of the people who read that comic know what they’re getting (I’m not a fan fwiw).

This doesn’t sound good. But I do wonder about this statement: “There are other, better comics about predestined heroes, and many of them have women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ characters in them with agency and their own stories tell.” 

I mean, I couldn't make it through his ex wife's diatribe, so maybe I missed something, but it seems more like a spiteful attack on him for being what so many other other people ("woke" or not) are — mainly selfish and imperfect.

I think you're confusing being not a good partner with being a bad feminist. You can still respect women deeply and be completely shitty at relationships.

Dude can still sleep around, be an asshole to his wife, and still believe in equal rights. He's human. Wow.

To be fair I haven't seen enough of either's work to make some grand proclamation of relative merit; BUT from what I've seen of GWB's work, it displays a pathos and perspective that Carrey's stuff lacks. Where Carrey's abstract expressionism seems mannered, GWB's naivete seems remarkably authentic. Does it make either…

It's almost the art equivalent to Leto's Joker tattoos…

I honestly disagree. And I hate GWB as a person. So there's art for you.

No, I'm completely at ease with myself, and transcended space/time. I've even checked in with myself in other dimensions, and I'm doing pretty awesome there too. So, yeah, no, just you.

I want to like his work, and I know that art is really a matter of taste, but his work doesn't strike me as "really good." It's expressive, obviously enraptured with color, but ultimately kind of obvious and emulative. There's no way to discuss this kind of thing without sounding like a pretentious dick, but Carrey…

ok. have fun with that.

I understand that, and the axiom that all art is political. I am also very aware of the criticisms leveled at it, but I don't think those are particularly convincing. Again, I still think it's looking too deeply into something where the whole point was its glaring artifice. If others choose to look at it as a…

Looking into 300 in any way deeper than surface level seems to miss the point of 300: it's stupid, shock and awe film making with no other point than to look cool. There is no subtext in it. It's a totally empty vessel and pointedly out of reality. It's all right there: the epilogue basically tells the audience that…

The more I think about it, the more I realize that there was a lot of good music i was discovering in the mid-90s. Being in highschool in 1997 I was discovering Tindersticks, Neutral Milk Hotel, His Hero is Gone (Monuments to Thieves was 1997!), Japanese hardcore like Gauze and GISM and Systematic Death, ASSUCK!, the…

Real metal obviously doesn't count when it comes to these things. Nor does ug punk.

Wow, I forgot Tindersticks' "Curtains" came out in '97. Talk about a truly out of time record that still sounds amazing. Timeless shit right there.