for anyone who hasn't been following Comicsgate, there's an SJW clique in control of Marvel, DC, and other companies. to get and keep a job in that industry, just be friends with them, do the bare minimum, and obey Social Justice orthodoxy. step out of line, get blacklisted. they're using their influence to churn out far leftist propaganda, vandalizing established IPs in the process. Needless to say, the art/writing/storycraft of SJW comics is unadulterated garbage which makes a mockery of all that came before.
Heroes like Diversity & Comics and Ethan Van Sciver have stepped up to criticize this state of affairs, and have predictably been vilified as evil internet nahtzees by SJW pros who screech about them on Twitter all day everyday. When D&C tapped Antarctic Press to publish his original comic, Antarctic was threatened/coerced/otherwise persuaded by SJWs to drop the comic. There have been many other incidents of SJW pros and their shills harassing, stalking, defaming, and generally being belligerent towards critics and comics fans. As in other compromised industries, they always double-down and attack their audience.
D&C, Van Sciver, and other Comicsgaters are using crowdfunding to get their comics out – D&C's Jawbreakers Lost Souls pulled in almost $400k, and Van Sciver's CyberFrog: BloodHoney made over $500k, effectively BTFOing the Big Two. There is a market for comic books, just not for the output of SJW mind-controlling parasites.
I predict that the comics industry will crash in the near future. The SJWs are too firmly entrenched, and they refuse to budge as more and more comic book stores either go out of business or switch to other products. The current model is unsustainable, and it's only a matter of time before the collapse. Comicsgate and their crowdsourced comics is without a doubt the only way forward for the medium.
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I think it's both. They infect franchises because there's a built-in audience for them to preach to. At the same time, they're committing iconoclasm by vandalizing cultural works and attempting to replace them with garish, hollow, plastic monuments to their SocJus ideology.