>>1681364
I can't stand Linkara. Though he does seem knowledgeable, from what I can tell, his SJW tendencies impact his readings of works. That said, I haven't watched many of his videos, because when people put them on around me, I always hate them. One I recall is his review of Identity Crisis. Now, I personally like that comic, but I could see why some big Justice League International fans might dislike it, as it did fuck up some fan-favorite characters (though their audience was rather niche). But Linkara just seemed mad about the fact that the story involved rape, and said it was offensive or something. Would he say the same about Watchmen? I doubt it. Now, I'm not gonna argue Identity Crisis is as good as Watchmen, but Linkara seems hypocritical and is only picking on Identity Crisis because his SJW politics tell him to. They wouldn't tell him to pick on Watchmen because it's too acclaimed and thus can get away with breaking their rules. Keep in mind I watched this like ten years ago so I could be getting things wrong.
The dude is also just simply annoying. He has an annoying voice and annoying style. That thing where he acts like he's cool even though he's obviously so autistic that his superhero name shouldn't be Lightbringer, it should be Rain Man. His sketches are stupid, and for as much as he complains about Walker's handling of those "movies" they were in, Linkara's production skills are far worse. I'd much prefer someone reviewing comics in a more casual way, or at least lean into the nerd angle and do it like a tongue-in-cheek intellectual type thing (not serious intellectual. Those guys also suck).
But really I'm not as interested in seeing someone review comics since I can just read them myself very quickly. Once you're autistic enough you go down rabbit holes. Crossovers introduce you to different series and characters and creators, and then you check out more of their stuff, and you never run out. It does pigeonhole me a bit, like there are unrelated rabbit holes I haven't gone down yet but should, like checking out classic EC Comics horror stuff (Tales from the Crypt, etc.), but again, I already have heard that those are great. I don't need some Youtube reviewer to tell me to read them.
I can't really stand any of the Nostalgia Critic type people. I love AVGN, but all of his copycats are just dreadful. I'll respect Doug Walker for just being extremely determined and tenacious. He never ever gives up, no matter how badly he sucks. There's something to respect about that. I also respect that he can laugh at himself and he takes everything in stride. But he does suck. I watched a video he put out yesterday about Spaceballs, because it guest-starred Hats Off Entertainment, an absolutely excellent channel. But dear lord it wasn't worth sitting though a half hour of Nostalgia Critic.
Linkara is that except he can't laugh at himself. So I can't even respect him in the way I respect Doug Walker. All that said, I've been told that his series has insane lore, like he made additional sequel movies to the Nostalgia Critic movies since he was in them and considers them canon, and is mad that Walker doesn't even host them on his website anymore, because they're essential to Linkara lore. That's hilarious and I respect it. It shows he is a true comic fan. But he still sucks and I can't sit through a single one of those awful sketches, let alone his actual reviews.
Also, isn't he into porn of futa Supergirl or something? Now, I want to make fun of him and say "isn't Supergirl with a pee-pee just Superman?" But to be fair, a true comic fan would know that, no, they are very different characters. Only casuals think Supergirl is just girl Superman (or Superboy. Casuals don't know what Superboy is, though). It's not the same. He does seem to understand that, so even though he's a literal faggot, even his faggotry shows that he is a real comic fan. I'll give him that.
>spoiler
No, I haven't read that yet. My Indian Fatigue has been through the roof for years now, and it's really been putting me off it. Also I just haven't had as much time for reading in the last six months or so. I was reading all of Howard's Conan stories in order, and The Children of Hurin (by Tolkien), but I had to stop when I got a new job. I think I'll have some time soon, but for now, I think I'm even two months behind on reading Sonic (which was the last comic I was still keeping up to date on). Things have been so busy and shitty that I haven't even been able to escape into fantasy as much. I suppose I could do that instead of posting here, but uh... idk.
>>1681442
It's both. I think some of the money people near the top assume everything they do will just print money. I think as you get slightly below them you get feminists who weren't hired for skill in the first place, they were hired because of ideology. So ideology is what they do. And if the company goes down, why would they care? They weren't hired because they made money, and they figure they'll get hired again at some other company, since their history of making money didn't matter in the first place. If you hire a woman because she's a woman and not because she's good at her job, then she doesn't need to be good at her job. She'll keep being a woman, and that's what got her employed in the first place, so she figures it will work again. Of course the tides are turning on that slightly. If it takes every damn corporation going down, they'll do that. But I guess so will we.
>>1681449
While many of the key creators like Seigel, Schuster, Lee, and Kirby were jewish, I should note that Christianity is explicitly canon to both DC and Marvel. There are characters of all religions, like the Greek and Norse gods are main characters, but ultimately Jesus is explicitly real.
Also, I don't know if this contradicts my point or reinforces it, but in DC, the Angel of Death that Moses summoned to kill the firstborn of Egypt is canonically considered to have gone too far and done an evil thing, so he was cast out and sealed in The Black Diamond, AKA The Heart of Darkness, and replaced as the Angel of Death by The Spectre. The Spectre is a major DC superhero, and literally works directly for God. He's a member of the Justice Society of America.
The guy from Exodus, meanwhile, went on to become the supervillain Eclipso, who goes around possessing people and doing Jekyll/Hyde type stories. Thousands of years after Exodus, The Black Diamond was found by a guy named Bruce Gordon, who would then turn into Eclipso during an eclipse (and eventually any time a circle of light was partially covered. They realized eclipses are too rare to make an ongoing series out of it). Then basically he was his own arch-nemesis. It was pretty cool. But Gordon got cured and the Diamond got around to other people who became Eclipso. At one point there was a big crossover where the diamond shattered and tons of people all became Eclipso at once. In the 2000s, after The Atom's wife, Jean Loring, accidentally killed Elongated Man's wife, Sue Dibny, in a plot to make it look like a supervillain threatened a Justice Leaguer's wife so that her own husband would reconsider leaving her, she was locked up in an insane asylum, but got hold of The Black Diamond (I'm pretty sure it was placed there by Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three as part of a plan to distract all the magic superheroes in the world, including The Spectre, so they'd be too busy to interfere directly with his real plan of recreating the multiverse) and became the new Eclipso.
Now, since Exodus is canon to Christianity, I think saying that angel was evil might offend Christians, but jews care about Exodus and Moses way more than Christians, so I think it would offend them even more.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the most obvious and important thing that makes Christianity canon. DC's explanation for why the dozens of American superheroes of the early '40s didn't just storm Germany in WWII is that Hitler got The Spear of Destiny, AKA The Spear of Longinus, which has reality warping abilities due to literally having the blood of God on it. Hitler couldn't harness its abilities enough to just win the war, but he could harness it enough to keep the All-Star Squadron away. (Basically the super Justice Society of World War II, that included every superhero, not just the JSA). This is important lore, because while "present day" characters all exist relative to the present (the current generation, starting with Superman, first appeared about 17 years ago), the WWII stories are too important, they're always canon. You're kind of supposed to gloss over references in '60s comics to Vietnam, but Hitler having the spear that stabbed Jesus and had his blood on it is always canon.
Also in Marvel I think Ghost Rider met Jesus one time but I heard Christians got offended and then they retconned it so that it was actually Mephisto, the devil, in disguise, which honestly seems more offensive to me. That's the kind of shit that lost Salman Rushdie an eye. But I could be getting the details of that wrong. I gotta go down the Ghost Rider rabbit hole still.
It is funny that one of Marvel's most prominent jewish characters is The Thing, a literal golem. But I should note that he was never jewish in the original stories by his original creator, Jack Kirby. Later writers said he was jewish because of Kirby, though, because Kirby had it so The Thing grew up in the same neighborhood where he did, Yancy Street. So they figured his story was semi-autobiographical and thus made him jewish. I don't think Kirby cared. His magnum opus was about the Norse Gods, and then when Marvel didn't let him tell his Ragnarok story since everyone dies at the end, he just continued the story at DC using legally distinct versions of the Norse Gods, which lead to Darkseid and the New Gods. Then DC didn't let him do his Ragnarok story there, since it would involve killing them all off. That jew got jewed bad.
Another prominent jewish character is Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. This X-Man was named by creator John Byrne after his classmate at art school. To be fair, she had a pretty cool name. Well once she heard that weird dude in her class named an X-Man after her, she had her name legally changed.
Out of universe, the creator of Ultimate Spider-Man, Brian Michael Bendis, said that Ultimate Spider-Man is jewish. To be fair, he talks like Larry David or something, but by the same token, we're supposed to believe that Jerry is the only jewish character on Seinfeld, not George, Elaine, or Kramer. Anyway Bendis killed off that jew and replaced him with a nigger, so I suppose it's a moot point now. Regular Spider-Man is some sort of christian.
I can't think of many jewish characters from DC. They have a character called Ragman who is a jewish member of the modern-day Justice Society (he's not one of the classic WWII members). He has a cape made of souls and does magic stuff. Notably, his buddy and fellow JSA'er, Mister Terrific II (Michael Holt) is atheist and thinks that Ragman is just controlling psychic energies, which are explicitly a scientific phenomenon in DC (tons of people have psychic powers). So Judaism isn't explicitly real. Not that his powers are specifically jewish. They're souls, but it's not like they're all jew souls or anything. Also they're both on the team with The Spectre. He of course is not atheist, he works directly for God, but it's not like he ever tells Ragman judaism is real. All their older buddies on the team fought Hitler and his Spear of Destiny, so they all know Christianity is real. But I suppose Mister Terrific figures that's all just psychic energy or Fifth Dimensional Imp residue or something.
Mister Terrific was in the recent Superman movie, but they never mentioned any of this stuff about atheism, even though it's his only notable trait. He's a pretty forgettable character otherwise.