Since a comic shop owner’s rant about comic industry problems went viral this week, Mark Millar has been in the thick of the conversation, defending the retailer from a mob of online attacks initiated by industry insiders like Donny Cates of Marvel Comics. Because Millar replied to Ethan Van Sciver on a public discussion, cancel pigs are doing everything they can to attack the Netflix creator.
The comic industry has been in significant trouble over the last few years. New versions of beloved characters have been replaced to signal race, gender, and sexuality across their film and printed versions. Fans have become increasingly sick of seeing this, now to the point where there’s a meme of the South Park incarnation of Kathleen Kennedy, to sum up what these writers have done, “put a chick in it and make it lame and gay.”
Ethan Van Sciver has been at the forefront of fighting against the destruction of culture, spearheading a movement called #comicsgate, one of the most effective weapons against pop culture’s recent disasters. Marvel and DC Comics have a blackslist against anyone associated with ComicsGate from working for their companies, and a whisper network led by people journalist Penny Parker’s exposed, keeps everyone from even mentioning the works of those involved in the movement.
It’s gotten so bad within the comic industry that Green Lantern writer Tim Sheridan made a video plea to call for people to buy his book as a spite against the people in CG. The call humiliated the DC Comics writer as his book still didn’t sell, showing truly that “get woke, go broke” is a reality.
Meanwhile, creators like Van Sciver, Eric July, and Chuck Dixon have been siphoning off precious dollars that were going to ever-dwindling direct markets of comic shops. Owners across the industry are frustrated, and their anger at an inability to sell has finally reached critical mass. The mainstream comic creators, however, only replied by trying to cancel the comic shop owner who spoke out rather than trying to fix their products.
Mark Millar helped convey that comics need to change to survive. He posted, “I was so appalled at the way a comic retailer was being harassed and bullied by a digital mob this week just for saying comic-books are going in the wrong direction I had to talk to him. Here is my interview with Glenn O’Leary from this afternoon…” on X.
Ethan Van Sciver watched the interview and commented on his ComicsArtistPro Secrets YouTube channel, agreeing with Millar and the comic shop owner. He took to X to tell Millar, “Terrific job, Mark. Thank you. I feel like you might be the only one who can destroy this…evil? That’s what it is. It’s killing comics. I’ll get more eyes on this interview right now.”
He’s correct. The agenda mainstream comic pros are pushing is evil at worst and petty high school bullying at best. Even associating loosely is enough to get them to try to destroy someone. Millar replied cordially and professionally with, “cheers bud.” This was enough to set off the cancel pigs into a fury.
Dozens of replies followed with anger at Millar for simply acknowledging EVS’s existence. Even though he didn’t endorse Van Sciver, claim he’s a friend, or say he’s a part of ComicsGate, the comic industry shills went overdrive, branding Millar a right-wing extremist and more. It Illustrated Millar’s point perfectly that a bully squad in comics is stopping the industry from being good and fun.
Joe Glass, a woke writer famous for calling for a conference of feminists to be set ablaze in arson because it didn’t include transgenders, tried to add fuel to this fire by alerting people Millar is “fairly friendly” with Van Sciver. Just not being rude to someone who says “thank you” is enough to try to get people canceled in the industry at this point.
It’s disgusting behavior from Glass and his cohorts. The comic industry needs drastic change, and this school-yard bullying by the cancel pigs must first stop. We need to be able to have civil discussions on the good and bad and comics and especially respect the opinions of retailers who are hurting.
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