Marvel Comics writer Donny Cates (Thor, Venom) has had a tough week after attacking a comic shop owner concerned about modern comic books destroying his business and making it impossible to sell products. He deleted his tweet after receiving fan backlash, but one he didn’t delete was one giving praise to the Father of Lies, […]
Steve Ditko Estate Settles Lawsuit With Marvel Comics Over Ownership of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange And Other Comic Book Characters
In 2021, the Steve Ditko estate filed suit against Marvel Comics for copyright claims on Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, and associated characters. In effect, in conjunction with other creators like Stan Lee’s brother Larry Lieber among others, they terminated the copyright agreements with Marvel for the characters. The suit was resolved this week in […]
Comic Industry Shills Harass Mark Millar For Acknowledging Ethan Van Sciver
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 […]
Rebel Moon Comic Writer Mags Visaggio Attacks Mark Millar’s Books Claiming He “Ripped It Off” His Low-Selling Book
Mark Millar supported a retailer who went viral with a video about comic industry dying because of its identity politics problems. Since then, he’s been taking heat from other comic professionals, including Mags Visaggio, a trans writer working on Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon comic adaptation. Glenn, the owner of The Comic Book Palace, went viral […]
The Comic Industry’s Toxic Whisper Network To Be Exposed In New Book Generation Simone
Penny Parker announced she’ll be taking on the corruption in the comic book industry, focusing on the familiar faces of Gail Simone and Kelly Sue DeConnick. As a journalist, Parker is most famous for exposing a “whisper network” of creators and media conspirators. These industry professionals allegedly formed blacklists, hired based on nepotism, and conspired […]
The Top 5 Alternative Indie Comics That Destroy Mainstream Wokeness
I’ve hesitated to write this because I have so many friends in the arts, especially comics, who are making conservative or right-leaning alternatives to Marvel and DC’s woke content that’d be killing the comic industry. If you’re not on here, sorry! These are just my top 5. It doesn’t mean yours isn’t good too! Obviously, […]
What Is Top Grift?
What’s going on everyone? I haven’t written a blog in a while so I figured I’d write a quick primer/explainer of what Top Grift is . It’s a deeply layered joke as far as the campaign goes, but there’s a very real, very good book at the bottom, which is not a joke — it […]
