DC Comics BLOODBATH | Get Woke Go BROKE! Massive LAYOFFS #RIPComicShops

dan slott mark wade tom king donny kates told you so we effing told you so there was a comic book movement called comics gate it started out genuinely with customers being upset with what was happening to their favorite characters inside their favorite stories partisan political provocateurs were vandalizing captain america spider-man batman and superman while going on twitter and insulting fans with impunity without any consequence whatsoever not being called out by their bosses because their bosses the editorial staff at marvel and dc completely agreed with them and they decided to partake in some of the past time that has now been attacking the fan which is the favorite pastime of the comic book creative now your industry is nothing but a click and now the comic book retailing industry is nothing but a charity thanks to you despite what some may say i am not comic skate but i do support pesky little things like respecting the paying customer yes i'm a little pissed yes i'm taking time out of my very busy schedule from moving out of san francisco that's a video for another day to talk about this get woke go broke who didn't see this coming a bloodbath at dc they are currently bathing in the blood of their editorial staff some of them are legends like bob harris and some of them deserve to go and i truly am sorry for the innocent parties who got caught up in this but you should have spoke up just like the comic shops and i will talk about that in a little bit you know it reminds me i'm wearing my ratty comic outpost shirt right now it was a little over a year and a half ago where i had a little lunch meeting with brian hibbs who was the person who bought my store yes i used to own a comic shop here in san francisco here's the meme and i was considering purchasing my comic store back he had offered it to me at a ridiculous price i eventually said no and thank god getting out of the comic industry in 2013 although that wasn't my original plan was the best thing i could have done it's the best decision i could have made because i avoided sjw marvel and sjwdc and we are now seeing the consequences of all of this we'll start at the hollywood reporter dc comics dc universe hit by major layoffs the majority of staff of the streaming service dc universe has been laid off i did a video on this a year ago and got the same reaction as i got when i warned that this might be happening to the comic book industry and i know i'm not the only one who was warning this stuff would happen ethan van skiver talked about it quite some time ago so did mark millar clownfish tv has been on top of this as well as has editor-in-chief bob harris who is a legend i am sorry to see him go and multiple other executives on the publishing side let's see if they went far enough monday's warner media layoffs have affected a significant number of high-level figures at comic book powerhouse dc multiple sources tell the hollywood reporter i sure as hell hope andy corey is on that list he's the blogger who infiltrated dc and destroyed vertigo and its replacement the black label among those said to be losing their positions are editor-in-chief bob harris truly sorry to see him go senior vp of publishing strategy and support services hank canals vp of marketing and creative services jonah weiland vp global publishing initiatives and digital strategy bobby chase my god these corporate freaking titles senior story editor brian cunningham and executive editor mark doyle who oversaw the rollout of the black label graphic novels which of course was supposed to replace vertigo and some were edited by andy corey the personal partisan provocateur along with many others who hired zoe quinn jim lee remains the cco i'm not sure why he has spent his time doodling oh and this one is bad especially bad for the comic shops also a victim of the layoffs dc direct the company's in-house merchandise and collectibles manufacturer the division has been shuttered after 22 years another move that was rumored when warner brothers consumer products began taking a more active role in dc merchandising there's some language in another article we're going to go over that spells the end of the modern comic shop a dc spokesperson declined to comment on the changes which come less than two weeks before the planned august 22nd online event dc fandom which is set to showcase stars from dc films tv and comic book worlds honestly i don't think warner brothers has a problem doing this before this virtual fandom event we've already seen the atrocious con zealand and the horrific san diego comic-con at home again san diego comic-con had atrocious content and atrocious numbers and i'm guessing warner brothers is regretting that they're putting on this virtual con at all and they're not worried about it they said up front they mean business and that's why we are observing this bloodbath right now a separate report from bleeding stools rich johnston also detailed a number of others who were axed including editor andy corey good jim lee's executive assistant eddie choi international publishing ad sales and custom creative studios sandy reznick and marketing director sarah haskell now this all comes from warner ceo jason killer if that's how you pronounce his name it's very appropriate he talks about streamlining for the consumer i don't like that term but that's what he used this is the language i was talking about that has comic shops worried and they should be he then detailed these changes represent prioritizing three different things number one a consumer orientation far more than a wholesale orientation number two going direct to consumer and number three going global now you may think that direct to consumer might be talking about streaming and he may be but i'm guessing he's also talking about comic books he also notes that dc comics will put a greater emphasis on digital and bookstores rather than the comic book shop well i guess that answers that this brings us to the wonder woman 1984 rooster teeth cover what does this have to do with the decisions being made by warner brothers that are currently rocking the comic book industry absolutely nothing yet it is the result it is the culmination of all the fan abuse of all the character vandalization that has gone on in the comic book industry over the last four years i've always believed there was a synergy in life and the universe tends to unfold as it should and this is a display of the attitude towards the comic book fan the comic book fan that is being abandoned right now along with the comic shops that is on display right here dc has their snowflake and safe space now anytime anybody creative puts part of themselves out there in the public you are open to criticism and it's how you react to that criticism shows how confident you are in yourself and your art full disclosure mrs nerdroddick follows this artist on instagram and has communicated with her so that's how i found out about it now what i'm told is the artist of this cover and i think it's atrocious robin eisenberg was an innocent party at first she wasn't aware of all the controversy this art was done prior to the cover being picked it was actually picked by the dc editorial staff who i blame for this because they knew what the reaction was going to be now when mrs nerdroddick and i discussed this and again she had been communicating with the artist i said if the artist doesn't kick the hornet's nest again you're going to be fine but she went ahead and kicked the hornet's nest now i'm not going to read her entire statement we're just going to read the last part eisenberg concluded the fact that this was so controversial just makes me want to continue to draw diverse body types and create more art that people can hopefully see themselves in and of course miss eisenberg is free to create any type of art she likes i fully support it just because i don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist i don't care if she gets a cover if i owned a store i wouldn't purchase it it's terrible but maybe somebody likes it out there that's fine but the reason it was picked miss eisenberg was to piss off fans you were used dc knew exactly what kind of reaction they would get and that's why they chose your cover they picked your cover to piss off the customer not for your talent they picked you for the same reason they picked daniel kibble smith and he picked the names snowflake and safe space for the very same reason they hired zoe quinn not to create art that would sell in a comic shop but to provoke the customer to create controversy on twitter so they can gain more social currency now i was speaking previously about a synergy to the universe it tends to unfold as it should well here's a tweet from the recently fired andy corey robin i'm a dc editor not anymore and i love your work the reaction to the wonder woman cover on twitter was provoked by a small group of trolls and is not representative of the larger sophisticated and enthusiastic readership i've come to know your art is inspiring and your response is wonderful and this is one of the major reasons heads are rolling at dc right now and no one is safe and it's only the beginning now randall stevenson the other ceo at a t brought this up in a conference call last october stevenson explained we're committed to an objective diligent and disciplined process we'll analyze the merits of each of our businesses individually and as a part of the whole but let me be clear we have no sacred cows march 16 2020 is the day the comic crisis started with the brian hibbs facebook post pleading for marvel dc and diamond to do something on the very same day marvel announced the new new warriors in snowflake and safe space i actually noticed this problem a couple of days prior to that and i did a live stream link is right here i heard that san francisco was gonna get locked down for a long period of time and the first thing i thought about was comic shops they were teetering on the edge already and they couldn't afford something like this now we are months into this crisis they had plenty of time to get together marvel dc diamond all the publishers and hatch out a plan to save their industry possibly reboot their industry to something maybe stronger and instead they squabbled they started whisper networks they started blacklists they started cancelling each other they started pledges to not set each other at work all of that on top of what was killing the industry already specifically with marvel over shipping variants constantly relaunching books the over commitment to captain marvel and other crap books like that and when dc did try to do something different break away from diamond and create their own distributor all comic shops did was [ __ ] now the comic book industry is falling apart are you surprised at all and guess what there was a few people here on youtube trying to wave our arms and warn you that this was going to happen some of us wanted to keep giving you money in the beginning marvel and dc we just wanted you to improve your comics to maybe make them for everyone to be a little more neutral and you gave us the finger so now it's our turn and i know there's innocent parties out there this is not directed at you this is directed squarely towards the kelly pseudoconyx the tom kings the dan slotts the mark wades the heather antos's of the world who helped destroy the industry that i love the industry i want nothing to do with anymore i raise a middle finger and i give you my most sincere [ __ ] you so while manga sales are going through the roof and heads are rolling at dc we are witnessing the death of the american superhero comic and do you want to know why the american superhero comic is dying a you hired a bunch of people who don't know anything about the american superhero comic b you hired a bunch of people who actively hate the american superhero comic and see the people who did like the american superhero comic wanted a world girlfriend and decided to hire editors who didn't know anything about the american superhero comic durgarotic.com please subscribe

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Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 12 2020