were to be around him at any time for any reason due to his habitual sexual harassment and assaults. Frank Miller released one of the most savagely Islamophobic comics of all time, HOLY TERROR, and still works with DC. There are pedophiles, war criminals, confessed sexual predators on staff.
I'm so tired, I swear to god. Thank fuck you're unbanned.
You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.
Do you have any way we can financially support you? Since I'm not gonna be buying any new DC stuff for a while after this fuckery
I have a Patreon here for movie reviews and short stories <3 www.patreon.com/scumbelievable
Damn. Just goes to show, whether its DC comics, or a woman's bathroom.... you're not wanted 😂😂😂
damn, that was a quick thousand likes
It's disgusting how you've been treated. This perfectly illustrates the exclusion that exists in the industry, but we're glad that we have your voice. Good to see you back!
Let's be honest, being trans is the only sin that matters in Fascist America. Everything else is just finding excuses to justify their existing prejudice. They're afraid of what the regime will do to them if they support you, and that's horseshit.
Oh, and I guess also caring about human lives in Palestine. you set them up with the fascist agenda double-whammy. Good job being on the right side of history, I'm sorry for the suffering it's going to cause you while it happens 😢
It’s like not being born as them is the worst sin ever, and then not being born a cis white supremacists is the next big sin (tho if you’re poor add that to your sins too.) Anything other- the more “different” it is, the more offensive our existence to them is, esp. if we win in anyway.
Holy shit, you're back! Welcome back to... whatever the fuck this place is. I tried to buy a copy of Red Hood and was told even though they still had copies in the back, they weren't allowed to sell them to me. Shit's fucked up
Hmmm. Wonder if everything’s being shipped all the way back or just going to the dumpster in the back (possibly with front page or something like that removed). Not sure how they do that for comics but it’s common for books.
It's not going into stores dumpsters; the guy in the comicbook shop said they had them boxed back up to "send them back"
Dang.
if you think about it. its like a fucked up validation of gender. you got the woman working in the mainstream comic sphere experience!! for real tho manifesting the destruction of superhero comics and all the worms that live in that bag of trash
Somehow I don't think getting treated like subhuman trash is affirming to trans women. I think they'd be more affirmed by being treated as equals. Same with cis women. But maybe I'm wrong. I'm just a silly man.
can you point to the cis women this is happening to?
Depends on what you're talking about specifically but in terms of getting silenced for speaking out against Charlie Kirk, it's happening even to cis men (Jimmy Kimmel, Matthew Dowd). But I don't know enough about the comics industry to confirm whether Gretchen is alone here.
The sexism and double standards are clear, whether they happen to trans women, all women, or anyone unwilling to sanitize the memory of a fascist. Many industries have spoken up: sexual assault and pedophilia are permissable. Political dissent against Christian Nationalism is not.
its not sexism in this case though. its transphobia. that's my point. why wont you name it?
Even if it is transphobia (and it certainly is) it's definitely not "not sexism." It 100% is sexism. And racism. And Islamophobia. And transphobia. We're in the era of fascism where the list of victims is going to expand and grow. Notice it. Don't ignore it. Don't turn away.
we have a name for it, its called transmisogyny. youre just wording things weirdly and in a way that you wouldn't talking about another group who lost their job like this.
I just read a thread about how cis white men can spend entire careers intimidating women in the workplace and get off scott-free, in the context of many people losing their jobs over speaking out against fascism. To pretend this is singularly transmisogyny is to turn a blind eye to current events.
If you want to argue with someone who thinks transmisogyny isn't an issue and that Gretchen isn't experiencing it, find someone else. But if you want to whitewash this and pretend transmisogyny is the *singular* issue in this case, I'm not playing that game. Many classes of people are suffering.
to pretend what is happening isnt incredibly informed by transmisogyny specifically when theyre mass depicting trans women as violent assassins is to turn a blind eye. No one is posting on the firing of Lisa Cook "its not just racism it's transphobia too". This only happens to one group.
ok but everytime something awful happens to a trans woman someone doesnt have to appear to be like "wow must be so affirming to have something awful happen to u, just like a real woman, welcome to womanhood 👍 " like this isnt the solidarity u think it is
It's literally the way my female doctor treated me when I brought up the SA I'd had the day before my appointment. She already knew I had past experience with such before my transition, with associated trauma, and was just explaining why I was such an anxious mess. It was not affirming or helpful.
It's patronizing in the exact same way your Boomer parents saying "Welcome to the real world." Like, in the world you built my 40+ a week isn't enough to afford the worst rent and food in town. You think it's funny to watch me struggle in a life you've made inarguably worse?
They contribute to the problem by normalizing the meteoric decline in standards. This is no big deal? I hope you'll still say that when the system you stripped for copper wire begins to fail you? I sure as hell won't be around to help you, you've made it crystal clear we're on our own in this fight.
It feels pretty patronizing
Just like a real w- Oh right yeah I see what you mean now
You didn't even have a recurring or a crossover or brushed your fingers on literal Batman or Superman. It was *just* a limited run series. And now the entire comic is burned because you said "thoughts and prayers, you nazi bitch." The discrepancy is so obvious.
They're Nazis just like him that's why they did it. This is corporate political repression.
What?
"Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people." Hence my on line personality and the tag on all my posts..in real life I'm a fucking sweetheart ,most of the time,when I feel like it..
A lot of official DC art still has Ethan Van Sciver’s signature that he modeled after the swastika on it.
He doesn’t get a lot of mainstream work anymore after naming his sketchbook after Mein Kampf.
Sounds like it’s his moment
I'm so glad I bought RH issue 1 the day he got shot. Little did I know that would be my last chance!
I'm glad you're back and being a rude, abrasive loudmouth. I love your work (it's horny and gory...and great). Black Flame is on my stack of "to read." (I just ran my fingers over the cover...oooh, the eyes bulging out freaked me out...can't stop touching) I thought the 1st issue was great.
Capital doesn't care about democracy or freedom, capital only cares about capital. Until we can hurt fascism in a way that matters, they will steamroll literal children to amuse themselves.
all of this from a company that REGULARLY glorifies anti-fascist violence is what really gets me burning up. like if you've seen any of the shit James Gunn has been putting out, its ALL ABOUT killing nazis !!! the next Absolute Batman has him facing down a buncha white supremacists !!!!
I don't like Geoff Johns because All his Stuff is just So Mean Spirited & Edgelord Grim Dark BS + he worked with that Bigot EVS . I am not getting Good Vibes from Scott Snyder's Work because it's so Deep in that Edgelord Bullshit especially Absolute Batman I'm surprised he hasn't lost his job yet
But i guess since Absolute Batman is the Hottest thing since Sliced bread 🍞 and in the next Ultra Violent Edgelord issue his Ax Wielding Murder Batnan is about to Fight White Supremacists/ the Klan But I wonder if he really cares if he would actually Call out these Racist like Kirk in IRL?
James Gunn is basically irreplaceable though for them. They pull him and many billions of dollars of the DC franchise gets jeopardized
yea but even Gunn wont come out and say anything to the effect of real world current events cause he's a fucking coward
he has precisely the kinda platform he could be using to make a real world difference but he won't which is really frustrating.
if Gunn said anything in solidarity with Gretchen Felker-Martin i bet it would go a really long way toward getting her job back but he wont even do that
Wait. Which war criminals are working for DC???
DC's golden boy writer right now is a man named Tom King, a former CIA agent who helped plan the invasion of Iraq and brags often about his time there.
WHAT THE SHIT???
(thank you)
No problem! In case you're wondering what kind of bragging he does, here he is at a con laughing about torturing people.
Tom King's writing is also pretentious and over-wrought, trying too hard to imitate Alan Moore, without realizing the subtlety that made his stories work.
I wouldn't mind the noxious politics of his work so much (it's American superhero comics, if I didn't have the stomach for bad politics, I wouldn't be reading them) if it wasn't so nakedly self-pitying. His Adam Strange book makes Waltz with Bashir look like The Battle of Algiers.
You wouldn't have seen it while banished to The Shadow Realm, but I skeeted this in response. bsky.app/profile/defe...
I have to ask you a question ❓ If Scott Snyder has so much Pull at DC and was looking out for the creators and he is really pushing for this DC All in thing to Work .. Why didn't he do anything to help you ? Like is Scott Snyder a Aashole just like Geoff Johns is & Frank Miller?
i don't know him or anything about him
Okay 👍 That's fair It just looks like right now he's running things at DC and says he's looking out for the creatives and right now from what I can see . He's not after when happened
C.B. Cebulski pretended to be Japanese, he's currently an editor for Marvel.
But i followed you because of this bullshit so really its their loss :humu:
THANK YOU. I remember hating his fashy Batman and HT was my final straw. It took like, 7 years for me to actually pick up a DC comic again. Now I’m back to it, can be a creep, a sex pest, a predator but you can’t be trans and rude? Bitch please. Never getting a dime from me again.
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I completely forgot about the Frank Miller novel, and when you threw Holy Terror out there I was momentarily confused about why an Elseworlds comic from ‘91 was being referenced.
One about Oliver Cromwell turning America into a theocracy, no less. ...wait, that still could have been incendiary under the current paradigm.
The person most famous for writing Red Hood was an infamous sex creep! It's in his Wikipedia and everything
This is grossly unjust and appalling.
