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@mrphoenix Did you go to Kapow?

#1 2:37pm Apr 11th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to mrphoenix

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@NaoBrown did I heck: http://tinyurl.com/64dpuqa

#2 2:39pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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@NaoBrown I mean, no, what did I miss? :p

#3 2:40pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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@mrphoenix I saw you posted that and then deleted it, I'm confused

#4 2:40pm Apr 11th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to mrphoenix

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@NaoBrown But realised it was pointless to go on about it, who cares, horses for courses etc

#5 2:43pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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@NaoBrown @Robgog @itsthatlady I can't get my thoughts on this into 1 tweet but essentially if Geek Culture is simply a bunch of Marketing

#6 2:52pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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@NaoBrown @Robgog @itsthatlady ...Opportunities then it's as bankrupt as the so-called mainstream it is an alternative to.

#7 2:53pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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I am not liberated by the opportunity to buy pants and bus passes with a Fantastic Four logo on them.

#8 2:54pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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@mrphoenix Liberated from what?

#9 2:56pm Apr 11th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to mrphoenix

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@NaoBrown My inferior status as a lowly comics reader, ignored by the rest of the world

#10 2:56pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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@mrphoenix What do you feel would liberate you from your suffering?

#11 2:58pm Apr 11th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to mrphoenix

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@NaoBrown Better comics. Not the same misogynist white boy crap but now with added mutilation, zombies, fetish outfits and swears.

#12 3:16pm Apr 11th 2011 via web in reply to NaoBrown

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Many of the recent 'crossover' comics films-300/Kickass/sincity- have reactionary politics and racist assumptions at base.

#13 4:13pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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If you're white you aren't supposed to find those things problematic. If you're black they're hard to ignore unless you REALLY TRY

#14 4:14pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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Just saying these things out loud so you get where I'm coming from.

#15 4:14pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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When I pick up typical DC/Marvel comics these days it's like I'm looking at The Sunday Sport with added malenky ultraviolence.

#16 4:19pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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It's a 12-year-old's idea of transgression. A socially backward, very angry white 12 year old.

#17 4:20pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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So you can see why celebrating these ideas in the form of Kapow is very far from any place that I wish to occupy as a comics creator.

#18 4:21pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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I understand that many adult writers and artists feel the superhero genre is too embarrassingly immature to work in.

#19 5:54pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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That is because the superhero is a concept that cannot be made 'mature' no matter how many swears, leather and boobs you add.

#20 5:55pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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Superheroes are wonderful, silly, funny, bizarre and exciting. They are not real and they never can be. They work best for children.

#21 5:57pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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So if you want adult superhero comics you have to deal with this fact squarely and not pretend it does not exist.

#22 5:58pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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Rolling the clock back to 1950 while adding some 2000s violence, Hip Hop and TV references to the mix are really not fixing the problem.

#23 6:00pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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Kapowcomics create a whole new category of problem: comics that are too stupid and regressive for adults and too violent for children.

#24 6:02pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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There's always someone to say "Get over it, chill out, it's just a film/comic/novel/videogame" and the answer is always the same:

#25 6:05pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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I'm not so desperate for entertainment that I will turn my brain off to consume some offensive, hateful tosh just because it looks nice.

#26 6:07pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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Too many truly brilliant artists and filmmakers are hiding behind their craft to make things that you would reject if they were less pretty.

#27 6:08pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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The thing is, I LOVE Superhero comics. But these deathfilled, womanhating, sexobsessed gorefests that pass for comics now are ridiculous.

#28 6:16pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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However, they sell so it must be all right. Until the market completely collapses. And then they'll blame unfair competition from elsewhere.

#29 6:17pm Apr 11th 2011 via web

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