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Republican Cruz has announced his bid for presidency, and at least a few comics writers aren't happy about that. We'll start first with Ron Marz, who as always makes a sorry case of himself. First, though, here's some tweets he wrote that might allude to the case of Chris Sims being called out for his trolling:

Re: recent comics controversies. Interesting to see which transgressions/people the comics community forgives, and which ones are banished.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 20, 2015

Yeah, it'll be interesting alright. Will Dan Slott be rejected by Marz for trolling against women online? Will Scott Lobdell be turned away for his own grave mistakes? Will Marz even bother to apologize for any mistakes of the sort he performed? Don't bet your savings. The difference between Sims and the rest of those people are that he hasn't even begun a career, while a couple of other names like Slott and Lobdell have been around for years already and are more established. Hence, it's easy to shun Sims for all his dumbing down of comicdom, mainly because it actually made headlines. But uncertain if Slott and Lobdell will undergo the same scrutiny so easily, because people like Marz are just too chummy with them.

I see these endless stories of dudes harassing women online, and wonder what the holy hell is wrong with people. Disgusting.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 21, 2015

Then I hope he has the guts to say Slott's a bad lot for his own trolling. Come to think of it, I hope he'll have what it takes to admit Identity Crisis, Avengers: Disassembled and even his own work on Emerald Twilight are insulting to women as book stories. And that Brian Bendis' characterization of the women in his Marvel books is very poor. But don't bet on that either.

You were supposed to learn "Be nice, play well with others" in kindergarten. Only thing I despise more than cowards are anonymous cowards.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 21, 2015

In that case, play with some right-wing neighbors, please, and get to know them before you go miles out of your way to say they're filthy.

I also wonder if thsee guys don't have any friends to kick them in the ass and tell them to stop behaving like a subhuman slime.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 21, 2015

I wonder if Marz has a mirror to look at himself in and be ashamed of himself for behaving so terribly towards conservative peers?

And then I realize these aren't the kind of people who have friends, or at least friends who give a damn about them. Sad, but NO EXCUSE.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 21, 2015

Judging from sales for his own work, few give a damn about Marz's comics. Now, about those Cruz tweets:

Delightful that intolerant grifter Ted Cruz might announce his presidential bid at a university founded by intolerant grifter Jerry Falwell.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 21, 2015

Sad that Marz can only think to declare Cruz "intolerant" when he's so despising of conservatives. I mean, has he even asked Image to offer Chuck Dixon some gigs on the same books he's written? Doesn't look that way. Perhaps Marz should take a look at this photo posted by Charles C. Johnson:

If Ted Cruz is so racist why is his best friend, debate partner, college roommate and "brother" black? pic.twitter.com/qHPQpFBDfW
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) March 23, 2015

Gee, Marz, how come you didn't take note of that? Tsk tsk tsk. Resorting to cheap stunts as usual, I see. All Marz can think of saying is that every conservative is only what he wants them to be. What a head-shaker.

Ted Cruz is so delusional he thinks Ted Cruz is fit to be president.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 22, 2015

Marz is so quixotic, he think he's fit to comment on everything and anything about conservatives.

Who had Ted Cruz and Richard III trending on the same day in the office pool...?
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 22, 2015

Ted Cruz/Pablo Cruise 2016
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

Can't decide if Ted Cruz is a lunatic True Believer, or just another grifter playing the basest urges of his base. http://t.co/4oWEyw61X2
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

I can't decide if Marz is just another loonybin, or another charlatan succumbing to his basest obsessions.

In other words, is Ted Cruz's delusional messiah shtick the real deal, or carefully calculated? I dunno. But gonna be delightful to watch.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

All this from somebody who must've thought Obama was a messiah back in 2008. As is clear by now, he wasn't.

Super disappointed Ted Cruz is not delivering speech in his Winston Churchill voice. Definitely not voting for him now.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

But he never intended to. Phonies like Marz aren't too difficult to figure out.

Looks like Ted Cruz has the "white kids who attend Liberty University" vote all sewn up.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

Except for those kids down front wearing Rand Paul T-shirts. That probably didn't provide the greatest optics for the Cruz campaign.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2015

Just look at him go on, acting like Cruz couldn't possibly interest any Blacks, Latinos and Asians. And using the junior Paul as just an excuse for superficial villification.

Now, since we're on the subject, here's also what Gerry Duggan is saying:

I can't differentiate the satire from the sincere: #TedCruzCampaignSlogans
— Gerry Duggan (@GerryDuggan) March 23, 2015

I can't tell the difference between sincerity and 1-dimensional dislike. Now, here's G. Willow Wilson:

Ted Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father, yet I am seeing a distinct lack of birther outrage following his pres. candidacy announcement
— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) March 23, 2015

And I guess we should be outraged Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Canada rather than the USA before immigrating? Tsk tsk tsk, what a cheapie excuse from somebody who's not exactly outraged over Islamofascism. So "foreigners" from outside the USA cannot possibly qualify as talented politicians? It all depends what the color of their personal character is, and these leftards aren't basing their judgement on that. Even the New Republic, which has been pretty awful for years now, said Cruz shouldn't be ashamed of being born in Canada. If Cruz has been honest about his background, then there's no point in criticizing him over that. Also note that Cruz's mother was American-born, so that gives him clearer qualification citizen-wise.

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