Several tiresome tweets by Kurt Busiek
2 Comments Published by Avi Green on Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 12:01 PM.
Busiek's biases are getting the better of him again, as evidenced by the following:
Maybe so, but Trump still hired many of them, so quit complaining, Kurt. It does no good. Neither, in fact, does cursing so vilely.
It's assumed he's talking about graphic novelist Richard Meyer's videos? I'm not sure, but he certainly doesn't have much respect for critics, does he?
And if he's taking Vice's reporting on the topic at face value...yawn. Breitbart's coverage of the electoral fraud case is better:
A better query would be why the leftists in comicdom do? To the point where they'd selfishly hijack characters they didn't create. Did that ever occur to him? Nah, of course not.
Here we go again with the Gamergate scapegoating. I've seen some propagandists blame such sources for everything that frustrates them, and it doesn't impress me one bit.
Here we go. Now he takes the time to write more anti-Comicsgate swipes, and it's probably inevitable at this point we have to wonder if he's still proud of his work on Avengers, Iron Man and even Thunderbolts.
Wait a minute. Does he mean the comic by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim? The guy who wrote disturbing screeds offensive to women? Sigh. Having once found excerpts from the early story Sim wrote featuring Red Sophia, apparently an insult to Red Sonja, I can only say it's pretty apparent his prejudices turned up early on, and I think Cerebus is best forgotten.
Now he's certainly attacking Meyer, despite the fact Meyer once spoke positively of his Avengers run. I guess it's because that same run featured a few elements predicting what the future would hold in real life. What it didn't predict, however, was that Busiek would basically disown his best work, and today clearly lacks faith or confidence in his past resume. It's always a terrible shame when folks who turned out great writing in the past bewilderingly disown it years later.
We never thought he was in favor of Comicsgate, and he's long proven it, in effect disowning a lot of his previous work, IMO. In addition, it's very sad he clearly doesn't give a damn Carol Danvers was one of the biggest victims of Marvel's social justice mangling. The denigration of her character design is simply horrifying.
Now he's trying to play victimologist again, and come up with straw-man arguments to boot. He then goes on to attack the government over the meeting with Russia's premier, Vladimir Putin:
They do know, but it's often classified, so look for a better topic to whine about, please. And if you really, truly have such a problem with somebody like Meyer, then remain oblivious to him. Mark Waid already unwittingly ended up helping him more than hurting, and Kurt would do well to learn from that huge mistake. He'd also do well to let go of politics and just concentrate on writing comics, because he's only dampened his reputation already. But alas, it doesn't look like he'll do so, and recalling that he's done little or no work at the Big Two for several years already, if at all, I think his inability to defend his past work there just demonstrates why his career there may be washed up. I certainly don't think, with this kind of attitude, he'd be suited to write their comics again.
They’re not YOUR intelligence people, shiteyes. They’re OUR intelligence people. You work for us...or at least, you’re supposed to. https://t.co/ENUgmPro3u— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 17, 2018
Maybe so, but Trump still hired many of them, so quit complaining, Kurt. It does no good. Neither, in fact, does cursing so vilely.
But apparently one of the comicsgators must have seen my post noting that the comicsgators were in full throat about me, and decided that I must have been talking about him personally.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 17, 2018
Sorry, dude, but if you were part of the throng I missed it.
It's assumed he's talking about graphic novelist Richard Meyer's videos? I'm not sure, but he certainly doesn't have much respect for critics, does he?
We’ve known this for a long time, but the folks who got elected via those machines somehow have no enthusiasm for addressing the matter. One cannot think why. https://t.co/RlndEWoFKC— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 17, 2018
And if he's taking Vice's reporting on the topic at face value...yawn. Breitbart's coverage of the electoral fraud case is better:
The number of convictions against voter fraud continues to rise, with now nearly 940 criminal convictions on the books across the U.S., according to the latest data from the Heritage Foundation.Needless to say if Busiek only sees the GOP as a scapegoat, then he's not altruistic.
Likewise, the number of cases of voter fraud has risen. Heritage’s Voter Fraud Database now features 1,071 cases of voter fraud that spans across 47 states.
Opinion | Why do Republicans hate consumers? https://t.co/c5N2zQE2gR— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 18, 2018
A better query would be why the leftists in comicdom do? To the point where they'd selfishly hijack characters they didn't create. Did that ever occur to him? Nah, of course not.
"Like so many others, he had joined the late-Obama-era culture wars through Gamergate, the often radical online campaign that claimed to be concerned with ethics in gaming journalism…" https://t.co/fG58qms1vQ— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 18, 2018
Here we go again with the Gamergate scapegoating. I've seen some propagandists blame such sources for everything that frustrates them, and it doesn't impress me one bit.
Since I got tagged in this, I’ll say that “how it’s done,” as far as I’m concerned, isn’t by trying to chase Lee Weeks out of the industry because you think he likes someone you think is a bully.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 18, 2018
I like Lee Weeks. I’d work with him in a heartbeat. https://t.co/bZidIPuaIa
Here we go. Now he takes the time to write more anti-Comicsgate swipes, and it's probably inevitable at this point we have to wonder if he's still proud of his work on Avengers, Iron Man and even Thunderbolts.
I’m like a Woody Allen fan when it comes to CEREBUS — I like the early, funny ones.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 18, 2018
The one with “Ram it straight through Cerebus’s brain” is my favorite issue. https://t.co/UTvh6Z3Spo
Wait a minute. Does he mean the comic by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim? The guy who wrote disturbing screeds offensive to women? Sigh. Having once found excerpts from the early story Sim wrote featuring Red Sophia, apparently an insult to Red Sonja, I can only say it's pretty apparent his prejudices turned up early on, and I think Cerebus is best forgotten.
I think he’s a bigot too.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
I think Lee Weeks is a nice guy and a terrific comics artist.
Trying to treat Lee like you want Richard Meyer treated is where you lose me. I don’t follow Meyer, but I won’t march in any kick-out-the-talent parade. https://t.co/ohWXpCcXJq
In this case, though, you apparently want someone shunned because they follow the account of someone you find toxic.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
Not "people who hold those beliefs," but people who you think are standing nearby people who hold those beliefs. https://t.co/cQNDHk4ZrB
You’re going to have to ask someone other than me. I’m not the guy who asked DC Comics to take a stand against Meyer by shunning Lee Weeks. https://t.co/kN9zPU96wH— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
Now he's certainly attacking Meyer, despite the fact Meyer once spoke positively of his Avengers run. I guess it's because that same run featured a few elements predicting what the future would hold in real life. What it didn't predict, however, was that Busiek would basically disown his best work, and today clearly lacks faith or confidence in his past resume. It's always a terrible shame when folks who turned out great writing in the past bewilderingly disown it years later.
I don’t think anyone has ever thought I was pro-Comicsgate. They were fulminating about me just yesterday.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
But it’s possible to be against Comicsgators calling POC creators diversity hires and wanting to chase Lee Weeks out of comics for his Twitter follows. https://t.co/LTzSTnQ6bV
We never thought he was in favor of Comicsgate, and he's long proven it, in effect disowning a lot of his previous work, IMO. In addition, it's very sad he clearly doesn't give a damn Carol Danvers was one of the biggest victims of Marvel's social justice mangling. The denigration of her character design is simply horrifying.
So apparently various gators are now being belligerent at some of the folks I was differing with more temperately earlier today. Sorry, folks!— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
Now he's trying to play victimologist again, and come up with straw-man arguments to boot. He then goes on to attack the government over the meeting with Russia's premier, Vladimir Putin:
So the US gov’t doesn’t know what was agreed to in the Trump-Putin meeting, because we had only one person from the gov’t in that meeting — the President of the United States — and no one can trust him to tell the truth about what was said.— Kurt Busiek Resists (@KurtBusiek) July 19, 2018
That’s reassuring, isn’t it?
They do know, but it's often classified, so look for a better topic to whine about, please. And if you really, truly have such a problem with somebody like Meyer, then remain oblivious to him. Mark Waid already unwittingly ended up helping him more than hurting, and Kurt would do well to learn from that huge mistake. He'd also do well to let go of politics and just concentrate on writing comics, because he's only dampened his reputation already. But alas, it doesn't look like he'll do so, and recalling that he's done little or no work at the Big Two for several years already, if at all, I think his inability to defend his past work there just demonstrates why his career there may be washed up. I certainly don't think, with this kind of attitude, he'd be suited to write their comics again.
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Can you explain what you mean when you say he has "basically" disowned his previous work? The post seems to say that not being in favour of "Comicsgate" means that he is also against his own work. Has he ever actually said anything against his own work (other than the standard artist's criticism of how they are always improving?)
The U S government really doesn't seem to know what Trump and Putin discussed at the meeting. See for example:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/trump-putin-secrets-intelligence-736242
This is a really unusual situation, to say the least.