Ramon Villalobos made anti-white slurs
Bounding Into Comics presented another example of an artist working at - you guessed it - DC and the Vertigo line on the Border Town series who made vulgar, racist remarks. He also worked with Gabby Rivera at Marvel, who similarly made racist comments. Here's some chilling examples of what he's mouthed off:
His defense that he's "kidding" falls flat, as does his assertion it's "funny". This is not something to joke about any more than blacks and Asians. Villalobos even attacked Donald Trump:
Yawn. Keep going with the limp cliches, please. One of which includes his hypocritical attack on Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto this past year:
I don't see why somebody who denigrated white women as much as white men has a problem with their products. This all reeks of fauxtrage.
I don't know who exactly is in charge of the Vertigo line. But whether this is a responsibility for figurehead EIC Bob Harras or somebody else, what remains clear is that Villalobos' immediate superiors are failing to rein in people like him, or worse, refusing.
This kind of conduct explains why DC hasn't been doing well, which Dan DiDio, still the the main figure in charge of the company, doesn't consider. As noted before, he claims "over-saturation", but BIC says:
being the invisible majority is a trip. its all good though. when whites are locked up in fema camps theyll regret this. #villalobos2020— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) September 28, 2017
Lol. I one time tweeted we should put white people in FEMA camps. No disrespect to white people but that tweet still applies. pic.twitter.com/MVOiCfsc9y— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) August 4, 2018
Just kidding white people. We cant afford FEMA camps to house you till after we get socialized healthcare. No sooner.— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) August 4, 2018
Haha yeah I got some tweets pulled for being anti white which was funny because they were all jokes that made me laugh. I'm at starbucks right now I clearly love white ppl— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) August 4, 2018
His defense that he's "kidding" falls flat, as does his assertion it's "funny". This is not something to joke about any more than blacks and Asians. Villalobos even attacked Donald Trump:
curry called trump and ass to spit in the face of the CEO of the shoe brand and made the CEO change his stance altogether. AND was the first champion to deny trump the photo op visits he cherishes so much. Oh and Trump was too shook to say shit. Steph the 🐐 easily pic.twitter.com/wZGXgMTnhs— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) August 4, 2018
donald trump IS a white supremacist— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) September 13, 2017
Yawn. Keep going with the limp cliches, please. One of which includes his hypocritical attack on Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto this past year:
rockstar games is the white devil. people only play those games to disrespect women and reinforce the patriarchy https://t.co/QUYDunJqPU— Mr. Vertigo Comics 🌊🌊🌊 (@RamonVillalobos) September 28, 2017
I don't see why somebody who denigrated white women as much as white men has a problem with their products. This all reeks of fauxtrage.
I don't know who exactly is in charge of the Vertigo line. But whether this is a responsibility for figurehead EIC Bob Harras or somebody else, what remains clear is that Villalobos' immediate superiors are failing to rein in people like him, or worse, refusing.
This kind of conduct explains why DC hasn't been doing well, which Dan DiDio, still the the main figure in charge of the company, doesn't consider. As noted before, he claims "over-saturation", but BIC says:
However, a number of fans disagree. They point to the bad, racist, and toxic behavior of creators like Ramon Villalobos. This behavior has been beyond off-putting and forces people to turn away from the standard industry products.Exactly. At the moment, this is a leading example why more fans have been abandoning the Big Two in favor of smaller publishers. When contributors to a company act so toxic and the upper echelons otherwise refuse to do anything about it, you cannot be surprised all those "over-saturated" products will do better than the real over-saturization, namely the politicized Vertigo products now in preparation, which do no favors for their image, and only confirm that DC's staff is as bad as Marvel's staff, if not more so. As a result, there's a valid case to make why we should boycott the new Vertigo-based products as much as Brian Bendis' take on Superman.
It just seems that with the behavior of Ramon Villalobos, Zoe Quinn, and others, comic book customers are deciding to spend their money elsewhere.
Labels: bad editors, dc comics, marvel comics, misogyny and racism, moonbat artists, politics, violence
