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Part 3 of why I dislike Daniel Arseneault. More below the cut.
"Never told before officially" just seems more like fan theories or deep cuts in supplemental material that fans already know about. And why are so many people required to be present at this "big sit down"? Make it make sense.
Why anyone would want to work for a company like Udon is beyond me, but you do you, I guess.
Anyway, talk about robbing actual talented artists who know how to stay true to the designs of Mega Man characters, of any opportunities by tagging people who are already in the industry. Not to mention the criticism of these artists coloring when he has no room to talk as he's not even an artist himself, is infuriating.
And the people he tagged have art and coloring styles that don't even fit Mega Man (and they do art for Transformers comics, because of course they do).
Literally, no one in the year 2026 cares about Inafune or his "vision". He hasn't been with Capcom for over a decade, so his opinion is irrelevant. Especially after the whole Mighy No. 9 fiasco.
How do you expect to garner any goodwill from Mega Man fans by supposedly (more on that in another post) consulting the hack who screwed over said fans with, "It's better than nothing"?
Lol, you mean the "spoiler" that everyone knows from as far back as 1994? Stuff like this further illustrates the main issue with these comics; predictable and boring 1:1 retellings of the games they're adapting.
I already mentioned in a previous post that the comics are not in fact, selling well. Saying otherwise is not only lying, but terrible PR.
Nice to know the folks at Capcom are okay with letting racist bs like this slide. It gets much worse than that, though.
Nice deflection from Daniel after being faced with valid criticism from fans. Really living up to Matt's assertion of "no DEI/woke at Udon".
There's more to this, but I'll save it for another post as a deep dive into the interviews he's done with ShadowRockZX on YouTube. God, this man sucks.
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Part 2 of why I dislike Daniel Arseneault. More below the cut.
This really isn't a flex and is just a deflection at best.
Reducing Mega Man characters to cringy soyjack/wojack memes from Reddit circa 2016 to try to appeal "cool" and "hip". It's giving, "How do you do, fellow kids?"
So, I don't really like getting into politics for obvious reasons, but this glazing of the United States from a Canadian man is egregious. Especially when you consider the fact that the current administration was in favor of annexing Canada, and imposing tarrifs. Also, gotta love the racism from Daniel by accusing this user of living in India. Disgusting.
This is rich, considering that his buddy Matt was exposed for scalping his own comics on ebay for up to 900 CAD.
The comic glazers on Twitter acting like Zero's hair in his helmet was this new thing when the X1 concept art from Inafune is literally available online. Then Daniel acting like it's some hidden deep cut given to him by Capcom.
Daniel and Matt not understanding anything about Vile's character and reducing him to Sigmaâs lapdog.
I really hope Udon doesn't get to do X5 and beyond. I know Daniel will try to make XAlia a thing when it's literally the most boring and predictable "pairing" you can think of. Not to mention the lack of evidence, chemistry, and the whole blue guy/pink girl trope that is prevalent in the Mega Man franchise.
Here's a compilation of tweets and posts highlighting why I dislike Daniel Arseneault AKA Protoman, the writer of the Mega Man X comics from Udon.
Spoiler: He's also buddies with anti-DEI comicsgate chud and director of publishing, Matt Moylan AKA Lilformers.
More below the cut.
This was in regards to the now notorious gooner bait panel in issue #2 of the Mega Man X comic. Also, dude calls himself a writer and doesn't know the difference between are and our.
Calling Luna and Minerva "his girls", saying he created them when all he did was give them names, and claiming that MHX isn't canon.
I don't care what Capcom says; that game is canon and actually did the original X1 justice, unlike these terrible comics.
Also, dude couldn't get the name of the game he's been pulling from right. "Maverick X Hunters". Smh
More sexism. Oh, and very cute to insult people who think DOA is sexist by calling them ugly when he has zero room to talk.
Echoing toxic masculinity bs. No surprise.
Daniel basically confirming that Udon only cares about catering to a small demographic of sexist gooner chuds while the writing suffers.
This is one of my favorites. I've read some of Frank Miller's comics myself (The Dark Knight Returns), and his writing is LEAGUES ahead of Daniel's elementary school literature assignment. This level of delusion is just baffling.
Protodude asking the important questions. Interview below the cut. It's pretty... bad.
Cool. I'm okay with an original Maverick, but I'm worried they'll go into Archie Sonic territory and give us another Scourge the Hedgehog situation (and let's not get into how infamous Ken Penders is either). Honestly, I'd rather have a female Maverick, but knowing Udon, she'll either be an overly sexualized trope, or they won't bother cuz to them women are only good for being objects.
Not a jab at Protodude here, but the reception was not "met with a lot of praise". I saw some comments worrying about how much lore Daniel could possibly fit into a mere six issues, especially considering the abysmal pacing of the X1 comics. I'd personally rather see this comic series fail. I'd rather have nothing than witness my favorite video game series be butchered by chuds who don't have any respect for fans like myself.
This just further solidifies that these comics aren't canon, despite being lazy half-assed retellings of the games they're adapting. The Mega Man team is... questionable at best, considering they're opposed to MHX designs, but are A-ok with canon-breaking and misinterpreting characters.
Finally, here's the question everyone has been wondering since friggin' 2018.
Yeah, they're pretty much holding the series hostage so it doesn't overshadow Daniel's far inferior adaption to placate his fragile ego. Udon can't fathom the thought of a highly-anticipated and sought-after manga series selling better and receiving more praise than their own lousy comics. They know this exact scenario would happen if Mega Mission released alongside the X2 adaptation cuz more fans would care about an English translation of an original side story than a 1:1 retelling of a game from 1994. And since the comics aren't selling well (despite Udon's claims), they'd have to cancel the series.
The X comics sucks, what do you mean that Sigma knows Zero's backstory?
HIS BACKSTORY IS NEVER TOLD TO ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, IT WAS ONLY TOLD TO THE PLAYER THAT DOESN'T EXISTS IN THE STORY.
And also it's weirdly XZero, but not in a good way. Like they never acknowledged X's relationship with anyone else except Zero. It's like they're catering to the fujos. (I like some gay, but not like this)
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First page is X speedrunning through Sigmaâs fortress. Another example of the poor pacing in this comic series. At least he looks adorable in that bottom right panel.
I can't stand the cherry-picking with Capcom and Udon. MHX designs are not okay cuz the game isn't canon to Capcom, but references to it are allowed? I'm talking about the limitless potential line specifically.
Well, would you look at that. Yet another typo with the same ability as before! Electric Spark is now Electrical Spark! This just further cements my suspicions about Daniel being a larper. Also, stop making X swear!
Gotta love making Maverick/Sigma virus symptoms echo those of Schizophrenia and other similar disorders. Nice ableism, Dan and Udon! I'm sure people with auditory hallucinations will surely appreciate this.
This page is cringe cuz here we have Wolf Sigma giving metaphors about wolves and sheep. It's giving this meme. Oh, and peep the stolen line from MHX, but watered down this time. Also, X looks so weird in that middle panel.
I hate this page cuz not only is the L and W in Sigmaâs eyes so friggin' heavy-handed, but the whole Wily's connection to Zero being known by Sigma wasn't a thing until X5. Apparently, breaking canon is okay with Capcom.
X really could've said, "For everyone that was lost!" instead centering this defeat on more Zero-centric bs. Ugh.
I love this page cuz not only does X look adorable in the top right panel, but Dr. Light calling him his son makes me feral. It's cute af. However, how tf did Dr. Light go from being a blue hologram to a ghost? Again, Daniel throwing in cool ideas, but never explaining or going anywhere with them.
Two problems:
The fact that Armored Armadillo and Launch Octopus were included in this page is egregious considering they had ZERO LINES AND SCREENTIME outside of being dispatched in a page or less. Then there's Vile who was stripped of his character from MHX and reduced to Sigmaâs lackey and the comic's lore billboard.
My second issue are X's "friends". We see Dr. Cain, Luna, Minerva, and some rando Reploids. How is the audience supposed to be believe these people are important to X when we see no interactions between them? The only thing we see is him and Zero, which solidifies the whole X having no friends except Zero when he joined the Maverick Hunters. Ugh.
The final page and the very same that Daniel was worried about spreading before this issue's release as there was a glitch on Neon Ichiban on the 29th that allowed people to buy the PDF. Also, LCSs got the copies early since the issue got delayed from June 16th, July 29th, to August 5th. But SDCC had them available for purchase.
Anyway, more heavy-handed bs with Serges having Wily in his eyes, and of course more Zero glazing (even though it's really Wily glazing, but you know what I mean). So cringe.
Yeah, this was an incredibly predictable and anticlimactic issue. I'm definitely not looking forward to the X2 run.
Oh, boy. They're actually doing X2 and apparently it's supposed to be focused on the lore. Given how absolutely rushed the X1 comics were, I have no faith for these, given they are once again only six issues. I'm also predicting one of these three things will happen:
1. They don't include the fourth female member of the X-Hunters who was omitted from the game due to memory limitations at the time.
2. They do include her, but she's overly sexualized and perpetuates the femme fatale/female villain trope.
3. They replace her with X-Kai because they're trying desperately hard to make XDive bs canon.
Oh, and here's yet another retelling of the events before X1! Why is this even necessary when we already have The Day of Sigma OVA and Dawn of X and the X Factor side stories from Archie? This is incredibly redundant and I expect it to be just as boring as the X comics.
Apparently, this is supposed to focus on how Zero became a Maverick Hunter with a brand new original Maverick joining the cast. I am so sick and tired of the constant Zero glazing at the expense of X, especially since this is supposed to be X's story. Not only in the fandom, but in licensed content and games as well.
Not looking forward to reviewing these and having a miserable time. Ugh.
No, for real, be honest with me: which MMX ship do you think is wayyy too forced? By both the fans and Capcom themselves?
For me, it's XAlia. I can't see them being together. I can't, I'm sorry, but I just can't. If they had chemistry, I could tolerate it, but they don't even have that. In my mind, this ship only exists because of the rule: "if a man and a woman coexist in the same environment, it soon becomes necessary for them to be together."
Even though there are references in some media about that shipp (4Koma manga and XDiVE. X6 doesn't count because I interpret it more as Alia trying to tell X her secret instead of simply saying "I love you" out of nowhere) I can't really accept them being together. Especially considering what Alia did to Gate. It just doesn't sit right with me. It doesn't sit right with me at all.
(Comments and reblogs attacking others due to differing opinions will be deleted and blocked. Let's maintain a sense of respect here. Please, it's just fictional characters at the end of the day).
Let's get into the penultimate issue, issue #4. More below the cut.
SPOILERS AHEAD!!
X starts off in Armored Armadillo's stage, finding the secret Hadoken capsule. His face in the bottom left panel is adorable.
Minerva actually has some character here. Too bad it's too little too late as this is the second to last issue in this run. Here, she greets X warmly and tries to cheer him up. More than being an operator acts like his friend. Though, I wish Luna had some personality. Oh, and again, they're drawn pretty normally.
I don't know how I feel about Vile knowing about Zero's past. I feel like information that sensitive wouldn't be so easily disclosed to the Maverick Hunters besides Sigma and Dr. Cain. Not even X knows his past.
Also, what the hell was the point of the bourbon glass if all he did was break it? It's just another one of Dan's "Look! Another reference!" without actually including it into the plot. Oh, and Vile's characterization still sucks.
The top right panel is drawn so weird. I mean, I get what they were trying to go for, but it looks more comical than tragic. Also, last I checked, Vile didn't care about destroying the world. This reads like Saturday morning cartoon villain.
I'm confused as to who says, "Hadoken unlocked!". Is it Dr. Light? But how would that work? Is he an A.I in X's systems like J.A.R.V.I.S. and F.R.I.D.A.Y. are to Tony Stark? Is it his operating system? I'm pretty sure this will be answered in a oneshot or X2 which isn't even greenlit.
Dan said this himself, and it's a case of counting chickens before they hatch. Especially when the books aren't even selling well.
This was pretty badass. Ngl. Definitely one of my favorite pages.
Here we ago again with taking direct dialogue from MHX. Vile's quote in the top left panel is taken directly from his ending in his own playable mode. And again, why would Vile care about Sigma winning against X? I really hate that they reduced my favorite X villain into Sigmaâs lapdog. Ugh.
I like the little flashback montage here. Especially the middle right panel with Luna and Minerva. Too bad we don't get to see these light-hearted moments in the main story and instead in the second to last issue.
They actually did the thing and made X cry! Omg! Honestly, this page broke me cuz of how completely shattered X is here. I just wanna hold and hug and protect him. I also like the little wisps of hair coming out of the front of Zero's helmet. That's such a nice little detail.
I feel so bad for my precious boy! But he sure does look cool here.
That's it for issue #4. A vast improvement from the last two, but it still felt rushed as far as X going through the Sigma Fortress was concerned. Not to mention Minerva having more personality and a friendship with X, Zero, and Luna could've been established early on instead of the penultimate issue.
It feels like one of those cases were the story starts off like crap, but actually becomes decent towards the end, which is not good storytelling if you ask me. If you want to sell a good story, you have to hook people in from the very beginning. Otherwise, they'll just lose interest and won't bother with the next one.
Plus the fact that Dan says he has more stories to tell that will get better and expand on things in oneshot issues of all things, makes me think of the BBC Sherlock fandom cope back in the 10s with how awful season 4 was and that it was intentionally bad and that there's a secret good episode. And as I said earlier, dude is really counting his chickens before they hatch if he seriously thinks he'll get to even do those oneshots, let alone adapt X2.
Already on the first page, three Maverick bosses get defeated. It not only reeks of terrible pacing, but makes X's journey look too easy. Not to mention, excluding Kuwanger was a stupid choice since he and X were once friends (at least in MHX). He was definitely one of my favorite Maverick bosses in that game along with Sting Chameleon, Storm Eagle, and Armored Armadillo. Seeing him wasted like this is disappointing, but not at all that surprising, given what we've seen with Spark Mandrill in the previous issue.
Oh, and what do you know? Luna and Minerva are actually drawn normally for once. I wasn't expecting that since this is Udon we're talking about. But I'm not going to give credit or cookies to Hanzo Steinbeck for doing the bare minimum of representing women respectfully in a comic book. This should be the norm, not the exception.
I really dislike how Zero was inserted into this issue as tagging along with X. How are you gonna doubt the guy who took on seven Mavericks solo, especially the more difficult ones like Storm Eagle and Boomerang Kuwanger? And with upgrades no less. I thought this was supposed to be X's story, but I guess the chuds at Udon couldn't resist some Zero glazing. As if we needed more of it.
Oh, and I really hate how he talks here. In the Timelines and first issues, he speaks normally. Now suddenly he talks like he's a Southerner in the US? Why? What was the thought process behind this choice? It doesn't make sense and makes Zero seem incredibly out of character.
Dr. Light's "this world of man" really irritated me. It's archaic and doesn't make sense for a future setting like Megaman X where even now in 2026, people are using "humans" or "humanity" to describe homo sapiens. Male comic book writers not referring to humankind as man challenge: IMPOSSIBLE.
Oh, and there's supposed to be some kind of Transformers joke in this page, but since I'm not big on that franchise (I grew up with Beast Wars and watched the Armada anime series), I definitely missed it. Don't understand the reasoning for this except that Dan Arseneault worked on the Transformers comics before writing for the X series. Not saying there isn't an overlap between X and Transformers fans, but I don't think that overlap is common. I dunno. Seems like a weird choice to include when you're trying to market your comics towards hardcore and casual fans alike.
This is actually a decent page. X knowing that he can easily destroy this robot but actively chooses not to is great storytelling for his character. It makes me wish we had more moments like these where X shows restraint and doesn't resort to killing to get the job done.
Oh, boy! Another typo! I get that Udon is not on the same level as Marvel or DC, but come on. There's no excuse not to have this stuff proofread before finalizing it.
This actually seems on brand for Sting Chameleon. Dude was not well-liked in his unit which prevented opportunities for a potential promotion, so I wouldn't put it past him to use his stealth abilities to ambush the entire 9th Special Rangers Unit.
I dunno, but Zero incapacitating a Maverick boss with one stab feels like glazing when you consider that the fights X had took more effort. However, the next page...
I like X saving Zero this time around and finishing the job. This page was peak aura farming for X.
This page is my favorite. Zero gassing up X as he makes his grand entrance in the fully assembled First/Light Armor. He looks adorable.
That's it for now. Definitely an improvement from issue #2, but the comics still struggles with pacing, typos, weird dialogue choices, expanded lore that is immediately forgotten and goes nowhere, and bringing absolutely nothing new to the plot of X1.
Next is issue #4. Oh, and I find it absolutely hilarious that there was radio silence from Dan Arseneault on Rockman Day except to tweet about Transformers. Then issue #4 releases and he comes of out the woodwork to engage with the Twitter Megaman fandom again, as they all glaze his comics. I dunno, seems like larping/tourism to me.
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We start off with X defeating Spark Mandrill. If you think this is bad with Mavericks getting destroyed in less than two pages, wait til you see the next issue. Also, lol at Dan "burrowing" Mandrill's defeat quote from MHX. All he did was change some of the wording. How original.
This. Page. Makes. Me. Angry.
Where do I even begin? Why is Luna posed like her back is broken? This is the same egregious nonsense with male comic artists like Greg Land and Rob Liefield who don't know how women's bodies work or proper female proportions. Oh, and and don't get me started on her commenting on X's rank. Bro has been clearing through bosses easily with upgrades, and you're out here questioning his abilities? Be so for real.
Here's one of the few interesting pages, but they go nowhere with it. Having Sigma be aware of these mysterious upgrade capsules is good and makes you wonder what he intended to do with them if he was able to open them. Too bad we don't see this again.
This is actually good. I like X's connection to the good doctor becoming stronger with each upgrade. Though, I'd love an explanation for this.
Ugh. Why did we have to make Zero have a connection with the capsules? Why must we have this unnecessary Zero glazing in X's own story again? Unless, the connection is simply Dr. Light and Wily, then it doesn't make sense. Even then, Bass was said to steal the schematics for X, not his armors, so idk.
Another instance of stealing exact lines from MHX, even though this comic is barely even based on that game. Not to mention, Capcom apparently being against using the redesigns to be more consistent with XDive, which doesn't make sense as that game isn't even canon. Capcom being Capcom, I guess.
For someone who calls himself "this huge Megaman lore and history guy" how do you screw up the name of one of X's special weapons? Do the people at Udon even proofread this stuff before finalizing it? This isn't the first this has happened either.
Like I mentioned in the previous post, I don't feel comfortable with X swearing. He's too nice for that IMO. Zero, maybe I can see. But X? Dude is too wholesome and polite for that.
I'm only posting this page because of how cool it looks. X's face in the bottom right corner makes me swoon so hard.
And here's another gooner bait page! Why are her boobs bigger than her head? Why is she squeezing them together like that? For reference, here's how she looks in her concept art for MHX. Nothing like the comic at all and is just an example of exaggerated female proportions. Ugh.
That's it for now. While I do like Hanzo's art, I hate the way he draws the only two female characters. I'm really tired of Udon sexualizing women in their comics in order to get them to sell to a certain demographic. It's alienating to female fans like myself who've been involved in the fandom since 2000. It's really telling how they cover up poor writing with art that borders on softcore porn and fetish bait. Yikes.
Now, I'll give credit where credit is due to the artist in this issue (Hanzo Steinbeck). X looks REALLY good here.
From here, it's just more action sequences. No major storytelling here. The bottom panel of X made my brain blue-screen. WHY IS HE POSING LIKE THAT?
I will say, I like X's uncertainty here. It fits with his early days as a reluctant Maverick Hunter in his first major war.
Like I mentioned in previous posts, the Dr. Light interactions are by far my favorite, but they go absolutely nowhere with them. Lasting for about two pages, then it's straight back to the game's "plot".
LOOK AT HIS CHEEKS. THEY'RE SO SQUISHABLE. Sorry, that's all I have to say for this page.
Here, we see X's mercy and reluctance to kill. This is one of the things that made this issue decent as it also establishes Storm Eagle and X's friendship, like in MHX.
This was my favorite page, aside from Dr. Light. X trying to save not just his enemies, but those who were close to him really shows his gentle and compassionate side without turning him to the gloom and doom Debbie Downer from X7.
Bad Zero! I don't know how I feel about the characters swearing. Maybe Zero is acceptable, but in later issues, X does it and it just makes me feel like that isn't something he would do. Also, that one panel I hated in Timelines was redrawn and looks a bit better? Also, why is his bottom lip so shiny? It's killing me. X, please.
I gotta love Zero's comments every time X gets an upgrade. He's basically gassing up his bff and it's cute af.
Anyway, this was a much better issue than the previous two. However, issue #2 is where it just goes downhill. More to come
Now on to the Timelines issue. More below the cut.
Why do Reploids need beds? Why is X's room so messy? Usually in the games, they rest in stasis pods. No explanation for this, which is a shame cuz it could've been some good world building about Reploids trying to emulate human behavior and customs.
I absolutely HATE the bottom panel. Why do the generic Reploids look like recolors of X? Look, I know there's that one quote from SENSEI in the Official Complete Works regarding the generic Reploids at the end of X5:
"The Reploids that appear in the ending are X's followers, so I made their body designs very simple. As I was drawing them, I wondered if X looked like this when he was at their level. My simple designs became quite popular among the staff, where the most common comment was, 'I love how they look like cheap knock-offs!' (laughs)" (Suetsugu)
But even then, they still looked unique from X. X5 isn't the only case. You see this in Command Mission, X7, X6, and MHX. Hell, even Archie had unique designs of their own. There's literally no excuse for this, and the fact that Dan tried justifying it as "palette swaps of X" is lazy and disingenuous at best. Especially when he tauts himself as this "big Megaman history and lore guy". Read the transcripts in ShadowRockZX's interviews to see exactly what I mean.
This is exactly interesting. Too bad it doesn't last long (like two pages).
Aside from X looking weird as hell, this is good lore expansion. But again, it's interrupted in favor of retelling the exact events in play-by-play style of X1.
Chill Penguin going Maverick cuz he's bored and not because he hates X for being "high and mighty" is so damn lazy. His characterization sucks here, and is the exact problem I highlighted earlier about Dan wanting this to be based on MHX, yet doing his own thing and taking elements from X1.
X's face is so weird in the third panel. Ugh. I'm so put off by this art. Thank God they replaced the artist for the rest of the issues. Though that isn't saying much when we get to issue #2. You'll see what I mean.
Yeah, that's it for now. I don't know how this book out sold the other Timelines issues, especially since Ian Flynn is a much better writer than Dan Arseneault (he wrote the Zero Timelines issue).
Alright. I decided to bite the bullet and actually try to do a review of the Udon comics, starting with issue #0 as that's the first one in the reading order. I'm not gonna point out obvious Easter eggs as they're just that; obvious.
This is a pretty solid start. The Dr. Light panels are the strongest as far as storytelling goes.
Same with Dr. Cain, but before anything of substance can be fleshed out further, we get interrupted by a mission.
Two issues here: using Vile's cringey Japanese name and "Sigmaâs 19th Elite Unit". Don't know if that's a typo or not as Dan never addressed it, but Maverick Hunter units only go up to 17, which is the Elite Unit.
Here's perhaps the most egregious page. Slave name? Since when does a selfish and destructive character like Vile care about Reploid oppression? Why use him as a mouthpiece? It could work with a different character, but I would ditch the whole "slave name" thing as that's a common trope in Western comics/media by white male writers to use non-human characters as allegories for real-life marginalized groups.
This was a cheap way for the writer to try to X-Men his way into a video game about sentient robots. Vile is just coming off as Temu Magneto, and as someone who loves the character (especially after MHX and X8), this really pissed me off. Also, X looks really uncanny here.
Again, the problem with this comic is that Dan claims to be taking ideas from MHX, but then goes and turns Vile into Sigmaâs lapdog. You can't have it both ways, my guy. Either the "story" is based on MHX or the original SNES game. This is how you confuse the casuals you claim you're trying to appeal to.
Yeah, this issue is one of the worst, and the art by Edwin Huang doesn't help. X looks weird in a lot of the panels. And don't get me started on those cursed covers for Timelines that were revealed when the comics were announced. The coloring is also off putting.
She is âout-fanfictionedâ because, as the strip specifically calls out, she is a girl and a jet. Â Setting aside for the moment whether âfanfictionyâ is an insult or not, why is being a woman more fanfictiony? Â What makes being a woman a trope? Â Arenât girls, like, 51% of us? Â Is there more than one dude Autobot jet? Â Yes? Â Do we do comics about how we roll our eyes at new dude Autobot jets? Â No? Â Then why is a lady jet something we single out? Â
You draw enough TF commissions you see these details in fan characters a lot. Girl-seeker, badass loner, ninjabot with sword⌠or some combination.
Windblade is none of those. Â Zero.
Sheâs not a seeker. Â Sheâs got friends. Â Sheâs not a ninja. Â
(Also, as if there were any doubt that you were using âfanfictionyâ as an insult, your bit here clears that up.)
And for the record, no, I donât recall having been asked to draw a Transformers fancharacter for probably half a decade. Â Plenty of canonical ones, sure. Â The closest Iâve gotten is âOptimus Prime as a Green Lantern.â Â But being asked to draw ladyseeker ninja loners is not a trend I can vouch for. Â Â
Also David, not sure why you are having fun insulting me. The one time Iâve met you (maybe twice?) you seemed very polite.
Iâm not really having that much fun. Â I would have been super ecstatic to see a comic from you celebrating a new female character, rather than playing into how our society mocks and denigrates them merely for existing. Â I am WEARY of this. Â And I am pushing back against it because itâs stupid and itâs damaging and I donât want to see any more of it. Â The best thing I can say about it is that maybe you didnât think through the implications of what you were saying very well and, in the service of making an easy joke, have regurgitated the script culture has given us regarding how women characters are strongly suggested to be viewed.
tl;dr: This strip made me very very angry. Â Walky smash.
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I went digging and couldn't turn up anything, substantial or otherwise, about Matt Moylan. I need to know how low to place my expectations for my second favorite mega men, because it sounds like "pretty damn low"
Matt Moylan is the Director of Publishing over at Udon. He's been there for ages. He's also a total reactionary.
To give full context, this is gonna get a little long.
Moylan is perhaps best known for the Transformers fancomic Lil Formers, which was popular in the '00s. This isn't super important here, but allow me to go on a tangent because it's where a lot of people know the guy from, and it's mildly more entertaining than just screencapping his tweets. The comic was basically just an excuse for him to draw a bunch of chibi Transformers that people would then use in forum signatures and whatnot. Sometimes he would attach his cranky old geewunner opinions and complain about art style changes or new female characters in the dialogue, if he wasn't just making a generic joke about Wheelie being annoying or Seaspray having a silly voice or whatever.
Comedy gold, I know.
Lil Formers was well known within the fandom. Geewunners and kids who didn't know any better and just liked the chibi Transformers (guilty) loved it. Other fans grew more annoyed by Moylan's schtick. As far back as 2009 TFWiki contributor David Willis mocked it in a strip from his own webcomic, Shortpacked:
His wiki page on TFWiki also recounts a bizarre old bit of fandom drama. Moylan had previously worked for the defunct comic publisher Dreamwave, who published the Transformers comics in the early '00s, and in 2006 he went on popular Transformers forum TFW2005 to make several claims about behind the scenes conflicts and unfulfilled story plans. Most bizarre was a claim that Autobot Sunstreaker was supposed to be gay in the Dreamwave comics, which was written off as a childish attempt to rile up the fandom. His claims were all vehemently disputed by the Dreamwave writers he was shit talking, who would also accuse Moylan of anonymously slandering them and sending them threatening emails. Swell guy!
Anyway, hopefully this isn't surprising to literally anyone who's been on a forum in the last decade, but this nerd who won't shut up about the Good Ol' Days of the '80s is now a reactionary conservative who complains about how they're making everything "woke." And unfortunately he's no longer just some guy drawing dumb little one-panel comics about Transformers, he's now overseeing all of the output at Capcom's go-to comic and art book publisher in North America.
Here's some of his tweets to illustrate what he's like these days.
Yes, that's a reply to Mark "Grummz" Kern. He's also chatted up accounts like Libs of Tiktok and Comicsgate ringleader Ethan Van Sciver. Also note the reply in which he tries to tell Greg Weisman himself that Gargoyles had "not an ounce of woke." This guy's brain is fucking cooked.
Here's a take he posted about The Boys, too, just because it's really fucking funny to me:
After I and several other people posted about his behavior over on Bluesky and expressed disinterest in buying anything from Udon (such as the new Mega Man comics), he deleted his Twitter for like a week. He's since restored it, the tweets in question now long gone. Clearly it wasn't a good look for him to be making statements about his employer's values like this, sometimes in the same breath as announcements about new comics. That being said, he's issued no actual apology for his statements, and Udon hasn't acknowledged it at all. There's no reason to believe he's had a change of heart. They're just gonna pretend he never said any of this. And as of a few days ago, he's been announced as the writer for the one-shot Mega Man ZX comic that Udon is putting out later this year. Yaaaayyyy
I know there are a lot of cool people working on stuff for Udon, but Moylan being in a position of power there means I have zero interest in giving that company money. When your Director of Publishing is over on Twitter trying to court an audience of reactionary nerds and proudly proclaiming that Udon is "anti-woke, anti-DEI," and then you go to their website and the first image you see is this...
...Look, I love huge boobs as much as the next bisexual furry pervert, but this particular image in conjunction with his tweets paints a pretty clear picture of what sort of values Moylan is pushing at Udon. He wants to cater to nerds who will buy softcore Street Fighter hentai thinking it'll own the libs.
So hey, if he doesn't want my dirty woke money, fine by me. I'm not touching anything Udon publishes as long as Matt Moylan still works there.
I was planning to make a post about it here, but then I got this ask on main, so that works too. Anyway, here's why I have no intention of discussing Udon's upcoming Mega Man comics on this blog.
