#comics problems

No dood. We get what it’s meaning and it’s significance within the context of the “story” was. The reason people are still cracking BvS jokes about the Martha Scene, isn’t because Zack Snyder, David Goyer and Chris Terrio somehow created an “avant-garde, uber-intelligent” scene that defies the “meager intelligence” of those who simply don’t or can’t understand the “genius” of Zack Snyder, it’s because said scene was set up so poorly and executed in such a blunt, obtuse manner that any sort of dramatic weight and characterization it could’ve had was immediately lost. 

Not to mention the fact that what little character development and meaning it did successfully garner ends up being undercut when it’s proceeded by a scene where Batfleck just kills off a bunch of goons. 

Stop pretending that the Internet and comic community’s forced and primarily unfunny  jokes about this one badly-executed scene is somehow indicative of people not “getting” BvS and Zack Snyder’s directing as a whole. There’s nothing wrong with liking BvS or liking Snyder as a director, but acting like the numerous critiques and jokes made at the expense of his filmography are somehow either an organized conspiracy against him and the DCEU, or a sign of some sort of intellectual or artistic deficiencies is just embarrassing. It’s okay to admit that shit you like is dumb, everyone likes dumb shit. 

Whoa. I know, stay with me. Hear, hear me out: I don’t think Adam Ellis is that bad, at least not nearly as bad as say, Tim Buckley. Can he be a bit of a dick sometimes? Yeah, definitely, but hey, we’re all human, we’ve all said and done stupid shit. What matters is that we learn from those mistakes, acknowledge and apologize from them, and move on.  

Adam, like many comic-strip artists, suffers from being stuck in the repetitive, soulless, unfunny “content” creating machine that is Buzzfeed. It’s the system that’s the problem, Ellis is just a byproduct of it. 

And let’s be fair, I know that alot of the “hate” he gets here or on, I dunno, other platforms like the Bad Webcomics Wiki, are mostly tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted memes, but just to reiterate, Ellis hasn’t published anything that is inflammatory, bigoted, or offensive. Aside from like, one specific, really tone-deaf comic, Ellis at his very worst is just really unfunny, trite, and formulaic. Occasionally he’ll churn out something that is actually kinda funny and isn’t just “lemayo ecks dee look at how relatabull i am u guiiizzzz1!!1!”, and despite these occurrences being rare, it does show that to some degree, Ellis actually has a sense of humor. 

I dunno. I don’t really care for Ellis’ work, like most of the shit from Buzzfeed he’s just incredibly mediocre “content” that’s aimed to grab my attention by any means necessary and at this point in my life I’ve seen so much bad corporate media that I’ve grown immune to their shittyness. 

When I explained how it’s racist to inquiring DCEU stans, they proceeded to just laugh at me, without even providing any sort of counter argument.