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wizardbusinesscomic · 1 year

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#Joe Wizard #Potions #Potioncore #Wizard #Wizardry #wizardcore #wizard shit #Magic #Comic Strip #Bad Comics

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doktorno83 · 5 months

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Attention: bad comic alert!

So French publisher Delcourt had just dropped third tome of graphic novel "Le Serpent et la Lance" known in English "The Snake and the Spear".

The whole series is absolutely bollocks, racist towards Mesoamerican natives and propagates very harmful stereotypes. Before I explain it more, watch that production video below:

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Its in French, and here are explanations what I noticed is wrong on that video:

He uses a controversial historical fiction book as inspiration, Gary Jenning's "Aztec" that has lots of questionable violent and borderline pornographic content combined with confabulations (01:25)

He claims how Aztecs were "bloodthirsty" "just like Japanese" and combined it with "beauty of art". Justifying putting extreme violence in work with an 'other' culture reeks of Orientalism and obsolete anthropology like "Chrysanthemum and Sword". And in case of Mexica (Aztecs) its a continuation of colonial era racism (01:38).

Apparently (on table) as one visual references he has very old and obsolete illustrated book (from red covered Hatchette series) for children about native civilizations in Americas, with illustrations by Pierre Jourbert (01:25).

And speaking of comics themselves:

The main plot is about serial killer, that is doing, unauthorised human sacrifices by obducting and mummifying young girls (Aztecs did not practised that).

But it is not even a proper crime story, 70% of two first tomes are childhood retrospections.

Also that comic has a little backstory of warrior retrospecting how he got promoted by CAPTURING HIS OWN SUPERIOR. I cant stand that idiocy. He things that Aztecs were Orcs or Klingons?

The author is a lame storyteller. He uses awfully dated cliches, like associating physical deformities with evil and amorality.

The Mexica society is shown as one that is extremely cruel, fatalistic, violent and physically disgusting. The government investigators are killing more people than preparator of killing of girls, in order to cover up these murders. Again, its not a parody comic, its all deadly serious.

The most annoying aspect of storytelling here is oversaturation with internal and interpersonal conflicts. The main character, merchant Spear Eye, is conflicted with his family and his older sister acts like a fussy rude teenager. His close friend (a senior rain god Tlaloc priest) with whom he has literal blood bonding pact, is backstabbing him and is showed having sadistic/masochistic personality (makes me wonder if in the end it would be revealed that he is mastermind behind the murderer).

Another thing is to give every mayor character some sort of depressing, disturbing or unfortunate background, as if writer of the script was following some sort of rigid set of rules that says that severe trauma, poor mental health or misfortunes makes character interesting. While those things can make good character development, they are not suitable for every story and every occasion. Overall, the Aztec society is shown as a parade of misery, masochism, sadism and body horrors.

Its bad storytelling combined with bad takes on history.

I do not like it, just i do not like later tomes of his previous saga "Okko" that has its own issues with storytelling and characters. Mr Hub is very capable of making action scenes but his comics are biased towards violence, backstabbing and sociopathy, things that makes excellent base for violent action scenes, but not believable ordinary life and crime mystery.

Do not get excited over it, do not buy it, maybe just borrow from library or friend. You were warned.

#The Snake and the Spear #Le Serpent et la Lance #comics #french comics #racism #Aztecs #Mesoamerica #bad comics #Hub #Delcourt

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sunfloralchaos · 1 year

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Cera things

#bad comics #dnd #dnd art #d&d #tiefling #jay and art #cera #cera tag

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chernobog13 · 1 year

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Neutro (1967), the first - and only - issue of one of the most boring comics ever!

Dell Comics, once the biggest comic book publisher in the USA, if not the world, was desperate for content in the mid-1960s. The publishing partnership Dell had with Western, with Western providing tons of content for Dell to publish, had dissolved. Western took all its titles, including numerous lucrative licenses (from Disney, Hanna-Barbera, and others) and began publishing them under its own Gold Key label.

Dell had to come up with its own titles to try and keep a place in the market. In the mid-1960s, at the height of Batmania (due to the Batman television show) that meant superheroes. Dell had never done superheroes before, but gave them a try just like every other Tom, Dick and Harry who had access to a printing press.

I’ve posted before about Dell’s trio of awful superheroes based on Universal Monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, and Werewolf). Neutro was yet another laughable attempt at Dell becoming the next Marvel Comics.

One thousand years ago aliens from the planet Pluto deposited several boxes in the American Southwest. These aliens were observed by members of a Native American tribe, and the story was passed on through generations until it became a legend.

An adventurer is obsessed with the legend and, after several pages of searching, finally manages to find the boxes. He brings them to a scientist friend, and together they open the boxes and find--

So of course they take all the parts and put them together, which results in--

So there, right off, we see that Neutro isn’t the giant superhero depicted on the cover. In fact, he isn’t a superhero at all, just a brainless robot (which probably goes a long way in explaining the cover blurb “Neutro does not know the difference between right and wrong”).

After finally constructing Neutro, the adventurer and scientist then spend several pages figuring out what the robot is capable of.

Frankly, I wonder how these guys managed to conduct these tests. Did they really have Neutro shoot down aircraft, race after missiles, or wander into an atomic bomb test? And where did they get the herd of elephants, a thousand pythons, and a thousand lions?

Then these guys begin to have second thoughts about Neutro and the great power he possesses. But instead of doing the sensible thing like taking him apart and putting him back in the boxes, they just decide “you can’t hold progress back.”

Then we’re right back to showing what Neutro is capable of doing.

The reader is later informed as to why the boxes were left on Earth.

I’m probably crazy expecting this story to make sense, but the aliens’ motivation makes absolutely no sense. If you’re capable of making a robot that can take over a planet, why wait until the dominant species builds it and then come back and wrest control? Just use the robots yourselves and take over the planets right away, instead of waiting thousands of years.

Or maybe I’m overthinking this.

Anyhoo, nefarious folks all over the globe have somehow A) learned of Neutro’s existence (probably from all those airplanes, tanks, and ships he destroyed); B) decide they want to control Neutro themselves; and C) know the exact radio frequency used to control him.

There are then several pages detailing the months-long struggle of radio beams from all over the world striking Neutro’s transmission control device, Finally, one organization - Group 777 - magnages to develop a radio beam strong enough to take control of Neutro .

AND THEN--!!!!

--nothing happens. There is no second issue, and we never find out what happens to Neutro.

There are no credits for Neutro, and frankly I don’t blame the creators for wanting to remain anonymous. The writer was D.J. Arneson, and the artist was Jack Sparling (who also drew the original Secret Six for DC Comics, and his work was no better there), and I’m sure they never listed this book on their resumes.

There are elements about this story that make me suspect it may originally have been written for a science fiction comic instead of a superhero yarn. The giant robots/monster genre had been a popular science fiction trope, as were the evil aliens, and the apocalyptic images of Neutro destroying the word. And there’s also the complete and utter lack of any kind of superhero action at all.

Either way - science fiction story or superhero origin - the fact remains that this was an excruciatingly bad comic.

I read this as a lad while visiting an older cousin. He only had a few comics, mostly humor books (which I never liked), and absolutely no DC or Marvels. Neutro was the only book my cousin had that even remotely resembled the superhero comics I loved, so it was the only one I read. Unfortunately, it was one of those bad experiences that stays with you your entire life.

And now I’ve shared it with you. Misery loves company and all that.

#Neutro #Dell Comics #Silver Age comics #bad comics #Jack Sparling

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drmonkeysetroscans · 1 year

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“Hey Ivan, wanna a bible?”

#propaganda #bad comics

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browsethestacks · 5 months

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Arthouse Muppets

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

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fegal · 8 days

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Previous Page (choice page)

#comics #comic #webcomic #art #joke art #bad art #bad comic #bad comics #bad webcomics #webcomics

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welldrawnfish · 6 months

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Do you know what its like to be trans?

[Comic description: A comic about being trans. Long descriptions follow.

1. A light-skinned trans woman with shoulder-length brown hair stands at her bathroom sink wearing a T-shirt with a fish on it, draped so that her left shoulder hangs out. The text reads, ‘Let me teach you, what its like to be trans.’ 2. A blister pack of unlabelled pills sits next to this are two prescription bottles, one of Estrodial and one of Spironolactone, the latter of which is on its side with pills spilling out. The text reads, ‘What it’s like to spend years of waiting / For the right people to tick the box to tick the box to say your sick enough to get treatment. / Treatment to be you.’ 3. The woman brushes her teeth while looking at a tablet propped up by the sink. The text reads, ‘Do you know what its like to be a prop for political power? / To know they Dont actually care?’ The word ‘actually’ is underlined. 4. The woman sticks her tongue out in concentration as she works on the clasps of a bra behind her back. The text reads, ‘Do you know what it’s like? Do wait years for your body to change?’ 5. The woman starts shaving her cheeks and chin, which are covered in cream. The text reads, ‘What its like to work (emphasis) so (end emphasis) hard to overcome every toxic gender norm?’ 6. The woman touches her own shoulders with an unhappy expression. The text reads, ‘To take stock at the damage puberty has done?’ 7. A bottle of nail polish lies on its side dripping onto the counter. Polish has been splashed against the wall. The woman’s hands are visible in the sink, with just her right thumbnail painted. The text reads, ‘Do you know what its like? / To paint your nails only to see how disgusting your hands make you feel?’ 8. The woman bends over the sink, with her eyes shut and tears streaming down her face. The text says, ‘What its like, To do your makeup wrong / and see every feature you hate (emphasis) highlighted (end emphasis)?’

9. Fully dressed with a bag on her shoulder, the woman stands in her doorway with the door open and light streaming in. The text reads, ‘Do you Know what Its like to go outside? / When all it takes is one person to think that you are large enough danger to childrens lives to end yours.’ 10. The door is closed. A single point of light streams in from the peep hole and hits the woman’s head. She has one hand on the door and is looking down at the doorknob with a sad expression. Her bag lies on the ground beside her. The text says, ‘It paralyzes you.’

11. Back to the scene in the bathroom, similar to the first panel but mirrored and with a large black X scratched over the woman’s face. The text reads, ‘Do you Know what its like? / To not be seen as a person? / Because that’s what you taught me.’ \End descriptions]

#illustration #doodle #my art #art #oc #comics #webcomic #original art #transgender #transgirl #transisbeautiful #when im tired the bad thoughts cant be stopped #Welldrawnfishcomic

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minnow-doodle-doo · 9 months

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