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topic #694532
Subject: "I think outrage fatigue is going to set in soon"
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mrshow
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Sat Mar-21-15 02:05 PM
54. "I think outrage fatigue is going to set in soon"
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The Batgirl #41 (The Joker variant cover) Controversy
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Wed Mar-18-15 12:13 PM
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For the record, I'm fine with it...
aScribe
Mar 18th 2015
1
Goddamn it I hate the internet.
CaptNish
Mar 18th 2015
2
I get it.
spades
Mar 18th 2015
3
I both get it and feel like it was overblown at the same time.
Monkey Genius
Mar 18th 2015
5
Precisely. Let's say Spider-Man was sodomized by Venom.
Frank Longo
Mar 18th 2015
7
question for you:
Selah
Mar 18th 2015
9
No, you misread what I'm saying.
Frank Longo
Mar 18th 2015
11
few things
Selah
Mar 18th 2015
8
a few more things.
spades
Mar 18th 2015
12
Yeah, it does look like he's about to sexually assault her
Marauder21
Mar 18th 2015
13
boom
spades
Mar 18th 2015
14
Without the History of the Killing Joke that cover isn't as bad
Dae021
Mar 19th 2015
24
..but that cover IS referencing The Killing Joke.
shockzilla
Mar 20th 2015
42
Exactly
ternary_star
Mar 21st 2015
47
maybe I'm the wrong person to ask, but I think that's a dope cover.
Sleepy
Mar 18th 2015
4
props to the artist for the sensitivity to pull in once death threats ha...
kayru99
Mar 18th 2015
6
remember how much folks hated the comics code authority?
Selah
Mar 18th 2015
10
yyyyyyyyyep
ternary_star
Mar 21st 2015
48
No one in here is blindly outraged, though.
Frank Longo
Mar 21st 2015
55
Wasn't referring to PTP speciffically
mrshow
Mar 21st 2015
56
this seems like the anti-gamergate
obsidianchrysalis
Mar 18th 2015
15
As per the writer of this version of Batgirl and the artist...
KwesiAkoKennedy
Mar 18th 2015
16
thx
obsidianchrysalis
Mar 18th 2015
17
tone of the book indeed
Selah
Mar 18th 2015
18
So people are mad at a Comic Supervillian doing some evil shit
Adwhizz
Mar 19th 2015
19
No, people are mad at a super heroine being depicted as a victim.
spades
Mar 19th 2015
26
Once again, he's a SUPERVILLIAN, their whole modus operandi
Adwhizz
Mar 19th 2015
30
Heros don't cry and therefore neither should Heroines
spades
Mar 19th 2015
33
Batgirl isn't Batman's equal
ternary_star
Mar 21st 2015
49
Not only that, but to my understanding Batgirl is supposed to
Adwhizz
Mar 21st 2015
52
This is so stupid
Paps_Smear
Mar 19th 2015
20
It's stupid when the creative team and the artist agree...?
KwesiAkoKennedy
Mar 19th 2015
21
^^^
Frank Longo
Mar 19th 2015
28
Isn't that another character together? EDIT: You're right
Sleepy
Mar 19th 2015
23
Except they don't show Batman pissing his pants when he fights Bane...
mrhood75
Mar 19th 2015
31
THANK YOU!
spades
Mar 19th 2015
32
^^^
Frank Longo
Mar 19th 2015
35
Agree. You don't see this. (fan art of Superman + Doomsday)
j0510
Mar 19th 2015
37
LMAO!!!!
spades
Mar 20th 2015
44
that would be a fantastic cover, though
ternary_star
Mar 21st 2015
51
I dunno. Sexist just b/c she's crying?
lonesome_d
Mar 19th 2015
38
Sexist because it's a female character crying in fear re: a villain who....
mrhood75
Mar 20th 2015
41
Good cover for a Vertigo comic. Bad cover for a regular ass issue
BigReg
Mar 19th 2015
22
Maybe I need to re-read Killing Joke, but I don't remember sexual
lonesome_d
Mar 19th 2015
25
Well, I mean....
CaptNish
Mar 19th 2015
29
it always seemed fairly apparent to me.
shockzilla
Mar 20th 2015
43
Alan Moore says that she wasn't
CaptNish
Mar 21st 2015
50
I'm glad this convo is being had, but still disagree with nixing it...
aScribe
Mar 19th 2015
27
The artist wanted it removed. What principle is being violated?
KwesiAkoKennedy
Mar 19th 2015
34
^^^
Frank Longo
Mar 19th 2015
36
Well, in my opinion, that's a slippery slope...
aScribe
Mar 20th 2015
39
Yeah...this happens all the time in comics and publishing...
KwesiAkoKennedy
Mar 20th 2015
40
basically.
shockzilla
Mar 20th 2015
46
if you were actually reading the book, you'd get why the creators reject...
shockzilla
Mar 20th 2015
45
I don't see an issue with them changing the cover if t doesn't fit
Adwhizz
Mar 21st 2015
53
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