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Creators start to move away from Dynamite after Comicsgate support

Started by Colin YNWA, 19 July, 2020, 07:19:28 PM

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CalHab

Given the abuse he is now receiving from that group and the fallout from this, I imagine he is regretting getting in with them.

sheridan

Having a quick look at the company's twitter feed, it doesn't exactly look like it's designed to appear to women.  Even the one that had '#womenincomics' also had a woman riding a bicycle in her underwear.  And she was the most clothed of the women in the twitter posts (of which every single one had a woman in scanty clothing or less - plus the promise that 'the real cover won't have that black bar').  It looks like their speciality is soft-core porn for teenagers (or, to play in to a stereotype, grown men who didn't quite get past a teenage stage).

Definitely Not Mister Pops

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Professor Bear

I understand that anecdotally, the LGBTQ+ audience for such things is not insignificant, but isn't represented in raw sales data.  I imagine a lot of the CIS dudes who buy it tell themselves they're wanking to it ironically.

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: sheridan on 20 July, 2020, 01:29:43 PM
It looks like their speciality is soft-core porn for teenagers (or, to play in to a stereotype, grown men who didn't quite get past a teenage stage).

I worked for Zenescope for almost five years and their cheesecake-a-gogo approach had a bafflingly large female following.
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CalHab

Some of Dynamite's output certainly plays to the juvenile audience. They also do Garth Ennis books (though he would probably count as juvenile) and the Mark Russell and Gail Simone stuff was more thoughtful, if still enjoyably daft. Dynamite do a kind of pulp sensibility, I think.

Some of this stuff is a bit cringe-y, but far too many comics take themselves seriously. There should still be room in comics for sillyness, and the Simone and Russell stuff showed that it can be done well today.

Steven Denton

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 20 July, 2020, 01:54:35 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 20 July, 2020, 01:29:43 PM
It looks like their speciality is soft-core porn for teenagers (or, to play in to a stereotype, grown men who didn't quite get past a teenage stage).

I worked for Zenescope for almost five years and their cheesecake-a-gogo approach had a bafflingly large female following.

Without whishing to over simplify. Sexy women appeal to women who like to look at sexy women, as much as men who like to look at sexy women. it has a broader audience because, essentially, it's less offensive. Most people will enjoy boobs, many fewer people will enjoy 4 zucchinis in the butt. foreplay will get you a wider audience than 22 pages of money shots.