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Don't despair, Dave. Some people appreciate your wisdom.
Will be interesting to see how the U.S. Supreme Court decides "Fulton v. City of Philadelphia." I suspect the case - which is pending - will put Dave's "Settle for Everywhere else" dictum to the test.
What’s happening here? Is this some sort of punishment assignment? Why is Dave writing a one hundred thousand word essay on “The New Mutants” movie?
Alas, Dan E., Dave has thoroughly demonstrated that he has no wisdom. He can't formulate a logical argument, he can't evaluate evidence, he constructs straw men from whole cloth, he whines and lies about how persecuted he is, and his arguments consist solely of after-the-fact justifications for his feelings. He's not exactly stupid; he simply doesn't know how to think.
This week's biggest laugh is when he congratulates himself for being a minority of one for saying the same thing the mainstream Christian right has been saying for four decades. And we're only halfway through! Many laughs still to come!
-- Damian
Dave is exactly right about tolerance whether anyone else wants to admit it. I'm remaining anonymous because I work for a woke comic book company and if anyone even knew I was reading this blog I would immediately fall under suspicion for "something" and I would be faced with having admit an admiration for Dave Sim or lie about it to save, if not my job, then the course of my career. I don't know anyone that wants men in women's clothes competing with our daughters or sharing bathrooms with them, but I also don't know anyone that is willing to admit it. The sick and twisted nature of the government insisting that we accept these people as anything more than mentally ill is ridiculous. Forced tolerance is not tolerance at all, it is obedience at the end of a gun barrel. I was wondering why no one has attempted to ban Orwell's 1984 yet but I think it may be because they are using it as a textbook.
Anonymous Big Two Employee
john g., Jeff asked Dave his thoughts about THE NEW MUTANTS and Chris Claremonts' allusion to religion therein. So the following is a continuation of that discussion.
ANON BIG TWO EMPLOYEE: My best to you. Thanks for stopping by and please, don't be a stranger, if you can help it.
"Anonymous Big Two Employee" is blatantly lying. Nobody has ever had to endure any repercussions for liking Cerebus. Check yer paranoia, dude; yer practically Simean.
-- D.
Yes, Damian all of what you just said is true! You’re the Gary Webb of the comics community.
NOT!
Well, Brian W., if you've drunk so deep of the Kool-Aid that you can't recognize paranoid delusions ... actually, that does sound like you. But here in what we call "reality", Dave Sim is not the Pariah King of Comics; he wasn't kicked out, he left; he chose to become a recluse; he was never censored; he continued to receive offers of work and convention appearances after he claims he was untouchable; nobody has ever been penalized for liking Cerebus. But you be you, hero!
-- D.
Ok, Damian. I am gonna ignore the Don Rickles routine and jump straight to your claim that Dave as persona non grata is a delusional thought. Here are just a few thoughts about Dave from some of his peers, who have nothing but kind words to say about him:
https://twitter.com/mattminerxvx/status/1111647316858019840?s=21
https://twitter.com/earinc/status/514525101358731265?s=21 (dude here is associate publisher at Fantagraphics btw)
https://twitter.com/petermelnick/status/1111818280795295744?s=21
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/585972468193501185?s=21
https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/1314980507688620033?s=21 (You’ll probably wet yourself over this one, Damian.)
https://twitter.com/tasharobinson/status/53130723833544704?s=21
https://twitter.com/disquietville/status/662392514041806848?s=21
https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1036342709898891264?s=21
You mistook anon’s comment btw. He didn’t say that he was afraid of getting heat from his superiors over “liking Cerebus” but for even admitting admiration for Dave. But of course you do you, Damian. Keep piling those strawmen atop the dung heap that will be your study of Cerebus. I bet you will be using the comments here as fodder for your magnum opus, if you ever can get away from here long enough to actually write it.
Oh dear, Brian W.; oh dear. Interesting how not a single one of the Tweets (Oh no! Not Tweets!) you cite refutes a single thing I said. Dave wasn't kicked out, censored, or had his career destroyed. But, like most of your fellow pseudo-conservatives, you can't tell the difference between between being persecuted and being disagreed with. I pity you.
-- D.
Pseudo-conservative? You hurt my feelings, Damian. Now, l’m gonna write a letter to your MP to complain about your rude behavior.
Spare me your pity.
Send me an email when you have actually discovered the identity of Anon Big Two, finished with your investigative reporting here, and completed your critical analysis of Cerebus.
Tic-Toc-Tic-Toc-Tic-Toc!
By the way Damian, AMAZING BATVARK #1 will be in stores tomorrow. Buy a copy or two in order to further your “study” of Cerebus. ;)
Thank you, but no.
-- D.
I was joking, Damian, like you were when you said you pitied me. Well aware of your opinion of CIH?
I was not joking.
-- D.
Well, wonders never cease!
Yes, I genuinely pity you.
-- D.
Thank you for clarifying, Damian. Save your pity for someone who genuinely needs it. Good night.
You don't deserve it, Brian W., but you need it. Good night to you; I hope you when you awaken you are a better person.
-- D.
You can not grant me what is not in your power to give, Damian.
Only one being knows what I deserve and what I might actually need. Only one has the power to grant me grace and show me mercy. You ain’t the one.
Still, I thank you for the conversation and for your attempt at offering me what passes for charity to you. I didn’t expect that. So, you can hang you hat on that, I guess.
Hang your hat on that, I should have typed.
Cerebus: The Narrative And The Controversies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e0okB5imP4
Just watched it a second time...
Oh dear...I saw "22 comments" and I just KNEW what I was going to find...you boys play nice or I'll have Manly knock your heads together, hear?
Yes, Uncle Tony. I'm sorry.
Very good. Damian?
Hello?
Oh, sorry.
Hello, eh?
While I can't speak for everyone everywhere in terms of whether "admitting" to liking Sim and/or Cerebus would get you in trouble or cause you to lose your job ... all I can say is that my own experience belies the idea. I teach at a women's college, where I have taught High Society and Jaka's Story. I co-edited Dave Sim: Conversations with Eric Hoffman, have published academic articles on Sim/Cerebus, and have done multiple academic conference presentations on Cerebus, usually wearing one of my Cerebus T-shirts when I do it. I have experienced NO repercussions for this. Our public relations folk where I work chose not to publicize the Conversations book, given Sim's rep, which pissed me off, so I suppose you could call that a repercussion, but it had no career impact. I wasn't criticized, chastised, told I couldn't or shouldn't do research on Sim, or told I couldn't or shouldn't teach his work. I keep expecting to get grief at a conference, given that we're supposedly surrounded by "woke" SJW's who just can't allow Sim to get any credit or recognition, but it hasn't happened, and I doubt it ever will. This notion that Sim is universally despised and that daring to speak about his work will get you ostracized is bullshit. I could get a contract to publish an academic book on Sim tomorrow pretty easily, if I wanted to; I've had reps from multiple different lines express interest in such a project. And I'm far from the only one to have done work on Sim. His sense of pariahdom is, at best, exaggerated.
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