I recognize the panel where the man is being whipped while tied to a post has been swiped from a Flash Gordon panel by Alex Raymond where Dale Arden is getting whipped.
@ComicTropes6 жыл бұрын
Dale the writer & artist for Kenaz Komics Oh really? I’m not surprised. It’s a hack comic.
@maxhydekyle24252 жыл бұрын
Pretty incredible how much art theft there is in comics, manga, and animation. There's a KZbinr who does animation and the large majority of his animations are traced. TotallyNotMark did a video on it and something like 70% of his animations were just traced. Not sure if it's more rampant in music or art.
@IzzysIssues2 жыл бұрын
watching this on 6/30/22 and some elements aged like the FINEST of wines
@manticorephoenix6 жыл бұрын
I feel like the politicians we have in the U.S. now are the kids who read this book and believed it as plausible and even fact
@Risky_Boots9994 жыл бұрын
@Frizzurd we were literally destroying tons of food since the pandemic started
@calanives32706 жыл бұрын
My daughter will love that gashapon. Thank you so much!
@AshleenWoods5 жыл бұрын
Comic condemns Communism. Comic then give no individuals credit for the art, but instead it is claimed by whatever group created it, as though it's not the individuals who matter, but the message and compliance. Well done!
@crackerjack03494 жыл бұрын
Wisdom 100
@pingpong58773 жыл бұрын
That's capitalist democracy for ya.
@PanConQueso0013 жыл бұрын
Communism is when big corporation don’t give personal credit to their creators… wat..?
@tonoornottono3 жыл бұрын
i mean that sounds incredibly capitalist to me
@smallmanbigmouth26994 жыл бұрын
"...do we have General Electric and AT&T symbols stitched on out flag?..." Oh God, Chris, dont give them any ideas!!!
@tartanphantom6 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, some of the artwork for "Is This Tomorrow?" was by none other than Charles M. Schulz. This was a claim that Schulz himself made in an interview (Comics Interview magazine #47, 1987) and is also documented in the book "Schulz and Peanuts- a Biography" (2007). Schulz claimed to have been one of several of artists who did the pencils and inks, and he also claimed credit for the majority of the lettering.
@ComicTropes6 жыл бұрын
tartanphantom I can guess the pages he did. Two of them get much simpler.
@JeffreyPiatt6 жыл бұрын
@@ComicTropes well it was published by Catholics in MN Schulz lived there. The state is.Catholic enough that a aquatic rodent is considered a fish for lent because the state lacked seafood.
@cookiemadison85296 жыл бұрын
I know this is meant to be a fun look at the old crazy days--and it is-- but it's kind of amazing how relevant some of these things are. At 5:00 you make a joke about how people get the news from other sources because they don't trust mainstream media, but isn't that exactly what's happening? But don't want to get political... I love this channel because it stays away from that. Thanks
@MiloKuroshiro6 жыл бұрын
The funny part is we do that for the opossite reason shown
@jacobstaten23666 жыл бұрын
Comic heroes fought Nazis and socialists for being monsters. Now we have the Alt Right and open socialists.
@riley83855 жыл бұрын
@@jacobstaten2366 Nazis? Yes. Socialists? LOL right. There's a big difference between "workers should own the means of production" and "kill everyone I don't like".
@jacobstaten23665 жыл бұрын
@@riley8385 technically Nazis are socialists, but even the other socialists have often adopted the "Kill everyone we don't like" ideology. Both sides are equally evil under a guise of being for people. It's one thing to be right or left, but someone openly labeling themselves a socialist like it isn't a bad thing is on the fringe of that horseshoe.
@riley83855 жыл бұрын
@@jacobstaten2366 "technically Nazis are socialists" What? No, they are definitely not (do you think the Democratic Republic of Korea is a democracy too?). The word privatization was invented to describe their policies (which is the exact opposite of socialism). Literally the first thing Hitler did was kill all the socialist in the party (Night of the Long Knives), he only used them to gain influence over the working class. No wonder you think like that when you don't even know what socialism is, no offense. Here is something that can be really useful if you're in the mood of expanding your knowledge: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noapp3pqh9WqgKs I realize my comment can sound a bit rude, but it's not my intention.
@henry89694 жыл бұрын
Don't bring a gun to a book-fight
@davidkarthauser32466 жыл бұрын
Propaganda comics are always cringe no matter which party is producing them.
@smithryansmith4 жыл бұрын
"...We don't collapse into rioting chaos " "things go even more over the top when people begin shooting police" "bringing all industry to a standstill" "stealing from supermarkets yelling to everyone that 'I have it!'" "people trying to vote are attacked" "no one stands up, not even successful businesses, instead everyone is manipulated..." "How are we supposed to take any of this seriously?" all said before 2020. How times change.
@lucascoval8283 жыл бұрын
Mostly peaceful.
@JadeoftheGlade3 жыл бұрын
Times didn't change. He's just willfully blind.
@romulusnuma1166 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of chick tracks
@jamesoblivion6 жыл бұрын
Remember when you could make fun of an old political propaganda comic and literally no one wrung their hands and screeched about "getting political?" Those were good times.
@canadianturtle72406 жыл бұрын
The comics code authority nearly killed the comic book industry in North America. If it weren't for that, the comic industry here would be just as big as manga in Japan. But the good thing is, comics are starting to make a come back in recent years. Slowly but surely. It's all thanks to publishers like Vertigo, Image, Dynamite, etc. Good job guys and gals
@blethigg93204 жыл бұрын
"Lynching became common". Erm, in the 1950's lynching *was* common. If they wanted to be outraged about something, that might have been a good place to start.
@SailorLavender4 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a revisit of this one.
@show2806 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure which is scarier; communist infiltrators or the very existence of a comic published by a 'catholic guild'!
@swfcocs15 жыл бұрын
@Gzus Kreist no we're not,that is ridiculous stereotyping, you may as well say all muslims are jihadists or all catholic priests are paedophiles, all three comments are ludicrous
@swfcocs15 жыл бұрын
@Dangerz Own maybe,you could argue capitalism is responsible for more deaths than religion,certainly since the industrial revolution ,either way us atheists are largely in the clear
@calanives32706 жыл бұрын
I just got the gashapon in the mail. It's Snow White. My daughter loves it!
@Werrf14 жыл бұрын
12:40 "You're much too old to produce for the State". What precisely is the difference between this and an old person being told "Nope, Mr. Green, no food for you. You don't have enough money"? He doesn't have enough money because he's...too old to produce for an employer. This comic was clearly ahead of its time, predicting the way conservative politicians accuse their opponents of the things they themselves are guilty of.
@DarthDoodie2 жыл бұрын
when you rolled your eyes at "drouth" i lossed it thank you man you are great. I needed a good laugh. I think your content is great. Thank you.
@asifnewazmohammad96036 жыл бұрын
you know you should try to do an episode with the guys at comic pop or do an episode of back issues and nerdsync. I think a lot of people would enjoy that.
@Kulodemandril4 жыл бұрын
I come from 2020 this somehow happened in usa lol
@caincha4 жыл бұрын
9:49 - well... you do remember LA 1992 right..?
@CRUCIFi7774 ай бұрын
1:22 🫤 I can imagine why you struggle so sometimes Chris.
@FionaOfMountLawley6 жыл бұрын
Smirnoff, though founded by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831-1898) in Moscow in 1864 was re-established by his son Vladimir (1875-1939) after fleeing the Soviet Union following the Russian Revolution by creating distilleries in Istanbul, Turkey (1920), Lvov, Poland (1924) and Paris, France (1925). It's now produced in Albania, Brazil, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mongolia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States. The marque has been owned what would become the multi-national Diageo (which resulted from the merger of RJ Reynolds/Nabisco and Guiness Breweries) since 1985. It hasn't been Russian since 1920, almost a century ago.
@jackburton37012 жыл бұрын
Would you say any of this if it was nazism instead of communism? I bet not
@georgemink18136 жыл бұрын
We have laws, we also have lobbyists and corporations who say "Let that person die, rich folk can use the good organs. Look into Nova Scotia, around 1999 ish. Up till today, I'd dread having to go to a hospital in Ontario
@Captain_MonsterFart6 жыл бұрын
Uh....
@MrHantz1014 жыл бұрын
This video was obviously made before 2020
@jamesoblivion4 жыл бұрын
This comment was obviously made by someone who doesn't realize that riots over police brutality happen every generation.
@justafanmarvel96693 жыл бұрын
@@jamesoblivion and lab engineered pandemics and forced lockdowns, followed by shortages, abolishment of the first two amendments to the Constitution, and now mandatory experimental vaccinations for "free movement" and employment aka papers please... sure it happens all the time... just not in a free society.
@fourrpaws4 жыл бұрын
Wow. This episode hasn’t aged well. Looks a lot look 2020.
@plasticpimps4 жыл бұрын
The first panel says "this is how it began". Shows turmoil at the capitol.
@Wimple-zn1lz5 жыл бұрын
I'd like to add as ridiculous as this comic this, there are several parts that are exaggerated versions of this truth of what happened in several Eastern European countries, especially Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
@Eisenwulf6663 жыл бұрын
People weren't dying of starvation in Czechoslovakia though. The rest is sadly kinda accurate..
@bwilliams4635 ай бұрын
The comic panel on the lower left of the screen deeply intrigues me. What's the story?
@thewyldness4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this brief moment of sanity. You don't know how much it's worth.
@TheDing17015 жыл бұрын
"Logan's Run", huh? You must be old like me!
@jerryrichburg24583 жыл бұрын
Great movie.
@gr8kat16 жыл бұрын
My very right-wing, very-Catholic MIL would say this comic is still 100% accurate. Have you ever done a video on Spire comics? They tricked me with Archie and the gang, then confused me with the heavy-handed religious messages. Weren't as fun as the other Archie comics.
@uselessDM4 жыл бұрын
The World According To McCarthy is probably the alternate title...
@qrissy37426 жыл бұрын
Awe, poor Alex Jones. So missunderstooooooood. :(
@joeydewey16404 жыл бұрын
Hey would you please consider doing a comic tropes about the time that the Judges had to deal with the mushroom plague in Mega City 1?
@ciscomartinez60923 жыл бұрын
The segment about not trusting major news networks didn’t age well
@paulcarr59184 жыл бұрын
I like how we want to believe that this was just aimed at kids. This is a lot like those Chick Tracts.....definitely meant for narrow minded adults as well. lol
@Laissez-faire4029 ай бұрын
What is narrow minded about it? You are aware the communists slaughtered millions, right. Do you DENY that?
@natelandherr5202 Жыл бұрын
Did none of you notice that Jones is drawn to look like Trotsky?
@AaronRedding6 жыл бұрын
Jones looks like Leon Trotsky
@aaronmarko4 жыл бұрын
Boy oh boy is this video going to have all new context in 2020
@jarosawchmielewski95492 жыл бұрын
read in 2022;)
@joeydewey16404 жыл бұрын
Finished watching. I agree that its ludicrous to think that a lot of this stuff would happen in United States but I think he was drawing a parallel with what actually happened in the bolshevik revolution and under Stalin. Plus it predates very similar events in China and Korea and Cambodia. My exes parents were sent to a labor camp in China in the 70s, and she lived in a school for several years where they got to visit mom and dad once a month.
@jameswalker43976 жыл бұрын
Ah, the joys of propaganda! A huge number of propaganda comics have been done over the almost century of comic history Reminds me of the little tracts that are still distributed by some churches. I'm religious, and I find these things hard to swallow The one on the evils of D&D made me shudder and laugh alternately. Good presentation.
@ComicTropes6 жыл бұрын
I have an episode on Chick Tracts.
@jerryrichburg24583 жыл бұрын
I'm from New Orleans. My dad used to save southern Baptist comics he found in the garden district for me to read as a child. I loved the artwork. I was reading marvel books.
@jerryrichburg24583 жыл бұрын
It's kinda happening. It is laughable but on point.
@balthazarasquith2 жыл бұрын
Smirnoff is actually an English company 😁
@aldi4046 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this interesting video. Judging by some of the comments here we still have much work to do educating people about the past.
@zellosoli6 жыл бұрын
perhaps you should put them in "re-education" camps where they can "concentrate", to better suit your line of thinking
@SciFiFan20126 жыл бұрын
zellos Node exactly where did he state anything even close to what you said? Not everyone is a historian.
@zellosoli6 жыл бұрын
The Man From Krypton seriously? Christ, you people are lost. have fun being blind to irony and subtext
@jonhall31516 жыл бұрын
Most kids these days seem to learn everything they staring at KZbin, Facebook and video games. As a result, they tend to be socially retarded(here in the real world, anyway) and ignorant of virtually anything that doesnt have to do with those 3 subjects.
@illwill19913 жыл бұрын
@@zellosoli to be fair to the guy it is hard to recognize irony in a KZbin comment. I mean I chuckled when I read your comment but in a comment section that gets as crazy as this one it gets hard to tell who is being serious and who is being facetious.
@NathanCudgel6 жыл бұрын
Nice video. How much was that comic? I kind of want to pick it up
@mostlymoviespod15046 жыл бұрын
This comic is eerily relevant to today...
@MrYTGuy15 жыл бұрын
On the other hand this was also being paired up with men dressed as bats and Supermen who could tow a solar system. I would guess that at least some of the the kids reading this thought this was just as ridiculous as those other absurd tales
@snakes34256 жыл бұрын
Recommendation: a Captain America comic from the 1950s Atlas era
@QwertyGirl7895 жыл бұрын
...Psst,... for awhile the Communist party was the only party that explicitly was for civil rights for people of color... so when the comic is talking about saying that the party line spreads the idea of "tolerance" this is probably what they were talking about.
@Armandosanchez-in7zh6 жыл бұрын
I think diversity and comics would like this comic
@truefanforum32736 жыл бұрын
Armandosabche Armaobreg He probably would, but I think he would really like it better if it was modified to say "sjw" instead of communist.
@NelsonStJames6 жыл бұрын
You noticed his schtick as well I see. If a comic book panel had a rock in it, that guy would find an sjw under it.
@truefanforum32736 жыл бұрын
Nelson Smith Nah, he would probably just call the rock an sjw. The guy has about as much variety as a jukebox with only one record in it.
@vollsticks6 жыл бұрын
No shit, I was just thinking maybe Antarctic could reprint it lmao. Seriously though fuck "Comicsgate"
@truefanforum32736 жыл бұрын
vollsticks I honestly think comicsgate is very misleading, and Diversity & Comics and others like him are manipulators. There are many great comics out there that they almost never talk about because it doesn't fit their narrative. But real fans who read and explore comics and various companies know better.
@georgemink18136 жыл бұрын
The Jones character is both Malthusian and Hegalian in character.
@MrHantz1014 жыл бұрын
"If two sides can't negotiate in good faith, a mediator is installed..." So who do we get to mediate between the Senate and the House of Representatives over this unemployment debacle? Cuz neither side is budging from their positions while millions are facing homelessness and ruination
@cjdunham31906 жыл бұрын
All the characters have very anonymous names. I might just say that's because the authors have no imagination, but...
@joeydewey16404 жыл бұрын
Ok. I love this commentary but at one point it is way dated. When you talked about the 2 guys at starbucks and said that people dont just start rioting and have a societal collapse. I put to you that we are experiencing a lot of that tjese days, and predictably so. When justice is constantly deferred and denied eventually something has to give. Oldest story in history. That and hookers.
@edwardgrierson14605 жыл бұрын
5:22. Sadly, that IS the case.
@mr.pavone97193 жыл бұрын
Kinda strange watching this 3 years after it was posted. It all seems a little more... plausible. I hope everything works out.
@KentaroMiyamoto216 жыл бұрын
If this was actually written competently, Jones' conspiracy would have fallen apart right at the start.
@mundane2macabre9 ай бұрын
Legend goes the writers went on to invent twitter
@chessthecat Жыл бұрын
It's a little exaggerated but this is basically how cultural revolutions work.
@TimCornett4 жыл бұрын
boy, try watching this after an insurrection
@TheWonkster5 жыл бұрын
That drink tastes pretty good, it’s basically candy. Not much alcohol content, but it’s just enough for 2 to get you just a little loosened up.
@shwethathammaiah60986 жыл бұрын
Hi my name is Rishabh and Prajwal is my cousin and praju Anna very good thanks skunkape
@prajwaljayaraj58876 жыл бұрын
Shwetha Thammaiah Thanks Rish
@sethleoric25984 жыл бұрын
Dude this needs to be turned into a Starship troopers type movie with the moral of Harold and Kumar
@thexdatabase5 жыл бұрын
02:20 is that today
@johngingras4 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, Comics trope you! What a country!
@egoapple54213 жыл бұрын
It happened
@michaelsuttkus69752 жыл бұрын
You comment that there wouldn't be book burnings in the US in the fifties so soon after we fought the Nazis. Sadly, you were wrong. We were burning books in the 40s. There was a rash of comic book burnings in 1948 and several large burnings in the fifties. I don't think the US had ever gone five years without an organized book burning somewhere.
@markginther60884 жыл бұрын
Comics designed to scare kids reminded me of 'The Crusaders' comics by Jack Chick.
@KenBeeKJV4 жыл бұрын
The part about rioting and what not over racism not shutting down stuff lol boy did that ever age like milk. Love your channel but I died at that part watching it in 2020.
@jamesoblivion4 жыл бұрын
Ah, please. This same shit happens every generation. Because every generation epically fails to address the roots of these problems that will absolutely never go away on their own. 2020, in that respect, is no different from 1992, or 1968, or...well, keep subtracting 25-30 years, and you'll keep finding the same thing. The only surprising thing is that every single time, white America acts like it's completely unforeseen.
@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556Ай бұрын
Hamfisted and clumsy as the message was - as far as warning of the horrors of communism, I don't think it was that far off: It's important to remember it was written in 1947 when Stalin was still alive. Mass starvations, both deliberately planned and otherwise, was very much a reality in vivid memory. As were all the extra-judicial executions and disappearings of presumed wrong-thinkers. Not to mention the gulags that were still operating at full capacity at the time.
@rileyvenable42976 жыл бұрын
Mr. Brown? A hint? Anti-labor? As much as the Birchers hate Papists, it doesn’t seem like their views were very different.
@lunarmodule64195 жыл бұрын
National universities. Hum. Not so crazy (ok ok Im a commie canadian)
@kaylemain2006 Жыл бұрын
This comic book actually predicted the future (our present)
@AzafuseKingTora Жыл бұрын
If you actually think that you should touch grass.
@LyssLiLi Жыл бұрын
@@AzafuseKingToraI think it's you who should🤡
@buttersstotch20144 жыл бұрын
Brought to you by smirnoff
@JW6662 жыл бұрын
Yesh, this comic makes The Purge seem logical, and The Purge is not logical at all!
@Laissez-faire4029 ай бұрын
You obviously have no knowledge of history.
@NelsonStJames6 жыл бұрын
Only kids might fall for the extreme scenario in that comic, but if you look at all the other entertainment from the era, propaganda aimed at adults was only slightly less overt. You should listen to some old radio shows like "I Was a Communist for the FBI". And if you look at all the stuff flying around today with buzz words like liberal, and conservative, the same tactics are being used by news outlets and people are believing things as fantastic as in that comic.
@prajwaljayaraj58876 жыл бұрын
Thanks For the feature man. Love your work.
@ComicTropes6 жыл бұрын
Prajwal Jayaraj Thanks for the fun artwork!
@msiani814 жыл бұрын
hello 2020
@inakiiribarrenlineros85946 жыл бұрын
This video made all the psychos come out lmao
@MountainDewComacho4944 жыл бұрын
The part about drawing out the meetings so all the sane people get bored and go home is true!
@Dbikgiizis3 жыл бұрын
"I get all my news from the Church..." strange how things come true!
@quazirej19986 жыл бұрын
I don't mean to sound like a worrywart but sometimes I find myself being concerned about your health with the drinking you do in some of your videos. I don't think you're an alcoholic but I just hope you drink in moderation. Good choices in alcoholic beverages, though.
@Crispman_7776 жыл бұрын
I like the way that nationalising universities is authorised evil because it's something that a communist party would probably want. I also like the way it's incredibly boring for a kid's comic.
@jpotter20864 жыл бұрын
Reads like a long-form Chick tract....which is not surprising as it was published by the "Catechetical Guild Educational Society", which pumped out religious tracts in comic book form from the mid-40s to the early-60s. So glad things have changed so much in the past 70yrs. :-[
@LucasRazorBlade5 жыл бұрын
07:00 We call those people 'weebs'. :P
@sauloellerysaulo66253 жыл бұрын
Funny how the communist in these comics are just as the same of the far right president in my country
@MudflapNichols3 жыл бұрын
There have always been people claiming that comic books brainwashed children. It's hilarious to see how completely ineffective it is when the same people who make that claim, try it for themselves. 🙂
@Beauweir4 жыл бұрын
09:40 oooh that comment didn't age well for 2020 lol
@JadeoftheGlade3 жыл бұрын
0:52 Seems to have.
@SylentEcho4 жыл бұрын
As someone who only considers the original trilogy as canon, I thank you for saying, "Emperor from Star Wars" and not Palpatine!
@leroypreston29738 ай бұрын
He could not be a super duper big fan of star wars and only knows palpatine as the emperor
@corwin325 жыл бұрын
“Ah, my sweet summer child”. Me, a viewer in 2020 to 2018 Chris talking about news sources
@bouelf3 жыл бұрын
I think you should redo this review with 2021 goggles.
@Noms_Chompsky3 жыл бұрын
Not for nothing, but all the families torn apart and kids in cages weren't Norwegians, they were Catholics and all the immigrants Britain wanted Brexited out were mainly Polish Catholics. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJvdiJmanNN-Y68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/haarh3SjadJpn68 It's fascinating how the lunatic fringe in Britain uses the exact same insults for Polish Catholics as the lunatic fringe in America uses for South American Catholics. Check it out, it's like the one is reciting the other verbatim.
@mrferno865 жыл бұрын
Chris for the love of god, stop drinking, you are going to drink too much one day and review DC’s Countdown! Don’t do it Chris!!!!
@cosmoissleeping5 жыл бұрын
I think we need a comic like this, except about how the trumpanzees have taken over America. THE ORANGE SCARE
@smithryansmith4 жыл бұрын
"Drouth" is pronounced the same way (with the "h" silent) and is a much more logical spelling that "drought" with "ough" (for example "rough" "through", "thorough" and "cough" all have different pronunciations of "ough"). You can make fun of it for being an old usage but making jokes about the pronunciation is naive at best.
@JadeoftheGlade3 жыл бұрын
But... Old people and old ways of doing and saying things are to be mocked.
@wtk60694 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with a comic that is opposed to the most hateful, extremist ideology in world history, even if the story is hamfisted in execution. Their hearts were in the right place, and that should count for something.
@JadeoftheGlade3 жыл бұрын
@Sam Snapp yes it is.
@Laissez-faire4029 ай бұрын
Truly disgraceful how people like this guy get away with downplaying the crimes of Communism.