Ignited: The Far Left Turner Diaries

[@TheBerchie]

Let me tell you guys about a real hero, 15 year old Anthony Borges, he’s a Parkland shooting survivor. When the gunman was coming down the hall, Borges was trying to get the door locked, but he couldn’t. In that moment, he decided to hold the door to protect his classmates and teacher. The gunman shoot Borges five times before he moved on. After the shooting Borges was taken to a hospital and after several surgeries, he survived. But why was Borges willing to do this? He said this: “I did it because, as I was going to die, I wanted to give my last moment to the people so they could save themselves and enjoy life longer.” That Ignited, is how you should be creating your heroes.

[@calemr]

See... I could see this as a real super hero origin. Shows morals, human weakness, gives a drive to rise up and make a difference... People might complain that it's somehow "disrespectful to real victims" but... They're fucking wrong.

[@walrider2133]

Dude's got balls.

[@Muck006]

Another "heroine" is this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWnJdHuretmtoaM ... and nobody talked about it. Even if this story was fake ... it is the only solution to school shootings!

[@TheRisky9]

I love how this thread is about true heroes. Just as Fred Rogers once said, when there's tragedy, look for the helpers.

[@bunnyattic0009]

That is just beautiful

[@JohnnyMcJim]

"Remember kids, violence and cruelty are okay if you use it on those who don't agree with you!" -Mark Waid

[@Cmon_bro12]

Also remember cops that protect kids that were being attacked by these girls are bad.

[@angelartiyalvt9574]

sad thing is, I've run into people who deadass think this way unironically.

[@AColonDashSix]

“And as long as no one says any naughty words!” Jesus just realised Mark is a Jewish mother

[@theprocrastinator6813]

im not a murderer! i just kill people that i see are a bad stain in this world . I am simply purging evil!

[@theparodywizard677]

@@theprocrastinator6813 *Laughs in Kira*

[@rumorcontrol7873]

It almost seems intentionally satirical

[@1lobster]

Irony irony irony irony! So much bloody irony! unfortunately I believe the people who made it were America, so im pretty sure satire and sarcasm are quite foreign concept to them.

[@Ka1ven]

@@1lobster as an American I apologise for these idiots. Ever since the 2010s satire and sarcasm have been dying out thanks to "writers" like these.

[@1lobster]

@@Ka1ven an American to that's part of what motivated me to say it. The American people of grown allergic to satire and sarcasm in recent years, not to mention it seems many people who try to be deliberately ironic, don't seem to notice the irony in many of their actions. ironic isn't it?

[@Jim-Tuner]

No. Its dead serious. People like Mark Waid have convinced themselves that they are living in a new version of Nazi Germany and that the only sane response to the situation is political violence.

[@Sousabird]

If I didn't know better. I'd think it was like Black Summer, where superheroes kill the President. Where we see the consequences of such a drastic action. But I don't think Mark Waid has the stones to criticize his own ideals.

[@moonbane8121]

Damn! It's almost like they can't see the irony of their actions!

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

Naa that would imply they would see that their actions are bad

[@1lobster]

*Curb Your Enthusiasm music intensifies!*

[@moonbane8121]

@@1lobster lol! I liked the concept you commented it seems good.

[@1lobster]

@@moonbane8121 thanks but why didn't you just reply to that, instead of my dumb joke?

[@liljenborg2517]

That's the textbook definition of a "fool", that is to say, the opposite of "wise" (the textbook to which I refer is the book of Proverbs in the Bible).

[@CrisisComics]

Problem: A school is terrorized by a student's violent actions. Solution: More violent terrorism by students. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[@Cmon_bro12]

Cons: Kids that's were attack by crazy students now get guns to protect themselves from them Cons: gun violence increase Cons: murder increases Cons: shootings increase Pro: we got to apease the wierd sjws

[@donnagant6575]

​@@Cmon_bro12isnt that just every 2nd amendments freaks wet dream??

[@richardthefox3412]

The hero’s sound more like villains to me. That gives me a idea....

[@unclefranklin4575]

Go on

[@blackwaterodysee]

@Richard The fox go on

[@decepticreep952]

Go on...

[@storytellingchampion6438]

Go on...

[@basial1380]

I'm just hear to follow the crowd sooooo..... Go on.....

[@phillipwattsjr.4714]

And once gun rights are taken away, guess who the ONLY defense against crime and terrorism will be... That's right---THE COP POINTING THE GUN IN YOUR FACE! Did these brats think this through at all?

[@bassforhire555]

*slams fist on table* ONCE MO' FA' JESUS

[@Awakeandalive1]

They never do.

[@raviothethief8292]

Phillip Watts, Jr. finally Simone said it

[@MoeMoeJoeJoe]

No.

[@lucamedugno]

Well, here in Italy we are fine. Have less guns around actually help a lot.

[@ComicsMATTER]

Is issue 3 out?

[@dandare9055]

Apparently. Also : Hi Zack!

[@nightwishfan1991]

Another 2,000 ships to sit on shelves for all eternity.

[@94namnam]

HELLO THERE!

[@JustSomeGuy]

Comes out Wednesday.

[@endless3cho]

More TP for the latrine.

[@ValD98]

Reminds of one gun control advocate who demanded lining up the NRA to shoot them. About the same level of unrealised irony.

[@ValD98]

@Etern4l Are you talking about the recent shooting? Lol I knew he was a leftie, but wow.

[@austin9568AuraMasterDX]

*Looks at cover, Record scratch* Gin-tifa: yeah, that's us. You're probably wondering how we got in this situation? That my dear readers...is a short story.

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

"Our school got shot and we got powers, so we did the best next thing and terrorized our schoolmates*

[@randommadman7348]

@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 But We'RE ThE GoOD GUyS!

[@danebarrett237]

Mark Waid has gone completely out of his mind.

[@SchweitzerMan]

What HAPPENED to him? I mean...aside from the 2016 election?

[@phillipwattsjr.4714]

Give me the mid-90's Flash/Captain America Waid back!

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

@@SchweitzerMan he hasnt gotten laid and cant afford a hooker thats what

[@aritraroy6592]

@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq cuz of the lawsuit?

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

@@aritraroy6592 maybe more so now than before the lawsuit. Think i remember him bitching bout cash before he tried to screw over zach

[@kingsadvisor18]

Mark Waid used to understand that the worst villains are the ones who think that they're the hero. Now he's no different from those edgy parodies of edgy 90's characters he wrote about in Kingdom Come. Also, El Paso is my hometown. I was at home in the North East when I heard about it. Very first thing I did was call and text about 50 people, trying to make sure everyone I love and care about is safe. I was lucky that nobody I knew was there but it breaks me apart that so many were still hurt. I DO. NOT. Appreciate that these people take advantage of my hometown, who could've been my coworkers, neighbors, classmates, friends and family. This REEKS of uncaring, they dont care about thw victims AT. ALL.

[@thatguybrody4819]

the fact that they are so onto this and screaming white nationalism all over the place yet if you actually look the guy was far left but covering it up by calling him republican is just infuriating. (edit was i said they were underrating dayton but it is showing up more now so idk)

[@Missrena1000]

My condolences, sir. No one should ever have to go there that.

[@SUMDude219]

El Paso is my hometown too. I hate that no one really gives a crap about it until it's politically convenient. Glad all your loved ones are safe.

[@ethanwilliams4559]

Brodu Sullivan they threw Dayton under the cover cause from what I heard, the shooter is antifa.

[@WastelandSeven]

Of course not. The victims are just a means to an end. Disgusting, but, about par for the course these days.

[@MikeHawke83]

So it's Superman vs. The Elite without Superman written by a sociopath.

[@Paxchi]

Or just Mark Millar's run of the Authority.

[@jcdelgado5377]

this is for anyone who hasn't actually done their own research, please do, this is fake AF; the guy who made the video just took screenshots of the comic book and edited the lettering to warp the context and meaning of the scene unfolding; I actually have the author of the comic book in my friends list, this is all smear propaganda

[@deraybell9140]

Then by all means tell us What we're supposed to take away from this.

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

As a latino i give JSG a full tino pass letting him rip on latinos trying to be in the oppression olympics.

[@TennoWolf]

As a latino myself , i move to upgrading him to an ETERNAL latino pass so he can do so without worrying of it expiring.

[@DkKombo]

POR QUE?!! How dare you!!! You must racist!!! - i say as a priviledged white man in my $550 a month apartment

[@jonathanguzman3044]

You’re pathetic homie. Kissing the white man’s ass ain’t a good look

[@ranchoth]

I think they successfully turned those student protesters from "supporting the 2nd Amendment" to "supporting the Sentinel program."

[@pallyboy6005]

@@yagamifire7861 ?

[@IMEGA_Arts]

The comic looks so cringy but those photos at the end LOL! He obviously doesn't want to be there.

[@mrmanceres7653]

Would you want to be the only black man in a room full of Klan members because I'm sure thats what he sees.

[@jcdelgado5377]

please read, research and educate yoursleves before you fall for some cuntrag's pseudo-fascist disinformation agenda facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157672717285799&set=a.260990550798&type=3&theater

[@hannahrainous9080]

JC Delgado changing the words on panels as part of the commentary is something JSG does a lot in his video thumbnails; check out the ones on Border Town, Black AF, or Kim&Kim. No one here actually thinks that is what Waid/Kwanza wrote, and to assume otherwise is an insult to our intelligence.

[@sketchstevens5859]

Why the hell does that girl narrating look like the Teacher from the Magic School Bus? Am I the only one that noticed that? Also, speaking of bomb threats. Some kids set off some smoke bombs on their graduation day so it made the news and people were calling parents to see if they'd fess up... So yeah, it makes no sense for that text to not be taken seriously.

[@titang6173]

Don’t insult Ms. Frizzle. She’s way more engaging

[@sketchstevens5859]

@@titang6173 She's also more hot. Never thought I'd say that my entire life

[@somebody5702]

@@titang6173 Bomb vests, everyone! *Magic school Bus theme intensifies*

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

How insane do you have to be to have your super """"""""hero""""""""" pull a no Russian TWICE how did anyone look at this and say "I don't see anything wrong with this"

[@danebarrett237]

The people in charge ate Said and French. Ta da.

[@danebarrett237]

The people in charge are Waid and French.

[@Soridan]

@@danebarrett237 I liked the "they're deranged cannibals" angle better.

[@GHOSTRIDER373737]

"I'm not looking to make bank, I just wanna make back 8 dollars that I spend spend on this crap" This is why I subscribed lol

[@jim-bob3093]

If irony was a brick, you could drop this book in a stocking and beat the author to death with it.....

[@givensurname1296]

If only. XD

[@butterfly13ish]

Can't I at least enjoy ONE comic book without an agenda? Like PLEASE!?

[@DarkCT]

no, THATS ILLEGAL. AND HERESY.

[@Snowmon89]

I can think of a few comics, but they're not by professionals. Two Kinds, Skin Deep, Carry On, Slightly Damned, Foxy Flavored Cookie, Jack, Housepets, Glass Scientists and Space Pawdesy.... I'd suggest more, but yeah, eventually some of them have a message even if they're not overtly political about it. Yes, they're mostly furry comics. So what? Got a problem with it? Then move to Japan. Manga is refressingly without any political agendas. Haven't found one that was yet.

[@MikeyTheCartoon]

You just gotta know where to look

[@juniorjunior5884]

I'm sorry, but that wrongthink has earned you a visit to the firing squad.

[@MikeyTheCartoon]

Junior Junior did you just assume my execution method?!?!?!?! RRREEEEEE!!!!!

[@Jim-Tuner]

9000 ships. Not 9000 orders. I would guess the book overshipped by 50% on the first issue. But the mystery remains of where the overships went. The title is so scarce at the retail level it doesn't seem like 9000 actually went to retailers.

[@joehayes9933]

Maybe they dumped them on schools and libraries in lieu of using the money in a useful manner?

[@thedemonnemo]

Some kind of Payola scam perhaps?

[@Jim-Tuner]

@@thedemonnemo Yeah. The two unsupported theories I've come up with are: 1) Diamond isn't reporting real actual numbers for some unknown reason (like Payola) 2) Humanoids is buying their own books back through Diamond. They are basically on both sides of the transaction. One way it could happen is that their online store is stocking itself by buying the comics through Diamond rather than getting them from the printer. These are just pure theories and I don't have any information to support either of them.

[@jcdelgado5377]

this video is fake af if you look at the author's fb profile he already debunked this trumplicker's propaganda bullshit facebook.com/mark.waid?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARDDD6KCMy4J8hOxR_GSd83ju909kjquUeJUdg72VSbwgwauebpxIJUNeZGEBOzknZT65fkgJ1AisxWr&hc_ref=ARRW4VtvQ1qcYTHauOIO0m5flkiPq98npCNzH6QeOLtmsc-QQQIgk_SukaiatBQKOm8&fref=nf

[@Jim-Tuner]

@@jcdelgado5377 No. He really didn't. He said the African-American creator of the video was a "sick, borderline white supremacist" and that everything said against the book was based on "faked artwork". He didn't address the book's problems with promoting violence at all really. He basically said that all the violence was equal to "pushing back against gun violence in all its forms". So when the "heroes" destroy someone's house in the first issue as a political revenge attack, Its just pushing back. When the guy with the green hair grabs and crushes a guys' balls from behind at school, that has something to do with pushing back against gun violence. When the heroes make demands of the school behind the threat that they will make all the teachers and staff physically ill if their demands are not met, that is "pushing back". When they attack a crowd of people violently, thats "pushing back". And when they injure the police officers who show up in response to their attack on the crowd, that was apparently "pushing back" too. The book is what it is. Its an immature and violent political revenge fantasy that is openly promoting political terrorism as a valid political method. The author can try to hide behind Trump, but anyone who sees the actual comic will have a tough time defending the content on the page. When they, for example, carry out fragmentation attacks which the text of the book specifically says injured multiple police officers, its really going to be hard to explain how fighting police responding to an emergency is "pushing back against gun violence". What makes the comic sick is that is basically saying that what the Parkland 5 did in terms of non-violent politics was a waste of time. The message of the book is that non-violent politics are something people engage in only because they lack the strength to carry out real acts of violence. It is VERY much a progressive version of the Turner Diaries. A paranoid fantasy where the premise is written simply to make political violence more acceptable to the audience.

[@alpyki2588]

That photo is the most excellent example of what’s wrong with these people. It almost looks like he’s photoshopped in!

[@jaredhamon3411]

I think it would be a fun series of x-men to see non-mutants arm themselves in response to a "mutant attack." It would be great metaphor and it could be used to show when/where guns are useful. Not against Magneto but useful for Sabertooth. The Moniters being "pre-crime" and blatant discrimination, this would be self-defense. You could even show "less-powerful" mutants arm up too.

[@dirus3142]

You can make a gun out of polymers and non ferrous metals.

[@nicholasrandall3507]

Senator Kelly was right.

[@BiancaZombie]

Self awareness levels in negative numbers now.

[@nvfury13]

I just realized : This comic managed to make the Senator in the first X-Men movie (and the obviously evil side in Civil War/the Mutant Registration Act) right, there are individuals with abilities more dangerous than any gun walking around their school.

[@Hawbitten]

"The students are just fine with their teachers being targeted for murder" eh. Sounds like a normal school to me.

[@bobsempletank5362]

I wanna see a fan fiction of some actual superheros combating these guys

[@thelonelongma5603]

Personally, I'd like to see "the Punisher" deal with them. Violently.

[@kabob0077]

How about setting Izuku up against them? Imagine a fic where he has to deal with unintentionally turning them into a red paint.

[@robertlombardo8437]

@@thelonelongma5603 Punisher and Red Hood!

[@Axzle_YT]

Schrodinger_1488 dude I so agree.

[@syrenasketches6902]

Those photos at the end ... How did Kwanzaa get trapped in that lame white people sitcom? Is he still there? Is it a form of purgatory?

[@Marcara081]

The definition of fascist is more complex than these writers understand.

[@VALENTINEBEAMS]

"If you would kindly..." Close, but not my trigger phrase.

[@Lugbzurg]

"Would you kindly...?"

[@CorbCorbin]

This sounds like the beginning to an issue of “The Boys,” except it would end with Butcher killing half the supers, and quite a few carrying a guns. 🤪 Or, Homelander would land, kill almost everyone, then say there was a bomber, and he went off. 😆

[@TGPDrunknHick]

if this was the boys their guts would be lining the street in issue one.

[@johnivantaro6684]

Homelander would probably use the ANTIFA wannabes as his "side-kicks" (and by "side-kicks", Homelander would mean goons), maybe even strike up a twisted romance with Anouk the redhead Jean Grey wannabe chick assuming that she's a very late teenager at the age range of 18-19.

[@Danahell]

Congratulations on making Mark Waid have another meltdown because of your thumbnail. XD

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

Wow, I was offended during the opening, and I'm never offended by anything (since I don't see humans worth listening to). This is directly evil "us vs them". The worst thing about humanity is that we see the information inside our heads as truth, and variables as intentional, willful assault. This is directly that. Death and murder are only sins if it comes from the head of someone other than you, and this book seems nothing at all more than that.

[@dandare9055]

So a misguided (at best) youth lacking psychological fortitude to control themselves and having dictatorial tendency to enforce own views through force and violence are considered now a hero materials? Well... Damn. In any normal scenario those heroes would either turn into redeemable but guilt ridden heroes in future or downright villains with megalomaniac origin. Few years ago I would be surprised and think that it was just lazy writing without thinking... but now... I honestly feel disgusted. Do not misunderstand me: there can be an interesting story with a downright nutjob villain as a main character. Out of most recent examples I would probably note "Ijousha no Ai" and while main cast is deeply disturbed to say the least - it is an interesting, well built, believable, engaging and fluent story. What it haves though is self-awareness, and not only of 'how evil' is main character but how flawed is every other one. Same time while main character is horribly twisted we still get a peek into her mind, motivations and ultimately : twisted form of humanity. But the most annoying thing is that all the vile behaviour of main cast in Ignited seems to be shrugged under the rug and ignored... despite being shown. It's daring attempt to say the least. It reminds me of "The Naked Gun" 'nothing to see here' scene.

[@Jim-Tuner]

These sorts of scenario are most typical in films about students (usually in the 1960s) becoming radicalized and becoming terrorists. The students start out protesting something political. There is violence and the police intervene which leads to more violence. It escalates until they are robbing banks, planting bombs, doing kidnappings and so no. They gradually transition from political motivations to criminal ones. The comic book reminds me of the German film "baader meinhof complex" about the Red Army Faction terrorists.

[@dandare9055]

@@Jim-Tuner This does make some sense in the context. Especially if we employ meta-humans and recurring reinforcement of 'sense of superiority' in this particular case. Ah, where are the times when with great power came great responsibility. Hero is not hero for being immensely strong. Hero is a hero for being good DESPITE being immensely strong. The moment when you use own strength for selfish reasons, or solely for own benefit - you're coming closer to villainy than heroism.

[@nicholasrandall3507]

@@dandare9055 They think being a "hero" justifies their use of power, while "villains" use power the "wrong" way. Here's the solution: kill them. If they win, they are right. If they lose, they are dead, the threat removed, and were wrong. Fiddling with "hero" and "villain" terms is what society does to control behaviour.

[@dandare9055]

@@nicholasrandall3507 At this point we're approaching 'might makes right' reasoning which in itself is so flawed that scenario where it does not lead to long term ruin and destruction is only 'perfect enlightened dictatorship' - so basically 'god Emperor' scenario in WH40k XD

[@nicholasrandall3507]

@@dandare9055 You present no evidence to your claim. Might makes right is reality. You obey the "rules" not out of good morality, but because someone stronger than you tells you to, or they will hurt you. Everything else is a distraction to make the weak think they are strong.

[@hungarianhillbilly4144]

When people have irreconcilable differences it's best to go their separate ways.

[@ZeddtheVHSotaku]

Our heroes everyone. Can't wait for this comics version of the sentinels to kick their asses. Sometimes I'm glad that I live in rural Australia.

[@patricksmith7626]

Please do more of the Ignited parody art. If it's already out there, please post a link? Pissing off Mark Waid, good. Being HILARIOUS, even better.

[@voivodadracula1936]

These "villain protagonist" characters shouldn't be treated like they are in the right

[@basteagui]

you can't have dangerous weapons! only my superpowers are allowed! you cannot have as much power as my origami!!! i am always above you!! you cannot be trusted with those dangerous weapons. trust my dangerous weapons when i say so.

[@Marcara081]

Never attribute to incompetence what is more easily explained by communism

[@thecapeofnohope6018]

“You can’t own anything that can harm someone, only I can!” The so called protagonists

[@nervclax7458]

"Just Some Guy is a borderline white-supremacist." - Mark Waid 2019 (unironicaly)

[@hydrogenone6866]

This is like ultimate projection from these people.

[@kai-yanlam7700]

Kwanza is watching this all right, and he’s gone crying to Waid about your thumbnail for the video 😂 And to think more people will have viewed this video than read the comic!

[@DevilNarwhal]

"Pinche puta" Hearing JSG speaking in spanish makes my inner Hispanic salute.

[@konnosx1213]

I dont mind stories where the protagonists arent perfect pillars of morality, but I hate it when the protags are dickheads but the writter pretends they are perfect and righteous. I respect some edgy preteen deviant art fanfiction where the protagonist is a mass murdering half demon Villain Sue with a katana more than this cause at least that is HONEST, it is honest with itself "yeah thats a villain power fantasy where my edgy OC kills people to look cool, fuck off" while this pretends that we should be rooting for those people and look up to them as classic-Superman-like pillars of morality

[@conservativeperspective366]

Unlike this book, the turner diaries seems to be living up to its name

[@MatildaGothika]

Mr. Fake-holiday did not want to be in that photo.

[@Ka1ven]

God not even a minute in and I'm pissed 😡😡😡

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

I'm terrified who ever wrote this is a fucking psychopath

[@captassassin5680]

@12:47 he looks like he’s thinking “These morons smell like soup!”.

[@thotobliterator1587]

7:00 Just a thought. It'd be kinda cool if they added a rival super who was a part of the crowd of students, and rose up to become an opposing force against the Team of domestic terrorists as a result of them attacking and threatening school. In other words, if the heroes had a rival who was actually a hero, using their strength to defend and represent the other students from these nutjobs

[@captassassin5680]

I can actually hear some self righteous SJW’s try and defend this bird cage liner. “I would so use my powers to force my views on people who don’t agree with me, I don’t care what they’ve been through before. It’s not relevant to what I want!”

[@ComfortsSpecter]

That gun store probably isn’t a franchise and held 10s of thousands of dollars worth of guns, gun accessories and security devices that probably won’t be replaced any time soon so they basically financially ruined the owners business and possibly his life in the future

[@Zinlain]

Is Ko-Fi susceptible to the same political bullshit Patreon is? I want to support you but I haven't been keen on Patreon since they decided to drop people based on their political leanings.

How come the students look like they're in their 40's?

[@Snowmon89]

Okay, I said this before and I think it's worth saying again, These people can't see their own hypocracy (aka Double Standards) if it was litterally right next to each other. My Gawd, this is sad.

[@SheikhMawini]

"The main girl, White Bitch..." 😂

[@helRAEzzzer]

I'm so glad I outgrew my SJW phase. I was living in a vacuum for information and didn't even realize it until I found pseudoscience debunking videos in KZbin by people who also touched on politics with creators from various stances. I was never THIS insane, not even close, but still... Now I'm here. Love your videos!

[@Annou7la]

Yeah his videos are propaganda just more covert. Eg the turner diaries are not a “fantasy novel that finds it protagonist amidst a race war”. It’s an instruction manual on how to incite a race war.

[@emilioochoa2862]

You know with super powered domestic terrorist, people will have even more of a reason to have guns if they're at risk of being attacked just because they express their opinions.

[@bobisconsumed520]

they sound like 2016 Marvel “heroes”

[@CandyApples4ever]

Villains always see themselves as the heroes so this does make sense that the MC is seen as a hero in this story.

[@vermis8344]

That second photo would be cringey even if Kwanza wasn't in it. It makes me think that he might have _some_ justification in hating white people.

[@BlueGoblin1]

The story satires itself. No wonder the onion has stopped making comedy news.

[@TyrannyofBroscience]

Oh god, that last picture. "I ain't touching these white folk!"

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

"We're done with violence!!" *Proceeds to terrorize anyone who dares to have a different approach of protesting against violence *

[@raijinmeister]

Man, I'm still laughing after reading Waid's Facebook post where he calls you a white supremacist! Bwahahahaha!!! 10/10 job, man!

[@ACEnBEAKY]

What the authors of this comic book don't realize is that guns as a form of technology can serve as an equalizer. Japan was wary about allowing guns to come into their country because it would undermine their way of life, Fuedalism with the Samurai as a protected class, since guns would make everyone equal and Samurai all but obsolete. In the legend of Korra, think about how easy it would have been for non benders to protect themselves from benders if they simply had guns. Not even guns that were as advanced as the 20s, even if they had guns that were as low tech as flint lock muskets or maybe revolvers and repeaters from the wild west days, it would still give them enough power to make a bender think twice. When you have a minority, a select few breakaway society of people who have powers that most people can't get on their own (especially if there's a bloodline involved passing it down), you're asking to bring about some kind of feudalism or oligarchy. The bloodlines that inherit mutations, super powers, or magical abilities will end up ruling over everyone else as Aristocracy over some kind of peasantry. This is one criticism I have against X-men: people with super powers would become Gods, oppressors, or the puppets of sycophants way before they would become victims. They would be in the back pocket of the ruling elite or organized crime, if they didn't completely take over those things, too. They would sit atop their mount Olympus while the rest of humanity was exploited. A super powered minority is not easy to oppress, and people will overlook their prejudices for love of power. The only way to stop them from taking over and establishing some kind of ethnocentric feudal oligarchy over the rest of humanity is if 1) Humanity had an equalizing force of technology that would balance things out and 2) if there was a system set up to train any mutants/benders/wizards/jedi to see themselves as public servants, people who were gifted with extra unique powers that were mean't to serve mankind (kind of like the Jedi Temple or Ministry of Magic)...or at the very least, not exploit mankind. I say all this because the ironic thing is, these super powered anti gun kids might actually bring about another medieval dark age of a weakened populace groveling at the feet of super powered individuals and their handlers/sycophants like they were gods, getting exploited like subhuman peasants. Not a very progressive endgame.

[@gus908]

Hey at least this book didn’t inspire a domestic terrorist attack on a federal building

[@itssnoopy333]

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[@Aspi3Gam3r]

Came here from Diversity and Comics video on this last night. I honestly think this is 2019's BORDERTOWN. An all around B-A-D bad comic book that's made solely for the author's disturbing wet dreams. Also, I'm honestly numb to public shootings these days not because of the innocent lives lost, but because the media and government cares more about exploiting a tragedy than actually doing something about this shit.

[@stonebaxter]

You made Mark Waid throw a hissy. So that's an automatic SUBSCRIBE from me! :)

[@glprime2814]

Pretty sure I’ve said this before to you, but thank you for reading this shit so we didn’t have to, JSG

[@immikeurnot]

"Use to be white people would just beat you and make you change your name to Toby. Now they make you take pictures with your mouth open." Holy fuck, I laughed too hard at that.

[@johnreddick7650]

Did, uh, did nobody who edited this comic catch that “¡Viva la revolution!” (which I suppose from the inverted exclamation point is meant to be Spanish) should properly be “¡Viva la REVOLUCIÓN!”? I mean, even an alabaster gringo like myself knew that much. Was it too much trouble for Mark and Kwanza, if they were going to make themselves spokesmen for the illegal alien community, at least to get the language right?

[@religiousotaku9926]

I mean if it was made as a satirical comic and meant to bash this kind of thinking...it’d be brilliant

[@joemccann5376]

Gladly placing the thousandth comment you are the best comic book based creator I watch thank you for what you do.

[@DanteGantz]

My god please tell me no one else bought this garbage..

[@WastelandSeven]

A few did. Not many. Mind you, the extremist left ARE few in number. They're just played up in the media to make them look big and menacing. If they ever really start shit, it will be over in a few days. There are a few thousand of them, there are 300+ million sane people. You can see where the math leads.

[@Cmon_bro12]

What if some kids pick this up thinking it was a comic based on a true story about a school shootings, and they think they can relate to it or something but instead they get traumatized by this comic

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

Almost 50k Keep the good work man

[@henrybemis3439]

Kudos for the Turner Diaries reference. Most young people aren't familiar with it, and the fact that it influenced guys like Timothy McVeigh. The extremist pendulum has swung so far left, it's incredible.

[@katla3393]

At least its well written compared to whatever this comic is trying to do.

[@NickSmith-qv4lh]

The Turner Diaries was a huge inspiration to Timothy McVey who committed the Oklahoma City Bombing

[@smithcas86]

So was the massacre at Waco and the assassinations at Ruby Ridge. I think they might have had a greater effect than TTD.

[@NickSmith-qv4lh]

​@@smithcas86 The Turner Diaries was a blueprint for the atrocity he ended up committing.

[@smithcas86]

@@NickSmith-qv4lh Im pretty sure that the bombing of the twin towers in NYC with a fertilizer truck bomb might have given him the idea, not some shitty book about flying a nuke on an airpalne into the White House.

[@stevenbrown1225]

Damn! Turner Diaries. Takes me back to the days when leftists started to become the REAL reactionaries.

[@TheBelieveit1]

The sad part is, they're completely serious in this. This isn't a satire. This isn't parody. This isn't self aware. It's so sad that it almost circles back to being hilarious.

[@gate7clamp]

Uh boy I just finished up watching Zack's review on The Walking Dead considering it being the last great American comic now I'm looking at the worst American comic here

[@avoidscul-de-sacs4668]

Waid is self-loathing walking.

[@voivodadracula1936]

"Am i a *_fascist?"_* "Nah."

[@Biostasis5x7]

Your videos are always poignant and well thought out. I don't read comics, but I sincerely enjoy your commentary.

[@joseph3982]

So the heroes are actually the villians from the boys except whiny and more self absorbed.

[@charlesfaulknerjr7841]

FUCKING bravo You have done a great job in this Editorial in being a fair and impartial mind about such a serious subject in America's modern history

[@jonathanhoward9533]

This comic is legit gross... The awkward Kwanzaa picture is funny asf, though. Dude looks like the family pet

[@triad6425]

You don't want people to feel like they have nothing to lose and you sure as heck don't want a lot of people to feel like they have nothing to lose

[@project9701]

I could write a better script than this, and I'm not a veteran of the industry. Try this on for size. We have a sixth character-white guy, poor, wrong side of the tracks sort of guy. Think back when Matt Damon was still the edgy Boston boy from "Good Will Hunting"-he's smart (perfect scores on his SATs), handsome in a "Irish Rage" sort of way, but he's angry. Raised by his grandfather, because his Dad did something stupid and only got out of jail a few years ago. The character and Dad are trying hard to connect and make sense of each other. His big signature item is his genuine MA-1 flight jacket with the right patches (his Grandfather's, he was a Huey pilot during Vietnam). Not going to University, because he wants to be an engineer and he can't go to school because he's just enough to not qualify for anything-he's too rich (HA!), too heterosexual, too white, doesn't have any victim credits you could use. And, he's not going to be stuck with thirty years with loans he can't pay off. So, you'd almost expect HIM to be one of the shooters. But, his Grandfather died last year, and he isn't going to disappoint his Grandfather. So, when the school shooting happened-he snuck up behind one of the guys shooting, whacks the guy in the head with a baseball bat, takes his gun, and shoots the other two guys. Puts the gun down, sits as far away from it as he can, and calls the cops to tell them where he is and what happened. And...the cops note that he probably saved lives. We're playing him at the Only Sane Man in this whole thing. The protagonists exclude him afterwards, because he's still this edgy, non-woke, whip-smart white boy that doesn't want to be with the Popular Kids. Then, he discovers what his power is. He can manipulate metal, plastic, and make and fix machines, no matter how big or how small. His brain writes computer code like Shakespeare writes sonnets, in the blink of an eye. Human bodies confuse him, he can't do anything with them. But, if it isn't flesh, he can do something with it. First big use of his power is when one of the people he lives near (let's hit the check boxes and say Hispanic woman, working mom) needs a shade-tree mechanic and he figures out that the engine block is cracked. Car's not going anywhere. Then, he fixes it. Nothing...dramatic, but it damn near knocks him out when he fixes the engine block and quite a bit more of the engine and the rest of the car when he does so. The more he uses his power, the more complicated stuff he can do and the more stuff he can create. By about issue #3, he's built a suit of powered armor (think Mk II Iron Man, but can't fly and isn't armed...yet) and a motorcycle that can carry it. He hears on the radio that some cops are pinned down by gang-bangers and he goes to rescue them, doing a Mook Horror Show scene that would be better in a horror film than a superhero film. And, as the protagonists are becoming villains and "making people do the RIGHT THING!" by all of the things they've done, he's sitting in his workshop and goes, "Well, s**t. I've got to do the right thing, then." Then, we have the big dance number when he goes after the protagonists and wins.

[@thepsychicbeagle3378]

well it really is like the turner diaries, but hey at least we dont have idiots on twitter quoting this on a regular basis or actual Terror attacks inpired by this, it really is equally stupid (tho not as violent) but for some reason it seems a lot less popular with its target audience...

[@thetrocch365]

And you got called a white supremacist for this lol

[@GameBeatenakaKevinS]

The commentary on those pictures at the end was great.

[@Adamguy2003]

Yeah, the part about law enforcement not doing anything about the threats to teachers is a crock. There's a middle school near me which used to be a real toxic waste dump (I speak from experience, having subbed there once), but turned things around after getting a major reality check. Near the end of the 2016- 2017 school year, a bunch of kids planned on the last day of school to start a riot on campus; Some students were going to bring water balloons full of urine, others were going to bring guns. Fortunately, one student grew enough of a conscience that he told a teacher what was being planned, and they got a huge police presence on school the last day to ensure the planned "Purge" never happened. Thankfully, that was a wake- up call that led to the school turning itself around and it's better now. Yet, in this crock of a comic, no law enforcement offices care about a mass threat to teachers? Gag.

[@zexnynex777]

I dont know how i missed you but im here n subbed now.

[@raijinmeister]

And at 10:32, ladies and gentlemen we see the most Chernobyl like roasting ever in the history of nuclear roastings. I hope that brother has Lead made pants, he will need to use them, forever.

[@VeaFlea]

Its always funny when writers make superheroes in shows and comics criticise the second amendment, real easy for super powered freaks who will never need guns to criticise the gun use

[@r.connor9280]

The most unrealistic thing about that opening was that they survived the first police encounter.

[@jackofallclaws6672]

Is the actual Kwanza really a fake holiday or is it just a joke?

[@MadRelique]

It is. Kwanza was created in 1966 by a black power activist/scholar with the intention of making it the first pan African holiday .

[@Jim-Tuner]

It was a fake holiday created by a guy from Maryland as an "African" alternative to Christmas. Its a mix of a bunch different pseudo-african things re-interpreted by an American who didn't totally understand his source material. His degree was in political science. The essential premise behind it when it was created was (according to the creator) that ""you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution."