Hey dudes! This week we learned about the importance of pictures in literature. Of course, I always knew this, being a huge nerd for DC comics. Hell, I know some characters from DC comics that very few people know, like a Red Lantern earth cat named Dex-Starr.
People often scoff at these comics, even people who normally approve of graphic novels. They understand that not every picture book is for children, but they also believe that without loads of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques the piece is not "intellectual" enough. To them, a work without these techniques can't tell a good story. Apparently telling a damn good story nowadays is not enough for most "intellectually superior" authors, every story to them needs some "deeper meaning".
Comic books and their readers have always been under attack, and, like gaming, this hobby's stigma is slowly returning. Instead of old, white, religious hacks attacking our hobby like in the past, now their are a bunch of whiney progressive telling us that our hobby is somehow "sexist" for their depiction of female superheroes. The pushback against this newfound movement has been called "Comicsgate", as an extension of the two previous Gamergate movements. So much in the media about these "hateful" movements is biased reporting only told to push a leftist agenda. All Gamergate and Comicsgate are about is protecting our communities from being infested with politics. The last thing anyone wants to hear about when they are taking a load off after work the play some video games or read some comics is more stupid political crap shoved down their throats.