Thread by @HappyWarriorP

.@EricDJuly is not wrong exactly,

the problem is only in the last decade impressing your peers became different that making a great comic to impress your readers

before then they were one & the same

https://twitter.com/EricDJuly/status/1668017969400537089

Comics used to be healthy, the industry promoted quality work, and the ecosystem, besides being more extensive, was relatively more focused; people knew they were there to make comics.

yes politics at the office existed, but the Modus operandi was making comics that could sell twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

But after the comics crash in the 90s, comics failed to learn the lessons about distribution & selling product & would lean into social politics & major media.

& the focused on a more feminine demographic

Once you get to 2014; all new hires are dirt-cheap social justice kids

model changed from making quality comics to sell more comics; to making cheap-enough comics to barely stay afloat & avoid questions via virtue signals

by the 2010s, pleasing ur peers meant something fundamentally different than it had before

#ComicsBrokeMe

which isn't to say lefty or social justice comics would never sell, or that they aren't sometimes good topics;

but it masked the decay of the industry & so a ton of writers & artists invested into comics only to learn the big 2 & every other comics company were dead broke

Tom King does sell issues, so it's not impossible for a leftwing creator at DC to sell some issues;

But in general, the social justice pandering could cover up the generally poor quality of most of the new comics output

For a long time in comics news media, criticism of someone like Vita Ayala meant you were a bad person.

you weren't allowed to notice she never sells; that's what I mean, modern cultural politics as a cover for poorly made & worse selling comics

Until just recently that is

we have now entered the bankruptcy & collapse phase of the comics industry & there's no way we can pretend anymore the industry isn't in self-destruction mode

didn't have to me this way, if the industry learned & transformed after the 90s crash it might still be healthy today

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