Talk about terrible timing. What the fuck is DC thinking?
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Today in "Read the Room": New The Flash comic cover. (NSFW)
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Talk about terrible timing. What the fuck is DC thinking?
Reminder: Ezra Miller goes by (They/Them) pronouns.
Jesus, it is almost like an SNL skit. How can you go so hard at doing something so wrong?
Talk about terrible timing. What the fuck is DC thinking?
Reminder: Ezra Miller goes by (They/Them) pronouns.
Legendarily terrible timing. Sometimes things like this are so obviously in poor taste that I wonder if they must be intentional.
Wow that'd be funny if it wasn't so horrible. It's like a Mad Magazine parody, even the artstyle matches.
This stuff is planned well in advance and if they really wanted to, stopped on a dime(comics been yanked last minute for less).
but to be fair, this probably such a throwaway part of the PR it was probably turned in and forgotten and been automatic ever sense
Like I've said on the child abuser thread:
I have no idea about the inner workings about how comic book previews work in the United States, but I do know how digital files work. DC Comics NOT RELEASING this digitally piece of shit dishonoring one of their characters after the last weeks and especially after yesterday's 1k-year-old accusation shows that they do give a fuck and are sensible about the shit that is happening.
I don't think most people know how this works but claiming a technicality at the face of what it's going on is with all due respect, bullshit.
Fuck Ezra Miller, fuck Warner Bros. Discovery and now fuck DC Comics too, they better announce that this shit isn't getting released before the day is over. This should have its own thread but I'm legit tired of all this bullshit and I'm just hoping WB will just say something already. This getting announced one day after a 12-year-old non binary kid accused them of grooming it's just a disgusting, appealing, abhorrent, callous, irresponsible lack of oversight by both DC Comics and WB. Fuck this shit.
I have no idea about the inner workings about how comic book previews work in the United States, but I do know how digital files work. DC Comics NOT RELEASING this digitally piece of shit dishonoring one of their characters after the last weeks and especially after yesterday's 1k-year-old accusation shows that they do give a fuck and are sensible about the shit that is happening.
I don't think most people know how this works but claiming a technicality at the face of what it's going on is with all due respect, bullshit.
Fuck Ezra Miller, fuck Warner Bros. Discovery and now fuck DC Comics too, they better announce that this shit isn't getting released before the day is over. This should have its own thread but I'm legit tired of all this bullshit and I'm just hoping WB will just say something already. This getting announced one day after a 12-year-old non binary kid accused them of grooming it's just a disgusting, appealing, abhorrent, callous, irresponsible lack of oversight by both DC Comics and WB. Fuck this shit.
It's highly unlikely they hired an artist to do this within the last week
Considering how far in advance these things are set up I'm not surprised they had some Flash stuff in the pipeline that they neglected to remove.
They're unlikely to, like, recall the solicitations or whatever, though they may end up cancelling orders for the book. They have until September-ish to do so, and god only knows what will end up happening between now and then.
They're unlikely to, like, recall the solicitations or whatever, though they may end up cancelling orders for the book. They have until September-ish to do so, and god only knows what will end up happening between now and then.
It takes some time to make a comic so this wasn't something they did in the last week.
Still an absolutely terrible look.
Because they are a child abuser piece of shit and DC Comics is in the business of shitting all over their own characters.
It's a variant cover, and I think publishers have been up-charging for them in recent years.
Yup this is my take. Sucks it made it live but it would've been nice if someone had seen it and said "maybe we cancel or heavily delay that scheduled release considering all of the...y'know.....everything"
Although, tbf, with how long these things are made in advance and how many partners could potentially be involved in marketing it may not even be possible for them to just say never mind so no hate towards DC on my end. Not yet at least
Huh, that is indeed Andy Muschietti. So it's definitely Ezra Miller.
Yup. The article is actually about the fact that the cover reveals the new Batman costume from the movie, but of course that's not the big story here...
Just want to clarify that the bolded is absolutely also a thing that happens, because comics are such a minor industry nowadays that it's only in real extreme cases like this where non-comics people are actually paying attention to them.
So yeah, this is mostly a case of extremely awful timing and DC getting caught asleep at the wheel.
You'd think the director of the movie would remember he drew this and be like "hold up, remember that variant cover I drew? Please don't publish it"
I don't hold any ill against Muschietti, but that's a fair assessment. Another fair assessment would be like: DC Comics, these characters are more than 80 years old, how about we read the fucking room and ask politely to the comic book websites to not run this shit? How about being fucking sensitive about accusations of grooming from 12-year-olds? I legit hope that they talk something about this disavowing the cover, it's the least they can do after shooting themselves in the foot like that.
My personal favorite, see if you can see it
I just love how they blatantly didn't write anything for Australia and just went "Uhh, neutral?".
Also: OOOOOOOOFF
Someone at DC was determined to mine everything they could outta this shit show lol
Really not a good cover, even
Really not a good cover, even
