I'm pulling the trigger

Lol, Dresden Codak sure generates rage like few other things.

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So, would this have been any better than D.C.'s soft reboot?

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Comics aren't dead, user. Rebirth is good, go read the thread.

But every time I hear "Rebirth" I think "unbirth", and then I get Deviantart flashbacks and I think about Batman and Superman going straight back up BRB BRAIN BLEACH

Rebirth isn't even a reboot. It's just a relaunch with a new name. If it was a reboot then the entire New 52 wouldn't still be canon.

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This is old old OLD shit
Look, I know you just got here from 4chan and you really want to fit in, but you're gonna have to make more of an effort next time

It may as well be, it's basically putting DC back the way it's supposed to be.


What you're witnessing is a casual desperately attempting to fit in now that the COMICS ARE DEAD days will soon be behind us.

And where the fuck is Batman?

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Someone post the Diaz copypasta

Clean that tumblr off you right now.

I love how Babs looks dead inside.

Batman looks fine. Robin looks completely out of place.

M8, that's not even the worse of Dresden's work. Regardless, this is old as fuck.

Yeah, if there was some new shit, this would be a thread, but we've all discussed how shit most of this stuff is over and over so many times. The only design anyone seemed to like at all really was the Wonder Woman one, and everyone else is just meh as fuck.

If there were some new shitty redesigns from others, that might get the rage OP wants so desperately. But this is done to death.

JUST

explain that white haired black thing with fins(?) on her scalp
who is this supposed to be

I think that's supposed to be Storm.

topJUST

okay, that's what I thought at first too, but can you explain those fucking head fins to me?

forgot pic

This cuck ain't even a real Portland faggot, he's a rich kid from New York who moved here to retire at 30. Smug trustafarian shitstains like him ruined this town.

I like how all human-passing mutants were turned into these grotesque freakazoids EXCEPT DESIGNATED FOREVER WAIFU KITTY PRIDE SHE GETS TO STAY NORMAL ALSO SHE IS NOW THE LEADER.

Every realize Colossus has a cape? Like we're being mercifully hidden from just how awful his full redesign is by all the other shit ones.

I honestly like the fact that the X-Men mostly look human, and the Brotherhood had a higher percentage of fucked up looking mutants. Because it would be harder for those with obvious mutations to fight for a tolerant world. It helps characters like Nightcrawler stand out, so obviously inhuman looking, but in his heart he has compassion and nobility enough to fight for the dream. So, as usual, these redesigns suck because they miss the point and would make the story LESS interesting. The gradual increase among the X-Men of mutants with drastic mutations was a sign that they were changing hearts and minds, among mutants and normal humans.

I don't really have a problem when you try to redesign characters, I don't even care if you change race or genders. But I really fucking hate it when you design costumes that are like your low-effort cosplay project.

What? You don't think all the X-Men should wear turtlenecks?

Aaaaand he's a nu-male cuck.

Do they grow these guys in a secret government lab or something? They all look the same!

Yes. They're called universities.
I wouldn't exactly call them secret though.

I believe it's the "artist's" attempt at drawing corn rows.

BLACK PEOPLE GOTTA HAVE CORN ROWS MEME HAIRCUTS, I SURE DO LOVE DIVERSITY

HER SKIN IS LITERALLY STICKING OUT IN FOLDS FROM BETWEEN THE ROWS
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE SOMEBODY CAN FUCK UP LIKE THAT BY ACCIDIENT

Okay, I actually searched and found the blogpost it's from
dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/24574027688/dresden-codaks-x-men-reboot
and indeed, there is no mention of what the fuck is going on with her head.
I guess the guy really does not understand how skin/air works.

Usain Bolt!Flash is not the worst concept for an alternate world Flash, but fuck the others are abysmal (and even that one still needs work)

I don't fucking understand this trend. Either shave it off or pick a hairstyle that doesn't make you look like you have mange or some illness.

I think it's supposed to be a physical abnormality, cause she's a mutant.

That's how I see it, too, but it makes so little sense. She has hair that grows BACK INTO her head? I mean, if she has had gills, give her head gills, but this is nonsense.

Maybe that side is her skull?

It's mostly just a failure on the artist's part. I mean, it has lines that match the lines in her hair, so if it's meant to not be hair, he's done a poor job conveying that.

Ain't no Dick in her life

Hokay, looking at the villains
>why is he human now? WHY?
>meh

Is there a picture to make fun of?

fuck off

I want to see him redesign Conan the Barbarian

Yis.

BEHOLD, THE NEWEST TAKE ON THE VILLAINS YOU LOVE(D)!

cuck/co/ is calling it's children home.

Good job Codak, preaching how blacks leech off the government.

I'll admit that his Lex Luthor captures the Steve Jobs thing he was going for.

Well, that's a lot of abortion for on image. Right off the bat with the turtleneck, too. Why does he like turtlenecks so much?

I think he took Sinestro WAY too serious.
He's suppose to enact fear not feel it. He looks like a scared little bitch.

That face doesn't say "scared" to me.

That face says "bad peyote trip"

O/^\O

Aaron, go away. You have a fucking comic you should be working on right niw.

Let the past, where The Mary Sue and Jezebel thought you were a new creative mind with a fresh outlook, be the past.

jesus christ why does he do this. He doesn't get any of the characters! why is wonder woman made out of fucking marble? I know she has the whole born of clay but she became human afterwards jesus christ. This shit is really triggering me.

what is wrong with storms head and cyclps eye? Cyclops isn't meant to be a literal cyclop! aslo is that supposed to be apocalypse at the bottom center?

why is the huntress a villain?

is that aaron diaz? Also how is it this cuck is white when he has a latino last name?

No, it's some other fag who does vids for PBS.

The Spanish language was created by white european people from a nation called Spain.

Basically Aaron's dad is the child of white cuban immigrants (guess when/why they came over) so he "identifies" as "cuban" and "nonwhite," make sense? :U

I can see now. I hope he doesn't try to use his ethnicity for privillege points though it'd be pathetic.

Ok, this is just fanart.
Who gives a fuck?
And besides, it is very old, like 4 years old.

See, I said the same thing in court, but they just wouldn't listen

hello I'd like you to take a seat.

He did.

It was.

oh god what a loser. Also do you know who did the art for the second pic? I saw a parody cartoon of tom preston with a similar art style.

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I actually like it. It embraces the spirit of the characters without being bogged down with decades of lore and clumsy attempts to weave the silliness of the pre-dark age history into the modern era. The 80s, 90s and early 00s will always be that time when comics, especially the big 2 were at their best and most profitable but that doesn't mean that the future can't be bright. SWJ-ism is only the latest symptom or expression of a disease that has been afflicting comics for a long time. Whether its pandering to critics or kowtowing to pushy regulators the result is the same, a compromise of a story written by a committee of people who don't know or love the medium or actively hate it.

I've long thought that DC needs to have a hard reboot starting in the 20s or 30s and have a continuous timeline with their characters aging and behaving like people instead of archetypes. More character, less characteristic if that makes any sense. I've seen a couple of one offs disconnected from the main universe that did this an d they were good but compressed by their limited number of pages to build the people and tell their stories.

Some characters like Max Fleischer Superman work really well in the depression era and WW2 but I have a hard time seeing the boundless optimism and moral certainty resonating with the world weary and disillusioned vets from Vietnam who sacrificed life and limb only to get spit on when they returned home.

And Batman as a character doesn't work well in an era when the pinnacle of high telecommunication technology is a dry battery eliminator but he's the badass crimebuster that a fearful America craved in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. A vengeful shadow to put an end to the crime waves and filthy slums of the 70s and 80s and the money and mind to lead the fight against terror and chaos.

All that aside, I really like the style on display here. It's not the generic simplicity of so much modern animation but it's also not the realism of the post-dark age but that gave us Rob L. so that may be a good thing. It gives each of the characters an instantly recognizable silhouette and tells us something about their personality, history, or powers. All in all I like this and I think it would be worth a shot. It couldn't be worse than what DC is doing the books now.

The only good thing I can see is the Superman design. Even then that could work in a 30's setting like you said. The rest of it misses the point of these characters completely. Especially Wonder Woman.

It's BETTER.
It is not exactly good.

I didn't read through all the lore he whipped up, I was commenting on his designs alone.

Yes I think his designs aren't inherently bad. I just he would do it with his own characters instead of ones that all ready exist. That and I still don't like his decision to make Wonder Woman out of marble.

I don't like a living statue either unless it were the golem to a Jewish hero but I think that a bull-in-a-china-shop Superman teamed up with a smart but frail Lois would fit that dynamic perfectly. Thing is the Amazons as a small collection of immortal misandrous (feminazi) Greek warriors doesn't really work either. The name means without breast because they supposedly cut off or cauterized a boob to shoot arrows but women can do that just fine with boobs (provided they're small enough) and they were always depicted with breasts in Greek myth. The Amazons are ancient porn and would only be an anthropological curiosity without serious reinvention.

I think that Amazons should be remade to look a bit like the Protoss at least with their equipment. Simple and ancient looking weapons made effective in modern combat because of godly intervention. Their bronze swords would look like swords until they "ignite their blades" or some such bullshit and they they're basically lightsabers. The bracelets come in 2 versions, one that projects a field around the wearer that deflects fast moving projectiles and another that sucks up kinetic energy that the wearer can then add to whatever action they're doing like punches and jumps. If Diana got the #2 version it could be used to show a basically defensive posture in combat, doing what is necessary to win but not put others in harms way recklessly (like she did to the metal men in an elseworlds). The first kind I described could go to a rival that eventually sides with the bad guys and tries to take over the island and the culture and would show her selfishness and disregard for those around her. And if either pair ever touch they discharge their accumulated energy in an emp that knocks out electronics and Amazon god-tech. This change with the bracelets is really needed because otherwise she has no defense against multiple simultaneous projectiles like a burst of automatic fire or a shotgun blast.

These designs are trash and you fucking know it, Diaz legit thinks that having a modern Superman run around in a 30's inspired outfit is a good idea.Which of course is stupid because he's trying to implicated realism into the world of comics and that's a big fucking no no.

What makes comics so fun is the fact that the outfits are so outargues and stupid, but when you try to make everything so goddamn realistic it losses it's appeal.

No, it's good. Read the comics.

That's adorable.

I'm guessing that robin is Dick Grayson?

Why? It's only her legs that don't work.

Kinda liking those Batman designs, tho.

And Diaz is still a shithead.

I'm not liking him giving stephanie brown a sniper rifle.

Of course it's Dick.

None of the others have a sense of humor like that.

That's why I guessed it was him.

I disagree.
It's better.
It is not good.

Actually it's Jason.


That's fine user, go ahead and have shit taste. You're the one that's missing out.

damn i was wrong. always remembered jason being more dickish in the comcis.

That's part of why I liked that issue so much, Jason is likeable now as opposed to being asshole Robin and later Edgelord Robin after he came back to life.

Also I just noticed

That's a pretty good detail.

Is it me or whenever diaz draws eyes they always have big eyebrows and a disappointing look on them. I don't know they piss me off for some reason.

the author couldn't be appealing to plebs more even if he tried

Because that's the face Ashly Burch had when she refused to go on a date with him.

Why does Diaz have such a boner for dieselpunk or any style from or based on the early 1900s? I can see him liking Steampunk because nu-maless are obsessed with English accents and whatever else Steampunk offers, but he's poorly trying to draw from an aesthetic and time when men were very unapologetic and very manly, women had legs that could seduce even the chaste, bullets flied everywhere, and everything came down to weird inventions, elbow grease, and whoever had the daring to use both on dangerous adventures. It's not a style or time when people looked like hipsters, the women appeared weak and unfuckable, and diversity quotas were enforced. In fact, if there was a lady who wasn't from the States, she was depicted as exotic.

I'm probably talking about my ass about this, but this is what I felt about the Rocketeer reboot, comparing what I heard about it to one of the posters of the original film.

I didn't know he had a thing for Ashly Burch let alone that he knew her.

To be fair, that's probably exactly the kind of thing Bruce read when he was that age.

Before he moved on to criminology textbooks, of course.

Where do you think he got the inspiration for his self-made waifu Kimiko from?

Fa/tg/uys have a term for those types, they call 'em "cog fops". It's a way to distinguish actual Steampunk and its fans, from that regurgitated hipster garbage and those who promote it.

Compare and… contrast?

I noticed that too, he seems to have this weird obsession with steampunk even though the setting of his story is in the near future with robots and shit.

Plus the dude is massively up his own ass when it comes to her main character, he constantly tries to pretend like she's this deep character when really she's nothing but a goddamn Mary Sue.

Eisner might have been a jew, but he was one of the best artists working for american comics ever. Fuck that faggot.

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thanks user. you have made me very happy.

Jeez, they both have punchable faces.

Cyborg is Maurice Moss from The It Crowd, talk about that, i just chack and Graham Linehan still a mA-GGot bitching about the muh ebiw goobergloblins, ebiw misogynerds goobergloblins did brexit.

'Cog fop' works pretty well because everything about hipster Steampunk is purely superficial, no depth at all, and almost always wearing the clothes to ape the upper classes without irony.

For my part, the only time I dressed for that kind of thing involved a boiler suit.

Diaz makes one person per team to be a reskin of his half-Japanese female protagonist.


lel

well that sucks

as long as you don't have his personality you're fine.

Yeah, don't be a terrible person and you're fine… though you can shave if you really want to.

After years on chans, I'm pretty far away from it. I'm good there.


I mostly keep it to look older. Otherwise, I look like a sophmore in high school.

Giganta's design could work well for Devastation and Grodd's design could work well for Giganta

It's just a coincidence.

DC has been around since 2005, while Ashly Burch first appeared in Hey Ash Whatch Playin? in 2008.

Then in a strange twist of art imitating life, Diaz now follows Burch on social media possibly due to the uncanny resemblance.

We have to do something before he gains full control of his power!

it's pretty racist to make the fastest man alive black.
stereotype much?

I totally am going to write a speedster into a story who's black. People love seeing fast black people.

of course they love seeing them run, people naturally want them to get away from them as fast as possible

He can't comprehend a character being strong and smart. Likely because he is neither.

My favorite Diaz-ism is his giving evil characters rings/bags under their eyes as a shorthand for "this guy is evil/creepy." He made a blog post somewhere back in the day where he talks about how the best character designs always tell you exactly what the character is and leave nothing ambiguous/to the imagination (because he has none)

Daily reminder that Dark Science is a Bioshock ripoff.

If anybody is still monitoring this, the Marvel take on the Justice League (Omega Squadron, I think?) has a black speedster. It's pretty good conceptually, but I've only perused the first volume.

So what's the story here, and why have I never heard of it?

Aren't they both comments on Atlas Shrugged?

Squadron Supreme, and I think you're talking about the reboot by JMS. I only read the first volume as well, it was interesting. I didn't like it as much as the original series by Gruenwald, but did some interesting things to update the characters. It reminded me a lot of JMS's one comic about people gaining superpowers, but I forget what that one was called.

Yeah, I think he meant Supreme Power.

Interesting first couple arcs, but it all goes downhill at the speed of light.

The storytime we had a while back was fun tho.

You know, something like that would work well…
IN A CHARACTER LIKE MARROW
But I can't say I hated Beast-Rogue probably based on that episode of the '00 cartoon were she sucks so much juice from Beast that transforms her and, what is that, Jeambit?

Yes, it was the Supreme Power version of the Squadron Supreme, and the character's name is Blur, if you want to wiki him.

I probably have too much Transformers in my brain, so I confused Omega and Supreme >_

I remember this shit being shilled on places like io9 and Kotaku, and yet, I scroll down and none of these posts generates higher statistics than 30-40 likes/reblogs.
This amuses me.

Well, think about it, she would probably be stronger in general. If you can use something that will make you stronger, go for it. But frankly, Barbara as a cripple always grind my gears.Fixing her in DC universe would be probably the easiest thing for many of the super beings in there, or even for Wayne Corp. But no, make her cripple.

so do you like that in the new 52 she can walk again?

The worst part is that he's also one of those 'logic & reason' (lit.: insecure) fedoratards.- archaeologistforhire.tumblr.com/post/59460164377/dresdencodak-shiftyshrike-aaron-diaz

Hell, there's even further proof that he's an even bigger talentless fedorafag than Seth Mcfarlane.- dresdencodak.com/2005/11/29/secular-heaven/

Man, I know the big ol' compendium of kike tales is a load of horse shit, but this is fucking embarassin.

At least DC publishes their shit on time. Aaron Diaz takes 10 years to complete a single comic.

is he seriously treating prince of egypt as if it was a faithful retelling of the story of exodus?

Doubly funny since the book of Exodus was a bullshit story cooked up by kikes.

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I don't mind Superman's design, but everyone else? No. Just. BLOODY. AWFUL.

Why!? I loved his Sonic the Hedgehog drawings. He's a success story. Why does he have to associate with him?!

I thought this was a parody of what fedorafags think.

You know what? Fuck it. I'm going to storytime Dresden Codak, so everyone can see the depths to which Diaz can plumb into his own sphincter.

And I get the feling it's going to be a rather short storytime.

I'll start with the pre-Hob comics, so you see that yes, he was always like this.

I will never understand why Diaz villified Blaise Pascal.

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And that's it for the pre-Hob comics.

To recap, yes. Diaz was always like this. He just got a wider audience.

Tell us more, Satan.

Alright, truce's over.

OH YEAH IT'S TIME FOR HOB ARE YOU READY FOR HOB MOTHERFUCKER

POM

So yeah, we get a retarded robot wandering aimlessly while Kimiko is her usual autistic self. Not much to say here.

Oh yeah, and some weirdo cosplayers bump into her store and ask for information relating to a familiar-looking device. Golly gee, I can't wait to see where this goes.

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Can anyone tell me who this guy is?

Good thing the one bit her did that I liked was the Dungeons and Discourse.

Glad you asked!

This guy doesn't understand panel layout at all.

classic diaz

I think he means he ran out of his parents money. Seriously though why would you switch your major so many times. I get people switch their majors hell I've switched my major from mechanical engineering to accounting but just pick something you like and will give you a good skill and stick with it jeez.

I assume he went into science because DUDE I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE but found it wasn't what he thought it was or he wasn't smart enough, then did the same thing with computer science, then finally went into art because it's something he can actually do and art school is easy anyway.

And then his parents cut him off.

just drink the real thing already.

What makes it even more annoying is that he's talked about panel layout like he's an expert on it (I think he even showed it to a university class).

But he never follows his own advice. His layouts may be "original" but something original isn't always good.

There's a reason why the standard mostly identical sized square/rectangle panels have been around for so long. Instead of his use of triangles, circles and even a pair of arches at one point.

Jobs as Luthor actually kinda works, i can dig that idea, but this is broken clock syndrome

A spectacle fetish is fine, but he really does have an allergy to muscles, doesn't he?

pretty sure that's a downgrade

They tried that in BvS and failed at it. Looking at that pic I think it could work.

well if she's thai there's a good chance she might be a ladyboy.

This is about 80% likely, considering he looooves to quote obscure scientific facts but gets the very basics wrong with embarassing frequency.

I keep forgetting to continue this shit. Maybe it's my brain is subconsciously steering me away from it so it doesn't end up permanently damaged.

Anyways, Kimiko-chan meets beep boop robot, which is a masterpiece despite being a literal retard. Our time-hoppers are found out spying on her and relay their backstory in the most hideous paneling I've ever seen.

Pay close attention to that panel with the guy having a drink.

Which panel are you talking about? I don't see it.

This shit gives me a migraine, Jesus Christ.

And yeah, this is our heroine, ladies and gentlemen. This is who we're supposed to root for.

Now get ready for an incredibly retarded and badly choreographed fight scene.

Violence is the language of the incompetent.

No, Diaz never explains how the twins have their powers or anything at all about them, really. And he drops them without explanation because he was bored with them. BRAVO DIAZ

And after that retarded fight scene, here comes a retarded cliffhanger.

So Mandela is going to necklace the aliens' wives and kids?

If you don't know what I'm talking about do a google image search for "necklacing" and try not vomit with rage.

Grodd looks straight out of the original Planet of the Apes.

Ah, voluntary extinction, you should've let yourself be killed for the robot Jesus goy, how dare you fight to survive… what the Hell do you mean that's how evolution works?

She's not even that great looking, so why would I cheer for her?

Stuff like this makes it clear that Diaz actually loves capes. He probably grew up reading Captain Marvel and some others, but he's trapped in a teenage attempt to be "mature." His superheroes can't just have powers, they have to be part of some high-concept science that the plebs don't know about.

It's tempting to be charitable and see Kim's insane views as a character flaw, but 1: Diaz isn't smart enough to do that and 2: Kim is never shown to be wrong in any meaningful capacity. So we can say her views reflect his, at which point, if Diaz isn't actively furthering the evolution of humanity or AI, he is detracting from development by taking up resources. Therefore, he should kill himself. Every day Diaz lives and every dollar wasted on his patreon is a further compounding of his hypocrisy.

I'm late to the party but the "I'm cuban so I'm a minority" shit is so retarded, I have to touch on it.
Something a lot of Americans don't realize is that Hispanic does not necessarily mean brown, or of american indian descent, it just means you have some spaniard ancestry, and spaniards are white.
It's understandable that in America hispanic is equated with brown people because white people in hispanic countries (mostly) don't live shitty enough lives to want to run away to America. But go to any decent neighborhood in a latin american country (they're not exactly easy to find but they do exist) and you'll find close to 100% white people in them, and they have names like Pedro, Lopez, Juan, and others that in the US would pass as ethnic.
And then comes Diaz the dumbass trying to win oppression points, except he's rich and white, so he looks for SOMETHING to cry about, and so he equates having Cuban parents (I don't know dick about his family, just saying this based on what a previous user here said) with being a minority. This is so fucking dumb I'm getting a headache thinking about it. This is why people are talking about regressive leftists nowadays, this trust fund doofus is supposedly invested in social and racial issues but can't even differentiate a racial identity from a cultural one, he doesn't understand the places he claims his "racial identity" come from have white people living in them. He might even have some fucked up SJW denial about his ancestors being white, like those people who say they are 1/64 Cherokee just to feel good or pretend they're in touch with mother nature or what the fuck ever.
It would be less retarded if he talked about having his cultural identity erased there but he's someone who I think might even be a ginger talking like he's a whipped negroid, not just a whipped nu-male.
I'm dedicating too much time and too much text just to call this limp wristed embarrassment of a man a cuck and a faggot.

Then why does his Superman look unhealthy?

because she was on the wrong side of the law and the league for a time

she was also known as Tigress, was married to Sportsmaster, and is the mother of Artemis (you'll remember her from Earth-16/Young Justice)

I just can't hate that Wonder Woman design
A marble statue come to life wearing hephaestian armor and a toga just sounds too cool (though reading his ideas is kind of cringe)

the displaced cogfop Cyborg design manages to not piss me off too

fuck literally everything he did to Green Lantern though. Anything she imagines, no willpower necessary? Way to elevate women in the medium jackass

The WW design would work for a Greek character that isn't Wonder Woman. When WW was molded from clay and brought to life she became flesh and bone. I don't like the idea of turning her into a golem.

considering it as a complete reboot would make the character's history irrelevant
but I do of course see your point. If the character never existed it'd be fine, but as things stand it'd be shitting on history
a new character it must be

I like how cyclops is an actual clops


WHAT THE FUCK

Who cares about East coast?

Diaz talking shit about Will Eisner (for being "white") is just hilarious on so many levels. By the time he created the Spirit, Eisner was the co-owner of a very successful studio that sold stories to other publishers at a time when they were still reprinting newspaper comics. During WWII he helped put together manuals with comics that aided soldiers in preventative maintenance of their equipment and weapons. Eisner even formed a company after the war that continued to do this for the Army during 'Nam and created instructional material for other agencies and companies. It's not hard to imagine that Eisner had so many opportunities to bow out of comics entirely.

What does Diaz have to his name? A webcomic that updates so slowly and is so tonally inconsistent that it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on if it was ever collected into a book. Which is a punchline of its own: Dresden Codak is so fucking slow that Diaz can't collect it into several books that could be sold for for additional revenue. Even the people who religiously follow Dumbing of Age can buy physical collections of it. Think about that.

Diaz is truly the Maxwell's Demon of overcomplicated retardation. Just when you thought he couldn't get worse, he goes and blows your expectations out of the water.

See? I can make pointless and incorrect references to obscure science facts to stroke my ego too!

Hah, well played. I was in the middle of your first line, I was thinking, "That's not how…"


Doesn't that just prove that Eisner was an evil, privileged male? He was a successful, self-made entrepreneur. He created for a market instead of churning out garbage and crying that there was no market for it. Since he has money and manages a corporate interest he would be cast as a villain in any modern SJW narrative.

After Kimiko-chan gets fried like a kike by laser beams, she goes into a coma and we transition into a flashback. Soak it in, boys.

And then it turns out she's actually having some telepathic conversation with Hob-bot or whatever. I'll break a lance and say that this is where a chaotic panel layout and composition would work best, during a surreal flashback-slash-dream-sequence. But Diaz being Diaz, he still botches it.

And now… oh boy, brace your fucking selves…

that's what we do now you plebian

Disgusting…absolutely disgusting.

however Kimiko looked way different well into 2008, but she slowly morphed into Burch by mid 2009, probably when Diaz took notice of her.

I remember peeking at this one back when I was a retard and just discovering the internet, now I realize it was meant to be a Moebius homage, and a shitty one at that

Diaz, you fucking hack.

THAT'S RIGHT KIMIKO-CHAN IS TRANSHUMAN ROBO-JESUS OF THE FUTURE

AND THEN SHE INSTRUMENTALITY'S ALL OF HUMANITY AGAINST THEIR WILL BECAUSE FUCK YOU DAD HUMANITY

What's that, you're waiting for an explanation for all this bullshit?

FUCK YOU GIVE DIAZ MORE MONEY

Probably because of Pascal's wager or something.

Because of Pascal's Wager. Never mind that Pascal's reasoning behind it was more valuable than anything Diaz has done in his life because Sciencism has no care for real Science.

I don't follow…

You should believe in Heaven in case it exists.

Pascal's Wager, a philosophical concept created by mathematician and physicist Blasie Pascal, is the argument that it is in one's own best interest to behave as if God exists, since the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.

Atheists really hate him for that.

Pascal's wager is an argument for religion invented by Pascal (among others). The basic idea is that faith will get you into Heaven if Christianity is true, but it won't matter either way if Christianity is false, so being religious just in case is the rational thing to do. And since Pascal made a popular argument for religion he's obviously an anti-science supervillain, and don't you dare pay attention to his major contributions to physics and mathematics.

Bad Webcomics Wiki (I know, I know) says it's because he criticized Descartes.

Could be both, we all know Diaz is not exactly the paragon of rationaloity he pretends to be.

Oh, yeah. Epilogue. Whatever.

Fuck, I can't even make a snarky comment about this.

Pascal's Wager is the best that Blasie Pascal himself could come up with to defend his religion. This just shows that there are probably no good reasons to believe in that bullshit, otherwise Pascal wouldn't have to embarass himself with that tepid excuse.

You could use the same excuse to be a muslim. Or you can come up with a religion that creates a better outcome for atheists. Let me show you:
There's an alien civilization that achieved immortality across the multiverse and is uplifting intelligent beings, but they only uplift intelligent beings that delivered themselves from metaphysical superstitions. They contacted me when I was meditating, if you die an atheist you will be born again amongst their number and live forever in bliss, but to those who die believers, they created a virtual hellish world.

You see? Coming up with bullshit is ez. And coming up with believers in tall tales is not that hard either.

nice necrobump diaz

Shit like this is what causes people to become spree shooters.

That and these logical reasoning

That sort of thing.

No one wants to hear about your secular religion.

I shit you not, he actually made a comic based on that.

I hate how atheism is no longer "I don't believe in a zombie and also logically other Gods in society has been disproven" to "I hate Christianity because my white daddy is a massive jerk to me. No watch me suck Islamic cock because I'm so enlightened."

The greatest creative mind of the 21st century, lads.

while we're on it - does anybody have this table/chart thing with pascal's wager applied to all religions in existence at the same time?

There's a few.

Can I use my Spaniardness to milk some minority wellfare in America and also shut up some SJWs?

To be fair Zeus and any of the greek gods don't give a flying fuck about being worshipped, they just are less of a dick if you worship them in particular.

First of all, Pascal's wager is kind of a dubious theological argument to use altogether. A lot of people make the poor mistake of utilising it, because it's practically a superficial apologetic argument in nature. By the way, the user doing is probably going to start screaming about monkeys and shit because he's a raging fedorafag.

Same with . Good job playing Penn & Teller you faggots.

I love how the last one includes "Pascal's Wagerism" as a possibility.
Also, it's hard for me to believe there is not a sigle religion that promises suffering for everybody, no matter if they believe or not

…ah, no, wait, there is, I missed it.
Still, it's not an actual religion, just made up for the purpose of this picture

Gnosticism?

So the Wiccans believe you get what you believe in?
What about Roko's Basilisk?
What the hell is Jack T. Chick's actual religion, anyway?

Well, there's Judaism. They don't really have a Hell, but rather something that sounds vaguely like karmic justice. On the other hand, there's Reform Judaism, which is completely secular, save for the faith in the Abrahamic god schtick. Instead of an apocalypse, those people believe that a universal utopia will eventually become created via human efforts. So… Yeah, the basic consensus of areligious modern society's "oughts".

Isn't there are bunch of Christian branches that believe that no matter if you believe in God or not, if you do good things all your life technically you are spiritually serving God so you go to Heaven anyway? (C.S. Lewis stated that, but then again even a devout Christian like him didn't really like the current politics of some Christian churches) Basically the basic idea that Hell is for murderers and Heaven is for the good people. And even then isn't there a branch where you go to Hell, but it's not eternal? Also, Buddhism.

Maybe there are more than two options of heaven and hell. Either reincarnation or there may be two heavens. One heaven is for the purely spiritual and hold more responsibility in the afterlife for some greater purpose or whatever, while the other heaven is for those aren't very religious yet have done so much good in their life that even if they haven't achieved the spiritual goal they at least can rest peacefully and are rewarded for their good. Like completing a game vs going 100 percent?

It's called Buddhism

but in buddhism you reincar-oooohhhhh

Who's that semen demon?

well as a Catholic there is a 3rd option. Its called purgatory. Essentially, you go there if your not good enough for heaven but not bad enough for hell. You do your time there and go to Heaven eventually.

That's an interesting concept. What's Purgatory like?

Purgatory used to be for people who weren't baptised and thus still had the original sin. It was removed from the Catholic Church's headcanon by John Paul II.

Purgatory was supposed to be a state of mind rather than a place, like Heaven or Hell, but when it's depicted as a place, it just looks slightly better than Hell. If I am not mistaken, Family Guy represented it as a white background with nothing in it (not even a floor or gravity) in one of their many nonsensical flashbacks.

why are there so many fucking panels

Jehova's Witness I know doesn't even believe in Hell, like the Jews. iirc one of the Popes said that good athiests can go to heaven.

In the Divine Comedy, Purgatory is a mountain reaching up toward Heaven. Souls do their penance at different levels, according to the severity of their sins, and there are instructive reliefs and inscriptions at intervals up the mountain. The sky is visible, and Purgatory experiences a day-night cycle.

C.S. Lewis depicts Purgatory as a wilderness that is safe but not without discomfort: souls can feel pain from walking on the grass. In his Purgatory, the giant souls of the saved are also found, offering instruction and guidance to the penitent.

Never gets old.

Why does Robin look like a dumbass Superwholock cosplayer?