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New Comic Book Publisher Refuses Woke Storylines (ft. David So)

#comic#captainamerica#socialpolitical#superman#marvel
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0:00 [Music] why don't you heal my ████ leg already dude just touch him off ████ a little bit it'll feel better i promise touch on my ████ okay two one someone get some alcohol to davidson oh no other other than marvel and dc there is a new comic book publisher no that has started oh it started yeah it started and it's it's now taken off and it's created this entirely new thing where i'm bible man i love bible man it's just the bible with pictures oh ████ this is actually kind of lit dude i might actually read would be so sick like a marvel in dc well it's a it's a competitor like a company

0:50 that makes these types of things whole whole new universe of characters bible man we got ezekiel well at least like mainstream wise like wild storm was one from back in the day but this one's called rip averse rip uppers make sure it does it actually does but what makes it unique is that they pride themselves on being the first non-woke comic universe what so what's the difference yeah i don't get it is marvel trying to be all like dudes making out all that all day to be progressive no but marvel and dc have made lots of adjustments to make sure that their characters are not offensive to people so like robin's not sucking off batman why they make shang chi then shang chi is a chinese dude that his superpowers ████ kung fu that's ████ up yeah that's true guess we're not working that hard did you guys i mean maybe we haven't all

1:41 kept up with it but did you know superman is no longer considered like american why is he russian he's an alien so the the motto that it used to be when it was superman was created was like truth justice in the american way remember that like saying they took the american thing out that's why because it's too like offensive too yeah i thought he was an alien though didn't he fall from the sky and like things that was krypton or some ████ yeah but like it's no longer associated with anything american per se yeah i mean but it was made in america what about captain america are they going to nerf him too that's not captain america he's captain everybody he's captain states so like here and there like there's a bunch of adjustments that they've made for like certain characters but the thing is this this comic universe is not anti-woke it's not that it's just that they're refusing to bend anything for the sake of what they do exactly so what are some of their characters racist man let's make racist races

2:33 slash yeah how do you how can that be almost like they're they're well it's an over correction and it's very offensive their first race is character shanxi they're just gonna bring him over to the universe we're gonna break stereotypes by doing kung fu they don't have any characters that are specifically any different than like marvel or dc it's just like the same ████ but it's it's not gonna change so so where did the uh that sentiment or that understanding that they won't uh bend to wokeness like where does that come from officially speaking the author and the creator's name is eric july he's black he used to work at dc and he didn't like that he dreamt of being this comic artist worked his way all the way up got there and now he has to change all these things are like shifting in ways that he's like that's not the ████ comic universe that's now that's here in politics so he doesn't want politics of the real world

3:24 to mix into fictional universes dude if you're complaining about comic books and how they're not like just and socially accurate or whatever the ████ you're a ████ loser you're a ████ nerd i will say this though right the the only problem that i have with that is that if he is truly a comic book fan he's saying that comic books shouldn't be a social political thing that he's never read comic books before right comic books have always been about social political issues captain america was during it was propaganda it was war propaganda ████ it has always always always been like that so if he is a comic book fan then he should understand what this is about every comic movie that we have seen about a scene and we fall in love with captain america what is that ████ about it's about patriotism right it was daring against uh american russia all this other type of stuff here has always been in comic books since david what about wolverine huh and storm huh it was about body hair house disgusting

4:14 what about how jubilee was weak and asian and her power was shooting fireworks yeah firecrackers she actually didn't have any powers at all she just had firecrackers in her sleazy she just lit them before it happened hold on stay right there hold on it's coming out do his characters say our favorite words though like ████ and ████ or like i don't want travel i don't know i don't see things i haven't read an issue of it but the company's actually doing extremely well oh they probably use that for their script there sales are like they reached 2 million in sales and they just started what i need to read this ████ it kind of like pertains to a lot of people now because when you look at stuff on in entertainment everything is so pandering they're just pounding to everybody right because they don't want to hurt anybody's feelings like there can't be something to push to the edge even if it's happening like that in

5:04 comedy you can't go that far because people are going to be offended but it's like is that happening in marvel right now we're like they're like i'm non-binary man and then they're like coming out it's superman the new superman's bisexual right it is well that's not so much the um uh the way that i feel like it's manifesting and like the marvel cinematic universe the way that people are kind of like about i think it is more on like the um people don't understand uh why like sam is the new captain america even though he was already written like that in the comics and they're kind of like why don't we just have a regular captain america why is it why does it have to be this new black guy but it's like well it was technically written like that but this is the there's many arcs that captain america can go down they're just choosing the ones that are most kind of like acceptable to like the societal climate nowadays there's been a bisexual superman since day one like stan lee wrote that not dc that's dc

5:55 superman's bisexual the new one yeah the son the son of superman that's what i mean like the the original the original comics that are written um i'm talking about those they're changing those like if if there's a new superman comic that's written yeah if it's made in 2020 i don't even count that just ████ yeah no that's what it is that characters the issue that like maybe a lot of like comic book nerds feel is that they're ████ with their childhood right it's not so much like a social political thing for them it's more like i just remember this being what i saw as a kid don't ████ with this right yeah so like like maybe what bart's saying maybe the the thing is like oh just make a new superman like just leave by superman alone and then have your bisexual with a th superman

6:46 we also don't really read the comics like we see the movies that the comics are you know that are based off the comics so people because we're not ████ nerds right because we get ████ i try to get my ass kicked yeah like i'm sure in the comics there's a lot of bigger differences that like comic fans can see that we don't oh we're scores the harry potter fans i feel like yeah we're fans we're not fanatics no yeah so we know like generally what the universe is about we know like these characters but people did get upset about uh finding out like after the seven harry potter books were already out and the story was done and then jk rowling being like dumbledore is gay like way later on so then prequels like fantastic beasts now they like they play a part but same thing like all seven books the whole ████ universe the story's already out movies are like already more than half made some of the authors like yeah he actually is gay are people mad

7:36 about that because they thought it was unnecessary or because they don't like gay i think it's because it was just random it seems like she did that as an afterthought like what i want to ████ catch on this gay train so let me throw that in there the gate train's popping yeah it's gay trains going ████ i don't want to miss the gay train you know and then so she's like you know what we're lgbtq friendly too but don't but i think she also got a lot of heat for like trans like that's a different thing when she said a woman is a woman that thing no she was basically talking about how um it's like there's it's a controversial thing about giving uh kids hormonal treatment for trans and she was just talking about ████ like that and then like they're like you're ████ anti-trans ████ what does ben shapiro think about this huh that's what i want to hear dude hey guys so what the woman's a woman and a woman's a woman love that guy dude he keeps

8:27 popping up on my ████ feet i don't understand why i keep saying i'm not interested i'm not interested and he just pops up as you're as you're commenting i know i'm interacting to say i'm not interested oh you're supposed to oh you're not supposed to write comments how do i dislike this one i write it i go dislike dislike just doing it wrong is that ben shapiro and then the other guy uh he was the one that went on dr phil to arg to have a debate with a trans person mark walsh have you heard of him no they keep popping up on my feet what do you keep on looking at yeah i keep on looking at fat ████ with fat asses i keep getting this ████ i'm like but you keep accidentally picking the trans fat ████ i'm like yo learn my algorithm please like we are you know this is it oh ████ he's having the same problem right now

9:17 hey that's a different video [Laughter] bring it back hey so if you guys were to construct a superhero that was not necessarily woke but we would vibe with in today's world what would that be doesn't it feel like it would take more work to make sure the comic doesn't get woke than if it just naturally started feeling like it because you got to do more yeah like what happened to just having a good story yeah like why does that have to have all these freaking ways because you put out a good story and then somebody who's woke starts giving you ████ now you're ████ dealing with press in this other way because you're trying to put out fires about how you're actually not a terrible human being and like that's also it almost feels more difficult to be non-woke because you have to make sure you don't seem woke that means those comic books about to be so racist and ████ i'm like all right cool down read that they go the opposite way they just go full prejudice and ████ well the cool thing is it doesn't make it that much different than a person or

10:07 like an entrepreneur seeing a space that nothing exists and goes oh if i just capitalize on this yeah it's good or it's just another market so this guy's like everybody's woke ah is there a list of like other superheroes that he's created ching chong man oh that's good that's good what's his superpower huh with noodles the fastest delivery in the west the noodles come out here and i do it for cheaper than everybody else shoots duck sauce he gives discounts to people he that looks like him only just a special price yeah the chinese ikea for free [Laughter] i like him that's good ching chong man

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