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Like would have been invited back over to DC possibly had I not gone pedal to the metal with comics gate, which is what I did

Good afternoon, Michael Malis here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour. We have an episode that is quite literally

Years in the making Ethan van Skiver is one of the main voices out of comics gate, which was a movement

Which we're going to discuss in a minute. He's got a new crowdfunding campaign for his new comic books. He's one of the most preeminent comic book artists of our time

In no small part due to his big mouth that has gotten him in trouble with some very nefarious people and of course he likes to engage in certain online

Fudes, which I've been very curious to learn more about

But let's get started with the basics because a lot of people who watch the show might not be comic book fans, even though I am a comic character

But comics gate was something I followed to some extent. It came out of it

It was parallel to gamer gate with a video game industry

And this is something that I think speaks to more broadly cultural issues the culture war and issues of free speech and creativity

Can you break down as briefly as possible? I know you've discussed this many times just what comics gate was

Yeah, comics gate was the reaction that fans and other professionals had towards realizing

That the comic book industry the hobby had been invaded by left-wing activists just like everything else had been

I mean everything has been invaded by these people at this point. Not a lot of feminists a lot of

Very can I can I answer up because this is something that people don't appreciate

I'm watching a playthrough of Baldur's Gate right now. Okay, and Baldur's Gate is a Dungeon Dragons role-playing video game

Right and in Baldur's Gate, which is Dungeon Dragons is originally based on Lord the Rings

You have different races of people and races aren't like human races

It's like literally like there's there's orcs and there's elves and there's dwarves and their halflings

Which is like the Hobbit and so on and so forth and they're the door guard

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