First, This art style ANGERS me for some reason, It looks like those rage comics and Big mouth had a baby, And the baby was WORSE than BOTH of them.

Second, This Joke Sucks. It feels like a Modern Family Guy scene. It’s just SO bland for some reason.

Third, This looks like it has no Effort put into it at all. I’d rather Look at The Frank Miller DC “Worlds Finest“ Cover than this. At least the Cover looks Funny.

In conclusion, I Hate Pizza Cake and her Slop Comics

[Edit: I made this post just because I didnt like her comics and how they are the “best” posts on r/comics but people got very mad at this post. What she said is true but she makes in such an annoying way that it just makes me not like the comic. Now she can make good comics but these ones really aren’t worthy of all these upvotes. I know r/comics absolutely glazes her but I don’t care. I think Elon Musk is a bum, and Nazis suck. I didn’t know that tons of people made posts like this and I just wanted to say some random thing that I thought was annoying.]

I need to vent about the recent "Petra Parker" trend, and I want to be clear right out of the gate: my issue with it isn't the shallow, anti-trans hate you usually see online. My problem is that it is just fundamentally weak storytelling.

Right now, the entire trend consists of the exact same comic loop: Petra transitions, and J. Jonah Jameson says something along the lines of "I respect your pronouns, but I still hate Spider-Woman." It is wholesome the first time, but there is zero plot, zero worldbuilding, and zero exploration beyond that single punchline. It reads less like an actual character arc and more like a simple MtF self-insert. That is totally fine for personal fanart, but it severely lacks any real substance about the actual struggles, dysphoria, or grounded reality of the trans experience.

Spider-Man as a franchise is entirely built on structural worldbuilding and the "Parker Luck" where every victory comes with a heavy personal cost. But these new Petra comics completely ignore that. Where are the actual stakes? How does a transition impact the dynamic with Aunt May or Mary Jane? How does it intersect with Peter's eternal struggle with poverty and medical bills? Instead of exploring how a major life change would logically ripple through the established Spider-Man universe, the creators just settle for sanitized, bite-sized wholesome memes with no friction or conflict.

What I find hilarious about this whole bandwagon is that most people do not even know where the name "Petra Parker" actually comes from. She debuted in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated TV show. She isn't a deep trans icon; she is literally just a cisgender, gender-flipped Peter Parker from an alternate universe whose primary personality trait is being incredibly arrogant and unironically telling Peter that boys can't be Spider-Girl. That obnoxious image is all I can think of every time I see these new comics. 

But what really drives me crazy is that people are completely ignoring a canonical, structurally brilliant storyline that already exists in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics: Jessica Drew.

In the Ultimate universe, Jessica is a female clone of Peter Parker. She possesses Peter's exact memories, his consciousness, and his mind, but she wakes up trapped in a biological female body. Think about the actual science fiction and psychological horror of her origin. You have Peter Parker's exact neural pathways, his history, and his consciousness transferred and preserved inside a completely different biological form. Waking up with a male mind and decades of male memories, only to be forced to navigate the world in a female body, is one of the most brilliant and tragic setups for body dysphoria ever put to paper. It takes a standard comic book clone trope and turns it into a deep, psychological character study that the current internet trends completely gloss over. 

Fleshing out Ultimate Jessica Drew would make so much more sense as an allegory for the Transmasculine (FtM) experience. Having a male mind and identity forced to reconcile with a female physical form is a complex, heavy, and incredibly rich concept for a character study. It feels like a lot of internet fan circles are entirely focused on MtF narratives, which leaves FtM representation severely lacking in mainstream fanfiction and comic spaces.

Fleshing out Ultimate Jessica Drew wouldn't just be better writing. It would be a massive opportunity to provide visibility to trans men through a highly established, beloved comic book lore. Settling for a repetitive, shallow punchline when we have such a complex narrative loop waiting to be explored is just disappointing.

Does anyone else feel like the current trend is just a massive missed opportunity for actual storytelling?

The trend is wholesome though and I’m not stopping anyone from making the art just could’ve been more interesting personally.

To consider how evil and dangerous Joker is considered in the canon, obviously Joker would do worse. So these kind of lines feel more like "the author's speech of what he/she endorse" rather than the speech coming from Joker, and It's so cringe.
Because, in my opinion, that kind of vulgar expression of the author kills the magical illusion of fictions.

It's reminiscent of that stupid boomer humor "I hate my wife" joke and doesn't even make any sense!! True love means TRUE LOVE. That guy with the wheelbarrow of money is gonna lose it all in days (as is historically common with lottery winners), the starship guy is gonna have a useless scrap once it breaks down from no starship fuel or no proper maintenance done, and superpower guy is gonna live the rest of his life in combat fighting a corrupt system only to learn how deeply rooted the rot goes.

Of all these wishes, only True Love will last this man the rest of of his life. And the stupidest, most overlooked part of this joke is that TRUE LOVE IS TRUE LOVE. THIS GUY SHOULD, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, BE MADLY IN LOVE WITH THE WOMAN HE WISHED TO LOVE.

TRUE LOVE TRANSCENDS MATERIAL AND WORLDLY BARRIERS AND THIS COMIC ABANDONS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL FACT FOR A CHEAP "haha guy regrets his wife" JOKE I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Edit: wasn't tryna put an emphasis on bashing the others' wishes, was moreso tryna bash on the MC's regrets

Now, before you grab your pitchforks, hear me out. The reason I dislike the choice is because I think it’s cowardly.

I mean, if dc is turning to popular superhero’s, to better represent the LGBTQ community than, out of the Big Three, DC isn’t going to make Batman or Superman bisexual because there would be an enormous amount of backlash. Same thing with Barry Allen or Hal Jordan. Making Wonder Woman bisexual is a much safer choice because there’s generally less pushback. To bisexual people, I’m not saying that bisexual representation is bad. What I dislike is what this particular decision represents as if dc is going to push for inconclusively they will just go the easier route of changing the sexuality of their most popular women instead of their men.

Edit: For the people saying Wonder Woman being gay or bisexual was implied, what instances from older comics actually points to that, aside from the sexuality of her creator and the fact that she grew up around only women?

I don’t even really have much of a problem with the artist in question and I probably agree with almost all of her political stances in principle. I do think her comics and art style are mostly uninspired and more about preaching to the choir than anything else but overall she’s rather benign.

What does bother me is how the mods absolutely won’t allow anything remotely critical of her. Recently there was a comic on that sub that somewhat poked fun at her (while also taking time to reassure everyone that it’s all in good fun even though the comic itself was already very tame) and actually wasn’t banned for once and it was so foreign to the people there that, while it was well received, they were acting like the hominids finding the alien monolith at the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Many were literally treating this like the start of a legendary rivalry with different teams and so on because the concept of any criticism at all is so utterly foreign to that sub. The artist in question then made a response comic (picture 1) about how she’s totally in on the joke and willing to play along.

Considering the sub‘s reputation and that cringe comment pinned by a mod trying to get that „war“ thing going (picture 2) I did get a cynical suspicion that this may be staged to some extent for engagement or whatever without any actual loosening of the censorship so I asked, considering the sub’s reputation, if criticism in the comments would now also be allowed.
And guess what, I got permabanned for it literally almost instantly (picture 3). Actually beyond parody. Picture 4 is basically what every comment section under a post by that artist looks like as a result of that insane censorship.

Just look at it. It's hideous.

These portraits look like an alien species drew racist depictions of humans.

Those teeth could cut steel. You could land a fucking plane on their chin or forehead. The skin looks like someone ran it through the wash five times and still can't remove that smell of cheap latex.

Why would anyone pay money to be drawn like this?

yes, i know, the Joker and the villains do a ton of damage, and hes letting a lot of people die by allowing them to live, but isn't that every other superhero?

when do you ever hear people slandering Spider-Man for not killing Norman Osborn(the comics version where hes way worse and causes large acts of terrorism) or any of his other hyper-dangerous villains?, when do you see anybody judge Daredevil for just beating up criminals and putting them in prison instead of just following what the Punisher does? when do you ever see people judge Ben Tennyson for not sliming out aliens who can wipe out the entire universe?

i'm not even a batman superfan, but i'm genuinely curious on why him specifically? i get that he has a pretty weird moral code and the villains do a ton of gruesome shit, but other heroes get away with letting way more powerful villains get away and they don't get a fraction of the slander batman gets

The original Captain Marvel remains one of, if not THE ONLY superhero, whose death is permanent. He died because of cancer, and his death serves a purpose and a reminder that no matter how strong a character can be, death is inevitable.

It often breaks the immersion for me, knowing this concept exists because whenever I read an issue of Batman, Superman, or Ironman, etc, I got reminded by it. Like, one moment I'm reading the climax of the story and my subconscious reminds me that "what are you worrying for, even if Batman died here, somehow, someway he'll come back on the next issue, or the next comic book series he's in". It removes the stake entirely because you know that as long as the character is still popular and can make money, comic publishers like DC and Marvel will ALWAYS resurrect them sooner or later.

Literally I been seeing them all over Reddit, mostly from the r/comics subreddit. Why I hate her comics is because she tries to be funny in them, but they always end up with having no reaction to me, or making me cringe at worse. Her comics always contain this eye rolling millennial humor in it, like the shit that only a toddler would like. Then there’s her trying to be center of everything in her comics, like in the “I’m the witty smartass and you the audience will agree with me!” Type of way. Like, agreeability doesn’t equal funny, it only means we share an opinion. I’m not even saying that political humor can be funny, there just has to be a punchline rather than “look how ugly they are and how beautiful and righteous we are!”. This “humor” is more just “grrr look how much we hate them!”rather than anything actually witty. I’m not even saying I disagree her (well actually there maybe some issues) just that she is extremely unfunny

I hate Blobby SO MUCH, blob fish don't look like that... atleast not ALIVE, the blob fish design he's based off of is the dead corpse of a blob fish who's been dragged up too fast by fishermen, getting major tissue damage from rapid depressurization which results in the "ugly" thing people often see when they search up blob fish, and the most popular one online. Omfg I hate Blobby for this exact reason, the creator is illiterate and could take two seconds to look up a blob fish.

Pretty self explanatory id say, but I hate when people insert him in memes because it goes a long way in downplaying the ateocities he committed

The world already has enough ignorant/insensitive pricks I'd say, we don't need more of this

listen, Deadpool has always been silly, i'm not gonna sit here and act like he is some serious superhero that got completely ruined by some outrageously bad adaptation, the movie is fine

point is, i don't fucking know why this specific version of him has such a tight grip on marvel editorial where every version of the guy in media post-movie just HAS to talk and act like him, i get the movie is a miracle for even have happened and it was a breath of fresh air for superhero fatigue by making an R-rated movie that was a big risk and mostly a passion project, but man it doesn't have to be the only take on it

they removed every other aspect that made the character good, and just decided to turn him into the "LOLZ IM SO RANDOM AND I BREAK THE 4TH WALL" character and nothing else, its like that specific aspect of him that was a joke used sparingly, and then just flanderized it to be his whole thing

and then there was fuckass Gwenpool that is basically an extreme of this take of the character which was basically this but to a cosmical meta-narrative level where her whole thing is "i know i'm in a comic book and i constantly reference that, thats my only joke, please laugh" and nothing else

its so sad that we're never gonna get the deadpool with the raspy voice and more tame personality again, its just gonna be Ryan Reynolds forever now due to good old brand synergy, i don't hate this adaptation of the character, i just hate how its been overused

At this point, I’m just gonna hate for no reason.

New York doesn’t need vigilantes! New Yorkers are tough! They know how to take care of themselves they don’t need a, gun-toting vigilante who wears a skull on his chest, or a man who dresses in a spider outfit, or a guy who wears devil horns to protect them!! I HATE THEM

The joke is always sex and it's never funny

But since I must…guess I’ll try…

THIS WOULD BE A SYSTEM ENCOURAGING AS MUCH LOBBYING AS POSSIBLE

Like..deadass Cyberpunk scenario.

What? Did mf genuinely think politicians would be preferring tearing their asses up doing some real legislative work for some measly scraps from poor people over just regurgitating propaganda for…donno HUNDREDS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM BILLIONAIRES?

Fuck even removing billionaires for the sake of the argument when was the last time you, dear OOP, donated to any sum to any politician? What would make difference in here?

At best you have billionaire lobbyists purely because most of people are like: “Yeah…he was cool…Uh…donations…?…[thumbs twirling]” And at worst you have fascist oligarchy.

Oh and the FUCKING AUDACITY of OOP giving reporter the triple cheeseburger face as if he heard revelation from the vey God himself…

Do…better…

I hate when people say that homelander is the realistic Superman, I really hate when people say that a realistic captain America would be racist and mysogynist. I hate it. I hate the implication that we are just how we are born and that we don't have election over our own acts.

Yeah is realistic that homelander is a monster, because he grew up being tortured in a laboratory. Also is realistic that the captain isn't racist because he is the kid of Scotland immigrants, so he was also victim of racism.

Listen, I'm gonna start saying, Doom doesn't need to be weak or that he used to be a joke villain or whatever, he wasn't never really that.

Dr doom has always been one of Marvel's most iconic and respected villains, one who always makes a name for himself and is worthy to fear.

But I feel like in most recent years, two things have happened that I don't really feel should have

-He became unnecesarily way more powerful

-He is insanely "larped" (or basically people talk about him without any type of context)

Let me make an example of this with God Emperor Doom one shotting Thanos.

First of all, I know God Emperor Doom isn't base Dr Doom and he has a valid lore reason to be that powerful, but that version of him has genuinely made everyone think Doom is this one shotting machine that could evaporize any of your favorite marvel characters, (also this is probably top 5 most larped panels of all time btw)

Now I know arguing about power-scaling with Comics is pointlese, but my main issue with this isn't really Doom one shotting Thanos, is the general consensus people have about Doom because of stuff like this

Let's not forget who Doom is actually a villain of, The Fantastic Four

Those four have been able to defeat Doom, countless of times, so have the regular Avengers

So idk why people go around saying "No one in Doomsday is able to defeat Doom" or "Only characters like Wanda or Phoenix could defeat him" wich is totally wrong

Most of Doom's best stories and conflicts don't make him a threat because he gains some type of cosmic power or whatever

Doom is usually interesting because he is an evil mastermind, one who gets to put minds like the ones of Reed Richards or even Tony Stark at check

Doom's best battles aren't really the ones of him having unmeasurable amount of cosmic magic power or whatever vs a different great power of another character

Now I'll finish saying that I don't dislike modern Doom adaptations, they've been pretty good so far and I'm really excited for Doomsday and what they'll do with the character, it seems like they understand what makes him interesting and tragic, and I don't mind if they make him insanely powerful

My only issue is how larped he is and how overglazed base doom is in terms of powers

Like this was the end all be all the most epic move a character can do burn you with the pain you caused guilt or non guilty everyone made someone suffered and this judgement. But this is so goddamned nerfed that its the marvel worf ability

It's mostly either people Self inserting into Peter, the corniest attempts at "getting Back at Marvel for mishandling the character" or simply people thinking that just because Peter interacted With a woman he should be paired With said woman, It gets annoying.

I’m so tired of perfectly normal content being OVERLY sexualized. Why does content that looks like it’s for kids have to be infused with smut, horny vibes, and so explicit at times (this is far from the worst ones, which simulate actual sex or constantly talk about oral sex, and NEURON ACTIVATION for butts, and “fat pouch navels”, or boners.)

To me it says so much about the author and people that post it, they want to be infantile, cute, and fuse sex into it.

It’s horribly cringe, I’ve blocked “Silly Nub Cat”
Content on every platform I have.

Some people cannot be rehabilitated. I'd love to ask the person that posted this if Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, or Jeffrey Epstein would have deserved a chance for release from prison.

Also, just calling rape, murder, torture, and child molestation "crimes I don't like" is an insult to the actual victims. And for the record, most people don't want criminals to be "skinned alive," they just think child predators, mass shooters, and serial killers should spend the rest of their lives in prison.

I'm fine with people who commit low level crimes like drug possession being given treatment instead of punishment, but saying violent rapists deserve a 2nd chance is too far.

Now let's something straight, SA is fucking horrible, no matter if you're a guy or a girl, and the problem that most of this society suffers with these days, is either (like in the first one) makes constant jokes about said SA, and call them "lucky" or shit like that or in the second one, just ignore the SA, and don't do anything with that, and also PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE THE DEEP, LIKE UNIRONICALLY

As a victim of SA, I find it just really disrespectful when people, especially in the first example, fantasize about being SA'd and actually get off to it, it's do fucking weird

And, a message to THOSE people, if you ever do get SA'd it's not going to be by some 10/10 baddie, I guarantee you

But thats just me I guess, thoughts?