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Eureka

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After struggling, STRUGGLING, with perspective for SEVENTEEN YEARS it all came in a flood! I finally understand how to rule a background so it's in proportion to itself. I get what a protractor is REALLY for and how it makes finding the other vanishing, and diagonal points easy. I know how to establish measuring points so everything is proportional to it's duplicates area-wise. It's been this HUGE obstacle to doing my pages. I'd hit this wall, buckle and do ANYTHING else. I Finally figured it out! YOU DON'T KNOW THE STRUGGLE! After I saw floorplans in Andrew Loomis' "Fun with a Pencil" where he's explaining perspective to children... CHILDREN!!!!! I had to figure it out! It couldn't be that hard. It couldn't. Sweet mercy, it's finally happened. It's like I've learned how to read or something. Or how to fuck properly. Seventeen LONG years! Ugh. At long last our national nightmare is finally over!

There's no stopping me now.
Victory!
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I am officially a grandpaw and have no more spleen to vent. Marissa Tomei is likely to star as Aunt May 3.0 aka the Grandmother You'd really Like to Fuck. I just don't have the strength anymore. I just fucking don't. Aunt May is supposed to be this seventy year old lady who is either perpetually baking cookies, trying to set up her nephew Peter Parker with someone nice, or on the verge of death. She is a role model and a mentor to Peter doing her best in the absence of Ben trying to steer Peter right. That's basically the formula.

Marisa Tomei is a thoroughly enjoyable actress who in my opinion in addition to having acting chops is still sexy as all get out. She was absolutely great in The Wrestler. I do not begrudge her getting paying work, but she's not your Granma. She's certainly not Granma on the verge of death/medical bills requiring Peter risk his damn neck to get some Spidey photo cash from JJJ which is then used to hit him over the head with in the Bugle.

This dovetails with my earlier complaints of arbitrarily changing Johnny Storm to black for no reason other than to encourage more black moviegoing ticket sales. It was never about inclusiveness, that's just a cover. Regardless, in the end it only matters if it's done well and not hamfistedly which by all mudslinging over at Sony it's sure to be something of middling fare. DC is going to make a Vixen tv series and that is absolutely the right way to go about it. Build up your other properties. Marvel is building up Falcon and Black Panther. That's totally the way to go. It's a natural progression. Everybody lost their shit when Rachel Dolezal culturally appropriated blackness by trying to pass off the flimsy excuse of being "trans-racial". In comics, the same scenario is not seen as a train wreck, it's seen as social justice. No! Social justice would be taking the Milestone Characters and building them up as you would have in Young Justice. This is like when the Punisher was made Black and then they just forgot all about it two issues later.
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Not unlike Bill Clinton's pursuit of Osama Bin Laden in the 90's he was accused of "wag the dog", distracting from the "issue" of Monica Lewinsky and blowjobs. Then after 9/11 he was accused by Conservatives of not being aggressive enough. It's funny to me that pointing out this disingenuous casting with Johnny Storm can get one labelled a bigot by your own side, and then that same side who labelled you a bigot is now also upset alongside you, but for different reasons. Aunt May is being cast younger and now sexier with every new version. (If they do the fucking origin story again I am going to flip out, I think we all know it already). #TheMarySue is upset because that's an affront to aging women actors (which I concede is valid), while my position has never wavered; it's not the fucking story! You can only go so far from Canon until you're telling a different story. Granpaws like us (in our late 30's) will have to retreat to, "I liked the Tobey MaGuire Spiderman version even though they passed on that sweet animatronic Goblin mask and went with the inarticulate helmet"



They totally should have went with that.

What the hell am I driving at anyway? The point of my rant is that; I can't do it anymore. I've been passed by. Like Superman in Kingdom Come I feel like society has left me behind. Not in regards to what is right or fair, but what is real and pragmatic. People were outraged that Spiderman wasn't going to be portrayed as Gay. OMG, you've got to be kidding me. I'm all for equal rights and if you want gay superheroes in ascendancy make a Midnighter movie or a Batwoman movie. Build up that property. People use the argument that changing Johnny Storm's race would make no change to the character. Ask any black man if being male is important to them or if being straight is important to them, I suspect they'll say yes. (scrub to 10 minute mark for punchline)



So on that point I still disagree, but particularly when you have a character who has multiple heterosexual relationships and is decidedly straight you can't just make them gay. That's called co-opting what the aforementioned Mrs Dolezal did. I understand the push for inclusivity, pointing out the Alexander the Great was gay, but making something it's not is just another form of illusion and illusion is suffering.

In any case, I'm clearly on the losing side as there are more people whose causes are more important to them than any sense of core continuity.
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Informal poll

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So one of the things that encourages me to draw is people seeing my work. The downside is I never want to release anything until it's done. I feel that if I release artwork as I'm developing it along the way to a finished page that would fuel me and people would get to see I'm not just languishing artwise. How many people would support me with a Patreon chipping in with at least a minimum pledge? Although I am a slow artist I do actually draw fairly frequently. You'd get to see work in progress bluelines of the panels I'me presently working on, and I could put some money in the piggy bank.

Please provide feedback in the comments section.

Thanks,
Andrew
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My Girlfriend, her two boys and I were exiting seeing Avengers 2 (No spoilers) which was just great. The ten year old was kicking a chair through some of the talking scenes, but on the whole we all loved it. As we're exiting he sees the poster for Fantastic Four, and can't help but notice the elephant in the room. As any ten year old should remarks, "Why is Johnny Storm black?! That's stupid!" As an older school nerd having had this conversation for some time involving the re-gendering and/or race-bending of historic characters I was kind of at a loss to explain. All of the long discussions of "white privilege", "diversity", "don't be a bigot", etc sort of melted in the stark reality of a ten year old demanding to know how a White person becomes Black.

My girlfriend and I discussed expanding audiences, and executive decisions and a lot of things that are like the second to last broadcast of the Howard Beale show in the movie Network: long-winded and totally sucking the fun out of/breaking the suspension of disbelief. In retrospect I could have said the movie universe is an alternate universe, and I feel that he would have been satisfactory because that same answer is to me. Johnny Storm being Black, or Iceman being Gay isn't offensive because I'm a bigot (as far as I know) it's because there's no chain of causality. Aside from Michael Jackson or Little Kim there's not a lot of instances of Race-bending. White washing perhaps, but that's something else entirely. Perhaps Nick Fury or Johnny Storm being black now is "black washing"; solely for the purposes of new markets couched in the invulnerability of diversity.

A friend of mine and I discussed the whole gamut of what is canon, "gate-keeping", white privilege, etc and got as far as two white guys can get. I always feel like a hypocrite because I identify as a liberal progressive yet here I am coming out against these sorts of things because they seem to be arbitrary or out of left field. I don't care if an alternate universe version is black, female, gay, or what have you. Even in the main universe Thor became a frog, so... what does that say?

There's a concern that this "diversity washing" is just the foil embossed cover of the twenty-ten's. It's a gimmick. Personally I think it's brilliant when Ms Marvel has a protege who's Muslim because you're starting a new mythology that can grow on it's own. Robin became Nightwing, Bucky became Winter Soldier, Powerman became Luke Cage. Protege characters actually have the opportunity to evolve into their own character. Unless, of course Falcon becomes Captain America in which case the role always reverts back to the original formula. I'm actually all for Falcon graduating, but that seems to be the trend (examples abound; US Agent, Winter Soldier).

Eventually at the end of the discussion with my friend Cedric and my GF's son ended on the same note. Whether something becomes new canon or not depends entirely on whether it's done well or otherwise. Wait for the new movie to come out, and if it's enjoyable then good. If not... (I'm looking at you The Amazing Spiderman 2) then we know what happens to canon that is god damn horrible, because it's actually shittily done. It gets stowed away in the circular file drawer of reboots, revisions, etc along with The Clone Saga. Ugh.
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Wacom

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Trying to draw digitally and it's just not coming. any helpful hints out there?
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