the mainstream comics industry and parts
of his fan base have got some serious
explaining to do welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down the top 10 comic-book controversies
of 2017
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
counting down the top 10 controversies
that rocked or even just gently shook
the comic-book industry in the hopes
that we can make 2018 a better year for
our beloved funny books number 10 Marvel
legacy variant covers special edition
variant covers have been a staple of the
comics industry pun intended
for years now this year Marvel unveiled
a series of variant covers with fancy
lenticular artwork that changes between
classic covers and modern updates as you
turn the comic in your hands however in
order to stock these variants at their
shops Marvel demanded that retailers
purchase exorbitant amounts of the
regular version of each book a move that
caused two pushback from retailers
including major online outlets like my
comic shop comm varying covers are great
and all but demanding retailers buy more
comics than they could reasonably sell
just to get the variance is just plain
greedy number nine the divided states of
hysteria comics industry vet Howard
Chaykin has worked extensively for both
Marvel and DC drawing and writing tales
for Batman Blade The Punisher and more
this year chicken came under extensive
fire from critics for depictions of
violence against minorities in his image
comic series the divided states of
hysteria the first issue alone depicted
a scene in which a trans woman is
brutally beaten by a mob and the planned
cover for issue number four doubled down
by graphically depicting the victim of a
racial hate crime we’re all for tackling
uncomfortable subjects and comics but
the question of whether shaken was using
these themes and images for
sensationalism and the controversy that
surrounded the book led to image
replacing the graphic cover number eight
ngen comic books are all about heroes
but it’s hard to look heroic when you’re
branded with the logo for one of
America’s largest defense contractors
when Marvel announced they’d entered a
partnership with Northrop Gruman one of
the us’s largest manufacturers of
military hardware eyebrows were raised
that the idea that a weapons
manufacturer would be joining forces
with Marvel after all wasn’t the point
of Ironman that profiting off of selling
weapons of mass destruction is bad I saw
young Americans killed by the very wet
I created to defend them and protect
them
Marvel unveiled the comic produced for
the partnership a thinly veiled
recruiting tool for the defense giant
and many comic fans made their
displeasure known as a result of the
backlash Marvel ended the partnership
and the book was mothballed number 7
hashtag make mine milkshake while the
comics industry had some bad calls
themselves this year certain comic fans
are far from innocent themselves when
Marvel editor Heather Antos tweeted a
photo of herself and some female
colleagues going up for milkshakes
there was a bewildering outcry that this
was more evidence of Marvel pushing a
political agenda how anyone could
mistake a photo of some Marvel gal pals
getting milkshakes where a political
statement is beyond us fans seemingly
made the connection between the photo
and Marvel Comics VP David Gabrielle
claiming that slumping sales were a
result of readers who quote didn’t want
any more diversity a statement he later
retracted number 6
Inhumans verse x-men up until the recent
purchasing of Fox by Disney the film
rights to the x-men and the Fantastic
Four weren’t being held by Marvel and
the house of mouse and Marvel clearly
weren’t happy about it the Fantastic
Four’s comics were cancelled the x-men’s
presence in the comics and an ancillary
media like toys and games seemed minimal
was a deploy to strong-arm Fox into
returning the film rights may be but
when Marvel announced that the x-men
would go to war with Inhumans with the
Inhumans possibly wiping mutants out in
the Marvel Universe and taking their
place fans called shenanigans thankfully
they’re all back to being one big happy
family especially considering how that
Inhumans TV show turned out I’m an
inhuman like the rest of you number 5
death of Pepe the Frog and it was the
morning that Hillary Clinton announced
that they had been overtaken by white
supremacists then it further got labeled
a hate symbol and Trump was using it in
his campaign and all this stuff that’s
what I noticed he was channeling some
able shit watching your creation yet
unexpectedly turned into a symbol of
hatred and bigotry can’t be an easy
thing for a creator to go through but
that’s just what happened to cartoonist
Matt Fury he just wanted his creation
the now eponymous Pepe the Frog to be a
fun-loving stoner frog but it wasn’t
meant to be the character became an
unwitting mascot of online hate groups
during the 2016 election and rather than
seeing his creation used for evil fury
elected to kill off Pepe in a special
comic released on Free Comic Book Day
much to the ire of alt-right groups
everywhere I’m also teaming up with the
anti-defamation league and trying to
help get the word out that life’s too
short to be a hater he’s not a hater
number four x-men gold indonesian
protest messages indonesian comics
artists rd and Sayyaf found himself out
of a job when it was discovered that
he’d slipped some controversial messages
into his artwork for Marvel’s x-men gold
the messages were references to a series
of protests occurring in Indonesia at
the time with extremist groups
protesting Jakarta governor Basuki jaha
who they feel should not hold political
power due to his Christian beliefs saya
apparently agrees as he drew Colossus
wearing a shirt referencing the verse of
the Quran that in its Indonesian
translation prohibits Muslims from being
governed by non-muslims several other
references to the protests were found
including the number – one – which
represents the protests on December 2nd
2016
as a result Sayyaf was promptly shown
the door number 3 Akira Yoshida
especially in light of Marvel’s recent
push towards diversity and inclusiveness
in its comics it’s been disheartening to
see this particular drama unfold it was
recently admitted by new Marvel
editor-in-chief CBC bullski that in the
early 2000s he penned a number of Marvel
comic books under the name
Akira Yoshida misrepresenting the comics
as having an authentic Japanese
viewpoint fans were quite understandably
outraged in an industry long dominated
by white writers finding out that one of
the depressingly small number of Asian
names adorning American comic covers was
just a white guy in disguise is pretty
depressing the fact that Marvel knew
about this and condoned this even more
so number 2 secret Empire since his
inception Captain America has stood for
truth liberty equality justice and the
vigorous and repeated punching of Nazis
so in 2016 when Marvel seemingly
revealed that the star spangled man with
a plan had been an agent of Hydra all
along fans weren’t too happy this
culminated in the 2017 event secret
Empire which saw cap as the big bad to
make matters worse a variant cover for
issue number 5 depicted magneto as a
member of Hydra prompting an outcry that
a Jewish character who endured the
Holocaust would never join such a group
while this turned out to be a bit of a
misdirection people were nonetheless
upset about the whole thing
and their anger was directed a series
writer Nick Spencer number one Eddie
Braganza assault charges following the
explosive allegations against movie
mogul Harvey Weinstein a sea-change
swept through the entertainment industry
as newly empowered victims of sexual
assault finally found themselves able to
tell their stories the comics industry
got their share of this as well as
numerous accusations against DC Comics
editor Eddie Braganza came to light
thanks to an article published by
BuzzFeed news in addition to per cons of
having to answer for his deplorable
behavior the company itself came under
criticism for failing to fire Braganza
sooner while some may say better late
than never if DC really was aware of
Braganza behavior and kept him on the
company payroll DC owes an apology to
his victims do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
of his fan base have got some serious
explaining to do welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down the top 10 comic-book controversies
of 2017
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
counting down the top 10 controversies
that rocked or even just gently shook
the comic-book industry in the hopes
that we can make 2018 a better year for
our beloved funny books number 10 Marvel
legacy variant covers special edition
variant covers have been a staple of the
comics industry pun intended
for years now this year Marvel unveiled
a series of variant covers with fancy
lenticular artwork that changes between
classic covers and modern updates as you
turn the comic in your hands however in
order to stock these variants at their
shops Marvel demanded that retailers
purchase exorbitant amounts of the
regular version of each book a move that
caused two pushback from retailers
including major online outlets like my
comic shop comm varying covers are great
and all but demanding retailers buy more
comics than they could reasonably sell
just to get the variance is just plain
greedy number nine the divided states of
hysteria comics industry vet Howard
Chaykin has worked extensively for both
Marvel and DC drawing and writing tales
for Batman Blade The Punisher and more
this year chicken came under extensive
fire from critics for depictions of
violence against minorities in his image
comic series the divided states of
hysteria the first issue alone depicted
a scene in which a trans woman is
brutally beaten by a mob and the planned
cover for issue number four doubled down
by graphically depicting the victim of a
racial hate crime we’re all for tackling
uncomfortable subjects and comics but
the question of whether shaken was using
these themes and images for
sensationalism and the controversy that
surrounded the book led to image
replacing the graphic cover number eight
ngen comic books are all about heroes
but it’s hard to look heroic when you’re
branded with the logo for one of
America’s largest defense contractors
when Marvel announced they’d entered a
partnership with Northrop Gruman one of
the us’s largest manufacturers of
military hardware eyebrows were raised
that the idea that a weapons
manufacturer would be joining forces
with Marvel after all wasn’t the point
of Ironman that profiting off of selling
weapons of mass destruction is bad I saw
young Americans killed by the very wet
I created to defend them and protect
them
Marvel unveiled the comic produced for
the partnership a thinly veiled
recruiting tool for the defense giant
and many comic fans made their
displeasure known as a result of the
backlash Marvel ended the partnership
and the book was mothballed number 7
hashtag make mine milkshake while the
comics industry had some bad calls
themselves this year certain comic fans
are far from innocent themselves when
Marvel editor Heather Antos tweeted a
photo of herself and some female
colleagues going up for milkshakes
there was a bewildering outcry that this
was more evidence of Marvel pushing a
political agenda how anyone could
mistake a photo of some Marvel gal pals
getting milkshakes where a political
statement is beyond us fans seemingly
made the connection between the photo
and Marvel Comics VP David Gabrielle
claiming that slumping sales were a
result of readers who quote didn’t want
any more diversity a statement he later
retracted number 6
Inhumans verse x-men up until the recent
purchasing of Fox by Disney the film
rights to the x-men and the Fantastic
Four weren’t being held by Marvel and
the house of mouse and Marvel clearly
weren’t happy about it the Fantastic
Four’s comics were cancelled the x-men’s
presence in the comics and an ancillary
media like toys and games seemed minimal
was a deploy to strong-arm Fox into
returning the film rights may be but
when Marvel announced that the x-men
would go to war with Inhumans with the
Inhumans possibly wiping mutants out in
the Marvel Universe and taking their
place fans called shenanigans thankfully
they’re all back to being one big happy
family especially considering how that
Inhumans TV show turned out I’m an
inhuman like the rest of you number 5
death of Pepe the Frog and it was the
morning that Hillary Clinton announced
that they had been overtaken by white
supremacists then it further got labeled
a hate symbol and Trump was using it in
his campaign and all this stuff that’s
what I noticed he was channeling some
able shit watching your creation yet
unexpectedly turned into a symbol of
hatred and bigotry can’t be an easy
thing for a creator to go through but
that’s just what happened to cartoonist
Matt Fury he just wanted his creation
the now eponymous Pepe the Frog to be a
fun-loving stoner frog but it wasn’t
meant to be the character became an
unwitting mascot of online hate groups
during the 2016 election and rather than
seeing his creation used for evil fury
elected to kill off Pepe in a special
comic released on Free Comic Book Day
much to the ire of alt-right groups
everywhere I’m also teaming up with the
anti-defamation league and trying to
help get the word out that life’s too
short to be a hater he’s not a hater
number four x-men gold indonesian
protest messages indonesian comics
artists rd and Sayyaf found himself out
of a job when it was discovered that
he’d slipped some controversial messages
into his artwork for Marvel’s x-men gold
the messages were references to a series
of protests occurring in Indonesia at
the time with extremist groups
protesting Jakarta governor Basuki jaha
who they feel should not hold political
power due to his Christian beliefs saya
apparently agrees as he drew Colossus
wearing a shirt referencing the verse of
the Quran that in its Indonesian
translation prohibits Muslims from being
governed by non-muslims several other
references to the protests were found
including the number – one – which
represents the protests on December 2nd
2016
as a result Sayyaf was promptly shown
the door number 3 Akira Yoshida
especially in light of Marvel’s recent
push towards diversity and inclusiveness
in its comics it’s been disheartening to
see this particular drama unfold it was
recently admitted by new Marvel
editor-in-chief CBC bullski that in the
early 2000s he penned a number of Marvel
comic books under the name
Akira Yoshida misrepresenting the comics
as having an authentic Japanese
viewpoint fans were quite understandably
outraged in an industry long dominated
by white writers finding out that one of
the depressingly small number of Asian
names adorning American comic covers was
just a white guy in disguise is pretty
depressing the fact that Marvel knew
about this and condoned this even more
so number 2 secret Empire since his
inception Captain America has stood for
truth liberty equality justice and the
vigorous and repeated punching of Nazis
so in 2016 when Marvel seemingly
revealed that the star spangled man with
a plan had been an agent of Hydra all
along fans weren’t too happy this
culminated in the 2017 event secret
Empire which saw cap as the big bad to
make matters worse a variant cover for
issue number 5 depicted magneto as a
member of Hydra prompting an outcry that
a Jewish character who endured the
Holocaust would never join such a group
while this turned out to be a bit of a
misdirection people were nonetheless
upset about the whole thing
and their anger was directed a series
writer Nick Spencer number one Eddie
Braganza assault charges following the
explosive allegations against movie
mogul Harvey Weinstein a sea-change
swept through the entertainment industry
as newly empowered victims of sexual
assault finally found themselves able to
tell their stories the comics industry
got their share of this as well as
numerous accusations against DC Comics
editor Eddie Braganza came to light
thanks to an article published by
BuzzFeed news in addition to per cons of
having to answer for his deplorable
behavior the company itself came under
criticism for failing to fire Braganza
sooner while some may say better late
than never if DC really was aware of
Braganza behavior and kept him on the
company payroll DC owes an apology to
his victims do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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