What does it say about your reboot strategy when the best way to preserve fan interest is to deliberately lie about what is in the show? Instead of embracing the woke feminist direction as something he believes is legitimately good and worthwhile and attractive to viewers, Kevin Smith ran from it as decisively as he could. That's a pretty direct acknowledgement that such content is largely unwanted.
So they know this shit isn't popular, and yet they once again chose that direction. Sorta confirms the notion that most of this leftist idiocy in entertainment is ideologically motivated even to the utter detriment of profit.
With that in mind, I'm thinking maybe the lie wasn't just about duping more people into watching the show. Maybe leftist subversives can't get off unless the old school fans are actually ambushed by the destruction of their favorite franchises. I mean what joy is there in tearing down a man's childhood favorites if he's already resigned to your subversion? If he sees you coming from a mile away, you won't be able to extract the same satisfaction from his muted disappointment and frustration.
Sounds almost insane, but would you really put it past these people? One of the more choice critic reviewers even says that she enjoys the show primarily because she knows it pisses off the old school male fans. That's the level of petty spite and envy we are dealing with here.
Yep. Batman: The Widening Gyre #6, 2009. It was supposed to be a 12-issue series but they only got through six before it got canned. In the issue Batman admits to a new hero, Baphomet, that during his first attempt at using an explosive charge to try and intimidate a batch of criminals, he underestimated the force of the charge and when it went off he had a "bladder spasm".
Needless to say, that was the last issue of the series that got published.
Geez. And see, Batman is a character with a legacy, far richer than He-Man's. People have to be good stewards to these kinds of things and they aren't. Some from malice, some from ignorance, some from both. Nothing wrong with showing even hero's fail and get scared but doing it like that is so classless and out of character. Low sales too eh. I think Smith has failed upwards in many respects. In comics that's not uncommon. I know his low-budget films did well. But being a nerd and indie filmmaker does not qualify one to make take over Batman, or in this case He-man. I don't know how popular he is on twitter, I'd bet he's popular at conventions though and so people keep giving him work thinking it's a good litmus, despite low sales on comics and poor box office on his horror crap and I think the newer J&SB doing so-so as well.
He's been around for an age before he went woke, so his Twitter predates his descent. Dude was well known for not only his indie flicks and general geek fandom, but also his podcasts. "Fat Man on Batman" was probably his best known one, where he and his guests waxed both poetic and nostalgic on Batman fandom. It's safe to say that DC gave him the gig as both a favor and as a stunt-casting thing for the series, to boost sales and interest. The artist on both The Widening Gyre and Batman: Cacophony (an earlier mini-series from 2008) was his buddy Walt Flanagan, so it's pretty obvious that the whole thing was based on someone knowing someone.
I'd liken his rise in geekdom to that of Wil Wheaton. Much like Wil, he ingratiated himself into geek circles and was well-liked, if not beloved, by the geek community before he made his face-heel turn. Now that he's made his inroads, he feels like he is bulletproof (and partially so because he'll be propped up by his SJW buddies in the media) so he can sling whatever BS he wants to the public.
Was Satan unavailable?
They couldn't be more in-your-face about their Satan worship.