VOX DAY AND CAPTAIN RINO

    In case everybody missed it this holiday season, Red Pill Cult leader Vox Day has launched a new line of comic-books. Vox is under the impression that comics publishers Detective Comics (DC) and Marvel are pushing a Left-Wing agenda on America's youth. Vox calls ths being 'SWJ Converged' (meaning any organization that doesn't bow to his obvious genius). 

      Hence, his Alpha-Front group, Castalia House has introduced to us to a new superhero, Alt-Hero. 

        Despite the series being published in Finland, and the hero's girlfriend sporting the colors of a breakaway country which killed thousands of Americans; Vox tells us that Alt-Hero is all about defending American values. Looking at some of the excerpts of the series, it appears that Alt-Hero's character is modeled more on 'Based Stick-Man' than Superman, et al. 

         Reaction to the new series has been met by professionals and laymen alike with a mixture of laughter and disgust. But one of the most disgusting things is Vox' statement that his series is designed to elevate "every American, Western, and Christian value." What he's succeeded in doing once again is giving all Conservatives and Christians a bad name. 

           The reason that this series will fail---like most of Vox' schemes---is because it's ultimate goal isn't to produce anything of any socially redeeming value. It's based on Vox taking his petty revenge on an industry and "triggering SJWs". This is like his envious attack on John Scalzi. He fails to produce good writing because his objectives are personal; and therefore one-dimensional. 

          Alt-Hero, for example, makes it a point to use his superpowers to remove illegal immigrants from American streets. What kind of a superhero uses his incredible powers against migrant farm-workers? That's a bully, not a superhero. What makes superheroes super is that they fight super-villains. There is always something in the character of such heroes that they fight for the defenseless; they inspire hope and confidence in the people.

          The second reason that Alt-Hero will fail is because Vox doesn't understand market forces. The Comics Industry is struggling---not because readers are leaving in protest---but because it's an old media form that can't compete well with the new. Comics are a product not only of the pre-Internet days, but of the pre-Television days. The Golden Age of comics meant a monthly issue or a 5-panel daily run in a newspaper. Today, we can download these same series and read them in their entirety in a couple of hours. A parallel form of media, which is no longer produced, were movie serials. Today, one can go to Youtube and watch in 3 hours what it once took audiences 15 weeks to see. 

          This is also the reason for the Comic Industry's modern tendency to create minority or female heroes and heroines. Not necessarily because they are 'SJW converged'; but because they are trying to boost their circulation by reaching out to wider demographics. Vox doesn't have a market beyond his own echo-chamber. 

         The third reason is just plain bad writing. 

     

       This is truly pathetic stuff. Again, Vox' narcissism is his undoing. He can't relate well to others and thinks that this kind of shallow narrative is actually going to appeal to anybody. 

        Other characters include the Red-Pill Girl version of Wonder Woman: 

         And these kinds of ridiculous villains: 

          While we believe that our culture could use some traditional comics again, this kind of material makes the postmodern stuff actually look good. If these are the 'Alt' heroes, we should probably stick with the ones that we have.