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A Mexican Independence Day-themed poster, by request.

from left to right: La Vibora, Mariana Bautista, Carmen Chavez and Roberta Casillas.

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Epicaustin18

When February rolls around, you'd better do something for the black community. specifically cause you always got black chicks losing not a great look

The Worlds of A. F. Combat

Auto-moderation originally hid this comment; I undid that because I thought everyone should see it (Although if Patreon's moderation software is flagging what you said, maybe you should reflect on that.) I've looked before, and my win/loss rate for black characters is about 50/50. I did have a couple of higher-profile losses by black characters right next to each other earlier this year. It wasn't intentional, but I understand how some readers were disappointed seeing the same outcome repeated. As I told you privately when you wrote me about this, it's something I'm working on: "...I think I've definitely avoided telling stories centered around characters of color. Not out of malice, but because it felt exploitative and smacked of cultural appropriation. (I was also afraid I'd do a bad job of it, being a white guy in the suburbs.) Unfortunately trying to avoid that problem can cause the one you noticed instead, where characters of color tend to be opponents or sidekicks. It's something I'm aware of and trying to do better." Finally, why is your impulse to threaten instead of encourage? You could have said, "This is great. You should do something like this for Black History Month next year," instead of "When February rolls around, you'd better do something for the black community," because there's an implied "or else" at the end of that sentence. And no one responds well to Do This Or Else. This pinup was also done by request; a discord member is a huge fan of Carmen Chavez, and has consistently advocated for seeing her in more comics. You have never mentioned any of my characters by name. Beyond their skin color, you don't seem to care about them at all.

Epicaustin18

idk, I feel like speaking on a fact that you seem to find uncomfortable is something that you might wanna think on, but at least you made it visible

Epicaustin18

You also might want to check that again lately you've made more loss then wins so your ratio is a little bit outdated

Epicaustin18

I also wanted to address the last piece of your message. You obviously took what I said poorly, when I didn't mean for it to come off the way you took it. I wasn't threatening or trying to be threatening or any of those other things that she said also yes I haven't really mentioned your characters by name you know when I subbed to your account so you will also know that I am pretty much a first time viewer and walking into your stuff, the image that it presents is not the best one when framed from the lens of somebody who hasn't seen your stuff other than doing deep dives into certain characters or certain arcs and a lot of other things that you've made I've opened up Over 20 of your PDFs been a large portion of your PDFs where you do do the representation of colored individuals they are like you already admitted side characters and not really ever winning either you have a large majority of white blonde haired blue eyed women winning and in ways I can't really describe because it's patreon but. Think about that. Maybe that's why I haven't mentioned your characters by name, but on the comics that I have run through, why would I want to remember a large mass number of characters of color losing fights in comparison to the ones where they're winning? Back to what I was saying, it is more about a request out of all of the stuff I've seen in your PDFs and on your page. It would at least be nice for you to do something like that during the month of February. Also, last thing I wanted to address: you're making it sound like I don't like your work or any of the art that you've made; that's not the case. It's just difficult, being an African-American person, to see on a page of artwork that I like African-American people being put down. So from my perspective, it's very hard to connect with any of what you're making.