DC Comics appears to have maligned YouTuber Jeremy Griggs aka DDay Cobra of the Geeks + Gamers YouTube channel in a recently released Blue Beetle graphic novel.
This Last Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story (2024), DC Comics
As initially reported by Fandom Pulse, writer Julio Anto and artist Jacoby Salcedo appear to have included the likeness of Griggs in their recently released Blue Beetle graphic novel, This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story.
The comic paints the character that looks like Griggs as part of a YouTube funnel that leads one of Jaime Reyes’ friends to join an organization called the “Legion of Patriots.”
It has Griggs’s character saying, “Unlike the mainstream media, we don’t wear makeup, we don’t spread lies, we don’t have a bias. We believe in the TRUTH. The left tries to tell us that multiculturalism is the answer to all of society’s problems…yet they criticize us for being MEN… for being WHITE… for being STRAIGHT.”
A page from This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story (2024), DC Comics
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The next page features a number of other YouTube personalities discussing immigration with one of Jaimie Reyes’ friends discussing his other friends journey to the Legion of Patriots.
This friend states, “The more videos he watched, the more the algorithms fed him similar content. Each one more racist and xenophobic than the last.”
A page from This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story (2024), DC Comics
Griggs has not issued a statement, but he did repost a number of others who commented on it. First, he reposted Del Arroz who wrote, “Looks like DC made DDayCobra into a villain. They make him sound pretty bad ass to be honest. I hope he crushes the Blue Beetle.”
DDayCobra on X
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He also reposted YouTuber Hypnotic who wrote, “Broooooooooo they turned DDayCobra into a bad*ss villain in the new blue beetle comic, LMAO.”
DDayCobra on X
He also reposted legal analyst and YouTuber Andrew Esquire. He questioned, “We filing an unauthorized use of persona suit?”
DDayCobra on X
This tactic that both Julio Anto and Jacoby Salcedo use is well-worn one. Novelist Brian Niemeier notes it is what Hollywood has used to push the current culture of death that permeates much of the United States.
He explains, “To understand this method, one need only understand the archetypal trope of the protagonist. This is the character who drives the story by setting out on a quest to achieve a concrete goal against opposition. Hollywood learned through long trial and error to make the protagonist as likeable and relatable to audiences as possible. The idea is to make audiences identify with the hero.”
“Hollywood churn[ed] out decades of movies wherein heroes whom audiences identified with achieved their goals by acting according to the Death Cult’s morals.” he added. “That point bears repeating. To bring movie audiences around to your way of thinking, show characters they like being successful by acting in line with your moral standard.”
A panel from This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story (2024), DC Comics
So regardless of how bad ass they make Griggs’ fictional commentary in the graphic novel, the point bears repeating, to borrow a phrase from Niemeier, he is still be painted as a villain. His views are being painted as villainous no matter the true substance of them. And that’s the real point, they want to associate these viewpoints with villains and evil. They want to condition people to believe these views are evil regardless of their actual merit.
In contrast, they show Blue Beetle, the protagonist, lecturing the individuals who listen to these views while he collaborates with a woman who has an Anarchy and Anti-Columbus Society on her laptop.
A panel from This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story (2024), DC Comics
What do you make of DC Comics appearing to malign YouTuber Jeremy Griggs in this Blue Beetle graphic novel?
