Nope for Tramway, but YES for this?

I have many respect for Québec City and its denizens. Its rich history and constructions sites that were the cause of the 1837-1838 Plaines d'Abraham war (I actually have visited this place back at teenager with my class. It was fun, but do I was starving that day!) and that unless the mess of Montreal and also Trois-Rivières in modern times, it didn't fallen to a pattern to let our landscapes with tons of graffitis and vandalisms on abandonned stores.

But that don't stop me to thinking this. After the government delayed and giving up (Again!) the Tramway project and 3rd link, two controversial projects that were the cause of why mass-transits in Canada came from the Middle-Age, here's that the city approved a BDs House, a first in the country, and possibly in the worst period of the artform's lifetime.

I don't longer seen much youths reading these, unlike generations ago. They come more busy with Mangas, Netflix and Disney+. That's the first thing.

Secondly, the artform have growth a cult following in the past year, in detriment to a oversaturation of releases in the industry, the week.

Third, many longtime generations are no longer attached or thrilled to read one of these newer things. Series that have newer follow-ups by different "artists" have stop to attracted me unless for ONE where it's a needed to follow them all.

Fourth, thinking that BDs still have fans anywhere or that sales are getting stronger are an illusion. This is also the bottom-of-the-barrel of all the artistical cultures that spread our ways to consumming. If you make comics for a living, better to think of your future personal plans before to launch a script.

In the pasts two years, I having to abandonned lots of BDs projects by either, lack of times, or interest. I don't longer have the richness to wasting papers for unfinished scripts.

And the question that bugs me out, why approving a BD house in Québec City when better AND much important things remains unfinished? The Tramway project was procrastinated for decades many times since the era of Régis Labeaume. Like with the 3rd link, it was complained by eco-friendly groups to not helped a lot to limited the traffic in their freeways. Like Québec City is majoritarely a city where owning a car is essential, seeing them launching a house like this by the following month prove that some officials are rather out-of-connected with the reality of its denizens... and the society in general.

Many comics, graphic novels and BDs have a real problem to intergating sense of pacing, with many basic vocabulary goofs in the dialogues, a sort of Middle-Age attitude that continue to preach their readers on a very cloying way by be more racist, homophobic and sexist than anything seen on Netflix or on Prime-Time shows made for adults. Even the BDs for youths are likely not different to the modern-day cartoons that flood all the space since the early-00s

Even at a cartoonist myself, it is very frustrating that Québec City investing in a project done for the artsy elite than make done things that were invested with the taxpayers' money already. And to think some people blame the REM to not worked out as they would when Québec City ordered a mentality of mass-transit that every countries in the 21th century have for long eschewed.