A comic book writer and a comic company editor goes to a message board. Oh yeah not only is this joke for real but the punchline even better. And when they fight who wins? Well, anyone with a sense of humor did, that's who. It was J.Michael Straczynski creator of Babylon Five, writer of Thor, Spider-man, a couple of issues of Superman, and current writer of nothing of particular note Vs Steve Wacker a senior editor at Marvel Comics who is, in fact, currently editing stuff on everyone's favorite hate filled message board Comic Book Resources - aka CBR. The great back and forth started when J. Michael posted a graph showing Amazing Spider-Man sales since he left the book, and the lines on the graph dug a hole to China. Included with the graph were the words, "I'm just saying." This pissed off the Senior Editor who posted a reply worthy of a geek twenty-seconds after seeing Phantom Menace. Needless to say after Wacker's spark of a post hit the gas and everything exploded. Regular CBR posters were so shocked it actually took them 30 whole seconds to start posting replies filled with the usual brand of venom one comes to expect from the usual CBR posters. The only surprise was Dan Slott's "give peace a chance" post and Mark Waid's imitation of a teenage female Facebook member as he posted his "oh no you didn't" response to J. Michael. By now some or all of the incendiary posts might be pulled but there's about 200 Pop Culture news sites and blogs currently duplicating them to report the story. Find it, read it, enjoy the insanity of so-called professional going all unprofessional and shit.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Marvelous Battle
A comic book writer and a comic company editor goes to a message board. Oh yeah not only is this joke for real but the punchline even better. And when they fight who wins? Well, anyone with a sense of humor did, that's who. It was J.Michael Straczynski creator of Babylon Five, writer of Thor, Spider-man, a couple of issues of Superman, and current writer of nothing of particular note Vs Steve Wacker a senior editor at Marvel Comics who is, in fact, currently editing stuff on everyone's favorite hate filled message board Comic Book Resources - aka CBR. The great back and forth started when J. Michael posted a graph showing Amazing Spider-Man sales since he left the book, and the lines on the graph dug a hole to China. Included with the graph were the words, "I'm just saying." This pissed off the Senior Editor who posted a reply worthy of a geek twenty-seconds after seeing Phantom Menace. Needless to say after Wacker's spark of a post hit the gas and everything exploded. Regular CBR posters were so shocked it actually took them 30 whole seconds to start posting replies filled with the usual brand of venom one comes to expect from the usual CBR posters. The only surprise was Dan Slott's "give peace a chance" post and Mark Waid's imitation of a teenage female Facebook member as he posted his "oh no you didn't" response to J. Michael. By now some or all of the incendiary posts might be pulled but there's about 200 Pop Culture news sites and blogs currently duplicating them to report the story. Find it, read it, enjoy the insanity of so-called professional going all unprofessional and shit.
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Clarification: The chart ISN'T an accurate depiction of Amazing Spider-Man's sales. It's a piece of pure fiction that J. Michael Straczynksi mistakenly found on line and THOUGHT was the real thing.
ReplyDeleteThe fake sales chart was made up by a fan who's still angry about the OMD storyline. The same fan who has been banned from DeviantArt.Com for putting up disturbing Spider-Man/MJ porn cartoons. This angry fan took ALL the sales of Post-Straczynksi Spider-Man and THREW OUT the top two-thirds of all the numbers. Pretty crazy, right?