Ladies and gentlemen ….. Dick Hates Your Blog:
Supergirl. I just don’t care. Never cared about Supergirl, never saw her as some kind of icon. I’m skeptical that Supergirl was ever an icon for young female readers like, say, Wonder Woman, but I could be wrong. I can’t imagine reading Supergirl even if Alan Moore and a resurrected Jack Kirby were the creative team. Or (more realistically) Linda Medley and Richard Sala.
Have I ever mentioned that there’s something about Johanna Draper Carlson that rubs me the wrong way? Probably not, since this is my third entry. Even if I agree with her points–which I don’t, in this case–there’s just something about the way she says the things she says.
Can you imagine anything more depressing than listening to Peter David drone on about, uh, well, anything? If ever there has been a reason for online superhero fans to be ignored and marginalized, it’s their continued support of Peter f******* David.
speaking of Riot–if the entire blogosphere could be distilled into one person, and that person chose to open a comics store, I would guess that hypothetical person would run the store like Riot was allegedly operated. I say “allegedly” because I’ve never been to central Pennsylvania, and I do not aspire to ever do so. I guess coal miners just aren’t into Acme Novelty Library.
On a much more positive note, I actually like this Chris Mautner fellow now writing for the Newsarama blog–mostly because he actually posts about things of interest to me, rather than linking to deadly serious debates about which display cases are the most appropriate for the Batcave.
Aaaaaahhhhh. I can feel the love all the way across the Internet. Come visit me sometime Dick. I only live … oh, a half hour away from Riot.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:45 am
He’s pretty much spot-on. I’ve been bone-tired of Johanna’s thinly-veiled arrogance for more than a decade. And Peter David…when he’s on, he’s really on, but the great bulk of his work is sloppy, lazy, fannish and overrated.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Carlson.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
No, you’re not alone. And for me it stems to that tired, obnoxious feud her and Elayne Riggs had YEARS ago. I’ve never seen so much artificial self-importance before, or since.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Man, I hope whoever posted the above comments aren’t just the same person over an over again. Which is to say, the people who posted the above comments are not my sock puppets.
Also, you didn’t actually link to the blog! I don’t mind you taking a bunch of stuff out of context to make me look like a lunatic, so long as you actually remember to include the fucking link, man.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Dick, see your blog’s name up there below the header? That’s a link.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Actually I added in the link after seeing Dick’s comment.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Sorry, I posted that late at night, and I was tired, and my kid woke up a fever. Also, I blame terrorists. And monkeys.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Damn monkeys!
February 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Mr. Parkin, you’re a scholar and a gentleman.
Mr. Mautner–quit bragging about procreating, especially if your offspring goes around disturbing slumbering fevers. It’s gauche.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:35 am
Damn, Dick, it sucks when people take all your most antagonistic quotes out of context and list them together!
HAW! Just kiddin!