Millarworld asks the tough questions:

“Something that crossed my mind, and i wonder if anyone else feels the same. Authors like Matt Fraction and Gail Simone started as the internet audience themselves, and to me it feels like sometimes that they write stuff with a nudge nudge wink wink to their fellow bloggers and message boarders. I can’t exactly put it down in words, but i’ve noticed it more than once. Am i just going crazy(er?)”

“I got to meet Matt Fraction a month or so ago and I have to say he writes the same way he talks - he has one of those active, mercurial minds that covers about 5 subjects at a time, making him a pretty fascinating conversationalist. My take on his writing is that he’s just writing what he’d like to read, more than any nudge-nudge thing. do think Bendis puts in a fair amount of in jokes for the message board crowd, like Wolverine talking about how he manages to be so many places and the entire ‘who is a Skrull’ thing from this last issue of New Avengers.”

“And a couple of issues ago, Echo’s monologue about the ‘idiots’ who try to guess who Ronin is.”

“But how much of that is us reading into it? Are we really to think that no member of the NA would say why no one could be trusted? Or that a person who is with a secret identity would not mention about people wondering about their identity?”

“I don’t buy it. If he did that kind of disturbingly psychotic view on the fanbase, he would, at the very least, reflect it a little bit on his interviews and when people meet him at cons. Or other creators would have commented on it. I do think that he talks through the fanbase a lot, something that I don’t particularly like about his writing… But I don’t see him being schizophrenic like that.”

“With some writers, you can be cynical and say there’s a self conscious decision to make a joke they know ‘Those d00ds on the internet will lol out loud over.’ Think with an older generaon of writers (Peter David and Bendis for example) this is the case. But say with people like Matt Fraction, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Corey Lewis, the internet is a much more integral part of their day and self expression, so its only natural for them to include references and touch points for web users. they do belong to a generation that grew up with the internet (as opposed to people who were introduced to the internet) afterall.”

“lol out loud?” Laugh out loud out loud?

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