If Comic Book Resources’ “Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed” series ever runs out of material, it could just look to its own comments section, where all manner of unconfirmed (and unconfirmable, probably) rumors about Mark Waid are running wild:
“The story I heard about that Kara appearance [in Christmas With The Super-Heroes #2, from 1989] was that Mark Waid was fired as an editor as a result of including her post-Crisis. Of course, I seem to recall that head honcho Dick Giordano inked that story, so I always figured that probably wasn’t true.”
“Mark Waid was fired as editor from DC because he threw a typewriter at a fellow employee. Waid was also fired from Fantagraphics for similar hotheaded behavior.”
“Waid did not really throw a typewriter did he? Seriously that guy needs to be on meds.”
I heard that he shot a man just to watch him die, but I look forward to that being debunked in a future edition. If this is some kind of new “Mark Waid: Bad-ass Comic Maverick” meme that I’m not aware of, I have to admit, I’m all for it.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
IIRC, that’s not the story I’ve heard about Waid’s firing. But I do hear that he’s got a man… on their BOAT.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Mark Waid doesn’t sleep. He waits.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It’s said that Mark Waid’s tears can cure AIDS. Unfortunately, this cannot be proven because Mark Waid has never cried.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Mark Waid once didn’t like how a comic was inked, so he bought three gallons of ink and force fed it to the inker.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mark Waid paints the stripes on candy canes with his eyelashes.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mark Waid paints the stripes on candy canes with his eyelashes.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Word on the street is that early one morning while making the rounds, Mark Waid took a shot of cocaine and he shot his woman down.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Mark Waid knows the Anti-Life Equation. And Darkseid doesn’t.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
When Mark Waid was editor, his desk chair was made from the bones of artists who turned their work in late. But only their leg bones, so they could keep working.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Superman is weakened by Kryptonite. Mark Waid sprinkles it on his corn flakes.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
When Jesse Quick lost her virginity, Mark Waid found it and put it back.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
They were gonna name a street after Mark Waid, but decided against it, because no man crosses Mark Waid and lives.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Yeah, amusingly, someone sent me that Waid one yeeeeeears ago, and I thought it was so silly I didn’t even look into it. Now I guess I should, eh?
February 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Mark Waid’s calendar goes from March 31st to April 2. No man fools Mark Waid.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Notice there are no DC/Transformers crossovers. Waid hates robots.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
The reason Thanos always fails is he doesn’t have the seventh infinity gem. And Mark Waid ain’t giving it up.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Mark Waid can make Mephisto forget about the Spider marriage.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Mark Waid’s constituion is so hardy and so above the purview of human understanding, he could actually eat at Arby’s!
February 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Mark Waid hungers.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I wish I knew a Chuck Norris joke to sub Mark Waid’s name into, but I don’t.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Mark Waid’s sweat is the main ingredient of Bat-Shark Repellent.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Mark Waid is a Skrull.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Mark Waid is so mean that he likes both cats and dogs.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Before he met Mark Waid, Alan Moore’s hands were steady enough to shave himself.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
When you get eight stars in Grand Theft Auto IV, they send Mark Waid after you.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Mark Waid once walked down the street with an erection………There were no survivors.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Mark Waid pajamas.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Mark Waid’s parents threw him a surprise party once.
Once.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
‘The reason Thanos always fails is he doesn’t have the seventh infinity gem. And Mark Waid ain’t giving it up. ‘
And Thanos is too…hesitant to slip Mark some Ex-Lax to get it.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
The real reason Mark Waid left Flash? Wally West couldn’t keep up.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
When bad things happen to on time artists, it’s probably fate. When bad things happen to bad artists, it’s Mark Waid.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
When Mark Waid found out they were making a movie of his life starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Waid killed Hoffman. Mark Waid gets played by no man.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It looks like post-Crisis, reads like post-Crisis, but Mark Waid says it’s pre-Crisis. Then it’s fucking pre-Crisis.
February 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Q: Who would win in a fight between Batman and Captain America?
A: Mark Waid.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Sorry… I can’t tell… is this a joke? Some of these comments seem really inappropriate, even if it is in good fun. I don’t understand why the ‘rama has to always take it up a notch – as the leading place people go for comic news and comic blogs, shouldn’t there be some attempt to elevate the level of talk back the comic book community subcomes to, over and over again.
That said – MARK WAID is A GREAT MAN, deserving of respect for not taking shit and standing up for himself in an industry who’se consumers are worse than a lynch mob on crack.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Wow, was that Sean Penn who just posted?
February 12th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Mark Waid has such an advanced sense of humour, he posts as ChaosMcKenzie and BLOWS YOUR MIND.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
If you’ve never taken crap from people that like you…then you must have grown up in a bubble.
and on that note:
Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Mark Waid pajamas.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
You know who is going to survive Final Crisis…….
Mark Waid.