Shwicaz wonders about internet cliches:
Going through comic message board is sometimes illuminating in ways I never thought possible.
Apparently, if you are explaining why you like a certain writer/character/creator/company to someone who does not like said writer/character/creator/company, you are now an ‘apologist‘ WTF?
People complain that writer’s ignore past ‘continuity‘….but, if a creator uses past continuity to tell a new story, that creator is now guilty of ‘retconning‘
… Any male writer who shows a female beaten up/attacked in their book is ‘misogynist‘. If a woman in a book dies in a particularly brutal fashion, as part of a plot device, comic fans complain this is yet another case of ‘women in refrigerators‘
I know I am missing so many more…..what are the others…?
Luckily, the rest of the Bendis Board have things in better perspective:
“I kinda chuckle and think of that Family Guy episode where that therapist calls Peter a degenerate, and he snaps back with some nonsensical word and says, ’see I can make up words too’. But then I don’t take much too seriously.”
“I see ‘only on the [name of the board]‘ used a lot. People think wacky shit that happens on their board is somehow unique, even though it happens on every single message board out there.”
“[My favorite is] ‘I’m dropping this book’ said in a big dramatic statement as if the writer will change there mind all of a sudden.”
Meanwhile, Ethan Van Sciver has other issues with the comics internet:
“The internet helped spread ideas like how hard it is to draw feet. Which is very strange when you think about it.”
Ethan! Feet are very hard to draw. Especially if they include toes.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Feet aren’t really all that hard unto themselves. It’s the fitting people proportionally within a frame that usually leads the artist to just saying “fuggit” and cutting characters off at the ankles.
That’s MY excuse.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I recently saw an analysis of graphic design in the computer age, where it was declared “ridiculously weird” the general public knows the names of multiple fonts from Times New Roman, to Comic Sans, to Helvetica. The comment was made that this sort of frightened professional graphic designers when it first started happening.
I guess in the “strange that people actually know that” file, the difficulty of drawing feet is the comic book world’s answer to knowing the names of fonts.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I recently saw an analysis of graphic design in the computer age, where it was declared “ridiculously weird” the general public knows the names of multiple fonts from Times New Roman, to Comic Sans, to Helvetica. The comment was made that the new crop of amateurs with professional knowledge that came about with computer programs like Word and Photoshop frightened professional graphic designers when it first started happening.
I guess in the “strange that people actually know that” file, the difficulty of drawing feet is the comic book world’s answer to knowing the names of fonts.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I don’t know how cliched this is, but I have some friends that will bitch about how a writer will write a character based on how that character was previously written. They feel it’s breaking precedent. Yet, they didn’t bat an eye when set precedent was put forth by another writer. Why does one writer’s creative change take seniority over another’s? That’s always bugged me.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Liefeld can draw feet. Its just the fact that in the Liefeld universe feet look like small pointy flattened elf shoes.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Ha ha!
I never thought i would be immortalized on the blog@ column.
(I post under the SN ’shwicaz’ on the Bendis Board, but I post here as well, under the name ‘Blind Assassin’.
thanks for the exposure.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I think comic book fans have over/ misused the term “Mary Sue” enough to become a message board cliche.