Why is it that after only a few seconds online, I want to punch most comic book fans right in the mouth?
I can post something completely snark-free (and for me, that is a rare thing, especially when it comes to comics, the current state of which can only be described as "catering to the worst possible fanboy, the guy who lives with his parents, has no girlfriend, thinks Wolverine is the greatest character to ever be created and doesn't understand why Marvel won't publish his story about the She-Hulk becoming a porn actress") and somehow elicit the reponse of the very aforementioned fanboy.
Look, I am a total nerd ok? I still, to this day, get all geeked out about comic book movies and animated shows based on superheroes (except for Spider-Man, he hasn't had an animated show that didn't suck since the original show in the sixties...although the one with Firestar wins points just for the cheese factor), and I dig Wolverine too, even though he's seriously overused and overexposed, but the current breed of fanboy just makes me wish for the power to reach through my computer screen and slap the shit out of them.
Yes, I get it, you're young enough to have been raised with the internet. You're so advanced and oh-so cool. Got it. You are unimpressed by my dinosaur knowledge of trivia and the fact that when I was your age, comics only cost about a buck. That's fine, it's nothing to be impressed by. My girlfriend regularly rolls her eyes at my obscure knowledge of comics.
But when I say Mark Millar is a shitty writer, that's not me being a know-it-all. That's me speaking as a writer. Maybe I've only been published in a few college rags and am a total dilletante, but I know how to string a few words together, and the man is a total hack. I've read cafeteria menus with more care and thought put into them. I don't really CARE if you think he's a good writer. You also think it's "awesome" when someone decides killing off a character is better than writing them well. That's what they do in soap operas. You gonna go watch All My Children? I doubt it.
I'm really tired of idiots who think being on the internet makes them some sort of World of Warcraft playing version of Keith Olbermann. Posting OMG PWNED does not mean you have defeated someone on an intellectual level.
Gah. I really, really need to spend less time online.
I can post something completely snark-free (and for me, that is a rare thing, especially when it comes to comics, the current state of which can only be described as "catering to the worst possible fanboy, the guy who lives with his parents, has no girlfriend, thinks Wolverine is the greatest character to ever be created and doesn't understand why Marvel won't publish his story about the She-Hulk becoming a porn actress") and somehow elicit the reponse of the very aforementioned fanboy.
Look, I am a total nerd ok? I still, to this day, get all geeked out about comic book movies and animated shows based on superheroes (except for Spider-Man, he hasn't had an animated show that didn't suck since the original show in the sixties...although the one with Firestar wins points just for the cheese factor), and I dig Wolverine too, even though he's seriously overused and overexposed, but the current breed of fanboy just makes me wish for the power to reach through my computer screen and slap the shit out of them.
Yes, I get it, you're young enough to have been raised with the internet. You're so advanced and oh-so cool. Got it. You are unimpressed by my dinosaur knowledge of trivia and the fact that when I was your age, comics only cost about a buck. That's fine, it's nothing to be impressed by. My girlfriend regularly rolls her eyes at my obscure knowledge of comics.
But when I say Mark Millar is a shitty writer, that's not me being a know-it-all. That's me speaking as a writer. Maybe I've only been published in a few college rags and am a total dilletante, but I know how to string a few words together, and the man is a total hack. I've read cafeteria menus with more care and thought put into them. I don't really CARE if you think he's a good writer. You also think it's "awesome" when someone decides killing off a character is better than writing them well. That's what they do in soap operas. You gonna go watch All My Children? I doubt it.
I'm really tired of idiots who think being on the internet makes them some sort of World of Warcraft playing version of Keith Olbermann. Posting OMG PWNED does not mean you have defeated someone on an intellectual level.
Gah. I really, really need to spend less time online.
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