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Aaron Smith
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While I'm glad I get to be around this forum and a few other civilized comics-related places on the internet, I do sometimes really miss the days when I knew NOTHING about the comics' creators except how they drew and wrote. I'm supposed to enjoy stories about heroes created by people who act like tantrum-prone babies?
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Craig Robinson
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I don't know, well, anything, about inside baseball of the comics industry, buta workplace is a workplace and I imagine these tantrums and minor fueds have likely erupted in bullpens long before now. It just seems like with social media, these public blow-ups are calculated as part of the image. Some pun intended.
Edited by Craig Robinson on 02 September 2012 at 6:09am
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Valmor J. Pedretti
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An geez, it's been a long time since Liefeld was a kid, right? Does he have to speak like one?
I have no idea who is in the right, but his choice of words or not very helpful.
If you want internet attention, write an open letter and try to be polite on it.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 02 September 2012 at 8:36am | IP Logged | 4
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An geez, it's been a long time since Liefeld was a kid, right? Does he have to speak like one?•• Liefeld is 45 this year. I wonder if anyone has reminded him lately of when he used to say no one over 24 should be allowed to work in comics? (First time I heard that, I noted that he had effectively erased the entire Marvel Universe, retroactively.)
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Michael Todd
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QUOTE:
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What kind of an idiotic statement is that?!?
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Steven Legge
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If Rob has a legitimate beef with the DC editors I'm glad he didn't deal with it in an appropriate and mature manner.
He could get more work that way.
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John Byrne
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…no one over 24 should be allowed to work in comics…++ What kind of an idiotic statement is that?!? •• One that sprang from a common -- and increasingly more common -- source: no sense of history. It was around this same time that Todd McFarlane was castigating the likes of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and even myself, because we had not struck out on our own and created our own Image-like companies when we were "HOT". Which in my case, the Toddler defined as 1975. (You all remember when I was burning up the stands with WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH!) And, of course, this overlooked the fact that Kirby DID start his own company, in the Fifties, only to see it wither and die. That was the same piece, as I recall, in which McFarlane referred to the Direct Sales Market as having been around for 35 years -- which at the time he wrote it, would have meant since around 1960 or earlier.
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John Byrne
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By the way, when it was announced that Liefeld had signed on to do THREE MONTHLY TITLES, did anyone REALLY believe he'd last?
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Robert White
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I don't understand why DC felt he still had a big enough personal fanbase to support three titles not only as an artists but as a writer. If it was 1992, sure, but now? Granted it all seemed like a surreal joke to me.
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John Byrne
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Everything DC is currently doing seems like a surreal joke to me. Or a bad dream.
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Robert White
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I was going to give a few titles a shot but I could't get past the ridiculous, over the top, violence. When the Joker had the skin of his face removed and nailed to a wall, I signed out for the final time...
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Michael Todd
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QUOTE:
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That is beyond bad taste, disgusting!
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