I used the image Bleeding Fool used because I wasn’t sure I could find the original tweet. By the way, it’s Bleeding Fool’s anniversary. I like the site very much, so it’s a shame I’m breaking a vs out on one of their contributors on their anniversary week. It’s also one of their contributors I happen to enjoy and have used for Saturday article links, Brian Neumeier. Sadly this is also not my first versus article with him We agree on a lot, but not everything, and this is one of those subjects. Sorry, Brian, I have to pick on you again.
In discussion is this article he posted from his regular site (I linked to both, so choose your preference) “Burying Dead Media”. It’s an argument I keep seeing too often and it kind of saddens me. It also confuses me and tells you just how badly the Hollywood system has bungled comics since acquiring DC (Warner Brothers) and Marvel (Disney) in both comics and movies, as well as all the not-stalgia movies and comics that have also come out. The thing is I don’t disagree with many of Neumeier’s opinions, just his solution: just give up and let it all die.
Personal bias may be in play here, but the heroes that formed my moral worldview as much as my family, the reason I didn’t allow my temper to regularly go psycho on my bullies or the school itself for example, as well as why I wanted to write these kinds of stories, are being tossed aside…which I believe is what the current stewards want. They want us to give up on our childhood heroes to replace them with their own zeroes. I’m against the egotists, corporatists, and activists as much as anyone else. They’re three of the groups that make up the SEECA acronym I’ve been using lately along with the snobs and elitists. There’s a sort of scorched earth perspective from many of my fellow commentators who say it’s too far gone and must be replaced. Basically, this attitude.
The thing is, I’m not ready to call off the remodelers and call in the demolition team just yet. It’s not just my bias. I’m at a point in my life when I could go ahead and watch/read the old stuff and be fine. On the other hand, I’m not yet convinced that this generation of writers has been able to undo what decades have built so easily. The termites haven’t completed the job, the media is only in a coma.
In case you forgot, Thunderbolt had one issue with proper numbering, and then for some reason took over Son Of Vulcan‘s numbering (itself a takeover of a different title’s numbering) with #51. I don’t know what was happening at Charlton but this doesn’t seem like a good idea.
With a name like “Evila”, being a nurse wasn’t in the cards in a comic universe.
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapters for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Only one chapter this week, folks. We’re very close to the end. Last time Peggy got her payback, while we set up this chapter from the train. I still don’t know why they bothered. As a scene in a movie or TV show it might have worked, but something I think this novel forgets it’s a prose book.
Chapter 72 of 78, I’m long since out of padding, so apologises for this page looking lame from the homepage. We’re just going to get on with it. I’m definitely choosing a shorter book for next time.
If Az is right and the article is a scam I and other sites fell for (remember, part of it was behind a paywall, adding more merit to Az’s theory), the comments still stand. Such a game might have worked under better creators but the French Society Of Magical Crackers up there would not be the people to tell that story. If indeed it was a potential idea thrown out there as a possibility it would have been a better use of a black character than upgrading the one black “samurai” to full status just to do an Assassin’s Creed game with a black character and not being patient enough to do it right in the right setting. The case can still be made that these people couldn’t pull of an American Civil War game, just that the article writer may also be a rather successful scammer. Admittedly I fell for it as well.
Well, my dad finally got cleared by the surgeon and visiting nurse, this week was the last I need to see of doctors until December, and my attempts at creating a buffer, while turning out to be more “proof of concept” than I wanted, still showed it’s a good idea if I can make it. With things finally calmed down, maybe this project and The Clutter Reports will finally not only get to where they should be but expanded. We’ll see. That was this week’s topic over there.
Over here, this week’s Chapter By Chapter should only be one chapter. We’ll also continue the first pitch for a CBS Transformers, and I’m hoping to build a good enough buffer to get this year’s Captain Yuletide done on time and do some of those site updates I was hoping to do before all the hospital stuff. Anything else depends on what discussion topics we have this week and whatever else the universe wants to throw at me.
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BW Vs Bleeding Fool> You’re Burying The Coma Patient
I used the image Bleeding Fool used because I wasn’t sure I could find the original tweet. By the way, it’s Bleeding Fool’s anniversary. I like the site very much, so it’s a shame I’m breaking a vs out on one of their contributors on their anniversary week. It’s also one of their contributors I happen to enjoy and have used for Saturday article links, Brian Neumeier. Sadly this is also not my first versus article with him We agree on a lot, but not everything, and this is one of those subjects. Sorry, Brian, I have to pick on you again.
In discussion is this article he posted from his regular site (I linked to both, so choose your preference) “Burying Dead Media”. It’s an argument I keep seeing too often and it kind of saddens me. It also confuses me and tells you just how badly the Hollywood system has bungled comics since acquiring DC (Warner Brothers) and Marvel (Disney) in both comics and movies, as well as all the not-stalgia movies and comics that have also come out. The thing is I don’t disagree with many of Neumeier’s opinions, just his solution: just give up and let it all die.
Personal bias may be in play here, but the heroes that formed my moral worldview as much as my family, the reason I didn’t allow my temper to regularly go psycho on my bullies or the school itself for example, as well as why I wanted to write these kinds of stories, are being tossed aside…which I believe is what the current stewards want. They want us to give up on our childhood heroes to replace them with their own zeroes. I’m against the egotists, corporatists, and activists as much as anyone else. They’re three of the groups that make up the SEECA acronym I’ve been using lately along with the snobs and elitists. There’s a sort of scorched earth perspective from many of my fellow commentators who say it’s too far gone and must be replaced. Basically, this attitude.
The thing is, I’m not ready to call off the remodelers and call in the demolition team just yet. It’s not just my bias. I’m at a point in my life when I could go ahead and watch/read the old stuff and be fine. On the other hand, I’m not yet convinced that this generation of writers has been able to undo what decades have built so easily. The termites haven’t completed the job, the media is only in a coma.
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