The Spider-man Marriage

I am going to repost some of my rants that I did on Crawlspace because it will lead some place...eventually. :D

Today is going to be the Spider-man marriage which ties into the first post on this blog:




Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you my rant about the marriage. It is going to be goodie.

I have really thought long and hard about this particular rant because there are a lot of misconceptions about the marriage made by writers, EIC and fans. Here are the biggest complaints about the marriage:

1. It is unrelateable to younger readers.
2. It takes something away from the story.
3. Writers don’t want write for a married Spider-man.
4. You can tell only so many stories about married Spider-man.
5. I don’t want Mary Jane in every issue.
6. Peter is a loser and the marriage takes that away.
7. Marriage takes away from the fun of the book.
8. What is the difference in a marriage and a committed relationship? It is the same thing.
9. The marriage was forced and rushed.
10. The marriage sucked! The stories sucked!

Those are the ones I see and hear the most often on the web and my LCS. I have argued my points about the marriage over and over again. Let me prefaced with this by saying if the marriage was ended in a story that made sense then I wouldn’t I have problem. The fact, and it is a fact, One More Day was a flying shitfest of a story. It was insulting to the fans and the writers that have worked on the Spider-man titles for last 20 years. That is fact contrary to what Marvel’s Webhead say it did change the makeup of the Marvel Universe and affected the whole Universe. That is another rant for another time.

It is unrelateable to younger readers.

I guess all the younger readers in the world don’t have parents that weren’t/aren’t married. Bastards! Yes, it is that stupid. Just saying that is showing how out touch Joe Quesada is with the readership of Marvel Comics. I guess young readers can relate to drunken hooks ups and sex without love better. That Joe Quesada approved the fact Peter has unprotected sex and that something that should be pushed on young readers. Thank you Joe for making my job as parent real easy, no Spider-man comics will be read in my house. That is real. That is irresponsible to put in a book with high children interest and don’t give this Marvel Adventure crap either. I am not an idiot or a fool. Don’t ever make that mistake about me. In other words, you want to live in a world of sunshine and roses. Fine. I will live in a world that deals with reality.

It takes something away from the story.
Writers don’t want write for a married Spider-man.
You can tell only so many stories about married Spider-man.
I don’t want Mary Jane in every issue.
Peter is a loser and the marriage takes that away.
Marriage takes away from the fun of the book.
The marriage sucked! The stories sucked!

With an exception of last on, those are writer’s and EIC’s complaints. The last one is an result of wrong people writing the book. This is really simple. Don’t want to write for married Spider-man? Then you can’t write for the character! Last thing that the flagship character needs is a professional acting like a whiny fanboy because their stories suck due to lack of caring. It wasn’t the fact the marriage was in the book that caused these problems; it was due to writers and EIC not be able to deal with the situation and taking advantage of it to help make these stories better. Marriage adds drama. Marriage is fun (in a warped kind of way). The only difference between a married Peter Parker and a single one is that he can’t fuck anything that moves. That’s it. Nothing else is different. The real mistake by the writers is having the marriage in every issue. For the love of God, it didn’t have to be part of the story nor did Mary Jane have to be in every issue. Use it when need and do not just throw in there for unknown reasons. Get writers that can draw from their marriage and have them write for the book, or writers that understand what marriage is and let them take care of it.

Peter is not a loser. I hate when they say that. Ranks up there with the cousin story for being one the dumbest things ever said in an interview. Peter is every man. Every man is looking for the right person to share their life with and for them to part of that person’s life. I seriously doubt those that said this has ever read a Spider-man comic book or understand the overall ground work that was done by Stan Lee and company. Peter is the ultimate winner because he does the right thing no matter what the cost. He fights the no-win situations (Firelord). He comes out victorious sometime and like every man he loses sometimes. However, he will eventually win the war. The marriage gave hope to Peter. It gave something to fight for beyond his motto. Time to grow up readers and writers because we do things to help those we love. At least, I hope that is why you do things because you want to be able to help those you love now and in the future.


What is the difference in a marriage and a committed relationship? It is the same thing.


BULLSHIT! A committed relationship is nothing like a marriage because it has an easy out. You can just pack your shit up and leave. No legal ramifications. No proclamation of love in the paper. No committed relationship license is needed. No special ceremony with friends declaring your committed relationship in a committed relationship ceremony. Tell what, for those that are married. Go tell you wife that you just want a committed relationship. Just have an ice bag ready because you will need it after she kicks your balls to your throat. I have nothing against people living together before they get married. In fact, I highly recommend it because that could be seen as a test run for the relationship. Marriage is a legal and public announcement to forsake all others for this one person because they are just that damn special to you. You can say it is the ultimate test of your love for each other to take that step. One more thing, saying something like tells a lot about the person who says it. One, they either are not married or not married a long time. Two, they are a child and don’t know that what women want in a relationship. A married man saying that also tells me that their marriage is doomed because it tells me that they aren’t taking their situation seriously. That fact is that saying is an insult to people who take their marriage seriously and want it to last until death do us part. What I am trying say here is that some people need to get a clue before they open their mouth about things that they don’t have enough experience to say anything about to begin with. Come back to after 16 years marriage, we will talk then about how a committed relationship is the same as marriage.


The marriage was forced and rushed.

Umm..hello? Did you people read any issues before Annual 21? Peter asked Mary Jane to marry him before and she said no. It wasn’t rushed. In fact, there were a couple issues done before the Annual happened that explained why Mary Jane said yes to Peter. Stan wanted this to happen because he knew it was time to move on in the story. We could have the discussion on who really wrote Spider-man, but Stan was a major player in the direction and creation of the core character of Peter Parker. It was time for Peter Parker to grow beyond just being a loner. There were no more stories to be told about Peter’s personal relationships while he is single that hasn’t been told. That is fact. What you are reading now isn’t new or “refreshing”. It is retread territory that has done by better people in the past that cared more about the character and its future. Marriage offered something that Peter being single couldn’t do, and that is hope. Hope for a future without Spider-man. Hope for normalcy. Hope for family. In other words, every man’s dream.

I didn’t get into Mary Jane’s characterization because that is another rant, but I do want to say that Marvel dropped the ball big time with the character. They continued to drop the ball with the character because they are afraid of the character. One last thing, comic should never be like the movie. Movies should be like the comics. Keep that in mind because do we want another Back in Black story?

Women!

If you were expecting a rant about comics today, sorry I am not doing that today. I am going talk about something that is the greatest mysteries in the universe, WOMEN. That’s right, I going put my neck out there for the female population to chop off. At least, I hope it is my neck they will want to chop off.

Anyways, men and woman have been trying to figure out each other since the dawn of time. Depending on what you believe, Adam and Eve were the first couple to argue. It was about the size of Adam’s fig leaf. He wanted an extra large but she laughed at him. I am not saying she was right or wrong, but come on, let the guy have some self esteem here! Men and women argue about the silliest things from the color of couch to the last time the garbage went out. To be honest, men have been getting a bad rap here because for some inane reason we are painted as wanting only one thing. Sex, lot and lots of sex is what woman think men want all the time. Of course we want sex, we also want quiet!

I am not saying women talk too much, but they sure in hell talk a lot about things that don’t really matter that much. Example, you can get an 8 hour conversion on the escapades of that whore at work. You know the one. Yep, the one that every women seems to have in their life that they talk about with you endlessly about and not care other than getting that person’s number. Men don’t really care about how much you hate that person or at least we don’t care to hear about it endlessly about that person. She is slut. Gotcha!

There is also the question about how a women looks. How many times are you asked if your woman’s looks ok? Do you really want an honest answer? Honestly, you don’t because from experience you don’t want the truth you want your man to say you look good even if you are covered in axial grease. Fact facts ladies, we are going to lie because we don’t want to hear for years that we are insensitive assholes. Ok, goes back to that whole quiet thing.

Women have a long memory. You could have taken the head off a Barbie doll when you both were eight and burned it. You will hear about forever. Remember when you burn my Barbie’s head? You haven’t fucking change a bit! Jesus! Give me strength. Men don’t do that women, unless it something serious like sleeping with your guy’s best friend. Of course you will hear about it that over and over again ladies, that is a current issue and not something that should have been long forgotten.

Women will also accuse men of doing things in the future and yell at them for it. That is where the dumbfounded expression comes from. We are like, “What the hell!” I just woke up and being yelled at for having a dream about sexy woman. Teach me to open my mouth and answer that dumb question. That were that answer, “Nothing honey, I am just dreaming about you love.” Come ladies, like you don’t dream about Hugh Jackmen, or whoever, taking you out. HA! See! Told ya!

Guys, here is a major secret that women don’t want you to know, women like sex. I know! It is shocking! They want you to beg and plead for it, but you won’t believe what happens when you act like you don’t care. You are accused of cheating. Is that a riot! You could be the most faithful guy in the world and still be accused of cheating even if you mack on her all the time. Here is a major secret women, man do care about sex, but they do mature at sometime and it comes to mean something more then as one person put it to me, “Just getting your dick wet.”

Just to be clear. I love women. I love to hear them talk and enjoy talking to them. I find the intelligent and have understanding of the world that sometime men don’t see. However, they are very funny with their misconception of men in general. I blame the media! Have good day all!


P.S. This was written with tongue press firmly in cheek. :D

The Economic Crisis

I was going to address both the Health Care Bill and the current economic crisis in one rant. That would require a rant that would be 23 pages long which be a book with dry facts, flow charts, and figures. I am not saying I wouldn’t do something like that, but I don’t want to drive people away from my blog by being just so damn dry with facts and figures. The other problem I had was getting information that didn’t have an opinion attached to it that could possible cloud my opinion and affects my views on the subjects. I am going to just address one of these right now which will be the economy.

I know people blame President George W. Bush for the current mess we are in, but they would be incorrect in their thinking. The truth of the matter this current crisis can be trace back to President Regan and was encouraged throughout the next two Presidents. In other words, there is enough blame to go around for the current mess and cannot just put on President’s action or lack action. Congress also has to shoulder the blame too due to them not questioning these policies being effect and not recognizing the worst case scenario. The American people have to shoulder the blame for turning a blind eye to what was going on around them and falling for the feel good train that was put out there by the U.S. Government.

Those that have heard me talked about the economic crisis heard me say,” Greed is ok. Uncontrolled Greed causes this mess.” Meaning in principle deregulation is a good thing, but the reality is that it is a bad thing for the country’s financial well being. There was a reason for those regulations being put in place. It was to prevent exactly what happened. Now, some will say it discourage financial growth. I would argue in encouraged growth at a steady rate without causing false bubbles. Sure, there are real bubbles in any economy like the Internet bubble of the 1990’s, but those types of bubbles happen when there is a new technology comes on the market. It happens when the telephone came out and when the automobile was introduced to the market place. These other bubbles are created by the U.S. Government trying to create something that didn’t need to be created. In other words, this section of the society is being denied something and that has to be fixed. When that happens, it is rushed and poorly thought out by those thinking that they are helping.

I am all for capitalism. I think it is the greatest thing that was created by man; however, I understand human nature at its worst. “What’s in it for me” syndrome runs rampant in all of us. There is nothing wrong make a lot of money. Truth to be told, we all love to be billionaires, but there is a thing as being too greedy. That is what happened. People got too greedy and allowed themselves to take a sucker bet in the housing market. Banks and other industries decided to hedge their bets in the housing market. They love those bets on people, who really shouldn’t be buying houses in the first place, because it was fast money and thought they could get rid of those high risk mortgages by selling them to other companies. They also bet on people that should never have been given a line of credit for business. High risk business that have a low return rate meaning restaurants and clubs that were popping up to feed our hunger for entertainment. All this time we as a country were just consuming and not building which in turn is one of the least talked about factors of this crisis.

We don’t make anything to sell to other countries other than our troops. Our automobile industry hasn’t been relevant in decades due to bad management at the companies and the unions. Our commercial aircraft industry doesn’t exist. We don’t have a steel industry. Our computer industry is slowly going away. There hasn’t been a significant invention since the personal computer in this country. I am not an environmentalist, but I am for going full steam ahead in inventing “green” technology because it would mean would be build something in this country again. There is this misconception that we can build wealth and survive on that, but my question is how? How can you build wealth without a product? We could print money like no one’s business, but that just causes the dollar to go down in value. We must have products to be sold on the world market beyond what we are offering now.

Do I have an idea how to get out this mess? My idea is really simple. Lower prices on goods and hire people now. It is that simple. Sure, there will be a short term loss for the companies, but there will be long term gains by those companies. One, they will gain employees which in turn will strengthen their talent pool for the future. Two, they will create a loyal customer base for future products. It will also require to for people to be hired for less pay with a promise of future in the company for hard work. I am basically saying that we need to get back to the basics of capitalism. You keep growing and project strength no matter what is thrown against you. Yes, that would mean upper-management would take a major pay cut, but it would mean that the company would survive beyond next year. Right now, no one should be making an excess of 20 million year at those companies that got a bail out. There are which is why people have issues with the bail out.

The Bail Out that was done under President Bush and then President Obama was wrong. I am sorry to be this harsh or cold about it, but those companies should have gone under. That is the capitalist system. You are rewarded for taking the good risk and punished for the bad. You don’t get a “do-over” by the U.S. Government because it hurts the future of the country. Yes, that would means millions would have lost their jobs and things may have gotten a lot worse than they are now, but we would be stronger for it. There is also the fact that our great-great-great grandchildren wouldn’t paying for other people’s mistakes that were done for the last 20 years.

Worst case is that the country would financially bankrupt, but I don’t think that would have happened because it would force the business sector to make some decisions that would have prevent that from happening. Those companies would have been absorbed by smaller companies in turn creating wealth and credit. It wouldn’t happen overnight, but it would have happened. Those mortgages would have been defaulted and housing market would take a major hit, but it was out of control. The housing market need to be corrected and have reality set in for people who wanted to sell their 60,000 dollar home for 200,000 dollar. The market over-valued homes that were really worth 25% of the asking price. Control is the key.

Lastly, we must put those regulations back because we are odiously unprepared to deal with them gone. When you do something like that, you need to create laws that would prevent people from going crazy with greed. You would have to enforce those laws. A law is no good if let yourself to think in grey areas. With the law, there is obey or be punished. It is that simple really. I know that my answers seem way out there for people, but I contend that the simple solutions are the best one. The problem we have in this country is that we ignore the simple solutions and go the complicated way due to panic. In times of crisis, the worst thing you can do is to panic. Look for a solution and go with the simple one. I am not saying it would be easy; I am saying we will be stronger for it.

Rant for 11-10-2009

My Faith

There is a subject where there are no solid facts and only logic applies. That subject is religion. I was raised Roman Catholic, however, I am not what you would call a “church goers”. That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in God and his teaching. I just don’t believe in organized religion or their teachings.

When God’s messages were being spread around the world, there were neither churches nor priest. There were only common people spreading the word of God to each other. These people had literally nothing, but they had faith in something in larger themselves. A faith that carried them through times that were truly tough and preaching about their faith meant death. They still went ahead and preach because they have faith in God. Slowly the Word spread to every part of the known world at that time. It eventually reaches those in power and shook the foundation of those in power. Their faith had the power of truth behind it. That truth was we are all the same in the eyes of God. A simple beginning for something that has been turned into something ugly because people in power twisted into something for own purpose.

Think about it for one second. What does the Bible really say? I mean at the core of the message is be good to each other because that is what God really want from us. It doesn’t say to judge each other nor commended to each other for our lifestyles. It does say what the results will be in God’s judgment. It doesn’t ask us to take action in his name because everyone will stand before God and face His judgment in the end. People kill in the name of God but that isn’t true. They kill because they are racist; have misconceptions, and misinformation they receive from organized religion. We have certain people preaching from the pulpit to the masses about hate and not forgiveness. Tell the masses to judge each other’s lifestyles and teach non-tolerance of behavior that will be judge by God. Is God so powerless that he doesn’t see what we do and how we behave to each other?

We also have people using God’s name for political power. This is not done to spread the word of God but for own personal gains. These people claim to be servants of God and they live in palaces. They beg the poor to send money to them for their own bank account. They drive Mercedes and BMWs. They live in mansion in the exclusive neighborhoods. They wear Rolexes. They have the nerve condemn other people’s behavior when they are profiting from something that is about acceptance from God. They continue with progression hate and racism. They condemn other religions because it is different from theirs and say it is God’s will to kill those people. Don’t think God is smart enough to know there are many paths to His love? Don’t you think there is no one single path to God’s love but many because we all different?

I don’t judge people’s lifestyles in the name of God. Gay or straight, it doesn’t matter to me. What does matter is how you treat that stranger walking down the street. God wants you to love and respect that person because that is his message. It doesn’t matter what religion you are because that is core of all religion. To respect each other no matter the sex or lifestyles. Trust in God’s judgment when you stand before him because he sees your soul and not what you say with your mouth. Prejudice and condemnation will be judge according to God’s will and not man’s. A murder can ask for God’s forgiveness and receive without someone saying that they have it. Why can’t we follow God’s example and do that for each other?

I don’t believe in organized religion because man is not perfect or incorruptible. I believe in find your path to God’s message in order for it to truly touch your soul. You may need to shown the start of the path but the journey is yours. That is how you get faith in God and yourself. That is how the Word has power. It doesn’t have power if you go to a building and sit in it. It doesn’t have power by singing hymns. You can’t find it by kneeling or bowing when you are told to do it. You find it by taking the journey and traveling that path to self discovery with God’s help. No organized religion or building can do that for you. You have to want it and have to learn from it. You can quote the Bible, Torah, or the Koran until you are blue in the face, but that will only be just quoting. You have to find God’s message for you and it isn’t in a book. It is in those quiet moments when a thought comes to your head that touches your very soul. That is what I believe in and gives me faith.

I believe organized religion has lost its way. They have lost the true vision of what their purposed is for the people looking for the path to God. The message is different for all of us. I believe that reason because we are all different and need different message to bring us to the point of realization of the true message of God. We were given free will for a reason. That reason is to have a choice on how we treat each other in this life and it affects us in the other life. I believe we eventually find it, but it just happens at different times. Look to what God really wants for us to do here on Earth. He wants us to love and understand each other because we are all God’s children. It doesn’t matter where you were born because we are all one family, a family with different views that should help each other to understand each other and not condemn each other for different views of God. God bless you all…

Mission Statement:

The purpose of this blog, beyond my own self interest, is twofold. One is to make people think outside of the box. Two, it is to present certain issues using facts and logic to form opinions and not just with emotions. I know the first thing I posted was full of emotions, but it also used facts and logic. It was done with hours of research in the habits of that person on the Internet and his interaction with his customer base. What you saw there was my reaction to a person who I have been very respectful towards and received none in return. That will not be tolerated by me.

The Raw form of my rant about Dan Slott.

You wanna dance? Let’s dance!

I try very hard to be respectful in my rants about the subjects of writers and EIC at Marvel. I never ever attack who they are other than calling them fan boys. Yet, I am the negative motherfucker here. You want negativity. I give you some fucking negativity.

Amazing Spider-man sucked balls since issue 545. There are very few good single issues and almost every fucking arc is a clear fanfic. It show they lack the ability to do the one single requirement to be a fucking decent writer. Motherfucking research! Well, guess what? This motherfucking asshole did some God Damn research. I did this for one simple reason, to shove it in their faces! I am going single one single writer here because he choses to single me out. Well Dan Slot, LET’S PLAY!

From the CBR article: CCC09: Dan Slott Talks Spider-Man

Slott talked a bit about why the man behind the Spider mask doesn’t usually drink alcohol, but how it usually means bad things for the hero. "We’ve seen it once or twice over the years, and it’s led to bad things happening.” That fallibility is part of what fascinates him with the character, though, and lies at the core of what he and his team wants to explore. "[Peter Parker] is a person with feet of clay. We call him an everyman."
The human mistakes he makes drive the subsequent story arcs, but also provide the questions that Slott says they try to answer. "It’s fun every now and then to see him goof up and to see him make mistakes and see him make the wrong choice," he said. "The thing is, what do you do after you’ve made the mistake? How do you live your life?"

Have you ever read more than a single issue of Spider-man Dan? How about researching the character? If you had, you would find out that Peter doesn't drink because he doesn’t want fail in being responsible. This is your mistake. This is your failure. Yep, I am being fucking negative!

From Cup of Joe via Myspace on 1-30-09:

DS: Yeah. If you’re doing a book in the Marvel Universe, everything you’re doing is built on continuity. You’re standing on the shoulders of Lee, Ditko, Kirby, Romita, Thomas, Mantlo, Frenz, and Stern, everybody up till now.And in this day and age, especially in the era of a Wikipedia or Marvel’s Digital Comics Unlimited, it’s easy to just take five minutes and do a quick check, and try to get your stuff right. You don’t have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of comics. The tools are there. Just do a quick check. And the continuity can be an asset to your story; it doesn’t have to be an obstacle. It’s not a lead weight around your neck, it’s a building block.

I’m a continuity maven, and I’ll be the first guy to say stories shouldn’t be about continuity. But why should stories knock continuity when they don’t have to? That said, you can spend hours and hours checking something and still goof up. I screw up all the time. We’re not perfect. That’s why Stan created No-Prizes! And that’s before you run into “personal continuities.”

Why don’t you start using those building blocks Dan? Is the fact you can’t live up to your own hype anymore? The stories should add to the fucking continuity and not fucking ignores it! Let me guess, that would cut into your promoting time or surfing the Web time. Please! Don’t do that! We may get a decent story for once!

From the CBR forum:
Originally Posted by erictheman9
Simply put, comics doesn't pay enough to attract a writer's "best work."
Gotcha.

DS:Money is obviously my only motivation in life. Good to know.

Quote:
Originally Posted by erictheman9
I assume that if the current brain trust spent 24/7 on ASM, they'd put out better work than what is out there, since more time thinking/researching stories can't hurt. But obviously that's not a choice they're willing to make.

DS:Obviously this is one of those times where someone is intending their statements to be ironic or over-the-top-rude-for-the-sake-of-being-funny and it's just not coming across in the text.

Quote:
Originally Posted by erictheman9
I'm sure they put out the best work they can given the circumstances they face--which for some of them, means juggling other, much more lucrative avenues. I wouldn't be surprised if ASM falls to the bottom of that list.

DS:Yes. Getting a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work on Amazing Spider-Man isn't a factor at all. For the love of--

I shouldn't read the internet. That should be my new mantra. I shouldn't read the internet.

Jesus.

This was the WORST use of a break I've taken in years.

I would have liked to spend some time with my friends and family this weekend-- or seen Watchmen (which, with my schedule, I'm probably not gonna get to see for weeks)-- but I'm here working on Spider-Man. It's-- *looks up at clock*- 4:42 AM on Sunday-- (Really? Oy.)-- and I'm about to jump back into my current script. And I'm doing this without ANY reservation, because IT'S SPIDER-MAN!

Seriously, what insight do you have into ANY of our PERSONAL priorities? I'd really like to know. I've gotten in serious trouble because, while working away on a number of all-nighters, a loved one said to me, "What's more important to you? Me or Spider-Man?" And I PAUSED! I paused WAY too long! I'm going to hear about that for the REST of my life. (And rightly so.)

There are so many things I would dearly love to type in response to a post like this. SO many. (Use your imagination).

But here's the thing... I'm shaking this off right now. You're just someone on the internet spouting off. And that's cool. That's part of what the internet's for. And taking posts like yours seriously shouldn't rank high on my list. You know what ranks high on my list-- right at the top? Writing Spider-Man.

I'm proud of the work I've done on this book. I'm proud of the whole damn team.
I look back on the first year of ASM and I can say earnestly and with all honesty that collaborating with artists like Phil Jimenez, Steve McNiven, Marcos Martin, John Romita Jr., Paulo Siquera, and Mike McKone has been one of the highlights of my LIFE!

If you think l didn't realize the pressure of working on the first BND story to come out of the gate... Or that I didn't understand the expectations that were resting on a storyline like New Ways to Die... Or that I didn't pour every ounce of love and craft I had into the Paper Doll story (which is probably going to be one of my FAVORITE things I've done in comics until the day I die)... Then you really, really, really don't get it.

Have your opinions about the material-- about the work-- and how it makes you feel. That's cool. I'm all for that. If you're not digging it, I understand. Hey, I read comics too. And I don't like EVERYTHING that's out there. And when I'm in private, talking to my friends, there are comics out there that I TOTALLY rip into. Not every comic is for every person.

But that's talking about the story, the characters, the art, the writing. At worst it's knocking a creator's craft.
But it is NEVER about that creator as a person, their sense of professionalism, or where their heart truly lies.

Phew. Okay. Got that off my chest.

I hope you guys understand where this is coming from. You go to a party or some social event, and someone introduces you-- and they say something like:
This is John, he's a high school science teacher. This is Sara, she works in real estate. This is Mike, he's a podiatrist. Maybe it's out of whack, but here in the West, what we DO is so much of who we ARE (or how people perceive us-- or how we perceive ourselves). And even though we're many things (members of families and members of communities tied together through race, creed, color, religion, sexual orientation, geography, and what have you)...

...there's something to be said about the identities that we forge for ourselves through CHOICE-- the professions we actively pursue-- the things we STRIVE to be-- and the parts of our lives where we invest most of our days. Sometimes we do that thing in order to live. And sometimes if we're very, very lucky, we get to live in order to do that thing. I write Spider-Man.

I'm glad I vented a little here (at, now 4:54 AM on Sunday), because while this was a half an hour or so where I should have been scripting-- it was a half an hour that got me back to the place I needed to get to. Just a reminder that I've got THE job I want-- one that really makes me happy.

All right. Back to work. :)


I am the negative one? I must be fucking high. Dan, yoo hoo, Dan over here. You could have just ignored it and move on with the rest of your life. Then that would require you to stop think you are the greatest writer of Spider-man since Stan Lee.


From Ain’t it Cool Dan Slott said the following:

No. This book has, had, and will have continuity. It takes place in the Marvel Universe. I see a lot of online fans out there saying that 20 years of continuity have been wiped. And that's so not the case. This isn't a 'Crisis' or a reboot. This is Marvel, people.

I don't mean to get my geek on, but here goes… The "mind-wipe" is a comic book trope. Except for a few changes, everything happened. People are just remembering it wrong. This has been done before many times in the Marvel U. From Sentry to Iron Man to Doc Strange.

Back in '98, Kurt Busiek did an Iron Man/Captain America special where Iron Man used an A.I.M.-built brainwashing satellite to make EVERYONE on Earth forget that he was ever Iron Man. Once upon a time, Stephen Strange made EVERYONE in EXISTENCE forget he was Sorcerer Supreme, and then he adopted the new identity of Dr. Stephen Saunders.

And it didn't change or invalidate ANY of their past comics. Look, hardcore fans can figure this stuff out. They've got the skills. It's all a matter of taking off the blinders, putting on your
No-Prize hat, and getting creative.

There ARE solutions to ANY continuity problem you can come up with. Honest. WE know how they all work. But who wants to go on and on explaining it all? I mean, just look at how long THIS response is. See? Getting sleepy yet? Me? I'd rather use that time telling stories!


Hey Dan, you forgot to add all those were done away with eventually. You also tend to forget the fucking Unmasking. You do remember that story don’t you? You know the one were Peter Unmasked to whole fucking world? Lets not forgot all those stories where a MARRIED Peter Parker and Mary Jane were part of in the Marvel Universe. Let’s not forget all those heroes that knew that Peter was Spider-man and married to this girl call Mary Jane Parker! Naa…this isn’t a reboot. It is a major fucking reboot! It is a major fucking reboot because it affects the whole fucking universe! Don’t be a dumbass when you open your mouth Dan!

Just some random comment by Dan Slott on CBR:

BUT, this is throwaway one-shot so whatever.

DS:Seriously, you could NOT be more wrong. This is NOT a throwaway. The last DR: THE LIST one-shot has a BIG effect on the company wide DARK REIGN story line.

Originally Posted by Jim Thompson
That art is phenomenal. I might get a copy just to look at that art.
That's fair.

DS: Sometimes I skim over your posts just to admire CBR's lovely font.

Originally Posted by carabas
Doesn't fly.

DS:It flies if you want it to fly. If you don't want it to fly, it won't.

Quote:
Originally Posted by carabas
He used to have the experiences of being single and of being married. Now he just has lots of experience being single.

DS:The relationship and experiences Peter had with MJ would have been the longest relationship of his life. Are you saying that relationship (about 20 years in real time) would have had NO more impact on him that dating someone for a few months or his previous relationships?

Are you saying that people on this board who've had long term relationships have experienced LESS in their lives than people who have been married for that exact same duration of time?

Quote:
Originally Posted by carabas
The experience of not being married is something he's had since the sixties.
Not the specific experience of being in that long and committed of a relationship. That's something different. Peter has never experienced that with anyone else.

DS:So you really think Aunt May of all people was fine not hearing from Peter for 2 monnths with nothing more than a vague answering machine message? Really?
If you go back and re-read the story, he actually calls Aunt May before he goes and tells her that he doesn't know how long he'll be gone. The answering machine was for everyone else.

I pick some these mostly to show how out of touch Dan is with the fans. He is totally clueless that the fans are laughing at him and not with him anymore. He isn’t cute, have you seen a picture of him? Wieght-Watcher needs to call him ASAP before he can’t sit in a normal chair anymore. All this is Dan trying to be cute instead of being a decent writer and researching his characters. Don’t even get me started on how screwed up Mighty Avengers is!

From 2008 Wizard Con in LA:

* Gale on the question of "did this happen or not happen," "None of it happened. It's fiction." He brought up Iron Man's origin and and how it is tweaked to make it contemporary.
"If this stuff makes you crazy, it's like William Shatner said to that guy, 'Get a life.'"
Slott added, "there are answers, it's pretty cool, keep reading."

Hey Dan, tell me how is tell the fans to get a life a positive thing to do? I will wait for your reply. I should get that about the same time when the issue that explains those missing 100 days. I am going to check my health plan to see if it is paid up because this is going to be one long fucking wait.

From Newsarama interview:

NRAMA: From talking to Steve, we've gotten that "forward motion" is the name of the game for BND and Amazing - how are things set up for that to work? Is Amazing Spider-Man #546 basically a start point that, for better or worse, things won't look further back than for a set period of time?

DS: Spider-Man's whole life is open to us. There are no shut doors. But the most interesting moment in time is always going to be right now! And from where we pick Pete up in #546 to where he goes from here on out-- is gonna be a great ride! And with the stuff we've got planned, and this crazy (boy-we-gotta-work-insane-hours-to-pull-it-off) thrice weekly schedule we're doing-- that ride is gonna come at you fast!

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no close door in the first place. The only thing that was close was that Peter couldn't fuck anything that moves. THAT’S IT! Granted, I am way more creative than you are Dan to see that because I have the fucking guts to go places that no else would be willing to go with a character.

From NYCC 09:

* Will Norman Osborn recognize Spider-Man when they meet in the post Secret Invasion/One More Day/Dark Reign world? Bendis called up the hiding Dan Slott to answer, and Slott said that Norman will in fact realize who is under Spidey’s mask there will be an important Norman/Spider-Man arc coming up with Joe Kelly’s “American Son” arc and Slott’s upcoming Spidey/Fantastic Four two-parter (in ASM #590 and #591) will bring up the fact that people really SHOULD know who’s under that mask.

Well, that is just a fucking lie. Nothing but lies from a lair that lie to get a job at Marvel taking away from a person that wanted to earn college credit. I bet you never said sorry that person did you Dan. I guess that is the new motto at Marvel. Fuck’em we do what we want.

About Downloading Comics via Bitorrets:

She-Hulk, while it gets good reviews and enjoys a pretty loyal and devoted following, is still a low-selling title. It needs EVERY sale it can get to stay in the game. When you circumvent the intended path of sales you hurt the incomes of a LOT of people. [...]
Your sale acts as a vote. When you download a comic without paying for it, no vote is cast. You’ve gotten all the benefits of My, Rick’s, Cliff’s, Dave Sharpe’s, and Dave Kemp’s work– and we didn’t get the benefit of your vote. That’s not fair. We work very hard to produce the best comic we can– and, in effect, you’ve stolen from us.
Please stop. You’re not just ripping off Marvel. You’re ripping off all the PEOPLE putting this book out– people trying to make a living and support their families.

I am using this because of the low sales figures for the so call flagship character at Marvel. You better pray they are downloading you books Dan because no one wants to pay for you to jack off to pictures of Black Cat anymore. Oh, by the way Dan, you ripped off people who PAID for last 20 years of comics by not have balls enough to say that One More Day was the wrong thing to do towards the customers. Dickhead…

From a Blog call SCHWAPP!!!:
(Dan Slott is replying to a person from Jinxworld on that person's blog. He choose to get this person banned from Jinxworld because of other things this person said on the Web and not at Jinxworld)

Kevin,

You got four posts from me here today. Three comments on a thread yesterday. In each case you started by taking shots at people I know– and have posted just as much back.

On my side, there really hasn’t been that many comments from me since my last post on Feb. 2nd on the same thread where you reported Marc Guggenheim to the WGA. In the meantime YOU have been making frequent and regular posts about ME. Most of which have accused me of doing something that I simply did NOT DO.

When you look at the amount of time you’ve dedicated to going after ME, versus my posts yesterday and today? I think I’ve shown remarkable restraint.
When you appeared to post on my message board AFTER reporting Marc, creating a regular column dedicated to slamming Val (over 10 times in 2 months), and making frequent accusations against me– as if that were perfectly fine, I requested that you be blocked from MY board and NOT the rest of Jinxworld. But when the mods took at your behavior around the net, THEY decided that ALL the Jinxworld boards were better off without you.

“Obi Gee Why Enn”

Val talking about her own history is one thing. Using it as a cheap shot to score points at the end of an argument is another. Kevin doesn’t think about these things or their resonance. All he cares about is their shock value.

In his own words he “regrets” making the comments he did about Devin Grayson. While that is admirable, what is more telling is when he says “But I regret MORE that Valerie decided to spin what I said into something worse…” That’s messed up.
To the person posting as my own Ego (Thanks that’s cute).

How would you feel if you saw someone going around the net saying lies about you? Things he’s not willing to back up. (BTW, Matt Brady has seen everything Kevin’s accused me of doing at Newsarama– and has equivocally said he KNOWS I didn’t do it). How would you feel if Kevin made accusations about your friends and coworkers? How would you feel if because– in his own words he “felt dismissed” and “agitated” over internet posts– he reported someone you know to their union? Seriously, how would you feel?

I think I’m allowed my 3 posts yesterday and these 4 today.

That person's reply just to give equal time for truth:

OK, Dan...let's go over this point by point, again, shall we?

* You have your own place to vent your feelings about me, Dan. Your own forum. Or you could answer my accusations here. But I don't see why you have to take every appearance by me on blogs across the 'net as the proper forum for you to vent about me. Really. You could get the same kind of effect by complaining about it on your own forum, couldn't you? So, no, I would not say that you've exhibited an incredible amount of restraint. I'd dare say you don't know the definition of the word.
* I had already told you that I'd have no problem staying out of your forum several times during our off-board discussion. I even invited you to delete all evidence of my ever posting on your forum, not that you'd need my permission. Given your propensity for lies and fantastical stories, I don't know that I'm going to buy your story here.
* I didn't take a cheap shot at Val with it. She accused me of trying to get famous by having an argument with you and Guggenheim. That it was the purpose of my dust-up with the two of you. I denied that and then held the mirror back to her so she could see the way she chose to get famous.
* I regret making the joke the way I did. I stand by the fact that dating someone established in the industry does help your pitches get looked at.
* Please don't try to drag Matt Brady into this. He isn't part of the discussion and any talks you two had were private. It does nothing to help your argument.

Update: Heidi took down several of the posts there. Including the quoted Slott one above and the one from Obi Gee Why Enn. Just a lesson, kids...it is always good to open a separate window when you want to see if there are any updates rather than refreshing a window and potentially losing some of the good stuff.

Obi Gee Why Enn said:

Dan, Valerie brought up her vagina first. If she didn't want people talking about her vagina, then why should she post on the INTERNET about her vagina. If Kevin Huxford mocked her for talking about her vagina, it's probably because she has a whole topic category about her vagina. If Val doesn't want anyone to talk about her vagina, she should keep it off the internet.


That makes it sound like I actually had substantive discussions about her vagina, when I only pointed out that she used stories about her ripped vagina to get internet fame. She didn't just tell the story of the injury, she teased it in the blogs proceeding it, stretched it out into at least three blogs, and then kept referring back to it for awhile. One of the biggest word of mouth bits from her site was about some unnamed DC Comics penciller with a large member managed to break Val's vagina.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But when you attempted to get your notoriety through your "broken hoohah" (her "label" for those blogs) and (at the time) anonymously slinging dirt about DC Comics editorial without naming names (thus likely leading to the innocent being judged just as badly as the guilty), you really have no leg to stand on in criticizing others...especially when you're attributing motivations that just aren't true.

WAAAA! Love me Damnit! I am Dan Slott! You must love me! It must be such a bitch being you Dan. Everyone fucking hates you. The best part about this is how he runs to the Jinxworld mods and ask for him to be ban for things he done at other places. LOL Cry baby.


From Marvel.com:

Marvel.com: How do you feel they stack up against Spidey's classic rogues?

Dan Slott: A lot of the classic guys wear their hearts on their sleeves. You know who they are, what they want, and what they can do. These new guys know how to keep a secret. And as their stories unfold, and you find out more about them, I think their cool factor will grow exponentially.

That’s what we want Dan! No backstory! Please keep us in the dark for 2 fucking years!

From Newsarama Interview about New Ways To Die:

NRAMA: Will there be more...
DS: Yes!
NRAMA: ...developments with Mary Jane during this storyline?
DS: What?! No.

Finally, something that is still true today. Other than the fact you would like to fuck her Dan, you have no idea who Mary Jane is as a character.

That’s it Dan. At least, that is much as I could stomach of you kissing your own ass via the web. I am going to give a little insight into who I am really. I am a fucking asshole. I like I am this way because I can look at myself in the mirror and not give a shit if the world loves me. Sure, I like to think I am respected here on Internet because of my actions and my attitude, which to this point has been very respectful towards everyone except once. Dan Slott, you sit in you Ivory Tower and realize this one simple truth. I will be leading the charge to knock it down.