robbiebaldwin:
comicartistevolution:
brevoortformspring:
1. Squirrel Girl and frikkin’ Hawkeye get more exposure than my favorite character! How dare you?
2. Actually, you’ve killed my favorite character off! Stop making me angry, Marvel! You wouldn’t like me, when I’m angry!
3. Your comics don’t cost 15 cents anymore!
4. Because you don’t allow Mike Deodato Jr. to draw every single one of your comics!
5. M.O.D.O.K.
6. Why is Star Wars still not 616 canon? HOW MUCH LONGER DO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR MY DARTH VADER VS DOCTOR DOOM FIGHT?!
7. Oh, so now you want me to believe, that Adam-X can’t stop the Incursion all on his own? Well, excuuuuuseee me, but I believe to know my Marvel comics a little bit better than you do!
8. STOP HATING ON THE X-MEN, GOSH!!!
9. She-Hulk’s muscles turn me on big time. That’s weird.
10. Just admit already, that Hulk would beat Odin in a fist fight! He is the strongest one after all!
God damnit Marvel, get your **** together once and for all, or I’ll punch a puppy in the face!
I also hate you for the story I made up in my head based on a teaser image you released once!
Hey, I can play this game too!
1. I just HATE how your company overworks artists with the brutal doubleshipping schedules that lead to nigh-endless delays and low quality product!
2. Isn’t it like, kind of ironic that a decade ago your company only let a black man write “Captain America” with “…and the Falcon” tacked on there, and then when Falcon becomes Captain America with an announcement on Colbert Report you haven’t got a black creator on it?
3.Fabricating legal documents to have a stranglehold on a property called “Strikeforce Morituri”? Really? Do I have to go further into the (il)legal matters iceberg that is your rights-hoarding company?
4. Where the fuck is the monument to Carol Kalish, the person who genuinely maintained your company through the 80s despite such idiotic business moves by EiC Jim Shooter like killing Phoenix despite the consistent increase in sales of books she appeared on the cover of?
5. Image Comics and the infinite badness it indunated 90s comics with happened due to your company treating talent like disposable shit. Then you filed Chapter 11. Not your finest fuckin hour.
6. You literally haven’t hired a female letterer that I can find a published credit for in 4 and a half years. The highest percentage of women among your creator roles are editors. A whopping third. Everything else is maybe a quarter, a fifth, a sixth. The number of black and non-white writers who’ve done more than one issue can be counted with fingers and toes.
7. I hate the visual aesthetic you choose to portray and market. I’m sorry, “market”, considering you ran a radio ad in the 2010s for comic books, you seem to have a loose understanding of how to reach people.
8. Contractually demanding someone can never say anything bad about Marvel? Not allowing artists to display work made for Marvel without permission? If an artist swipes or traces a comic published by Marvel, the person who created the original art isn’t the violated one, because for all purposes, the creator is removed from the creation, legally. Marvel is an “artist” who makes nothing, a regular Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst, but claims so much.
9. Why is there so much fascist over and undertones in your comics? Was I supposed to be afraid of the gross misuse of power by Avengers in such recent titles as Hickman’s run or Spencer’s Avenger’s World? Did you clean-slate your mind on the Bush years like you had Tony Stark do?
10. You know why Kirby’s estate sued. Fuck you. Fuck your official history of Marvel Comics, fuck your rights-trolling, fuck your prog-washing obnoxious ungenuine $4.99 floppies that give me migraines from ink fumes when I open a new issue.
No wonder you like workin’ on Dizzy’s farm.
I don’t have very much standing or insight to weigh in on what robbiebaldwin said, but I do have some points of my own. And I’ll try to make them point by point.
1. It’s one thing to be upset that a popular character or one a writer/the company really wants to use is getting a lot of play. Readers need to expect such things to happen.
It’s another matter entirely when characters are absent from events and storylines they should be taking part in. Few people expect or demand, say, Viper to show up in a big storyline all about Jean Grey, but they certainly expect Cyclops or Rachel Grey. It’s very poor form to exclude someone core to a storyline and all its implications and depth because “they’re not an A-lister” or because some shaky excuse was made to justify adding some character with no stake in the storyline instead.
2. Character death is always going to create a strong reaction. You’re not just making stories. You’re entering peoples’ headspaces. You’re getting them to form emotional attachments. Of course they’re going to be upset when the character you’ve convinced them to love and cherish is discarded. Would you expect them to treat the death of the family pet as no big thing?
3. I actually have no complaints about this one. Inflation is necessary in order to pay people, and fewer readers means a need for higher prices. That said, it does make buying comics difficult.
4. I have no comment on this one. Largely because we start getting into specific arguments, subjective views of art quality, calling into question who “deserves” to draw art, etc, and a lot of that can be really damaging to the creative spirit.
5. Oh okay then. Also I enjoyed MODOK Assassin #2.
6. This is a strange one. I’m going to assume this is exaggeration about complaints that there aren’t comics of the Marvel universe interacting with the Star Wars universe. I don’t see anything wrong with people wanting to see some AU comics in that vein. Now, if they’re being abusive about their desire, they’re being shitty and should stop, but simply wanting it seems fine by me.
7. I have trouble believing most people, when complaining, would say “I know Marvel comics better than you do.” I think they’re 1) more likely to have a better grasp of specific, especially undervalued, characters and what their potential offers, and 2) might even have a better view of broader creative potential. I’ve seen quite a bit of potential within the Marvel universe limited by views that certain characters “aren’t good enough” or “won’t make enough money” or what have you. In some cases, amazing potential fans have seen and wanted pursued for years gets squandered because someone at Marvel doesn’t see it, and it seems like it takes about 5-10 years for Marvel to finally catch up with what fans want.
8. First of all, the attempts by Disney and Marvel corporate to undermine and shrink the X-Men franchise, as well as the Fantastic Four franchise, are well known. It’s documented. There’s proof. Second, treating one character or franchise well does not mean a different character or franchise has to be sacrificed in the process. It is entirely possible to treat both with the respect their fans hope to see.
I’m not saying anyone is required to like the X-Men if it’s not their thing. Everyone has their own tastes, there’s nothing wrong with that. But, if there is a dislike of the X-Men and that dislike leads a person to treat the franchise poorly, that’s a problem. And if you’re going to do anything with the franchise, you really need to understand why people like it even if you don’t.
9. … I think the parody aspect of the original list just fell off the tracks here. Also, I don’t see how a fetish for She-Hulk’s muscles counts as weird.
10. In my preferences, Hulk and Odin would have a good fight but ultimately either there would be no winner, or the winner would win by means that feel respectable and respectful to both characters. I’m no fan of “My favorite character should God Mode and defeat everyone and everything he fights.”
Thus concludes my post.
salarta 