smee (shameless self-pimp)

[Floyd-the-k]

Here's a link to my latest column.

Link: http://comicsnexus.insidepulse.com/articles/49013

[Keef Monkey]

The link didn't work for me, but then my computer is a bit weird sometimes. Pimp it to me again!

[I, Cosh]

Ah. Not the old getting the link and the title the wrong way round routine?

[Floyd-the-k]

dang!  I'll give it another go

Link: http://comicsnexus.insidepulse.com/articles/49013" target="_blank">this time for sure

[Matt Timson]

"Most geeks would appreciate having these opportunities for spider-self-abuse"

Heh...

[Keef Monkey]

A cracking read, I can now add a new definition to the word "root", cheers.

[Bico]

The Jason Todd retcon in Batman is the worst I've seen.  Being lifted wholesale from Captain America's ressurrection of Bucky didn't help matters, either.  

DC recently had another of their regular continuity cleanups with the Infinite Crisis storyline.  One character actually comments that the 'timeline' of events has changed now, and Superman showed up earlier than he did before.  All those stories you loved?
They can fuck off and so can you, fanboy.
Haven't read Origins yet, so the jury's out on that.

[Matt Timson]

I'm stealing your pimpage.  I've just had this rejected by a client on the grounds that it isn't child friendly enough.  I knew that when I drew it, but I just couldn't help myself...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/johnnyeyebrows/gb18.jpg">

[House of Usher]

and now Superman showed up earlier than he did before.

That's so nuts - what then was the point of Zero Hour, the upshot of which was that Superman hadn't been around as long as he had prior to that event?

I read Infinite Crisis, and I'm following 52, but I'm totally out of love with the DC Universe the way things stand, and there aren't any DC characters whose own titles I now want to read with any regularity, if at all.

Nice illustration by the way, Jones.

[LARF]

"...grounds that it isn't child friendly enough."

I think it might be the cigar.

[Matt Timson]

To be honest, I don't know why anyone ever hires me.  They look at my folio and know what to expect- so why do they always end up asking me to draw something that looks like clip art?!?

[scutfink]

Posted by Bumsex:

DC recently had another of their regular continuity cleanups with the Infinite Crisis storyline. One character actually comments that the 'timeline' of events has changed now, and Superman showed up earlier than he did before. All those stories you loved?
They can fuck off and so can you, fanboy.

Y'know, I never really understood that argument, sure the timeline has changed and the stories you loved are no longer part of accepted continuity, but they still exist...

It's not like the powers that be have sent Johnny DC round with a flamethrower to deal with all those contentious back issues...


Even if you don't actually own a copy, you can still buy the back issues off e-bay or at a comics fair or whatever...

Now, I realise this might be something odf a leap of faith on my part, but I'm assuming you have the ability to tell fact from fiction, no? So is it really that hard to keep one fiction separate from another fiction? Just 'cause the DC multiverse no longer exists in official continuity doesn't mean you can't keep it alive in your head...

Or something...

[Bico]

Oh, I have no trouble keeping them seperate - I still read the Ultimate line of Marvel books, for a start.
What I object to, and which undoubtedly annoys DC's notoriously anal fanboys about a million times more than it does me, is that now certain stories are no longer 'canon'.  For instance, the story 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' (argueably one of the finest comics ever written) is now an 'Elseworlds' tale - the continuity of the Superman mythos is robbed of an era-defining moment of comic-book storytelling in which the Golden Age Superman's story ended in a moving tribute to the age that spawned the character, and now is replaced with a juvenile slugfest between Superman and Evil Superboy.  Apart from the complete lack of respect for the characters involved, it's a slap in the face for the fanboys (whatever your opinion of them may be) who've supported the character through the godawful reinventions and blandstrosities of storytelling  that have plagued the books for quite some time now.

Sure, you can always re-read the original comics, but it doesn't undo the contempt for the books and their long-term fans that the publishers display.

[Noisybast]

It's "Spider-Man". With a "-". Write that down.


"I've just had this rejected by a client on the grounds that it isn't child friendly enough."

I know a 4-and-a-half year old and a 5-year-old who I suspect would disagree. I'll ask them for their opinons.

[Woolly]

Most of the kids i know would love it too,
ye talented swine, ye!
:)