*Long, deep, frustrated sigh*
This is from the intro to Dark Nights: Metal that Scott Snyder wrote and I'm... I'm REALLY trying hard to stop myself. I've already started going off on a rant in the script about this and I need to stop myself. Because I'm just being way, WAY...
This is from the intro to Dark Nights: Metal that Scott Snyder wrote and I'm... I'm REALLY trying hard to stop myself. I've already started going off on a rant in the script about this and I need to stop myself. Because I'm just being way, WAY...
...more cynical than I should be in this. Because Metal does not deserve to have me being super-cynical and mad about it. It's not like the other three events I've covered. It is not bad.
And yet I keep wanting to be mad at it for some reason and this intro is not helping.
And yet I keep wanting to be mad at it for some reason and this intro is not helping.
Because this last month has just had me be wallowing in the worst aspects of comics - greed, shortsightedness, editorial mandates, ruining characters for people, the sheer amount of bullshit that the industry foists on people year after year... and yet here's Snyder excitedly...
...talking about how he and his friends loved event comics and would get together and be happy and love them and how he's so thrilled to be working on one and I just...
"Even the grimmest events are celebratory." No. No they're not.
"Even the grimmest events are celebratory." No. No they're not.
Identity Crisis is not a celebration.
Heroes in Crisis is not a celebration.
Flashpoint is not a celebration.
They are dreadful things, disgusting things. Things that do nothing but cause more harm, both for the readers and for the characters they're supposed to love.
Heroes in Crisis is not a celebration.
Flashpoint is not a celebration.
They are dreadful things, disgusting things. Things that do nothing but cause more harm, both for the readers and for the characters they're supposed to love.
Events fuck over the readership time and again. They stopped being special long ago when they started making them annual. Sometimes multiple times a year for Marvel.
But then there's little Scott Snyder, who as a kid loved them and got to be a fan with his friends over them.
But then there's little Scott Snyder, who as a kid loved them and got to be a fan with his friends over them.
So the fuck am I to say that he should not be happy about them? Not be excited to do them?
Maybe there's some other creator out there who's reading this shit and being happy about it and who am I to go off on a rant saying they're wrong about this?
Maybe there's some other creator out there who's reading this shit and being happy about it and who am I to go off on a rant saying they're wrong about this?
I guess what I'm saying is I still haven't even written anything about Dark Nights: Metal itself yet, but hey, progress is being made.
Maybe I'm just still unhealthily bitter about Scott Snyder's stupid No Justice thing and how it ruined Titans and how I stopped regularly reading comics for like three years during that time.
And it's not even really his fault - I was falling behind on so many books because...
And it's not even really his fault - I was falling behind on so many books because...
...I just wasn't enjoying them and it was harder for me to get back into reading because I was living farther away from my local comic store and then the pandemic hit and it's just been everything. Ugh, I need to get this thing written already so I can finally take a break.
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