Crisis on Infinite 4thletters!
July 5th, 2006 by david brothers | Tags: batgirl, clothes, dark knight, DC comics, rap, storm, what ifYou’re reading this, so this is your favorite site, right? RIGHT?
So tell your friends. Tell your mother, your father, your baker, your barber. I’m super-successful, and work on a magazine that has more readers than there are people on earth, but that is not enough. I crave attention. I am a megalomaniac. Two steps away from getting a metal faceplate and being Hermanos de Acero, I swear on my as-yet fictional tragic radioactive accident that gives me powers.
I don’t want posts to be met with dead air. I want back and forth, I want comments, I want to get people talking or laughing or something. You know what you get with posts by me? Generally snark-free insight on comics, the likes of which you can only find on a mountain in Tibet. I still haven’t written “Dark Knight Strikes Again Doesn’t Suck So Stop Telling Me To Not Like It, STUPID” or “Batgirl Going Evil Was A Bad Idea, But Now That It’s Over, It Could Be Great” or “Top Five Black Males in Comics” or “Top Five Black Females In Comics Who Aren’t Photon Or Storm” yet, but c’mon! They’re coming.
There’s two other guys on this site who’d love some love, too. Wanderer has tons mouths to feed because he keeps adopting adorable little babies. It’s kind of weird how he’s accessorizing his clothes with his children, and I really don’t approve of the cute, but demented, “Baby Pyramid,” but help this man out!
Gavok? Eh, he’s cool. He’s got a sweet What If…? article in the works. He’s subjecting himself to some of the worst excesses of the ’90s for you. You want to know what ones to read and which will give you terminal stupid shock? Wait a few days. You’ll see. This man, this monster… he does it out of love.
So get the word out. Link to the good articles, comment on the writing, start up a blog war with us so that we can get some free publicity, rap beef style. Link us (but not our images, I pay for this site out of pocket, kids) to your busy comics message boards if we say something you hate/love/don’t care about really. Talk us up on your livejournal. We’ve got an RSS feed right here and (oh snap) a Livejournal feed here! I’m going to add these links to the sidebar later today to make them easier to find.
See those rotating banners up at the top? They’re 700×200 jpegs (though one is a gif) and you can make your own. All it requires is a funny, serious, or really just any random moment from a comic and the word “4thletter!” in an unobtrusive spot in black or white. If you’ve got a good one, send it to 4thletter@gmail.com, okay?
C’mon, folks. Get the word out. Is you is, or is you ain’t, my baby?
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So am I the only person on the RSS feed?
There’s 27 people on the LJ feed, and my website stats panel shows that there’s lots of requests for the ATOM and RSS feeds, though I can’t quite go through and count IP addresses. The big places, technorati, google, etc, are scoping us, though, so that’s good.
I just want more.
I really do try to remember to scope this, since I’m so far out of the comics world that y’all are my only insight into current events. I do have to say Gavok is one BRAAAAAVE som’beech to be going through the What If’s of yesteryear. For every gem, there were about 10 piles of utter shit.
Despite what hermanos says, the problem with reading all the What Ifs isn’t the latter issues from the 90’s. Even if they’re crap, they’re usually too short to feel overly cheated.
The problem is the really early issues where nothing actually happens. I’m looking at you, What If the Invaders Stayed Together After World War II.