Uzumeri Talks Smart/FBB+1
March 31st, 2008 by david brothers | Tags: DC comics, funnybook babylon, Marvel comics, podcastsFunnybook Babylon » Blog Archive » Fandom, Readership and Snark
What’s starting to disturb me more is the reaction to this that I see on a lot of the more moderated/respectable blogs – this conscious attempt to cut ties with the tastes of the hoi polloi and instead turn the topic to how cleverly you can savage a certain creator or book. Mike Choi is right – the switch is defaulted to “snark” all across the blogging community and everyone’s tripping over themselves to be the funniest guy to say something’s going to suck.
I’m increasingly beginning to feel that the topic of conversation is turning from comics themselves to the comics community, because everyone’s trying to take sides and generate controversy. Everyone wants to start some shit or get some gossip, everyone wants to know if marvel b0y’s going to set the photocopier on fire and dress up like Dan Buckley to try to fire Joe Quesada. Not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to know that, I’m enjoying this little drama as much as everyone (except for when people turn their blogs into dedicated spoiler dumps), but doesn’t everyone remember comics? Does it really take All Star Superman #10 to get comics discussion going these days, even if it’s just “OMG best issue ever”? And no, I’m not counting the latest 40-thread viral controversy about whether (X) or (Y) is racist or misogynist.
Go scope it.
By the way, the best podcast in history went live last week. Go give it a listen, too. You might hear a familiar voice talking about comics.
A few highlights:
Like if you went to his wikipedia page Joe, and you were to read it, your head would explode. It abuses time travel in the worst way.
– Pedro on “Per Degaton”“The only man trying to be a cross between Doctor Doom and Marlo Stanfield.”
– Joe on “What Pedro wishes to be when he grows up.”“4th Letter is a subsidiary of David Brother’s ego.”
– Pedro on “our special guest’s website.”“She’s like an ineffective Amanda Waller.”
– David B. on Val Cooper“Interestingly enough, genocide was not enough for Metron. He was totally fine about that.”
– Jamaal on “The betrayal of Mister Miracle”“Honestly, he was like a Scooby Doo villian back then.”
– David B. on Jack Kirby’s Darksied” I do like that original Norse Myth where Thor’s hammer got taken by a space alien.”
– Joe on “Viking poet Walt Simonson”“He just got a kid, so he needs his cash.”
– Pedro on Matt Fraction“I hear Chris is turning into a spicy latina.”
– David on the FBBPodcast relaunch at New York Comic-con and the ensuing continuity changes.
There! Now you don’t have to listen to the podcast!
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What’s starting to disturb me more is the reaction to this that I see on a lot of the more moderated/respectable blogs – this conscious attempt to cut ties with the tastes of the hoi polloi and instead turn the topic to how cleverly you can savage a certain creator or book. Mike Choi is right – the switch is defaulted to “snark” all across the blogging community and everyone’s tripping over themselves to be the funniest guy to say something’s going to suck.
My thoughts exactly. You see the same thing on some message boards (Newsarama, DC Comics Message Boards), too. Snark can be entertaining sometimes, but it’s become boring and cliche now.