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Monday, August 07, 2006 

"So tell me Joss, how much did DC pay you to write that Identity Crisis trade intro?"

Almost slipped under my radar, but, seems that Joss Whedon of Buffy fame added himself to the list of showbiz persona without an ounce of morale.

I cannot bring myself to link directly to the Meltzer website; I'll just link to the Google search results, but, here's what turns up on the text results of said search:
"did we mention it has an introduction by Joss Whedon? We're serious! No lie!"
Alas, no.

It's actually become hilarious by now. The writer-producer of a TV show and a few other items where women can handle themselves in dangerous situations, goes along and more or less contradicts his past work with an introduction to Identity Crisis that could be so glossing over of the miniseries' own vile sexism, I'm glad I haven't read what he had to say. Even Chris Claremont hasn't stooped as low at that. I do wonder though, how much did they pay Whedon to write it?

I feel discouraged from reading and watching Fray, Firefly, Serenity, and other things he's written over the past decade ever again and now decidedly tossed under a question mark, and, as someone who's taken more hard-lined standings in the past year, I'll sure have a very hard time believing that Whedon is any more sincere than countless other people in entertainment. I may know where to find an old Chicago Tribune interview where he said something that sounded almost too easy an excuse for dropping comic books. If I find it, I'll have something to say about that as well.

Whedon, I'm ashamed of you. I watched Buffy many times, much as I do find its type of violence questionable even for prime-time TV, and now, here you go and made a mockery out of your work by writing an intro for a book that makes even the episode where Buffy's mentor injected her with a chemical that weakened her muscles as part of a test by the secret vampire-tracking society seem almost kind by comparison. No matter how you write (and film) your upcoming Wonder Woman movie project,* I, if not everyone, will have a hard time taking it seriously simply due to the fact that you more or less legitimized a book that makes WW look like an apathetic airhead, and even a drone doing the bidding of Green Arrow to interrogate Slipknot. You're supposedly doing WW a real tribute, yet you nullify it? Please.

Gives a whole new meaning to the dumbing down of showbiz.

* One has only to wonder if the Princess of Power's costume will be muted in color, not unlike the way the Man of Steel's was in Superman Returns. That would mean that a female patriotette is being dealt a blow to match that of her male patriot counterpart's own receiving of a blow.

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