Change is tough, as I’ve learned in abundance this year. So for the segment of readership that still isn’t entirely on board with this new status quo, we hear you. We’ve had you in mind from the beginning, and we’re trying to make the kind of stories that will satisfy your curiosity. We’re simply taking the time and effort to get the stories right. Be thankful for what you don’t know, it makes discovering it all the more exciting.Really, they "hear" us? Ha ha ha. Nope, they don't even want to hear our objections to their atrocious retcon of the Spider-Marriage, and it doesn't look like they're even trying to get the stories "right". And if it ain't right, it ain't exciting either.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Marvel just closes their ears to us
On Marvel's Spider-Blog, they post the following absurdity: