In Your Face Jam - Dec 19, 2012

[CBR News]

In the wake of people making death threats over a thing with two staples and pages with Spider-Man drawn on them, Brett White takes the aforementioned social media abusers to task.


Full article here.

[fin5]

I would like to know who the people who made the death threats are so i could know who the scum are

[Valeria Kementari]

you'd think Spiderman fans would be used to bad things happening to their hero... this overreacting is uncalled for, especially since everyone knows this type of change is never permanent and it'll eventually be retconned...

[HeroInTraining]

The mentality of some people is amazing.Seriously speechless.

[BeastieRunner]

I know this is a serious topic and a such, but that opening line is classic! Ghostbusters 2 reference for the hook ...

"The Internet can be an extraordinarily negative place, to the point where it might as well have been invented by Vigo the Carpathian." -- Brett White

Great article!

[Charagon]

Obviously death threats aren't okay, but can we also stop pretending that "Hey, just stop reading it when the book starts sucking" is an acceptable answer?

We're SUPPOSED to like comics. We're SUPPOSED to want to buy comics. When Marvel puts out an advertisement that says, "Eh, buy it or not. Whatever. You might just want to skip this arc and wait for the next creative team." THEN you can tell people they're being silly for wanting Marvel to sell them a product they will enjoy.

[Home made ectoplasm]

Great article!

[Dusk]

Obviously death threats aren't okay, but can we also stop pretending that "Hey, just stop reading it when the book starts sucking" is an acceptable answer?

We're SUPPOSED to like comics. We're SUPPOSED to want to buy comics. When Marvel puts out an advertisement that says, "Eh, buy it or not. Whatever. You might just want to skip this arc and wait for the next creative team." THEN you can tell people they're being silly for wanting Marvel to sell them a product they will enjoy.

Absoulutely rubbish. Don't forget. People make mistakes and learn from mistakes. Without mistakes, you will never improve. A fair example would be the video game industry. If a publisher who had been making great games for decades suddenly makes a game that's different in style from the prior games, and it somehow ended up being uninteresting to the fans, those people would complain and say things like "Stop making new IPs and go back to making what you're good at!". And I say to these people, if you don't like it, don't buy it. The games they are making comes out of their own budgets, not yours.

If you're really that concern about the company's profit, then why don't you support Marvel by buying the new title. And when they have tons of money, they'll pressure Dan into writing better stories that you guys like, which would probably be stuff that we've seen before, but whatever. As long as you're happy, right?

[Nur]

People who make death threats should be lined up against this wall of text and flogged......

[BizzleTheBear]

lol

[Duhast500]

This sounds like a break from reality. When someone takes fiction as real life and then makes wild threats like murder needs to talk to a professional.

[Duhast500]

I know this is a serious topic and a such, but that opening line is classic! Ghostbusters 2 reference for the hook ...

"The Internet can be an extraordinarily negative place, to the point where it might as well have been invented by Vigo the Carpathian." -- Brett White

Great article!

Don't forget dogs and cats living together.

[DragynWulf]

Obviously death threats aren't okay, but can we also stop pretending that "Hey, just stop reading it when the book starts sucking" is an acceptable answer?

We're SUPPOSED to like comics. We're SUPPOSED to want to buy comics. When Marvel puts out an advertisement that says, "Eh, buy it or not. Whatever. You might just want to skip this arc and wait for the next creative team." THEN you can tell people they're being silly for wanting Marvel to sell them a product they will enjoy.

It IS an acceptable answer because why would you continue to buy something you don't like? And since when one title make it so you wouldn't want to like comics. If you don't like this comic, then get one that you do like.

[Ravin' Ray]

Sadly, any of those idiots alluded to by White who happens to read his piece are going to take it personally and then rage on him. Just you wait.

[DragynWulf]

In the wake of people making death threats over a thing with two staples and pages with Spider-Man drawn on them, Brett White takes the aforementioned social media abusers to task.

It is completely ignorant and gives fans in general a bad name when you make death threats because of a story or stories written about a fictional character, but there is also a point when you have to say enough is enough. I've had to report a poster to the FBI before because he repeatidly threatened to send white power to me in the mail just because he was banned from a message board. And this is even after I warned him numerous times that his threat was a federal crime. I've even had stalkers e-mail me my personal information as a form of threat that they knew where I lived. Some comic fans take things way too personal and have become obsessive with characters thinking that they are "their" characters and the writer should write stories the exact way they want. OMD and OMIT proved this to be true more than anything. The character is owned by Marvel to do what they want, they let the fans into the Marvel Universe as much as the fans desire to visit, but threatening while a guest (so to speak) at someone else's house is just plan rude and uncalled for. No one is forcing you to buy a comic. The internet is not your safe zone to make any kind of comment you want about anyone.