Pretty much nothing makes my day more than seeing someone in a position of acclaim hired very specifically to create something (and usually to much publicity and fanfare), and when it turns out that people hate it, they proceed to blame somebody else. "Don't look at me--I didn't do it!!"
From JMS, who has publicly stated that every controversial Spider-Man story he did was really Marvel ediors' faults; to Bendis, who said it was the artist's fault that anyone might perceive the multiple violent S&M-tinged beatdowns of Tigra as misogynist; to the apologists for Will Pfeiffer, who excuse the dreck that was Amazons Attack as not damning becuase it was "editorially mandated." Everyone's got an excuse.
Well, this week, we've got another fine candidate. After ravishing the foundations of the DC Universe in Identity Crisis, author Brad Meltzer is coming back to script a one-shot tie-in to Final Crisis. And, 3 years later, this is what he had to say about Identity Crisis:
So, for valor above and beyond in avoiding responsibility for what you've created, Brad Meltzer is the winner of this week's Krusty Award!!
Tune in next week, when he blames someone else for that JLA run...
From JMS, who has publicly stated that every controversial Spider-Man story he did was really Marvel ediors' faults; to Bendis, who said it was the artist's fault that anyone might perceive the multiple violent S&M-tinged beatdowns of Tigra as misogynist; to the apologists for Will Pfeiffer, who excuse the dreck that was Amazons Attack as not damning becuase it was "editorially mandated." Everyone's got an excuse.
Well, this week, we've got another fine candidate. After ravishing the foundations of the DC Universe in Identity Crisis, author Brad Meltzer is coming back to script a one-shot tie-in to Final Crisis. And, 3 years later, this is what he had to say about Identity Crisis:
"Identity Crisis, for whatever it became and whatever it turned into - so much of it out of my control – is something that I think Dan ran well with it, and I’m still very proud of."Yup, Brad...it was all DiDio's fault that the DC Universe became a hotbed for rape, brainwashing, spousal murder, etc. It was "out of your control" when you made DC heroes stop being heroes. "Dan ran well with it," you had no impact at all. Hell, you were merely standing around the DC offices one day, and they slapped your name on someone else's script. Yup.
So, for valor above and beyond in avoiding responsibility for what you've created, Brad Meltzer is the winner of this week's Krusty Award!!Tune in next week, when he blames someone else for that JLA run...
Well, to be fair, we allow it, so to speak. There ARE too many apologists out there excusing the awful work, or screaming about editorial mandates, and we the readers (and I include myself here) lap it up.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm not sure what we CAN do, aside from not buying books we don't like. Then again, we're in the damned if we do, damned if we don't category. Many of us (again, myself at least) buy because we are attached to the CHARACTER, not the event or the "writer." Don't buy, and become hopelessly lost (as so many of these books are intertwined in plots), and then get "blamed" by a smartmouth like Quesada or DiDio because a book gets cancelled for low sales (nevermind that the wrong message is usually taken away from it, that character "x" doesn't sell books, as opposed to writer "y" does a terrible job).
Now, on another tangent;
One thing is for sure, it's official, Bendis can ONLY write "AAIIIEEE!" for a woman in pain -- we see it again when a woman gets shot in the leg with an arrow during (I think) Skrullapalooza #2.
Meh, now I'm all depressed again :)
Take it and run.
Earl Allison