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January 26, 2005
That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more
Yesterday a well-known comic book news site ran a column wherein a pair of professional comic creators indulge in some good old-fashioned blog-bashing. I have been trying to decide whether (and how) to respond. A witty riposte? A vitriolic rant? A sober, point-by-point rebuttal? I have ammunition for all three. The gentleman who had the harshest comments for blogs has never impressed me with his insight or commentary. The criticism that he has for bloggers can be so accurately applied to his own contributions to that column that it's hard to take his ill-informed, inflammatory, and self-serving comments seriously.
Ultimately, though, I have already devoted way too much mental energy to the matter. Since I discovered comic-book blogging (ironically through a feature that ran on the news site in question), the attention that I have paid to the reheated press releases that this site passes off as news and thinly-veiled self-promotion that it calls commentary has plummeted drastically. It wasn't until another blogger mentioned the column that I heard about it at all. From my perspective, their comments look more like a desperate attempt to get noticed and linked to by the very blogs they disparage. So I guess that they got me. Gah!
I never liked the one guy's comics and now I know to continue my ignorance of the other guy's. If they want to blindly criticize what I do, well, that's their prerogative. They're the ones who stand to take a professional hit from the exchange, not me.
Posted by jdonelson_nyc at January 26, 2005 02:16 PM