fuck.

[thehefner]

scans_daily is suspended. First details are here, and now it looks that Peter David himself (a writer I absolutely love) might be responsible in some capacity.*

EDIT: PAD's responded, and it looks like he wasn't responsible (although he DID issue a report to Marvel), but he ain't shedding any tears.

Guys, I am seriously, seriously upset. I... I can't even get my thoughts in order here. There are many logical ways to look at all this, I know, but right now, the purely emotional response is all I've got. I never honestly thought I'd have an appropriate time to use this icon, but right now, this is it.

I just think about all the wonderful comics that I'd never have even HEARD of without scans_daily. About all the awesome people I've met and friended from there**. Including a girlfriend! A girl who was the best damn person I met all last year, who I wouldn't have met otherwise if she hadn't been taken with this intense Harvey Dent fanboy! Scans_Daily actually got me laid!

But most of all, when I think about all the goddamn hours I've put into scanning and cropping and writing and editing posts of my own, and to think they're all just gone... like tears in the rain...

It's... it's the only place I've had for years now where I could actually just let loose with my love of comics and Harvey in particular, knowing that there would always be at least a few people who would get it and share my passion.

I literally have nothing else like that, never have. Not the comic shop, no social circle IRL, certainly not comic conventions, and definitely not anywhere else on the internet. Message Boards, jesus god save us all, never again. Even with the occasional troll and handful of fools and jerks, scans_daily has been a godsend to me as a fan. A place that would *daily* remind me why I'm a fan.

PAD, or whoever's responsible: way to totally fucking ruin the euphoric giddy feeling I had from getting a good review.



*And, if I'm not mistaken, he's LYING, as no, the whole issue of X-FACTOR was NOT posted! The mods have been rather strict about their "half an issue or less" rule. Which may not be any more legally sound than if they HAD posted the whole issue, but let's get the fucking facts straight first.

**Roll call: who here do I know purely and solely because we met on scans_daily?

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

She's quite cute too, as I recall. Assuming this is the same daughter who worked at a Boston-area comic shop and was interviewed by local news during the whole "Aqua Teen Mooninite bomb scare" fiasco.

Tempting though it is to echo that sentiment, I hesitate on the grounds of trying to give Mr. David the benefit of the doubt. Was he within his rights to do what he did? Almost certainly, from what I know. At the same time, I think he's suffering from serious internet-inexperience syndrome. How else to explain someone getting personally horrified and hurt when someone tells him to DIAF (Die In A Fire)?

It's like someone going, "That person told me to 'Go to Hell'! He/she literally wishes me to burn in the lake of fire for all eternity! That's worse than the time someone told me to 'Go stuff myself!' Stuff myself with what?! Where?! That's horrible! And would be terribly uncomfortable!"

[scooterbird.livejournal.com]

Well, no...I read his last five posts, on a variety of subjects, along with his responses to your comment and other comments as well. This was more than a single test case.

No, I'm pretty sure of it: the guy is something of a patronizing jackass, and he definitely does talk - or write, in this case - before engaging his brain.

Given these things, it's not at all surprising how he's reacted.

I have no idea whether this will stop me from reading his stuff, as I have read and been a fan of stuff written by assholes before (Harlan Ellison, anyone?), but it's going to affect it, definitely.