Ehn, "great" is subjective. To me, something can have really sharp dialogue and excellent pacing and blah blah blah, but if one of the underlying messages is "black people hate white people! They are reverse racist!" then I'm gonna go ahead and call the whole thing crap. It's a game I like to play! It's called: don't let people get away with racism because they have some talent! (This is loosely related to the other game I also like to play, which is called: don't pay for things by rapists. (http://tigerbeatdown.blogspot.com/2009/07/perfect-disguise-isaac-brock-samantha.html))
For me, how good his writing is is kind of irrelevant, especially since there are people like John Ostrander out there, who mean that just because I want to read comics doesn't mean I have to compromise by reading stuff by people who I know are racist. I can choose to only read stuff by people who aren't racist, and don't hate women, etc, and still have more reading material than I could possibly finish ever. So. Yeah. For ever X-FACTOR comic, there is a HAWKWORLD comic or a SUICIDE SQUAD comic, or BIRDS OF PREY, or SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE, or a comic by Fly, or Phoebe Gloeckner, or Alison Bechdel, or Eric Drooker. So I have a hard time feeling that it deprives anyone of good stories to not read stuff by PAD.
This is kind of ranty, though, so I'll shut up now. I also don't mean to say that you're a terrible person for reading PAD comics. It's just, that's my choice, and my reasoning behind it, which I felt compelled to give because EVERY TIME I say I don't want to read/watch/listen to something because the person who created it skeeves me out, people start going on at length about how IT'S REALLY GOOD THOUGH, I'M TOTALLY MISSING OUT BY NOT GIVING MONEY TO THIS PERSON. And, well... I don't buy it (no pun intended).
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Date: 2009-07-31 09:31 pm (UTC)For me, how good his writing is is kind of irrelevant, especially since there are people like John Ostrander out there, who mean that just because I want to read comics doesn't mean I have to compromise by reading stuff by people who I know are racist. I can choose to only read stuff by people who aren't racist, and don't hate women, etc, and still have more reading material than I could possibly finish ever. So. Yeah. For ever X-FACTOR comic, there is a HAWKWORLD comic or a SUICIDE SQUAD comic, or BIRDS OF PREY, or SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE, or a comic by Fly, or Phoebe Gloeckner, or Alison Bechdel, or Eric Drooker. So I have a hard time feeling that it deprives anyone of good stories to not read stuff by PAD.
This is kind of ranty, though, so I'll shut up now. I also don't mean to say that you're a terrible person for reading PAD comics. It's just, that's my choice, and my reasoning behind it, which I felt compelled to give because EVERY TIME I say I don't want to read/watch/listen to something because the person who created it skeeves me out, people start going on at length about how IT'S REALLY GOOD THOUGH, I'M TOTALLY MISSING OUT BY NOT GIVING MONEY TO THIS PERSON. And, well... I don't buy it (no pun intended).