After Mark Waid’s “Four Panels that Never Work” comic was seen just about everywhere yesterday, one might have been forgiven for thinking that given the fourth-panel poke at Geoff Johns penchant for mutilating heroes, Waid and Johns must be feuding or something. However, Waid showed up in the comments at Robot 6 to answer questions and revealed that it was merely a friendly rib:
Geoff and I are cool so far as I know. It’s a joke, and it’s nothing I’ve not given him good-natured grief about to his face in years past. (Though looking at the two stabbings just in this week’s DC comics alone, I wish I’d generalized that joke simple to “DC comic.”) I’ll make fun of my own shortcomings in the upcoming sequel, “4 More Panels That Don’t Work,” fair enough?
Waid had a couple of other quotables in that comment thread, including this one:
I’d like to point out that if it weren’t for vile, women-hating misogynist shitbags, we wouldn’t HAVE a mainstream comics industry.
Which is, sadly, true.
If mainstream comics werent run by vile, misogynistic shit bags, I predict it would be like a hydra situation, where another awful thing will take its place.
So let’s count our blessings, guys. Mainstream comics aren’t run by the Klan, Nazis, or Pol Pot. Yay?
I think that Waid was referring to readers, not to creators. Waid isn’t the sort of guy who’d want to start a “Name that misogynistic shitbag of a pro!” game, is he?
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That Johns guy is a hack. I find his stuff unreadable especially Justice League. Call a spade a spade. No class to make those kind of stories.
@Synsidar: In context, Mark was responding to accusations another commenter was making against the artist, Ryan Sohmer. So it seems that he IS talking about creators — though it seems tongue-in-cheek enough and I don’t think he’s trying to start a “name that misogynistic shitbag of a pro” game.
Stabbings are a fantastic way to add realism, modernity to a comic and also cover a lack of creativity with blood.
Needs more heads being punched off.