Good article on saving the industry

[Le Messor]

I'm missing all the people who once thought I was sane...

Who are these deluded fools?

See, that's why I quit Marvel when they cancelled everything I loved.

The fairest reason of all.

I know the Temptation to buy a book just because a beloved character is in it, but I learned the hard way from Weapon X that this only encourages the writer's abuse of said character.

Yeah, I agree.
I don't do it, but I agree with it.

I don't want to give money to Marvel for Loeb's **** writing, especially after what he did to so many great feral mutants.

I've always thought he was overrated. I've found his writing average at best - and that includes The Long Hallowe'en. Nothing wrong with it ('cept that feral mutants story you mention), but not worth the 'this guy is a great superstar we should all love!' hype he seems to get.

If you need a comic book 'fix', there are manga out there with a lot more integrity, because there's no creative team changes. I'm loving Bleach and Dance on the Vampire Bund. Anime is good, too, with stuff like Cowboy BeeBop, Ghost in the Shell, and Tengu Topa Gurren Lagann. (bet you can't guess who my favorite Gurren Lagann character is. *snerk*)

Good for you! (That sounded way less condescending in my head.)
Unfortunately, I've never been able to relate to anime. The only true anime I've seen (and I've seen quite a bit, including parts of Cowboy Bebop) and truly enjoyed was Full Metal Alchemist. I don't hate it, either, or protest when somebody threatens to put it on in front of me, but I always feel a bit distanced from it.

(I say 'true anime' because I love LOVE Avatar: The Last Airbender - the cartoon! The Cartoon! - but it's American, and thuswise doesn't count.)

Apparently my problem is that I was born in the wrong part of the continent. You guys are totally 'my people'. lol

Oh.
Now I'm sad.

(You know I'm on an entirely different 'continent', right?)

- Le Messor
"I'd love to, but people are blaming me for the Spanish-American War."