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What's all the fuss about?
When an internet message board troll who has practically made Didio-bashing a profession gets written into a DC Comics issue to be beaten and embarrassed, I think the people who published that product should be more ashamed than the target.
Honestly.
"Harold Winer".
Who goes on to become "Herald".
A shot at a message board poster who obsesses over D-level and lesser characters on the 'net, with the user name of Herald.
Who happens to be black just like the character in the book.
Who has gotten into arguments with DC Comics creators and had one say that he is well known in the DC offices, where he is regularly laughed at.
Sadly, if you remove this thinly veiled shot at a reader from the equation, the writing involved in making this "Harold Winer" character is even worse. But the thought process behind actually using 5 pages (and possibly more to come) to take a shot at a hater is just impossible for me to come to grips with.
We want to argue that the online fan presence is a vocal minority, right? I've actually started to embrace that idea more over the last year. But when members within that group can have such an effect on you that you have to devote pages to taking them down? Makes me wonder how much the people behind the scenes believe it.
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Seriously, how pathetic and immature is that? This is just like Joe Quesada inventing a Spider-Man villain called Dr. Box who tries to shrink Spider-Man's penis.
creator: dan didio,creator: don kramer,publisher: dc comics,title: outsiders
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Date: 2010-05-04 03:28 am (UTC)but there was a Herald before the internet "troll,"
but ae we forgetting Mal Duncan? Mal Duncan was the first Herald.
also isnt this Herald gay? (meaning Harold Winer?)
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Date: 2010-05-04 03:39 am (UTC)Assuming that it actually is a deliberate swipe at an internet poster, I wouldn't be surprised if that was intended to be an extra layer of insult. The level of maturity needed to take that sort of potshot in the first place wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility.
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Date: 2010-05-04 11:50 am (UTC)And not being a Titans fan of any size, I'd only heard of Mal Duncan once or twice. I certainly wouldn't have remembered him as Herald, though Didio clearly does.
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Date: 2010-05-04 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-04 02:54 pm (UTC)True, I thought of him immediately after reading this too. But now he's known as 'Vox' and is in limbo at this moment, so the 'Herald' name is up for grabs. Plus, since he's a Titans character it's probably the best he stays in limbo; so far he's only got maimed and an off panel divorce.
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Date: 2010-05-04 07:32 pm (UTC)