Outsiders #29 -- Didio Sinks to a New Low???

[cyberghostface]

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

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

I often say "Because Dan DiDio hates you, that's why." I'm not sure it's an Internet meme yet, but we can hope. I doubt I'll get a character named after me.

Although... there was that line in FINAL CRISIS where someone says "There is a god... and he hates us." Of course, they were talking about Darkseid, and I don't equate Dan DiDio with Darkseid... yet.

[aegof]

..It's not too hard to do, what with all the villains being easily read as Things That Are Wrong With Superhero Comics Today.

[starwolf_oakley]

Could you elaborate on that? I know the Infinite Crisis villains were like that. But how were the Blackest Night villains or more modern villains?

[aegof]

I'm sorry; I was talking specifically about Final Crisis. Most of the bad guys there can be seen as representatives of an archetype that is considered Dark and Mature. They attract a ton of followers, and the nastier ones literally tear down the narrative just by existing.

As leader of the Bad Guys, you could, if determined to do so, read Darkseid as DiDio.

[nezchan]

Because Darkseid has standards?