I’m not advocating a boycott or anything like that, and I wasn’t precisely a fan of PAD’s before this incident, but I find it hard to believe that I’m ever going to be able to see his name on the cover of a comic without thinking “hey, that’s the asshole that shut down scans_daily. Maybe I’ll buy something else.”/

I just want to chime in and say, word fucking word. PAD isn’t the only writer out there, in fact, I’ve read his book, “I,Q”, and the ending totally sucked, even though it was interesting, up to the ending, which sucked, perhaps that is why Peter David is so fearful of spoilers being leaked.

X-Factor can crash and burn. Of course, PAD isn’t the only writer churning out terrible work here, but thankfully, there are many alternative to Marvel’s stupid Dark Age, the Marvel Adventure is decent. There is always Alan Moore. …and, manga! It’s not just /badly/ written boylove or mecha.

I do find there to be some small irony in the fact that I became fond of PAD’s work because of scans daily. I’ll be throwing my money elsewhere. There’s a load of indy titles that could use the love more than PAD’s.

Sometimes I hate learning about an artist or writer’s opinion. I still haven’t managed to read Ender’s Game after the tirade over gay marriage and the like that Orson Scott Card went into. Willingham’s right leanings make me a little uneasy and unsure if he can actually handle Obsidian in a way that I won’t cringe at when JSA starts up. I knew very little about PAD before this, but after reading other bits of his blog I cringe (nevermind the SD related ranting).

That said, the SD members threatening or otherwise being douches aren’t helping anything. Vote with your dollar and be done with it.

This is why I tend to not read interviews and comments by comic folk when it doesn’t have to do with their work itself because I’d rather keep my distance and just enjoy the stories for what they are. Comics are my escape from reality.

Randy: No worries! I’m enjoying the discussion.

I suppose it depends on how you view the work in relation to the originator. If you see the work as independent of the artist once it’s released out into the world, then boycotting the work for the artist’s views makes about as much sense as kicking someone’s dog because they said something jerkish. If you view the work as more an extension of the artist, then it’s like delivering a kick in the shin. Obviously, I fall in the latter category.

More seriously, I do see the art and the artist as being irrevocably linked, especially when you’re dealing with commercial art like comics, where the creative team is almost always hyped as one of the main reasons to buy the product. Of course, an artist is perfectly free to say what he or she likes, but if one of the consequences of that outspokenness is that my ability to enjoy their output is compromised, I don’t think that the creator is entitled to my support, no matter the quality of the work. If I were to somehow find out that someone whose music I enjoyed supported Prop 8, I would stop supporting their work because by funding them, I’d be concerned that I was indirectly aiding a cause I abhor and, even aside from that, my ability to get full enjoyment from their work would be cut down because I’d think less of them as a person. The S_D debacle is of considerably lesser concern to me, but the same basic concept applies — I think David is coming off as a completely unpleasant person in this and there’s not so little entertainment in the world that I feel I’d be deprived by distancing myself from him as much as possible, including not buying his comics.

It was so painfully obvious that she wasn’t actually dead that I’m embarrassed for the author, both for the “death” and for thinking anyone would be surprised by her return.

PAD used to be a better writer than that, didn’t he?

PAD’s post on race. Just skimming it, it seems to match up somewhat with Willinghams. That they’d LOVE to talk race with POC but POC are all so ANGRY and MEAN so they won’t…