It was edited. They didn't just cut things out, but they rephrased at least the first line of it.
But I don't mind. 'cept that first line - I like the way I put it better:
from memory:
as written:
'...people who hate censorship and tolerate all points of view. They never publish letters that disagree with them.'
as published:
'...people who hate censorship and tolerate all points of view, but never publish letters that disagree with them.'
It's a tiny change, but I think my way was funnier!
Well, I wouldn't say 'still true' so much as 'far truer now than ever'... but things haven't changed that much in the last four years.
Yeah, that's a huge part of why so little of their stuff appealed to me.
I have one of each. I prefer the A-Z just for reasons of trying to find stuff! alone. Especially trolling for back issues; do I have to know the name of every publisher who's ever done a Star Trek comic?
Oh, btw, the ones who segregate do a lot more than just DC / Marvel / Image / Indie... many, many publishers are split up.
Kind of true of me, too. But more I'm hanging on on principal; I don't want to let go.
That said, there are a few good titles from Marvel at the mo'.
Me, too!
Though the cat pancakes one is a huge problem I'm finding with comics (I call it 'bacon-flavoured ice cream'). They think 'people like our ice cream and bacon is very popular right now. You know what people will love? Bacon-flavoured ice cream!' and they spread bacon flavouring throughout everything they produce, including their ice cream, never quite realising that combining two good things can make something abysmal.
Yeah, I don't get that either. Why don't they force people to buy them at gunpoint?
Actually, I think Larsen's essay hit closer to the point than that. Note the qualifier that he either keeps using or I'm making up -
people have to buy the crossovers to follow the comic they're reading. And that's the problem. If I want to follow one monthly comic, I have to buy 100 issues a year to do it. If I don't buy the crossover, I lose track of the one I want to read.
And sometimes, it's better that way.
I know I don't. And sometimes the breaking of new ground has only been for the worse. *coughwatchmencough*
Still, I'd rather have them break new ground than break wind.
Me, too.
I think most of us feel that way... which is why comics are haemerraging (sp?) readers.
I don't know if it affects sales or not. In the shop that does do that, they have one new-comics shelf, and it's not very wide (4-5m?) so it doesn't make it any harder for people to reach the comics... just to find the ones they want.
~ Le Messor
"It is easier to run down a hill than up one."