My nerdiness is whining
Random post rage but I’m really fed up with the Barry Allen hate in scans_daily. Hey, I know I mostly lurk here, seldom comment and as such shouldn’t complain about the tone of a community I’m not really shaping myself, but I’m intimidated in huge-ass comms and all this mess doesn’t motivate me that much to make myself better known (Aouch! This sentence is hurting my english!)
Honestly scans_daily is a great board. It’s one of the internet places where I spend the most time on and, as a student-poor comic lover, I appreciate the fact that it helps keeping track of storylines whose books I can afford and introduces me to titles I wouldn’t even have thought of reading before (“The Authority”, fuck yeah!).
BUT, it’s not a perfect place nevertheless; I’ve lately read some racist comments that creeped me the fuck out (most notably in the failtastic Avatar-casting thread) and there seems to be a very definite view of what you should like here. I’m a HUGE Hal, Barrie and Ollie fan while I couldn’t care less (and sometimes downright hate) Impulse, Spoiler or Cassandra/Batgirl, apparently that definitely makes me some kind of anti-christ…
#Sigh#
Yes I love Wally West, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m OVERWHELMINGLY EXCITED to witness the resurrection of a character I grew up loving (even though he was technically already dead when I was born). So yeah, even if I’m the only one in this case, “The Flash: Rebirth” is a book I’m really looking forward to and a bunch of internet experts won’t spoil the enjoyment of this one terrible heathen. ;P
John Constantine: “I’ll tell you the ultimate secret of magic.
Any cunt could do it.”
Honestly scans_daily is a great board. It’s one of the internet places where I spend the most time on and, as a student-poor comic lover, I appreciate the fact that it helps keeping track of storylines whose books I can afford and introduces me to titles I wouldn’t even have thought of reading before (“The Authority”, fuck yeah!).
BUT, it’s not a perfect place nevertheless; I’ve lately read some racist comments that creeped me the fuck out (most notably in the failtastic Avatar-casting thread) and there seems to be a very definite view of what you should like here. I’m a HUGE Hal, Barrie and Ollie fan while I couldn’t care less (and sometimes downright hate) Impulse, Spoiler or Cassandra/Batgirl, apparently that definitely makes me some kind of anti-christ…
#Sigh#
Yes I love Wally West, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m OVERWHELMINGLY EXCITED to witness the resurrection of a character I grew up loving (even though he was technically already dead when I was born). So yeah, even if I’m the only one in this case, “The Flash: Rebirth” is a book I’m really looking forward to and a bunch of internet experts won’t spoil the enjoyment of this one terrible heathen. ;P
John Constantine: “I’ll tell you the ultimate secret of magic.
Any cunt could do it.”