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20th February 2008

6:45am: The SFWA presents: the longest death throes since Monty Python...
This is not the Starbuck's of wank.* It's a bitter re-heated brew, percolated with the stagnant grounds of yesteryear.

Andrew Burt is the VP of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Association of America. Some pixel-stained technopeasant wretches are less than pleased by his leadership. )

Damage control was done. The e-piracy committee was disbanded. A committee was put together in order to figure out what to replace the old piracy committee with... And lo, the SFWA was graced with a new improved exactly the same damn thing.

There was much rejoicing, in the sense that "rejoicing" means "bitterness" and "more disillusionment".

How would Andy top that? Why, by entering the race for SFWA president.

Thus commences a largely one-sided dogpiling. Highlights include discussion of the Dunning-Kruger effect and a 300 macro.

[ETA via hopefulnebula] Campaign poster macros are great justice!

[Late ETAS for completion's sake on the off chance someone checks back again, which if nobody does is a pity because this stuff contains at least twice the funny.]
"Greetings, gentlebeings!"
Burty supporters defile Earth Logic.
George R.R. Martin weighs in.
Burt as Walter Mitty.
MST3King ahoy!

And now, the raisins d'ĂȘtre, what makes this stale wank fresh again, via the Whatever with a tip of the hat to our lovely nonnymice: The Flickr group.

But wait... The son of the bride of the ETA strikes again
Burt announces that television is a dangerous threat to writers everywhere, as it gives away content for free and often does not involve white scientists having vanilla 1950s-style sex with their 20-year-old coquettish assistants while infodumping about math. He subsequently declares war upon the Writers Guild of America.


* I'm weak. One can only wait so long for RDR updates...
& ETA 'coz I can't spell at 7 AM.
11:24pm: These kids today with their 15-cent comics and their year zeroes...
Some introduction may be necessary, so...Marvel Comics publishes a line of swank hardcovers reprinting classic series in chronological order, known as Marvel Masterworks. The Marvel Masterworks Message Board, then, is a forum for discussing these books, and anxiously speculating as to which ones will come out next. Typical discussions go like "Should Marvel begin reprinting The New Mutants before or after Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal?

After some 25 years, the Masterworks line is getting pretty close to reprinting every Marvel superhero comic from the 1960s, which prompts Bilbo to proclaim that the Silver Age is nearly complete. But when exactly does the Silver Age of Comics end, and how many more volumes will it take to get there?

Lockjaw: Depending on where you say the silver age ends (1969, 1970, when Kirby leaves in mid 1970, the end of the 15 cent era or the beginng of the 20 cent era) there are from about 18 to 30 volumes.

MakeMineMarvel: I consider anything with a 12 or 15 cent cover price to be Silver age. May sound kind of dumb but my thinking is Spider-Man #100 was the end of an era.

gardibolt: Personally, I place the end of the Silver Age a lot later than most people, but the significance of the death of Gwen is just too huge to ignore it as a dividing line. Marvel Comics after were not the same as comics before.

Giant Turtle Boy:Spider-Man was certainly not the same afterward. But all Marvel Comics?

Personally, I think the Silver Age ends at a different time for each title.

droid714: To me, the end of the Silver age happened with the expansion in 1968. It wasn't long after the anthology titles went to a single character and the displaced characters were given their own mags, that the overall quality went noticeably downhill.


This goes on rather politely (if somewhat pointlessly) for a couple of pages, until ReviveTheRedRaven rushes in where angels fear to tread:


Well, for convenience's sake as well as the calendar's, the Silver Age should be considered the decade of the sixties. That is, the years including 1961-1970. In 1961 we have the birth of the Marvel Age in FF #1 and by the end of 1970 its pretty clear that the Marvel Age has lost some of its luster.

For DC, the Silver Age would start sooner and still end in 1970. In the late 50's we had Julie's books including Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space plus the fine stories/art in the war comics. This continued into the sixties and there's really no easy place to end it, so do it with the Dec. 1970 books, the last ones of the sixties.

Bronze can be 1971 -1980. Granted, there will be some overlap but the simple decade way is the easiest.


Uh-oh. This can't end well. Sure enough...

I get annoyed when people apply that 'there was no year zero' reasoning to EVERYTHING. )
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