Woah.
Peter A. (I don't know his middle name and truly can't bring myself to care) David is sort of the professional Fandom Whore (tm). You liked it, he probably was connected to it in some obscure fashion. Star Trek? Writer for the show, a few thousand books including the insipid Imzadi business that I salivated over when I was younger. He writes comic books as well, Supergirl, Young Justice, the incredibly wanky Captain Marvel with an even wankier runs on Hulk and Aquaman. You can check out his bibliography here to see if he has visited your fandom as well.

He's a fan's fan, a fan's writer, a fan about town. He does weekly updates on what he's seen (Smallville, West Wing, Angel, etc.), read (ie comics), or heard (waaaaaank). It's kind of interesting to hear about the (comic)industry from someone so immersed in it but duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude can he get defensive sometimes.

He recently wrote a Supergirl story about how Mary Marvel (Ms. Marvel) gets groped by a police officer. Other than being wonderfully 'topical' it was pretty damn benign. 'Course comic_fen are all sorts of crazy and we get a delightful threat of:

"Say one more bad thing about my friend of over seven years and I'll hire a hooker to help me push you over. Really, it's true. There will be a reckoning...."

This appalls our dear PAD prompting him to post about the "threat" invoking possibly many a law with a:
"And you don't have to be worried that you'll be standing at a convention holding your one year old daughter in your arms, chatting with someone, and suddenly some guy is going to come up to you and take a shot at you and he misses you and you're standing there covered in your child's blood.".

PAD, really. ::shakes head::

He continues to fume about the Beatles, Catcher and the Rye and the Perils of Teh Internet over at the Apology thread that's a hoot and a half.



"...we live in a world where a nut found inspiration in "Catcher in the Rye" to go murder a Beatle. I felt it necessary to underscore that, while some of you seem to be laboring under the pleasant delusion that you're a handful of fun guys sitting in somebody's living room, you're actually on an open forum, God knows who's reading your comments, and God knows what they might be prompted to do as a result."-PAD

Someone picks up on the inherent silliness of such a comparison with a:

"Later you mention that "we live in a world where a nut found inspiration in "Catcher in the Rye" to go murder a Beatle." May I suggest that if Joe is to be held responsible for what other people might do because of what he wrote, then shouldn't J.D. Salinger be held responsible for Mark David Chapman's actions?

Of course not." -Jim

To which PAD responds with a:

"Did "Catcher in the Rye" suggest that a person should stand outside the Dakota hotel at a particular time and day because it'd be a good chance to nail John Lennon? No? Then no, Sallinger shouldn't be held responsible." -PAD



There is so. much. more. it's not even funny. Go, wade through and boggle. I'm gonna go back to my high stack of Young Justice comics and giggle some more...