Marvel Comics Creator Wank! Get your creator wank here!
All right, I warn ahead of time that I came to this wank late, and the only posts I've found on the subject have been somewhat ... one-sided, shall we say. I was a little unsure as to whether this could make it over on

fandom_wank, so followed the 'When in doubt' rule.

(Also, forgive the attention-whoring, but I'm ill and 2010 has decided to give my arse a few parting kicks on the way out. Distract meeeeee.)

Background: Lots and lots of Spider-man fans are, shall we say, quite unhappy about the events of Brand New Day and since, where Peter Parker gave up his life with wife Mary Jane (and all his memories of her) in a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May's life. The whole plot was almost certainly an act of Editorial Intervention, since the guy in charge at Marvel, Joe Quesada, is well-known as hating Mary Jane and her relationship with Spidey. I don't read the Spider-man comics, but by all accounts the writing since this has not improved things a jot.

Secondary background:

box_in_the_box is well known for constant whining about what he refers to as NuSpidey. YMMV on how much of it is justified, but you cannot deny that that's a loooot of complaining.

So, on with the show!
The Beat, a popular comics blog, makes an entry which calls out a message board attack on Dan Slott, Amazing Spider-Man's current writer, as a 'Jerk of the world'. To recap, Slott responded to seeing one fan's accusation of hackery with a ... somewhat disproportionate rant. Just a little.

Dan Slott, you see, spends perhaps a little bit too much time on the internet. But hey, the guy says he's sick and overworked, maybe that was just a one-off, right?

Apparently not.

bitemetechie makes brief reference to the previous debacle on her LJ... only to have Slott himself show up in the comments.

Since the guy showed up to pick a fight in a stranger's LJ,

neo_prodigy takes the opportunity to call out Slott for racist writing, with particular regard to the Norah Winters character, about which fans have been complaining for some time now...

And apparently manages to drive Slott off LJ in one comment.

Slott may be down, but he's not out! He takes to Twitter with his grievances, as he has done before:

"You make a living on writing a racist character who denigrates people of color and you have the fucking gall to —" Mark the date, 12/15/10, that's the point I hit the richest vein of Internet-Crazy. Someone I've never addressed or talked to on the web, addressing me for working on Spider-Man 'cause he's a "racist character?" What now? OK ... cross LJ off from places to "visit." Crazy, please stay in that corner. :)

You might think that would be it ... but you'd be wrong.

Slott pokes his head above the parapet once again, in response to a later post by

neo_prodigy over at Ars Marginal,

neo_prodigy's other blogging site.

In response,

neo_prodigy and

afro_dyte/RVCBard attempt to ban Slott and delete his comments, but the guy just keeps coming back! For bonus: witness Slott's flailing about his constitutional rights! Flail, Slott! Flail!

box_in_the_box (as K-Box, unless I am very much mistaken) keeps baiting the guy, but you know what? In this case, I can't entirely blame him.

By way of conclusion, Ars Marginal posts another entry outlining ALL of Slott's known bullshit, both professional and extremely unprofessional.

The end?

Maybe not ... since if

box_in_the_box is to be believed, we have sockpuppetry!

PROFESSIONAL sockpuppetry.

Seriously, if it weren't for the hideous racism, this would be an amazing

fandom_wank post.

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	jaythenerdkid 2011-01-01 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Wow, a wank where neo_prodigy comes out looking good? I guess there's a first time for everything. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-01-01 02:54 am UTC (link)
	I haven't been much in comics fandom since the original Scans Daily went under... what's neo_prodigy's track record? chinhands Storyplz? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

jaythenerdkid
2011-01-01 02:57 am UTC (link)

I'm not in comics fandom either, so this is all stuff I know through friends or by lurking on memes, but I'm pretty sure this is the guy who threatened to strangle women with piano wire, called any gay guy who disagreed with him a "house queer" (neo_prodigy is gay himself), and is responsible for a whole host of other delightful misogynist comments.

Honestly, if you want to find out more, I'd make a post on fail_fandomanon and wait for the links to start pouring in.

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	eleutheria 2011-01-01 03:42 am UTC (link)
	Then there's all the K-Box wank and creepsterism. I pretty much hate all the major players in this one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-01-01 04:15 am UTC (link)
	"Motto." :p (Reply to this)(Parent)

	re_weird 2011-01-01 04:37 am UTC (link)
	Yep. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2011-01-01 08:18 am UTC (link)
	Yep. I'm hoping all the wanking will make them melt into puddles of goo. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	felinephoenix 2011-01-01 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	Yeahhhhh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2011-01-01 04:23 am UTC (link)
	oh hay I remember that. Ick. I made Dan Slott cry once, but I apologized at the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-01-01 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	...Sep, you cannot just say these things and then not provide the story to go with them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2011-01-01 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, it's a tricky story and I was actually in the wrong. Let's just say my attempt to rec his comic didn't... quite work. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ladyofviolets
2011-01-01 03:24 pm UTC (link)

Apparently, neo-prodigy is pretty good at erasing all traces of his own fail. Here are some fail_fandomanon links to discussions about said now-deleted failures:

* And the next breeder (specifically: speshul str8 wymnz) who tries to mansplain/white-cite/straight-talk down to me and defend that walking heterosexism simply because they have a homophobic fetish because they're too fucking trifling to deal with their own sexuality, I'm paying them a visit with a lead pipe in tow

* "I thought Neo Prodigy's piano wire comment was hilarious, and I found this community's reaction to it even more hilarious. Yeah, because no one could *possibly* find it amusing to watch a pack of buttsex-obsessed fangirls, privileged in every way except their gender, clutching their pearls because a Scary Black Man e-threatened them.

* And heaven forbid you actually dare explain to these misandronists why their heterosexism is problematic. To do so will result in fail like this and this and this and this. Usually at this point we gay peeps are seeing red and have to walk away from the keyboard, less we be tempted to run an IP trace and pay a visit to these fools in real life.....with piano wire.

So yeah, NP wants to kill you stupid straight women. Say hi to his piano wire and lead pipe, ladies!

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	kumquat_of_doom 2011-01-01 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	....Damn, all I can think is that I was so right not to put this in fandom_wank. That's... that's a lot of issues that dude's got. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladyofviolets 2011-01-03 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	At this rate, anything including N_P should go here or on UFB by default-. Because it WILL be brought up at some point. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seiberwing 2011-01-01 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, he was part of the whole slash explosion petalsinthewind put up at ontd_feminism? That's the post where I decided to leave the comm, every post was "Here's the horrible thing happening to women today, let's talk about how much it sucks!" or arguing over who had the least privilege. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-01-02 02:39 am UTC (link)
	wow, I didn't know about any of this back when he was modding scans_daily. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	felinephoenix 2011-01-02 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Ditto. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladyofviolets 2011-01-03 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	I'm glad I was only a lurker and was warned about him by (male and female) friends. I still didn't know about lots of his crap after I stopped lurking. x3 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mariem_1 2011-01-02 02:40 am UTC (link)
	http://www.ankhesen-mie.net/2010/12/kill-this-bitch-ii.html http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/896310.html (Reply to this)(Parent)

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