- It's important to kill your heroes. And, sometimes, you have to kill your father. Kill him so you can love him, and his flaws, better than one can love a hollow archetype.
Again, I express to you my general side-eye of items from Vice magazine (especially their "investigative journalism"), but there are occasional items I find I enjoy.
I like to believe that I see my father for who he is: a hard-headed, occasionally cheap for the sake of being cheap, intelligent man who loves to learn, and also likes to play the fool to stir the pot.
Of course, I can never really see the entire complexity that is my father, no more than I can see the entire complexity of any person, but I still admire him and respect him despite of his flaws.
Nick Simmons plagiarized a Japanese Comic Book. He was an ass about it when he got called out. The internet had some lawls. 15 minutes later, everyone forgot.
ahhhh. I had no idea. I find it interesting how much you can miss when you step away from the pulp mill of the internet. I miss so much by choosing what to consume, but at the same time, do I really miss anything?
Comic fandom stirs itself into self contained little shit storms anyway so it'd be easy to miss. Miracleman is my favorite such controversy since it took about twenty years to resolve and is impossible to explain without a working knowledge of the players. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvelman Even the difference in the name I used and the Wiki article is a drawn out explanation. A guy who became a seminal writer wrote a seminal story using characters with murky ownership. Another guy of dubious morals tried to buy the company that published the American version to use the character as he saw fit. Neil Gaiman says, "STFU," to that guy and raises a bunch of money to resolve the issue and finish the story he started after the Original Creator appointed him to continue the story. Niche subjects get really weird drama.
Oh man, do they ever. I can relate.Niche subjects get really weird drama.
That's the title I inherited from the original - I also think it's terrible. I like the article, though, otherwise I wouldn't have shared it.