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"Some modern travellers still pretend to find Acephalous people in America."
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Cyclopædia; or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The opinion of the birds on the discrimination against ninjas at King's Canyon National Park should be fairly obvious.
Gone where there are no internets. Will return shortly.
Sep 14, 2010 7:58:48 PM
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What makes death matter (to immoral idiots)
Today is a better day than most to remember how odious Marvel comics were in the early 1990s. Why so? Because of the cavalier attitude Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, et al. took not only to the history of the characters they inherited, but to humanity in general. Consider the X-Force and Spiderman crossover from 1991, in which the ridiculous Liefeld creation "Cable" and the ridiculously re-purposed McFarlane Spiderman fight some Scottish terroist and the Juggernaut in the streets of New York City. Did I write "streets"? Because I meant backgroundless-space-Liefeld-is-too-lazy-to-draw: That yellow back there? It's all that remains of a building the Juggernaut just dropped on Spiderman: What building would that be? Can't quite tell there. Is there maybe an establishing shot that makes it clear? There is: That's correct: the Juggernaut killing tens of thousand of civilians (none of whom rate important enough to appear in either comic) is the fruit of Liefeld and McFarlane's 1991 collaboration. That Liefeld notoriously declines to even draw any background, that is, that he cares so little for where his mayhem occurs and chose to take out a Twin Tower anyway says more than I can about his apathetic morality. Lest you think him representative of comics (or tights-and-fights comics) at large, rewind comics history back to 1985, back to when Chris Claremount and John Romita, Jr. were at the height of their creative powers. Do their characters fight in a vacuum? They do not. Do their characters witness the deaths of thousands of civilians and saunter off once the villain-of-the-month has been dispatched? They do not. It's almost as if back in 1985 people and story matter more than explosions and disposably "cool" new characters. Saccharine as the post-September 11th comics were, they did at least signal a return to a perspective in which human death actually mattered. Sadly, for mainstream comics, that was quite a big deal.
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...and never underestimate the stupidity of stupid, stupid rat creatures: Trolls are no smarter. I've scrubbed all the comments this "Master of Proxies" left while I was in Kings Canyon National Park living the kind of life someone like him can only envy, but if he leaves any more, don't bother to respond. They too will be scrubbed tomorrow as soon as I'm awake enough to "Censor" his "First Amendment Right" to deface my property.
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I WENT THROUGH 7 PROXIES GOOD LUCK
[And you successfully defeated my not doing anything about it while I was enjoying a relaxing vacation in a national park. I suppose that means you win.]
Posted by: [This spammer went through "7 Proxies"] | Tuesday, 14 September 2010 at 10:35 PM
Wow. Good timing, I guess?
Posted by: nutellaontoast | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 12:54 AM
Wow, someone really hates you. It's weird because usually academicish blogs don't tend to attract this kind of trolling.
Posted by: Anonymous Cow | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 01:59 AM
SOMEBODY has serious unresolved issues.
Posted by: GeoX | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 02:06 AM
Scott, I think you left the spam filter off....
Also, I remember ASCII art being better than that.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 11:16 AM
I dunno, it's pretty well convinced me that Scott's wrong about everything. The logic is devastating.
Posted by: Gary Farber | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 07:37 PM
Guessing that the seven proxies comment is a joke from someone mocking the troll. If not, though, you should still be able to backtrace it.
Posted by: todd. | Thursday, 16 September 2010 at 02:06 PM
Despite my affiliation with its source, I'm clearly not aware of all internet traditions.
Posted by: SEK | Thursday, 16 September 2010 at 02:33 PM
Huh. I actually didn't know the origin of "I'm aware of ..." until now. Learn something new every day.
Posted by: todd. | Friday, 17 September 2010 at 01:06 PM
Ain't it awesome? That said, the link to the original post and comment are broken. I suppose I could fix it, though...
Posted by: SEK | Friday, 17 September 2010 at 01:20 PM