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Re: — my landlord, in fact or according to the bank,...

DavePress — Fri, 16 May 2014 10:07:54 -0000

Sweep loose change into a corner of the apartment, leave a note over it quoting Home Alone: "Keep the change, ya filthy animal." I did this when I moved out of my shithole Brooklyn apartment.

Re: DC Women Kicking Ass - Female Writers at DC - Is It Getting Better? Can It Get Better?

DavePress — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:07:41 -0000

I was not at all trying to affect dismissal with regard to the things that you experienced, in fact I feel like I was trying to sympathize with you. I'm sorry if it didn't come off that way, and sorry if I insulted you in anyway; that was not my intent, but you seem very quick to insult and speak for me when you seem very certain I'm ignorant of sexism and you do not know a thing about me. I've been merely trying to show my disappointment in the actions of others towards you, and say at the same time that not everyone is terrible and ignorant of sexism and in fact that most people get it. So again very sorry and have a nice evening.

Re: DC Women Kicking Ass - Female Writers at DC - Is It Getting Better? Can It Get Better?

DavePress — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:06:20 -0000

Well I'm very sorry to hear about the people who exhibit sexism to you regarding your Batman t-shirt but to be honest with you, fuck those people. As to the meme, I've never even heard of this thing but I find it unfortunate and probably not indicative of the community as whole. Again, these concerns are mostly subjective and rooted in unfortunate personal experience and is not really a litmus test to the comics community at large.

Re: DC Women Kicking Ass - Female Writers at DC - Is It Getting Better? Can It Get Better?

DavePress — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:33:06 -0000

I think that's a fairly blanket statement, Xomyx and very inaccurate. I don't know anyone who feels like Scott Pilgrim became girl-friendly and then suddenly uncool, and I'm sure that anyone who does feel that way has a serious lack of taste.

The "incredibly famous" woman graphic novelist you speak of is Marjane Satrapi. Who, by the way, was nominated for an Academy Award for the film she directed based on her graphic novel.

Further, Hope Larson's adaption of "A Wrinkle In Time" is currently on the NY Times Bestseller list so I would say that's pretty popular.

And also, that "girls aren't allowed to be geeks" thing is born out of a genuinely ridiculous rant by someone named Tony Harris who was shunned by the comics community at large for comments like that.

Re: DC Women Kicking Ass - Female Writers at DC - Is It Getting Better? Can It Get Better?

DavePress — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:30:36 -0000

That's true to an extent. I think, probably, it's a lack of creative interest on both sides, and one could have a speculative discussion back and forth about which gender is more interested in superheroes, but that would be purely subjective and vague overall.

Re: DC Women Kicking Ass - Female Writers at DC - Is It Getting Better? Can It Get Better?

DavePress — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:16:25 -0000

I think it depends on the amount of women who are actively interested in working with DC or Marvel, and at this point are largely not interested in working with superheroes.

There are a lot of women who do amazing, critically acclaimed comics work who enjoy the non-superhero market who would fit in with your view of "People who haven’t been on the Marvel to DC treadmill since the 90s but instead bring a fresh voice and point of view." Those creators could be led by Alison Bechdel, Faith Erin Hicks, Colleen Coover (who, by the way, you should read Bandette, a direct to digital production by Monkeybrain ((Chris Roberson's publishing house)) that is written by Coover's husband Paul Tobin making for a unique Immonen-like collaboration), Hope Larson, and Laura Lee Gulledge. The thing is: they don't seem to be that interested in working at DC or Marvel.

Re: Millsin' About

DavePress — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:48:16 -0000

Is that cat on a leash?

Re: Spoilers For ‘The Walking Dead’

DavePress — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:12:46 -0000

I had a fucking meltdown.

Re: http://danhacker.tumblr.com/post/27709699334

DavePress — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:00:33 -0000

Yeah when I saw it in the theater, my DoP said it reminded him of "Tree of Life" and I nodded. I really like that style and I have confidence that Snyder will pull out a visually significant film with a good script from Nolan.

Re: http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/27694218066

DavePress — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:02:00 -0000

It was a lackluster trailer. I liked the lensing of it, it was close and somewhat intimate, and fairly low on exactly what it's supposed to be. For me, Amy Adams and Diane Lane will get great play, and I don't think it's a big deal that they were not featured in a teaser. By the time the movie comes out no one will remember this teaser (and I think that's why it's forgettable) and they will remember how awesome Diane Lane and Amy Adams are, but I think saying this is "not good" and "they need to step it up" is an extreme reaction.

Re: Millsin' About

DavePress — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:20:45 -0000

One of my top 5.

Re: Aporia. Writing and lesser things by Mills Baker. It took me almost another decade after graduate....

DavePress — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:12:29 -0000

For me, I think there is a level of analysis a writer pays attention in their sentences and words, the constant revision and fussing around is a testament to what you guys are talking about, but I think at the end of the piece a writer just gets tired of it and simply quits. Or wants to quit rather! There is only so much revision and fussing over sentences a writer can endure. Just writing a draft and leaving it at that is a form of freewriting, the rawest, purest form of what you want to say in that moment, eventually we would say the writing comes out in revision, what to cut out, what to add on, and trying different approaches. Then comes inevitably the second reader, someone other than yourself who notices little things you yourself do not, because as the writer you are so invested in your text, you don't realize this (perceived) gaping hole. This may result (well, in my case) in angst and a rather teenage temper tantrum, where you convince yourself that you are a hack and fuck you for thinking for a second that you could actually do this thing called writing.

I'm with you both, writing comes out in the grappling over sentences, but eventually the experience becomes so exasperating that eventually you just quit, and that's when that secondary reader comes to the rescue to make it even better, and push you through the wall to satisfaction, but that just means more work.

Re: http://danhacker.tumblr.com/post/24010103989

DavePress — Wed, 30 May 2012 10:42:50 -0000

The answer is simple: There is no testing phase.

Re: http://pakinamlights.tumblr.com/post/23839151677

DavePress — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:25:09 -0000

I recently found you through the martial arts Tumblr tag and I'm loving your journal. That is a dream of mine to travel overseas and study martial arts. I'm going back to Kempo as soon as I move back to my hometown in upstate New York. Thanks for sharing.

Re: KGBcast #51: Death of a Beastie

DavePress — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:07:30 -0000

I don't know about you, Brian, but I don't think I would shed a single tear for a KISS member passing away over MCA.

Re: Men In Black 3 Had A Budget of $375 Million (Including Marketing)

DavePress — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:35:56 -0000

Yes, and absolutely no one believes that Josh Brolin is actually doing a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation. That's voiceover.

Re: Today I’m Truly Ashamed To Be From North Carolina

DavePress — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:19:58 -0000

That's upsetting, man.

Re: http://davepress.tumblr.com/post/22389674316

DavePress — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:49:49 -0000

Jeez, I don't remember what we used it for, but probably.

Re: Things that need doing between now and June 4.

DavePress — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:38:54 -0000

Back to Lake Placid. To make comics and teach kids.

Re: Things that need doing between now and June 4.

DavePress — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:37:57 -0000

Yep, time to call it.

Re: http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/21063102400

DavePress — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:49:50 -0000

Not seeing your point.

Re: Loki's Alien Army In 'The Avengers' Officially Confirmed To Be Skrulls (kind of)

DavePress — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:28:50 -0000

Why does it matter?

Re: http://blog.millsbaker.net/post/20541903266

DavePress — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:12:13 -0000

What I like about this is it is almost precisely how comic books are put together. A discussion between a writer and an artist--two completely different jobs--to put together something so fantastic. Collaboration, discussion, is a requirement to make the medium work.

Re: http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/19704793909

DavePress — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:20:31 -0000

Unfortunately it doesn't make it any less true with regard to Marston. And one could say that you are cherry picking your argument as well on a rather sticky plot point when in fact it is more about character than it is plot and that is the point Azzarello and Chiang are trying to get at here.

I'm sorry that you feel that way with regard to my choice of words, but your reaction to that specific set of words and how that undermines the entirety of my comment is also cherry picking. And I'm not talking about Superman or Batman, you're directing the point away from my comment. My question is: do you think Wonder Woman was reacting in a way that is true to her character? Since the book is about her and not the Amazons.

But thank you for *your reply. Have a great weekend. (sorry, edited to correct a typo).

Re: http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/19704793909

DavePress — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:24:57 -0000

You also break the basic tennants of her character when her creator was actually a sadist of the highest patriarchal form, who wrote, "The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound... Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society... Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element". This is from Gerard Jones' book, Men of Tomorrow.

Yes it is very harsh with the Amazons and the sailors, and yes, as a man, I cringed at it. However, the book is not titled "The Amazons of Themyscira." It is called Wonder Woman and I feel the book is about her journey and the realizations she comes to in the outside world and when she did realize what was happening she adopted a firm tennant (to use that word again) of her family, the Amazons, to be there for her siblings, her sisters, but this time her she turned it towards her brothers--willing to take on a god to free them. Even though she was rebuffed, I still think, since the book is about her and not the Amazons, that's what makes a strong character. She still believes in the core values of her family even if she is horrified by her family and is willing to do something about it.

So I think you're picking at a scab to pick when in fact the creators are trying to show a strong character with high moral convictions. Did I think that plot point was especially sticky, sure, and the end result as well? Yeah, but I think they are staying very true to that character.