The Year-End, Format-Stolen-From-A-Magazine List

Comments Off | Posted: December 29th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Tired: Fanboy entitlement.
Wired: Mocking said entitlement while holding your own industry grudges.

Tired: Ultimate Spider-Man.
Wired: Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane.

Tired: Tokyopop.
Wired: Pop Japan Travel.

Tired: Mark Millar.
Wired: Jeff Parker.

Tired: Superboy Prime ripping Risk’s arm off in Infinite Crisis.
Wired: Osiris being covered in The Persuader’s guts in 52.

Tired: Kyle Rayner written by Ron Marz.
Wired: Guy Gardner written by Howard Chaykin.

Tired: 52.
Wired: Watching Joe Quesada try to one-up 52‘s success with vague announcements.

Tired: Mocking old issues of Jimmy Olsen.
Wired: Write-in campaigns demanding All-Star Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen.

Tired: Power Girl’s chest.
Wired: Iron Man’s crotch.

Tired: Comic Book “Urban Legends.”
Wired: Baseless lies and distortions of the truth, generally involving orifices and tears.

Tired: Stan Lee cameos in Marvel movies.
Wired: Alan Moore appearances on The Simpsons.

Tired: Pitchfork.
Wired: Armagideon Time.

Tired: PS3.
Wired: MAME.

Tired: Alex Ross’s slavish worship of the Super-Friends.
Wired: Darwyn Cooke’s slavish worship of the fifties.

Tired: Boing Boing.
Wired: MetaFilter.

Tired: Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider.
Wired: Nicolas Cage in FACE/OFF.

Tired: Lying In The Gutters
Wired: Journalista!, The Comics Reporter

Tired: Dave Campbell.
Wired: Chris Sims.

Tired: Misogyny in superhero comic books.
Wired: Misogyny in indie comic books.

Tired: Year-End Lists.
Wired: Drinking Instead Of Compiling Year-End Lists.

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