God, hes left as on aur oun.
Why Jess Lemon doesn’t read comics.
Actually, she does. Jess is a summer intern over at Comicon.com’s Pulse, the comics industry beat sheet run by the indefatigable Jennifer Contino and Heidi MacDonald, and somebody over there had the bright idea of having her write reviews of the current comics bestsellers. What’s passing for the mainstream, in other words.
That someone should be given a medal. Jess is bright, articulate, genre-savvy, though never really plugged into the Yankee comics scene—in other words, an ideal representation of the audience comics ought to be chasing to increase its oomph—but she ain’t impressed. The results are hilarious—and telling. Here’s her take on Outsiders #1, and here’s her take on Wolverine #1. —Be sure to thumb through the resulting comments threads for the full effect.
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Help !!! This first review proves beyond a doubt that I'm trapped helplessly in Fandom Limbo: Too old to care that Lilith and Donna Troy are dead, but too young to really believe that it's soon enough for anyone to have revived *Outsiders*.
No wonder I'm terrified at the thought of going into a comic shop. I wonder if my "Fear Of..." phase, has now gone on longer than Horrocks' "Fear of..." phase did. (At least HE got to go to Europe and write a really cool mini.) Kip, you must have his email. Ask him for me, will ya'...?
I'm fascinated that so many of the comments swung to trying to determine whether or not Jess exists.
All I know if that Heidi MacDonald exists, having chatted with her in the comics forum on CompuServe some ten+ years ago.
I'm sort of half-bemused and half-nauseated by the alleged female on the Comments page who blathers on for four billion paragraphs about how all "chicks" except her just have to comment about the breast-obsession that's standard in superhero comics 'cuz, we're, like, jealous, and stuff and wish that *we* had pneumatic boobs and stuff. (Tee hee)
Gevalt. It's like Howard Stern, only, like, less original and clever and concise and stuff, y'know. (Giggle giggle)