ITT: Letters
>>78355329
Kurt Busiek wrote a disappointed letter to editorial after reading Dark Phoenix Saga.
Dear Wikipedia readers,
We'll get right to it: This week we ask you to help Wikipedia. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We're sustained by donations averaging about $15. Only a tiny portion of our readers give. If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. That's right, the price of a cup of coffee is all we need. We're a small non-profit with costs of a top website: servers, staff and programs. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park where we can all go to learn. If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep our work going another year.
Thank you.
>>78355329
Well he wasn't wrong now was he.
>>78356665
Oddly touching.
>>78355815
>>78356797
I'm not the biggest fan of Johns, but seeying stuff like this makes me really happy for the guy. His dreams really came true.
>>78356722
A letter.
From Wikipedia.
They want money.
>>78356802
We/they should've listened.
>>78356875
kek, even then people were mean to Hal.
I wish most comics had letters pages nowadays. I get that they're a mite obsolete what with social media, but I like them. They're quaint.
>>78356942
>>78357132
why did everyone hate that poor bastard so much?
>>78357170
He was an angry brat and that wasn't in yet.
Did you know that PAD is a known fat-shamer in the comicbook circles?
>>78356697
>>78357949
>I can't believe I said that.
Hawkman is everyone's husbando, they just don't know it yet.
>>78357951
People write to every fiction creator to say similar things regarding whatever their pet subject is. Often they write to publishers and movie studios to say "your product caused me to have an emotional reaction that was unexpected, and you should not do that because it is unexpected". Never mind that it's the whole point of drama.
PAD having a letters page to gently remind people of how fiction works is unusual; the vast majority of people who write letters never get answers, which is probably why they do it.
>>78357932
Oh Devin Grayson. Bless her.
>>78356697
Fuck you Jimmy. Do something about your fucking staff being biased as fuck.
>>78356875
Anne sounds like she was some prime waifu material in her day.
>>78357920
>Artwise, aside from a very few cartoony faces, Gil Kane's art was up to his excellent self
That's exactly my problem with Gils art. Those faces are strange.
>>78358670
I have no idea what you mean.
>>78358708
It's just something about the eyes and mouth.
>>78356832
I just laugh every time I see him sign as Geoffery, makes me think it's an 8 year old writing the letter even though he must have been in his teens/20's when he wrote that.
Interesting that this is the premise behind Return of Barry Allen, so he got to see that story anyway.
>>78355721
You cheeky little shit.
>>78358732
He was born in '73 and Return of Barry Allen was sometime in the early 90's so he was probably at least 18 by that letter.
>>78356752
This is the Letter from that issue with the weirdly racist robots, isn't it? Last issue they made too if I remember right.
>>78356905
Look, lets not act like it's somebody else's fault that he ate Paint chips as a child.
>>78357170
He wasn't Dick.
It's depressing to read old scans of comics where Captain Marvel was a guest character, and then read the fan letters a few issues later asking when he's getting an ongoing. This stretches back like 15 years and the answer is usually "We have plans for him shortly!".
>>78356349
This is so fucking cringy. Just ask if they want to be on the show, don't roleplay as fucking characters that you don't even know how to write.
>>78357170
not muh
>>78356933
And in the end Superboy ended up being a Lex clone. Good going Johns
>>78358732
And thsts a problem, the guy has the same ideas he had as a child, the war of light is the fanfic of a 10 years old, he never developed any real complexity and never got better, thats why all his stories end up reading like a kid playing with toys. The oroblem is thst he forces his headcanon into the mainstream universe.
>>78359089
That was him.
>>78359276
I know and I hate some of the stuff he did but after taking a look at some of his interviews and these letters I just can't bring myself to dislike the guy. He's a fan and that's his best and worst quality as a writer.
>>78359276
>guy has the same ideas he had as a child,
His ideas are pretty good tho
Superboy was already a clone of Superman and the head of CADMUS at that point, tweaking it so it was Lex instead of some other forgettable guy was much better
>>78359356
Especially since that was hot on the heels of Lex's DNA being used to create Lex II.
>>78355329
>>78356802
Were these printed last month or something? This is weirdly relevant.
>>78358860
"Never, because we've totally screwed up but we spent so much money we don't dare admit it!"
>>78358901
They don't want to be on the show. It's against protocol for the monarch or direct heirs (since Charles isn't ever going to take the throne) to perform like monkeys in a for-profit production. If it was Prince Andrew, they'd get him in a snap, assuming they could furnish him with underage prostitutes to his liking.
What they asked is if they'd like to attend a table read of a script, which is part of the production process and a lot of fun. Much more fun than drawing the characters over and over again instead of taking a bathroom break.
>>78356797
Of course he brings up captain cold
>>78359522
Nerds never change.
>>78356697
>giving money to Wikipedia when the Internet Archive is having their fundraiser.
Fat chance.
>>78355961
Young GRRM was a cheeky little shit
>>78358313
did they delete your ip edits to a page nobody but you ever reads anyway
>>78355329
Anyone have the one from Walking Dead where the actor for Glen from the show writes in and calls Kirkman a hack for killing Glen?
weird, nobody posting this gem.
>>78361475
Is that an actual letter somebody wrote in? It looks like a LiveJournal confession
Do memos count?
>>78356916
>Superman's secret identity is only a cover-up
FUCK
>>78361766
It was, pre-crisis
I really like this set of letter pages. Piper was the first superhero to ever come out, and seeing the support the comic got is really nice.
>>78363840
>>78363855
>>78363866
>>78356948
They could probably do a "comments" section a la Twitter or something, where they print a person's tweet...
I wouldn't expect there to be anything written quite as well as these old letters, though. Nobody nowadays knows how to spell or use proper grammar.
>>78356812
Not muh Xmen
>>78363840
>Extrano
There's a blast from the past.
>>78361475
At least it was to Doctor Doom
>>78356812
based Chris
>>78356349
>pink frosting stains
Why does it make me so angry?
>>78356697
Whenever someone says they're getting right to it, they inherently are not. If they were really getting right to it, they wouldn't announce it.
