Yeah, I'm worried about it, but the part of me that spent several weeks making my Squirrel Girl costume for Halloween last year is demanding I stay as ruthlessly optimistic as Doreen herself would.

Seriously! It felt so strange coming from Zdarsky, too. Like…I get that this is maybe supposed to be satire, but it definitely didn't read that way and part of me thought that maybe there was an editor that didn't have a firm enough hand?
The fact that his new side kick looks exactly like Harper Row from Batman…

Honestly, Squirrel Girl is filling the She-Hulk shaped hole in my heart. Especially in the face of very real, very damaging sexism and harassment in this industry, having a character this blatantly misogynistic makes it impossible for him to be endearing for me and a lot of other women.
A lot of female comics fans…

I guffawed so loudly that it woke up the dog. And then immediately texted three people saying "You need to read this for sweet, sweet Peter Parker tears."

Ah, that would explain it. He's done the "thirties white guy struggling with his past and the responsibility he has to his present" a LOT. His run on Animal Man was great, but man…Unterwater Welder, Trillium, Animal Man, and to some extent or another Green Arrow were all pretty much that same thing, which is why I'm…

That's a pretty wide swath right there. I'll admit that, owning almost everything Lemire's put out in the past few years, Hawkeye felt like ground I've already tread with him and Descender felt fresh so that definitely colored my feelings on it.

What else do you like reading?

If I had a dollar for every time I've said "I wanted to like ____ more than I did, I wonder what everyone else sees in it" I'd be able to pay people to create the comics I really love. It's super fascinating to me how very different people's opinions are, especially when you're talking about people who are already…

Yeah but Morning Glories definitely overlaps with X-Men and Gotham Academy. It's not as cut and dry as it used to be.

It's so weird that Image is seen as "not a threat". It outsells so many DC and Marvel books, and while I get that it's creator owned, wasn't that the whole point of Vertigo?

Ugh you're right, as always. I need to write all this stuff down so I stop remembering wrong.

No it was more "Hey look, Sam got laid!" than "This is really messed up."

Oh yeah, Jet was 14 in one issue and then 23 the next issue because time passed differently in the Z dimension (or whatever it was called). And Sam was drunk (maybe) and maybe she was too? Also she was sort of Steve's ward? It was all fucked up.

Oh definitely! I just think it's important for people like Slott (and Waid and Gillen) to remember how big their audience is, because their fans went off and started attacking/harassing/stalking women. If I remember correctly, someone got SWATed because of this. And when confronted with their fans' behavior, they…

Also, I'll admit any time I have to see Godwin's Law in action, I'm immediately pissed off. Waid calling fans Nazis just didn't sit right.

Yeah, and don't forget the "they can drown in hobo piss" response. Because that's a thing you should say to fans. http://www.theouthousers.co…

The hashtag was hyperbolic, I'll admit that. And I wasn't all that invested in his career, personally; several participants said that they wished the hashtag had been #RemenderOffCap instead. But, that being said, criticizing writers is sort of the bread and butter of progress, right? Being able to point out issues…

Gillen called the woman who posted the original complaint about the issue a liar and basically wrote the whole movement off. His posts were incredibly condescending and patronizing, which combined with how much he relies on "look at me being inclusive and attracting young, edgy readers" felt gross.

No, actually. If you go back to the original criticism (I'm happy to share links if you want) the criticism was "I read this issue (and the preceding ones) and it confused the hell out of me…it plays on a lot of negative stereotypes about black men, it's not clear if either of them are drunk, which brings up issues of…

It depends, really: most of the time to my knowledge, participation in a cross over is optional to some extent or another. Heavy editorial hands are always an issue, but you also have some writers or artists that aren't willing to work collaboratively because that's not "the way it's done" or whatever. Then you look…