I got another comment on my post dissing on C&C. This one isn't nearly as awesome as the first, and my response is kinda dry, but with the Olympics and all, I'm a bit strapped for blog ideas.

For the whole event.

The comments were too beautiful to pass up, so I've made a post over at goddOS to answer them. Looky, looky!

I don't really expect many comments over at goddOS.net. Except when I link it from here, I'm not sure if anyone outside of a small group of friends actually reads it. Still, on occasion there's probably the chance that someone will run across it.

Apparently that happened with my Rock Band review, which I did back in January.

I'm not going to process the comments there, but they're too good to pass up entirely. So for anyone's viewing pleasure:

Ok... so, what I just read... was that a review? It seemed more like an attack. It also seems to me that you must spend a little too much time sitting at your computer or playing that beloved RB (it is awesome, I'll admit it). Coheed and Cambria are a hugely succesfull band, not just in album sales (over 1.5 million stateside alone) but as a live act as well, selling out venues of sizes ranging from mid-size clubs to arenas and amphitheaters. While I'm not the biggest fan of the band (I enjoy the music and story, even Claudio's vocals... just not a big punk/metal guy) I have to give credit and respect where it's due.

Now my question to you is exactly where the fuck do you get off bashing a band you've never listened to outside of one song on a video game and their comics, which you've never read. I imagine you to be a fat, slobby, loser of a guy. I would have been put off by reading this sort of review of anything. To keep it short, shut your fucking mouth if you don't know what you're talking about. Or just shut your fucking mouth... you'll catch flies. Arrogant piece of shit.

If that's not good enough, nine minutes later he submits ANOTHER comment:

Oh and p.s.... I just looked up the numbers... the first five issues of The Amory Wars (which I haven't read either, I'll be honest) have sold over 700,000 copies since their beginnings last year and have been released as a trade paperback graphic novel. The first issue of Volume II is due to come out this week and Hot Topic (that shitty little store in everyone's mall) has taken 138,000 pre-orders since June.

My point is... these guys are highly successful and talented, obviously. You blog about comics and movies. You talk about the self-injection story line or whatever you called it with such disdain as if you yourself were not suffering from some pretty serious delusions of grandure. Arrogant piece of shit.

Heh. I feel vindicated, somehow.

Edit: Because I'm curious about this, I checked into some numbers. I'll grant that there's a lot of problems in tracking comics sales, especially if it's showing up in a non-DM, non-bookstore location like Hot Topic, but I really doubt that the comics have topped 700k for the five issue first series. That would be pushing Big-Two Event Comics numbers. From what I can tell, the trade of the first series had a respectable (but not spectacular) 2500 in its first month. And the first issue of the second series had a respectable (but not spectacular) 10000 issues sold. Even if there's an untapped market that isn't tracked that way, I'd doubt you would even triple those numbers.

In any case, thank you... Brent C. for this amusing little moment before I go to bed.

Been a bit of a downtime, but I've got a new blog post up here where I rant about the state of comic events.

Overall, I feel pretty good about it, but it falls apart a bit near the end. Probably the upshot of writing over the course of about four days.

I've got a couple more posts I'm trying to work out. Hopefully I can do a bit better than one in the next seven weeks.

I talk about both deserved and undeserved awards.

I've also been thinking about trying to learn a bit of coding. I've got some ideas that I'd like to do with Flash. Unfortunately, I'm many, many years from doing anything but the most basic HTML, so I'm a bit at a loss for where to start.

I'd do what I did many years back, and bug people for information, but most people I know who do programming or whatnot are busier than I am.

That and most programmers I know cry when they think about ActionScript.

Sometimes I wish I'd stuck to computer science rather than going into history. I wonder if I could go back to school.

Also this amuses me.

It's a bit messy, but I've gone and wandered about my head on comics continuity here.