KingYoda

November 18, 2010 4:25 pm @Camden  Copyright law exists to protect something called intelectual property.  When you commit "copyright law infringement"  you are stealing somebodies intellectual property.  And it is very illegal.

November 18, 2010 1:41 pm

November 18, 2010 12:22 pm I think the amazing thing is that nobody is focussing on the fact that downloading a copyrighted work is illegal.  You can argue until you are blue in the face whether or not stealing books hurts the creator, but the fact you can't dispute is that it is against the law.  We live in an amazing time where people are perfectly content to break the law as long as they think they can justify it.

July 26, 2010 1:03 pm There is an easy solution to your problem:  Become poor.  As a jobless college student, I am restricted to just a few comic book purchases a month.  So when I choose what to buy, I always look for a creator I like, who is writing a character I like.  I know I would enjoy that same creator on a different charcter, but since my selection is limited, why not go for the perfect combination?

March 31, 2010 1:40 pm I just reread Morrison's New X-men run.  Bishop and Sage describe themselves as mutant detctives.  They are called in to solve the murder of Emma Frost.  Personally, I like this aspect of Bishop much more than the never stopping time traveling villian that he plays in the Cable/Hope Summers storyline.

March 17, 2010 1:48 pm @ohcaroline I don' think the problem is with subjective responses.  I think the problem is when people forget the difference between the two.  I just don't like the feeling that I can never say a creative piece is bad.  There are times when I simply don't like someting, but I can see the merit of the piece.  And there are times when I don't like it, and I can critically back up my opinion.

March 17, 2010 2:01 am

I think it is a very confusing line because there are ways to objectivly look at any creative piece and judge it on its own merits.  Reviewers and critics wouldn't exisit if this wasn't the case.  I think the problem is that the Internet gives everyone a voice, even people who aren't qualfied to make objective judgements.  Instead, they just spew subjective reactions to the material, as if they were concrete facts.

The formula for good critism I learned in school was:

1.  Describe a specific aspect of a creative piece

2.  Make a statment containing a positive and negative judgement

3.  Give concrete supporting evidence, describing why that aspect had a positive or negative effect on the viewer's enjoyment or understanding.

I would add a fourth for Internet message boards about engaging in discourse and acknowledging the possibility of disagreement.

June 27, 2009 3:05 am @smeeeeee Greg Rucka addressed that in a recent word ballon podcast.  He said that they made it deliebratly vague so that this story could stand on its own years from know when we've forgot all about the whole battle for the cowl story line.  Essentially he didn't want anyone to say that she hasn't met the "real" batman.

June 27, 2009 2:39 am

First, I want to say that I think it is awesome that an advanced philosophical debate about ethics is happening on a comic book discussion sight.

Second, I wanted to way in on the debate.  I personally believe in an absolute right and wrong.  I believe that every action we make can have a moral judgement made over it.  What I don't believe is that that judgement is always obvious.  I agree that we need more villians that have explaining motivations.  After all, very few people would consider themselves evil.  

 Too me that doesn't mean we as readers can't make judgements about their actions.  For example, I want to find out more about why the Red Skull does what he does.  How does he justify his actions?  This doesn't mean to me that he wouldn't still be a clearly evil character and Captain America a clearly good character. 

 The fun part is that readers may have different interpretaions over what is evil and what isn't.  This can only lead to more fun conversations not only about comics but about ethics.  A topic a personally think isn't talked about enough.

 Finally, I would like to say that I do think their is room for stories with black and white charactes.  They won't be realistic.  But who decided that realism is the only good style of storytelling.  Stories with clear black and white characters to serve as awesome inspirations for the readers to be better people.  I mean, who doesn't wish they were as dedicated as Spiderman or self-sacrficing as Superman.  Stories of good vanquishing evil have been important through out history for inspiring us to be better than we are.

August 2, 2008 4:45 am

My problem with Secret Invasion is that the invasion isn't a secret.  Giant alien warships are invading and little green men are attacking people in the streets.  Sure they have agents hidden among us but they keep reavealing themselves to the heroes like its no big deal.  Jarvis reaveals himself to Maria Hill, Jessica to Tony Stark, etc.  Why didn't they just stay hidden.  Couldn't some other Skrull demand that Maria Hill surrender?  I thought this book would have been more like battlestar galactica.  Slow reveals and sabtaoge.  Key leaders being taken over.  An invasion that the public didn't even notice.

 I am still waiting to see where it goes.  I trust Bendis too much to stop buying.