My problem is posters who assume they can speak for the entire readership and that if their taste in comic books isn’t reflected by the general population, it should be, because their judgment is clearly superior, and the rest of us should all obey our betters.

My problem is a bunch of pissy little whiners who make a big thing out my comment.
I just found it odd that there’s a post about what I’d assumed would be a pretty obscure book most people wouldn’t be reading.
I’ve never read Chris Ware and I don’t like Daniel Clowes much, but that still doesn’t mean I have any interest in something like Sinestro Wars.

Sudenim–Thanks for saying that for me!

It looks like enough people bought, read and / or enjoyed the issue to make the point. Geek snobbery just doesn’t get any mileage with me.

Reverse snobbery does even less for me.

Grow up kids, Joe just made an innocuous comment.

And I use “we” because the post I’m responding to referred to a group of people. I’m just following the context of the conversation, people. So, sorry, but what you might like to imagine I’m thinking happens to be completely separate from reality. Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the truest.

You misread me in another way, too. I’m not implying that everyone who doesn’t read the big mainstream to-do has great taste. I’m stating, quite plainly, that people who avoid that kind of garbage aren’t missing out on anything by doing so.

Just in case it really bothers anyone, I’ll switch to first-person, here. I’m not jealous of you. I don’t want to be like you. I’m very content with my habits and behaviors, here.

See, no claims to humility.

There is absolutely nothing insulting or gut-bustingly hilarious about that.

Hope those of you who are better than this “terrible shit” enjoy the view from your high horse while the rest of us have a good time.

This is my favorite low-brow defense. You don’t get it. That terrible shit is not fun for us. Even if we went slumming and started reading all these comics that people get so defensive about, we still wouldn’t enjoy them.

So, it’s not like you have something over us. Just a bigger collection of disposable entertainment. We’re having a great time up here reading Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes.

We’re not looking down on you. We don’t care what’s down there. It’s all getting buried under our dust while we gallop on ahead.

My problem is posters who assume they can speak for the entire readership and that if their taste in comic books isn’t reflected by the general population, it should be, because their judgment is clearly superior, and the rest of us should all obey our betters.

You’ve certainly got a hell of a complex, there.

Your first point (in your first paragraph) is well taken. I disagree personally, based on my own standards, because there are plenty of kinds of art/entertainment I consume (books, films, music, live theater, etc.) that aren’t perfect. If I held up a standard of perfection (judged from my own vantage point of course), I wouldn’t have much to see/hear/read. I’d also be a pretty cranky person, considering humans aren’t perfect. I realize you didn’t mention the notion of “perfection,” but that’s what I was getting at when I suggested that the comic was “only slightly irksome.” There were a few things I’d've done differently, and that’s why it’s not great, but it was good enough for me to enjoy and to recommend to anyone looking for this kind of thing. Let’s face it, nobody bought the “Superman Prime” one-shot thinking they were going to read “The Three Paradoxes” or “Fun Home” or something.

But in your second graph, you go ahead and make a value judgment about something you haven’t even read. That’s the problem I have with that perspective; it seems sophomoric to me. Just because I don’t generally like, say cop movies or country music doesn’t mean I’ve never enjoyed a particular cop movie or an individual country tune. You’re not a fan of this style of comics? Good for you. But instead of insisting that any specific example — something you’ve never read (watched, heard, etc.) of a genre you don’t enjoy — is ipso facto bad (or “genuinely awful” or “terrible shit”), why not just say, “That doesn’t interest me”? That’s a much more defensible position — really, who’s going to argue with that? The alternative is, you appear haughty or jerky or both.

It sounds to me like something you’d ask your butcher for half a pound of.

I haven’t read the book and have no plans to, but I saw a kid reading it while we were waiting for Stephen Colbert at Barnes and Noble. It looked pretty genuinely awful. Folks, don’t get upset when people insult things you like. I know it’s a natural, gut reaction, but it’s irrational. I think these comics are terrible shit, yes. But I do not think you are.

So now DC can’t have a Superboy show up in their comics/licensed products without paying up. It’s also why the new Legion cartoon features a young SuperMAN instead of Superboy-same dynamic as having Superboy without directly calling him that.

I’m sure someone out there can clarify and fill in my fuzzy memory.

It looks like enough people bought, read and / or enjoyed the issue to make the point. Geek snobbery just doesn’t get any mileage with me.