The good folk at Alert Nerd challenged the comics blogosphere to talk about their Scott and Jean a couple of weeks ago…and everyone was supposed to talk about it yesterday. And there were a lot – a lot! – of great posts.
Partly because I kind of forgot, but partly because I don’t think I have a Scott and Jean. I don’t have something sacred that I just can’t discuss rationally.
I mean, you didn’t like the ending of BSG? Your prerogative, even if it means you’re wrong.
You didn’t like OMD? Me either. But the stuff that’s come after it is the best that Spider-Man has been in ten years, if not more.
You hate that Clark and Lois got married? Well, you’re a moron that can’t accept change and wants everything to be like it was when you were a kid, but I guess I can’t stop you from bitching.

You don’t like Star Trek Deep Space Nine, you don’t get that it’s the best that Star Trek ever was? Fine, your loss.
You hate that Cordelia and Conner slept together? Me too, but I’m not going to get worked up about it.
You think that Dr Pulaski was better than Dr Crusher? Okay, you’re kind of weird – but she did have a certain Bones-esque quality to her.
You’re going to cry and whine about how George Lucas raped your childhood with the last Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies? Grow up, asshole, nobody made you watch them.
You hate what DC editorial did to Cassandra Cain? Me too – but it was more the execution than the edict.
So maybe I don’t have a sacred cow. Maybe I’ve just come around to accepting change. Maybe I know that eventually, everything in comics gets reversed, and different people read or see things differently so there are always going to be differences of opinion. I’m not going to get worked up about that.
So. No Scott and Jean for me.
Unless…
..unless you’re going to say something against New Warriors.

Because if you’re going to diss on the original New Warriors under Fabian Nicieza, if you’re not going to see that at the very least the first two years are as close to a perfect super-hero book as you’re going to get…
In fact if you’re going to take shots at anything in those first four or five years of their book…

…yep, even Night Thrasher on his stupid-ass skateboard..
…you do that and it is on.












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