a really nice guy, apparently. I had a big online trollfest with Waid a while back, and as a result I’ve noticed his name more thoroughly when it pops up online. And as a result I’ve been forced to notice that he seems to be one of the more friendly people in the industry, especially as regards new creators. He wrote a forward for a book of advice for young creators edited by a long lost friend of mine (Brian Saner-Lamkin), for one thing. And in the Brian K. Vaughn interview in TCj, Vaughn spends a paragraph or so talking about how great Waid was to him when he was starting in the industry (can’t find the exact quote right now, but it’s in there somewhere.)
So there you go. Put this together with the Kim Deitch incident and one starts to wonder if one will ever regain the moral high ground…. Maybe I should go after John Byrne?
Totally screwed up my first post. I meant to say that, if you need an online nemesis, Brian Michael Bendis always seems up for a feud.
Yes…but can you promise me that if I attack him, it won’t turn out that he gives 90% of his income to the battle against rickets? That’s what I’m worried about, here….
From reading her and there, I gather that Mark Waid is kind of a grouch but channels his bad temper into righteous displays of anger on behalf of friends.
All you have to do is leverage your high ground with unassailably moral acts. I can recommend some third-world orphanages.
Plus you’ll get to weigh in with, “Oh yeah? Well, when malaria crumpled my body…” blah blah Hulk blah.
Speaking of reading her, Waid can counter with tales of tutoring the tat-mottled vixens of LA Ink, so maybe it’s still a draw.
Alliteration: it worked for the Anglo-Saxons.