He feels betrayed and wounded because Marvel has Barack Obama encountering Spider-Man, asserting that plot elements were swiped from Savage Dragon. He states on Comicon.com:
I hear that they’re even doing a story similar to the one I did four years back, where an image-altering villain disguises himself as the President (in my story the Impostor replaced President Bush and took his place for a speech–in theirs the Chameleon, the shape-shifting villain, is going to spoil a speech being given by President-Elect Obama). The whole mess just feels really underhanded. I feel betrayed and, frankly, ripped off and in the real world–the one outside our funnybook bubble–Marvel will spin themselves as these great innovators who came up with this terrific publicity stunt–instead of the thieves they are.
I can totally sympathize. I remember some years back when I had a storyline in which the Hulk had to face the dilemma of giving a friend a blood transfusion in the hopes that it would cure him of AIDS. Imagine my chagrin when, a year or so later, The Savage Dragon had to face the dilemma of giving a friend a blood transfusion in the hopes that it would cure him of AIDS.
Boy, was I pìššëd øff.
PAD
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Alex A Sanchez: “I’m not saying Marvel should have put out a press release saying “ERIK DID IT FIRST”, but someone somewhere behind hind the scenes at one of the comic sites (or anywhere) should have mentioned, “hey- that’s like what Larsen did. It should be fun.””
I’m sorry, but that’s just nuts. Erik did an event issue in the same manner that Marvel and DC have been doing since befor there was an Image and then whined because Marvel did an event issue in that manner.
Erik did nothing “first” here or even second, third or tenth. He did a standard event comic that’s been done for decades. Not only did he do nothing new that got ripped off by Marvel, but I doubt that anyone behind Marvel’s Obama/Spider-Man book even gave his Dragon book a passing thought if they even knew about it at all.
Bill Myers said, “You can’t find an unmoderated Internet board where this kind of crap doesn’t go on all the time.”
Back during the first season of 24, I would sometimes lurk at a board dedicated to that show that seemed to consist of nothing but people sniping at one another. One example that comes to mind: Near the end of the season, someone asked when the season would be out on DVD. Someone else replied along the lines of “after the season is over, jáçkášš.”
Well of course the DVD is going to come out after the season is over. The person was obviously asking how soon afterwards. But the mindset on that board was such that a reasonable question got a snide answer.
On another note, I stopped reading Hulk after PAD finished his run. Was “Professor” a short-hand description of the character by the fans– “you’ve got the savage Hulk, the Joe Fix-It Hulk, the Professor Hulk, the Mary Ann Hulk (sorry, couldn’t resist), etc.”– or did some of the characters refer to that in incarnation in those terms?
Rick
Rick Keating: “Back during the first season of 24, I would sometimes lurk at a board dedicated to that show that seemed to consist of nothing but people sniping at one another. One example that comes to mind: Near the end of the season, someone asked when the season would be out on DVD. Someone else replied along the lines of “after the season is over, jáçkášš.””
IMDB?
Jerry,
No, it was a Delphi Forums board.
Rick
Rick – “The Professor” did become a term used in the comic to describe the version of the Hulk which had led the Pantheon, etc; the merged Hulk. I believe PAD’s problem with these issues is that they claim that the so-called “Professor” Hulk was _not_ in fact the result of integrating the Bruce Banner, gray Hulk/Joe Fixit, and dumb green Hulk personalities into one whole, but was rather just a fourth personality existing alongside those three (and many more, per Jenkins). I can certainly understand PAD’s displeasure at that; even as just a reader of the book, I found that idea, as well as the depiction of the gray Hulk as Banner’s “teenager” personality, to be disappointing/inferior.
Which is a pity, really, as overall Jenkins’ run was really the one which paid the most attention to acknowledging and following up on PAD’s long work on the title.