It has come to my attention that you are putting out a film called “The Sound of Thunder,” based upon the work of Ray Bradbury.
Ray Bradbury has made a number of public comments and expressed opinions about a variety of topics, including women, that I find personally offensive.
Therefore I want you to know that henceforth I will be boycotting all Warners films and anything having to do with AOL-Time Warner, including: AOL; the entire television line-up of “the WB;” all Warner DVD; Tiny Toons, Animaniacs and all spin-offs; Nickelodeon (since they air “Pinky and the Brain”); Warner Books; and the entire line-up of DC Comics plus anyone who is associated with them, including myself.
Yours in outrage,
Peter David
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So I take it your indignation is so deeply held you’re going to cease writing for DC and/or send back your renumeration from them? If not, your statement is pretty meaningless…
ROFL, Very Funny PAD. But you should have done what that comic poster did and send it to the wrong Movie Studio. Like Paramount or Dreamworks, that would show them!
“So I take it your indignation is so deeply held you’re going to cease writing for DC and/or send back your renumeration from them?”
My renumeration? My God…I’m being renumbered?
I hadn’t heard about this.
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
My renumeration. God, that’s funny.
PAD
Okay I goofed Mister Smartypants…I meant remuneration…
(Shurely shome mishtake…)
“SARCASM: sar
I believe the only possible response to this thread at this point is a hearty “uhhhhh boy.”
That, and “are they really doing ‘The Sound of Thunder’?” ‘Cause that’d be pretty cool if done properly.
The All-New, All-Daring TWL
(now let’s see who remembers what THAT references)
What comments and opinions specifically?
Okay, since it needs to be spelled out, I will spell it out:
For those who think this is serious, please read the thread titled:First Amendment But-heads.
And then read the definition of Sarcasm above.
Should clear things up.
Travis Clark
Heh. And thanks Travis, from those of us too lazy to scroll down.
You’re a very intelligent man, Peter, and a wonderful writer… but you do have a strange habit of getting overannoyed when illogical people do illogical things. Ilogical people have always done illogical things since the beginning of civilization and they will continue to do so until all civilization as we know it crumbles to dust.
So… when an illgocial person writes an illogical letter to Joe Quesada, a movie studio, and advertiser, etc, it makes little sense to get so annoyed… since, I’ve always believed, it’s the logical people who are make up the majority. I like to believe that, anyway. It helps me to sleep better at night.
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
You could get a big stone necklace and everything…
Tim asks:
“That, and “are they really doing ‘The Sound of Thunder’?” ‘Cause that’d be pretty cool if done properly.”
Yes they ARE doing it and no, I don’t think that it looks like they are doing it properly. I could be (and hope that I am) wrong. The trailer didn’t exactly rock my world (then again, neither did the Batman Begins trailer and I still have the highest hopes for that one.).
The actual Sound Of Thunder short story will onlybe a small part of the film–apparently most of it takes place after the end of the story, with the protagonists trying to undo the damage of their dinosaur hunt.
It won’t be worse than the film version of “Nightfall” but few things are.
“Now I sleep!”
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
Oh dear. You’ve been retconned.
I thought you were perfectly fine as you were 🙁 Ðámņëd revisionists…
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
I heard the relaunch is going to have PADed story telling, so I
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
Wait…. it gets better, TRUE BELIEVER!!! In the relaunch, it is revealed that Peter David is actually a blood relative of John Byrne. 😉
Dear Mr. David,
We have received and read your letter of outrage. It is regrettable that you will no longert be forking over your hard-earned money to us simply because you either don’t like our product or the people who produce them, but that is your right to do so. Of course your measely $2.50 per book or free viewing of our tv shows won’t make or break us. We’re still making money hand over fist with all of our other media properties. We won’t even miss you.
Have a nice life,
Yours truly,
The people who make far more money than you do.
Bill,
Yes they ARE doing it and no, I don’t think that it looks like they are doing it properly.
Oh, dear. I’ll have to go find that trailer and see for myself, but that doesn’t bode well.
It won’t be worse than the film version of “Nightfall” but few things are.
Well, double root canals might at least approach…
Fred:
Wait…. it gets better, TRUE BELIEVER!!! In the relaunch, it is revealed that Peter David is actually a blood relative of John Byrne. 😉
I thought it was revealed he was a mutant.
Oh, wait…
TWL
Peter David is being retconned?!?! Let me guess, you regret getting the tattoo and wiping it out of continuity, right?
When I read “A Sound of Thunder” I must have missed the giant lizard-monkeys and sea-monsters that I saw in the trailer.
So which David daughter(s) get retconned to sons to maintain gender balance?
fuwalda: You’re a very intelligent man, Peter, and a wonderful writer… but you do have a strange habit of getting overannoyed when illogical people do illogical things.
Luigi Novi: That’s because there’s no reason to get annoyed at logical things. It is the illogical that invariably tends to irk us, isn’t it?
Man, the Warner Brothers themselves could publicly insult my entire family and our dog and it wouldn’t stop me from watching Freakazoid.
Oh yeah, and when you get relaunched, can I be your spunky teen sidekick?
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
And you know what the first stuff they’re going to retcon out is. “We’re going to have to streamline his resume to make him more accessible to new readers. That’s right, in the new continuity, Peter David no longer wrote Supergirl, Young Justice, Capt. Marvel, Fallen Angel, Space Cases and many other things. The only things listed will be his runs on Hulk, Spider-Man, Aquaman and X-Factor because those are more likely to be known by the mainstream public.” It always stinks when they cut out some of the really good stuff for no reason.
also luanching at the same time, Ultimate Peter David. A gritty new story line setting Peter in the modern world as a writer just starting out and looking for work. Also don’t froget to pick up all the Peter David monthly titles, Amazing Peter David, Uncanny Peter David, Web (Site) of Peter David, Peter David Team-up, Peter X, Pete’s gal pal Kath, and the new MAX book Faleen Peter. All now featureing more ads, lower page counts and a higher cover price. enjoy!
Good Lord, my spelling sucks
Jeff wrote:
the new MAX book Fallen Peter
[snort]
Yeah, that’d be a MAX book in more ways than one. I’ll thank you not to bring that title up again while I’m taking a drink — the spit-take was more than a bit messy.
TWL
“also luanching at the same time, Ultimate Peter David. A gritty new story line setting Peter in the modern world as a writer just starting out and looking for work.”
To update his career to be relevant to the modern times, Ultimate Peter David will get his first shot at writing comics because he is a big name Hollywood director. 😉
“Forty seven years of Peter David is enough. Beginning this September…we’re starting Peter over with a new number one! Yes, it’s “Peter David #1! New adventures! A new look! More hair! Less weight! Order him now!”
Does this mean a new wife and children too?
And Nick airs “Pinky and the Brain”? When? What time??
Re: Renumeration
Oh Lord, don’t start with the renumbering. I hit 40 in about a week, and I’m petrified my wife will change me for two 20 year olds…
>>Jeff wrote:
>>the new MAX book Fallen Peter
>[snort]
>Yeah, that’d be a MAX book in more ways than one. I’ll thank you not to bring that title up again while I’m taking a drink — the spit-take was more than a bit messy.
TWL
And, in turn, I’ll thank you not to bring up spit-take as any part of a reply involving the tern “fallen peter”. *shiver*
Important news:
Big crossover this month between Peter David team up, and the uncanny X-Claremont. Also in Amazing Peter David one of those formulaic Misunderstood hero fights between Peter and the Mcfarlane! See you in thirty true believers!
Very Funny, Mister David!
In all seriousness, Peter– I don’t know about you… but I have BOYCOTTED the ENTIRE WB Network since the last episode of ANGEL.
I wasn’t even thinking of boycotting the network (even though I was plenty upset over ANGEL’s cancellation)… Until the disingenuous “Thank You” blurb appeared at the end of the Series Finale. That little chestnut made me decide to start my WB Network boycott immediately.
I won’t put up with such a childish and callous disregard for my loyalty, time and patronage.
It’s weird how the boycott mentality has bled over to my consumption of other WB product as well. I suddenly found myself disinterested in HARRY POTTER’s latest film. My lackadaisical feelings toward Warner Bros. (and the god-awful reviews) made it very EASY to miss CATWOMAN.
In fact, the only WB-related product I’ve purchased recently was your FALLEN ANGEL TPB.
And It hasn’t even been a conscious overall WB product boycott… It just sort of happened. I soured on their network and now– with everything that’s out there vying for my attention– I’ve found it EXTREMELY EASY to pass on the rest of Warner Bros. output.
So, while the WB Network boycott was part of your joke… I find myself curiously living it.
I just wonder if I am the only person who still finds themselves feeling this strongly about the WB Network’s ignoble treatment of the innocent and loyal fans of one of their canceled TV shows?
Nickelodian is airing Pinky and the Brain? Since when?
Sorry to drag this thread up from the dead, but I found this when browsing through the latest Wizard (It’s on p150, in the lookback section, which puts PAD as the top creator in October 1994.
“Meanwhile David has announed he is personally boycotting all things AOL-Time-Warner. Despite writing Fallen Angel.”
At least they mentioned Fallen Angel, eh?
Sorry to drag this thread up from the dead, but I found this when browsing through the latest Wizard (It’s on p150, in the lookback section, which puts PAD as the top creator in October 1994.
“Meanwhile David has announed he is personally boycotting all things AOL-Time-Warner. Despite writing Fallen Angel.”
At least they mentioned Fallen Angel, eh?
i am doing a project at skool called a sound of thunder and have read the book myself i have enjoyed reading the book but did not find the film as intresting