Day: January 16, 2009

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

It’s not enough that the valiant pilot who is becoming known throughout New York as “Sully” (since it’s easier to remember than his full last name) landed what was effectively nothing more than a minivan with wings smoothly on the Hudson. What really blows me away is that he walked the length of the sinking plane TWICE to make sure that every single passenger was out.

Meanwhile, the question that no one seems to be asking

Were the geese who flew into the plane, in fact, terrorist geese? Trained by Osama bin Laden? Kind of like “Day of the Dolphin” but with poultry?

I expect a congressional investigation into this fowl business immediately.

PAD