They Keep Killing Glenn

25 comments on “They Keep Killing Glenn”

1. Sure, throw the “you were paid for” thing in. Grumble grumble mutter mutter….

2. “These are the current means we have of killing Glenn that already are good to go: Drag queen; electricity; comic book boxes; elevator shaft; straight up poison; Sherlock Holmes; defenestration; killed at college; killed at a convention.”

   Hang on, nobody used “big glass of Brandy” yet????

   I may have to write something now.

   1. And here I was thinking, “Low door frame and the resultant head injury.”

3. “(Get help for me. Please. —GH)”
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   There is no help for you, my friend. You knew what you were signing on for YEARS ago.

   1. I was young. I needed the money.

4. “What are the payments? We are looking for stories from 3000 to 5000 words, for which you will get a princely .04 cents a word.”

   Wait…is that right? Four-tenths of a cent per word? Or is that supposed to be four cents per word?

   1. Sorry, that question should have been: Four-hundredths of a cent per word?

   2. No, it’s four cents a word.

      Think of it this way: If you want to write one dollar and four cents in numbers, it would be $1.04. Now drop off the dollar and it’s .04. Four cents.

      PAD

      1. Um, sorry but no. $1.04 is one dollar and four cents. The four cents might be rendered as 0.04 dollars or as 4.0 cents, but not as 0.04 cents. Your a terrific writer, but apparently your math sucks.

      2. I know. I typed ‘your’ when it should have been you’re’. I didn’t catch it in time and (of course) can’t edit the post.

      3. Sorry, Peter, I’m falling squarely on the side of precision here.

         (Though there have been things I’ve done where the $.0004/word pay scale would have been an improvement …)

      4. Four Cents
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         ~8?)`

      5. Guys–I clarified it. This is the part where you stop bìŧçhìņg about it.
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         Thanks.
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         PAD

5. How much knowledge of Glenn is required?

   1. All the organs are in the usual place for stabbing, crushing, removing, etc. And I’m 6’6″, so they’ll be easy to find.

      You can always look at a Wikipedia page for me (yes, there is one).

6. Idea freely given to any paid writer who wishes to stake a claim to it.

   Crushed by a trash compactor while cos-playing a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope

7. “…and you guys came through.”

   Uh, no. A rather large chunk of people were disgusted by your inept handing of your taxes(specifically, your incomprehensible choice to believe that the IRS would FORGET about a 5-figure tax debt), and you had to sell some original art to make up the shortfall.
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   Were you expecting everyone to forget that? Anyway, it begs the question of why you didn’t sell those assets that you obviously had to begin with instead of passing the tin cup around…
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   So Neil, Stephen, and David didn’t respond? That sorta demonstrates your place to you, dontcha think?
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   And speaking of places: “So, we’re moving on to the B-List…” Great way to insult every other writer out there! Are you even aware that you’re doing this? You’d be lucky if any of them even speak to you again…

   1. Wow… I’d call you an absolute dìçk, but that might be a complement in your case.
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      “Uh, no. A rather large chunk of people were disgusted by your inept handing of your taxes(specifically, your incomprehensible choice to believe that the IRS would FORGET about a 5-figure tax debt), and you had to sell some original art to make up the shortfall.”
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      No, as he explained, circumstances beyond his control took away the money he had set aside for the taxes. Then, eventually, the IRS did what it has done to others suddenly wanted the entire thing pronto rather than paying it down. Having seen the IRS do that to others over both larger and smaller debts, the consequences can be ugly. Fans, knowing what the IRS has done and can do, helped out because someone who gave us a lot of good memories in the form of written work and at conventions needed it.
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      “Anyway, it begs the question of why you didn’t sell those assets that you obviously had to begin with instead of passing the tin cup around…”
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      Anyway, it begs the question of how far up your own ášš your head is…
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      “So Neil, Stephen, and David didn’t respond? That sorta demonstrates your place to you, dontcha think?”
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      “And speaking of places: “So, we’re moving on to the B-List…” Great way to insult every other writer out there! Are you even aware that you’re doing this? You’d be lucky if any of them even speak to you again…”
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      You don’t have a lot of friends, do you? You don’t have much of a sense of humor or an understanding of humor when you see it, do you.
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      To anyone not walking around with a huge stick up their backside, that reads like humor. It’s like when a director jokes about how they offered the role to X, Y, Z actors who never really were offered the role and jokes about the guy they got.
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      It’s a common form of joke around such projects. People with senses of humor get that.

8. Not only do they keep killing Glenn, but that’s apparently killing returning to the site after you post. Keep getting this message when I hit the “Submit Comment” button.
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   Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘unknown engine blah blah blah blah blah…

   1. Working on it. (I like to think of it as an insurance policy.)

9. Well, it looks like we WERE supposed to forget about Peter having to sell original art to make up the donation shortfall. Jerry evidently did.
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   And by the way, I seem to recall back in early November or maybe December that Peter proclaimed me shrouded forever. In a since-disemvoweled response, I stated that, based on historical evidence, “forever” tended to last about three months.
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   Jerry just beat that by about half a month.
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   Thanks for proving me right, Jerry! Take a bow, you’ve earned it! Now geddouddahere, ya knucklehead!

   1. No one forgot anything, Jack. I’m well aware of what happened before, during, and after fundraising efforts; probably more so than you.
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      But, dude, it takes a special kind of áššhølë to take a comment from someone acknowledging how much help they were given with an issue and twisting it to attack them with it. Obviously, well, bless your heart, you’re special.
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      “And by the way, I seem to recall back in early November or maybe December that Peter proclaimed me shrouded forever. In a since-disemvoweled response, I stated that, based on historical evidence, “forever” tended to last about three months.
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      “Jerry just beat that by about half a month.”
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      Uhm… You do realize that when Peter says you’re shrouded forever, it means he won’t respond to you. It’s not a blanket command to everyone else who visits the site to ignore the person. Anyone else here can choose to respond to you or not and it means nothing with regards to Peter personally shrouding you permanently.
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      When you have to make up facts about what things actually mean in order to claim you’re right about something, it just makes you look twice as foolish.

10. Well, actually Peter DID remark that he hoped nobody else would respond to me, but I guess that the need to be Peter David’s Bestest Lickspittle Ever trumps that.
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    And if you truly are “well aware” of everything surrounding the bailout(I refuse to dignify it with “fundraising”), then you logically must know that: A)the donations wound up short by at least 10 grand, making the sale of original art necessary; B)therefore he obviously did have those sellable assets to begin with(something you evidently don’t want to address), but made a conscious choice to beg for other people’s money instead, C)he actually admitted “Then the IRS seemed to forget about it, which was great.”, which is such an unimaginably dumb thing for a near-elderly adult to believe that a new word would have to be coined to adequately describe how dumb it is, and D)I am scarcely the first to call Peter out on all these facts. Check out the comments on his GoFundMe page if you don’t believe me(I kinda suspect you have, but got quickly schooled in averting your eyes at them).

    And I haven’t even mentioned Peter publicly throwing his ex-wife under a bus twice during the whole thing, but I doubt you’d have trouble with that regardless. The real world where I prefer to live certainly would, but they’re staying away from “Scarlet Spider” in droves, so whaddatheyknow, huh?

    1. “Well, actually Peter DID remark that he hoped nobody else would respond to me, but I guess that the need to be Peter David’s Bestest Lickspittle Ever trumps that.”
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       Of course, had everyone here chosen to ignore you as Peter has done you would cite his request to others and the absence of responses to you as proof that everyone here are mindless sheep and been insulting about that instead. It’s the interesting (and that may be stretching the word a bit) thing about your particular brand of drooling dementia that was very noticeable a few months back when you went on a posting binge here. There is nothing you will not spin towards the negative, even if it isn’t a negative.
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       “And if you truly are “well aware” of everything surrounding blah blah blah bûllšhìŧ blarney blather…”
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       We could put facts in front of you, but I think it would be about as useful as putting a copy of Allegory of the Cave in front of a monkey and asking for an intelligent review of it by Friday. But, at the very least, I’d say your view of things is a bit skewed and twisted. The overwhelming majority of the comments from back then were supportive ones, and a lot of people were more then happy to help.
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       As for your whole shtick here… You do understand how stupid you look, right? I mean, granted, you don’t come across as intelligent enough to be properly self-aware, but at this point even you have to realize how stupid you look to anyone with a functional brain. Seriously, most people would find your behavior a sign of mental or emotional issues in a 12-year-old, and from your past comments about what you do for a living you left that age behind at least a decade ago.
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       You’ve stated in the past you were never a fan of Peter’s work, and as such you have no interest in discussing his work. You have no apparent interest in participating in any actual discussions about other topics Peter posts about here. All you do is show up, scream, rant, rave, and act like a toddler who has soiled himself and likes throwing his poo at anyone who gets near him. You’re also either unable to tell what a joke is or you’ve decided that you will knowingly take jokes- such as the bit about what writers were approached and that leaving the B Team -and pretending they were both stated seriously and stated with malicious intent in order to have something else to throw your poo about.
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       I’m a fan of John Byrne’s work, but I’ve found the man to be less than someone I want to interact with. You know what I don’t do? I don’t post on his forum. I registered years ago. Hëll, I may still be a registered member for all I know. But I found that I really didn’t want to interact with him so I don’t.
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       I’ve never been a fan of Rob Liefeld. Never liked his artwork. Never liked his, well, writing I suppose is the word for it. Pretty much found most of his public comments make him come across as a total dìçk. Upshot? I have no interest in interacting with him. I leave him alone. I don’t go to his Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram and throw hissy fits and spit venom at him. Frankly, I rarely even talk about him at all. The only time I’ve given any real time to him as a subject at all in the last few years was when I played off of his attempts to insulting minimize Fabian Nicieza’s role in creating and developing Deadpool, and that was largely done to write a piece about the interesting nature of assigning a true creator status to some creations done work for hire in collaborative mediums. Even using him as the springboard for it, I spent the vast majority of it writing about everything but him.
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       I’m not a big fan of Harry Knowles. You won’t find me commenting in the AICN talkbacks; let alone acting like the áššwìpëš who do post there in ways that come across as reminiscent to your postings here.
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       Frankly, most mentally and emotionally healthy and stable people don’t act like you. Most people who don’t have issues do not spend the amount of time you have frothing at the mouth and acting like an ášš just to froth at the mouth and act like an ášš; especially when the reward for doing so is so meager and pathetic. What, you get to whip out your mobile device and show the local neighborhood kids that you’re “feuding” with a professional writer with an established name in fandom? I’m sure it’s impressing the hëll out of the local preteen set.
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       You really do come across as having some serious emotional and mental issues.
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       Look, you made mention before of being around the St. Louis area if I recall correctly. Do yourself and everyone that is put at risk by being around you right now a big favor. Call these numbers and try to get yourself pointed towards the help you so desperately need.
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       Mental Health Resources in St. Louis
       314-773-1399
       314-469-6644
       800-811-4760
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       Years from now, after much therapy and medication, you may even be thankful for being steered towards that help.
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       And with that, I’m done with you here and on this topic. Feel free to have the last few hundred words in your usual way of frothing, venom spitting inanities. Not going to bother reading them or responding to them in this thread any further.

       1. Jerry, I realize that you think it’s a virtue to emulate Peter, but don’t you think whipping yourself into a stroke-inducing frenzy is going a tad too far?
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          In any case, you forgot to say “Obey! Obey!”, your Romani-slurring “Gypsies Gypsies”, and your deathless “Ben Bradlee?”

          And if I wanted to brag to folks about criticizing Peter David, I know exactly what response I’d get: “Peter Who?”

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