Originally published March 30, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1428
There are always excuses for theft. Always. In fact, let’s trot some of them out, shall we?
Month: August 2014
Seriously, dictionary? SERIOUSLY?
According to an article here, dictionaries are now listing “literally” as meaning the same thing as “figuratively” because of its common usage.
So let me understand this: There’s no point in trying to settle wagers anymore over what words mean by consulting the dictionary, because the dictionary is going to list meanings even if they’re wrong.
I’m sorry, I thought that dictionaries were supposed to be bastions of correct word usage, not simply recordings of things that people are too ignorant to use correctly.
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BID Mailbag: Marvel’s Slashback program (continued)
Originally published March 23, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1427
Before we continue with retailer feedback regarding Marvel’s (possibly aborted) Slashback program, this just in:
Dan DeCarlo, creator–let me repeat that word, creator–of “Josie and the Pussycats,” soon to be a film for which he’ll likely get nothing, has been hospitalized with triple pneumonia. I never even heard of triple pneumonia before this.
One of Dan’s close friends opined, “I can’t help but think all the stress of the Archie business has helped weaken him.”
Hear that, Archie guys? You may have helped put an old man in the hospital, rather than give him a share of the money you’ve got coming in off his creation. Feeling proud? Feeling tough? Pat yourselves on the backs, blackball an employee of nearly half a century, and call it time well spent. Typical day at the offices of those fun providers of harmless Riverdale antics.
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With the above example in this column of how a publisher has managed to endear itself to its public, let’s move on to Marvel and its ongoing love affair/dance of death with comic book retailers.
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BID Mailbag: Marvel’s Slashback program
Originally published March 16, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1426
Well, we’ve been discussing Marvel a bit here at BID (what with this being, y’know, a newspaper about comics, so I figured I should do it on occasion just to keep my hand in). I should mention, by the way, that artist Michael Collins came up with what I think is a perfectly nifty name for the Marvel Silent Month. Ready? “Nuff Said Month.” So there it is.
I also tossed out a question to retailers, soliciting feedback over Marvel’s apparently abortive attempt to introduce what they called Marvel’s Slashback Month.
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