^^^
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
he got that grant for doing comics?
― called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
for his ILX posts
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
bill clinton was a rhodes scholar, obama a nobel peace prize winner, no second guessing them either
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Clinton's run on Power Pack was pretty good though
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
I'm neither second-guessing TNC's money-earning choices nor casting stones at his personal decisions: I'm disputing the proposition that WFH done for this company is an unalloyed good.
(A pebble cast, but still far more of a general principle: not knowing who your collaborator on a piece of work will be is also not an augur of untouchable quality in the end result.)
My argument about the HHV covers takes in a two-decade* ongoing history of Marvel corporate literally trying to eradicate the DM, and the repugnant, largely-blackface-ing cooption of dozens of non-comics artists' work in a fashion inherently designed to NOT bring light onto them for an audience, let alone a wider or different audience - countering "this one guy probably liked punchy punch books when he was six" - yes, probably! not disputed! - doesn't actually prove that whatever the results, or the motivation of editors responsible, this PR is a shining symbol of "all good."
* (Heroes World was '94, right? I'm on Zing.)
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
I'm disputing the proposition that WFH done for this company is an unalloyed good.
I'm on your side here, sic, but I'm kind of thinking ilx is not the audience most ignorant of these issues?
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
what he said. I haven't bought anything from marvel in six years.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, literally no-one is seriously making that proposition.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
xp well, except the unlimited package but that falls under my "streaming is evil and i'm accepting that" rubric
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/648972779518357504
dying
― j., Wednesday, 30 September 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, literally no-one is seriously making that proposition
There must have been a display error between the c & p ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
i JUST noticed his GZA/Genius avi lmao
― zoso def (m bison), Thursday, 1 October 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/648973948416335872
*salute emoji*
― TheFatSJW (D-40), Thursday, 1 October 2015 08:44 (eight years ago) link
lol that avatar
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 1 October 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
― zoso def (m bison), Thursday, October 1, 2015 2:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omgg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 October 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
My argument about the HHV covers takes in a two-decade* ongoing history of Marvel corporate literally trying to eradicate the DM
I'm pretty confused on this point - how are those variants helping to "eradicate the DM"? That's pretty much the only way you can get them - B&N and Walmart aren't going to have the hip hop covers. Marvel may have pulled their comics from B&N, there was an issue with them being put out too early or the consigning company (B&N uses a middle-man for comics at least) not paying for the books or something.
It's off topic here but retailers are to blame for stupid variants - if you're bumping your numbers beyond a sellable amount to get a hip hop variant (the thresholds were crazy - 150+% of a previous title IIRC), that's on you. Likewise over-ordering to speculate on variants you can actually sell for a premium (the HHV covers are free to order if you meet the threshold so they won't command a premium). If retailers were smart they'd order the numbers they can move and any variants they qualify for are a bonus, insurance against the titles that flop. After you blame retailers, then it's consumers - they're the ones who want Skottie Young covers of every goddamned title and pay $65 for a J. Scott Campbell variant to see a female character with enormous boobs.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 2 October 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
I think the debate about the corporate comics market was what we were trying to avoid, but does deserve its own thread, especially with multiple ilxors with good data on it.
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 3 October 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
T-NC writing for Marvel definitely a point in the discussion about something or another though
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 3 October 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
Considering that Marvel's previous Voice of Black America is a very white English ex-ILXor, it can't be bad news.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 3 October 2015 08:50 (eight years ago) link
huh what? who
― Nhex, Saturday, 3 October 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
the writer of Mighty Avengers!
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 3 October 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n23/thomas-chatterton-williams/loaded-dice
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 November 2015 11:38 (eight years ago) link
thats a brilliant review. ive not read the book, as i dont particularly care for his brand of martyr-ish afro-pessimism, no matter how 'well' its written (every excerpt i have read seems steeped in a kind of masturbatory grandiloquence), so perhaps my opinion is moot, but ive read enough excerpts, and so far, they just make me think that hes a skilled writer, but not a particularly novel thinker. im not sure he has anything all that fresh to say, that might challenge anyone, black or white, on debates around race. all he seems to do is reinforce the liberal status quo.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
ive read enough excerpts
all he seems to do
ta-nehisis coates is far from unimpeachable, but c'mon
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
i was not talking about everything he has written, just this particular book.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
btw I don't agree or disagree with the review (haven't read the bk or much Coates), just wanted to know what some of the fans here might think of it.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
afro-pessimism
!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
not my term.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
i thought that referred to the continent of africa
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
im not sure he has anything all that fresh to say
did you already forget the part where you said 'pessimism'
― j., Thursday, 26 November 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
can you point it out to me please?
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
coates is open about the fact that he's not saying anything new; that's not his project.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
you calling his writing "masturbatory" is making me deranged-level angry, also, so i think i should step away
― horseshoe, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
like a book about his fears that his son will be shot is him just stroking himself? fuck you
― horseshoe, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
TNC and tressie were insinuating the guy who wrote that LRB review wrote a neg review because his booked got snubbed for same book award TNC won. apparently he wrote a shorter more positive review around the time the book came out. i generally love how TNC goes after his critics and think he does it in a playful and gracious way, but this particular instance was NAGL imo
― flopson, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
its not really a 'negative' review. its more of a questioning review.
@horseshoe, im sorry if my wording was a bit curt perhaps, but i dont think something being a passionate, heated, letter to someone's child (albeit in the very public form of a high profile book meant for eyes other than just the child's) precludes it from being masturbatory or grandiloquent *stylistically*
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
The reaction from Ta-nehisi Coates himself has been to point out this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-black-mans-stark-visceral-experience-of-racism/2015/07/09/68a3fca6-23d7-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html
Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed the book before, he came to a very different conclusion, but he's still kinda plagiarising parts of his own review. Also, if we're saying that Coates doesn't bring anything new to the table, what on earth does Chatterton Williams contribute with?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
perhaps i could say 'likes the sound of his own writerliness' rather than masurbatory, though im not sure how much difference that would make.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
What on earth are you talking about? Every writer likes the sound of his own writerliness, I would really hope, otherwise what's the point? It's a quite low-paying job, the reason you sit around day after day working on the sentences is because few things are as good as getting writing just right.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
And Ta-nehis Coates is such an inspiration. The way he uses metaphors is just awe-inspiring.
Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed the book before, he came to a very different conclusion
that's what i said in my post. they were implying that he changed his conclusion because of some award they were both up for going to coates
― flopson, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
― horseshoe, Thursday, 26 November 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Demanding the new is StillAdvance's 'project'.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
x-post: Yeah I know. Wrote it before I saw your post, decided not to edit. Sorry.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
"Demanding the new is StillAdvance's 'project'."
do you have anything to say of your own other than simply pointing out perceived flaws in other people's opinions?
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
P/amazing to read these two reviews. The work that quote from Baldwin is doing. Although this:
It is hard, perhaps impossible, not to be enraptured by his righteous and — unlike with Baldwin — loveless indignation.
Points to how he can flip from one really positive to another really negative review. Obviously people change their views all the time but this is a strange (to say the least) thing to do and not explain. I wonder if the LRB editors knew of this earlier review?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
StillAdvance - Just pointing out perceived flaws these days.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
that lrb pieces strikes me as thoughtful and serious-minded enough that it deserves a better response than "he's just jealous." it doesnt really matter if he changed his mind or even why (and the earlier review seems to be hedging, in any case).
― ryan, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
i wouldn't say 'masturbatory' and haven't read the book, but he can be stuffy. TNC's writerliest writing reminds me of Aimless posts
― flopson, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
I see the key charge as being that TNC is overly determinist & thus fully committed to a particular idea of victimhood which has its own problems. whether or not a kernel or more of that is in the WP review is not so interesting imo
― ogmor, Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link