I may come back to this later, but maybe not:

[thebitterguy]

Jack Thomspon: The 21st century Fred Wertham?

Discuss.

Comments

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

No, sadly.

Jack's still breathing.

[fossilapostle.livejournal.com]

I've mentioned it before, but in case you missed it - The only difference I see is that if it were 50 years ago, Thompson would be blaming everything on Batman, instead of pretending that he IS Batman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)#Rap_music).

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Wertham was misguided and incorrect, but I will give him this much: he honestly believed what he wrote.

Jack's just a media whore, and that's what pisses me off about the guy; he might succeed in doing real damage to American freedoms just because he loves the spotlight. Still, getting pwned by Chris Matthews...that had to hurt.

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

He's not allowed to be outraged. Only the cool kids are allowed to be outraged these days.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I don't think Fred was as crazy.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

I have to agree here. Jack Thompson is nasty, crazy and egostical. Wertham didn't seem to share any of those flaws in particular, though he may have had a long lasting negative effect on the comic industry. I don't know that Jack has had any real effect other than wasting tax payer's money and making a fool out of himself.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I agree - I also think that, however narrowly focused as Werthan was, he actually thought he was going to help some parent with a problem kid somewhere.

Thompson is as crazy as a bag of cats in a nylon bag in the showers with you at the Y.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

VIOLENCE! SMUT! DEGRADATION!

A good thing Wertham never lived to see "Ichi the Killer", hm?

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I may have sold my soul totally to the Mythos, but I actually see a Great Old One from "AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" in your icon...

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

....HAHAH! That's the most far-out interpretation of the Genji mon I've seen yet.

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

The thing that disqualifies him from comparison to Wertham: by the end of his life, Dr. Wertham regretted what he had done to comics.

Anyone or any movement that tries to think for people annoys me.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

Shortly after you left yesterday night, the computer I was working on crashed and I totally lost the ALPHA FLIGHT cover, dude.

Not only will ROM have a presence in the FOOM group but I've started scanning the two-part X-Men story from circa #18.

I'm still awash with the glow of MIGHTY MARVEL STRENGTH AND FITNESS BOOK possibility right now.

[thebitterguy]

Crap. Do you guys have a copy in the store?

The X-Men/Hybrid story was my introduction to the UnCanny ones. Well, that and their appearance in Contest of Champions.

Oh, man.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

Well, all is not lost - we don't have a copy( not of Marvel Age #2, that is) - but I have an idea that actually might get us a better version of the image w less text covering the picture - Lemme see what I can do.

And yes, seeing as that X-Men Hybrid Story will never be reprinted anywhere else -Parker Brothers, (and that means, WotC, doesn't it?) have upped their licensing fee for the ROM character - I feel no guilt whatsoever in posting the two of em' up on FOOM - soon, very soon, Sahib.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

It seems there will always be Werthams, Tipper Gores and now this Thompson fool.

My favourite is neocon twit inesh D'Souza (http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/18/where-is-atheism-when-bad-things-happen/) who blames the Virginia Tech massacre on atheism because Richard Dawkins was not invited to speak at Virginia Tech afterward! Go Dinesh!