Thanks for interrupting New Warriors #2 with a close up to Madeleine McCann's face

[King Of Fakeposts]

We get it, she's missing.It's horrible and sad and I hope she's found and everybody can be happy again. But this is getting fucking ridiculous though, not to mention really really jarring when I'm reading about the return of Jubilee only to be socked in the stomach by the GIGANTIC CLOSE UP OF A MISSING KID TURNED MEDIA CELEBRITY.


That is all.

[Ben]

Wow.


Oh, and thanks for the spoiler.........

[Albert]

Spoilers!

[Howlett]

*waits for this to end well*

*holds breath*

*passes out*

[Brad N.]

Damn, I kinda figured that's what happened but since I won't have my books until tomorrow I didn't know that for sure. I just skimmed by the post and saw the words and, well, damn. Oh well, I'm not one to usually bitch about spoilers man, but you might want to edit and leave some space or wrap spoiler tages around the last part of the post.

[King Of Fakeposts]

How any of you can agree that it is appropriate right before a reveal in a comic book is beyond me.

[Foolish Mortal]

*waits for this to end well*

*holds breath*

*passes out*
You fail at holding your breath!

And yes, this will not end well..

[Brad N.]

How any of you can agree that it is appropriate right before a reveal in a comic book is beyond me.

so there was a picture of her in the issue or was this on TV?

[Ben]

How any of you can agree that it is appropriate right before a reveal in a comic book is beyond me.How you can think it's appropriate to spoil a comic book plot point in the middle of complaining about efforts to rescue a lost child is beyond me.

[Howlett]

How any of you can agree that it is appropriate right before a reveal in a comic book is beyond me.

Yeah, how dare they put something about a 3 year old kid being missing right at a point where people wouldn't skim over it, but as an result, meant you had to turn one whole extra page for the BIG REVEAL!!!

Yeah, I'm sure they were really giving much thought to "Shouldn't we put THIS page first? Or maybe THIS page" and not "Y'know, if we put it here, people will definitely see it and maybe, just maybe, someone who knows something will be one of them" :?

A three year old girl has been abducted, and last it was thought, was quite probably snatched by a ring of international child abductors who then sell the kids to the makers of child pornography. Show some bloody compassion and turn that extra page to get your big reveal without getting uppity about "OMG, teh effort of turning the paaaage" :?

[King Of Fakeposts]

In the middle of the issue there's a gigantic close up to her face with the whole SAVE MADDIE thing. It scared the shit out of me.

[Ben]

In the middle of the issue there's a gigantic close up to her face with the whole SAVE MADDIE thing. It scared the shit out of me.Don't hold the comic so close to your face.

[King Of Fakeposts]

Yeah, how dare they put something about a 3 year old kid being missing right at a point where people wouldn't skim over it, but as an result, meant you had to turn one whole extra page for the BIG REVEAL!!!

Yeah, I'm sure they were really giving much thought to "Shouldn't we put THIS page first? Or maybe THIS page" and not "Y'know, if we put it here, people will definitely see it and maybe, just maybe, someone who knows something will be one of them" :?

A three year old girl has been abducted, and last it was thought, was quite probably snatched by a ring of international child abductors who then sell the kids to the makers of child pornography. Show some bloody compassion and turn that extra page to get your big reveal without getting uppity about "OMG, teh effort of turning the paaaage" :?

Thousands of kids go missing all the time, when the world cares about one so much that they ignore the others, that's where my problems begin. She's the patron saint of the rich cute white kid getting the overblown press.

It's overkill. Why don't Richard Bransen and JK Rowling and anyone else in the world make an attempt to save multiple kids instead of just one, eh?

But as usual on these boards as of the past few weeks, knee-jerk reactions of shock and horror instead of actually thinking things through. Emotion shouldn't cloud logic, it doesn't belong in a comic book, plain and simple.

I wish the best for the McCanns, but im not going to have my life bombarded with this, which it is. I cant turn on a TV or go to a website or anything without the "OH NO MADDIE" stuff. Fuck the other little kids though, right? We gotta all get together and save Maddie!

[Foolish Mortal]

Yeah, how dare they put something about a 3 year old kid being missing right at a point where people wouldn't skim over it, but as an result, meant you had to turn one whole extra page for the BIG REVEAL!!!

Yeah, I'm sure they were really giving much thought to "Shouldn't we put THIS page first? Or maybe THIS page" and not "Y'know, if we put it here, people will definitely see it and maybe, just maybe, someone who knows something will be one of them" :?

A three year old girl has been abducted, and last it was thought, was quite probably snatched by a ring of international child abductors who then sell the kids to the makers of child pornography. Show some bloody compassion and turn that extra page to get your big reveal without getting uppity about "OMG, teh effort of turning the paaaage" :?
I agree with everything you typed there.




But you still fail at holding your breath.

[Ben]

Word of advice - don't visit Millar's board.

[Matt O'Keefe]

Yeah, how dare they put something about a 3 year old kid being missing right at a point where people wouldn't skim over it, but as an result, meant you had to turn one whole extra page for the BIG REVEAL!!!

Yeah, I'm sure they were really giving much thought to "Shouldn't we put THIS page first? Or maybe THIS page" and not "Y'know, if we put it here, people will definitely see it and maybe, just maybe, someone who knows something will be one of them" :?

A three year old girl has been abducted, and last it was thought, was quite probably snatched by a ring of international child abductors who then sell the kids to the makers of child pornography. Show some bloody compassion and turn that extra page to get your big reveal without getting uppity about "OMG, teh effort of turning the paaaage" :?

Bravo.


And in case you don't know, they purposely put those kind of pages on the left side so that you won't spoil it for yourself by wandering over to the right page. And I thought I had gotten numb to complaints about ads, but I was just proved wrong.

[King Of Fakeposts]

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[King Of Fakeposts]

We get it, she's missing.It's horrible and sad and I hope she's found and everybody can be happy again. But this is getting fucking ridiculous though, not to mention really really jarring when I'm reading about the return of Jubilee only to be socked in the stomach by the GIGANTIC CLOSE UP OF A MISSING KID TURNED MEDIA CELEBRITY.


That is all.
This was the OP, I said I wished the best for McCann but it was inappropriate for being stapled all over the media. but reactionaries like Ben interpreted as "fuck madeleine haha i hope she dies" or some heartless bullshit

Quit being idiots and actually read.

[Howlett]

Thousands of kids go missing all the time, when the world cares about one so much that they ignore the others, that's where my problems begin. She's the patron saint of the rich cute white kid getting the overblown press.

It's overkill. Why don't Richard Bransen and JK Rowling and anyone else in the world make an attempt to save multiple kids instead of just one, eh?

Aaah, I get it. So you wouldn't have minded if it was a kid from a poorer family. Riiiiiiiight, gotcha. Well in that case, since the eyes of the industry apparently read this board, I'll help out and say...

... Keep up with the adverts. Print 'em twice even. Print 'em in the trades too. Because a 3 year old child who might possibly, at the time, be being subjected to christ knows what by truly sick people, is missing. And this could help. Well done on this ad campaign, and I hope you keep it up until she's found.

Who she comes from is fucking irrelevant man. She's 3 years old. Show a bit of class. If it bothers you, at least have the compassion to not bitch about having to see something that might save this girl an unimaginable amount of torment, or worse. If it makes you feel any better, something like this could actually go some way to making a bigger impact on the search for other missing children. If you showed some support, maybe... just MAYBE things would improve.

[Chris McCarver]

I didn't even know about this girl until this thread.

[King Of Fakeposts]

Aaah, I get it. So you wouldn't have minded if it was a kid from a poorer family. Riiiiiiiight, gotcha. Well in that case, since the eyes of the industry apparently read this board, I'll help out and say...

... Keep up with the adverts. Print 'em twice even. Print 'em in the trades too. Because a 3 year old child who might possibly, at the time, be being subjected to christ knows what by truly sick people, is missing. And this could help. Well done on this ad campaign, and I hope you keep it up until she's found.

Who she comes from is fucking irrelevant man. She's 3 years old. Show a bit of class. If it bothers you, at least have the compassion to not bitch about having to see something that might save this girl an unimaginable amount of torment, or worse. If it makes you feel any better, something like this could actually go some way to making a bigger impact on the search for other missing children. If you showed some support, maybe... just MAYBE things would improve.

What is relevant is how many other 3 year olds get completely ignored by the media for not being cute and rich.

[Mylazycat]

Thousands of kids go missing all the time, when the world cares about one so much that they ignore the others, that's where my problems begin. She's the patron saint of the rich cute white kid getting the overblown press.

It's overkill. Why don't Richard Bransen and JK Rowling and anyone else in the world make an attempt to save multiple kids instead of just one, eh?

But as usual on these boards as of the past few weeks, knee-jerk reactions of shock and horror instead of actually thinking things through. Emotion shouldn't cloud logic, it doesn't belong in a comic book, plain and simple.

I wish the best for the McCanns, but im not going to have my life bombarded with this, which it is. I cant turn on a TV or go to a website or anything without the "OH NO MADDIE" stuff. Fuck the other little kids though, right? We gotta all get together and save Maddie!

Really, I hope as a parent or any sort or relation you're never in this situation. If you were, well, suddenly that "one kid" would mean everything to you and I highly doubt you'd give a shit that efforts to help find said kid may irk a fanboy in Iowa.

[Maestro]

Jubilee is a Skrull

[Brad N.]

This was the OP, I said I wished the best for McCann but it was inappropriate for being stapled all over the media. but reactionaries like Ben interpreted as "fuck madeleine haha i hope she dies" or some heartless bullshit

Quit being idiots and actually read.


1) I think much of the intial "knee-jerk reaction" stuff came from the fact that you spoiled a major reveal in a comic most of us hadn't read yet.

2) I don't think anyone took your post as a fuck you to the kid and I think you need to turn up your sarcasm detector.

[Matt O'Keefe]

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Heh...... nice editing.

If that second point you were talking about was how it doesn't belong in a comic book, what exactly does? Should we get rid of the anti-drug campaigns too?

[King Of Fakeposts]

Let me restate, there's looking for your kid, and then there's being media whores. If the McCanns didnt make multi-million dollar deals with Virgin Enterprises and J.k. Rowling after irresponsibly leaving their kid alone in a hotel room in Portugal late at night, then maybe i'd have more sympathy for the advertising bombardment.

[Ben]

What is relevant is how many other 3 year olds get completely ignored by the media for not being cute and rich.That's not an argument against putting efforts toward rescuing the "cute" and "rich" kids. What you're suggesting is that there be MORE lost kid ads in comics. I think it's a great idea!

[King Of Fakeposts]

That's not an argument against putting efforts toward rescuing the "cute" and "rich" kids. What you're suggesting is that there be MORE lost kid ads in comics. I think it's a great idea!

Or you know, one foundation that caters to thousands of lost kids.

[Ben]

Let me restate, there's looking for your kid, and then there's being media whores. If the McCanns didnt make multi-million dollar deals with Virgin Enterprises and J.k. Rowling after irresponsibly leaving their kid alone in a hotel room in Portugal late at night, then maybe i'd have more sympathy for the advertising bombardment.Now the truth. So you're really not annoyed at the placement of the ad within the comic. You're mad that these ads exist at all for this kid. Am I wrong?

[Howlett]

But as usual on these boards as of the past few weeks, knee-jerk reactions of shock and horror instead of actually thinking things through. Emotion shouldn't cloud logic, it doesn't belong in a comic book, plain and simple.

I wish the best for the McCanns, but im not going to have my life bombarded with this, which it is. I cant turn on a TV or go to a website or anything without the "OH NO MADDIE" stuff. Fuck the other little kids though, right? We gotta all get together and save Maddie!

Well I'm fucking glad that if I ever have a child, and he/ she goes missing, I'm truly fucking ELATED that you will have absolutely no bloody say in what gets shown where and at what time. A message about information about a missing child belongs WHEREVER someone, ANYONE, can see it.

And obviously, you don't wish them the best. Seeing as how you seem to want to limit the amount of time the story of their missing 3 YEAR OLD is, or where they can let people know.

If it's a choice between showing some emotion, or using your particular brand of logic, I think I'll stick to emotion. My life will be better for knowing people might actually help a child over who the hell joins a superhero team in a comic.

[King Of Fakeposts]

Should we get rid of the anti-drug campaigns too?

yes.

[Mylazycat]

What is relevant is how many other 3 year olds get completely ignored by the media for not being cute and rich.


So any missing kid who happens to be cute and rich, we should just say fuck 'em and let child molesters have their way with them? Because everyone knows cute and rich kids are not as loved as less attractive kids from poor families.

[Ben]

Or you know, one foundation that caters to thousands of lost kids.I get a mailer with a photo of a lost kid in my mail everyday.

[Ben]

yes.What about all PSAs?

[King Of Fakeposts]

Now the truth. So you're really not annoyed at the placement of the ad within the comic. You're mad that these ads exist at all for this kid. Am I wrong?

I'm mad that Marvel jumped on the obnoxious bandwagon to freak me out in New Warriors, yeah. I'm mad that instead of looking for the kid, the McCanns are taking in millions of dollars in deals and sponsors and then doing nothing with it but putting ads everywhere when they could do so much more then sit on their ass and whine to the public with their media clout. It's offensive and it completely shits all over the cause of missing children, yes.

[King Of Fakeposts]

What about all PSAs?

I firmly believe PSAs are a waste of tax payers money, yes.

[Mylazycat]

I'm mad that instead of looking for the kid, the McCanns are taking in millions of dollars in deals and sponsors and then doing nothing with it but putting ads everywhere.

So, you're upset that the McCanns are using the money they're taking in to...put out ads to try to find their kid?

:surrend:

[YC Comics!]

wow, talk about really really disappointing.

You're pissed that you're comic book about fictional characters who aren't real, and who don't have any effect on the real world was interrupted by a "help save an innocent little kid who's missing" ad/thing/whatever it is?

Dude, seriously, it's really sad that you are actually mad that someone is doing all they can to try and find a loved one, and that it somehow ruined the five minutes that you spent reading a comic book...........

Put things in persepctive.

[King Of Fakeposts]

wow, talk about really really disappointing.

You're pissed that you're comic book about fictional characters who aren't real, and who don't have any effect on the real world was interrupted by a "help save an innocent little kid who's missing" ad/thing/whatever it is?

Dude, seriously, it's really sad that you are actually mad that someone is doing all they can to try and find a loved one, and that it somehow ruined the five minutes that you spent reading a comic book...........

Put things in persepctive.

Read the damn thread. That's not my point.

[Ben]

If I were you, I'd ask the mods to delete this thread.

[YC Comics!]

not to mention really really jarring when I'm reading about the return of Jubilee only to be socked in the stomach by the GIGANTIC CLOSE UP OF A MISSING KID TURNED MEDIA CELEBRITY.


oh, poor you, the return of character x was ruined! Come on! I read the thread, I agree with the delete thread suggestions.

[King Of Fakeposts]

So, you're upset that the McCanns are using the money they're taking in to...put out ads to try to find their kid?

:surrend:

They're not doing enough with their millions and millions theyve cashed in on their kid's disappearance

Or you know, you could just buy some missing girl merchandise. :roll:

http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/cart/
http://search.ebay.co.uk/madeleine-mccann

[Mylazycat]

This is the point, it seems:


I'm mad that instead of looking for the kid, the McCanns are taking in millions of dollars in deals and sponsors and then doing nothing with it but putting ads everywhere when they could do so much more then sit on their ass and whine to the public with their media clout.

He personally knows what the McCanns do day to day and have found out that they are not in constant pain and sorrow over their 3 year old's disapearance, but instead are taking in the money, having a grand old time, sitting back, enjoying life and loving all the attention they're getting.

[TonyFleecs]

I'm all for trying to find kidnapped kids... but that ad was creepy as hell. I hope they find her now for her sake and her family's and for my own, not wanting to see that again next week.


Also, (on a totally inappropriate note) the big reveal in the book wasn't Jubilee it was Jubilee's ginormous boobs... holy moley.

[Dan McLellan]

a few thoughts.

the media is to blame for obsessing about missing rich white girls NOT the parents.

if you had money wouldn't you use it to find your missing daughter?

[YC Comics!]

if you had money wouldn't you use it to find your missing daughter?

nope, he'd be too busy reading his comics in peace, without interruption.

[King Of Fakeposts]

nope, he'd be too busy reading his comics in peace, without interruption.

Would you like a T-Shirt? only 19.95!

[YC Comics!]

Would you like a T-Shirt? only 19.95!

Would you like a to buy some common sense? Oh, too bad, out of your price range!

[King Of Fakeposts]

Would you like a to buy some common sense? Oh, too bad, out of your price range!

There's a difference between helping a cause and cashing in. You'll figure it out one day

[lonesomefool]

There's a difference between helping a cause and cashing in. You'll figure it out one day

So are we just ignoring a kid is missing, just to throw bile the parents way? The tragedy isnt that your enjoyment of a comic was "ruined", the true tragedy is that we live in a society so self-centered that people dont even have compassion for a MISSING fucking kid.

[King Of Fakeposts]

So are we just ignoring a kid is missing, just to throw bile the parents way? The tragedy isnt that your enjoyment of a comic was "ruined", the true tragedy is that we live in a society so self-centered that people dont even have compassion for a MISSING fucking kid.

It's like we never learned from Jon-Benet Ramsey, jesus fuck.

edit: you know, the parents who blatantly killed their kid while the police looked the other way, then sucked a large amount of money from the media and the public on the search for the "real killer" and other things?

[Mylazycat]

It's like we never learned from Jon-Benet Ramsey, jesus fuck.

edit: you know, the parents who blatantly killed their kid while the police looked the other way, then sucked a large amount of money from the media and the public on the search for the "real killer" and other things?

So, the McCanns are killers now?

[SteveFlack]

Y'know, I had to go back to look at the book to see what everyone was talking about. I totally glazed over the ad, just like I glaze over every other ad in comics.

I have no idea who this kid is, I just know it is a poorly designed ad.

-Steve!

[lonesomefool]

It's like we never learned from Jon-Benet Ramsey, jesus fuck.

edit: you know, the parents who blatantly killed their kid while the police looked the other way, then sucked a large amount of money from the media and the public on the search for the "real killer" and other things?

1.We have no idea if they killed her daughter

2.At the end of the day, being pissed at the parents of a missing kid, because it somehow "ruined" your comic reading experience is incredibly selfish. I try not to go on a moral high horse, but I dont care who you pray to, who you vote for, who you have sex with, but caring more that your reading of New Warriors was somehow hurt because an add for a missing girl was included is selfish.

[SteveFlack]

This kid was left alone in a unlocked hotel room while her parents were out at dinner? With another 2 kids?

I hope this kid is found, and all three children are taken away from their parents.

-Steve!

[John M. Coker (Johnny C.)]

I didn't even know about this girl until this thread.

Neither did I. Never heard of her. And I read New Warriors #2 a week and a day ago, didn't notice this huge invasive picture/page at all.

[lonesomefool]

Y'know, I had to go back to look at the book to see what everyone was talking about. I totally glazed over the ad, just like I glaze over every other ad in comics.

I have no idea who this kid is, I just know it is a poorly designed ad.

-Steve!

At the end of the day I barely noticed it until this thread. The ad did it's job as well, I hadnt heard about this girl, after awhile you start to hear about all these missing girls and I guess you become desensitized. Now I know who she is, so the ad did it's job.

[SteveFlack]

At the end of the day I barely noticed it until this thread. The ad did it's job as well, I hadnt heard about this girl, after awhile you start to hear about all these missing girls and I guess you become desensitized. Now I know who she is, so the ad did it's job.

If you didn't notice it when you saw it, it didn't do it's job. They could have done a better job of presenting the whole thing. Looking at it, I don't see why I would believe it to be real, or rather some sort of new viral advertising for something else.

-Steve!

[dEnny!]

I'm mad that Marvel jumped on the obnoxious bandwagon to freak me out in New Warriors, yeah. I'm mad that instead of looking for the kid, the McCanns are taking in millions of dollars in deals and sponsors and then doing nothing with it but putting ads everywhere when they could do so much more then sit on their ass and whine to the public with their media clout. It's offensive and it completely shits all over the cause of missing children, yes.

1. You do realize it is not about YOU.

2. Do you really no what is going on in the efforts to find this child or are you making generalizations because they have money?

I don't think this thread is going to lead into anything positive. SHUT DOWN.

Let's drop it and move on.

[dEnny!]

How any of you can agree that it is appropriate right before a reveal in a comic book is beyond me.

I don't see that at all in these first posts, I see HELLO SPOILER ALERT.