Your Most Memorable Internet War

[Gail Simone]

Tell, if you can without re-igniting it, of your most epic internet argument.

I've had several.

The funny thing is, when pros argue online, they usually work it out fairly quickly, but the ARGUMENT GOES ON WITHOUT THEM.

Brian Bendis and I have had a couple disagreements, we almost always worked them out by phone or email and forgot about them.

But they continued going for days!

[BClayMoore]

Rick Remender and I once got into it with an artist on the Image boards. He was making fun of our "smart comic books," and how we thought his early 90s Image stuff was silly. It turned into one of those old, massive, multi-page things that used to happen more than they do now.

At one point writer Seth Peck (who has worked with both Rick and me) made some funny, dry comments about the artist in question.

It ended with the artist writing a battle rap dissing us (a serious, non-ironic battle rap).

The battle rap was ridiculous, but the thing that makes me laugh most: A year later Jason Aaron, Jason Latour, Jeremy Haun, Tony Moore, Seth Peck and I set up our Atomic Revolver "studio" on MySpace, and sent out a bunch of invitations. The group photo we used was from a Halloween party. I was dressed as a fanboy, Jason A was a priest, Tony was the devil and Haun was Mage. Seth was a soldier, wearing a U.S. Army helmet.

The artist emailed a reply to our invite saying, "Sorry, I won't be your friend. That guy in the army hat made fun of me a lot."

For whatever reason, the fact that he referred to a helmet as an "army hat" still makes me laugh.

Anyway, that original thread went on forever and probably made it into the late, lamented Fanboy Rampage. I don't do that anymore.

-BCM

[Gail Simone]

I probably held up half of Fanboy Rampage by MYSELF.

I won't say I don't do it anymore. I still think there's some stuff worth arguing about, if called for.

[Patrick Gerard]

I'd say it was in 2000 when a guy on an online super-hero RPG, who has an elaborate pagan cosmology based on Joseph Campbell and Jung, decided after I told him about a dream I had and hearing some of my own musings, that I was a silvery skinned alien changeling and the mortal incarnation of Loki. That I was a sleeper agent coming into a slow awareness of my true being and that I would help open a chaos portal that would swallow up Manhattan in a prophesied event in September of 2001.

We feuded for weeks and weeks. I've never been able to cut someone off whose views were a bit on the exotic side and it made running the game awkward, with each of us not talking or generally avoiding eachother for lengthy stretches. It wasn't JUST him, either, but his whole circle of practitioners.

I ran into him online a few times later and I think we were even staff, briefly, on the same game. I asked him if he blamed me for 9-11 and he said something to the effect that I'd distracted him with my silvery aura and my higher dimensional changeling magickal energy signature and that he mistook me for the real culprits. That I wasn't Loki or Coran or whatever other names he'd had for the entity he'd mistaken me for.

But he seemed more stable and happy and his son was getting married and he wasn't mad at me anymore so I let it drop.

That memorable enough for you...?

[Corrina]

It was a long time ago, on the Laurell K. Hamilton yahoo list.

I got out the flamethrowers on the idiots who said the author could do no wrong and the new direction to the series was wonderful and anybody who didn't agree was an idiot.

The resulting flamewar between the two sides was kinda fun.

It broke the list. Well, more properly, the new series direction broke the list. The list owner couldn't stand the new direction so she turned the ownership over and the new mods couldn't control it.

And I'd though the Jean-Claude/Richard feuds had been rough. In hindsight, that was just good clean fun.

Alas, though, feuds get tiresome after a day or two. I'm just not that interested in sustaining rage for so long.

Every now and then I get the urge,though. Then I leave the keyboard before I give in.

[BClayMoore]

I probably held up half of Fanboy Rampage by MYSELF.

I won't say I don't do it anymore. I still think there's some stuff worth arguing about, if called for.

What I try not to do now is push people's buttons and prolong debates. I try to swing things toward civility these days.

I really miss Fanboy Rampage.

-BCM

[Patrick Gerard]

Oh. And this guy pretty much saw Alan Moore as the devil and Grant Morrison as a kid playing with a hand grenade and avoided most of their work, interviews, and writing. Just in case you thought maybe that was where he got his ideas from. You couldn't discuss either of those guys without him getting into a tizzy and he wanted to ignore any work they did.

I think a lot of his views stemmed from his own unique brain chemistry (and he'd admit as much) and a comparative mythology focused Liberal Studies Master's.

[Marcdachamp]

One of my first message boards ever was Superhero Hype. I basically started posting to defend Chuck Austen. Not because I was a huge fan of the man's work (although I do like some of it, honestly), but because the venom and maliciousness were disgusting. Just a ton of personal attacks that were totally uncalled for. So, I came to his defense.

Eventually, Bendis lost his "credit" with these guys, so I started defending him. At that point, I literally started hearing accusations from people that I was, in fact, Joe Quesada. Because we all know Quesada has nothing better to do than defend writers on Superhero Hype, right?

I ended up becoming really tired of it after a few years. I said eff it, and started posting here on the good 'ol Benbo. Never looked back.

[Major Comma]

I was once accused of being A WB executive trying to spread disinformation about The Catwoman film in order to get people to see it.
I simply suggested the possibilty that Sharon Stone could be playing Selina Kyle gone bad in the movie .
I was managing my fathers Laundromat at the time.

[Lester C.]

Bitching about what turned to be a massive fake-out by Gail Simone in her relaunched BOP run.