About a half million people without power in North Carolina— but here’s the latest breaking action news on Djurdjegate 2011 because I’m avoiding doing laundry: after emergency tweets by Jonathan Hickman that the “tone” of the 2011 TEAM SPIRIT panel was misreported by the original panel report issued by Comic Book Resources, Mark Waid, at the center of the Djurdegate firestorm for… some reason(?), identified the true culprit of Djurdegate: Rich Johnston, whose website Bleeding Cool (like Blog @ Newsarama and Robot 6) nefariously also re-reported the contents of the original CBR article. Other comic creators agree— but will Johnston be held accountable for his misdeeds in Djurdegate??? Will CBR issue a retraction??? Can comics journalism ever possibly recover?? Where the hell is Gadaffi???? Will the economy ever recover??? Is man inherently good or inherently evil??? Why can’t I just have some discipline and do my laundry?
While we all collectively struggle to answer those questions, MTV meanwhile issued its own independent report, seemingly unrelated to the supposedly inaccurate CBR report, that nevertheless continues to report quotes like “They never put me on a book with a writer that I wanted. They always gave me Straczynski, and that guy writes like toilet paper” and “Straczynski was a dick from the start. Hey, they can’t fire me anymore.” Here’s MTV’s take on the tone— “By the way, a brief note on the tone of the room here: Djurdjevic was antagonistic to his former employers, certain members of the audience, even the staff at the Con… But it was kind of okay, as it seemed like he didn’t care in an amused sort of way. Don’t know if I’m capturing it, but just know: for the most part, the people in the room were okay with what he was saying… Because it gets worse than the “toilet paper” comment. Oh yes.” No response to this article is yet forthcoming, so it’s presently unclear how Rich Johnston coerced the MTV Network into cooperating in his propaganda schemes.
Oh, and Straczynski himself responded to reports that he wrote like toilet paper— and his response was, like, super-lame old man humor, further confirming for some readers (e.g. me) that guy really DOES kinda write like toilet paper. I don’t know— am I the only one who saw Ninja Assassin? Are we pretending that didn’t happen?
In conclusion, here is a photograph of a fireball:
