Will no one think of the poor, misunderstood fanboy?

[lurkerwithout]

Val D'Orazio takes evandorkin to task for his recent post describing his experiances at a NY convention. Because even if people are rude or disgusting or basically making the lives of everyone around them less pleasant, thats no reason to write a MEAN blogpost about it. Think how hurt they could be if they read it!

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Meh.

It's not the first time Evan's said something that's offended people. He thinks he's being funny, but his sense of humor is not for everybody.

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Man, that was epic ownage, or whatever the kids are saying these days.

[furikku.livejournal.com]

On Evan's part, that is.

[starmanmatt.livejournal.com]

I've got to side with the Dorkin on this one. Because if you read the whole article, his complaints were less about the Comic Book Guy stereotypes in attendence and more about some very anti-social behavior that represents the very worst our hobby has to offer, including a dealer who tried hard-selling his young daughter on a virtually worthless Wonder Woman beanie baby.

The dealer who got in your way and barked, "Excuse me, but I've got a trivia question for you!". The art dealer I overheard loudly and insultingly taking a guy to task over the original art he was trying to sell: "Take another look at your pages, then come back and ask me again how much you want for them." He actually laughed in the guy's face. The guy at the booth with the plush toys strewn about the place like a kid's bedroom who had no listed prices so he could jack them up if interest was shown in anything. Emily was interested in a small Wonder Woman beanbag toy but because it was "from the WB Store" he had to start a sales pitch spiel on it, with, of course, a boosted price for the piece of junk (Sarah knew it was worthless, because we threw a bunch of them out a while back because no one wanted them and they were worth jack turd on e-bay. The folks who didn't realize they were scaring our daughter by trying too hard to talk to her. The people asking creators for sketches while said creators were standing in the aisle talking to their friends. Those two yelling jagoffs in the bathroom. The creepy guy with his sketchbook full of his characters, talking about nude versus clothed con sketches he was getting people to do ("Just make it sexy, you know, innovate!". Ugh.) Myself for being there and forcing my child to endure some stuff Dante cut out of his book for being too "uncomfy". All the bastards who seemed unaware that other people exist in the world, cannot hear the words "excuse me" or "watch your back, please", and think backpacks are force fields that keep them safe from annoying people who dare to try to walk through an aisle. The Stormtroopers, who more and more have grown a sense of some sort of entitlement at these things to be in the way, walk in front of people, block not only aisles but the goddamned street outside the hotel, what do they think they are, security? They're idiots in hard-plastic adult Underoos, fer chrissakes.

I'd say that the hobby is more in danger from the social pariahs than the elitists like Dorkin and - oh I may as well cop to this - myself.

Came back to check out your LJ ...

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I think this is part of what Ragnell was talking about when she said Val doesn't say anything that can be construed as criticizing a friend of hers. This is probably more about, "How DARE Evan Dorkin diss the people who gave ME a booth!" than any slight to stereotypical CBGs.