If there’s one thing we nerds can rely on, it’s a Fox News affiliate getting nerd culture horribly, awfully wrong. Whether they’re insisting pedophiles will molest your children with a DS by somehow reaching through the screen and giving them the bad touch, or just ruining some self-help author’s career, we can always count on the News Corporation to completely blow a fuse over media it doesn’t own.
And now, well after the relaunch happened, somehow a Washington D.C. Fox affiliate has discovered comic books are now not necessarily just for small children.
You know, “The Dark Knight” dealt with 9/11. “Watchmen” wasn’t a huge hit, but it got seen by a lot of people. None of the Marvel movies are exactly kiddie fare, although you can take an older kid to see them. You’d think media professionals would not react like comics are exclusively for five-year-olds.
You’d be wrong. The whole, hilarious mess, complete with art errors and deceptive editing, under the jump.
Relaunched Comics Using Sex and Violence To Sell: MyFoxDC.com
[ thanks to Comics Alliance for digging this up ]
image courtesy Warner Brothers Home Video
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As a rich conservative, I’m seriously disappointed. As a comic character, I’m confused and angry
As an animated character, are you mildly annoyed?
“we were shocked by these comics and were worried that young people were reading them… so we went to a school and showed them to children. just in case.”
Yeah, I found that mildly suspect myself.
If you ever hear “causing controversy” or “becoming concerned” on any “local” news broadcast, just remember….
An acceptable replacement for “local news” is “fires, murders, rapes, traffic accidents, regional sports, manufactured concern, a very special story, a business tried to screw somebody and the attention we brought to bear miraculously reversed them, and weather.”
DC’s biggest crimes here are:
Multiple counts of Aiding and Abetting Rob Liefeld
Multiple counts of Aggravated Scott Lobdelling
Sadly, that petition failed, and it’s still not a crime to hire Rob Liefeld. Possibly a damn shame, depending on the context (I can’t really get palpitated over his working on Hawk and Dove).
I just had a thought.
Rob Liefeld is friends, and has worked, with Jeph Loeb. Jeph Loeb co-wrote Commando. How have these two not done a Commando comic?
Really, this ([www.imdb.com]) isn’t right up his alley? Set it on beach/jungle, so he doesn’t have to draw feet, and you’re all set.
Heh, heh-heh-heh, “Heads whacked off.”
Wait till they find out who Grant Morrison or Garth Ennis are.