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July 28, 2006

Dear Idiot...

We love you, Dan Slott. We love your comics. We love your humor. We love the big yellow bus you drive when you take Internet comic geek h8terz to school.

Mr. Slott over at the Bendis board:

Here's the deal...

When you're a "pro" in the industry, you're EXPECTED to act professionally. You're expected to be above it all, to let things slide, and to allow some fans to get away with being... well... @$$holes. But every now and then one of them is behaving like such a COMPLETE TOOL that I feel the need to write a strongly worded post... And those posts usually start with the words:

Dear Idiot...

Whenever I take the effort to write a "Dear Idiot" post, by the time I get to the end I usually laugh it off and toss the darn thing into trash. Well, today's a first...

Because the idiot-in-question has been SO HISTORICALLY STUPID that I can't bring myself to delete my response. So here goes... My first EVER "Dear Idiot" post that's actually making it onto the internet.

It seems a "She-Hulk" detractor (how could such a being even exist?) posted the following elsewhere:

Slott's "She-Hulk" did not even make the top 100 list at all for April. How's that for a book that's "doing so well" and "safely out of danger?" I can't spin the same BS that Slott can and blind you with a snowstorm of double-talk, I can only point out solid evidence that you can readily find at your disposal at any comics shop anywhere. I suppose that's why I'm the nobody and Slott's the darling of the fan boards. But take a look for yourself, sometime, and see what the actual solicits show versus what Slott usually tries to spin.

Slott's response?

Wait for it...

Dear Idiot,

You got me. SHE-HULK didn't place in April's Top 100. Or even in the Top 300. Maybe that's because SHE-HULK didn't come out in April.

Posted by YourMomsBasement at July 28, 2006 08:00 AM