WGBGB: Occasionally Super Mistaken?

(Editor's note: this is republished from 2008. I had taken it offline as a draft, but put it live again because I think there's some revisionist history going on with the D'Orazio/Sims thing. I might try to restore the proper date if I can track it down.)

Valerie D'Orazio is at it, again.

She decided to shoot back at the bloggers who took issue with her stance on minority characters, which she only seemed to introduce in order to avoid admitting an error in her JSA #12 review.

What does she do this time? Opens mouth and inserts foot.

She spends a whole blog responding to one of her critics' responses to a completely different blogger. That's right...if she spent the time she saved NOT paying attention in JSA #12 to actually read the blog she was responding to (rather than skimming)...she'd have avoided another embarrassing mistake.

She claims she is willing to have an actual discussion about minority characters in DC and Marvel comics, but so far she has demonstrated an unwillingness to read and digest the arguments being posed to her and an eagerness to hastily snipe at her adversaries without getting her facts straight first.

I think I found out part of her problem: there's only photographic evidence that she reads the solicits in previews. Maybe that's how she manages to get stuff wrong? Anything longer than some ad text triggers her ADD? :)

Ryan Choi Lives!

Gotta love folks taking lemons and making a parody-filled lemonade out of it.

The Ian Boothby Rules Everything thread on CBR (in Gail Simone's YABS forum) is filled with many good examples.

(image taken from Tim Seeley's twitpic contribution to the meme)

Good Blog Spotlight: Digital Femme

I met Cheryl Lynn back at NYCC last year. We had conversed via blogs and MySpace a bit. It was a pleasure to get to sit down at the convention and talk to her for a bit.

Why? Because I greatly admire her work on her blog. I do miss the days where comments were allowed, but I can understand turning them off due to the spam she was receiving. She blogs from a unique perspective and never, in my opinion, says anything simply to shock or stir shit up. Often on the most controversial topics, she expresses her opinion reasonably, sometimes even understated. She almost always delivers it with a good deal of humor, the kind that wouldn't likely even agitate anyone with an opposing viewpoint.

For example, her coverage of the idea that the artistic representation of African American females in comics are too unrealistic or model themselves off of Halle Berry too often? Much tamer than the people that wind up joining her side of the argument than they link blog.