Anyone who's a comics fan with a Twitter or Facebook account knows that sometimes, the comics discourse out there can be straight-up toxic.
Be it the trolls who like to launch personal attacks on writers and artists simply because they didn't like a storyline, or that sad, pathetic coalition of so-called comics "fans" who unironically long for the days when Captain America wasn't such a SJW, there is a small but very loud faction of people out there who make me question whether to ever check out a comics hashtag.
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But then I I pop in on Dan Slott's feed, where he's sharing late-night ideas for a Superman story. Or I come across Gail Simone, the unverified Queen of Comics Twitter who absolutely revels in her love of all things Geek, with Cyclops and Gambit being the notable exceptions. Even when Gail is wrong, it feels right because her tweets come from affection and authenticity. (Sorry to break this to you, Gail, but it's Ace, Paul, Gene, and Peter in the original KISS lineup rankings). They both help remind me that social media gives us such a rare opportunity to connect with the creators of our favorite comics.
I'm an OG comics fan who misses the simplicity of days when you got just about all your comics industry news from the Comics Buyer's Guide. But CBG probably wouldn't have let me know that Tom King wonders just as much as the rest of us why Marvel hasn't given Sal Buscema and J.M. DeMatteis' legendary run on Spectacular Spider-Man the omnibus...
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