Lies, damn lies, and TEH INTARWEB

[serinde]

I must go kneecap whoever fucked up the Wikipedia entry for Blue Beetle. Most of it's fine, but I'm sorry, kids, just because Chuck fucking Dixon fails to do a bit of research and says once in a book in which Beetle is a bit character that Ted, in this case, stands for Edward--well, this does not invalidate decades of previous canon stating that our boy's real name is Theodore.

The thing that really irritates me is that I'm now going to have to unpack all my comics, which are all tidily packed up for moving, so I can quote chapter and verse when I go to fix this wretched disinformation.

Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

But but but...considering he's all ZOMG!! that this database has all the info on all heroes, and now he too knows who Superman and Batman and etc. are, if he then found that they got his name wrong then suddenly everything else it contains is called into question, and maybe this is not the universe-rocking phenomenon it was a few minutes ago.

Also, I did. And I wasn't sad, because Ted got a good send-off, as good as one can hope for in that career, so I didn't really expect to him to come back from a ventilated skull. It wasn't until dariodevil pointed out that Giffen's co-writer on this is the guy who brought us such timeless classics of cinema as The Core and Catwoman that I started writhing and chewing the carpet.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it a good sendoff...spends an issue with everyone ignoring him, then he's killed.

Should have motivated a story over the big 3 being ashamed of their behavior that led to his death..but nope...

Bah.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Permit me to direct you to my earlier post on this topic (http://www.livejournal.com/users/syringavulgaris/230816.html).