HOW TO DEAL WITH FUTILE AND FRANTIC FLAPPING FROM A PIG DESPERATELY TRYING TO FLY..

I've been informed that some prat with a face you'd never get

tired of punching is taking a little pop at me over on his blog devoted

to a comic that was never very good at its best.  His post completely

distorts my point of view (and motives), railing against his own straw

man interpretations of my opinion in an attempt to heap scorn on it,

and in doing so, merely reveals the feeble nature of his position.

Only his small circle of industry pals with whom he seeks to

curry favour and win approval will see any merit in his ingratiating

brown-nosing, as the facts are simply against him.  Can he name any

company producing comics today who turns them out in the numbers

that IPC and DCT once did?  Can he name any British comic that

has a circulation even approaching that of any comic of the '60s

and '70s?  No, of course he can't, because they don't exist.

Fewer children buy comics today than they once did, but he

conveniently overlooks this salient fact in his sad endeavour to

discredit me for merely expressing the plain and simple truth.  To

accuse me of trying to bring crashing down what passes for (or per-

haps 'poses as' would be a more accurate description) the current

comics 'industry' and destroy the jobs of those presently trying

to earn a tenuous living from it is a ludicrous assertion.

My criticism of The DANDY, for instance, was intended to

identify what was wrong with the ailing periodical in the hope

that corrective action could be taken to save it.  My assessment of

the current state of what is laughably called the comics 'industry' is

voiced for the same reason.  Comic strips of course, survive on the

internet and in book form, but the format of a comic has its own

individual 'character' and 'charm' that cannot be replicated

on a computer screen, mobile, or ipad.

He can squeal as much as he likes of course, but pigs will

fly before his outrageous assertions and provocative distortions

will prove to have anything more than the most superficial resem-

blance to reality.  It's a shame he didn't address the actual issues,

instead of trying to settle scores on behalf of his few disgruntled

chums.  You never know 'though - maybe there's an oinkment

they could rub on their affected parts.  (Mutually in all proba-

bility, given their obvious 'admiration' for each other.)

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