In a blog post titled “I down, 534 to go,” Travis Corcoran, the owner of online comic book store Heavy Ink suggested that the Giffords shooting was a good start:
It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot “indiscriminately”.
Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone.
Please!
Many comic creators have been aggressive in their efforts to refute Corcoran and Heavy Ink. Writer Gail Simone told him to “grow a soul” on Twitter, and Paul Cornell and Nick Spencer have asked their fans to stop buying their books through the store. Warren Ellis, as always, puts it best:
Obviously, I’d rather Heavy Ink didn’t sell my work, but I don’t have a choice about which stores order my books. However, if you do buy my work from Heavy Ink, would you please consider buying it from someone else instead?
And before the nutters start: yes, I’m sure this can be justified as your lovely American free speech and not hate speech or malicious communication, and yes, I’m sure he has a perfect right to say it and all that shit. Guess what? I have a perfect right not to like it, and a right to wish not to be associated with the nutter who spews it.
Meanwhile, the comics press is behaving weirdly about this. Comics Alliance, as always, has been providing very strong coverage. Comics news site Newsarama ran a post by Russ Burlingame on their blog yesterday about the comics industry response to Heavy Ink. Or at some point they must have run it, because the post is in my RSS reader, but it seems to have been deleted from the site. I sent an e-mail to Newsarama this morning asking why they pulled the piece, but I haven’t heard back yet; if I do hear from them, I’ll let you know.
Huh. The comics press is behaving weirdly?
Paul Cornell! I don’t know his work on comics (although I’ve heard he’s quite good), but he’s responsible for two of the best serials in Doctor Who history.
The fat-ass describes himself as a Catholic Anarcho-Capitalist. He’s a fucktard.
So many anti-government jackasses out there. I’m glad I have decent local comic stores to buy from.
@3: Catholic Anarchist is hilarious.
Having been raised Catholic, I don’t recall ever being taught that it was good catholicism to promote shooting all members of Congress. That must be coming from the “anarcho-capitalism.”
because all crazies off their meds can follow instructions not to harm/murder innocent bystanders.
Comics Alliance is the best damn comics news site on the net.
So just buy something cheap, have it delivered, when you get it, have a friend write RTS on the package and have it sent back. Call the bank, say you never got it and initiate a charge back, which dings him not only for the cost of the item (which he’ll probably get back), he’ll get dinged for RTS shipping fees and a separate bank related 35-50$ charge back processing fee.
I know this is juvenile and all, but the guy is asking people to murder politicians.
Does an anarcho-Catholic support making all hats in the clergy the same size?
Anarcho-Capitalists are the sorts of losers even LaRouchees point and laugh at…
yes, I’m sure this can be justified as your lovely American free speech and not hate speech or malicious communication, and yes, I’m sure he has a perfect right to say it and all that shit. Guess what? I have a perfect right not to like it, and a right to wish not to be associated with the nutter who spews it.
People, like those in the ACLU, who passionately defend free speech don’t claim that all free speech is lovely. Remember when the ACLU defended the right of neo-Nazis to march through heavily-Jewish Skokie, Illiniois? I’m sure most (if not all) members found that disgusting but defended it anyway because limits on free speech aren’t only limits on the speech of people you don’t like. They are limits on the free speech of everyone.
And no one claims you don’t have a right to dislike what someone says, or that you don’t have a right to boycott someone’s business if you don’t like their politics or something they said.