Comments on: Uzumeri Talks Smart/FBB+1 http://www.4thletter.net/2008/03/uzumeri-talks-smartfbb1/ we like talking about comics, and hopefully you like reading us talking about comics. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:07:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gokitalo http://www.4thletter.net/2008/03/uzumeri-talks-smartfbb1/comment-page-1/#comment-18015 Gokitalo Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:15:02 +0000 http://www.4thletter.net/?p=1106#comment-18015 <i>What’s starting to disturb me more is the reaction to this that I see on a lot of the more moderated/respectable blogs - this conscious attempt to cut ties with the tastes of the hoi polloi and instead turn the topic to how cleverly you can savage a certain creator or book. Mike Choi is right - the switch is defaulted to “snark” all across the blogging community and everyone’s tripping over themselves to be the funniest guy to say something’s going to suck.</i> My thoughts exactly. You see the same thing on some message boards (Newsarama, DC Comics Message Boards), too. Snark can be entertaining sometimes, but it's become boring and cliche now. What’s starting to disturb me more is the reaction to this that I see on a lot of the more moderated/respectable blogs – this conscious attempt to cut ties with the tastes of the hoi polloi and instead turn the topic to how cleverly you can savage a certain creator or book. Mike Choi is right – the switch is defaulted to “snark” all across the blogging community and everyone’s tripping over themselves to be the funniest guy to say something’s going to suck.

My thoughts exactly. You see the same thing on some message boards (Newsarama, DC Comics Message Boards), too. Snark can be entertaining sometimes, but it’s become boring and cliche now.

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