Sigh. So on Tuesday I passed on a link to an article I found here. Now, I hadn’t read through the whole article, or the other articles linked to in the original post, or the comments posted on it, the first of which is genuinely disturbed by the very mention of this writer.
So I followed another link, and saw Doc Nebula’s rant about Kurt Busiek, which the aforementioned commentator described when he wrote: You have to understand, _his side_ of his ‘grudge’ with Busiek makes him look unbalanced.
. Elsewhere, someone called it truly fascinating in its awfulness.
Damn. It’s sad. That’s probably the most depressing web page I’ve read in a very long time.
And when I went back and finished reading the article on Superhero sexuality I linked to earlier, and saw how, as Doc Nebula himself noted in his conclusion, it has transformed over its considerable length from a witty and cheerful romp into a peeved and sullen rant about his least favorite bits of superhero comic tawdriness, and how he brings up something as obscure as The Liberty Project, dwelling on it just long enough to strongly reinforce the impression that he’s got “issues” about the writer (Busiek) and his wife.
So it becomes very clear that this guy I linked to, this erudite and well-read fan, is, well, a Dark One.
But then, reading Sheldon Teitelbaum’s account of Harlan Ellison’s “feud” with him over here (For 15 years, perhaps longer, the ”shrying” Svengali of Sherman Oaks swings headless chickens about his pointed head while cursing my name in French fanzines and in prologues to failed screenplays.
), I guess the lure of the Dark Side is ever-present in the geek lifestyle.
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