Steve Ekstrom joined Best Shots and Shotgun almost simultaneously, covering comics and wrestling. In addition to writing for Newsarama and elsewhere, Steve's written a number of comics and webcomics that appeared via places like Zuda, Top Shelf 2.0, and Image's Negative Burn. Today, he addresses a sad time in the history of Shotgun, a time when two contributors decided to try to kill each other online. No, not that time . . .Most Shotgunners will recall the vicious debates
Kevin Huxford and I had regarding our feelings about the One More Day/ Brand New Day outcome and the aneurysm inducing story logic of Post-Civil War era (haha) Spider-Man when he gave Mephisto a good ol’ fashioned “Devil’s Handshake” to save Aunt May.
[Did you know that a “Devil’s Handshake” is slang for an old fashioned handski? But I digress…]
We said a bunch of really explosive clap-trap directed at personally wounding each other and the whole thing devolved pretty quickly away from Spider-Man and good-natured debate. We avoided each other like the plague in mutual friends’ Facebook feeds and went our separate ways. I admittedly took a lot of what was said to heart, pulled my green Dr. Doom cowl close and shook an iron-fisted cry for vengeance into the sky.
And then? I felt really stupid; immature even.
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| This is what Yeats meant by "terrible beauty". |
