Heh, I went to Wikipedia 'cause I don't know who Peter David is and it told me...

Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) (born September 23, 1956[1]) is an American writer, best known for killing the scans_daily community on LiveJournal.

Wow. That kind of sucks.

Well, X-Factor goes in the trash heap as of today. Fuck you very much, Peter David.

IIRC, he's the one who got in a snit because of negative comments about his comic on Scans_Daily. Someone didn't like it, and, in a shocking twist, posted a strongly worded comment, including "DIAF" (die in a fire, which I hadn't heard before).

Peter David got really angry and posted in that thread and showed that (1) he doesn't understand Internet culture, and (2) that he's a pissy douche.

t edit Apparently Peter David just hates the internet, because "The internet seems to exist almost solely to provide major revelations and thus take the element of surprise out of the writer's hands and ultimately be harmful to comics."

Seriously?

Everyone knows the Interent exists for people to post pictures of their cats.

And porn.

"The internet seems to exist almost solely to provide major revelations and thus take the element of surprise out of the writer's hands and ultimately be harmful to comics."

Bwahaha! Wow...self-centered much?

Peter David posts about his side of it, if anyone is interested: [link]

ION, looks like DC animation is following up Wonder Woman with a Green Lantern movie: [link]

Acclaimed actor Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) fills the lead voice of Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern. Meloni is joined by fellow Emmy Award nominee Victor Garber (Milk, Alias) as the villainous Sinestro, Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as the voice of Boodikka, and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) as Kilowog.

Green Lantern: First Flight finds Hal Jordan recruited to join the Green Lantern Corps and placed under the supervision of respected senior Lantern Sinestro. The earthling soon discovers his mentor is actually the central figure in a secret conspiracy that threatens the philosophies, traditions and hierarchy of the entire Green Lantern Corps. Hal must quickly hone his newfound powers and combat the treasonous Lanterns within the ranks to maintain order in the universe.

Bwahaha! Wow...self-centered much?

I feel like someone should inform him that the lenses on mirrorshade sunglasses are supposed to face outward.

Bwahaha! Wow...self-centered much?

I feel like someone should inform him that the lenses on mirrorshade sunglasses are supposed to face outward.

I love that he plans to TRIPLE sales of X-Factor...by refusing to discuss it, throwing a hissy fit about people discussing it, and angering mobs of fans who have money.

Truly, that business plan rivals only that of the Underpants Gnomes.

Considering Peter David doesn't delete negative posts about his work from his own website, I find the "These guys said mean things about me, so I'm going to get them shut down" accusation unlikely.

I'm not saying he's completely in the right in this, but I'm willing to accept his explanation that his issue was the fact people were posting scans of half an issue and then describing whatever parts were left out via text, which goes far beyond Fair Use or even a review. And he claims all he did was report the site to Marvel, as they are the legal copyright holder of the material he saw.

Should he have done that? That's debatable, though I'm going to fall more on the side of fandom and say he should have followed the "live and let live" example other creators had towards the site.

However, I do think saying he deliberately tried to get the site shut down because someone on it hurt his feelings is an exaggeration, at best.

He did react on s_d previously, IIRC, and established a persona that meant the accusation he got the place shut down wasn't too surprising.

The s_d rules are to post no more than 5 pages (there's comics_daily for people who insist on more, IIRC) to try and stay within fair use, but discussion of the rest of the issue is impossible to avoid.

I don't know how many people read s_d instead of buying, but I do know of a number of people that started buying various issues because of scans in s_d.