Thanks for understanding, Knuxfreak. 🙂
No problem, we shouldn't have gone that direction, anyway, and I apolgize for any other posters who were offended by our immature bickering.
k, truces are fine. and i was never mad to begin with just so you know.
btw, i'm not a writer. for clarification.
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k, truces are fine.
Alright, good to not be fighting no more, I like that.
Thanks, guys. 🙂
Also lot of his public actions were very suspect, such as outing Benny Lee's real identity amid the intense speculation of who "Romy Chacon" was, especially given Pender's known dislike of Karl Bollers and the secrecy surrounding "Romy Chacon's" real identity. This was right after his lipservice to fans who called him out on his childish antics surrounding the M:25L debacle, where Karl revealed it wasn't canon. I HIGHLY doubt that was coincidence, and I wouldn't be surprised if Penders was Chacon.
Also, a man who publicly calls his fans a bunch of mindless puppets with no imagination clearly doesn't have respect for the people who buy his products, and the fans are one half of what makes a good comic. If you can't respect your fans in any way, you have no business working on a comic/movie/show/any entertainment medium. I'm certainly not saying someone should pander to every fan's most minute wishes, but sometimes, it does a writer good to listen to what the people have to say about your work - fans can be a good gauge of what's wrong and what can be improved.
Penders never did this, as far as I'm concerned, and he never seemed to geniunely care about what anyone thought, much less what the readers felt. He was arrogant about his work at best, a petty megalomaniac who wanted the comic to be "his" at worst, whose continued employment at Archie post-#134 became an insult to the comic. And frankly, this is one fan who's glad he's gone - the comic is much better without him.
Wow...it got that bad? I didn't even know Chacon was just an alias for Benny Lee. That's the price I pay for not having an internet connection until very recently, I guess...
But the writing's on the wall: Penders lost respect for his peers, his readers, and thought his way was the only way events should go. Certainly sounds like a self-satisfied writer to me. Good riddance.
Nah, it was Benny Lee that was an alias for Karl Bollers IIRC.
Anyone know why any of the writers needed pseudonyms?
Short answer, Charles: yes.
Going to get elaboration, Charles: no.
I believe most writers use pseudonyms if they don't want their names attached to a given story. If the public likes it, good. If not, then it doesn't hurt their cred.
I believe most writers use pseudonyms if they don't want their names attached to a given story. If the public likes it, good. If not, then it doesn't hurt their cred.
Which is why I wholeheartedly support using the alias "Alan Smithee" for any and all authors/directors/artists/etc. At least we'd know it was crap beforehand instead of having writers playing novel skulldaggery for kicks.
I'd assume that if only a few stories had pseudonyms, but there were so many "Benny Lee" strips that I can't believe Bollers thought they were all crap (since otherwise he'd have not written them).
