RANDOM THOUGHTS:
Eh, I think the current happenings are a bit more complex than we'd necessarily like to put forth the effort discussing on a message board.
Part of me wonders why there is even a comics forum anymore. Most, if not all, of us are pretty much devoid of any give a damn when it comes to the industry anymore. When we can muster up some care then we generally use it all up laughing or bitching about how stupid something is (see: Fear Itself, One-Face, etc.) I'll give Lothar credit for trying with some of the New 52 titles, but he is fucking boring for a reason. There isn't going to be any talk about Voodoo if all you give me is a cover and a one sentence review. Dammit, Lothar!
I think we need a common enemy. Whether it be a raid on another board or an all out heckling of a poster here (see, King Snarf), I think having a common enemy was a valve to release some of our worst trolling on some poor, deserving schmuck so that we could still converse during our trolling of each other and not devolve into graemlins and the world's longest fucking ellipsis.
A similar point is that the loss of some posters broke the balance of power around here. Try and call someone out for a batfuck, insane screed and, now, you are a communazi/corpofascist. For example, don't take it personally...DAVE, BSAMS could get through WB's Soros/Alinsky/Glenn Beck is God screeds and calm him. A Pro or JLA can't. It just feeds the beast more. This isn't saying that any of us are any more or less insane than others around here. I'm just saying that the shades of crazy just stand out in contrast to each other so much more these days. Though, honestly, Dave is batshit crazy.
This ties into the lack of creativity. It is hard to put forth the effort to be creative when it is seen as casting your pearls before swine.
Solutions to these? I dunno.
