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11th Annual Rumour Awards – Come And Have A Go If You Think You're Hard Enough Award

Published Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:00:11 -0600

No pints of beer thrown over anyone, no one glassed, the physical confrontations seem to have turned down a little. Unless you like a pen in your eye of course.

But the online fisticuffs kept going as ever. And not just Ron Marz threatening to pop me one – we settled our differences somewhat at New York under the nervous eye of Top Cow's Filip Sablik. New York was also a peaceful time for Valerie D'Orazio, who settled various differences with her own employer Dan DiDio at a DC party.

New York wasn't all peace and light however, as artist Bernard Chang and writer Kevin Church exchanged a war of words, first in person and then online.

Dan Slott also took on the internet again, or rather just to one person on it who he told to "Go. Fuck. Yourself" for claiming that Slott wasn't a fan of Spider-Man and was only doing it for the money. So he internet took against him, even at one point raising an army to tackle him for "cyberstalking" when he merely… replied to someone else.

Just the other day Gail Simone did far more taking Techdirt writer Tim Geigner to task with a series of consecutive posts entitled "Clueless Idiot Of The Week" for an article he wrote that opposed Colleen Doran's prominent anti-pirate piece earlier in the year, and goes straight for the ad hominem.

Mark Waid and Sergio Aragones had a serious chinning up against each other after Waid's Hugo Awards speech where he extolled the idea of trying to accept comics pirating and find ways to profit from that. And Sergio extolled the idea of getting paid for his work. There were shouts, bellows, and it could have kicked off. Sergio is much older, but he looks a lot fitter. Who knows which way it would have gone?

Mark Millar caused a few people to be angry with him, though he refused to take the bait. MCM London Expo kicked off over his comments promoting the Kapow convention, DC people did not respond well to his "What if Batman was a cunt?" promotion for Nemesis and 2000AD people had little positive to say when he dismissed that comic as being for your dad. Still, he got lots of people to talk about, well, whatever it was he wanted them to talk about.

But the winner had to be Alan Moore. Who, in a year where he found success with Dodgem Logic, brought the fires of hell down on, well, Geoff Johns for apparently stealing Blackest Night from a few lines of an earlier Green Lantern comic Alan had written decades ago, all of DC for playing the kind of games under new management that they always had done, Dave Gibbons for not phoning up to thank him for the Watchmen movie money Moore had signed over, and damning David Lloyd in the process too.

Moore is well known for burning bridges in the most spectacularly pyrotechnic fashion, indeed he does it on purpose, and this was no exception…

11th Annual Rumour Awards – Come And Have A Go If You Think You're Hard Enough Award