Fool's Wisdom

wakabamm asked: Inhumanity was a joke. How you can sit there and say it isn't an X-Men rip-off is embarrassing. No one's buying that Tom. No one.

brevoortformspring:

Second printing coming, so somebody is buying it…

I guess I’ll pull out this rant again, not that I know why I bother, given that I never get a response.

Why is it always about who’s buying it and how much money is being made off it?  Why is that always what it seems to come back to in these arguments?  Why does wakabamm think that’s a good point to make?  Why does Brevoort think that wakabamm being wrong about it means that Inhumanity – which I haven’t read, I’m not judging it, that’s not the point I’m trying to make – is good, not bad?

God, why can’t we have a discussion about quality?  About ethics and morals being put forward?  About storytelling?  Bringing it back to money every time makes it seem like… well, frankly, it makes the discussion shallow and kind of awful.

And I’m getting sick of it.