Unsurprisingly, bigtime growth in blogging had led to bigtime pontification about comic books. Case in point: Christopher Priest, self-described "first African-American writer and editor to work in mainstream super-hero comics," has an interesting site. He doesn't seem like the most delightful guy to have a beer with, but his palpable conceitedness stops him from pulling punches.
Priest's career bears a striking resemblance to MC Hammer's: he peaked early (in the mid 1980's priest was twenty years old and managing editor of four different Spider-Man comic books), then crashed hard and changed his name (website says he acquired the surname Priest "in the wake of his marriage failing in 1993."), and today Priest is a minister just like Mr. Dope on the Floor/Magic on the Mic.
And he also bears a resemblance to Jayson Blair:
I was awed to be at Marvel and be in [Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter's] presence, so much so that I started calling myself "Jim," so I could be more like him (no one had ever called me "Jim" before Marvel). I so embraced his teachings, so religiously processed his philosophy, that, in many ways, I became a shorter, blacker version of the guy.
With great power comes petty little backbiting and office guys wanking on and on about why that guy got a new chair and they didn't. I was a prepubescent kid sucking in the Spider-Man issues Priest edited, so this petty crap tossing fascinates me.
Not a comic reading freak? Go spank a penguin.
