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Fanboy Rampage: Nazi-Punching The Global Conversation Via Twitter With Nick Spencer, Mags Visaggio, And Alex de Campi

Published Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:30:32 -0500

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853086969986859008

After commenting on the jaw-dropping degradation and destruction of the global conversation due to Twitter, superstar writer and man with more than 30,700 tweets took to Twitter to have a global conversation, mostly with writer Anthony Oliveira, though others eventually chimed in, including Quantum Teens Are Go creator Magdalene Visaggio. Below are some excerpts from that conversation, presented without commentary:

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853809678488293376

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853814445394411520

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853815031988989952

Which is what my initial tweet was about. "Please, above all, behave" is a weird thing for a Captain America writer to say in such a time.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

@nickspencer I would invite you to consider what your imperative has become, and what stories you're telling. That's all.

— ANTHONY OLIVEIRA (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853815395614023680

But these tweets lately are…verging on the bizarre.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853816016953933824

@nickspencer Sure. But then why would you write…Captain America.

As I said, it is a very infelicitous fit, and it is making you visibly unhappy.

— ANTHONY OLIVEIRA (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

Nick….you just described what a superhero is.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

A person doing what is right instead of what is legal is not merely the prerogative of fiction and I'd be horrified by ANYONE saying so.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853818714608750592

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853820190001209344

And I just wonder why you feel like that's a step you feel like you have to take so performatively and visibly.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853822193242841088

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853822851836559360

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853823877754920960

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853824532401930240

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853825259673341952

so to you, captain america represents not goodness, but the enforcement of the legal imperatives of the US government.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

this would clarify some things.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853825964723191808

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853826838933655557

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853824130797289472

Yeah. The problem with the state monopoly on violence is that, when violence against marginal groups has de fact state support, there IS no

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

I think its important to recognize that the state DOES have a real role, and that the state "monopoly" on violence has a role….but it cant

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

Or in places where the state's principles mean it cannot interfere, but that a commitment to the common good may be seen as demanding action

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

I dont see how it can be.

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

When you hit a legal wall, the principle that "well thats it" doesn't fly in the face of very real threats.

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

I'm afraid I'm gay and every right I have, I have because some queen got fed up at shitty cops and threw a brick.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853827857105080321

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853827096845598720

it's not lowering the bar. it's acknowledging the bar we have.

— satan's niece 🏳️‍🌈 (@MagsVisaggs) April 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853828923368521728

I do not think you are a Nazi; I think you are a very good liberal.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

Which is your right. But as I said when this discussion began: it seems an unhappy soul who believes this and has to write Steve Rogers.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

I mean…I guess? I'm not sure I see…what your action would be. You might say "hey, don't do that, guys!" as I'm dragged away.

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

@nickspencer @MagsVisaggs @spacetwinks Which I would appreciate.

— ANTHONY OLIVEIRA (@meakoopa) April 17, 2017

As reported earlier on Bleeding Cool, Spencer did feel the need to clarify:

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/853845941866057728

And finally, fellow Image Comics author Alex de Campi added some meta-commentary to the ongoing saga this morning:

https://twitter.com/alexdecampi/status/853980114744422401

So the fact that NS has dug himself in a hole so deep he's about to hit magma? Well, that's great for his employers. It's insurance.

— Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) April 17, 2017

So let's all sit back and wait for that first punch then, shall we?

— Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) April 17, 2017

Fanboy Rampage was a blog by Graeme McMillan dedicated to the funniest, most ludicrous and most inappropriate comic book back-and-forths online. McMillan has moved on now, becoming a proper journalist but he gave permission to Bleeding Cool to revive his great creation.

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