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Not trying to be a jerk, but a little fact checking goes a long way before publish an article.
"Her comic debut was in 2004 in the series NYX, where her history and past were never divulged but her abilities were showcased. In X-23, her first miniseries, her origin was fully explained. She became part of the X-Men supporting cast in Uncanny X-Men#450."
GOD, Jared, how can you be so stupid?
Calm down Eli, it's not a big deal and you know it. Was just pointing out that 2 mins to fact check could be wise. Was there not also another article that someone jumped the gun on and posted wrong information recently? I know everyone is busy and the site is a labor of love, but it took me two minutes to see that some of the information is wrong. That's all, I don't need the site comment police trying to make me feel bad about posting a comment with accurate information.
Although your comment did have me actually laughing outloud. I could taste the sarcasm.
That's where you're wrong, it's a huge deal and I can promise you that getting vital facts like these wrong will be a big part of Jared's year-end review.
Now I really can't can't tell if your messing with me or not.
Eli never messes around, Jared will probably get moved down to the 32nd floor for this one. Touch Arcade Towers just got some corner office vacancy!
Aw yes, looks like I might get that corner office after all!
Pfft whatever Shawn.
Can I at least have my name plate fixed? :(
It's hard to be calm in a situation this serious, I apologize for over-reacting but when we're discussing factual inaccuracies in comic book origin stories I can't help myself.
For shame. No wonder you guys have me here, otherwise TA would become apocalypse.
And she was also revealed to be one of the 2 new wolverines after the "secret wars" event.
JARED, FFS MAN!!!
She's always been X-23 or Laura Kinney. She was not known as Wolverine until this summer, and her standalone book "All-New Wolverine" has not debuted yet. I do not follow comics that closely but that is the information that was sent to me by Marvel, but feel free to contact them if you feel it's incorrect.
Now I don't know what to believe anymore.
I can send you a photo of an issue with her in wolverines outfit from 2011. After secret wars her, and old man Logan are the new wolverines. I may be overthinking and those were different timeline versions. But she has bee in his costume before. And had also trained under Xavier aswell. So now if fucking lost if marvel told you all that Was bs.
Please don't send me a photo, I promise you I really don't care! I understand that she trained at Xavier and has basically been a female version of Wolverine since her inception, but as far as I've been told she's never actually officially BEEN Wolverine until now. Literally one of the questions from the Marvel interview linked in the article: "What was the coordination like with Marvel Publishing since the character is so new and has not even debuted in the comics yet?" Again, this whole thing feels highly pedantic, and perhaps you are right and I am wrong, but I was just going by the information provided to me by Marvel and D3 and take offense to you accusing me (or anyone on our staff for that matter) of not fact checking our articles. It's incredibly rude.
It might have been rude to a certain point, but that fact that you said you don't care if your wrong or not certainly makes it worse. You guys have never taken criticism well and it's only getting worse. I wasn't trying to take a pot shot at you personally, but you seem to think so. And that's fine if you think that.
And the real question is did if you? Did you fact check anything or did you take the info from an email from marvel and just repost it?
Regardless of sounding like a pr!ck I really do enjoy the site and all the work you guys put in. Cheers
What are you even talking about anymore. "Did you fact check it!? DID YOU!?!" Like I said, I don't follow comics closely, but YES I did fact check this article. Thank you for assuming I didn't though. Sheesh.
I am physically ill that this happened on my watch.
It's not that I don't care if I'm wrong or not, it's that I don't care about your photo. Also, I know that I'm not wrong, as per Marvel themselves. Like I said, you can take it up with them if you want! But please, your comment started with "Not trying to be a jerk but…" which usually goes about as well as "I'm not a racist but…" or "No offense but…".
Okay next time I'll start with: I'm a jerk and this is my opinion instead.
I'm trying to rectify this situation, how is that not being able to take criticism? Please send me photographic evidence that I can add to Jared's permanent file. The article will be corrected and Jared will be reprimanded. We take these things incredibly seriously.
I mean, here's the thing: criticism is fine, and if we've got something wrong, especially something important, we appreciate it being pointed out. But I can at least say from my experience that it's very frustrating to have someone start said criticism or correction in the way you did. Yes, we fact check. Excessively. I've spent hours researching things for dumb jokes in the Update Mondays articles alone, and no one even cares about that. But we put in a lot of work on that front, so coming in with the kind of... I don't know, accusatory implication that you did there, it can really feel hurtful.
I don't know, I hope that kind of explains it?
It does, I understand how my comment came across. Wasn't the implied intention.
I care a lot about the accuracy of your terrible jokes. And I appreciate your Most Spider-Mans of the Week award very much. I think you deserve to take Jared's office in TA Tower. Lol.
Please be sure to have it notarized and maybe with a writ or affidavit of authenticity. Send to the 33rd floor of Touch Arcade Towers.
Please send a photo to [email protected] and if you're using an email client that can mark message priority please set it to the highest priority so I'm sure not to miss it.
Really not trying to mess with you guys I will send over multiple photos of her as wolverine to you if your serious. Not trying to be an a- hole, and will work on how I go about criticizing or critiquing in the future, and I'm sorry if I offended anyone. That was not the point was trying to make, nor was I trying to call you a bad journalist. Confirm you want the photos and I will happily send them. Again, like I stated previously, this is the first stand alone, but she has been in his costume in either alternate time lines, or deme sins guaranteed. Marvel always has a bad way of saying " oh that didn't happen it was an alternate time line, just to wrap a story up"
I'm not joking, please send photos to [email protected]
Okay just sent you an email with some photos. Wasn't trying to argue. Wasn't trying to be rude. Wasn't trying to insult anyone.
Jared has been found guilty.
Alternate timelines? –_– That's the point of an alternate timeline, they don't count. It's freaking comics, it has decades upon decades of convoluted storylines, and complete restarts like what they're doing now. Anyway, I'm not even sure what you're trying to dispute anymore. Laura Kinney's new comic "All-New Wolverine" has not debuted yet, but her new character All-New Wolverine is debuting in Marvel PQ this week. Nobody is disputing that Laura Kinney or X-23 haven't been in comics before, she's been around for over a decade. But not as All-New Wolverine, which was JUST announced in June of this year, so I'm not even sure what the photos of your 2011 comic would prove? That she dressed up in Wolverine's outfit one time? They released artwork of her in her new outfit previously, but she has not officially debuted in any form of media yet, until PQ on Wednesday.
Sent photos to Eli's email. Wasn't trying to be rude, and wasn't trying to offend you. The article felt like you knew nothing of the character and I personally felt "my opinion" that if you clef out X-23s wiki on top of the info marvel gave you it might have came across better. I really do appreciate all the work you guys put in on the site. And all the time and dedication you individually put in. I have been here from the very start, we get in to journalistic differences every few years and I inevitably get banned and have to make a new account. I've been making progress in only trying to post positive no combative comments. My sincerest apologies. Keep up the good fight!
I did consult the X-23 wiki while writing this, among a few other sources. Like I said, I don't follow comics closely, but I know who Laura Kinney is. I specifically spend extra time when writing about comic things because I know how fickle hardcore fans can be. Again, I don't think the info on the character (and the point you're trying to argue) makes any difference. This is the first debut of All-New Wolverine, and it's before the book of said character is out. That's all that was stated in the article, and it is still accurate. Anyway, I know you weren't trying to be mean, but we pour our lives into TouchArcade. Even when writing little news stories like this, which makes how you stated your comment really offensive. I appreciate being corrected or even being given additional insight into something (which is what I think you've given me here), but what you did was automatically assume I did absolutely no due diligence when I wrote this, which isn't the case. I'm disappointed this turned into the silly argument that it has, but I'll always defend my integrity and I still stand by the post above.
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I for one will never take a marvel announcement about marvel intellectual property as canon again.
No one here seems to see or tackle the real problem: it's Wolvie with boobs.
I like female characters like the next guy, but we are talking about The Manliest of All Men.
General Teddy spoke.
That was one of the most hilarious arguments I've ever read
Are you guys sure she isn't Wolverines love child with Jean Grey? I was positive in #212 of the amazing Xmen wolverine and Jean had a baby. The baby was taken to the future by cable where she was raised and eventually met wolverine. Wolverine gave up his claws to his daughter and then was sent back in time to 2015. I could be wrong about the date, didn't do any fact checking.
I...I......I'm at a loss of words. This has to be one of the most captivating and historic comment sections this year. Thank you Internet, for always showing me we truly do have no God!
Not trying to be a jerk, but it's "role."
I read this and re-read Jared's point. I don't believe he mis-quoted anything. He simply made the point that this is the 1st time her character - slated for a comic that's yet to publish - is being put in the game. Technically speaking, his statement is correct, because IF she wore the suit before when Logan was still around, she wouldn't outright be Wolverine....right? They could be preferred to as "The Wolverines" in the sense of a team, but I'm pretty sure Logan would still be the existing Wolverine and that would leave girley to be X-23. IDK....Semantics, as stated before. People need to calm down with the harsh criticism though. Everybody's a f'ing scholar when it comes to internet comments. Sheesh
A. I keep seeing this. Why is being a scholar in the comments a pejorative? Scholars are why we're not all retarded. Do you mean critics?
B. *referred
C. Why is it so hard to say, "you're right, thank you. I did not know that. Heehee, the Marvel rep gave it to me wrongly. Life is a continual process of improvement ^_^. Such wow. Great readership. Glad to have!"
D. His implication and info pointed to him believing her debut being in the game and his following comments pointed to this as well, semantic suppositions are pretty-much academic in the face of knowing one's actual intention with the words.
E. Some of your readers really love what you're reporting on and want to help.
F. I like having fun too, but it totally, semantically, seems like you guys were just toying with this guy. I hope that wasn't the intention.
"D. His implication and info pointed to him believing her debut being in the game and his following comments pointed to this as well." that was my main point.
I can acknowledge I was quick to post, and made an incorrect assumption on how much research the author did. And I can also see how my original comment was a bit rude, based off of my assumption. I don't feel like they were "toying" with me either.
Well that's all good then. I'm always eager to chalk things up to a big misunderstanding ("failure to communicate") and it's really hard to deploy any kind of criticisms, especially text-based ones, and keep the tone non-threatening just because so much of text has to do with us personally inhabiting the words (and hopefully reciting it via Morgan Freeman or Samuel L or our particular narrator of choice).
Not easily done or perhaps even possible to
do completely objectively.
Anyways, glad to hear it's all good.
/BlackJesusHug and /Goodnight