Previous Post My Welcome to Cates: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2019110714465798&layout=thread My suggestion on how Cates can improve: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020020718540119&layout=thread Issue #3 Bullet-Point Review: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020021214221079&search=review&layout=thread (Funny, LGDB participates in these threads but mysteriously doesn't remember substantive critiques. HUH). Issue #4 Bullet-Point Review: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020031118034415&layout=thread Issue #5 Break-Down (trying my hardest to like Cates' stories): https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020062416072299&search=Thor+%235&layout=thread Issue #6 Break down: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020081917444969&layout=thread Issue #7 Break down: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=thor-2020091707283360&search=Thor+%237&layout=thread And, oh look, me having the exact same discussion with Mod-Blake as we're having now, despite Mod-Blake being present throughout my entire substantive-critiquing history on these forums: https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?rpy=thor-2021041711375726&layout=thread

Yeah, amazing that something like this wouldn't have made an indelible impression on my memory since most of it amounts to your hard feelings of comics you don't like. Believe it or not there's a sea of this on the internet and this didn't stick out to me lol

Let's be clear about something. I have never said that you haven't written long posts about these comics. I said that I hadn't seen you present an argument or literary critique that wasn't overwhelming grounded in your own preferences. This is my consistent position: not that you don't go into detail, but that you conflate your taste with objective quality.

I think your standard for substantive critique isn't a good one if it just means, "I listed a bunch of things I didn't like."

Also, you said you posted essays. Let's say these would quality as essays. (Most of these posts are the size of a tweet thread.) Which one do you take to be the strongest one, most approaching objective or what have you? On that I'll demonstrate what I'm talking about. Or I can pick. I don't want you think I'm just going to pick the easiest one.

cheers,
--- the late great Donald Blake