The Last Damned Thing I'm Writing About "The Juddass" for a while.

SOURCE: WINICK ON "THE FIGHT"

Judd just gave a rebuttal to the question of "why didn't Black Canary just use her Canary Cry?" at the above link. I will limit my response to five points.

1. To quote The Joker ne: Bruce Timm, "If you have to explain a joke, then there is no joke!" The same principal applies to action scenes - if you have to explain what is happening afterwards and the art doesn't match up to your explanation, than you wrote a bad story.

2. There is no point in the The Wedding Special that you can look at and say "Ah. THIS is where Everyman switched with Ollie", by Judd's own admission. So Judd Winick just basically said that he not only won't bother explaining how his stories fit into the continuity of other people's work - he won't even bother explaining the flow of action in his own books!

3. It is never a good idea to insult your potential readership's intelligence or bring question to your own integrity as a professional by asking - less than a month after you were swearing blind that you were originally going to kill off Black Canary, but that you thought a story about her dealing with Ollie's death was ultimately more interesting - if people thought you were really serious about killing Ollie off. When you start talking about alternative storylines as a way to defuse anger over what you wrote... yes, we do sort of presume that we should take you seriously. It's called taking someone at their word. You should look into it.

4. Dismissing your own admitted failings as a storyteller by pointing out that George Lucas used the same shortcuts in his writing does not excuse you from being a bad storyteller.

5. The minute you disrespect Stan Lee by suggesting that he wrote the foundation of the Silver Age of Comics at Marvel Comics during "a drunken bender" or that he ever worked in an altered state... that's the minute you lose any right you have for me to regard you as anything other than a complete and total asshat.