Comments on: The Perils of Being a Critic: Bad Movie Review Brings Lawsuit http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/03/10/the-perils-of-being-a-critic-bad-movie-review-brings-lawsuit/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Sun, 26 May 2013 02:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thom http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/03/10/the-perils-of-being-a-critic-bad-movie-review-brings-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-109813 Thom Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:02:15 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=11075#comment-109813 Since when has buying advertising equaled a contract for good press?

Newton is a clear moron.

]]> By: Thad http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/03/10/the-perils-of-being-a-critic-bad-movie-review-brings-lawsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-109809 Thad Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:44:38 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=11075#comment-109809 And film’s a respected medium; this kind of thing is even worse when it comes to video game reviews.

Back in ’07, an editor named Jeff Gerstmann got fired from GameSpot, after giving a negative review to a game which was heavily advertised on the site. Four other editors quit. (It’s summarized in Wikipedia’s article on Gerstmann, and there’s a Penny Arcade strip at http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/30/ — standard Penny Arcade language warning applies.)

Despite comics being almost as much a redheaded stepchild of the entertainment world as games, I can’t think of a similar situation in the comics world offhand. Can anyone else?

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