Still more Wright stuff
(I've added several items to this over the past day. Just trying to keep it all in one place.)
- Comic Book Resources has a recap of the developments up to this hour, including Richard Leiby countering Wright's "It was my idea to confess all along!" claim. (They're calling it a "hoax" too, though. Ugh.)
- Diggs at 4 Mile Creek questions Wright's claim of ROTC service, among other things.
- David Weigel has a transcript of Wright doing some radio drama, unbeknownst to the host.
- In an interview at the Sequential Tart comics webzine, Wright's answer when asked which superhero he most wanted to be as a kid: "Sgt. Rock." Ya don't say!
- Mrs. Spoons provides some more background that sounds like, well, like a Micah Wright story, frankly. But who knows? At this point, the only thing you could say about him that would surprise me is that he's genuinely contrite and fully comprehends what he's done.
- Add Michael Pollard to the list of people directly lied to by Wright. Is Wright's arrogance part of what's bugging people? Not just lying to your face, but being a condescending prick about it? I think maybe that's what's speaking to people about this.
- Comics reporter Heidi MacDonald on interviewing Wright: "Don't let his apology confuse you. Micah constantly goes on about the Rangers. Maybe he was playing it up for a reporter, but this wasn't something he tried not to talk about. He made constant references in his conversation to it. I remember him looking at a billboard of some sixpack-sporting male models in a beer ad and remarking how phony that was. 'Even the guys who were in the Rangers who were in really good shape didn't have those kind of six-packs,' he said."
- Wright has changed the main page of his site so it's just his drastically truncated "apology," but the old main page is still here. Or at least it was there at the time of this writing.
- Check out the Seven Stories Press page for his now-cancelled book, If You're Not a Terrorist... Then Stop Asking Questions! Maybe they could have saved face by changing it to If You're Not a Ranger... Then Start Telling Whoppers! The bio blurb still has the Ranger stuff (and the Emmy stuff... hmm), which has been taken down elsewhere on the site. So it's kind of a collector's item. Hurry, before they delete it! And when they do, just click here for the original. (Update: It was indeed changed, about half an hour after I posted this Monday morning, and backdated to April 27. If you care to sort out how that fits into Wright's ever-shifting timeline of events, feel free. It's giving me a headache. Anyway, considering they've published Chomsky, Zinn, Ramsey Clark, Mumia Abu-Jamal, etc., just think how bad you have to fuck up to get them to cancel your book. And it was supposed to come out in just a couple of weeks, so that can't be a good situation for anybody involved. Although they do say (emphasis mine): "While it saddens us to cancel any book, especially one so strong on its merits, this decision seems to us to be unavoidable under the circumstances." Huh. Maybe he'll be okay after all...)
- Sean Collins recaps the various feuds Wright has started in his two short years as a comics professional, and has some good advice for dealing with that type of person in the future.
- One last thought before I give it a rest for now: This whole thing is like The Usual Suspects in reverse. Wright was pretending to be Keyser Soze, but the whole time he was really Verbal Kint. Deep, huh?
Posted by Jim Treacher at May 2, 2004 06:17 PM
