Scott Kurtz
Oops.
Scott Kurtz replied in typical Scott Kurtz fashion. He sent Larry Ernst a nasty email and he posted it to his blog. It reads:
Dear Larry,
First of all my name is not Kurt. It’s Scott. Scott Kurtz. It’s written right there in the email you just pretended to send me. Not that my name’s important or that you are actually aware of who you’re addressing. I’m a pioneer in my field and a “tastemaker” with a large podium, why would it be important to get my name right? Let’s not dawdle on such mundane details.
Your conventions are total horseshit, so it’s wise to stop branding them with the name Wizard. But no amount of polishing is going to make me want to attended any of the 5 turds your company is going to crap out in 2010, especially when you schedule them against other shows in some bullshit dick measuring contests that serves no other purpose but to fracture an already dying industry that I have nostalgic ties to.
Remember Mike Wieringo? Remember how you guys only cared about him when he was the “hot artist” for a window of time and then you quickly forgot his name despite the fact that he was producing some of the best work of his career on Fantastic Four with Mark Waid? And then remember how after he died you had the balls to name one of your panel rooms the Mike Wieringo room? I will eternally hate everyone associated with your company for that. For eternity. For Jack Kirby’s version of Eternity where the concept is embodied as a giant man made up of the universe. That’s me, hating you for the Mike Wieringo thing. Forever.
Maybe if you cared enough to actually get my name right, or maybe if you cared about creators like the late, great Mike Wieringo beyond what they can do for you THIS FIVE MINUTES, the entire industry wouldn’t all be anticipating your inevitable bankruptcy.
Give Dushku my best. She’s pretty hot and Dollhouse is alright. Otherwise, shove everything else up your ass.
Best.
Scott (Kurt) Kurtz
Cartoonist
www.pvponline.comp.s. please take of me off the comp list for your retarded super-hero boobs magazine.
After reading this response, I have to believe that Scott Kurtz was going to be removed from Wizard Entertainment’s comp list one way or another. It seems to me that telling Larry Ernst to shove something up his rectum would ensure just that.
I’ll be totally honest and admit that before reading Kurtz’s email yesterday, I had never heard the word “tastemaker” used before. Then last night while watching Community, I heard it again. How weird is that?
Obviously, Scott Kurtz had a real problem with Larry Ernst not knowing who he was. From the level of hostility in Kurtz’s reaction, you might think that he would never make the same mistake. If you thought that, you would be wrong.