CBN Twitter Wars: Batman Vs. Superior Spider-Man: Wacker & Slott Started It!

Perhaps unbeknownst to Dan Slott and Stephen Wacker I actually spoke and met with them at the 2011 NYCC as I was called up on stage to read an early copy of Avenging Spider-Man #1.

It was QnA time and I had stepped up to tell the panel my thoughts on Spider-Man, specifically "One More Day," which I referred to as "One More Dollar," with editor Stephen Wacker chiming in with a few quips like he is (now?) known for.

My point wasn't actually to rip on Spidey, but to give Dan Slott a compliment as I stated that I had stopped all my Spider-Man reading with "One More Dollar," but decided to give Slott's new Amazing Spider-Man a try since I needed to satisfy my Spider-Man craving. They asked me how many issues I had to read to get onboard and I replied only one -- the first one. With that, I was reading Avenging Spider-Man #1, and when completed told Wacker it was better than Justice League #1 (it was).

Little did I know then what I do now and that was CBN's two favorite books, Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy, would be relaunched under the Wacker banner. We actually stopped Axel Alonso as he was walking through the con - to his surprise - and asked about Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy, to which he replied "we love them."

Yeah, right.

Well, Wacker also edits the Spider-Man books (quite fitting if you have been following any of the Loeb Nova news) and back in December he made a remark that Superior Spider-Man is Batman.

Then in today's preview for Superior Spider-Man #3 Dan Slott included a jab at Batman, specifically the Bat Signal, with it mentioned that all of Spider-Man's (read: Batman's) foes would be able to find him as the light would point to his location.

I raised an eyebrow at this and figured Dan Slott - who has written Batman before (see below) - just missed the entire point of the Bat signal.

Well, Dan took to his Twitter to begin a Twitter War with @Cosmic Book News, where we've apparently been graced with Slott's presence as he's unblocked us.

CBN reviewer and Managing Editor Chris Bushley (not on Twitter) wanted to fire one back at Dan offering the following about today's issue of Superior Spider-Man #2:

"Ask him how many times he had to watch Ghost in order to write Superior #2!"

So for those who aren't on Twitter enjoy the show:

Dan Slott Misses The Point Of The Bat Signal In Superior Spider-Man #3 Preview comics.cosmicbooknews.com/content/dan-sl…

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews Ok, answer this: How is it NOT a good way to find him? You shine a light. Most of the times he comes TO THAT SPECIFIC SPOT.

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 31, 2013

@danslott Dan, you unblocked us! :)

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

@danslott he's Batman. They don't want to find him. :)

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews @danslott Play nice, boys. The Signal is kinda dumb b/c you can pinpoint it to Bats, but Bats usu. creeps in & out on Gordon

— Classick Material (@classickmateria) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews @danslott Or how about we split the signal in half and each of you take a piece??

— Classick Material (@classickmateria) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews Cosmic Book News misses the point of the Spidey signal. #SSM2

— Jason Nugent (@JasonANugent) January 31, 2013

What says @ssnyder1835? Is the Bat signal a bad idea because it pinpoints Batman's location? via @danslott Sup Spid 3 bit.ly/XVDnsd

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews To be fair, I've written Batman (Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, Justice League Confidential, & a run of Batman Adventures.) :-)

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews well, there are usually a few dozen armed police officers around where the Bat signal is located.

— Dan Pfeiffer (@dpfeif) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews Shine a light. Sometimes he shows. A Bat-villain w/ a long range bazooka, if they waited long enough, could blow up Batman.

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 31, 2013

@danslott Batman is pretty great but I am SO glad that Spidey destroyed the signal. Too Batman & not on par with his other technologies.

— Comic Book Kid (@ComicBookKidUK) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews your anti anything marvel is getting a little tiresome

— Big Dave (@malwaexpress) January 31, 2013

@dpfeif @cosmicbooknews That's why I said "long range bazooka" in the other tweet. ;-)

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 31, 2013

@danslott well, if comics were written like that there would be no comics. And Spidey would have been killed a long time ago.

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

So... What you're saying, @cosmicbooknews, is that you're going to give ME a FREE PASS on EVERYTHING from now on. Because "it's comics"? ;-)

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 31, 2013

@cosmicbooknews @danslott Spidey once wore a big red signal that flashed from his belt... just sayin...

— Classick Material (@classickmateria) January 31, 2013

@danslott all free passes are subjective, Dan. :)

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews the Marvel Universe is not the DC Universe.thank god.

— Nicholas Schoonbeck (@cormacru999) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews <insert villain here> could have set off a nuke in Gotham and got the whole Bat-family by that logic. ;)#comics

— Dan Pfeiffer (@dpfeif) January 31, 2013

@danslott @cosmicbooknews I like Batman as much as the next guy but if you don't think Slott has a point here you're just lying to yourself.

— K.Mitchell (@FatBaby3838) February 1, 2013

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