Waid entered into direct combat with one of the women ejected from the Calgary expo!

Source: Reuters

Last week, we reported on our favorite hot-headed comic book writer, Mark Waid, and his one man battle against the forces of GamerGate. Well, Kurt Busiek also waged a one man battle with GamerGate last week, so I guess it's a two man battle. In any case, we wrote about it, it's on the record, you should go read it and get caught up. After the amazing feat of capturing fifty-seven screenshots for that article, we called it a day and moved on.

But not Mark Waid. No, we checked in on Waid on Twitter yesterdday, and it turns out he is still fighting with GamerGate. I don't know if he's been going nonstop since last week or if he just does it all the time, but man, that must be fucking exhausting. Mark Waid is hero, ladies and gentleman. A true culture warrior, out on the front lines of Twitter, defending Comicdom from the invading GamerGate horde.

According to culture wars historians, here's how the battle went down:

Part 1 -- Waid v. GamerGate Redux

Things kicked off this afternoon when a GamerGater replied to one of Waid's tweets from last week. Waid responded:

But that was just geting Mark Waid warmed up, because now it was time to truly prove his mettle.

Part 2 -- BOSS FIGHT!!!

Now, instead of a random GamerGater, Waid squared off with one of the women who was ejected from the Calgary Expo, Alison Tieman. Tieman's primary mode of attack was to accuse Waid of misogyny, a devastating attack that can do serious damage to a person's social media hit points. Well paced dodging of attacks followed by swift and accurate counter-attacks would be required to survive the battle:

And it sort of ended there. Well, that was about as productive as any of these conversations ever are. So fuck it, let's...

Part 3 -- Play Fight With Dan Slott!

Dan Slott will fight anybody, and then he'll fuck their mom.

Part 4 -- Time to Recharge for Another Day of Battle

And now, it was time for Mark Waid, satisfied with a day of honest social media warfare, to rest:

No, Mark. Thank you.