Maria Sanapo walked away, so they got a new artist Edu Menna. I'm not sure who he is, but it looks like he has worked on a lot of Dynamite books in the past. They also added some extra pages because the book has been so late. In the last update on December 2nd, they said they book was out to the printer.
I can license my CG Title Generator to Adam Post if he's having trouble with the creativity aspect of comics making!
WHY?
Putting aside the fact Post is/was borderline fraudulently shovelling shitware for his own comics, the man has all the charisma and personality of a lobotomy outpatient. I know I wasn’t the only who wondered what the continental fuck he contributed on any stream he appeared on.
Conceptually, I consider Post similar to the guy that burns a bunch of Super Nintendo ROMS to a CD-R and sells them on E-bay.
Is he upfront about not being a creative? Can there be such a thing as strictly a "Comicsgate Publisher" or "Comicsgate Editor"? It seems like with these sorts of things there can never be any question as to what the value proposition is and where you contribute to the addition of that value lest some resentments and suspicion starts to build.
Post gave the impression that the books he was publishing were his own creations. When he started getting shit about the margin issue for the mermaids book, he mentioned once or twice that they had been a webtoon, but never fessed up to them not being from his own brain.
One could also ask "Who?" as in "Who the fuck likes Adam Post?"
This spring when Post was outed here at KF for not being creatively involved in the books he was pushing and that his only industry credits were editing porn comics, I wondered if he'd been paying for his spot at the table. Charlie's London superchatted her way onto the show, it doesn't seem out of the question that Post could have just eliminated the middleman and considered it a marketing expense. EVS said he liked Post's low engagement videos about CG and that somehow lead to Post getting in Frog's private DM group and becoming a fixture on the CAPS streams despite being unfunny, uninteresting, and pushing shitty books he didn't have anything to do with creating. Plenty of people are boring but friendly, but Adam Post managed to somehow turn that into a regular spot on the channel of the biggest indie comics creator in the country. Seems a little weird on its face but perfectly sensible if you assume he paid for the exposure.
This has been a suspicion about George Mohlo for awhile (along with simple mental breakdown or money laundering scheme). Dude started a channel a few months after starting the $500-$1,500 per stream superchat bombs.
Well, if you look at the cover of College of the Dead (or Mermaids), and know nothing about Adam Post (i.e. you're not a weirdo who reads this EVIL Nazi shitposting website), I think a reasonable person can be forgiven for thinking that this is a creative endeavor by Adam Post.
Sure. I believe @FROG basically wants to add those job titles to his business cards though ALLCAPS. Though it would fail the "strictly" part, since he's definitely a creator as well. He wouldn't necessarily have to be to run ALLCAPS though.
Before Post was on Frog's channel, Adam Post was on early War Campaign streams. He'd stream from a sofa in a room that could have doubled as a brothel movie set (red velvet sofa and heavy curtains). while vehemently proclaiming about how he'd sacrificed for the industry and ComicsGate.
Eh, I don't think Frog is so hard up that he has to take blatant payola like that. London's unsolicited supers may have helped get Frog's attention but just flagrant backroom dealing like that would be on another level.
One doesn't necessarily need to be hard up to accept easy money. If you needed a ride a few blocks away and gave me $20 for my trouble, I'd probably accept it even if I wasn't hard up for $20 especially if it's just a short ride. The little bit of effort is no skin off my nose for an easy buck.
Yeah, I remember him hailing all over himself in WC streams. He has zero industry footprint and his contribution to CG is minimal at best. Nobody in comics knows or cares who Adam Post is, which is why it seems odd to me that he got on the biggest platform out there on a regular basis. EVS has hosted his share of zeros (for free) but at least somebody like Wenger was often a spectacle you could laugh at and was responsible for creating his own terrible comic. The reason I brought up the payola conspiracy theory is because that's legit the only way I could see him getting on that stream as often as he did.
Unless your name is National Lampoon, just using a possessive title itself when you make (and have made) zero direct creative contribution is going to result in questions, hence the issue of the above-mentioned value proposition. But his name appears twice on the cover! Not even gay magazine magnate Jann Wenner would do this and he's a guy who thought the contents of his personal record collection unironically deserved the title "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".
Promoting something just to spite somebody is lame. I'll lightly razz Frog over Kamen America but, as you know, I actually like Kamen America.
This is completely believable and less scummy than my payola theory, but is there a clip of Ethan talking about this? I have to think if he was going to do something explicitly to spite Smiller and Edwin he would never fail to mention it whenever Post was shilling his book. Maybe my brain has melted together all the CG streams I've sat through over the last couple of years, but I don't recall Frog pushing College of the Dead and telling his audience to back it as a middle finger to Smiller and Methwin, which would not seem out of place or out of character for Ethan at that time in CG history. When the Post stuff came out earlier this year, Frog came here and said he initially invited Post on the show because he liked some pro-CG videos he'd made. I have to think if it was really to spite the Statler and Waldorf of Comicsgate that he'd have zero problem being up front about it, particularly after Post was booted.
Ethan liked him and he didn't piss anybody off. I think that's the bar for "well liked" in CG.
I dunno. Did he ever say on his stream that he was gonna keep promoting DAMEGANG to spite KF? I mean, he didn't initially, but I'm talking about after we ribbed him about what was in that book. He said/joked as much here.
Lame. Grifting should be shunned by all groups worth a shit. But hey, a lot of people think CG has come more grift that not at this point anyways. I've been drifting into that mindset for a while now myself.
