Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I think it was one of those "send me anonymous messages" things, and they got the one about @stealthygeek making AI art with their scribblings.

Yup, they often made it sound quite illegal to own a coverless book, but it's perfectly legal. It's a contractual dispute between the publisher and the reseller; you're not involved.

It all started when printing books got cheap enough that they no longer gave a fuck, they'd overprint everything and ship it out, and the ones that didn't sell would have the covers ripped off and the covers shipped back (cheap) instead of shipping back all the copies (which the publisher wouldn't warehouse anyway).

Usually it was smaller booksellers that would do this, because the big fuckers would just strong-arm the publishers enough to get deals such that they'd just remainder the extra and not send back for credit. So the local bookstore would buy "the latest from Random House" and get 100 books, pay Random House $200 or whatever it might be wholesale, and then they could return covers of any of the 100 books within a (say) year and get $2 credit back per cover.

Apparently hella more common with comic books, but for the same basic reason. You want to overstock so you don't lose a sale, and they're cheap as hell to make.

 

[AnOminous]

Apparently hella more common with comic books, but for the same basic reason. You want to overstock so you don't lose a sale, and they're cheap as hell to make.

Also comic book stores have almost ceased to exist because just to buy the one or two capeshit properties that anyone actually wants to buy, they force the stores to buy all kinds of wokeshit, often with a no-return policy even if they don't sell. These businesses with already pathetically razor-thin profit margins often just went out of business.

Marvel/DC killed their own major outlets. Now most of these IPs are just used to retain trademarks and prove they're still used "in commerce" to milk their shitty movies that nobody wants to watch either. Somehow in hard times they don't grasp that people want entertainment when they pay a lot of money to go to a movie, not to be humorlessly lectured by faggots, trannies, and niggers with vitiligo.

 

[Summer of George]

Easter blessings to all of God's stalker children

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Also comic book stores have almost ceased to exist because just to buy the one or two capeshit properties that anyone actually wants to buy, they force the stores to buy all kinds of wokeshit, often with a no-return policy even if they don't sell. These businesses with already pathetically razor-thin profit margins often just went out of business.

It was already razor thin 20 years ago, because most people who actually wanted a comic series would subscribe, so most comic stores were just infinite piles of used comics and some D&D shit.

Forcing stores to take shit nobody wants is a great way to goose sales numbers of shit nobody wants, however. Quite sneaky.

 

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

>The metokur stream only had an ounce of pork ribs to focus on Mersh and DEBOONKING the allegations

 

[L Ton Tubbard]

Easter blessings to all of God's stalker children

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You are mentally happy.

You are going to have a good Easter.

You have been instructed, many thousands of times, to enjoy Easter. Doing so constitutes a happy time. Enjoy your Easter.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

The Ark has a similar bad mass market paperback cover:

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These look like gay romance novels. The final book in the series apparently didn't sell well enough to make it to Mass Market status.

"Two centuries after Earth, and the killing has started again"

Uh, what?

Although if you add another "after" and capitalize the second into "After" this becomes a hilarious story about the future tyrannical reign of Jaden Smith.

 

[crunk connoisseur]

You are going to dungeon, intruder.

You are mentally ill, intruder.

You have been instructed, many thousands of times, to cease entering this swamp. Continuing to do so constitutes felony trespassing. Do not enter this swamp again.

~ Patrick Shrek Tomlinson

 

[RollingRock2]

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You are going to dungeon, intruder.

You are mentally ill, intruder.

You have been instructed, many thousands of times, to cease entering this swamp. Continuing to do so constitutes felony trespassing. Do not enter this swamp again.

~ Patrick Shrek Tomlinson

Some child once told me
The world is gonna troll me
I'm just a fat faggot with bitch tits

 

[Pedophobe]

Pat was looking kind of dumb
With his finger and his thumb
Propped up against the side of his fat head

 

[Piggle Rick]

Well the trolls start comin’
and they don’t stop comin’
Busted me cheating when I said I was runnin’
Didn’t make sense not to live to drink
Your brain gets wet and your body gets thick
So much to eat, so much to tweet
So what’s wrong with sausage from the back streets?

Hey now, you’re a fat fuck
Get your meatloaf
And - beer!

(Etc)

EDIT: Realised sausage fit better than eating in that last line of the verse

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

Hey now, you're pig cuck
Get your black farts
In here!

My book writin' has failed
Only stalker childs
End up jailed

 

[Pedophobe]

It's a half house and the yard gets salted
The basement's full of kids until they all bolted
But the first wife begs to differ
Judging by her smile in that picture

 

[internet friend]

Looking at my waist, it's not very thin
Pepperoni is warm so just dig in
My Xitters full of childs, how bout yours
That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored

 

[Tablet County]

Guys...

We made it.

 

[Pedophobe]

HEY NOW you're a fat pig
And Quasi got paid
Get your checks out in your wife's name
Coz you got no claim

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Also comic book stores have almost ceased to exist because just to buy the one or two capeshit properties that anyone actually wants to buy, they force the stores to buy all kinds of wokeshit, often with a no-return policy even if they don't sell. These businesses with already pathetically razor-thin profit margins often just went out of business.

Marvel/DC killed their own major outlets. Now most of these IPs are just used to retain trademarks and prove they're still used "in commerce" to milk their shitty movies that nobody wants to watch either. Somehow in hard times they don't grasp that people want entertainment when they pay a lot of money to go to a movie, not to be humorlessly lectured by faggots, trannies, and niggers with vitiligo.

Before Diamond Select lost their contracts they would toss shit into your shipment and tell you to sell it as you couldn't send it back. LGS's are doing better without having to deal with them. I myself haven't picked up a comic in over a decade because the stories are shit and need the Comic's Code to come back and I can't be bothered to spend $7 for a comic with such shit art with the comic only actually being worth $3 on the aftermarket as they wont go up in value. Nowadays I just read manhwas and Korean/ Chinese novels since all Japanese can do now is make rape fiction. The West can't write worth shit, and it takes too long to translate French and Polish comics which tend to be pretty good.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Nowadays I just read manhwas and Korean/ Chinese novels since all Japanese can do now is make rape fiction. The West can't write worth shit, and it takes too long to translate French and Polish comics which tend to be pretty good.

Any good ones?

 

[Mourning_Cloak]

There was two kinds of sci-fi in the bargain trash bin (0.25$) - ones with generic covers that at least had some resemblance to something described in the story, and those with none.

Recently I went to my city's big public library and wandered around. Hadn't been in that one before. I got the idea to check the sci-fi section and see if any of Pat's books were there.

There weren't any, but I did notice that of the mass of sci-fi books they did have, most of the covers had a weird kind of sameness about them. How hard is it to make a decent cover?

 

[Pedophobe]

How hard is it to make a decent cover?

In this day and age making an appealing cover is probably a forgotten art.