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LateNightComics said:
I just realized this bitch wakes up every day around 4am to tweet some butthurt bullshit.
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That's right Heather and you are a dick. That's why I'm talking about you here right now.
Even soft hearted leftist pros are realizing she is a pied piper. (See archive)
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Alpha Male Writers, you should know Heather runs more gay ops than the WC and is only about 10% as successful.
Her whisper campaigns and blacklists are beginning to fall like dominoes because once most of the original CG accounts went away; like a typical SJW she had nothing to eat but her own.
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Well who doesn't like a nice veiled threat first thing in the morning?
 
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YaBoi gets mentioned in this vid by NoBullshit:

LateNightComics said:
I just realized this bitch wakes up every day around 4am to tweet some butthurt bullshit.
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That's right Heather and you are a dick. That's why I'm talking about you here right now.
Even soft hearted leftist pros are realizing she is a pied piper. (See archive)
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Alpha Male Writers, you should know Heather runs more gay ops than the WC and is only about 10% as successful.
Her whisper campaigns and blacklists are beginning to fall like dominoes because once most of the original CG accounts went away; like a typical SJW she had nothing to eat but her own.
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Didnt she tweet something nearly identical to this a year ago? Is she recycling tweets now, SAD.

Also who’s the Alpha Sped? Is this one of your socks?
 
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damian said:
YaBoi gets mentioned in this vid by NoBullshit:


Didnt she tweet something nearly identical to this a year ago? Is she recycling tweets now, SAD.

Also who’s the Alpha Sped? Is this one of your socks?
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I think you're right I checked the date to make sure she wasn't retweeting herself from last year.

No idea who that guy is, I just thought the exchange was funny.

Also this.
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Great topic for a stream Ethan!!! I thought the same thing when I saw that stupid shit.
 
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Missed this stream that they did. Don't even remember getting a notification. Pretty nice stream, but nothing particularly new, talking about Jawbreakers and improvements for GodKing, Cyberfrog, Reinbow Brute and all that noise, Zack is toying with a story idea for Cecil though.

But oh my god Zack, you fucking autist, let EVS set you up with an online store to sell the damn shirts. Don't put it as a perk, just sell the damn shirts. Everyone is begging you to do this. It would be easier to do this. I don't even want a shirt and I'm begging you. He is so resistant to the store and it's driving me nuts.

 
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Stoneheart said:
having good printstores like crypto is very new, maybe he got burned before.
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No no, it's much worse. He has it in his head that he needs to personally be good at something before expanding and that clothes are inherently worthless(as in over $10? fuck off ). Oh update, thank god, I think they wore him down into opening a store

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EVS sounds pretty butthurt tbh.
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Probably is. He laughs, but getting called all that shit everyday has got to suck
 
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Uh-Oh, IDW's having a company review for a possible sale, but don't worry I'm sure comicbooks are doing fine...
IDW For Sale? J.P. MORGAN Hired To Review Company & 'Maximize Stockholder Value'
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By Chris Arrant, Editor March 27, 2019 06:23am ET

IDW Media Holdings, Inc. has hired J.P. Morgan to help in a company review for a possible sale (or other alternatives) to "maximize stockholder value and realize the full potential of its vast content library and pipeline." IDW is the parent company of IDW Publishing.
"IDWM continues to build on its extensive library of widely followed and critically acclaimed graphic novels and comics, as well as its slate of current and planned televisions series, including some of the strongest and most innovative franchises in the industry," said company Chairman/CEO Howard Jonas.
"As competition for audience continues to intensify on both traditional and streaming, over-the-top platforms, IDWM is well positioned to produce and feed stellar programming in domestic and international markets," added Jonas. "Consequently, we are working to extend our reach through new strategic partnerships while examining other alternatives to realize the full value of IDWM’s outstanding IP portfolio and pipelines."
This comes a few weeks after a representative from ADW Capital Partners, who owns roughly a 9% stake in IDW, released a letter calling for the company to be acquired. Adam Wyden said the recent acquisitions of Valiant Entertainment (by DMG) and Millarworld (by Netflix) set a precedent for IDW's market value, especially given this company is larger - as a comics company - than those other two examples.
"[IDW] is in an enviable position as the fourth largest comic book publisher by dollar share," Wyden said. "We are consistently amazed by the quality of the Company's leadership and its ability to source, incubate, and add to its growing library of content/intellectual property."
According to Wyden, IDW owns or co-owns over 200 franchises.
IDW's CEO/Chairman Howard Jonas has said that this review process won't necessarily result in any transaction.
"There can be no assurance that our review process will result in any transaction," said Jonas. "We have not established a timetable for completion of the review process, and we do not intend to comment further on the process unless and until a transaction or other alternative is approved by the Board of Directors, our review process is concluded, or we determine that further disclosure is appropriate."
In recent years, both BOOM! Studios and Dark Horse Comics have sold portions of its company to outside investors to raise funds for projects.
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Is this a troll or for real?

Fuck it, I'll actually own the fact that I don't really understand what War Campaign is in the first place, never mind what this 2+ hour rambling from an apostate from said (bowel) movement is supposed to be about. Oddly compelling for all that.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Ultimate Marvel only happened because, due to Bob Harras and Mark Power's increasing power tripping and general micromanaging (along with hiring Claremont back and basically allowing him to engage in some of his worst excesses), they managed to derail the X-Men franchise line to the point that they saw zero sales bump from the first X-Men film. And with the Spider-Man movie coming up and sales of the Spider-Man line being similarly in the toilet, Harras was told to pitch a line of new reader friendly books for fans of the movies.

However, Joe Quesada was already angling for a coup and managed an angle to get control over the Ultimate line AND provide a final straw for getting rid of Harras. While Harras wanted to treat the books as throwaways and give them to his cronies (Terry Kavanaugh for Ultimate X-Men, Howard Mackie for Ultimate Spider-Man); Quesada pitched hiring Brian Bendis and Mark Millar (huge names at the time) for the books instead and for them being given a huge push, with TPB/HC releases and heavy promotional push in all of the fan magazines and online.

Also, the Ultimate line had huge problems: Spider-Man was super-decompressed (to the point that you had issues where NOTHING happened) and basically became Bendis's persona fiefdom, propped up solely by the fact that Bendis was allowed to use Mary Jane as Peter's girlfriend (and dumping her the moment the embargo on her was lifted in the main book, replacing her with his preferred love interest, Kitty Pryde), editorial interference (Green Goblin being a Hulk, Venom appearing) and the fact that it quickly became locked out to casual readers due to the serialized format.

Ultimate X-Men was tainted by Millar's super edginess and his treatment of Wolverine, making him a wholesale villain who due to editorial mandate was "good". Also, Ult X-Men varied from decompressed as hell and super rushed, and once Millar left, you had a cavalcade of writers each rushing to introduce their pet character and stories and no real stability. Not to mention the edginess (Nightcrawler holding Dazzler prisoner to make her love him, Longshot as a murderer who butchered a man for sleeping with his wife, Deadpool as a mutant hating bigot who's sole character trait was how much he loved slaughtering mutants). And Ultimates was handcuffed by Bryan Hitch being a lazy fuck with massive gaps between issues.

Within a couple of years, the Ultimate line was reduced to being Millar and Bendis's personal sandbox that they blocked all other writers from playing in, then leveraged their success to highjack the main books of the Marvel line. Millar eventually left the line, but Bendis then seized complete control: resulting in garbage like Peter Parker being murdered (because that was the best he could hope for, given the arc Bendis gave him where Fury found out his secret identity and gleefully proclaimed whenever they met, that once Peter turned 18, he would lose all rights and liberty and become the property of the US government via illegal enslavement with Fury sending him to kill and worse, for him) and replaced him with Miles.

Marvel DID realize that they fucked up and created the Marvel Adventure line, with Jeff Parker (a no-name at the time) as it's main writer. But no one cared about it save for giantess fetishists on 4chan, as Marvel refused to kill the Ultimate line to replace it outright nor did they give the Marvel Adventure line a proper promotional push (though they did acknowledge the fatal writing flaws of the Ultimate line, as the Marvel Adventure line was strictly one off stories and Parker explicitly instructed not to be edgy or worry about serialization in his work). But the Marvel Adventure line eventually petered out.

Also, doing explicit tie-ins for the movie is a no-go because Bendis poisoned relations between the movie and comic sides and because the movie people have made it clear they don't want the comic folks meddling inserting their own lore into the franchise. That is why the tie-ins are treated as dispossible fluff and only get released, once the finished film is completed and they know what they can and can't do. And even if they did, you don't know what things will look like between movies and the overall direction of the franchises (Transformers had a huge problem with this for the Michael Bay film tie-in comics; you had writers writing stuff, then having to pretty much retcon EVERYTHING they wrote once they found out the plot of the next film and how it invalidated everything they wrote beforehand).



It was actually around 32-33 issues.

And there are a huge number of asshats in the comic industry who believe, in spite of what fans feel, that moving Spider-Man out of high school was a huge mistake and that Stan Lee was mentally exceptional for daring to do something like that to the character (IE aging Peter in real time).
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Frankly, I think Ultimate Marvel should have served as a warning for how low Marvel comic quality would become in the future.
 
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Iwasamwillbe said:
Frankly, I think Ultimate Marvel should have served as a warning for how low Marvel comic quality would become in the future.
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Actually, it's much worse in so far as the fact that the Ultimate line was Quesada splitting the baby towards his desire for a wholesale "New 52" reboot of the entire Marvel Universe.

Quesada really had a great deal of contempt for fans and for the Marvel Universe at the time of his ascension. He wanted a single, loser teenage Peter Parker, HATED Avengers and Thunderbolts (two books which were continuity heavy at the time), and basically really hated the X-Men having such a huge continuity lock-out with more characters than a daytime soap.

On several occasions in the early 00s, it was leaked out gossip-wide, that Quesada wanted to nuke the entire Marvel line and just have the Ultimate line be the only game in town after the line launched to such critical and commercial success. The only thing that kept him from doing so was A. he didn't have enough big names on hand, to launch new books in the Ultimate line to replace all the books he'd be cancelling and 2. others at the time (in particular, Brevoort before Quesada and Bendis broke him) at the company reminded him that doing so would piss off an already angry readership already up at arms for a lot of Quesada's initiatives.
 
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AnOminous said:
I think the only way to get any value out of IDW at this point involves a fire insurance policy and a match.
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I'm eagerly awaiting their next financial report which will likely come at the end of April and a followup at the end of July. The last report stated they lost ~$7million last year and had loan maturities of $13million by July 2019, although i think the loans had outstanding balances of $3.5m due April 2019 and another $3m by July 2019 and not the full $13m. They also state that their worth as $49 million, but I'm willing to bet that 1/2 of it is valuations of IP rights that they can't convince Netflix to buy.

If IDW dies who'll take the reins when Disney eventually shutters and outsources Marvel comics?
 
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When the artists become so afraid of drawing idealized female bodies that they stop drawing female bodies altogether.
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At least Captain Marvel is not being sexually objectified, so as not to please white male cisgender heterosexual alt-right dudebro man-piss-babies.

I mean, you can't be sexually objectified if you have no sexually appealing characteristics in the first place.

But seriously...what body shapes can a female character have before she's being sexually objectified?
 
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