Lady Alchemy/Martina Markota is another Cridious in the making
Go to 1:37:00 to 2:00:00 for the gist of the following :
https://thedickshow.com/episode-198/
Some highlights of the video were
1) Markota pretty much didn't give her writer and artist practically any lead/direction and chose to essentially ignore their scripts (or just not care until later);
2) Markota, like Cridious, apparently appropriated a chunk of the project's money for a Visa for her husband or boyfriend (forgot which);
3) Her artist (not sure about the writer) was paid only 4k;
4) Her artist and/or writer actually started the project (so technically it's theirs);
5) Markota was allowed/offered to come on the show but didn't (don't really think much of an effort was made to get her on but whatever);
6) Her artist and/or writer shared the same accountant at least for this project so they should be able to actually prove their case;
7) Either her artist or writer went through the trouble still of shipping Lady Alchemy posters and shirts while Martina did nothing; and
The only involvement that I can discern Doug had was essentially just talking to the artist and writer on how to deal with Martina after things went south. So technically...Micah's conspiracy theory does have a kernel of truth, but that's only because of the peculiar situation (see also
@Mister Dongs post in the Hanger's on thread regarding Micah Curtis' white knight defense/conspiracy theory against Doug Tennapel wanting to de-platform Lady Alchemy if you want a dose of exceptionalism)
I'm now going to check this Wengcast the above CG autist mentioned (see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqZezmJ_RM). I'll summarize it a bit....
So not surprisingly her story is pretty much the same that she gave on Twitter. She didn't like their script, they were taking advantage of her, they closed down the project which from what I understand is true, because they apparently actually owned and started the project.
Edit : (still listening to this gibberish...)
1) Goddang her "story" is pathetic compared to the other two gentlemen who were way more straightforward on what went on, what they did, how they could prove their story, etc;
2) So apparently...she denies that the former writer of the comic who she had worked with before and was helping the artist actually wasn't the writer...then who the hell wrote the comic then? That only leaves her or the artist, and it seems abundantly clear Martina wrote jack shit;
3) Continues with the claim that Lady Alchemy only showed up in page 14 when the former artist and writer said she first shows up in page 4 (note that her former artist and writer said the idea was that the story would have ten issues and that the first comic was going to be more of an origin story hence why the title character didn't get that much focus);
4) She says her artist provided no artwork...;
5) Jesus...she's playing the victim-card up the ass surrounded by her loyal white knights no less;
6) So far the 4k number is accurate (Martina says she paid 3k at first then 1k later) not 10k which she specifically said on Twitter,
7) Did she just sort of admit around @59:00 there wasn't a contract before (that is with her previous artist but there is one with the new guy)....how stupid are you people; and
@1:11:20 Oh piss off with this Doug Tennapel Derangement (or maybe it could have been Doug Ernst since he only said Doug). God you CG people are a broken record.
I stopped at 1:20:00 or so. I couldn't take any more of the meandering, "it's his fault", "it'll be great with the new guys", repetoire. I certainly will add that I have no idea why in general she decided to go with this artist over somebody else and not, like I noted before, just because he lacked experienced in making a comic book, but also that his artwork is just not good.
The only nice thing I can say is that the new art looks good.
