#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!
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It appears that everyone's favorite bearded thumb/self-impressed wannabe writer Micah Curtis is cancelling his campaign for Englewood Book 2. This comes just a few days prior to the end of his first 60 days, with his funding goal being significantly out of reach. At $9,180 raised out of a $15,000 fixed goal, it would take some sort of Frogus Ex Machina to save this campaign from the CG graveyard.
Alas, Micah presents his surely disappointed backers with an update explaining his situation. He places the majority of the blame for his failure on the fact that his previous book Three Knights, Four Days has not been entirely fulfilled yet. He admits his foolishness in launching a new campaign before completing fulfillment of the last. While I agree this is a common mistake on the parts of the smaller CG creators out there, surely there must be some other explanation.
After all, his first Englewood campaign, while only raising about $4,000 more than he was able to this time, had a whopping 400 additional backers.
So, what's the logical conclusion here? 400 people have yet to receive their Knights books? That seems unlikely, as that campaign had 445 backers and Micah claimed to be over 50% finished with fulfillment as of August 7th. Could it be that his falling out with EVS in late 2020 has removed him from the good graces of the CG customer base at large? I'd wager that is certainly a factor. However, I would like to posit another explanation for this loss of 400 backers and complete lack of buzz for this campaign: perhaps Micah isn't the storytelling prodigy that he thinks he is. The first book didn't capture readers and leave them hungry for more, and his Knights book didn't draw in any new eyes. His promises of a crossover with the pending (and late) Peregrine from the Graded 0.5 dullards have failed to stoke the fires of excitement in the CG zeitgeist. This story of a street-level urban hero is dead on arrival, despite Micah's persistent claims that he "writes black characters better than Ta-Nehisi Coates" (as if that's an accomplishment).
Not everyone is meant to make comics. Looks like a lot of people in CG are learning that the hard way this year.
Lastly, I do want to note the massive increase in average backer spending from his first campaign to his second:
Book 1: $13,346 from 543 backers = avg $24.58 per backer
Book 2: $9,180 from 139 backers = avg $66.04 per backer
Not sure that this means much, but at least he was pumping more cash out of his customers. Five backers even chose the "Be A Cop!" tier, which would have you drawn into the book as a police officer. At $275 per pledge, this means that these five contributions comprised roughly 15% of Micah's total funds raised. There is a great pun here to be made about cops/pigs/paypigs, but I can't be bothered to put it together. Anyways, that's all for now! Another one bites the dust!
Alas, Micah presents his surely disappointed backers with an update explaining his situation. He places the majority of the blame for his failure on the fact that his previous book Three Knights, Four Days has not been entirely fulfilled yet. He admits his foolishness in launching a new campaign before completing fulfillment of the last. While I agree this is a common mistake on the parts of the smaller CG creators out there, surely there must be some other explanation.
After all, his first Englewood campaign, while only raising about $4,000 more than he was able to this time, had a whopping 400 additional backers.
So, what's the logical conclusion here? 400 people have yet to receive their Knights books? That seems unlikely, as that campaign had 445 backers and Micah claimed to be over 50% finished with fulfillment as of August 7th. Could it be that his falling out with EVS in late 2020 has removed him from the good graces of the CG customer base at large? I'd wager that is certainly a factor. However, I would like to posit another explanation for this loss of 400 backers and complete lack of buzz for this campaign: perhaps Micah isn't the storytelling prodigy that he thinks he is. The first book didn't capture readers and leave them hungry for more, and his Knights book didn't draw in any new eyes. His promises of a crossover with the pending (and late) Peregrine from the Graded 0.5 dullards have failed to stoke the fires of excitement in the CG zeitgeist. This story of a street-level urban hero is dead on arrival, despite Micah's persistent claims that he "writes black characters better than Ta-Nehisi Coates" (as if that's an accomplishment).
Not everyone is meant to make comics. Looks like a lot of people in CG are learning that the hard way this year.
Lastly, I do want to note the massive increase in average backer spending from his first campaign to his second:
Book 1: $13,346 from 543 backers = avg $24.58 per backer
Book 2: $9,180 from 139 backers = avg $66.04 per backer
Not sure that this means much, but at least he was pumping more cash out of his customers. Five backers even chose the "Be A Cop!" tier, which would have you drawn into the book as a police officer. At $275 per pledge, this means that these five contributions comprised roughly 15% of Micah's total funds raised. There is a great pun here to be made about cops/pigs/paypigs, but I can't be bothered to put it together. Anyways, that's all for now! Another one bites the dust!
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Micah's problems are many, including him being joined at the hip to insane Liam Gray and them both speaking mountains of bullshit, but his current predicament is not that hard to explain.It appears that everyone's favorite bearded thumb/self-impressed wannabe writer Micah Curtis is cancelling his campaign for Englewood Book 2. This comes just a few days prior to the end of his first 60 days, with his funding goal being significantly out of reach. At $9,180 raised out of a $15,000 fixed goal, it would take some sort of Frogus Ex Machina to save this campaign from the CG graveyard.
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Alas, Micah presents his surely disappointed backers with an update explaining his situation. He places the majority of the blame for his failure on the fact that his previous book Three Knights, Four Days has not been entirely fulfilled yet. He admits his foolishness in launching a new campaign before completing fulfillment of the last. While I agree this is a common mistake on the parts of the smaller CG creators out there, surely there must be some other explanation.
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After all, his first Englewood campaign, while only raising about $4,000 more than he was able to this time, had a whopping 400 additional backers.
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So, what's the logical conclusion here? 400 people have yet to receive their Knights books? That seems unlikely, as that campaign had 445 backers and Micah claimed to be over 50% finished with fulfillment as of August 7th. Could it be that his falling out with EVS in late 2020 has removed him from the good graces of the CG customer base at large? I'd wager that is certainly a factor. However, I would like to posit another explanation for this loss of 400 backers and complete lack of buzz for this campaign: perhaps Micah isn't the storytelling prodigy that he thinks he is. The first book didn't capture readers and leave them hungry for more, and his Knights book didn't draw in any new eyes. His promises of a crossover with the pending (and late) Peregrine from the Graded 0.5 dullards have failed to stoke the fires of excitement in the CG zeitgeist. This story of a street-level urban hero is dead on arrival, despite Micah's persistent claims that he "writes black characters better than Ta-Nehisi Coates" (as if that's an accomplishment).
Not everyone is meant to make comics. Looks like a lot of people in CG are learning that the hard way this year.
Lastly, I do want to note the massive increase in average backer spending from his first campaign to his second:
Book 1: $13,346 from 543 backers = avg $24.58 per backer
Book 2: $9,180 from 139 backers = avg $66.04 per backer
Not sure that this means much, but at least he was pumping more cash out of his customers. Five backers even chose the "Be A Cop!" tier, which would have you drawn into the book as a police officer. At $275 per pledge, this means that these five contributions comprised roughly 15% of Micah's total funds raised. There is a great pun here to be made about cops/pigs/paypigs, but I can't be bothered to put it together. Anyways, that's all for now! Another one bites the dust!
His artwork is shit, his storylines and characters are very dull and I doubt many people would buy his books if they were published by Marvel and sold for $4.99
Also where did that idiot get the idea to bandy about the term "Sleeveless Comics" and to show off his "old grannies at bingo" arms?
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Yep. There's definitely a market there, and a far bigger one than I ever thought existed, but it is at the end of the day only so big. And with people like Aaron Lopresti and Billy Tucci coming into the wider orbit of self-publishing, if not exactly CG itself, I'd imagine the market available to the Micah Curtis' of the world will do nothing but continue to shrink.
Is there any benefit to cancelling as opposed to simply letting the project fail? Other than the narcissism of claiming you've never had a project fail, I guess.
Micha Curtis said:
At this point I'm skeptical the re-launch will raise as much money as this campaign. We shall see, I guess.
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The biggest shock about Micah is that such a void of charisma, talent and joy ever managed to get funded in the first case. There Comicsgate reminds of the early days of the gaming Kickstarter craze where any gobshite that worked on a game 20 years ago could get morons to back them. Another reason I rarely see mentioned for the gradual decline of CG is the insane postage to Europe. I would have gone for SHI, but the book cost 50 dollars with 80 dollars postage. Same thing happened with the Keanu comic. I haven't brought a CG comic this year with the exception of Warts and All, and while I will admit there is still some great looking stuff, it just isn't worth the cost.
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While CG numbers are going down, I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. It’s just the customers themselves that are doing the quality control. I mean, yeah having Frog go to bat for you certainly is helpful but, but what happens when you get out of his umbrella? That’s when you either sink or swim and that is what is happening right now.
You have to know how to promote yourself and your art has to be good. And if you want your customers to keep coming then your writing can not be crap. The cream will always rise to the top.
You have to know how to promote yourself and your art has to be good. And if you want your customers to keep coming then your writing can not be crap. The cream will always rise to the top.
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Semi-OT but I just stumbled upon an amazing thing.
Ex-NFL FM weirdo Uche Nwaneri in a Twitter spat with Count Dankula LARPing as a Taliban.... in a thread started by TheQuartering.
SPOILER: Dankula wins.
(Twitter threads suck and I've never figured out the best way to link to preserve it so it's easiest to just start where I did and then scroll all the way to the top: https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1430663097262424065 there's alot there)
Ex-NFL FM weirdo Uche Nwaneri in a Twitter spat with Count Dankula LARPing as a Taliban.... in a thread started by TheQuartering.
SPOILER: Dankula wins.
(Twitter threads suck and I've never figured out the best way to link to preserve it so it's easiest to just start where I did and then scroll all the way to the top: https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1430663097262424065 there's alot there)
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It appears that everyone's favorite bearded thumb/self-impressed wannabe writer Micah Curtis is cancelling his campaign for Englewood Book 2. This comes just a few days prior to the end of his first 60 days, with his funding goal being significantly out of reach. At $9,180 raised out of a $15,000 fixed goal, it would take some sort of Frogus Ex Machina to save this campaign from the CG graveyard.
View attachment 2481173
Alas, Micah presents his surely disappointed backers with an update explaining his situation. He places the majority of the blame for his failure on the fact that his previous book Three Knights, Four Days has not been entirely fulfilled yet. He admits his foolishness in launching a new campaign before completing fulfillment of the last. While I agree this is a common mistake on the parts of the smaller CG creators out there, surely there must be some other explanation.
View attachment 2481174
After all, his first Englewood campaign, while only raising about $4,000 more than he was able to this time, had a whopping 400 additional backers.
View attachment 2481264
So, what's the logical conclusion here? 400 people have yet to receive their Knights books? That seems unlikely, as that campaign had 445 backers and Micah claimed to be over 50% finished with fulfillment as of August 7th. Could it be that his falling out with EVS in late 2020 has removed him from the good graces of the CG customer base at large? I'd wager that is certainly a factor. However, I would like to posit another explanation for this loss of 400 backers and complete lack of buzz for this campaign: perhaps Micah isn't the storytelling prodigy that he thinks he is. The first book didn't capture readers and leave them hungry for more, and his Knights book didn't draw in any new eyes. His promises of a crossover with the pending (and late) Peregrine from the Graded 0.5 dullards have failed to stoke the fires of excitement in the CG zeitgeist. This story of a street-level urban hero is dead on arrival, despite Micah's persistent claims that he "writes black characters better than Ta-Nehisi Coates" (as if that's an accomplishment).
Not everyone is meant to make comics. Looks like a lot of people in CG are learning that the hard way this year.
Lastly, I do want to note the massive increase in average backer spending from his first campaign to his second:
Book 1: $13,346 from 543 backers = avg $24.58 per backer
Book 2: $9,180 from 139 backers = avg $66.04 per backer
Not sure that this means much, but at least he was pumping more cash out of his customers. Five backers even chose the "Be A Cop!" tier, which would have you drawn into the book as a police officer. At $275 per pledge, this means that these five contributions comprised roughly 15% of Micah's total funds raised. There is a great pun here to be made about cops/pigs/paypigs, but I can't be bothered to put it together. Anyways, that's all for now! Another one bites the dust!
It was just too ambitious an ask after not fulfilling Two Knights, One Cup.
Meanwhile, it's another bad day for Micah (and for people who actually backed his shitshow of a book):
Tough review. Thankfully, people are only praising DEUS VULT because of its high quality.
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Looks better than I thought it would. And plot holes in a funny book, eh, I can live with them.
The killer for me is, as usual, the price. I'd probably pay $10 for something like that, but not $25 plus shipping, or whatever it cost.
How were you not 'protected?'
So this is what this is about? Boomer Boyette is mad that the Millennial made some gay, pissy videos laughing at Mike Miller.
Very passive aggressive.
He did. He refunded you.
Again, Actually establish what personal information such as your address or financial info was disclosed.
I actually agree that sharing IGG emails of you being thin skinned baby without you being more of a faggot was unnecessary escalation. But zero personal info was distributed.
And there we go. You don't get to call all the shots and dictate to people so you're taking your ball and going home.
NasserRabadi13
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What the hell? Why did you quote my message about eBay twice, with no response?
That literally suggests that you wanted to say something on two different occasions but you were left speechless. How many times did you type something and delete it each time?
Edwin, your messages to Nasser were harassment. That you used IndieGoGo as the vehicle to deliver your harassment didn't grant you any special protection, especially since your messages to him weren't even about any of the books you backed in any of his IGG campaigns. They were irrelevant threats about his activities on YouTube, which involved making fun of your postings here, on this public forum. Just as IndieGoGo wouldn't protect a user sexually harassing a female campaign owner through their messaging privilege, they aren't going to protect a 50-something year old boomer threatening a college student about his YouTube videos.
You realize that the more you flail around impotently like this, the more Nasser is going to make fun of you, right?
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NasserRabadi13
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Ok liam gray
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Edwin misquoted you. You said "immense."
Still, if you read that message to IGG, you can hear it in Edwin's voice. I did laugh.
DMX DA GOAT
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Edwin get help seriously you're looking like a massive faggot
It really is no country for old boomers.
Let's see how this faggotry plays out.
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He's gotta be used to it by now.
Imagine being associated with the Qanon imbeciles for the rest of your life...