I've been taking an extended break from Comicsgate due to it being rather monotonous and boring lately, especially when there are far more interesting topics dominating the site, something I think other users unconsciously agree with given the lack of activity in this thread. I've noticed even Mister Dongs has been notably absent with his reporting lately, I assume he finds himself in the same quagmire I do.
I've been preoccupied lately, but even if I wasn't there isn't a lot going on that a fellow Kiwi user would consider very interesting. Innovation and change (and content) are inherently born of conflict and there's been very little of that going on lately in Comicsgate. I'll try:
Is this a new all-time low for comicsgate?
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EDIT: Based on deleted tweets there's a chance her boyfriend dumped her over this incident. Can't say I blame him if true. Imagine going homeless so some random schmuck in a mask can satisfy his piss fetish. Nice friends you've got there Frog.
Haha, remember Heather Antos and those "milkshake girls"? Me neither.
When is Witten or pisspot girl going to draw a cover for Dynamite? And will
@FROG promote it on his show?
Other than the urination incident, this was just another JACK show - nothing of note happened.
In other news, Jon "Build Your Platform" Malin ended his campaign for
Godlike in much the same manner in which he opened it: by going on ComicArtistPro Secrets so Frog can promote his campaign for him. What happened? Did Jon Malin launch a
Godlike campaign on Kickstarter so now he can't promote it on his own platform? This was a tour of force of all the "inner circle" pulling out all the stops for the Man of Oar.
Anna did her part to contribute by cosplaying as Rogue from the X-Men.
Jon Malin got into things by cosplaying as a heroin addict from
Trainspotting, really getting into character with his haunted thousand-mile stare into nothing through his sunken in, black ringed eyes.
Billy Tucci, Aaron Lopresti, Andy Smith and Graham Nolan also attended this grand closing by infusing some much needed "old" to the proceedings.
Also there was Cecil, Gabe Eltraeb, Art Thibert, Cecil, Dan Fraga, Shane Davis and a
@Kelsey who wanted to made sure the audience knows he got a cool new HD camera by making sure every pore on his face is visible in fine detail.
So what was discussed over the course of the following eight hours? Oh, many things. Much of it was Frog expressing puzzlement that many of his favorite pop stars and singers from the 1950s and 60s like Frankie Avalon are "really old now" for some reason. Billy Tucci especially sympathized on this point, he for one was flabbergasted when he learned that a lot of his faves like the Rolling Stones were getting up there in years. Better content from streams of years gone by was reminisced over, like when Frog called Lonestar gay when Mike was on stream. One of Shane's rambling, pointless unbroken sentences that went on for several minutes was efapped. A Newsweek article about a drunken Turkish man that went on a search party to find himself was read. Some more teasing of Shane Davis was had. This was followed by reading Bill Cosby's take on the R Kelly verdict (Malin staunchly standing with R Kelly). Also read was an article about a livestream by Raz0rfist advocating for public domain IPs, a youtube video of a guy wrestling a gator into a trash can, something about mummies,
Fell co-creator and co-cancelled Ben Templesmith
tweeting about passing out drunk in a bathroom, Flynt Flossy,
a Perth Comics video and closing with an appearance by
Magic Cop creator Phill Diaz giving a tour of some warehouse to show his favorite classic arcade machines.
And so, what is in all likelihood the top-selling comic in 2021 closes out.
In other news,
Richard C. Meyer took a begrudging break from his onerous personal schedule of loitering in strip mall parking lots, dicking around in his yard and "finding peace with himself" to do the trivial chore, that much like a Jawbreakers script could probably be done in a single day by a teenager, of putting the dog tags that have been sitting in his house for half a year into mylar goodie bags and mail them to his secret fulfillment company. The 'Fulfillment Center" in New Jersey, that has been waiting on him to do this incredibly simple task for over a year since he won't pay them an exorbitant rate to do it, will begin fulfillment immediately. Allegedly. Meyer's been known to lie about the status of his crowdfunds in the past.
Finally, in outside comics news:
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Todd McFarlane thinks DC, Marvel, and IDW leaving Diamond might be shortsighted
By Michael Loran, Don Pitts 28 September 2021
Comic book icon Todd McFarlane drops some f-bombs offering his take on DC, Marvel, and IDW leaving Diamond Comic Distributors
Image Comics president and comic book icon Todd McFarlane has spoken out about the break-up of the dominant Diamond Comic Distributors era in the comic book Direct Market - the network of retail comic book shops that make up the bulk of comic book periodical sales.
DC left Diamond in 2020 for a new national distributor it helped establish called Lunar, followed by Marvel Comics and then IDW publishing both for exclusive deals with Penguin Random House Publisher Services this year.
DC and Marvel's split with Diamond after 25 and 24 years, respectively, were both shocks to the longstanding system of comic book distribution in North America.
Image Comics, which McFarlane co-founded and is home of his publishing imprint, remains exclusively aligned with Diamond - both for comic book shop and booktrade distribution - and has publicly expressed loyalty to the company.
"I think it's pretty much what makes the world go round and that's people think they can make more money doing it another way," McFarlane tells Newsarama in a wide-ranging new interview, asked about the surprising exit of three major publishers.
"I wish the world we live in is based on loyalty, but I can't say that. So if somebody says to you, 'well if you do it this way we can save 4%,' that's 4% off a huge amount of money. These are big companies and they just make economic decisions, good, bad, or indifferent."
But while reserved to their respective reasoning, McFarlane is not convinced the publishers made the right decision in the long run.
"...let me just say this," McFarlane continues, "every big company, every CEO who make these decisions, they're not fucking right all the time. They're big, powerful, and have success at certain times, but if people in big companies were so fucking smart then even PanAm would be around today. Just take a look at the Dow Jones from 1965 and a third of those companies aren't even around anymore; they don't even exist on this planet.
"I'm sure people at that time thought they were so smart and made all the right decisions, but that's not always what happens. So I think they're doing what they think is smart for today, and history will show us what happens next."
Image Comics Founder and Spawn creator
Todd MacFarlane took to Newsarama (once part of the 'new wave' of online content mills that replaced print comic journalism, now bought out by and a subsidiary of generic game news site GamesRadar) to complain about the impeding collapse of the former Diamond Distribution that has, until now, held a monopoly the distribution of Western comics from printers to local comic shops since late 80s. That state of affairs has effectively ended now that Marvel, DC and IDW (Boom Studios and Avatar working with Barnes and Noble since a decade ago). That status quo for the previous three decades was certainly good to Todd and its end has left him upset and unsure about where the future for comics will lead. So far though the only mention of Todd in Comicsgate I heard lately was last week, when Jon Malin vividly called MacFarlane "a coward piece of shit" for "bending the knee to SJWs" for declaring that his creation Spawn must have a black writer to correctly represent the black experience, and nothing about Diamond or the direct market.
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For the record, Todd 'co-created' one successful character for Marvel. He wasn't even exclusively at Marvel, he was always open about being a merc. Ethan, conversely spent most of his time exclusively at DC, created dozens of successful characters, and was extremely loyal.
