See, the thing is I believe the outrage over an alleged "PR War against a competitor" is sincere, but it puts into perspective the years that Frog's personal army went around "defending Comicsgate from the SJWs" by doing stunts like searching for the meager few pieces of media coverage of Smiller's campaigns so they could salt the earth by stuffing the comment section and replies with baseless claims that he's a crowdfund embezzler. Shit I found far more heinous than anything the likes of Comic Book Hut could ever muster. Only weak claims of total ignorance are supplied, that we're expected to take on faith alone, that that didn't constitute a PR war against a competitor at all. I can't imagine anyone on the receiving end of that would have any reason to believe an excuse like that any more than one would Tim Lim's protestations of innocence. And Lim didn't even fire up a livestream consisting of derisive laughter and sealioning calling Frog a faggot crybaby idiot liar by way of a response.
Whether he likes it or not, whether true or not, by his willing indifference (if not participation) to the conduct of his personal army he cultivated and regularly undersigned, Frog's image outside of Comicsgate has been and for the foreseeable future will be that of someone who raised up dozens of Comic Book Huts, and enjoying all the ill-will that engenders. Something he's getting to personally experience first hand over the past few days the sort of enmity that builds in someone now that he's finds it's been done to him. He can preach his outrage to the Comicsgate flock all he likes but outside CG the complaints seem to be falling on deaf ears. There's been no appreciable impact on sales given that Black Hops x Kamen America x Soulfinder just celebrated the first week of its campaign by passing CG 2022's top seller Graveyard Shift 4 in backers. Not even fellow victim Simple Zack (who accepts Wes' description of events and blames "livestreaming culture") seems to think this is a one-way street on Ernst's part.
And it's really having that onus hanging over his head while Ernst (who didn't even work in comics beforehand) has been skating by for years with the reputation of a respected consummate professional, rather than the laughable non-damage Comic Book Hut inflicted to anybody's public image, I suspect is the real source of anger here.
Anyways. That's all in the past now and the past can't be undone. Comicsgate collectively seems to have learned, well, something from all this and that the key to success involves making a place where competent people would want to willingly be around so that normal people would actually want to back what's being offered, instead of generating needless lifelong resentment and grudges among conservatives and indie comic creators. And while a small fraction of the old enemies seem to have incredible staying power, no new ones seem to have been made for a while now
I walked away from following the CG nonsense months and months ago. I'm not sure why I got curious enough to check back but Dongs seems to have a grasp on the big picture here.
I'm a little confused why everyone thinks Doug is some sort of master mind here.
I remember the first time I heard of Hutt... Ethan was attacking Doug and Tim in an attempt to make a victim out of Mitch and Betty who were late as fuck and had fucked over their backers with the Walmart deal. Up to that point Tim and Doug had been off doing their own thing and the worst sins their crew had committed against Ethan or anyone was liking a tweet. But Mitch and Betty were being held accountable in the court of public opinion (or CG opinion anyway) so an enemy needed to be dug up as they are when attention needs to be diverted.
Ethan started playing up the angle that the innocent Breitweiser's were being gay oped by Tim and Doug. No evidence was ever produced of this and it didn't go over well since both Tim and Doug had steered well clear of drama since "The Glove" a year or two before but Doug's 1st book was going into fulfillment on time to the embarrassment of pretty much every pro in CG. Something had to be done.
WarCampaign and The Shadow were doing their best to pin the B's problems on Ernst (Betty even attacked them through a ham fisted and obvious sock account which was pretty entertaining once exposed) and Ethan was dropping not so subtle hints that all CG's problems laid at the feet of these two non-pros who had the temerity to put out good books on time in a fashion that embarrasses everyone who isn't putting out anything. (all of ComicsGate)
So Doug reacted and shared some videos with Sperga the Hutt who was defending him against these accusations which were never substantiated?
That's a gay op now?
Uh... okay.
Feeding a sperg like Hutt information and expecting it to have any impact was dumb, sure, but it's hardly a "gay op".
No more than Jonny Depp leaking audio of Amber being a piece of shit while in the middle of a PR war is a gay op.
Did 'Dark Depp' ever admit to leaking the audio of that horrible cunt?
If we found out that he did would it change anything?
Not even fellow victim Simple Zack (who accepts Wes' description of events and blames "livestreaming culture") seems to think this is a one-way street on Ernst's part.
Whether he likes it or not, whether true or not, by his willing indifference (if not participation) to the conduct of his personal army he cultivated and regularly undersigned, Frog's image outside of Comicsgate has been and for the foreseeable future will be that of someone who raised up dozens of Comic Book Huts, and enjoying all the ill-will that engenders.
Exactly.
I wonder why this is being made into such a big deal...
Timewise? Yeah, don't expect your book until summer. He never works and when he does it's very slow going.
Frog makes Frank Quitely look like Kirby pumping out 8 books a month.
Oh, right.
73 pages in 27 months.
Nice to see that nothing has changed.
I'll check back in another 6 months or so to see if Rekt Planet made it into fulfilment.
