It's a bit of a slow week in Comicsgate other than Matthew Fowler, a longtime CG chat resident and creator (the latter being more important) launching Tyger Blue #2 later tonight and newly minted CG King
Irene Stychalski complaining about how she's still being given the run-around by whoever's in charge of printing the color copies of
Fiendish, evading her with excuses like "paper shortages" 7 months after she filed her print order and shipping her damaged merchandise like so much Mitch Breitweiser.
Reading these tweets, I was tempted to write it off as incompetence and perhaps an unsurprising fuckup from the bubbly, effervescent simp magnet and former Heather Antos employee CG has come to know and monetarily love, as "Renie". Later on though, I happened to be watching a Patrick Thomas Parnell livestream where both Fowler and Irene Strychalski were guesting and Parnell invited the latter to vent about her problems with her printer. At 40 minutes in, Parnell and Fowler (known as something of a "fudge detector" after confronting Varian and Lola Grant of IndieVolt) share their own results of looking into Comic Impressions, the company Strychalski had hired out to print
Fiendish.
Irene Strychalski 40:10
I was trying to protect them because I was like, I don't want them to get, you know, angry customers contact you them. I was being really nice.
Patrick Thomas Parnell 40:18
Well, I mean, I think and then and then you did the day. And then I was able to kind of piece a couple of things together. And I don't want to go too far into anything political or anything to do with CG. But comic impressions was the company that you went with. Now, Comic Impression, if you don't know who they are, they are a company that is in Fort Myers. And either they own Scout Comics or Scout Comics owns them. I'm not sure it's, it might be this or that, or the other, you know? But
Matthew Fowler 40:56
They account, Scout Comics accounts for at least 30% of all Comic Impression business, though, right? Okay. That's what I read in the article. So, and that's all their business, because it's not just Comic Impressions. It's a company called Impressions or something or, or something.
Parnell goes on to mumble a story about how his channel started out with a guy who was working as an editor at Scout Comics. Things were cool, at which point his boss demanded he sever relations with Parnell once he the latter declared CG and also demanded $1500 for his time going on youtube with Patrick Thomas Parnell, which is fair given that we're talking about "PTP" here but if I'm not getting paid for watching him then he shouldnt get paid for being there. Point being, Scout Comics does not like Comicsgate. And in any case the two note, it's mighy odd that Scout Comics can publish 14 comics per month on time and it's only
Fiendish that's encountering months-long "paper shipment delays"
Because while I have never heard of Comic Impressions before, I
have heard of Scout Comics.
Although I don't talk about, sometimes I peruse the little known Comic Burrito SJW gayop discord, run by the owners of the self-same youtube channel. They generally occupy their time contacting indie publishers and the like to tattle if any of their clients have Comicsgate affiliations. In May 8th, 2021, Nick Kohn asked "dab282"a question about "what Scout [Comics] would do if they wound up with a client who turned out to be CG. Dab282 answers that this has already happened as he covertly fucked over Bill Raupp, creator of Grok Comics, a very small creator of the "Christian CG" persuasion:
Now as for the identity of the "dab282" account specifically, this wasn't very hard to figure out as the culprit in question a
ctually appeared on Comic Burrito's youtube channel - Scout Comics co-publisher
David A. Byrne (@dab282)
Now this sounds very similar to what's going on with
Fiendish - stonewalling with delays until Irene Strychalski is no longer able to pursue legal action much like Raupp was. That is, if Comic Impressions is in fact a subsidiary or publishing arm of Scout Comics, as Patrick Thomas Parnell believes it to be. If so, Irene's suspicions that they are waiting out some kind of "legal limitation for taking responsibility" are well founded and she may wish to act accordingly.