I'm a customer, Frog. Way to make sure I never buy your books again.
Man, Kiwi Farms customer service sucks.
Assorted things that happened lately.
It was a sad day for Liam and Conquest Comics as
Xenotype artist Ody was conscripted for compulsory military service in Greece, preventing him from working on further work for their co-owned franchise. Personally, I knew this show was going to be a banger when I saw Liam's shaved head, which he says was necessary for an EEG brainscan. Fellow Liam-watcher and Joker Spirit shaman "Big Daddy",
in his own Xenotype: Pursuit review, made the incisive speculation that Liam and Ody's target was to make enough money from this first-time effort to get Ody an exemption from military service, but fell short of this long shot of a goal. With that in mind, Liam made a now-privated stream throwing out a pitch to the chat of crowdfunding future Xenotype content in monthly installments. This isn't a new idea, as Frog himself two weeks ago threw out the idea of a monthly subscription for Cyberfrog content (as well as licensing/contracting the comic franchise out to other creators) but was talked down down by Peter Simeti and Sketch Therapy.
Liam's chat had their own objections, namely paying shipping 12 separate times a year for a creative team capable of pushing out full graphic novels for no apparent reason, or how the market for monthly periodicals has been in freefall for 8 years while GNs have grown in sales by at least 40% according to Comichron. As Liam's dejection yet insistence on this idea was pressed, Jon Malin joined the panel to give some no-nonsense talk on this subject and how it appeared from Malin's standpoint that this was a rash and impetuous major business decision that was made on little if any research. Liam, flustered, alluded to a conflict between Ody's regular dad and orange internet dad on the regularity of money received from Xenotype, beyblades aside, and that all this apparently was a response to that. Malin's response was one of incredulity, yelling that Ody is a grown man, Liam isn't his dad, that the young Greek is responsible for making his own business decisions and that, if there's pressure for Ody to be pulling a regular income,
why is Ody actively refusing work-for-hire commissions? Malin's apoplexy intensifies as he recalls having to work construction on bridges and high-rises for ten years when he needed "regular income" until drawing comics paid the bills.
Not really having an argument against this, Liam began to spiral in the Cates-ian sense into something about how action is needed because it's important that the next generation be able to carry the torch of the comics creative medium into the future and thus save comics instead of this preoccupation with Youtubing. Micah Curtis, somehow the voice of reason in this, asks that since Liam is effectively Ody's manager, why not just screen through some work-for-hire contracts and commissions? With this business issue settled, a cathartic wave washes over the panel as Jon asks why the fuck has the show consisted of livecasting Micah playing some gundam RPG the whole time.
Comicsgate auteur Mandy Summers, author of
Wart the Wizard and
Hardcore Pornosaur, has corralled a second art-simp into her reverse harem as she has announced her third crowdfund project,
Pirate Queen on IndieGoGo. Basing her pricing model off of Frog's, but unsure how to justify the price points, has went ahead with lewd content starting at $125 USD, the $200 tier offering two sketches (one adult) by the artist. Amusingly, Mandy may actually finish her third campaign before Martina Markota finishes her first with
Lady Alchemy.
Fortune has been less kind to fellow Comicsgate e-girl Piper/Fyzzgiggidy (pictured), who has been removed from the "Graded Point Five" creative team and youtube channel for unspecified reasons. Piper's response to this was to turn towards what she describes as "that dark corner of Comicsgate", the wrong side of the CG tracks with burnt out cars, gangs of Etsy Boys roaming the alleyways looking for loose streamyard links accompanied with the voices of Sketch and Liam howling in the distance. Getting extremely drunk, Piper employed the "classic Liam" approach to youtubing by inviting Sketch, Liam, Oz Arts and Testefy_HD onto her channel with the stated goal of "resolving differences".
Piper's inaugural shitshow stream went on for a full 11 hours (now privated) as she entered what could only be described as her 'self-destructive Comicsgate Emo' phase. Ironically, it wasn't entirely unsuccessful as Sketch and Testefy put their long, shared Panamanian history aside for a temporary NAP so that they could focus their attentions of the hated LiamOz, but also had Liam screaming in incadescent rage Piper into literal tears at the indignity of being tricked into sharing a platform with Testefy and Sketch, as the level of e-mnity between the two was irreconcilable at this point.
Tragically, this NAP did not extend to Piper herself as Sketch Therapy began to turn his fire upon her circle for appearing on a Testefy stream (to clarify that Liam never made her cry) and platforming anti-CG traitors like him as well as LiamOz, resulting in Piper taking down her twitter, deleting her discord and Dark Gift Comics "distancing himself from Comicsgate" as a collateral simp casualty. Such are the risks one runs when venturing into the dark side of Comicsgate without proper preparation.
Things were eventful on the Oz Show for once, a triple-set as first disgraced "anti-CG" eminence
Zombienomicon made an appearance to notify Oz Arts that he was to cease and desist besmirching his good name and that his attempts in letting one lucky contestant realize their spacetravel dreams was legitimate but undone by the jealous, petty machinations of a single person he placed perhaps too much trust in. A story that would repeat itself again when his pure vision of a Comicsgate Wiki was dashed by the plotting of others. Zombienomicon appeared to be especially offended by the mere existence of Ryzie Lee; it turns out both parties mutually consider the other to be a disgrace to Australians. Zombienomicon was vicious in his recounting of Ryzie's many failings as a human being and contributing member of society as the Oz Show regulars formed a noise-wall defense of their drunken jester while others poked and prodded the anti-CG presence from the stream.
This was then followed by the actual topic of the episode before dashed, the conflict between Micah Curtis and Raz0rfist over the latter's signing of a publication contract with Vox Day, followed by Frog's intervention by siding with Raz0rfist and telling Micah to shut the fuck up. Frog's motives for this are up in the air, given Comicsgate's extremely inconsistent stance regarding Vox Day in the past, having embraced
Alt-Hero writer Chuck Dixon while simultaneously casting out Jon Del Arroz as a white supremacist nazi for endorsing Vox Day's views. My own conjecture is a combination of being sick of lesser figures in CG burning bridges with people who have actual platforms combined with a general fatigue of putting up with Micah's shit. It also suggests that Comicsgate's problem with JDA may not actually stem from his stance on Vox Day as opposed to being based on tribalism after JDA's angry sperging at the movement as a whole.
The Oz Show panel proceeds to slag off Micah as a cancel culture idiot borderline SJW, which was interrupted by the surprise appearance of Micah Curtis. Ryzie in a choice extremely unusual for him retires early, no doubt exhausted after the emotional onslaught of being called a foolish pillowfucker by a 50 year old conman. Curtis takes a very dismissive attitude towards Frog's complaints, calling him a "diva" and irrationally emotional. This dislike, of course, is not entirely unearned by Frog, what with his stated perception that the purpose of men like Micah is to soak bullets on the battlefield meant for worthier men, and a general regard for Curtis on the line of this:
Finally the stream includes footage from the privated Liam stream summarized at the beginning of this post, helpfully provided by Testefy associate BlackMercury. Oz was careful not to show too much, as he was unsure Liam would channel strike even him if he posted too much of Liam's content (true).
