Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[NasserRabadi13]

the pages feel more like they belong in a coloring book than in an actual comic.

First time I've heard this. Stardust, Trixie, and Asyl were all printed on standard paper from my printer.

Nasser, You are going to have to explain that to me cuz the shit really came out of left field.

It's the merging of dreams and reality. Like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The book is supposed to be an homage to the German Expressionist silent films of the 1920s, and lost films.

You're supposed to come to your own conclusion of what's real or not. For a more modern day comparison, think Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway.

In either of those my interpretation is that that each of the main characters is having a dream or fantasy of what they wish their life was like. But each of those has 40 theories.

I suppose you could say that in Asyl, Lena is an insane woman in an asylum, but has this dream of being a normal person with a husband and a home. However, she can never escape her reality, and thus the ending.

His comic writing skills need a lot of work e

I dont know if you read my other comics but i'll send you PDFs if you want. Most people think Trixie and Stardust have been better than Asyl. Could just be most people arent vibing with an homage to lost and silent film from 1920s Germany.

See if you can get that Spawn guy to do another book for you.

Not to shill, but me and Jason are relaunching one week from today.


Sorry you didnt enjoy Asyl--but thank you for backing, and I hope you enjoy what I do next.

Next up is SCP, then Trixie 2, then Twilight Witch, then The Voynich Horror.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

What "tremendous pressure" was Doug Ernst under that any of us weren't?

You don't read my comments to him as empathetic? I was trying to find out why he was acting the way he was, and what was going on. I was entirely sincere. But it soon became clear that Kelsey was only a cudgel being used to get at someone's real target, which was Mitch Breitweiser.

Why was all of this happening? Because the Breitweisers fired Pellegrini from RED ROOSTER.

For that, all associates and apparent friends of the Breitweisers would be treated to a two year long temper tantrum of gay ops from Pellegrini's boyfriend Tim Lim.

He was fulfilling and closing a campaign. I don't know his crowdfund history, just assumed he was new to it at the time? I imagine that's pretty stressful with the feeling that your whole future is on the line. At least that's what I got from following your early crowdfunds. That's how I mentally framed those DM's.

I don't think any of it was your fault just thought you would've empathized and caught on that he probably misunderstood your co-star's humor and not held it against him. Of course that's the price of that period's "Just joking, but not really" attitude toward everything by the CG heavyweights at the time and none of us are aware of all the behind-the-scenes drama and discussions that were undoubtedly happening then either. Surely there's still more to the story.

 

[Kelsey]

It's interesting that WC, who I've always been friendly with, is attacking my twitter the same day I drop DougE's bullshit. They are so fucking stupid they don't even understand how shit their timing was. Now it's pretty clear who's sucking who off out there.

Good times.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

It's interesting that WC, who I've always been friendly with, is attacking my twitter the same day I drop DougE's bullshit. They are so fucking stupid they don't even understand how shit their timing was. Now it's pretty clear who's sucking who off out there.

Good times.
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Pan just grasping for attention and relevance. They spend more time following KF than their own stuff. Donal is the highest-profile "celeb" they have left to simp for.

 

[Rupin]

First time I've heard this. Stardust, Trixie, and Asyl were all printed on standard paper from my printer.

It's the merging of dreams and reality. Like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The book is supposed to be an homage to the German Expressionist silent films of the 1920s, and lost films.

You're supposed to come to your own conclusion of what's real or not. For a more modern day comparison, think Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway.

In either of those my interpretation is that that each of the main characters is having a dream or fantasy of what they wish their life was like. But each of those has 40 theories.

I suppose you could say that in Asyl, Lena is an insane woman in an asylum, but has this dream of being a normal person with a husband and a home. However, she can never escape her reality, and thus the ending.


I dont know if you read my other comics but i'll send you PDFs if you want. Most people think Trixie and Stardust have been better than Asyl. Could just be most people arent vibing with an homage to lost and silent film from 1920s Germany.

Not to shill, but me and Jason are relaunching one week from today.
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Sorry you didnt enjoy Asyl--but thank you for backing, and I hope you enjoy what I do next.

Next up is SCP, then Trixie 2, then Twilight Witch, then The Voynich Horror.

no problem. Ill be happy to give you another chance. You took a risk on writing based on a genre you liked. I got where you were going with this, but it just didn’t vibe with me. I dont want to discourage you with my review. I do hope that you’ll take it as constructive criticism. And I’ll be happy to read the pdfs. You can message me the link if you like.

 

[NasserRabadi13]

no problem. Ill be happy to give you another chance. You took a risk on writing based on a genre you liked. I got where you were going with this, but it just didn’t vibe with me. I dont want to discourage you with my review. I do hope that you’ll take it as constructive criticism. And I’ll be happy to read the pdfs. You can message me the link if you like.

Tomorrow morning i'll send them your way.

 

[Analog Devolved]

It's interesting that WC, who I've always been friendly with, is attacking my twitter the same day I drop DougE's bullshit. They are so fucking stupid they don't even understand how shit their timing was. Now it's pretty clear who's sucking who off out there.

Good times.
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"I'm a customer I want my book"

Thats literally what we've been telling Mitch for 3 years.

His insane idea to sell a book, get money from investors from his "proof of concept", sell the book again to Wal-Mart for more money hoping to make enough to pay back the original backers is not only illegal on the stock market but one of the dumbest business plans in the history of comics if not the world.

We know who matters to the Breitweisers. Wal-mart. They got fat while we starved. I hope Renfamous smashes his mailbox. What a fucking clown.

War Campaign lmao they are trying to lure you behind the Marlton Pizza Parlour. Best to just block them all and move on. I don't know if you saw their recent gay op where they complained to Null about fake rape threats to try to get their dox removed.

Ethan likes to lie about how the WC got started and a lot of you CG pros were lied to by EVS about what they do. They praised you guys endlessly and I'm sure it made you feel like a Rockstar.

Now the WC groupies and Ro Kabir want to suck your cock behind the pizza dumpster before they steal your wallet and beat you with a rolled up copy of Vestige.

 

[VIkkiVerse]

It's interesting that WC, who I've always been friendly with, is attacking my twitter the same day I drop DougE's bullshit. They are so fucking stupid they don't even understand how shit their timing was. Now it's pretty clear who's sucking who off out there.

Good times.
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You need a wider lens. This has nothing to do with Ernst. You work for Mitch "Less Than 3 Pages A Month" Breitweiser. Mitch has been on their fecal roster for quite some time now. Members of WC don't care about interpersonal relationships except for the ones they have with each other.

I could much more easily say that what is actually interesting is the timing of you're showing up here just as Ernst is putting SoulFinder: Dark Tide out, but I'm sure you'll be quick to point out it has nothing to do with that, right?

 

[The Holmes]

It's interesting that WC, who I've always been friendly with, is attacking my twitter the same day I drop DougE's bullshit. They are so fucking stupid they don't even understand how shit their timing was. Now it's pretty clear who's sucking who off out there.

Good times.
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Oh, you're on the farms now talking to us. That's an automatic hate boner from War Campaign. Some of us have kneecapped them here on multiple occasions, and they're all about that guilt by association. At least they gave up on crying rape. I think.

 

[Analog Devolved]

You need a wider lens. This has nothing to do with Ernst. You work for Mitch "Less Than 3 Pages A Month" Breitweiser. Mitch has been on their fecal roster for quite some time now. Members of WC don't care about interpersonal relationships except for the ones they have with each other.

I could much more easily say that what is actually interesting is the timing of you're showing up here just as Ernst is putting SoulFinder: Dark Tide out, but I'm sure you'll be quick to point out it has nothing to do with that, right?

 

[Kelsey]

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Doug looks like he's had enough of Malin running him down on streams.

https://twitter.com/douglasernst/status/1352403672207028225

The Sunbeam is a forgiving god...
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https://twitter.com/douglasernst/status/1352379301493043200

"I forgive you both." - @FROG
Uuh... forgive Ernst for what?

Last I checked EVS owed Ernst an apology for that time he and Bitch Meitweiser ran a gay op against him to draw the heat away from the fact Mitch fucked over his backers with the Wakmart deal.

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https://twitter.com/douglasernst/status/1213383487824089088

Ethan played footsie with the "Shadowking" and accused Doug of colluding with Preston(?) against Breitweiser. Later, when Ernst called out the Shadowking for spreading lies in his chat Ethan magically appeared and shut down the Shadowking like flipping a switch.

Doug's a devout Catholic. That makes him a forgiving guy by religious philosophy. I'm sure he'd forgive EVS for running gay ops against him if he asked sincerely.

You need a wider lens. This has nothing to do with Ernst. You work for Mitch "Less Than 3 Pages A Month" Breitweiser. Mitch has been on their fecal roster for quite some time now. Members of WC don't care about interpersonal relationships except for the ones they have with each other.

I could much more easily say that what is actually interesting is the timing of you're showing up here just as Ernst is putting SoulFinder: Dark Tide out, but I'm sure you'll be quick to point out it has nothing to do with that, right?

I saw this and was tired of seeing this. The longer I stayed quiet the worse it got. So lets rip this bandaid off and get it over with. I didn't know he was doing a book and I don't care that he's doing a book. I care about the truth in relation to me.

 

[Odets]

So the pretentious Christian guy, who forces existential talking point into the vids about them funny-books for teens, who namedrops books he read in a pathetic attempt to come off as an intellectual, is in fact takes things too serious and is not fun at parties? Shocking. Thank god for those DMs otherwise we would've never known.

This is the same as the The Grand P'cuck reveal. We already kinda knew all of this. But Ethan is still a dumb man who believes that everyone is dumber than him, so he thinks we need him to preform the deep dive into the cuck porn and to snitch on all his meangirls high school click so he can confirm the basic social clues we've all been gathering and feeling. What's the next ravel? That TexasAutism and Liam are slow and YellowFlash is even slower? Not sure the world is ready for that secret.

Cape Cuck Grift just doesn't get that someone else's fuckups don't make you look good. You can only be the face in the crowd representing the people for so long before you become the entity of your own that has to build and take responsibility for your own image. They still operate like it's 2017 and just pointing at the degeneracy will prop them up when the time for that has passed. All that the past 2 years of "epic revels" have done is make happy for quitting CG in 2019 and for never funding any of this mid-life crisis bs

 

[Pilule Noire]

Oh, my bad. HAHA! I was wondering where that was coming from.


Was this one for me? I don't remember calling it "a dumpster fire undergoing a controlled burn." That's clever if I did say it. HAHA!

You did! I believe it was after Mike, Doug and Edwin had left, and anti-CG people were saying CG is a dumpster fire, and your counter was that it is a dumpster fire, but with a controlled burn. Very clever!

Everyone CAN make a comic, but it doesn't mean that comic will be good.

With the rampant gate keeping in comics and everywhere else, Comicsgate at the very least fosters an environment in which you are free to try. No one ever said you'd be successful. But you have a chance.

I'm here for the comic fan (customer) because until I heard Zack talking about it... I didn't really think much about them. I knew I was making stuff for them, but never bothered to really get close to them. I still view myself as a fan. It was like a lightbulb going off in my head. From that point on, I've been trying to correct that oversight on my part.

I was working at Archie, and doing my own Image book, talking with pros in Facebook groups seeing other pros being attacked and fired, etc. That didn't set well with me either and I had to take some kind of stand. Not trying to toot my own horn or anything, I was just paying attention.

So yeah, it hurts when OG CG, the Youtube reviewers start turning their backs on CG saying the pros are trying to make it all about them. I never saw it that way. We came in like Gandalf at Helms Deep, ready to make things for a hungry audience and to have their backs and they having ours.

Everything has gotten all screwed around through pride, greed, arrogance, and just plain old stupidity.

As far as I'm concerned, we are all still in this to achieve a certain goal. Let's get on it.

And I don't know if I'm THAT writer/ artist that CG and comics need, but I'm going to give it a shot. At the very least I would like you to have fun. So we'll see.

I hope you stick around on here big guy, I like the cut of your jib. Whatever that means!. This place is a very pleasant oasis of CG, from the 'one simple trick' of kicking out retards, rather than empowering/promoting them/making them moderators.

I can confirm. Even when I was on the outs with a lot of folk, Kelsey was always nice with me we never had any problems. Plus his art's good.

I remember this interview! Gosh Jon, it was only five months ago, but it feels like a different era. Frog and Malin had a huge bitch session about that interview I remember, telling off Kelsey for being too nice to you. And no I'm not 'hallucinating' that, despite Frog's useless attempt to Jedi mind trick it away, that he will probably try in a minute. That stuff only works on the weak-minded Frog! Weak and slow-minded, meaning your fans. Like Nasser! LOL sorry Nasser. Frog, go have another medal from Nasser, that will cheer you up. They're worth ten trillion Zimbabwean madprops!

And I still remember Todd McFarlane's name, as DC Comics licenses him all of their characters for toys, and his comics have often, lately, topped the sales charts. He's still Todd McFarlane, a multimillionaire success story, and someone who others aspire to sue.

You're convinced McFarlane is a superstar, but these days McFarlane can't get even get a low-budget Spawn movie greenlit. He's not this giant success just because people know his name and remember him from the 90s. His success isn't even really from comics, it's from toy manufacturing - and as you know, it was from licensing mainstream IPs which is something you can never do, with your CG poopjacket on. And that thing is melted onto you now, you can never take it off, like the Rhino's costume.

You can never, ever be Todd, Frog. You're too fat for one thing. But dry your eyes, crying fatty boy, because being Todd really isn't as fun as it looks on the surface.

You might think it's very cool to have people wanting to sue you, but is losing in court cool, is having to declare bankruptcy cool?

From 'The World Vs Todd McFarlane' :

The trial in 2004 went the same way as the 2000 trial and resulted in yet another loss for McFarlane. The jury found that McFarlane had infringed on Twist’s publicity rights. It wasn’t as crushing at the first trial though, this time around the jury awarded Twist $15,000,000 in damages, not including costs. Again, McFarlane appealed. It was too late; Twist instantly petitioned the court to enforce the payment and issued writs of garnishment and summons. Twist asked for McFarlane to turn over all his property, physical and IP, and had the banks where McFarlane held his personal accounts to freeze those funds pending an outcome from the courts.

Before McFarlane could empty those accounts, the Bank of America handed over $45,541 from his personal account. Wells Fargo did the same, only for more, $50,771.

But McFarlane had one last card to play.

That card was declaring bankruptcy to get Chapter 11 protections.

And this was while Gaiman had him legally bent over too. And later, Todd himself had to sue his own lifelong friend Al Simmons, after whom Spawn was named. Is that cool and fun Frog, being taken to court, taking your former friends to court?

Personally I think if Peter David and John Byrne are living financially secure and comfortable semi-private lives, with their comics still being bought and read, then they've totally won at life, without having to do a lot of the stupid shit that they don't want to do. Not everyone is a narcissistic psychopath who wants to troll for e-celebrity on the internet all day long Frog, only you and Liam are like that. Ask Nasser what lifestyle he would prefer!

Where are Peter David and John Byrne now?

Are they not sitting on a big comfy financial featherbed of corporate royalties, like you? And their work is still being bought and read avidly. Jon was going through some Peter David Hulk the other day, and you yourself recently cited John Byrne as the guy you've been looking at. Why aren't you reading the early Spawns by your hero Todd? Is it because you know they suck...? You also mentioned reading 70s Ghost Rider. Notice how these 90s names like Spawn and CyberForce and Gen13 don't tend to come up in conversations about great comics? When was the last time you heard somebody talking in glowing terms about revisiting Spawn, or The Darkness or Witchblade? People want good stories Frog. Story is the engine of comics, not art. Art is the whore in the window of the brothel. Deal with it!

 

[Kelsey]

So the pretentious Christian guy, who forces existential talking point into the vids about them funny-books for teens, who namedrops books he read in a pathetic attempt to come off as an intellectual, is in fact takes things too serious and is not fun at parties? Shocking. Thank god for those DMs otherwise we would've never known.

Pretentious? No, no. I AM that good.

This is the same as the The Grand P'cuck reveal. We already kinda knew all of this. But Ethan is still a dumb man who believes that everyone is dumber than him, so he thinks we need him to preform the deep dive into the cuck porn and to snitch on all his meangirls high school click so he can confirm the basic social clues we've all been gathering and feeling. What's the next ravel? That TexasAutism and Liam are slow and YellowFlash is even slower? Not sure the world is ready for that secret.

Here's my big reveal. Poof. I got nothing for you. I can barely make out what the fuck you're talking about.

Cape Cuck Grift just doesn't get that someone else's fuckups don't make you look good. You can only be the face in the crowd representing the people for so long before you become the entity of your own that has to build and take responsibility for your own image. They still operate like it's 2017 and just pointing at the degeneracy will prop them up when the time for that has passed. All that the past 2 years of "epic revels" have done is make happy for quitting CG in 2019 and for never funding any of this mid-life crisis bs

I agree with you there. I do need to do my own thing.

If you quit why the hell are you still hanging around?

 

[Mister Dongs]

I guess I owe @Newman's Own an apology; this nectar would have never been delivered without him. Thanks, wherever you are. I was wrong, you were right man.

On one hand there are (allegedly) people telling Frog that the clips of Kelsey's drunken antics that were being compiled by Rumble Terrier, VikkiVerse, etc. were going to be used by Douglas Ernst for some tard-ass interference with Allegiance Arts and on the other hand Ernst was DMing anyone that hasn't blocked him vague threats to "find the most effective way of defending my team" from the mean f-words said by Kelsey Shannon. Still, there's no hard proof that Ernst did intend on taking this to Walmart and, ironically, keep Mitch Breitweiser in CG forever by preventing him from fucking over and abandoning his backers and the community, or if Ernst was just sperging non specifically in ignorance of everything going on around him, as he claims. I have trouble mustering any sympathy for either side in this.

In other news:

Micah Curtis complained about some Vox Day employee flagging his twitter down for Micah calling the reporter "retarded" for arguing proposed gun background checks don't actually have an impact in a domestic violence life or death situation. Micah wonders at what sort of obsessive psychopath, even one that would willingly work for Teddy Spaghetti, would be hovering around waiting to flag his twitter within thirty seconds of posting.

Spoiler: Or was it Vox Day?

Realized it's been quite a while since I checked out a Boring Zack vid so I just watched the latest (ZERO PIPELINE- Splatto Comics Is Bringing ALL Fulfillment Back In-House)

If somebody told me he is an adderall junkie I"d believe it. This is turning out to be quite the shitshow. Very disturbing signals.

Zack's latest update about Splatto Comics now doing its own fulfillment, mixed in with a disjointed and frankly concerning digression about his recent success with trucker-grade "supplements". At first the crashes were concerning but now he's cycling the supplements properly now that he's taking the "go pills" whenever he starts coming down. Also he can't sleep now anyway because of the neighbors' thumping thumping barrio music but it's okay and he's in the gym and feeling great. Great enough to bring fulfillment back!

While normally Zack is extremely quiet about his fulfillment center, and for good reason as it was a vector with which his whole operation could be cancelled ala Cecil's Dynamite covers, he's getting a bit more talkative given his dissatisfaction with the arrangement. Without wording it as such, Zack describes the fulfillment agency as running off a standard "value added service" business model and he did not pay attention to how services were billed: specifically the fulfillment center added incremental surcharges for each time a product was "touched" by a worker. While this may or may not work for different businesses, when applied to a $25 comic book and a bunch of cheap tchotchkies like badges and sashes and folded posters, it seems to have resulted in Zack getting brutally raped when the bill was presented and paying $80,000 in fulfillment fees for Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, which is like four Mexicans working for a full year. The added on surcharges even went so far as to get in the way of interfering with order alterations like address updates thanks to a $900 flat fee for processing the backer list. He also mentions being paid in "store credit" by the fulfillment agency whenever they fucked up an order, which racked up in the thousands. Zack remarks bitterly that credit or no credit, the result is him losing customers.

The man described as "Comicsgate Jesus" digresses to another supplement-fueled analogy which is difficult for me to summarize so I will transcript verbatim: "I-I like hot dogs. I go to get hotdogs pretty much every time I leave the house. You got the Nathan's hot dogs, and the little steamers at Walmart - those are great, and of course you got Sonic Hotdogs. But you know sometimes I'll go to the dentist and I'll get numbed up and like, my brain will not allow me to leave the house and not get hotdogs. So what I end up doing is getting hotdogs with like half of my my mouth numbed up, which is an odd experience to say the least, but it's just, in my brain it's "you leave the house, you get hotdogs". So [my brain] is like "is that is not why people leave the house?" So I'm not doing fulfillment, it was almost like part of my business was numb?"

The visual of him shambling up to a hot dog stand, drool pouring from his mouth, as he goes "darhhhrrr... hohhtt dawggss pleus..." seared in our brains, Zack then relates the problems he had with self-fulfillment in the past with Iron Sights where he had shit thrown all over his living room floor sprawled out all over the place and it was just a huge clusterfuck. Since then, he's discovered an innovation known by storage specialists as "shelves" that could, in theory, hold all the orders in a single room. Zack is really excited to put this technology to the test and now he can handle requests like for shipments to Australia being bundled in one mailer.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

I guess I owe @Newman's Own an apology; this nectar would have never been delivered without him. Thanks, wherever you are. I was wrong, you were right man.

On one hand there are (allegedly) people telling Frog that the clips of Kelsey's drunken antics that were being compiled by RumbleTerrier, VikkiVerse, etc. were going to be used by Douglas Ernst and on the other hand Ernst was DMing anyone that hasn't blocked him vague threats to "find the most effective way of defending my team" from the mean f-words said by Kelsey Shannon. Still, there's no hard proof that Ernst did intend on taking this to Walmart and, ironically, keep Mitch Breitweiser in CG forever by preventing him from fucking over and abandoning his backers and the community, or if Ernst was just sperging non specifically in ignorance of everything going on around him, as he claims. I have trouble mustering any sympathy for either side in this.

In other news:

Micah Curtis complained about some Vox Day employee flagging his twitter down for Micah calling the reporter "retarded" for arguing proposed gun background checks don't actually have an impact in a domestic violence life or death situation. Micah wonders at what sort of obsessive psychopath, even one that would willingly work for Teddy Spaghetti, would be hovering around waiting to flag his twitter within thirty seconds of posting.

Spoiler: Or was it Vox Day?

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Zack's latest update about Splatto Comics now doing its own fulfillment, mixed in with a disjointed and frankly concerning digression about his recent success with trucker-grade "supplements". At first the crashes were concerning but now he's cycling the supplements properly now that he's taking the "go pills" whenever he starts coming down. Also he can't sleep now anyway because of the neighbors' thumping thumping barrio music but it's okay and he's in the gym and feeling great. Great enough to bring fulfillment back!

While normally Zack is extremely quiet about his fulfillment center, and for good reason as it was a vector with which his whole operation could be cancelled ala Cecil's Dynamite covers, he's getting a bit more talkative given his dissatisfaction with the arrangement. Without wording it as such, Zack describes the fulfillment agency as running off a standard "value added service" business model and he did not pay attention to how services were billed: specifically the fulfillment center added incremental surcharges for each time a product was "touched" by a worker. While this may or may not work for different businesses, when applied to a $25 comic book and a bunch of cheap tchotchkies like badges and sashes and folded posters, it seems to have resulted in Zack getting brutally raped when the bill was presented and paying $80,000 in fulfillment fees for Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, which is like four Mexicans working for a full year. The added on surcharges even went so far as to get in the way of interfering with order alterations like address updates thanks to a $900 flat fee for processing the backer list. He also mentions being paid in "store credit" by the fulfillment agency whenever they fucked up an order, which racked up in the thousands. Zack remarks bitterly that credit or no credit, the result is him losing customers.

The man described as "Comicsgate Jesus" digresses to another supplement-fueled analogy which is difficult for me to summarize so I will transcript verbatim: "I-I like hot dogs. I go to get hotdogs pretty much every time I leave the house. You got the Nathan's hot dogs, and the little steamers at Walmart - those are great, and of course you got Sonic Hotdogs. But you know sometimes I'll go to the dentist and I'll get numbed up and like, my brain will not allow me to leave the house and not get hotdogs. So what I end up doing is getting hotdogs with like half of my my mouth numbed up, which is an odd experience to say the least, but it's just, in my brain it's "you leave the house, you get hotdogs". So [my brain] is like "is that is not why people leave the house?" So I'm not doing fulfillment, it was almost like part of my business was numb?"

Well said. Zack relates the problems he had with self-fulfillment in the past with Iron Sights where he had shit thrown all over his living room floor sprawled out all over the place and he couldn't move anywhere. Since then he's discovered an innovation known by storage specialists as "shelves" that could in theory hold all the orders in a single room. Zack is really excited to put this technology to the test for the first time. Now he can handle requests like for shipments to Australia being bundled in one mailer.

Zack is also still planning to make that “comedy book about Bin Laden escaping into Vegas”, which still seems like a dumb idea. Over/under on it beating R&RN?

 

[Smug Freiza]

Time for another Comicsgate News Update

FROM CREATORGO
Our regular Comicsgate News Update is now adding a new segment reporting on the latest news from CreatorGo, especially after the startling discovery that failed Comicsgate projects are removed from the site. I had previously been tracking the number of Comicsgate books launched in CG2021 and had recorded a record 54 in the first three months of the year. When recently checking the site, I noticed the number had dropped down to 48 and then up ticked again today to 50. I soon realized that CreatorGo was removing the failed campaigns from the sites analytics, possibly to hide the failures from the public's consciousness. When checking my previous post reporting on the number of books and "Malaise" affecting Comicsgate, I was able to grab the then struggling campaigns and check their current status on Indiegogo.

Previous Failure
The Current Plane Comic #1

Updated Failures
Pillowman and Blanketboy Comic-- Second Chance!
KINETIC
Cross Comics coloring book
Melvin #1
Everlasting Survivors Volume 1 Graphic Novel

Campaigns to Watch
Wulfsbane- Issue 1
Chaotic Flux issue 3: Relentless
How To Die #1
ALBATROSS JUNCTION VOL. 1 GRAPHIC NOVEL
Chateau Obsidian #3
The Tome Of Reckoning
EVERMATTER: Conscript
COBALT: Thrashing About
RAPTOR: The Preamble
Ninja Blast Comic Book
Glyn in Monster Land
Perfect 10 issue 2

While removing the analytics of failed campaigns from the site does appear rather unhanded for those seeking data on Comicsgate's successes and failures, rest assured that Kiwifarms will fill the ethical void surrendered by CreatorGo and such information will be updated here.

FROM INDIEGOGO
Despite the glut of Comicsgate books that have flooded the crowdfunding community over the past three months, there are very few worth reporting on in depth.

• As previously reported Jeff Hicks from World Class Bullshitters relaunched a variant cover for his original trashfire Stealing Solo, called The Fandom Menace edition. The book is a reprint with a new Anna (That Star Wars Girl) variant cover and has raised $32,267 from 511 backers as of writing.
• Pop culture commentators Clownfish TV launched a hardcover set of their webcomic called Shadowbinders, in what is described as a second chance campaign. The book has raised $46,307 from 599 backers as of writing and offers over 300 pages for $60.
• Graham Nolan's Alien Alamo has entered indemand raising $70,181 from 1105 backers during the course of it's 60 day campaign.
• Donkey Madness has extended his campaign by an additional 30 days on Shotgun Samurai, the campaign sitting at $4,058 from 103 backers. Shotgun Samurai features a cover from Xenotype artist Ody and offers over 200 pages of black & white manga for $20.

Meanwhile make sure to check your mailboxes as extremely overdue book Monster MD has been shipped out and reports are coming in people have received their books. In addition it would appear that Earthworm Jim 2 has began finding its way into backer's hands and Kamen America 3 is also in the process of fulfillment.

FROM THE TWITTERVERSE
It would appear everybody's favorite frog comic creator has been blocked by Valiant Comics on twitter. It is currently unknown why the company that produced such quality work like plus sized heroine Faith blocked @FROG, however I'm sure we can all speculate.

https://archive.md/pEfrz

Bean from PA issued a statement in response to fellow kiwi @TESTEFY-HD's post here, in which it was reported she had since left Preston's discord server due to the content shared among it's members. Bean rather left the public discord because of a lack of privacy, which expecting in a public server sounds absurd.

https://archive.md/98N4N

The online feud between Youtube commentator DA Talks and Comicsgate™ creator, Preston Knight and fellow kiwi @Skinny continues to escalate with the former claiming that Skinny intended to use backer information from his book Otis Stein to dox @VIkkiVerse. The origin of these claims come from a screenshot from a private DM group of Preston Poulter's which was aired on a livestream several days ago, that will be featured in our Youtube segment below. The tweet was in response to another screenshot presumably taken from Preston's infamous discord server, where Skinny was bragging about the pair potentially losing their platforms.

https://archive.md/jd16G

Skinny responded to claim he was being stalked by DA Talks, while sipping on a "DA STALKS" coffee mug, which according to Skinny is raising money to fight "cyberbullying."

https://archive.md/WyrsG

DA Talks continued by posting screenshots of DMs which appear to have taken place between Skinny and Jon Del Arroz/@TheCosmicWarrior in which Skinny used backer information to track down several customers of his on the Otis Stein campaign, to forcibly issue refunds.

https://archive.md/1LKv9

Skinny would later confirm the validity of the screenshots and the participants of the conversation, also revealing that Trash Compactor associate "Stupendous" was the one who's information Skinny was looking for.

https://archive.md/Q2pkR

After some investigating by fellow kiwis in the Comicsgate News Station, it would appear that Skinny himself released these DMs after getting into a slapfight with Jon Del Arroz in Preston's discord server yesterday. The DMs themselves will be spoilered below.

Spoiler: JDA & SKINNY DMs

Releasing DMs of yourself admitting to combing through backer information looking for specific individuals to somehow own Jon Del Arroz appears to be a weird flex, but far be it from me to judge the rationality of some of the people associated with the online independent comics scene.

Of course we would like to offer the chance for both @Skinny and @TheCosmicWarrior to comment?

FROM YOUTUBE
Our first video follows up from the previous twitter topic, in which DA Talks and fellow kiwi @VIkkiVerse hosted their weekly CGDG stream. Joining the two this week is Well Read User, former wrench of Liam's chat and host of crowdfunded comic review streams. The topic again this week was Preston Poulter in which many DMs were released including a group chat in which Skinny appears to suggest doxing Vikki or passing her information along to Warcampaign, Skinny would later join the live chat and insist he was "just joking." Another interesting DM leak was what appeared to be a Preston Knight "Barry L Merritt" imply that Preston should blackmail Kiwifarms to have his posting privileges restored, a moderator removed or he would sue Kiwifarms, Preston would later answer that he is preparing to sue DA Talks, Vikki and Kiwifarms.

I have screenshot the DMs from the video above and will spoiler them below, which shows Preston and his "Knights" talking about doxing, flagging and suing. I would ask @VIkkiVerse to post better quality pictures to the thread later, or confirm their authenticity.

Spoiler: STREAM SCREENSHOTS

Skinny suggesting he should dox Vikki

A Preston Knight telling Preston he should sue KF and use the TM to get unbanned?

Skinny calling for help flagging Vikki's channel

Preston saying he will sue Vikki and DA Talks

Jon Del Arroz/@TheCosmicWarrior did a stream to promote Shotgun Samurai and was joined by @TESTEFY-HD, DA Talks and later by @FROG at the [1:32:05] mark. The stream was highly entertaining watching JDA, Testefy and Frog joke with each other and was extremely refreshing for what started out as your typical shill stream.

Yellowflash reports on Marvel dumping its "woke creators" for Japanese Manga writers with a new series called Deadpool Samurai.

Preston Poulter played catchup to Kiwifarms posting a video going over the recent Mitch Breitweiser/Red Rooster news which had already been reported on by fellow kiwis @TESTEFY-HD and @Mister Dongs

An old tired man yells about SJWs and comic books for the thousandth time.

Comics by Perch goes over the several new #1 comics coming from DC in June

And finally a sad update today as Rorshach from Swindon, whose mainstream reviews I used to feature in the news updates recently released a video on why he will no longer be reviewing comic books.

Rorshach felt his farewell to comic reviews video may have been too spicy for Youtube, so he uploaded it to bitchute here. We here at the Kiwi Comicsgate News desk sympathize with his reasons and wish him well in his future endeavors.



Well that's the Comicsgate News Update for today, it's been a rather slow few weeks in Comicsgate News. The big news is obviously the Preston discord drama taking front and center and the fallout from afterwards. Then of course all these Doug Ernst DMs being dropped since recently Kelsey Shannon/@Kelsey decided to join us. I have a potential story I might break soon in a following post, however I'm just confirming permission with my source before I inform the thread on it. I'm also considering a monthly update post for overdue Comicsgate Crowdfunded books, which at the moment is a rather ambitious project since there's so fucking many of them.

As always take care, and stay safe out there.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Important short livestream from Liam just now. He found someone's dog and needed to release a global video that maybe 10 people will watch. So if you know anyone who lost their dog, in Australia, Liam has it. Also a public service announcement about an obvious txt msg scam claiming to be the Aussie Postal Service (that definitely doesn't involve Xenotype).

EDIT: Roughly 15 mins in and a voice off-screen that must be the missus (since Liam doesn't want her to come any closer or she'll be on-cam) says they've found the owner but there's drama. Go figure.

 

[VIkkiVerse]

The online feud between Youtube commentator DA Talks and Comicsgate™ creator, Preston Knight and fellow kiwi @Skinny continues to escalate with the former claiming that Skinny intended to use backer information from his book Otis Stein to dox @VIkkiVerse. The origin of these claims come from a screenshot from a private DM group of Preston Poulter's which was aired on a livestream several days ago, that will be featured in our Youtube segment below. The tweet was in response to another screenshot presumably taken from Preston's infamous discord server, where Skinny was bragging about the pair potentially losing their platforms.

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https://archive.md/jd16G

Skinny responded to claim he was being stalked by DA Talks, while sipping on a "DA STALKS" coffee mug, which according to Skinny is raising money to fight "cyberbullying."

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https://archive.md/WyrsG

DA Talks continued by posting screenshots of DMs which appear to have taken place between Skinny and Jon Del Arroz/@TheCosmicWarrior in which Skinny used backer information to track down several customers of his on the Otis Stein campaign, to forcibly issue refunds.

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https://archive.md/1LKv9

Skinny would later confirm the validity of the screenshots and the participants of the conversation, also revealing that Trash Compactor associate "Stupendous" was the one who's information Skinny was looking for.

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https://archive.md/Q2pkR

After some investigating by fellow kiwis in the Comicsgate News Station, it would appear that Skinny himself released these DMs after getting into a slapfight with Jon Del Arroz in Preston's discord server yesterday. The DMs themselves will be spoilered below.

Spoiler: JDA & SKINNY DMs

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Releasing DMs of yourself admitting to combing through backer information looking for specific individuals to somehow own Jon Del Arroz appears to be a weird flex, but far be it from me to judge the rationality of some of the people associated with the online independent comics scene.

Of course we would like to offer the chance for both @Skinny and @TheCosmicWarrior to comment?

@Skinny releasing private DM's is quite the cherry on top of the hypocrisy sundae. Not hours earlier he was discussing the immorality of leaking such things. When Dean was putting together the Poulter video that sparked all of this, I told him that despite Preston sharing our DM's with member's of his discord, I wouldn't share any of mine with Poulter for the video. I don't publicly share my personal DM's.

I have screenshot the DMs from the video above and will spoiler them below, which shows Preston and his "Knights" talking about doxing, flagging and suing. I would ask @VIkkiVerse to post better quality pictures to the thread later, or confirm their authenticity.

Spoiler: STREAM SCREENSHOTS

Skinny suggesting he should dox Vikki
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A Preston Knight telling Preston he should sue KF and use the TM to get unbanned?
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Skinny calling for help flagging Vikki's channel
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Preston saying he will sue Vikki and DA Talks
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Here ya go:

 

[Newman's Own]

Thanks for dropping those DM's @FROG.

Seems like Doug Ernst was being shit on for having the wrong friends and asking assholes to stop attacking him.

Spoiler: SPOILER

Reading this thru, you see Doug actively working to get something going here.

Reading it through it looks like Doug and his team felt attacked by the "pro faction" of CG. When was it exactly that you lost your shit that Pelligrini liked a tweet dissing you?

Kelsey said 'fuck Doug!" An implied threat that Doug will join others in "going after me."

How was Kelsey saying "Fuck Doug" about you FROG?

Maybe it was about Cecil and Kelsey getting drunk and running down a peer who actually delivers books people like on time.

It's also made clear that Ernst is harassing Mitch with multiple texts and calls about Kelsey's behavior,

This was about the time that Mitch and you started spreading rumors of Ernst, Lim, Preston, Edwin, Dr Seuss and perhaps even Jesus being in a conspiracy against poor innocent Mitch Breitweiser who wouldn't fuck over anyone.

Mitch isn't exactly the kind of guy who makes drama videos tattling on other ComicsGaters

Mitch privated a LOT of videos from that period. So did you.

Ernst didn't private any. Who had something to hide?

Probably wondering why your JACK show crew attacked him when he hasn't attacked you?

Seems reasonable but let's assume when Doug was asking everyone to leave him be it was really him making veiled threats or some other ridiculous spin doctor bullshit.

Man, I have genuinely been nothing but kind, supportive and helpful to Doug Ernst.

Are you serious?

You said on stream that Doug was conspiring with Poulter to destroy Allegiance Arts. You did private that stream when confronted about it though. Was that "kind, supportive and helpful to Doug Ernst" ?

A month after this DM conversation, a character called "Shadow King" showed up in my livestream chats calling out Doug Ernst by name in the Kelsey "Walmart Conspiracy" in which I'd carefully only spoken about Edwin Boyette and George Alexopoulous.

Except when you were accusing Doug, Tim, Edwin, Poulter, Mr Magoo and the cast of Power Rangers of a grand conspiracy against poor innocent Mitch.

Still no receipts.

Who tattled? That would have been Mitch. Mitch came to me after Doug was harassing him nonstop about Kelsey.

Asking people to stop attacking you is "harassment".

There's a whole lot of spin going on.

The remaining question is who pushed Kelsey, Jon and Cecil?

The answer is obvious. Mitch didn't have the stroke to get Jon or Cecil to do anything.

They were collecting all my rude acts online and he would use his position at his newspaper to ruin him.

The Washington Times doesn't give a fuck about you, Mitch, Ethan, ComicsGate or even likely Doug Ernst. The idea that Ernst could or would have the stroke to use a nationally syndicated paper he writes for about politics to ruin indy comics literally who's is exceptionally retarded.

In the real world no one cares about anyone in CG and no editor at the Washington Times would ever consider reporting on gay CG drama.

Exceptionally retarded.

I don't care. I would really like it to go away so we can continue to make fun of Donal.

This would ring truer if you didn't make an account here and make your first act as a Kiwi to attack Ernst. You started this shit show. Thanks for joining.

But it soon became clear that Kelsey was only a cudgel being used to get at someone's real target, which was Mitch Breitweiser.

Poor Mitch.

Why was all of this happening? Because the Breitweisers fired Pellegrini from RED ROOSTER.

Or perhaps because Pellegrini liked a tweet and a FROG merchant with a colossal ego lost his shit both publicly and privately.

Who can keep track anymore?

I didn't know he was doing a book and I don't care that he's doing a book. I care about the truth in relation to me.

It's just a coincidence that you made an account and attacked Doug first thing the week he releases his new book.

Sure.

TL;DR - It's funny, when the rumors all started about Doug Ernst he told Mitch, Kelsey, Ethan and everyone else he was fine with hashing this out publicly, DM's and all if they wanted.

No one took him up on the offer but the rumors continued. If any of what Mitch and Ethan said was true you'd think they'd have jumped at Ernst's consent to let them share his DM's and expose him.

I guess I owe @Newman's Own an apology; this nectar would have never been delivered without him. Thanks, wherever you are. I was wrong, you were right man.

Thanks.

I figured when Kelsey showed up out of the blue to sling shit the week Soulfinder: Black Tide was to be released there was going to be an avalanche of drama and DM's if the right people were cajoled.

on the other hand Ernst was DMing anyone that hasn't blocked him vague threats to "find the most effective way of defending my team" from the mean f-words said by Kelsey Shannon. Still, there's no hard proof that Ernst did intend on taking this to Walmart and, ironically, keep Mitch Breitweiser

As we see now Doug's DM's are about him being upset Kelsey was joining in with WC brigades against his team (Lim, Pellegrini and Weldon?) and Cecil & Kelsey shitting on him in a stream which led to his backers and subscribers blowing up his email asking what he did to piss off upstanding drunken sperg diabetics like Cecil and Kelsey.

This may be a hyperbolic reaction but no more hyperbolic then say losing ones shit that someone you met once liked a mean tweet about you ('FIX THIS NOW MITCH') or tried to rally the cancel brigade against a "friend" for not thanking him on a SDCC panel literally no one else gave a fuck about ('DOES EARTH WORM JIM HATE THE GAAAAAAAYS!?!?!?!?!).

I expect the writing was on the wall for Doug when Cecil blocked him, Mitch ghosted him and then Mitch started making cryptic claims presumably about him that Ethan was amplifying on stream. This playbook had been run before and it didn't end well for the people rumors were circulated against.

So he "threatened" to defend himself. Clearly Doug's evil plan was to get shut out by Mitch, Ethan, Cecil and Kelsey then viciously defend himself when the blameless whisper campaign started.

Doug Ernst is an evil genius.

I'll take the word of the mild mannered guy asking for the drama to stop in DM's who got his book out on time to rave reviews over the Caesar of Gay OpsCampaign, the architect of the Walmart deal that fucked his own backers or the shit flinging obscenely drunken Grizzly Adams wannabe.

Where credibility is concerned the guy who never fucked over anyone, ruled a gay ops Roman fan club or drunkenly shit on others while passing out or soiling himself on air is king.