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site posted:https://twitter.com/RosieMarx/status/916524490368212993 I am 100% for them cancelling the event but someone should point out to the person that tweeted this that A) comic books are not for children and the industry tossed that pretense out the window over a decade ago and B) NYCC is not aimed at or geared towards children specifically.
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Lurdiak posted:But it's obvious those specific comics are attempting to recruit children. You're not wrong. It's just amusing that next to no children will actually see this book.
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Oct 7, 2017 06:53
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Pierson posted:Some noise has been happening on Twitter over how Viz (the company that does a lot of indie/manga stuff, not the British alt-humour comic) has as much market share as Marvel and DC put together, and bestseller lists are mainly indie/manga TPBs now. A few people put forward the idea that Diamond and how comics are distributed in general are a big part of why people are frustrated/angry at superhero comics. I know from your posts Rhyno that retailers sometimes need to jump through stupid/financially-risky hoops to even be able to order special/limited/collectors stuff and deal with a ton of poo poo besides, but I thought that was Marvel being slimeballs to inflate sales, is that actually stuff Diamond mandates? It's all up to the publisher so yeah it's all Marvel.
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Oct 9, 2017 14:19
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That is clearly Eddie Berganza. And Scott "Bitey the Clown" Allie at Dark Horse.
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Oct 13, 2017 03:01
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rkajdi posted:Yup, that's the big public incident, but there's also other stuff that was apparently worse but happened in private. Seriously, gently caress that guy. I can't believe he still gets work after all the hacky stuff he's put out and the obvious liability he causes for the company he's working for. I tried to find the post where DT handwaved away everything Lobdell has done (same post where he equated the death of a fictional character with real world rape) but I got a nosebleed after searching for a minute. Scott Allie is probably the worst offender as he has physically bitten dozens of people while intoxicated at convention after parties and nobody said or did anything for a very long time.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:55
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Nobody seems to be able to explain how Allie still has a job. This is a thing that stretches back years and years, he'd get drunk at a con and go up behind people and bite their ears. Allegedly a retailer was paid off with a whole lot of original Mignola Hellboy art to keep quiet about it.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:23
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wonder how Mignoa would feel about that. LoL.That would explain the right hand of doom wouldn't it. I believe it's only recently that Mignola has distanced himself from Allie. I reached out to another retailer looking for some details and he has declined to weigh in. Allie was always a fixture at retailer summits, I've actually hob-knobbed with him on more than one occasion but I guess I'm not his type as I was never accosted.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:39
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Blade Runner posted:I'm mostly confused about how someone like that manages to not get punched in the head constantly until he stops, honestly. Not even in a "Navy Seal man who would destroy anyone who so much as looked at me" way, just...how do you literally bite people and not get the poo poo kicked out of you as a reflexive reaction? Nobody seems to have any clue how this piece of garbage kept his job. He was in a position of authority at Dark Horse so anyone he assaulted probably kept quiet so as to not get on his poo poo list.
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Oct 14, 2017 18:01
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Countblanc posted:Also not everyone reacts to violence with immediate violence of their own. Not that it'd be an inappropriate reaction mind you. But if someone bit me my first instinct would be to shove then off and get the hell away from them, especially if they seemed intoxicated. How he stayed employed is another question entirely, but "why didn't someone assault the guy back" isn't too much of a head scratcher. It's not so much of a head scratcher when you hear about how many times he did this. It's just amazing that nobody reacted violently.
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Oct 14, 2017 19:02
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Nessus posted:Was most of this before the Internet was a big thing? I could totally see how he could be aided by it being a sort of half-known rumor and everyone assuming it came from a single notable moment, or like two or three, rather than "like any party where he has a drink." I have no idea how long he was doing this but the incidents that came to light was during SDCC in 2015. In reading up on the events it looks like he left DH two weeks ago. Speculation is that he was quietly told to finally GTFO. Edit: Refreshing myself, he'd been doing this for twenty goddamned years before Janelle Masselin and Joe Harris called him out. https://graphicpolicy.com/2015/10/01/enough-is-enough-dark-horses-scott-allies-assaulting-behavior/ Rhyno fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 21:08
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Lightning Lord posted:It's Janelle Asselin. The "M" is her middle initial. Whoops, my bad. I'm not very familiar with her honestly. Joe Harris is a friend on FB I feel lousy for not being aware of that.
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Oct 14, 2017 21:35
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I don't know anyone at DH and have had no real interactions with their marketing guys but the chatter today is he will slowly be pushed out entirely.
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Oct 15, 2017 06:10
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The Bone Coda came out last summer.
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Oct 21, 2017 23:51
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Home taping is killing the recording industry.
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Oct 23, 2017 01:47
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:So when Scott Allie would randomly bite people, was it like a hard chomp? Was he an equal-opportunity biter of men and women? Did anyone ever push him off or kick his rear end over it? I'm not saying anyone had to, but if someone bit me, that might be my first impulsive reaction, if I wasn't too shocked to react at all. Did he really wield so much power at Dark Horse (the #4 publisher at best) that the entire industry was afraid of retaliating against him or even speaking out against him? The people who have stepped forward have said it was a firm bite but not enough to draw blood. And to my amazement he never got his rear end beat that anyone knows of. It makes you wonder if he and those like him (Eddie Berganza) really do know where the bodies are buried.
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Nov 1, 2017 14:23
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Here we go https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/09/eddie-berganza-dc-comics-buzzfeed-publishing-article/ Time to get this prick out of there.
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Nov 10, 2017 04:32
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Man, just gently caress that dude.
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Nov 11, 2017 03:57
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I hope they dump his rear end on the street. It' sfucking embarassing that it took others being publicly shamed for him to finally get the boot.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:34
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Endless Mike posted:I'm kinda annoyed they didn't put El Presidente on here, though I realize it's only "new" revelations from the past few weeks. I feel like by the end of the month they'll be able to fill every page of a standard print edition of the NYT with the headshots of every one of these guys.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:41
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Aphrodite posted:Gal Gadot has apparently said she won't do another Wonder Woman movie if Ratner is involved (his production company has a co-financing deal with WB), although WB has already cut ties with him so that was out anyway. Well she's clearly more valuable to WB than he is. gently caress off in Peace Ratner.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:50
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Hey, they used my tweet in the "industry reacts" story. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/12/comic-industry-reacts-eddie-berganza-suspension/
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Nov 13, 2017 03:25
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Aphrodite posted:You’re Alice, Daughter of the Cosmos right? Got it in one. I've fielded quite a few retail related questions for BC in the past, I guess somebody follows me from there.
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Nov 13, 2017 03:36
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So in light of the Berganza developments, my fellow retail friend who will go unnamed until they are ready to be public has made the first steps in filing a legal complaint against Scott Allie.
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Nov 13, 2017 16:44
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Decius posted:Allie's hairdo alone would be a reason. My friend was one of ol' Bitey's victims during a retailer summit. I believe their store received a pallet of Dark Horse hardcovers as hush money. They no longer work there so the store won't take any heat.
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Nov 13, 2017 16:57
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He remember when JG Jones quit Final Crisis because Didio had an affair with his wife (and Jones allegedly assaulted him at a con). Who was a DC editor at the time. Or that time Ale Garza's wife left him for Jim Lee and Lee fired him from Wildstorm so he couldn't make his child support payments? The culture of the comic book industry is disgusting in so many ways. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Nov 13, 2017 19:28
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Fantastic. I'm sure his severance package will be generous though.
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Nov 13, 2017 21:05
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Somebody hosed up on that one.
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Nov 14, 2017 03:09
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I guess for now we wait to see how Gadot responds.
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Nov 15, 2017 03:33
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Bleeding Cool is referring to Berganza's firing as "BERGEXIT" which is both absolutely stupid and incredibly funny.
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Nov 15, 2017 05:13
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CHo is kind of prick and it is widely believed now that the "censorship" of his WW covers that he blamed Rucka for and concocted an enormous story over, was entirely in his head.
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Nov 16, 2017 00:11
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Lurdiak posted:Comparing Cho to Crumb is like comparing a guy who jerks off onto bathroom walls to Jackson Pollock. I told you to stop following me around dude.
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Nov 16, 2017 03:03
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I don't even care what he draws or who he thinks he's outraging. But he honestly thought he was more important to the book than Rucka and that cheesed me off.
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Nov 16, 2017 04:42
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Lurdiak posted:Y'know while I'm at it, I think it's a little weird that Marvel and DC just let the guy make softcore porn of their characters and sell it as a side gig while he's employed by them, especially since a lot of said porn is making gross political points. Eh, practically every artist supplements their income by drawing commissions of things they don't own. If you go to a con it's pretty much IP theft wall to wall.
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Nov 16, 2017 06:02
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Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure it's completely legal to sell individual works of whatever, it only becomes an issue if you tried to publish and distribute multiple copies of something That's kind of what a shitload of them do. You go to any major/minor convention and a large percentage of the "artists" are selling pre produced prints of DC and Marvel characters. Even the known artists do it.
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Nov 16, 2017 06:12
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A few places are insinuating that Alonso was told to resign before any allegations came out but nobody has anything concrete or even a shred of a rumor. It's more likely this was done because of Legacy being a bomb.
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Nov 17, 2017 19:47
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Rebirth really resonated with fans. It was basically DC saying "we're sorry we hosed everything up, here's how we'll fix it" and it's been very successful. Legacy is just like stated previously, all the old white guys are coming back and so far it's a very impressive flop.
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Nov 18, 2017 07:44
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Jesus, who the gently caress is this guy?
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Nov 19, 2017 05:45
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X-O posted:This is a great example of what we talked about a while back about you posting completely unsourced unfounded stuff. You even admit to that in the post. If there's literally nothing to it then why post in the first place? Don't do this. Okay let me re-detail. A certain comic news site that rhymes with "Reading Drool" has been quietly reaching out to industry and retail figures looking for dirt on Alonso.
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Nov 20, 2017 16:50
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Kurui Reiten posted:You know, considering how long it's been going on, is Witchblade even any good? I mean, yeah, it sells on sex, but has it really gotten this far on that alone? No. And it's only now getting relaunched after a multi year break.
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At least he didn't grab any women though right? Jesus Christ this is gonna blow up in Marvel's face so bad.
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