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Looks like it's being ordered a ton and will be their top selling comic this year so maybe it is working out for them? https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-sell-over-100000-copies-of-disneys-gargoyles-1-so-far/ Also they somehow got CGC to agree to allow SS yellow slabs on their 1:250 without a witness. You buy the book that already has a sig and comes with a COA with some kind of security code or something and if you send it in CGC will give it a yellow slab instead of green. I've only ever seen this done once before but I forget the book. https://www.comicsbeat.com/gargoyles-1-debuts-with-1250-retailer-incentive-variant-signed-greg-weisman/?amp Honestly though I would like to see CGC do this more, if done right it would be really hard to abuse so I don't think counterfeit sigs would really be a big problem. I've bought some signed raw comics from creator owned storefronts before for really good prices and I hate I can't get a yellow label if I want to get graded. Say a creator signs 300 issues available on their site. Each comes with a COA with a unique code and the creator shares the codes with CGC. As long as they generate codes in a random way the only way a counterfeiter could get a code was if somebody posted their COA code online and they found it and even then they'd only get one issue out of it. Wouldn't really be worth their time on any kind of scale and if the actual owner sent theirs in CGC would see they got two of the same codes and take action.
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Boy that's a lot of traced 3D models, medium talent character art, and PS brush abuse. Oof.D-Pad posted:Also they somehow got CGC to agree to allow SS yellow slabs on their 1:250 without a witness. You buy the book that already has a sig and comes with a COA with some kind of security code or something and if you send it in CGC will give it a yellow slab instead of green. I've only ever seen this done once before but I forget the book. how many foil variants do you own
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Incredibly scummy of Golden Bell, more in the thread/link https://twitter.com/dorrismccomics/status/1590035578724052992?s=46&t=xbxPAXni4SG6SkmudIQsxw
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Barry Convex posted:Incredibly scummy of Golden Bell For folks not familiar with Golden Bell, this is a tautology. They were banned from Kickstarter but still prey on small projects that don't know better, swooping in to "help with fulfilment" and getting their claws in. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Nov 9, 2022 22:05
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Oh, no! I am far from the first person to say that...
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Oh god, Golden Bell. Yeah, I've heard whispers about them for years. I remember meeting the guy at a convention in Baltimore several years ago; he came off as shifty. I think I still have the free sample of a comic strip broadsheet he tried to peddle.
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Bruceski posted:For folks not familiar with Golden Bell, this is a tautology. They were banned from Kickstarter but still prey on small projects that don't know better, swooping in to "help with fulfilment" and getting their claws in. Yep. They're quite notorious in the boardgame scene for their vulture capitalist endeavours.
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Yeah it's interesting to see this here because we've been talking about them in the TG forum industry thread as well.
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Really amazing to see that Robotoad and Cash Grab are years late with still no release date for either and chuds are still funneling money into both of them. Libz are so owned.
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E the Shaggy posted:Really amazing to see that Robotoad and Cash Grab are years late with still no release date for either and chuds are still funneling money into both of them. Libz are so owned. I feel like that's slacked off some. Some are genuinely upset they aren't getting their product and others have stopped caring. That said I'm sure EVS and company will have enough waterski dealership owners who used to read comics and are very mad about women having a milkshake to keep them afloat for a while.
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So, sorry to intrude with a seemingly vague question but are the names Bryan Petty or Tyler Kirkham involved with any of the comicsgate poo poo or known assholes, particularly Bryan? I believe the comic is called Tandra.
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iwentdoodie posted:So, sorry to intrude with a seemingly vague question but are the names Bryan Petty or Tyler Kirkham involved with any of the comicsgate poo poo or known assholes, particularly Bryan? I believe the comic is called Tandra. Can't find anything on Bryan Petty really at all. Kirkham's more of a known quantity and the only thing I dimly recall is rumblings that EVS helped him with his Final Boss IndieGoGo.
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Kirkham drew a cover of Miles kissing Gwen which I think would make most comicsgaters heads explode so I'm not sure about him
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Codependent Poster posted:Kirkham drew a cover of Miles kissing Gwen which I think would make most comicsgaters heads explode so I'm not sure about him Yeah. The EVS thing was the only thing I could find. I haven't seen anything else that stands out on his Twitter or anything, so at least he's good at hiding it.
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Dawgstar posted:Can't find anything on Bryan Petty really at all. Kirkham's more of a known quantity and the only thing I dimly recall is rumblings that EVS helped him with his Final Boss IndieGoGo. Codependent Poster posted:Kirkham drew a cover of Miles kissing Gwen which I think would make most comicsgaters heads explode so I'm not sure about him Dawgstar posted:Yeah. The EVS thing was the only thing I could find. I haven't seen anything else that stands out on his Twitter or anything, so at least he's good at hiding it. Thanks guys. Can't elaborate much as the person involved is still actively working for one of them and the other is involved in the project, but basically involves encouraging one of the artists they hired to commit suicide complete with multiple suggestions on how to do so. Fun!
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Well that's a yikes. Why are people so horrible?
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Chris Wozniak just posted this on Facebook. Don't know the whole story, but certainly fits my impression of WB. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...mibextid=Nif5oz E: don't know anything about Chris other than some vague memories of him drawing a few Justice League issues back in the day. Anyone know more details? Esplanade fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Dec 10, 2022 |
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I'm pretty sure we talked about this a few weeks back and there's basically zero resemblance between his story and the batman beyond some extremely circumstantial stuff and it kind of makes him look like a crank Like I am highly suspicious of just about everything in that post because none of it makes any sense
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Thanks, the post was shared by someone I generally trust, but it did seem odd that someone without much of a footprint as a writer would be involved.
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I mean, if DC is suing him to get the rights to it that does give him some credibility
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i mean, considering how DC behaved over the CW Killer Frost bullshit i don't doubt it for a second
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Rhyno posted:i mean, considering how DC behaved over the CW Killer Frost bullshit i don't doubt it for a second what
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Kurui Reiten posted:what cliff notes: to get your royalties DC/WB requires you to file the paperwork and bullshit. they don't inform you they are using anything you create in the hopes you never find out. Gerry Conway filed for his royalties over the use of Killer Frost on Flash. he was informed he didn't created that version of the character as she was derivative of his creation and thus owed nothing. So Gerry contacted the creator of KF 2 (Matthew Struges i believe) and informed him he was owed for his creation. So Sturges went through the hoops and was told that his character was derivative of Killer Frost and thus he was owed nothing.
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Rhyno posted:cliff notes: to get your royalties DC/WB requires you to file the paperwork and bullshit. they don't inform you they are using anything you create in the hopes you never find out. capitalism was a mistake
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Opopanax posted:I mean, if DC is suing him to get the rights to it that does give him some credibility Assuming that is actually what's happening because what he's described doesn't make any kind of legal sense and no outlets have reported on any kind of lawsuit filing, which is the kind of goss they're always trying to dig up. Like, again, I would not be so suspicious except we already talked about how weird and spurrious this whole thing is when his original attempt to sue DC contains bits like quote:45. Defendant copied Plaintiff's portrayal of Gotham City's government and police as totally corrupt, unreliable, and a dangerous threat to Batman and Commissioner Gordon. Plaintiff's portrayal of Gotham City's government and police force as totally corrupt, unreliable, and a dangerous threat to Batman and Commissioner Gordon is an original expression of the idea of threats to Batman and Commissioner Gordon. or quote:51. Defendant copied Plaintiff's expression of the idea of Batman as more of a human detective and less of a superhero with uncanny physical prowess and working in tandem with Commissioner Gordon. Plaintiff's portrayal of Batman as more of a human detective and less of a superhero with uncanny physical prowess and working in tandem with Commissioner Gordon is an original expression of the idea of Batman. It's complete loving nonsense. And he had an Indiegogo to pay for him suing DC originally (that was taken down) but now they're "suing him back" and he needs 20k on a GoFundMe? That's an entire series of red flags.
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There's no way the policy worked the way he says it does simply to avoid a situation where someone could claim that they submitted an idea and it got stolen.
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Oh definitely. All I'm saying is that it would not shock me (or many others) that WB would try to strong arm someone over owed royalties. But as it has unfolded it sounds like he tried to sue WB first.
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So who is Eric D. July, exactly?
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Dawgstar posted:So who is Eric D. July, exactly? No one worth knowing really
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Dawgstar posted:So who is Eric D. July, exactly? He's a vocal libertarian and a contributor to the Blaze, so Joe Fisto posted:No one worth knowing really
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Seeing one of the "big" artists of CG unable to crack $10K with his lovely Lobo knock-off does a put a smile on my face:
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Well that book made the goal of $500 so sorry, it’s a resounding success!
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Action Lab doing what they do: https://twitter.com/jimsupreme/status/1603439822538145792
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So what’s the next digital comics distributor going to be? https://twitter.com/cocktailsandink/status/1615786625828536335?s=46&t=lEonzI-Z5A3JK4eI7qcsMA
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I'm betting as a basic comics distribution service, it's not going anywhere. Why would Amazon want to cut a service that's basically free money? There's no shipping costs, storage and distribution is functionally free on a unit cost, and the rest of the infrastructure is essentially just Kindle anyway. They may stop running sales and cut their originals, though.
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Firing half the people working on it isn't a good sign.
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Skwirl posted:Firing half the people working on it isn't a good sign. Not at all. That’s where I buy all my books and if the experience gets worse or disappears I’m not sure where to go next besides (files shhhhh)
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Joe Fisto posted:or disappears ... (files shhhhh) i don't know for a fact but I'm assuming that's where all the  come from as well so that might be affected too
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Skwirl posted:Firing half the people working on it isn't a good sign. None of this is to justify firing, just saying where I bet it's coming from. site posted:i don't know for a fact but I'm assuming that's where all the
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