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The secret of the ComicArtistPro

We’ve played nice with Two-Face van Soyver and his merry band of Comicsgatekeepers to date despite their incessant sniping. But I don’t know if it’s going to be possible to continue doing so for much longer, in light of the little Kabuki theater he is presently putting on for the crowd.

Everybody’s cursing him out in the chat what a tool they’re saying what a shit move, ComicsGate, it is, what a shit move, let Ethan have it, please don’t be petty!  He won’t show his face, he’s behind a screen right now. Vox is a piece of shit can you go any lower from here? People are saying this might be the best stream we’ve ever done nice, a great time, there he is. I see you Vox! You did not start this gangster shit, Vox. The problem, Vox, is that it did belong to everyone and then you stole it for yourself, that’s the problem. He’s laughing, cuz Vox watches the chat very closely. Oh man, we got our people over there trolling and big-time beautiful. He’s smirking, look at him! Vox I do own it, I do own it!  Swallow hard, swallow, Vox. He thought, he was, he’s like in one year I’m gonna be more relevant than Ethan Van Sciver. How’s that going?

The dark stream? Dude, I mean go get that checked out that’s not that a joke. Another scam artist, somebody said, why is that anus talking he said. Way to turn ComicsGate against you. I mean what Vox doesn’t understand is that I think a few of our people were actually supporting Alt-Hero and that’s gonna go bye-bye. Vox yeah yeah the ratio did I mean dude not even close like if if we say so if ComicsGate says so that’s it for Alt-Hero. that’s it for Alt-Hero. 34 likes and 304 dislikes right now on the dark stream, 324 dark stream, yeah he’s peeing blood right now look you can’t, you don’t we’re not here to be taken, we’re not here to be taken Vox, you can’t co-opt us, you can’t, you can’t do it. I know you’re trying, it’s not working, give up, let it go. Oh, feel it slipping through your fingers that’s ComicsGate, bitch! Dude’s not going to work out. He’s got to stop.

Now, that’s a very convincing performance, until you learn that I ran the idea of creating a comics imprint called ComicsGate past a well-known professional comic artist last week and he actually approved of the idea, albeit with a few concerns about how it would play out. But he certainly had no objections, especially after I pointed out that any SJW-converged publisher with access could do exactly the same thing in a manner of seconds. It wasn’t until the Bounding Into Comics piece ran and he realized how badly his fans were reacting badly to the idea that “the brand” was being “stolen” that he turned around, pretended not to know anything about it, and feigned being surprised and outraged.

Still, don’t take my word about the identity of this professional comic artist. Just ask ol’ Uncle Ethan when he first learned about my intention to create a ComicsGate imprint.

In case you don’t believe good ‘ol Uncle Ethan would lie so shamelessly to his fellow ComicsGatekeepers, consider his revisionist description of last night’s Darkstream this morning.

By the way, Vox calls himself the Dark Lord. I took the mantle of Dark Lord from him last night and his live stream just said EVS is the Dark Lord, EVS is the Dark Lord up there, he looked very upset, he looked like he was gonna cry, and he cancelled it early. He left in mid-sentence, he just he bombed his chat out. March, march tower armies on Vox Day, and I believe we conquered him.

Translation: Ethan may be far more upset about this than any of us would have imagined. SJWs aren’t the only people who project. It was informative to see how he described our emails in detail last night, but said absolutely nothing about our 30-minute 55-second conversation on August 29th.

And since Two-Face Van Soyver is talking about emails, here are a pair of not-entirely-irrelevant emails I sent out to someone last week.

8/29/2018 7:59 AM

From [REDACTED]:

The imprint [REDACTED] has been added to your account as requested. 


9/2/2018 2:30 PM

Hey [REDACTED],

Congrats on the variant cover killing it. Below is a link to AH#4: The War in Paris in case you’re interested. Also, we’ll make the [REDACTED] announcement on Tuesday when we publish Gun Ghoul in print.

Obviously, we didn’t make the announcement on Tuesday, but moved it up one day when the print edition of Gun Ghoul got through the system and onto our direct store faster than we’d anticipated, because Bounding Into Comics had the story ready to go and was eager to run it.

Financial colonialism

The difference is that China is playing the usury card in the national interest, whereas in the West, it is customarily played against the national interest:

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged $60 billion in financing for projects in Africa in the form of assistance, investment and loans, as China furthers efforts to link the continent’s economic prospects to its own.

Speaking to a gathering of African leaders in Beijing, Mr Xi said the figure includes $15 billion in grants, interest-free loans and concessional loans, $20 billion in credit lines, $10 billion for “development financing” and $5 billion to buy imports from Africa. In addition, he said China will encourage companies to invest at least $10 billion in Africa over the next three years.

China’s outreach to Africa aims to build trade, investment and political ties with a continent often seen as overlooked by the US and other Western nations. That has provided lucrative opportunities for Chinese businesses, while African nations are often happy to accept China’s offers that come without demands for safeguards against corruption, waste and environmental damage.

President Xi told African leaders that China’s investments on the continent have “no political strings attached”.

They don’t. What’s going to happen is that when the loans first default, they’ll be extended. When the African nations default the second time, China will take the collateral. It’s a subtle and inexpensive way to acquire material resources while posing as a benefactor instead of a predator.

James Burnham’s 1965 concerns about the retreat of the West are proving to be prophetic.

Gun Ghoul now in print!

ComicsGate Comics is pleased to announce that Will Caligan’s Gun Ghoul: Raising the Dead is now in print.

Someone – or something – is taking out the crime lords of Chicago.

Agent Justice of the FBI is on the case. She is a Meta Prime, with the ability to see into the past. But not even her superhuman abilities allows her to explain the impossible. And the FBI is not the only agency that is interested in learning more about the new player in town. In their search for the mysterious killer who is wreaking havoc on the crime lords of Chicago, Agent Justice and Detective Callahan of the Chicago Police Department team up to recreate a gun battle that took place at a restaurant in Chinatown. What they learn leads them to the killer’s next target, where they find themselves face-to-face with the ruthless, relentless, inhuman being.

Gun Ghoul: Raising the Dead is a furiously action-packed graphic novel by military veteran Will Caligan. 116 pages, $14.99. The graphic novel is published in 10×7 format on high-quality 70-pound paper. The four digital editions that are collected here have all been bestsellers in the Horror category on Amazon.

Let the ComicsGatekeepers gnash their teeth all they like. While they have been talking, talking, and talking some more, we have published 22 digital editions and 11 print editions in the last eight months. And based on an author who signed with us last night, it is safe to anticipate that some of the loudest voices raised against us will be publishing with us in less than a year.

“I own the word ComicsGate. It belongs to me and I will fight him in court for it. Nobody will make a line of ComicsGate comics except for me.”

Yeah, so, about that… it’s a pretty poor prophet who has to eat his words less than 8 hours later. Ethan isn’t going to fight anyone in court over ownership of the word ComicsGate. I very much doubt that he is dumb enough to throw all his crowdfunded money away on a hopeless legal case in a foreign jurisdiction when he hasn’t even bothered to spend $6k on the URL, which was registered in 2013. It sounds as if someone is going to have to explain the concepts of “dilution”, “prior usage”, and “jurisdiction” to him.

In not-unrelated news, Alt★Hero #4: The War in Paris continues to meet with great reviews and is now the #1 Best Seller in 45-Minute Comic & Graphic Novel Short Reads and the #1 New Release in the Superheroes category.

You wouldn’t want to be… unpopular?

The mainstream media tries a new approach to discrediting and disqualifying QAnon:

The QAnon conspiracy theory has surged into mainstream news these past weeks. Several “Q” supporters wore T-shirts and held signs at a recent Trump rally in Florida. Last week, a prominent promoter of the QAnon theory had his photo taken with President Trump in the White House.

If you haven’t heard of the QAnon theory, you’re not alone. We just conducted a new poll of Floridians and found that a large fraction didn’t have any opinion of the QAnon movement. And among those who did, it was strikingly unpopular.

What is QAnon?

“Q” is supposedly a high-ranking official in the Energy Department with a high-level security clearance. “Q,” the theory goes, is working for Trump and against the supposed “deep state.”

“Q” provides clues to online followers who then attempt to piece together those clues to figure out when Hillary Clinton and her ilk will be arrested for sex trafficking and a host of other unspeakable crimes. There are now many versions of the theory, almost as if it were fan fiction, as it has been passed around and expanded upon in social media.

Many people don’t have an opinion of QAnon

Because Florida is where Q supporters made their presence known at the Trump rally, we surveyed 2,085 Floridians from Aug. 8 to 21 after the news coverage of this rally but before news coverage of the QAnon promoter’s White House visit. Over 40 percent did not rate the QAnon movement at all. Twice as many as skipped rating Fidel Castro or Sen. Bill Nelson, and more than three times as many as skipped rating Trump or Clinton. This shows that despite media coverage of QAnon, a large fraction of people likely have not heard enough about it to have an opinion.

Views of QAnon are very unfavorable

Among those who did have an opinion, most were unfavorable toward the QAnon movement. The average score on the feeling thermometer was just above 20. This is a very negative rating, and about half of what the other political figures in the figure below enjoy. In fact, the only person in our comparison to do worse than the QAnon movement, although not by much, is Fidel Castro.

The Energy Department? Anyhow, I don’t think there is even a name for this collection of logical fallacies, but I think the idea is that QAnon doesn’t exist, no one has heard of it, and the few who have heard of this thing that doesn’t exist wouldn’t like it if it did, so if you do happen to hear anything about it, please don’t pay any attention. Also, there is no Deep State and Donald Trump is a Russian spy.