Interview by Bounding Into Comics

Bounding Into Comics interviewed me about Arkhaven, Comicsgate, and our next crowdfunding campaign:

Bounding Into Comics (BIC): The comic book industry at large appears to be in decline. The latest report indicates a 6{64c1a3d9a40559511922326ab01596b0c1a24761117e0e4906b04888ba2118a8} decline in sales in 2017. What made you want to dive into comics with Arkhaven Comics and Dark Legion imprints when the comic industry appears to be contracting?

Vox: The decline in the comics industry is the result of two factors, an artificially constricted distribution system and the SJW convergence of the publishers. People simply don’t go to comic book stores like they did in past decades and they REALLY don’t like the conversion of all their traditional heroes and villains into politically correct parodies of themselves. No one wants to read tedious left-wing sermons about Gay Black Hindu Socialist Batman in a Wheelchair crying onto Hispano-Palestinian She-Joker’s shoulder over his doubts that society will accept his planned transition into Batwoman.

Their stories are boring. Their heroes aren’t heroic. Their villains are cardboard cutouts. Their morality tales aren’t moral. Their female characters are increasingly fat and ugly and mannish. It’s no wonder their readers are increasingly abandoning them.

BIC: What do you think is the primary reason behind the decline in sales?

Vox: Initially, the distribution issue. The industry has never recovered from Marvel’s attempt to move into distribution and the resulting Diamond monopoly. But the next phase of the decline is due to the convergence of the comics themselves. The third phase will be the mass collapse of the comic book stores, which has already begun.

BIC: Are you seeing success with Arkhaven Comics and Dark Legion despite the industry contracting overall?

Vox: More than you would probably believe if I told you the details. We have already signed with a movie producer. We already have multiple movie and game deals on the table. Not options, actual development projects with real budgets.

BIC: With your success, what are you doing on the distribution and the story end that differentiates you from the rest of the industry?

Vox: We’ve partnered with a very large general distribution company, which allows us to reach readers outside of the traditional comic book stores. On the story end, the mere fact that our writers are firmly on the side of God, America, and Western civilization sets us very far apart from the godless globalist degenerates who are attempting to push their delusions and depravities at the expense of telling quality stories. It doesn’t hurt that we feature actual published writers, who read and write actual books, writing our stories.

BIC: What’s your take on ComicsGate? Do you consider yourself part of ComicsGate?

Vox: I am the leader of ComicsGate. So can you.

Read the rest of it there. Note that it’s two pages.

In not-unrelated news, Neon Revolt enthusiastically endorses the idea of our next campaign:

I have to give credit to the absolutely prolific Vox Day and direct your attention to his new comic series – Alt-Hero (which is doing exceptionally well on Amazon). In it, he’s decided to feature a whole storyline revolving around, who else, but #QAnon!

Check it out, starting at 10:10 in the video.

And I highlight this because I really think it’s important to check out the work of creatives who are striving to work independently and create good, traditionally-themed art and media – especially because the #LunaticLeft derives so much of its power and influence due to its systematic domination of the media. First, it allows the Left to legitimize ideas that just should never be legitimized, demoralize and erode the more traditional elements of society, and appear much bigger than it actually is. It builds these insidious, entrenched power structures that bombard the public with certain messages, and then turns around and does everything it can to make sure it keeps anyone to the right of Marx unemployed – no matter how talented they are.

Often, the only viable route forward for these kinds of artists to create their own platforms, their own businesses, and operate completely independently.

Vox is succeeding in this arena with his Arkhaven Comics label. And that’s vitally important, because things like this open up opportunities for other creators that might not be so welcome in the traditional halls of power.

My only concern, Vox, with this storyline – is that the truth will be much wilder than any kind of fiction anyone could cook up.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that the truth will eventually prove to be wilder than what The Legend Chuck Dixon is writing, but we’re going to give it whirl anyhow. It’s going to make the average Bond plot look like a murder in Miss Marple’s village by comparison.

NBC is BEYOND shook

NBC’s flailing shows how the mainstream media is now desperately trying to put out the Qanon fire that is sweeping the world:

Signs and T-shirts emblazoned with some variation of the letter Q dotted a rally for Donald Trump in Tampa on Tuesday. Paper printouts declaring “We are Q” occupied small sections of the crowd.

One rally-goer named Tyler held out a large coin with Q on it and explained the letter’s sudden prevalence among Trump supporters. “Qanon, the storm, the great awakening,” he told local TV station WPLG.

“What Q stands for is military intelligence, most likely. He’s been talking to all of us. Letting us know the covert battles that are waging between the Deep State and President Trump.”

Tyler, whose last name was not disclosed to WPLG, is one of a growing number of vocal followers of a conspiracy theory, known as Qanon, that has taken hold among some Trump supporters. The theory centers around an anonymous source, Q, who is trying to tell the world about a secret battle being waged by Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller against a pedophile ring filled with celebrities and political elites who have been covertly running the United States government for decades.

There is no evidence to back the claims. Because, in reality, of course, none of this is true.

That has not stopped the conspiracy theory from gaining an online following. It’s also beginning to show up in the real world at Trump rallies and on billboards. Some people have even acted on the claims.

They’re rolling out the same narrative again that they used for claiming to “debunk” Pizzagate. And their totally inept approach to logic is almost beyond belief. Let’s consider their syllogism.

  • Major premise: There is no evidence to support the Qanon claims.
  • Minor premise: Some people have acted on the claims despite the lack of evidence.
  • Conclusion: Therefore, the claims are false.

That doesn’t follow at all. It literally is not logical. Furthermore, the major premise is false. Over 2,300 pedophiles were arrested in the USA in just three months between March and May. And look what we’ve learned about everyone from Jimmy Savile in the UK to Bill Cosby in the USA.

As with GamerGate, the media has no idea what it is up against. Gamers and channers are not susceptible to social pressure. They don’t care if the media mocks them and call them names. They just keep digging, keep emailing, and keep going. And all the Right-wing worrywarts would do well to understand that the “legitimacy” of Q is no longer any more relevant than whether a spark that starts a forest fire is struck purposefully or accidentally.

The weaponized autists are on it and they are not going to stop.

DNC Chairman allegedly assaulted girlfriend

It looks like Congressman Keith Ellison’s star is about to go into rapid descent:

Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the DNC, has been accused of domestic violence by the son of his alleged ex-girlfriend, Karen Monahan.

The allegations were shared by Debra Hilstrom, a Democrat member of Minnesota’s house of representatives. Hilstrom tweeted a link to the shocking Facebook post written by Austin Monahan, who had tagged Hilstrom in the hopes of shining a spotlight on the alleged abuse his mom suffered at the hands of Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress.

I’m sure we can expect the Washington Post and ABCNNBCBS to be all over this on Monday, right? Right? Right….

Is this thing on?

UPDATE: The news has been broken by Minnesota Public Radio and Ellison has planted his flag. Now it’s up to the accuser to prove he’s lying:

Ellison is a six-term 5th District congressman and the perceived front-runner in the race. In a written statement Sunday, Ellison denied the incident.

He said he was in a “long-term relationship” that ended in 2016 but he denied the allegation of abuse.

“I still care deeply for her well-being,” he wrote. “This video does not exist because I never behaved in this way, and any characterization otherwise is false.”

A fascinating choice of words

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
 …..Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!

Clowns…. A truly intriguing choice of words there by the President of the United States.

And since it worked so well for the GameJournoPros, the failing newspapers of the world are openly colluding to declare that Newspaper Readers are Dead:

The Boston Globe has been contacting newspaper editorial boards and proposing a “coordinated response” to President Trump’s escalating “enemy of the people” rhetoric.

“We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press and ask others to commit to publishing their own editorials on the same date,” The Globe said in its pitch to fellow papers.

The effort began just a few days ago.

As of Saturday, “we have more than 100 publications signed up, and I expect that number to grow in the coming days,” Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN.

Talk about collusion! It’s amusing that they think this is going to help them in any way, shape, or form. To the contrary, it is going to help underline the God-Emperor’s point. They are not merely the enemy of the people, they are the unified enemy of the people.

They believe they’re making a point about the importance of an independent press by pushing the same narrative simultaneously, in coordinated unison. These people really are stupid.

Darkstream: no pardon for pedo-partiers

From the transcript of the Darkstream.

Lo and behold, we have discovered why Disney acted with such alacrity in firing James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and he was supposed to be the director for Guardians of the Galaxy 3. He’d already written the script, apparently, and then, after the weaponized autists of the chans and Mike Cernovich let everybody know what was going on with James Gunn’s historic tweets, Disney suddenly acted very very quickly, very very uncharacteristically, and they fired the guy.

Now this is was very unusual because Disney, in the past,  has actually brought in people who who were convicted child molesters. There’s a guy named Victor Salvia who had been convicted of molesting a young man and they actually hired him to make a film called Powder and this was a big controversy back, I don’t know, fifteen years ago or something like that. Now we’d like to think that Disney learned something from this, but the reality is they haven’t learned anything, but they have apparently learned to stop digging the hole deeper. So that’s what I think a lot of people both in Hollywood and in the media didn’t understand there.

You have cuckservatives like David French, you have the always ludicrous Benny Shapiro, you have these people saying, “oh well you know he shouldn’t have been fired for, you know, some jokes.” And you saw that all over the the left-wing internet media, “no, it’s just jokes, some old jokes, you know, the evil people, the Alt-Right dug up old jokes.” The thing is, the telling thing is, they didn’t actually link to any of them. They didn’t quote any of them, and the reason that they couldn’t was because most of them were so bad. Most of them were simply beyond the pale, and not only that, the frequency of them indicated what can only be described as an unhealthy level of an interest.

Now, I personally think that it’s absolutely fine, in fact, I think it’s an absolute imperative, to go ahead and get guys like these deplatformed under any means necessary. You know if you make a joke about Africans, if you make a joke about the Holocaust, if you make a joke about any of a dozen or more different identity groups or historical events, they will attempt to fire you on that basis. If you joke about it, if you joke about something they consider racist, then that proves that you are a racist, a white supremacist, a bigot, and a hater for all eternity, and therefore, in the words of Ben Shapiro, you must be hunted down and and destroyed and fired. Suddenly, when someone is joking repeatedly about molesting children, about harming and raping children, they claim, “oh that’s funny, oh that’s great, you know, we’re all just having fun here.”

How does that make any sense at all?

The futility of social media bans

I’m not surprised that the well-publicized social media bans aren’t harming Alex Jones. The truth is that social media doesn’t actually matter all that much for those who already have a strong base of supporters. It’s the content that matters much more than the medium.

Some of the nation’s largest technology and social media companies have tried to stop Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories. But in a digital world, their attempts seem to have barely slowed him down.

After YouTube, Facebook and others this week removed content by Jones and his website, the InfoWars leader, talk show host and Austin resident fired back, accusing the companies of censorship and urging his audience to fight back against what he called an “unprecedented attack.”

Meanwhile, Jones’ website and other online platforms have remained popular destinations.

InfoWars continues to see more than 1 million page visits per day and has trended upward this month, according to Amazon’s Alexa website traffic report, which also said InfoWars averages more than 25 million page views per month.

Being banned from Twitter last year and having links to my blog blocked by Twitter and Facebook haven’t had any serious effect on my blog either. Last year at this time, the monthly traffic average for VP alone was 2,500,791. Now it is 2,604,358, which represents 4.1 percent annual growth.

Given the massive Twitter audiences that Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec have developed – I had 33k when I was banned – it’s likely that the bans have somewhat slowed the growth of the blog and Voxiversity. But they obviously haven’t stopped it, which I suspect is one reason why the tech media giants have only engaged in fairly limited banning in response to the demands of their SJWs, who would prefer to ban everyone who is a Republican, who ever voted for a Republican, or is to the Right of Che Guevara.

These bans are a very delicate balancing game for the social media giants. They already know we have built a few alternative platforms and have the ability to build more. And they are very well aware that there is a tipping point somewhere at which too many bans will trigger a snowball effect that will more than decimate their user bases. After all, both Facebook and Twitter are already in decline.

CNBC describes the drop at Facebook as “severe” and goes on to round out its list this way: “The five websites receiving the most traffic in the US in the last several years have been Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Amazon, in that order. However, Facebook has seen a severe decline in monthly page visits, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, according to the study. Although Facebook’s app traffic has grown, it is not enough to make up for that loss, the study said.”

IDW falling

Bounding Into Comics reports that IDW’s President just resigned:

Ozer is the latest in a number of executives at IDW to exit from the company. In July, IDW Media Holdings CEO and co-founder Ted Adams took a leave of absence with McCluggage replacing him. Adams had previously been the IDW Publisher, but made the transition to CEO last November.

IDW Publishing’s Editor-in-Chief and former Chief Creative Officer Chris Ryall also stepped down from the company in March of this year. He had been with the company for 14 years.

According to The Outhousers, there have been a number of staff leaving the company including “in positions such as graphic design, accounting, editing, and public relations.”

This departure also comes after IDW saw a significant decline in revenue in fiscal year 2017. According to Publishers Weekly, “Revenue at IDW Publishing fell 12.1{64c1a3d9a40559511922326ab01596b0c1a24761117e0e4906b04888ba2118a8} in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2017, compared to fiscal 2016.”

Total sales for the publishing arm were down to $24.5 million, down from $27.9 million. IDW blamed “a cyclically slow period in the comic book specialty market” and their transition to Penguin Random House for distribution for the decline.

However, IDW Entertainment did see a slight increase in revenue for fiscal 2017. It rose from $16 million to $16.2 million.

Total revenue at IDW fell 7.5{64c1a3d9a40559511922326ab01596b0c1a24761117e0e4906b04888ba2118a8} to $60.4 million. The company also suffered a net loss of $797,000 compared to $3.7 million in earnings in fiscal 2016.

With the amount of top executives leaving IDW in the past year, could the company be in big trouble?

It certainly looks that way. I’m not at all surprised since I already noticed IDW, the #4 comics publisher, was on a downward trajectory when I was running the numbers on the industry last December. While the publishing-related declines at Marvel and DC have been even steeper, they are protected from the consequences by being part of massive corporate conglomerates. Being a public company, IDW is useful because it gives insight into the industry not available at Disney-owned Marvel and Warner Bros.-owned DC. Notice that despite IDW primarily producing comics based on IP owned by other companies, more than half its revenue is nevertheless derived from the non-publishing division. In other words, from licensing and developing IP rather than selling comics.

That’s why IDW is in more difficult strategic position than Marvel or Disney. Content is now king and they don’t own the comics-related IP they are publishing. Of course, it doesn’t help that they don’t have a corporate giant to run them at a loss indefinitely, but that’s beside the point.

In June, IDW’s top-selling comics were: Sonic, Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Ducktales (Disney), Transformers, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Tangled (Disney), and 30 Days of Night #6. Only the latter MIGHT be IDW-controlled IP, and it has sold fewer copies than Alt-Hero #1.

Hence all the interest in Arkhaven…. Except for TMNT and GI Joe, IDW doesn’t even publish any properties that we would want to publish, so imagine how little interest there must be at Image and Dark Horse, let alone Marvel and DC.

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The four stages of destruction

Conservative Treehouse link.

You’ll never get a clue what’s being done to, and within, this country from the complicit “mainstream” media. But a KGB expert who defected to the good guys was explaining it for us back in the 80s. Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us:

Stage One: Demoralization – Elimination of American Exceptionalism, fundamental change of national identity, structural deconstruction of foundational principles, elimination of religion. Embedding a new societal design upon the psyche of generations through ideological academia. Peer pressure by elites upon academics and society to convince that prior values were inherently flawed, racist, prejudiced etc. National identity is diluted with aspersions toward historical references. National history is re-written, re-defined, and molded to fit the new intended behavioral model and create the new values.

Most of the activity of the department was to compile huge amount volume of information on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion publishers editors journalists actors educationalists professors of political science members of parliament of representatives of business circles this was my instruction try to get into into large circulation established conservative media reach filthy rich movie makers intellectuals so-called academic circles cynical eco-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie this are the most recruitable people people who lack moral principles who are either too greedy or to suffer from self-importance they feel that they they matter a lot these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit ideological subversion is is the process which is legitimate overt and open you can see it with your own eyes all you have to do all american mass media has to do is to unplug their bananas from their ears open up their eyes and they can see it there is no mystery there is nothing to do with espionage is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures actively Mariotti in the language of the KGB or psychological warfare partisan Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalance by the basic values of Americanism American patriotism

it’s a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and it’s divided in four basic stages the first one being demoralisation it takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation the demoralization process in the United States is basically completely dissolved the result you can see most of the people graduated in sixties drop outs or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government civil service business mass media educational system you are stuck with them you cannot get rid of them they are contaminated they’re programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern exposure to true information does not matter anymore a person who was demoralized is unable to assess through information the facts tell nothing to him even if I shower him with information with the authentic proof with documents the pictures even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and showing him concentration camp he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in the in his fat bottom when the military booth crashes his then he will understand but not before that that’s the tragic of the situation of demoralisation

so basically America is stuck with the moralization and unless even if you start right now here this minute you start educating new generation of America it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide of ideological perception of reality people who think they are living at the peace time holes the United States is in the state of war undeclared total war the next stage of course is crisis it may take only up to six weeks to to bring a country to the verge of crisis if this is what will happen in the United States if you allow all the Schmucks to bring the country to crisis to promise people all kinds of goodies and the paradise on earth just to disturb you lies your economy to eliminate the principle of free market competition and to put a big brother government in Washington DC with the benevolent dictators who will promise lots of thing never mind whether the promises are fulfilled will or not he will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of new generation of Soviet assassins never mind he will create all illusions that the situation is under control situation is not under control situation is disgustingly out of control after crisis with a violent change of power structure and economy you have so-called the period of normalization it may last indefinitely nor

the next stage is disturbed in ization this time subvert her does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption whether you junk food and get fat and flop it doesn’t matter anymore and the small town of Heuer and south vietnam several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by Viet Cong for only two days an American CIA could never figure out how could possibly communists know each individual where he leaves work where to get him and would be arrested in one night basically in some four hours before dawn put on a van taken out of the city limits and shot the answer is very simple long before communists occupied the city there is extensive network of informers local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion including barbers and taxi drivers everyone who is sympathetic to the United States was executed

same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet embassy in Hanoi and same thing I was doing in New Delhi and that’s what happened in Nicaragua it happened in Grenada when happen in Afghanistan taint happening in Bangladesh with it’s the same pattern everywhere the moment they serve their purpose all the useful idiots are used either be executed entirely all the idealistic reminded Marxist or were exiled or put in prisons like in Cuba many many former markets are in Cuba’s you see the useful idiots the the leftists who are idealistic aliy believing in the beauty of soviet socialist or communist or whatever system when they get disillusioned they become the worst enemies that’s why my KGB instructors specifically made a point never bother with leftists forget about these political prostitutes the psychological shock when when they will see in what the what the beautiful society of equality and social justice means in practice obviously they will reward they will they will be very unhappy frustrated people and the Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people they obviously they will join the links of dissenters dissidents

unlike in present United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist Leninist America here you can you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being dissident for criticizing your Pentagon in future this people will be simply squashed like cockroaches nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful noble ideas of equality but all to eliminate the others to execute the others don’t they serve some purpose wouldn’t they be the one they realized serve purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation for example your leftists in United States all these professors and all this beautiful civil rights defender they are instrumental in the process of the of the subversion only to disability nation when their job is completed they are not they are not needed anymore they know too much some of them when they get disillusioned when they see that Marxist Leninist come to power obviously they get offended they think that they will come to power that will never happen of course they will be lined up against the wall and shot

you have literally several years to live on unless the United States wake up the time bomb is ticking that every second the disaster is coming closer and closer unlike myself you will have nowhere to defect to unless you want to live in Antarctica with tenements this is it this is the last country of freedom and possibility if people will fail to grasp the impending danger of their development nothing ever can help United States you may kiss goodbye to your freedom including freedoms to homosexuals to a prison inmate all this freedom vanish evaporated in five seconds including your precious lives the moment at least part of the United States population is convinced that the danger is real they have to force their government and I’m not talking about sending letters signing petitions and all this beautiful noble activity I am talking about forcing United States government to stop aiding communism you we shall never surrender

Cuckery and civnattery won’t save you

It is slowly beginning to dawn on the cuckservatives, conservatives, and civic nationalists that their universalism and equalitarian ideology isn’t going to save them from the Not-Whites and their anti-West technodhimmis:

Gavin McInnes has spoke exclusively to Big League Politics after his Twitter account was banned Friday evening. “They think this is going to stop Trump,” he told Big League Politics. “Maybe if they deplatform us, the socialists will win – but they won’t. We’ve already won. You can’t stump the Trump.”

“The left is trying to make this about Unite the Right. It’s a lie,” he said.

The ban comes hours after McInnes spoke out against the “alt-right” Unite the Right demonstration that will be held in Washington, D.C. on August 12….

According to BuzzFeed, the accounts were removed for violating Twitter’s policy against “violent extremist groups.”

“’We can confirm that these accounts have been suspended from Twitter and Periscope for violating our policy prohibiting violent extremist groups,’ a [Twitter] spokesperson said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.”

As far as we can tell, none of the official Antifa Twitter pages have been banned, though there are few examples of Proud Boys violence, and hundreds of Antifa violence. Just last weekend, police in Portland, Oregon had to step in to protect the Proud Boys when they were physically attacked by Antifa counter-protestors at a rally.

Ironically, because the Left correctly sees displays of virtue-signaling as appeasement and weakness, now you are much more likely to be attacked if you stand AGAINST the nationalist Right than if you stand FOR it.

They fear us. They literally have nightmares about us. They’re not at all afraid of those foolish enough to seek common ground with them.

History proves that nationalism and Christianity combined can defeat the dyscivilizational tide. Conclusively. Anything and everything that falls short of those two things, or weakens those two things, or perverts or subverts those two things, is effectively anti-Western civilization and a potential liability.