Tag: Alt-Hero

The second page of Alt★Hero Volume III is up; scroll down to the bottom of the page below the tank cover.

First, we’re going to make a few changes to how we’re structuring the Alt★Hero stories. Mr. Dixon and I have had the chance to work out how we are dividing the storytelling responsibilities, and essentially, I’m going to go wide while he’s going to go deep. What that means is that while I’m building and describing the world through the initial six volumes, Mr. Dixon is going to be building and describing the central city of the Alt★Hero mythos, which he has named Avalon, as well as its regular inhabitants.

Avalon is our Gotham, and it is a major U.S. metropolis. Beyond that, I know very little and I’ll be looking forward to learning more about it just like everyone else. We’ve also decided to separate the stories into two lines, although we’ll be working in parallel and in more or less the same time frames, with certain characters, such as Soulsight, who will be appearing in both series. What that means is that Mr. Dixon will not be working on Alt★Hero Vols. VII, VIII, and IX per se, but rather, on the Alt★Hero series Avalon Vols. I, II, and III. That’s just a working title, of course, and we may end up naming his main series after one of the characters he creates, but you get the point.

Jonathan Cooper, also known as Soulsight, is one of our first backer-created heroes. He has a powerful ability, but one that takes a tremendous toll on him and would render him of extreme interest to every government and international agency that knew of his existence. This is why he keeps to the shadows and prefers to keep his contact with individuals he does not know and trust to the barest minimum possible. But he is a core member of the loose collection of American vigilantes that includes Michael Martel, Ghostdancer, and Rebel, and could even be considered the most important member because he serves as its collective conscience.

“We are all damned. It’s just that most of you don’t realize it yet.”
– Jonathan Cooper

And yes, this division of storytelling responsibilities means that Mr. Dixon and I intend to continue working on this together beyond the initial nine volumes. We will add a stretch goal at the 200k mark that would unlock Avalon Vols. IV, V, and VI. That’s very ambitious, of course, but we already have a fair amount of work to do and I have no intention of Star Citizening this creation. If you’re not already one of the 1,133 backers of Alt★Hero, I invite you to join this important new incursion into SJW-held territory.

We cannot win the culture war by playing defense. And not every drive into every converged ground will be successful. But they must be attempted regardless.

Also, I sent out the following press release to over 200 members of the media.

Alt★Hero Raises $100k to Fight Diversity and Inclusivity in Comics

After reaching its initial funding goal in only four hours, a new right-wing comic series, Alt★Hero, exceeded the rare $100,000 mark in just 12 days, with more than 1,000 backers signing on to help the alternative comic wage cultural war on the social justice-converged comic duopoly of Marvel and DC Comics. It is being written by prolific Marvel and DC Comics veteran writer Chuck Dixon and six-time Hugo Award Finalist Vox Day.

The series is the creation of bestselling political philosopher and controversial game designer Day, who is best known for being a member of GamerGate and disrupting the annual science fiction awards. Alt★Hero features unconventional villains such as Captain Europa of the Global Justice Initiative and potentially incendiary heroes such as Michael Martel, a vigilante who drops off criminal undocumented immigrants at the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, and Rebel, an Southern girl whose superhero outfit incorporates the Confederate battle flag.

“Everyone hates what Marvel has become,” said Alt★Hero creator Vox Day, who is writing six volumes of the series. “Their declining sales prove that no one wants to buy comics written by social justice warriors, especially when they feature absurdities like She-Thor spouting feminist talking points, an affirmative-action Ironman who can do no wrong, or a black, lesbian, HIV-positive refugee Batman in a wheelchair writing virtue-signaling poetry on Facebook. We’re bringing back real heroes, real villains, and real action, and we’re going to give the readers great stories instead of preaching social justice at them.”

Legendary comic writer Chuck Dixon, the longtime Batman writer and co-creator of Bane, who is writing the first three volumes of the Alt★Hero series Avalon, said, “These guys get me and I get them. Escapist entertainment, big outrageous ideas and all built on a foundation of principles that rejects the gloomy, preachy, bitterness of post-modern comics.”

The reaction to the announcement of Alt★Hero was decidedly mixed. While support has been strong on the right side of the ideological spectrum, left-wing comics fans denounced the new comic on Twitter and other social media platforms. “As awful as you’d expect,” reported LGBTQ Nation. “Vox Day is literally to the right of Genghis Khan, with two feet planted firmly in the Reichstag… the type of punk-ass feeb whose jaw Batman was born to break,” declared Jason Yungbluth, a cartoonist for MAD Magazine.

Some comics fans even declared on Twitter that Jack Kirby, the revered, but pugnacious artist for Marvel and DC Comics, would beat Day to death were he still alive.

Day dismissed the criticism. “It’s nothing more than the usual social justice emoting. I promised the backers that the SJWs’ angry shrieks of protest would be heard from space; my only concern is that they may have been loud enough to alert a hostile alien race to our existence.”

After 12 days, the Alt★Hero crowdfunding campaign currently stands at $102,156.00 raised from 1,133 backers, more than 4 times its original $25,000 goal. Less than one percent of all crowdfunding campaigns ever reach the $100,000 mark; 18 days still remain in the controversial new comic’s campaign.

UPDATE: I’m confident he’ll cover this news objectively.

Rob Salkowitz‏
I just received a bonkers press release from a project claiming to be proudly AGAINST social justice in comics. WTF is wrong with people?

We have released a new image of Rebel washing her Mustang to celebrate hitting a landmark milestone; less than one percent of all kickstarted campaigns ever reach this level. Tomorrow, we’ll be adding some new rewards and stretch goals, as well as modifying an existing one for the better. In the meantime, we’ll be working on finding models to play the roles of Rebel and Dynamique for the cosplay photo shoot they’ll be doing with our newest character, Ryu no Seishin, or Spirit of the Dragon, who we will be introducing soon.

Thanks very much to all 1,107 of you who made this happen. We wouldn’t have done this if we didn’t think it would be successful, but we never anticipated this strength of support. And if you haven’t joined the campaign yet, perhaps it’s time to consider doing so.

For the VFM: I’m going to put out a press release tomorrow, so if you have the time to dig up the emails of reporters or bloggers who have covered comics in general, Marvel, or DC in the past, please email them to me tonight.

Thanks to the fourth Hero backer, the Alt★Hero campaign is now rapidly approaching the landmark $100k level that less than one percent of all kickstarted campaigns ever reach. We still have nearly three weeks to go and there has been no media coverage of this beyond a single hit piece on a minor gay web site.

In the meantime, someone had better tell Jon Del Arroz to get cracking. He’s now got TWO novels to co-write. And as for the masked man, are we not reliably informed that Diversity Heroes are de rigueur now? This is Diego Red Crow, also known as Ghostdancer, not to be confused with the failed Ghost Dancer of Marvel Comics. Needless to say, he is NOT on board with the Singapore Superhuman Treaty or the United Nations Superhuman Protection Council.

So, we’ve gone ahead and made a few changes to the Stretch Goals and the Rewards. First and foremost, we’ve been able to work things out so that we only have to reach $85k to bring Chuck Dixon on for Alt★Hero Vols VII through IX. Just to confirm, Digital Edition backers and above will receive the digital editions of the first NINE volumes. Not a bad deal for $15.

Second, operating on the assumption that we will be able to raise another $1,600 in the next three weeks – if not the next three hours – we have created Rewards for Paperback #3 ($30) and Hardcover #3 ($65) that can be purchased now. Remember that the Hardcover is a special Backers-only version with a custom cover that will not be made available to the retail channel. These two omnibuses consist of the first three Chuck Dixon-penned volumes bound together.

We’ve also pushed back Novel #2 to the 90k level, and will be announcing a new 100k goal sometime next week.

There are now more than 1,000 backers helping Make Comics Great Again. This is happening. Join us!

UPDATE: Paging Mr. Dixon. Paging Mr. Chuck Dixon.

As always, it is the Left that is far more attuned to all things cultural than the mainstream Right.

An “alt-right” comic book series intended to upset progressives has quickly surpassed its $25,000 fundraising goal.

Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day, said in a Periscope video that he “intended to challenge and eventually replace the SJW (short for “social justice warrior) converged comics of DC and Marvel.”

“They believe that comics is their turf, and SJWs have been moving forward, advancing for decades,” he added. “They have been methodically eradicating traditional values, they have been methodically eradicating Western civilization.”

He has said that “they know they are the true villains and the enemy in the cultural war.”

At time of writing, Beale’s fundraiser has raised over $66,000 dollars.

What, exactly, are these sacred values being erased from comic books that must be saved? Advertising smoking, pushing the concept of undocumented immigrants as dangerous criminals worthy of vigilante justice, and the promotion of the traitorous Confederate flag.

Day’s Twitter also features a swipe at Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Marvel’s first Muslim character to headline her own book.

“She has to go back,” he wrote, alongside an image of one of his “heroes” leading voters to the polls, and the words “Democracy: Sometimes a contact sport,” and another showing Ms. Marvel crying, with the news of Trump’s Muslim ban playing in the background.

Now, how many of the supposedly “right-wing” media figures who regularly lament and lambast the Left’s domination of culture have come out and mentioned, much less supported, what is already one of the most successful right-wing incursions into Left-controlled territory in decades.

So far, two. Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich.

There is no way – absolutely no way – the right is going to win the cultural war with mediocre, defensive-minded “opinion leaders” of the sort we have now. Now, I assume that most conservative and right-wing media figures are simply unaware of this, but we can easily change that by letting them know about it.

A few corrections to the quoted article are necessary. First, Alt★Hero is not an “alt-right” comic book, it’s merely an anti-SJW comic book. Unlike SJWs, I am perfectly capable of distinguishing between the personal, the professional, and the political. Second, it’s not “my” fundraiser. I am merely the creator and one of the two writers. Third, Kamala Khan is not one of my “heroes” and the images to which the article are referring belong to Marvel, not me.

Anyhow, the campaign is proceeding very well. Chuck Dixon and I spoke yesterday and I think we’re going to be able to work extraordinarily well in parallel. I’m going to focus on broad scope worldbuilding in my stories and he is going to drill down deep into detailed worldbuilding in his. My role, as far as I see it, is to stay as much out of his way as possible while ensuring that everything remains consistent throughout the fictional world.

If you’re not already one of the 989 backers of Alt★Hero, I hope you’ll consider reinforcing its success by joining the campaign.

UPDATE: Where, oh where, can we have derived the concept of “undocumented immigrants being dangerous criminals worthy of vigilante justice”? If anything, we underplayed it.

An illegal immigrant in New Jersey is accused of raping a 6-year-old girl then jumping out of a second-floor window after her father walked in during the assault, police said.

Who might the new Alt★Hero writer be, who will write Volumes VII, VIII, and IX when the Freestartr campaign hits the new $100k stretch goal? I think it is safe to say that it is probably not whoever you were expecting. We will also be adding a new reward later today to help ensure this happens and give Bane many sleepless nights.

Note that if you are a $15 Digital Edition Backer or higher, you will receive all NINE volumes of Alt★Hero in digital format if we reach the $100k stretch goal.

UPDATE: In addition to formally announcing Mr. Dixon as the prospective author of Alt★Hero Volumes VII, VIII, and IX, we have created a new Reward.

$1500.00
Be a Villain

This is for the opportunity to have your likeness used as the basis for a minor villain in an Alt★Hero volume. Subject to approval by Castalia House. Also includes all digital, paperback, and hardcover editions.