#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
Both my parents and my husbands parents are making us do early Christmases between their Mexico trips. This is my sons 1st Christmas. #boomers
No, this isn’t from Reddit. It’s definitely real. I wish I could say it’s unbelievable.
This is your last chance to back HYPERGAMOUSE and/or SIGMA GAME. Thanks to the 776 backers who have already made this a very successful campaign!
So, I received an email from Backerkit this morning, which tends to indicate the would-be crowdfunding platform is flailing and failing:
Hi,
Less than 3 days to go for HYPERGAMOUSE Volume 1! There’s still time to see a detailed breakdown of your pledges and reach out to your fans. Import your project to BackerKit Launch now to get stared.
Thanks,
The BackerKit Team
To which I replied, rather rudely, that they were collectively welcome to go and attempt to perform an anatomically-impossible task on themselves that involved sexual gratification. Which is not my usual wont, but then, this is the FOURTH time they have attempted to take advantage of Arkhaven’s very successful HYPERGAMOUSE Volume 1 campaign AFTER sending this email just a few hours before the campaign was scheduled to start.
Hello,
We are writing to inform you that after a thorough review of your project submission, BackerKit will not be able to approve your project “Hypergamouse Volume 1” for launch on our platform. This decision is based on documented association with content that violate our platform’s Crowdfunding Rules and Community Guidelines.
Specifically, BackerKit prohibits offensive material, both on-platform and off-platform, including hate speech, content promoting harm, discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance toward any marginalized or protected groups. Our guidelines state that we do not permit content or creators that engage in personal attacks, harassment, or the promotion of harmful ideologies, including those that may be seen as discriminatory.
This decision is final. If you have further questions, you may submit an inquiry at trustandsafety@backerkit.com or in an email response here.
Regards,
Dave Alvarez-Villalpando
Head of Trust & Safety @ BackerKit
So, no, Dave and company, Arkhaven will not import any of our very successful projects to Backerkit. Furthermore, we are actively recommending that our wide variety of creators stay very far away from SJW-converged Backerkit and instead utilize FundMyComic or Kickstarter, since neither of those platforms ban anyone for mere off-platform “association” with content that violates their rules, instead of content that actually violates their rules.
Furthermore, this belated attempt at snaking business that they already turned down comes AFTER they promised to cease all future communications.
“This is to inform you that the recent communication you received was automated. Your project’s launch status has been updated from the draft status to “deactivated.” As a result, all further communications related to this project has been disabled.”
Sure it has. The evidence proves otherwise. Anyhow, all of this is irrelevant since there are just 60 hours to go. Join the 687 backers and help Arkhaven spike the football in the face of the SJWs who tried to shut down Hypergamouse, but failed, because the ride never ends.
There are seven days left for the Hypergamouse campaign, so we’re into the final stretch run for your chance to obtain Hypergamouse, Sigma Game, or, if you prefer, both.
In obviously related news, there is a new episode of HYPERGAMOUSE on Arktoons today.
As requested, the HYPERGAMOUSE Campaign has added a Havarti University t-shirt to the campaign, now available as a reward for new backers or as an add-on for existing backers. The fictional university, established in 1846 in Arkhaven, Massachusetts, shows its classic Latin motto CASEUM and is available in either classic crimson or navy blue. Sizes and colors to be specified after the campaign; backers will be contacted for their preferences and shipping details. It’s a unique and subtle way to show your support for Arkhaven.
UPDATE: you can now back directly for a hardcover edition or leatherbound edition of Sigma Game. It’s not necessary to back something else first.
Arktoons has now passed 16 million views! Thanks to all of the supporters, creators, and readers who have made it possible. And special thanks to the devs and the production team, who keep cranking out episodes every single day. We’re pleased to be able to say that GHOST OF THE BADLANDS will be coming to Arktoons soon now that its digital edition has been released.
In other comics news, HYPERGAMOUSE is approaching its third stretch goal and DC Comics has been reduced to turning to its critics to provide inspiration for its new villains, with Jeremy Griggs from Geeks + Gamers being the latest to see himself lampooned in a DC-published comic.
Even though DC Comics says they’re All In with this new initiative from Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson, it appears they’re just all in on the same tired, woke nonsense. With Absolute Batman race-swapping Barbara Gordon in a bizarre virtue signal, there was already too much politics in their recent comics, but now they’ve turned Jeremy Griggs into a rambling villain in the new Blue Beetle YA Graphic Novel… It’s not the first time DC Comics has done this, either. Just last year, they did the same to Eric July, turning him into some Alex Jones rant to presumably attack his Rippaverse imprint as it was getting off the ground.
I don’t think that I’ve been provided with a DC Comics stand-in yet, although it would appear that Marvel’s Vox Supreme was at least partially inspired by your favorite dark lord. The resemblance is certainly striking.
Now available on Kindle and Kindle Select: THE GHOST OF THE BADLANDS
Arizona Territory, May 1896
Canyon Diablo is a reascendant Gomorrah.
With rail bridge construction halted by hellfire and tragedy, and railroad companies warring with local land owners to complete it, the town becomes an open boil on the Arizona Desert.
Gamblers proliferate. Prostitutes ply their trade. Brigands roam on the roadways, waylaying the innocent for an unknown purpose.
But the bandits are not alone.
Something stirs in the Painted Desert. Someone systematically exterminates coach robbers and murderers. Dealing out a deadly reckoning to all who assail the weak.
Gunfight after gunfight. Coffin after coffin. Legend soon grows of this phantom of the high desert.
A lone pistolier dispensing God’s judgment. A one-man vendetta ride, wielding a strange mechanical weapon of the Old World. Baptizing the heathen in hails of gunfire.
Eventually, folk find a name for this masked missionary of death…
The Ghost of the Badlands
UPDATE: So that was fast.
Cate’s not very happy about Dag’s disemployment from the company for which they both worked.
And in other HYPERGAMOUSE news, the campaign is less than 13k from Stretch Goal #3, which will be variant covers by MIDNIGHT’S WAR artist Ademir Leal.
No sooner had JDA re-launched his crowdfund for The Emerald Array yesterday after having his original campaign rejected by Kickstarter when one of the usual suspects sent the customary Did You Know emails in the hopes of having the new campaign similarly rejected by Fund My Comic. But unlike the other crowdfunding platforms, Fund My Comic showed no interest in buying their attempt at tortious interference:
Thank you for expressing your concern. However, we do not regulate or monitor creators’ behavior outside of our platform. Whether or not we agree with a creator’s conduct off-platform does not impact their ability to use our services. Our oversight is limited to the content that is posted and shared on our platform.
The campaign in question has been thoroughly reviewed by our administration and has not been found to violate our Terms of Service. The content provided is benign in nature and does not contain any material that we would consider offensive based on the campaign’s submissions.
We uphold three fundamental principles for all creators and artists who use our platform. First, we respect their freedom of expression. While some creators may produce content that we, or others, might not personally agree with or enjoy, as long as they adhere to our established guidelines, they have the right to express themselves freely and allow supporters to show their backing. Second, we believe in creators’ right to independence. This is why we do not engage in policing behavior beyond what is presented on the campaign page. Lastly, we are committed to building trust with both creators and backers. If a campaign passes our review process and is approved, it will remain active unless it violates our policies.
We respect your perspective and encourage you to use your own platform to share your views if you believe this creator poses a concern. However, we will adhere to our Terms of Service and will not take any action against this or any other creator based on conduct outside of our platform.
That’s one of the most polite and delications invitations to engage in self-fornication that I’ve ever read. There are dead English novelists of great reknown who are applauding that sensitive and well-measured response in their graves. And it’s definitely a reason that every creator, of every political stripe and creed, would do well to consider utilizing Fund My Comic for their next campaign.
That being said, the HYPERGAMOUSE campaign continues to do very well on Kickstarter. But it’s good to know there is an effective alternative should it become necessary.
And speaking of comics, a message from The Warehouse for the long-suffering AH:Q backers, whose patience is finally being rewarded.
The Alt Hero: Q omnibuses are starting to go out to the backers. Please check your shipping notifications when you get one and respond if an address update is needed. This is an older project and while we are doing our best to update everyone’s address if we have it on file, this is a big list. So, check your address, if it’s not correct, send me an email. Thanks!
There have recently been a new wave of creator bans at BackerKit, Indiegogo, and Kickstarter:
This weekend, in an unprecedented move, Kickstarter banned me after I submitted my military science fiction space marine comic, The Emerald Array, for approval. I’ve seen projects declined before, but never an outright creator ban like this where it’s stripped me of the ability to communicate with the current backers of my last campaign, some asking questions via message or comment, which I have no way to answer.
JDA isn’t the only one to have a crowdfunding campaign shut down before it started of late. Lacey and I were banned by BackerKit for some unidentified “associations” and Comicsgate’s Cecil was banned by Indiegogo. Fortunately, a less censorious gentleman has prepared an alternative platform that is open to all and sundry, as JDA notes:
I’m not going to take this lying down, however. I’ve decided to fight, fight, fight, moving up the timetable of The Emerald Array space marine graphic novel campaign. We’re moving to Fund My Comic, a site run by a Christian creator committed to free speech.
Although we haven’t had any problems with Kickstarter, it’s good to know that there are other options that are available to us; while we have the right to use a certain alternative with whom the Cavalry are very familiar, we prefer not to use them and thereby generate revenue for them. One victory lap was sufficient to prove the point.
In the meantime, the HYPERGAMOUSE campaign is going well, moving steadily toward the next stretch goal. We’re contemplating the addition of a) a leatherbound edition of Sigma Game and b) foreign language editions of Hypergamouse.