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Why I don’t read Marvel or DC

This whole reboot bullshit has really got my knickers in a knot. And it’s exactly why I have not and will not read Marvel or DC comics. It’s stupid and it’s a blatant money grab.

Marvel has always put me off with their umpty gazillion multiverse crap. I don’t like having to have an encyclopaedia of the characters to keep up with what’s going on, ok? Call me crazy, but a bit more STORY and a bit less shenanigans would do your characters good.

DC has now rebooted. What a crock of shit. We need money, so let’s start at #1 again and all the avid “buy anything” comics nerds will go for it. DING DING DING!

I just don’t have the patience to deal with Marvel and DC. I want to read a comic with a story and characters that are TRUE to the ideals they are representing and are in ONE universe. Is that so hard? Apparently.

All this shuck and jive nonsense just puts me completely off superheroes. I’ve never been a huge fan in the first place, but damn, I really don’t see the reason to start if the characters I love will get gutted by a marketing scheme. DC and all their #1s can suck it. It’s a marketing scheme and it sullies the whole industry.

It’s shit like this that keeps comics relegated to the nerds and kids. I feel that the complete disrespect DC is showing its characters and its readers is breathtaking. Marvel pisses me off with the multiverse bullshit, but at least it’s organised! There is some sort of order to how it’s done. DC just flipped off everything and threw continuity (and integrity, IMO) out the window.

Ugh. I’ll stick with my indie comics, thanks. Marvel and DC can just keep on relying on that choir of old comics nerds to buy their crazy schemes, because I’m here to tell you, doing crap like they do is not doing anything to garner a new generation.

I encourage any and all of you displaced Marvel and DC refugees to try out an indie comic TODAY. Here are a few to get you started (and yes, some are via subsidiaries of the Big Two):

Think Weasel! (of course, you knew I’d pimp US!)
Serenity Rose
Anything by Terry Moore
Locke and Key
Little Vampires
Cleopatra In Space
Chew
(anything from SLG comics, really)
iZombie

And SO many more! Cruise the indie section at your local comic shop and show us some love!

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Beeyooteeful Sunday!

What awesome weather! That means that we’ll be 100º and 100% humidity into October, no doubt. Wah!

It’s been a lovely weekend all round. Caroline and Xia visited yesterday then we just had a quiet night. Today has been futzing around here for me and Nick pressure washed the front porch then washed the cars. Such a sweet boi! I think we’ll order pizza and camp out on the deck for a bit tonite. We *could* go out, but why? Our deck is pretty dang awesome if you ask me!

Tomorrow will be comics and The Porter. Kate needs to measure the bathrooms for the art she’s gonna paint in there. Hopefully it will keep the ghetto assed taggers from tagging all over them like they’ve been doing. I can’t wait to see Kate’s work! It’s gonna be COOL!

I’ve boxed up the old Crescent Moon site and am fixin’ to do the same for IndigoDragon. We are officially changing the name (IndigoDragon Studios) and the direction of our company. The direction will be, of course, COMICS. After the clusterfuck with the Harpies on this last web gig, I’m DONE. No more. I’m retiring from web design.

I am very excited to officially be changing this stuff over. It’s been in the works for a couple of years and it feels good to get rid of the old energy and replace it with new energy. Working on the new logo is SO FUN!

So, that’s where we are. I’m off to order that pizza and crack open a beer. It *is* 5pm, after all! :-)

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ACE Atlanta 08

Eh.

The con was smaller this year than last (which puzzles me) and the guest list was severely anemic. I was hoping for more. We did attend an excellent panel with Terminus Media on Sunday.  We also met  some cool guys from Sidebar Nation. We hope to perhaps offer our expertise to the con itself for a panel or whatever they like next year. We’ll see.

We bought a really cool pinup from Tyson McAdoo. He’s a very nice guy and I love his art. We didn’t have the cash last year, but this year: yah! :-)

This con has a ton of potential. I really hope it can bring together the various art groups, comic artists, pop art artists and other crazy art people in this town.  I think if they can pull that off, this will be the preeminent art show in the SE. That is what we really need around here!

I’ve got my fingers crossed! [Update: sadly, ACE succumbed to that Con Killer DragonCon and is no more. Let’s hope DragonCon gets sued and dies so we can get some good cons going instead. See related DC post. – A]