Yesterday was so bizarre. We are in day 7 of agitated 15-25 year olds raping and looting in the streets, and corporations all make an initiative together to “voice solidarity” with them. These are the same people looting their storefronts, destroying our nation. The intention is destruction and anger, with no end in sight. They […]
Helping Comic Stores Which Were Looted
It’s important we help out small businesses as much as we can who were impacted by these looters and destroyers of everything we hold dear. Here’s a list of comic shops impacted and their gofundmes. If you’re aware of more, make sure to email me at jdaguestposts at gmail dot com Geoffrey’s Hi De Ho […]
ANTIFA Comic Pros Registry
Yesterday, shockingly, many comic writers and artists took to twitter and facebook to declare their allegiance to the terrorist group ANTIFA. They are for the looting, raping, and destroying of hundreds of small businesses around the nation, including several comic shops which were destroyed in the process. I’ve decided to create a registry so people […]
Crazy Times And Measures To Stay Safe
There are terrorist groups hellbent on destroying everything we hold dear in our lives, unconcerned with what they’re doing at all other than pure destruction and looting. We’ve seen them take out comic shops, bookstores, local businesses everywhere. They’re complete animals who have been agitated by the worst sorts, and they’re now implementing a strategy […]
#ComicsGate Is Finally Imploding
It started on September 3rd 2018. I remember the date vividly as I couldn’t believe what was happening. Vox Day opened up an imprint to allow small creators to use his printer discount on behalf of #ComicsGate, something that would have helped take the burden of production off of the smallest indie creators and help […]
Winning The Social Media War
As mentioned in yetserday’s blog, social media is simply crushing anything that is of any use to independent authors in general, and even more businesses. I understand the answer is “build your own platform” but as an adage, that’s a lot easier said than done. I have my own platform here, where I can type […]
Social Media Throttling
The lousy part about being an author now is that the landscape is so much different than it was even two years ago. It’s not the wild west anymore, with social media companies clamping down and only allowing their approved content to be seen by the masses. Facebook At this point, Facebook has become a […]
D-Thor Reviewed By The Hut
We got a nice review from The Comic Book Hut today, He noticed that I did a lot of “old timey” tricks of writing comics in this story. Got a moderate review on it overall and he pointed out a pretty bad typo at the end. I’m not sure how I missed that one. But […]
Exploring Pre-Crisis DC
I haven’t read much DC at all let alone Pre-Crisis, but Chuck Dixon turned me onto writer and editor Archie Goodwin, stating Goodwin is to him, the greatest comic writer of all time. I read some of his shorts he wrote for Steve Ditko from Creepy/Eerie, and found a book “Tales of the Batman” on […]
Huge Memorial Day Sale!
I want to thank author Hans Schantz for running this sale as he does every year, one of the best guys in the business and someone worth following if you don’t already. But every memorial day he runs a big sale with a TON of books in it, by authors who are good friends of […]
What Our Culture Lost After the 1940s-1950s
I’ve been reading a lot of golden age comics lately, and much like the sci-fi of the period, I find it far more refreshing to read than anything after this point. I think with the 1960s, we started to see an exit of Christian and “normal” creators from all of these fields, and an entrance […]
Going Cosmic
Ready for the adventure of a lifetime? It’s no secret that I’m in love with the old pulps of science fiction from the Golden Age. The way they hold action paramount, have incredible heroes who defy all odds, and maintain a sense of wonder and excitement about every aspect of the book — it inspires […]
On Realism In Comics and Sc-Fi
The trends over the last decades have been pushing further and further into what authors love to call “realism” — but is more a dark, bleak outlook where there’s no hope. It’s nihilism, but taking “real” parts of what we experience as humans, the worst hardest ones, and shoving those into stories. It creates heroic, […]
DS9 And… Personal Property Rights?
I’m watching through Star Trek Deep Space 9 with the family and I was shocked to see an episode, “Progress” where the Bajoran government an the Federation come in to try to steal a man’s farm for “the good of the people.” The man refuses to read, and interestingly, throughout the epsiode, he’s portrayed as […]
Deep Space 9 Rewatch
One of the major influences on my wanting to do science fiction was Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (along with Babylon 5, as both were on the air simultaneously). Something about this show really upped the ante from what Star Trek was on TNG. I know part of it was Roddenberry didn’t allow any starfleet […]
Last Day! Hurry Up And Back!
We’re in the last 17 hours of the RoboToad: Rekt Manlet campaign. The day’s gone really well so far with a lot of people rushing to back, partially because of the deal my ashcan artist made — if we hit 150 backers, he’ll randomly give away a piece of the original art to one of […]
No, Kickstarter’s Not Going Under
For the last several days, every major youtuber from ComicsGate has been high fiving as if Kickstarter somehow is going to go away and IndieGoGo will be the greatest crowdfund site of all time. They’ve built up a narrative over the last two plus years that Kickstarter is “SJW” and IndieGoGo is “good” to try […]
Unveiling The New Site!
Welcome back everyone. It’s been about three weeks since I’ve blogged, and I hope you’ve missed it as much as I have. As far as what I’ve been up to — I’ve been stuck in quarantine with the rest of you. Which you might think would lead to more writing because I’ve less to do, […]
Testing The New Site
My new site went live today so I’m just posting a new test post to see how this funcitons. So far it looks pretty slick compared to my last one — I know you can’t see the backend interface but it’s pretty great. Images are easy to post Even cooler, I can wrap the text […]
Thor Epic Collection Volume 6 Into The Dark Nebula Review
New Youtube video!
HOLY 90s Nosatalgia — Spawn Is About To Make $2 MILLION (And More!)
New Youtube video!
Teenage Mutant Turtles Urban Legends Volume 1 Review
New Youtube video!
Crazy Times! INNOVATIVE Distribution Outlets With Diamond SHUT DOWN!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Urban Legends Creators Come Join My Stream!
I just finished reading TMNT Urban Legends, so I shot a message to the creators Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco for an interview — both accepted! Awesome that folk are home during quarantine. :). I can’t wait for this stream, going to be a lot of fun. So make sure to set a reminder. This […]