Recent content by Doctor Depravo

Hence the quotations marks. Most comic shops owners have historically gone ballistic (especially at publisher trade events) about any and all digital options (especially QR codes in books, and / or pushing digital subs inside the comics themselves) because they feel like they’re being sniped of...

There are almost always digital options, but they’re often released months after “newsstand date” and still the same price to avoid “undermining” comic shops. And there’s the hazards of never actually owning anything—look up what happened when Amazon got their hands on Comixology, the...

Current cover prices for traditional “floppy comics” are either $3.99 or $4.99 (with fewer and fewer $3.99 on the racks). Not sustainable at all, but there’s seemingly no solution.

Bleeding Cool (who has been covering all the Diamond drama since the beginning) reported a while back that Diamond suddenly changed a long-existing policy about the return of merchandise. Formerly, Diamond would send back unsold merch. Yet recently and suddenly, NuDiamond said publishers were...

Thanks for schooling me on EV. Right up my alley!

Thought I was the only person who remembered Pandemonium and / or Tabloid. Love those games! As far as WHPH-13 goes, there’s also dollops of It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show, a quirky game where you played actors making a terrible B-movie, so there were “on screen” and “off screen”...

Allow me to quote you, where you gave one reason and one reason alone: Now let’s do fancy grammatical math: “I would not be able to trust that paying for the product would lead to actually getting the product, even in the unlikely event that they advertised a product made specifically for...

How that reads: “I’m fine with Bledsaw, but doubt I’d ever get my toys.”

This is just a wordier “I don’t even OWN a teevee!”

Ahhhh, yes—the ol’ “the people that complained are the real problem here!” canard.

I went for about five years straight, with the last time being about a decade ago. Pre-2016, most certainly. For every great memory, there are five bad ones. And most of the bad were permutations of Goodman’s recent golly-gee-whiz “we’re about building bridges—why can’t we all just get...

The more “concerns” voiced by GG, the more they seem to be about saving face and hard lucre over Real, Genuine, Authentic Understanding; hell, at this point; , it’s almost like willful, obstinate blindness instead of well-intentioned (albeit derpy) cluelessness.

It’s been consistent since about 1996, when the birth of The Internet and larval Geek Ascendancy and the release of Deadlands converged, with living in The South being the cherry on top. Most infuriating? Going to multiple North Texas RPG Cons where many, Many, MANY in attendance (including...

You’re ever the optimist, because (based on wholly anecdotal evidence, yet gleaned from decades of going to cons and playing in FLGSes) the people who support Bledsaw’s views are a huuuge part of the community, cyber-bloviators or not.

I’ll kindly pass, as I can’t perceive any of your “nuances” that distinguish from my interpretation.