Recent content by Doctor Depravo

Poetic and accurate. Speaking of “paper fading”, remember how the video boxes at the front of the store—the ones closest to the windows—would bleach over time? Turn washed-out and barely readable? Man. I miss that whole scene.

Lotsa folks clearly didn’t trawl the shelves of their mom-n-pop rental stores, as the horror sections thrived on unloved direct-to-video sequels—Scanners, Watchers, Ghoulies, Xtro, Trancers, Psycho Cop, Waxwork, House, plus those sword-n-sorcery flicks mentioned in prior articles all had...

Of course I don’t think execs planned on doing anything negative to themselves, because they get golden parachutes and retire / move on to the next venture. You said earlier that you were “sorry for even getting involved” in this thread a few pages back. And I’m (and, if I may be so bold...

Diamond’s “maliciousness” goes well and beyond just this RPG-centric thread. Comic book companies have been dealing with their nonsense since the ‘90s. As I said earlier, you don’t seem to know much about ‘em beyond the current kerfuffle. And yet you definitely have opinions, that’s for certain.

I am utterly boggled how you are able to distinguish “mismanagement”—again, which definitely includes some shady-as-Hades-stuff going back years and years—as being apart from “some great evil plan”. Would you, perhaps, allow “some lame banal plan”? Or “some weak-sauce shady plan”? Or some...

I’ll agree with you that, no, it isn’t a big ol’ heist movie caper. Where I disagree is your casually dismissive “eh, it’s business as usual—nuthin’ to see here” nature of posts. Diamond has been negligent (in the ethical and colloquial senses, if perhaps not in your strict, pedantic...

I’m late to this comment, but you seemingly (clearly? blatantly? intentionally?) don’t know very much about Diamond’s longstanding troublesome business practices. From the comics angle, Bleeding Cool has been keeping tabs for well over a decade, documenting each and every Diamond misstep, from...

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.”