Hahahahaha!

[Lester C.]

@font-face is my favorite thing about CSS3.

I've just gone and said something that only three or four people understand again, haven't I?

As for Jim, I'll believe it when I see something . . . anything that resembles an actual finished comic. Otherwise as an actual web designer fluent in at least three web languages, his site is garbage and I can say that as a professional. At the very least ditch the high contrast color scheme. High contrast is bad, bad, bad.

I hate it when people speak English and I don't understand $@!# :mad:

[sk716]

I hate it when people speak English and I don't understand $@!# :mad:

Happens to me when Steph starts speaking Educanese (teacher terminology).

[Tom Stillwell]

I love Word Press. I know zip about web design. Once Shel sets up a Word Press site for me I can update it with ease. It's a time saver, which is great since usually I'm updating on the fly. I can even update it on my iPad.

[Artful Angie]

I just have to ask if he's choosing to do it this way, and not heed valuable advice from people who know what they're talking about in an effort to have a reason for more delays?

"Oh, sorry folks. I can't get the HTML working on the website to sell the comic. BUT they are printed and sitting here on my table. Just take my word for it. They smell printy! You can almost imagine the awesomeness of their printyness. But I can't sell them without my HTML. BUT you can still buy the posters on ebay!"

There's stubbornly holding on to something you learned fifteen years ago, and then there's just using it as an excuse for when you fall flat on your face by your own doing so you don't have to take responsibility for your own actions. And given his track record, the question does have some merit to it.

[Deegan]

It's not his html that's the problem, though. He says he's having problems with the email he set up for customer payments. He's contacted paypal, his webhost, and his isp about it.

Even with his current html skills, it's obvious he can still sell things online. What the exact problem is here, no one knows.

Edit: Jim fix that HOME button. Whenever I got to any pager on your header it's broken. For the love of god, if you want to have a professional site, you need to test out the links.

[Greg S]

What the exact problem is here, no one knows.

Oh, I think everyone knows what the problem is, but Gail has asked us to be nice.

[Artful Angie]

Oh, I think everyone knows what the problem is, but Gail has asked us to be nice.


And to be fair, Greg, we are being nice. Gail had asked us to not get into slamming him or bothering him to give him the time until his self-imposed deadline to finish his comic. We did just that.

His deadline was June 21st, and by all indications he did not live up to it. He says it was do to errors of his website, or programming, or what have you. And everything I see here I would consider honest feedback about why his (yes, I will use the word because I can't think of anything better in its place) flat out stubbornness to adapt to newer and easier methods of production caused the delay.

Imagine if Marvel or DC was still using the same printing or production methods they used 30 years ago? Or 20? Or even from the time Jim is saying he learned this stuff?

Jim, please give some serious consideration to what Mac & everyone is saying. If for nothing else, and not to be hurtful about it, but to just bluntly say it: Your way is outdated, looks unprofessional, and hasn't resulted in a printed comic. They are using a more updated program that looks professional, is easier to use, and most of them at the end of the day can say they have a printed product out there that someone has bought.

If I'm trying to make a product and I have two people to seek advice from, one is my notes from a computer programmer who gave them to me 15 years ago and one is someone actually currently in the industry and sells his product now, who would I seek that wisdom from?

And please, please please, please, please, PLEASE stop saying "ya". Really. Seriously. It doesn't make you down to earth, or give you some sense of folksy charm you seem to be trying to garner with it. That almost disturbs me more than that fact that the website turn a turn backwards. One of my mother's biggest pet peeves when I was a kid so immersed in comics is that "the people who write in them have no sense of the English language", and I did my best to convince her of the opposite. But when I see that, I can't help think of her words. Like kids today and text messaging, and all the typos I see in emails at work. Please, just stop.

[Artful Angie]

And we are now one month PAST J-Dolt's self-imposed deadline of June 21st.

Has there been any further word of what's delaying his comic release? Has he made any other excus- um, I mean.. statements as to the lag? Is everything okay?

[Tom Stillwell]

Meanwhile since the time that this thread started I was able to create a twenty two page comic book that is now at the printers and will be available for sale in a few weeks.

Jim.Do.The.Work.

[Deegan]

Checked in on Jim's site on a lark today. He has sort of made an update, but no new content has been made for the site.


We apologize for seeming to vanish for the past month...

There have been a few situations that have kept us temporarily away, but we're here to let ya know that we are back to work on full scale and even better than EVER!
J-Bolt's coming birthday wish is that we have everything ready for our beloved Friends, Family & Fans. So... be prepared to receive all that you've waited for from us for quite sometime.
With far fewer of the interruptions we had previously, you are now getting to see results.
If you have any questions, be sure to e-mail us at webmaster@lightningboltentertainment.com or comment to us on any of our Social Network profiles, to let us know what ya think of the new design, as well as any suggestions, complaints or other feedback.
Remember that we have our base text on what we're displaying to you now, so you'll know what to expect as we fill it all in. Please don't expect all the links to be fully connected, as that is part of the hard work we're putting into this, as we work it in. We look forward to your feedback on how we're doin' with it so far.

The BIGGEST priority you've been asking us for is the first printed comic book. We're delivering on that too. There are not enough apologies in the world for us to give in covering the problems we're having with getting all the accounts straightened up, for you to order your copies of the first Retro When Lightning Strikes. Here and now, we are promising you that we are and have been working DAILY on fixing this problem so that you can have just that.
Meanwhile, we're going to publish a Newsletter Mailing List, so that you can keep personally updated on what is going on with all this. Be sure to keep us bookmarked and/or favorited so that you'll be the quickest to get these updates.

[Gail Simone]

I admit, I am disappointed. I don't understand why it's so difficult to fill these links. It shouldn't take a day, let alone a month.

I hope everything is okay, but it's NOT back-breaking labor to write copy. There's just no excuse for it after all this time,

I hope he gets the stuff printed.

[Artful Angie]

So he can't get a comic printed, but he expects us to believe he'll have the time to do a newsletter in the meantime until the comic is printed?

To me, telling people "ya" going to print a newsletter UNTIL "ya" get the comic printed is as close to an admission as "ya'll" get that the comic is not going to be available anytime soon. Because if the comic WAS going to be done soon, "ya'd" have no need FOR a newsletter in the meantime, would "ya", Dolty???

So here's my prediction: the comic will NOT be available by the time Dolt's deadline hits the "2 months overdue" deadline of August 21st. Because he's already back to the "personal things got in the way" excuse. It really is sad. He had everybody trying to give him help and support this time, and he just threw it all away.

[Reverend Smooth]

There are different ways to sell and distro books. If he's got them sitting around waiting to ship, he'd have them shipped. He just doesn't have anything to sell.

[Shurato2099]

DING!

Which makes me wonder what he'd be putting into a newsletter to start with. Progress reports? Fantasy Football stats? Recipes? ... I think I've about got this Salmon Paprikash thing down, btw. :)

[Artful Angie]

Ooh, it's hard to prepare good salmon. Let me know when you're done, Shurato. I'll come over for dinner.

We can do a pot luck and put the photos in the newsletter!

[Shurato2099]

What's so hard about salmon? Its a firm fish that'll stand up to just about anything you care to do to it. What I'd been trying to get right was the sauce, and I think I'm about there with it (the first one never came together, the second one was a bit thin but worked better ... my last attempt it was more like a gravy which worked well with egg noodles).

[Gail Simone]

My husband barbecues salmon on the outdoor grill, with a sweet teriyaki glaze...it's like Heaven.

[Shurato2099]

I have yet to try grilling salmon. Most of what I've done has been either a pan fry or baked, typically with a marinade of some sort. With the paprikash, I've come to the conclusion that I totally need a bigger pan because four 8oz portions plus two bartlett pears is really pushing it with my gear. For the last batch I doubled up on the butter and wine so that I'd have plenty of liquid to make the sauce with.

[Artful Angie]

Now I'm really hungry for seafood. And to keep things on topic, I'll get a decent seafood from Shurato with his completed sauce meal before the comic comes out.

[Artful Angie]

I got to thinking about how it's October and the August 2nd deadline for Da Litenin' Ta Strike has come and gone. and gone. and gone. Popping over to his website shows he hasn't changed a thing since he promised everybody a newsletter months ago.

Then I read the last few posts and thought I'd put this out there, since it's more than J-bolt puts out there:

JAPANESE SALMON TERIYAKI

Read more about it at www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,226,152180-237203,00.html
Content Copyright © 2011 Cooks.com - All rights reserved.

1/2 cup Japanese soy sauce
1 tablespoon Mirin
1 1/2 lb. fillet of salmon
salt and pepper, to taste

OPTIONAL SIDES:

Udon noodles
Cherry tomatoes
baby spinach
green onions
vinaigrette

Combine 1/2 cup of Japanese soy sauce (shoyu), and 1 tablespoon of Mirin; put salmon on the grill, and when nearly done (the flesh will begin to become opaque), brush the sauce on the salmon generously, then return it to the grill and cook until it browns.
When that side is done, cook the other side the same way. Note: Japanese Shoyu is made of wheat and beans; it may be obtained in whole food markets or in the International section of the supermarket. Mirin is a cooking wine. These are most important ingredients for Japanese cooking. Sauterne may be used instead of Mirin if a teaspoon of sugar is added.

This same sauce may be used as a dressing for Udon noodles, which can be served on the side as a starch to go with this dish. A light salad of baby spinach and tomatoes with green onions completes the dish. (If using this sauce for the Udon noodles, make a separate batch.)


Vinaigrette Dressing (for vegetables - optional):

To dress the salad, combine 4 tbsp. peanut or light olive oil, 1 tbsp. rice wine or red wine vinegar or fresh lemon juice, 2 cloves crushed garlic, a pinch of hot pepper flakes and 1/2 tsp. sea salt.

[Gail Simone]

Damn, this actually sounds really good.


I'm actually sad about the J-bolt thing. I honestly felt he was going to publish SOMETHING.

[KJ!]

Guess this is as good a time as any for this univeral multi-world exclusive, for all you Lightning Lookie-Loo's out there: I'm Bombshell.

You'll get to see me in spandex, and pretending I have boobs.


It shall be GRAND.

[MacQuarrie]

Damn, this actually sounds really good.


I'm actually sad about the J-bolt thing. I honestly felt he was going to publish SOMETHING.
It's such a simple thing. Don't announce stuff until it's actually ready. I have a dozen projects that may eventually come out. One of them is actually getting pretty close. You'll not hear a word about it until it's finished and ready to sell.

[KJ!]

Reading this article on 'Cracked', it SCREAMED J-Boltian to me, especially the very first one, with Geocities-like text and spinning GIF's, not to mention the dodgy writing.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19510_the-7-most-questionable-haunted-items-ebay.html

Really, who COULDN'T see him pursuing this 'market'?

:lol:

[EmarAndZeb]

So, wait, I've been overlooking this thread... who is this man with the funny, mostly content-less website?


I fear to examine the pages too closely, since I actually did have a seizure last year, and I don't want to repeat the experience.

[Artful Angie]

So, wait, I've been overlooking this thread... who is this man with the funny, mostly content-less website?


I fear to examine the pages too closely, since I actually did have a seizure last year, and I don't want to repeat the experience.

Are you talking a seizure due to flashing lights, or a computer seizure due to a computer virus on a website?

In either case you have nothing to worry about. There's nothing that would bother a person's senses on J-Dolt's website. No flashing lights, no spinning icons, no common sense, no actual content, no information, no creativity... nothing at all except an unbelievably bad drawing he did in junior high of a guy whose head must be stuck in his Judge Dredd helmet, because he can't see how bad his costume is.

And as for any computer virus that might be there, again you've got nothing to worry about. Any virus there would had starved by now of electronic neglect.

[MacQuarrie]

I'm serious. No sarcasm, no snark; if he gets an actual comic book in print (a real comic book, not the same old collection of preview samples of proposed characters, not a reissue of his ashcan), I will do a self-defaming drawing of his cast of characters literally kicking my ass. Plus an apology and retraction. And even though he says the comics are coming out in the next couple of months, I'll give him a year.

A note just popped up on my calendar reminding me that I need to start doing this drawing soon so it will be ready by April 21. So, before I begin penciling this illustration, has there been any news lately from J-Bolt?

[EmarAndZeb]

I'm not sure, but I think it's been updated, 'cause it's all talking about 2012 being "the year of Lightning Bolt" now.

Also:


And for the smart-@$$es who will undoubtedly moan about this current site page's design, our Complaint Department's e-mail address is WAAAAAAAH@LIGHTNINGBOLTENTERTAINMENT.COM.
(The new site programming will OBVIOUSLY be much more updated with technical design and everything else you've waited for... just so you know before you start griping at us about any of it)

...little defensive, there, aren't we?

Who's upgrading the design? I'm available. 'Course, I'll need the money up front...

[Weeto]

J-Bolt offered to let me write a new She-Hulk series... as soon as he buys out Marvel...

[Deegan]

I saw the update a week ago, but it wasn't worth the trouble. The guy seems to be doing his own thing now, and Gail's made peace with him. Best of luck to him, I suppose.

[Gail Simone]

It's a bit depressing. Nothing frustrates me more with J-bolt than when he talks about how EXHAUSTED he is from working so hard on his comics, and then they never, ever come out. It's frustrating to those of us who actually DO work on comics.

But I still wish he'd finish something and get it online. That would be the happy end to this story.

[Artful Angie]

I'm not sure, but I think it's been updated, 'cause it's all talking about 2012 being "the year of Lightning Bolt" now.

Also:



...little defensive, there, aren't we?

Who's upgrading the design? I'm available. 'Course, I'll need the money up front...

I'm sure it's one of his actual rocket scientists he claimed to have tracking us all down so he could humiliate us with our terrible secrets.

But at least whoever is doing it has reached the mid-90s of programming, because they discovered PhotoShop and added the picture of the comic book box.

So now that 2011 (supposedly the year of LBE according to Dolt in 2010) is over, what exciting news will await us in his Super-Charged Invisible Newsletter Of Awesomeness-less? Well, apparently he's going to sell a poster! Oooooh!!!

In the time J-Dolt has been claiming to produce ONE SINGLE ISSUE of a comic, Valiant Comics was created, distributed, sold, revamped, re-distributed, marketed with games, went defunct, bought out again, re-structured, released a Free Comic Book Day promotional issue, and now re-emerged and are two months away from starting to release all-new issues. Dolty? He made a poster and got some pre-schoolers to make him a website update using their old Commodore 64.

To be honest, J-Dolt completely dropped off my radar for the last few months, because he was smart enough to just slink away into the nothingness he was. But now that it's a new year and he's making new claims to be the Number One Comic producer out there, all I can say is....

I'll wait for the slinking sound to come around next August.

[Shurato2099]

After looking at his web site earlier this year I can totally believe that it was designed by a rocket scientist ...

[MacQuarrie]

I was looking forward to drawing Bolt and Bombshell and all the other LBC characters kicking my ass.

[Deegan]

Is that due date past now, MacQuarrie? I think you stated you would wait longer than Jim's stated date because you didn't think he'd make it.

[MacQuarrie]

Is that due date past now, MacQuarrie? I think you stated you would wait longer than Jim's stated date because you didn't think he'd make it.

Not yet. He had said April, there was some question as to whether he meant April 2011 or 2012, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and said I'd give him a year. I set a reminder in my phone for January so that I would have time to do it if there were the remotest possibility of it happening. So he still has a few months.

[KJ!]

Damn.

It seems the CBR thread has gone.

The 'MkII' one of 17 pages is still there, but not the previous one, which had copies of all his press releases, promises, his 'situation' with SK, etc.

Damn. There was a lot of good stuff in there.

[Artful Angie]

Is it archived anywhere else?

[Gail Simone]

It was interesting, but I still hope he puts a book out. I got the impressing he was actually working on artwork recently. We'll see, I guess, but I wish it would happen regardless.

[Gail Simone]

It was interesting, but I still hope he puts a book out. I got the impressing he was actually working on artwork recently. We'll see, I guess, but I wish it would happen regardless.

[castlewalls]

I will post something on why he has not published any comics like he said he was going to do in the Spring, but to be fair he never said it would be last spring this spring next spring or the spring of 2062 he just said spring. Jim if you are reading this I have a few emails that you sent to someone. Then everyone will know why you are exhausted and why you were having issues with your girlfriend.

[castlewalls]

Jim if you are reading this I have a few emails that you sent to someone. Then everyone will know why you are exhausted and why you were having issues with your girlfriend.




these were posted May 20 2011 and I know why his EXFGIRL friend was creating "drama" for him.


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Just to let everybody know: Ignore any new personal drama that the ex-gf will try to start w/LBE & ask me if ya need to know. That is all.

[sk716]

I'm not sure, but I think it's been updated, 'cause it's all talking about 2012 being "the year of Lightning Bolt" now.

Also:



...little defensive, there, aren't we?

Who's upgrading the design? I'm available. 'Course, I'll need the money up front...

Having been down that road before, don't bother. No amount of money is worth having to deal with his paranoia.

[sk716]

I will post something on why he has not published any comics like he said he was going to do in the Spring, but to be fair he never said it would be last spring this spring next spring or the spring of 2062 he just said spring. Jim if you are reading this I have a few emails that you sent to someone. Then everyone will know why you are exhausted and why you were having issues with your girlfriend.

castlewalls, are you new to the J-Bolt saga? Your username is unfamiliar.

[castlewalls]

castlewalls, are you new to the J-Bolt saga? Your username is unfamiliar.

I have known of him for close to a year. Nothing but trouble. To bad I do not know of this ex-girlfriend who was going to start this new "personal drama" for his company because she could really verify the emails of why he was having those issues and why he really does not have a comic book together. The only person I could even remotely trust is Gail.

[Gail Simone]

Castle, I really don't want to have these kinds of posts here, sorry. If you have something to say, please do, but it's not fair to J-bolt or anyone to accuse him and then not say what it is you are accusing him of. It seems really mean.

I don't know what the story is, but unless you really have something to say, please just let it drop. If he's having personal problems, it's not helping anyone to bring them up here, anyway.

[Artful Angie]

Didn't he say in a previous posts that the comics were already finished? He just needed to assemble them or something? That was last Spring. Give me some Scotch Tape and a stapler. The comic would have been out by now.

[Tom Stillwell]

Since October I've sent three comics off to the printer. I could a lot with almost an entire year.

[sk716]

Since October I've sent three comics off to the printer. I could a lot with almost an entire year.

But, Tom, you're SUPER-HUMAN!

And you don't have bashers breathing down your neck and sabotaging your every move by stealing your pencils and stuff.

[Tom Stillwell]

No, but I have real problems like illness, death and unemployment. And no self-made problems like girlfriend drama and procrastination.

If you want something bad enough you muddle through the hard times and avoid poor life choices.

[Artful Angie]

J-Dolt's biggest poor-life choice was trying to brag about himself as a comic publisher until he actually published a comic. It seems unlikely that's ever going to change.

[castlewalls]

I looked to make sure and SPRING officially begins on March 20th of this year, the same as last year the year before that and next year it falls on...... I'll bet you already know but I will tell you. MARCH 20th.

[Shurato2099]

I looked to make sure and SPRING officially begins on March 20th of this year, the same as last year the year before that and next year it falls on...... I'll bet you already know but I will tell you. MARCH 20th.

I usually go with the vernal equinox, which can wobble a little bit, for the start of spring but this year it is on March 20th at 1:14 AM.

[Tom Stillwell]

I just happened across this posted on the wall of a Facebook acquaintance. Maybe this is why Jim can't get his books printed.


Jim Fisher
QUESTION: Do you know of any online print-to-order printers who have no problem with printing XXX-rated comics? I know of a few different Artists/Creators who want to self-publish their own books, which have some REALLY GREAT art & story (believe it or not, considering that it's XXX-rated comics), but none of us can find such printers. Even Ka-Blam won't touch such a rating.
If you know of such a printer, or know of somebody who does, would you please send me the links to their websites, so that I can pass this information on?
I'd appreciate it, M'Friend.

[Artful Angie]

So the book he has been touting so hard since he was in puberty is a porn comic book???

Because we're not just talking nudity, folks. Printers don't just say "Sorry, we won't print that" over a boob shot or full-frontal. To be so XXX that printers refuse to print the job, there has to be some serious boom-boom going on.

Sure, Ka-Blam's Rating Policy says nothing "X" or higher, but that's them. I've been in a few comic shops that have a "back-room" adults-only section. And there's a few adult bookstores that I've seen locally-printed stuff in. Ka-Blam's policy is here: http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=146

And I quote:


Absolutely. We will not print anything that is illegal, defamatory, or infringes upon the rights of another person or company.

But that’s probably not what you were asking about, is it? You’re probably asking about nudity and sexual content, huh? In that case, the short answer is this — We’ll print ‘R’, but not ‘X’ and certainly not ‘XXX’. It’s not a puritanical thing. Really. It’s based on sound legal advice we received and have chosen to heed, having to do with the voluminous and wildly varying laws around the country (and the world) regarding ‘obscenity’ and the transport thereof.

We’ve elected to print no comics (or comics related material) containing any scenes of an explicit sexual nature.

So is Dolty trying to say that his comic is so full of sexual content that he can't find a local printer willing to touch it..... wait for it.... here it comes... IN LAS VEGAS?!?!?

[Weeto]

Why did J-Bolt make all of his grandiose proclamations about publishing stuff when he clearly couldn't publish it?

I had hoped to do some comic publishing myself but I had always said it was conditional on my business growing. It didn't and I had to scrap any ideas I had of entering that market.

J-Bolt on the other hand seems to think he is at the level of publishers like Dark Horse and Dynamite BEFORE he has even published anything at all.

Probably after a month of publishing comics he would launch a takeover bid for DC!

[Weeto]

Which would fail comically!

[MacQuarrie]

So is Dolty trying to say that his comic is so full of sexual content that he can't find a local printer willing to touch it..... wait for it.... here it comes... IN LAS VEGAS?!?!?
He's not in Vegas anymore. He's in the St. Louis MO area.

[sk716]

He's not in Vegas anymore. He's in the St. Louis MO area.

Much further south, he's closer to Springfield and that's an hour or so away.

[castlewalls]

Jim Fisher
QUESTION: Do you know of any online print-to-order printers who have no problem with printing XXX-rated comics? I know of a few different Artists/Creators who want to self-publish their own books, which have some REALLY GREAT art & story (believe it or not, considering that it's XXX-rated comics), but none of us can find such printers. Even Ka-Blam won't touch such a rating.
If you know of such a printer, or know of somebody who does, would you please send me the links to their websites, so that I can pass this information on?
I'd appreciate it, M'Friend.


This will definately make my claim to why he is not finnished with his comic book. He is to busy sexting women for his X rated comic book that he cannot even finish. Has anyone clicked on his email links on his website the one that clains 2012 is the year of LBE? I tried they are invalid well maybe I am not puter savy nough to figure it out.

[castlewalls]

Much further south, he's closer to Springfield and that's an hour or so away.

Well he got involved with my girlfriend sweet talked her into doing lot of things that she normally would never have done. Think Sybil for a personality for her. His last address is IN CABOOL Missouri. I even have his personal private yahoo email address along with ways to hide their clandestine sexting. I wonder if that is where he got his story line for his XXX rated comic book. Sooner or later I will find the "drawing" that he did for her and his/their fantasy. I told him to stay the F**K away from her. He does not know the amount of damage he haS DONE to her. To me I think he borders on a real bad personality disorder. I am sure all the artists on this board that do side free lance artwork for people get involved with sexting their clients without any regard to whom they would be hurting.

[MacQuarrie]

Countdown to J-Bolt appearing here to deny the allegations, begins..... now.

[HamsterRage]

Oh jesus christ... who cares? I don't give a damn about Jim Fisher.

If you're girl got involved with Jim Fisher, then I would recommend leaving her and seeing a doctor ASAP.

[MacQuarrie]

Same as with Olney; if he's not slinging bullshit that impacts the comics industry, it's not our business.

[KJ!]

Okay. These 3 pieces are from his FB page, and are openly available there (I'm not friends with him).

They stood out to me, for different reasons.

They all seem to be around the same vintage of early-mid last year, but that's only when he uploaded them. I'll post my thoughts on each piece under each one.

I'm also NOT an artist, and have no skills or ability to judge in that area. I'm just going on my opinion, hardly scientific.

First: http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/413504_306114692801887_1930194403_o.jpg

The basic outline here is pretty decent. Now, I think he makes a big mistake with all those mystery muscles, especially around the torso (or the costume is made of bubble wrap), but ignoring that, and going by the basic image, it appears pretty decent to me. Those muscles have got to go, though. They don't look good, nor even human. Maybe this is one of his problems? Decent starts, but bogged down by trying to add unnecessary and odd 'details'.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/404929_225509457529078_1974516244_n.jpg

Now, let's just get this out of the way. Yes, that is his artwork, depicting himself.

The actual drawing though, is again, fairly decent. Things are quite detailed, but there's no 'mystery muscles' like on the one above. It looks fine to the untrained eye.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/546417_307787455967944_2036634043_n.jpg

So...what the hell happened here?

This is eye-bleedingly bad. Just so many elements that work against each other, and don't mesh. It's like some kind of blow-up doll. Boobs don't really do that naturally.

This is a hell of a step down from the other two pieces. I can't honestly say that there's anything I like about this last one.

Is it trying to be stylised, but just failing?

So overall, those 3 pieces, again just IMO, show an artist that has got some base talent, and with just a few tweaks, could be better. Consistency is possibly a problem, or he may be weak with the female form.

[Gail Simone]

He can't draw women to save his life, but that's actually more common in pro comic artists than you might think, sadly!

[Weeto]

J-Bolt should appear on TV as people would think he was a Borat style parody character while he would believe he was a bona fide superstar.

He could go back to his special trailer after every show, the one with the metal bars on the windows and the pink rubber walls.

[Shurato2099]

You think they'll spring for pink? I was thinking institutional white ...

[KJ!]

My selection criteria was absolutely biased.

I decided I'd go with one male, one female, and one 'other'.

For the male, they were mostly horribly over-muscled. That is not necessarily a dealbreaker to me, but if even I can recognise that the whole figure has anatomy that is absolutely not possible for a human, then...you're gonna have a bad time. I thought this one was quite good, and so I chose that. My biggest problem was that it's his rendition of himself. I tried to best ignore that.

For the other, I went with that penciled one. Not sure if it's a prelim, or merely uninked.

It had a base outline that worked for me. More awfully done muscles: bubble-wrap torso, and biceps so large they cover the lower arm. Only time I've seen that happen was while posing an action figure that had limited arm movement. Never in real life.

Still, it had something to it that I did like. I assumed though, that by the time it was inked and finished, it'd blend in with all his other stuff, and turn into a bad piece.

But from what I see now, it has its pluses.

Female: I tried. I really did. I was hoping for something that substantially differed from all his other attempts at females we've seen (all those eBay cards, for example). I couldn't find anything I liked, or found even tolerable.

I think a lot of his problems stem from a desire to show detailed anatomy, but a severe lack of understanding or homework on exactly how that all works.

If you want to break it, you need to learn how to build it first.

[Tom Stillwell]

The art is not too bad. It's not professional quality though. He's a decent amateur who hasn't progressed as an artist since he already thinks he's the greatest illustrator in the world. You can't improve if you don't think you need to.

Here's the thing though. Being a comic book artist is about more than being able to make pretty pinups. I have artists at conventions bringing me their portfolios all the time in hopes of getting hired. What they typically hand me is a book full of pinups. Hulk smashing, Wolverine raging, Batman lurking, Superman soaring. That sort of thing. Some are really pretty good some are great. Unfortunately I can't hire anyone based off of pinups.

The most important thing about being a comic book artists is also being a storyteller. Pinups don't tell a story and they can't convey to me the skill level of the artist as a storyteller. Only sequential pages can show me that.

I've seen Fisher's sequentials. They are horrible. He can't tell a story to save his life. Which is really bad since his written story is awful to begin with. He's not getting any help from the art.

[KJ!]

The art is not too bad. It's not professional quality though. He's a decent amateur who hasn't progressed as an artist since he already thinks he's the greatest illustrator in the world. You can't improve if you don't think you need to.

Here's the thing though. Being a comic book artist is about more than being able to make pretty pinups. I have artists at conventions bringing me their portfolios all the time in hopes of getting hired. What they typically hand me is a book full of pinups. Hulk smashing, Wolverine raging, Batman lurking, Superman soaring. That sort of thing. Some are really pretty good some are great. Unfortunately I can't hire anyone based off of pinups.

The most important thing about being a comic book artists is also being a storyteller. Pinups don't tell a story and they can't convey to me the skill level of the artist as a storyteller. Only sequential pages can show me that.

I've seen Fisher's sequentials. They are horrible. He can't tell a story to save his life. Which is really bad since his written story is awful to begin with. He's not getting any help from the art.

Oh yeah. His sequentials are more baffling than.......well, at least SOME of his rants.

As for his art and the chance of being hired?

I can think of only one company: Bluewater.

[MacQuarrie]

Oh yeah. His sequentials are more baffling than.......well, at least SOME of his rants.

As for his art and the chance of being hired?

I can think of only one company: Bluewater.
The irony of that would be awesome.

[Cassandra]

The irony of that would be awesome.
Given how many pros they've ripped off over the years, it certainly would be.

[castlewalls]

Has Jim published a comic book yet? I was under the impression it would be released in the spring of 2012.

I did some more searching I found a facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/RetroWhenLightningStrikesSeries

[Gail Simone]

This is the VERY FIRST post on that page, honest to god.

"A LOOOOT of people have dropped off here. I guess since they need to actually help keep this going and exciting, they'd rather go off and do their loser-like other Internet-Life than to actually get involved in something physical... LOL"

Hey, Jim?

Guess what. If people aren't supporting your page or your work, it's YOUR fault, not theirs. Yours.

And it's fucking idiotic to call your potential readers "losers."

You remain as clueless as ever.

[KJ!]

This is the full banner/timeline thing as the header of the page:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/416526_416072705084590_324728778_o.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/416526_416072705084590_324728778_o.jpg

[MacQuarrie]

That illustration is a perfect example of a basic lesson in cartooning:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/pbanimation07-749469.jpg

[castlewalls]

So I decided to read more of that page and if you look at the more section for his VALUABLE 1999 poster you can read this for yourself. I am shocked at the value of William Shatners autograph.

Here's your chance to get the original 1999 "The Storm" poster for yourself, which has always been connected to the Retro WLS series publications (without the red words on black border, above and below), and start your COMPLETE Retro WLS series collection, before it goes into WLS 2.0!
When it first came out, it was valued at $5, and J-Bolt's signature wasn't yet... uh... worth anything. But, the last values showed it to be worth $15, and J-Bolt's autograph worth $7.50 (YAY! My autograph is actually worth more than William Shatner's now!)!

[OMAR]

It doesn't seem so far-fetched to me that the switch to WLS 2.0 is driving up the value of the Retro series poster. I do think that Gail's comment, though harshly worded, is apt. I think what we see there is J-Bolt's understandable frustration at a lack of fan participation on the Facebook page. Unfortunately it does come across as somewhat negative. I suspect he's overworked right now, rushing to finish the Retro series and get it out there. The funny thing is, once the books are out, surely the LBC-related Facebook community will build up steam at an even faster rate than presently. So his concerns may be needless.

[castlewalls]

Yeah I am sure he is exhausted from all the work he is putting in on meetme responding to all of his friends that are flocking to his facebook page so it can go public, but I think this is more of the truth. I don't waste the effort to do it at all.

I have heard that for a lie to be successful a little bit of the truth must be included in the lie. I am betting the last part of that line that is on his 2012- The year of the lightning bolt webpage is the truth "I dont waste the effort" ummm "Omar". I wonder if Omar lives in Cabool MO.

[OMAR]

No, I live in Central NY. You could have just asked. And in a way, 2012 has already been the Year of the Lightning Bolt, given the various announcements and the attendant interest they've generated.

[MacQuarrie]

I have heard that for a lie to be successful a little bit of the truth must be included in the lie. I am betting the last part of that line that is on his 2012- The year of the lightning bolt webpage is the truth "I dont waste the effort" ummm "Omar". I wonder if Omar lives in Cabool MO.
People have asked that before, since it's the most likely explanation for his cheerleading, but it's been well-established that Omar is not one of J-Bolt's many alternate identities. For one, he has a command of the English language that J-Bolt lacks.

The less-obvious explanation is probably more true: Omar's unwavering support for J-Bolt is a kind of performance art, a new spin on internet trolling. By pretending to be a big fan of comics that don't exist and a supporter of a guy who goes out of his way to alienate and antagonize possible fans (if he ever put out anything of which they could be fans), he gets to pretend to be positive while irritating people.

[Gail Simone]

What Omar is doing is meaner than anything that has ever been said about J-bolt, sadly.

[castlewalls]

I think I get it now. Jim needs to be famous and the only way he is going to be famous is by being infamous in the comic book world. HE will never attain being a world class infamous person like Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Hitler....

[Gail Simone]

Let's hope not, "infamous" is not something people should WANT to be.

And Jim just has delusions of grandeur, his life is squalid and awful, so he pretends to be the star he thinks he deserves to be (though he doesn't ever, ever want to do any actual WORK to get there).
But some of his delusions are really very extreme and I do worry about him a little bit. When people's delusions are shattered, it can be explosive.

[KJ!]

This is the full banner/timeline thing as the header of the page:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/416526_416072705084590_324728778_o.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/KJ_81/416526_416072705084590_324728778_o.jpg

I think my favourite part of this is that he states he 'won't finish the art until he receives the winning caption'.


Could it be that the current 26 year delay was all caused by an earlier caption contest that is yet to end?

:mistrust:

[castlewalls]

Here is a list of the pages he has completed since January. Jim likes to boast about his accomplishments so this is a very longggg list.

http://www.meetme.com/j-bolt

LOL page countdown continues... XO179 days ago

http://www.facebook.com/RetroWhenLightningStrikesSeries

Retro When Lightning Strikes Series

May 14.

I FINISHED ANOTHER PAGE LAST NIGHT!!! I'm on such a roll that I couldn't even sleep last night, worried about losing this roll I'm on...

[OMAR]

It's not mean to encourage J-Bolt to get the comic books out and to ignore the online doubters. It's not a delusion to think that he could publish this miniseries. I haven't advised him to do anything foolish. There have been some very mean things said about him, none of them by me. The title of this thread is mean-spirited. My support of J-Bolt is not mean-spirited.

I think MacQuarrie was closer to the mark. I disagree that it is trolling, but I don't doubt that my willingness to continue to make such supportive statements is a direct response to the vehemency and the duration of the negativity.

[castlewalls]

I have more faith in a snail getting out of harms way while its on a jet blast deflector during daily air cover procedures for an aircraft carrier. Jim has been promoting his published works years before it has even been finished. I would say he has the cart before the horse, but in this case all he has is an empty cart. He forgot to get the horse.

[MacQuarrie]

It's not mean to encourage J-Bolt to get the comic books out and to ignore the online doubters. It's not a delusion to think that he could publish this miniseries. I haven't advised him to do anything foolish. There have been some very mean things said about him, none of them by me. The title of this thread is mean-spirited. My support of J-Bolt is not mean-spirited.

I think MacQuarrie was closer to the mark. I disagree that it is trolling, but I don't doubt that my willingness to continue to make such supportive statements is a direct response to the vehemency and the duration of the negativity.
We wouldn't call it trolling if you stayed within the bounds of reality. By all means, be supportive and encouraging. But to validate his delusions and talk about LBE as if it were a real company with employees and product, and talk of being a fan of comics that do not exist, that's just, as the British say, taking the piss. We know you're blowing smoke up his ass, but he doesn't. He thinks you're sincere, which means he thinks you're as deluded as he is, and the two of you can reinforce each other's delusions into a death-spiral.

Urge him to get the work done; don't pretend like it's done and already a smash hit. You're not doing him any favors.

[castlewalls]

Urge him to get the work done; don't pretend like it's done and already a smash hit. You're not doing him any favors.

Ditto. Well the last possible week to get his stuff on the shelves to make it for the year 2012 would be the week before the US Thanksgiving Holiday. 143 days from 7/9/2012

[Gail Simone]

You should be flattered that no one believes you are that stupid, Omar.

[castlewalls]

I'm sorry but there was something that has been sitting in the back of my mind for quite some time. Its the character image of how Jim sees himself. I looked at it and looked at it and there was something so familiar about it. In my sleep it hit me it kind of reminds me of this sketch.

http://www.andrewdodds.com/images/adodds_unabomber.jpg

[Weeto]

Comment edited due to request by Gail.

I was a little concerned about J-Bolt at times due to his striving for attention and a bit worried about his unusual actions and comments.

[MacQuarrie]

I don't worry about that at all. He's more likely to hurt himself than anyone else. His delusions run in an entirely different direction. For him it's not about power, but popularity. He doesn't want to prove he's superior to everyone else, he wants everyone to admire him and like him. He's very needy. I think if he has any violent tendencies at all, it would be personal; he might, for instance, beat up a girlfriend or hit a family member, but mass violence against strangers isn't in his mindset. He CARES what those people think of him. He doesn't care what a girlfriend or family member thinks, because it's easy to rationalize around it and convince himself that he's right and they're wrong, and besides they don't matter anyway. With people like him, it's those closest who have to worry, not the random person on the street.

Yes, I've had some experience with egocentric blowhards.

[Gail Simone]

I think this is getting way over the line, guys. No one has ever said that J-bolt is violent, and connecting him to domestic abuse or the Colorado thing is way, way past what's okay, in my opinion.

Please consider editing your posts, okay? At the very least, I don't want that line of discussion to continue...it's not right.

[castlewalls]

Would someone please tell me about the process artist go through to get an invite to a Comic Con convention? Do you get a personal letter of invitation umm if there are some things that you cannot discuss that is fine just as much as you can tell me about.

[MacQuarrie]

Would someone please tell me about the process artist go through to get an invite to a Comic Con convention? Do you get a personal letter of invitation umm if there are some things that you cannot discuss that is fine just as much as you can tell me about.

Do you mean San Diego? And are you asking how to register as a pro, or how to get a table in Artist's Alley? They don't invite anybody but special guests of honor. If you aren't very well known in the comics world as a writer, artist or other top professional, you aren't getting an invitation, period.

[castlewalls]

No no not for me I would never even claim to be an artisit. I can draw very little now, two drunk drivers n a stepdad took care of my artistic talents.

OK so now that that is established the invites that are sent out to special guests of honor do people know who they are sent to? Yeah this is gonna be a setup ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[sk716]

No no not for me I would never even claim to be an artisit. I can draw very little now, two drunk drivers n a stepdad took care of my artistic talents.

OK so now that that is established the invites that are sent out to special guests of honor do people know who they are sent to? Yeah this is gonna be a setup ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I'm gonna go with no.

If you are intending to further embarrass and humiliate J-Bolt with this set up then you will not get any help from us. Jim does an awesome job of making himself a fool, he doesn't need your help.

And yes, I'm being a bit of a hypocrite since I orchestrated J-Bolted back in the day. That was back when it was still funny, now he's just pathetic.

[castlewalls]

Nope I just wanted to see if what he has posted is true. His "fans" all feel sorry for him because back in May he missed his chance to go to the Dallas Comic Con because his van broke down. He was personally invited to be at that show. According to a friend of mine she insists that he is being persecuted by the industry because you all wont change your views on how comics should be.

[castlewalls]

Nope I just wanted to see if what he has posted is true.

[sk716]

Nope I just wanted to see if what he has posted is true. His "fans" all feel sorry for him because back in May he missed his chance to go to the Dallas Comic Con because his van broke down. He was personally invited to be at that show. According to a friend of mine she insists that he is being persecuted by the industry because you all wont change your views on how comics should be.

Oh. Yeah, 97% of what Jim Fisher says/types is bullshit.

Dallas Comic Con wouldn't have invited him to be there. He would have been going on his own and paying his own way. If the Con had invited him, they would have paid his expenses.

[Cam63]

Jim needs to be taken under care if he's still posting his nonsense.

[Gail Simone]

Nope I just wanted to see if what he has posted is true. His "fans" all feel sorry for him because back in May he missed his chance to go to the Dallas Comic Con because his van broke down. He was personally invited to be at that show. According to a friend of mine she insists that he is being persecuted by the industry because you all wont change your views on how comics should be.

I don't believe that for a second.

I have friends at the Dallas Comic Con. I'll ask.

But they don't invite people who haven't produced anything.

[Weeto]

I don't believe that for a second.

I have friends at the Dallas Comic Con. I'll ask.

But they don't invite people who haven't produced anything.

He has. Everything he has promised is coming up REAL SOON.

Two days after Hell freezes over. Heh.
;)

[Weeto]

I heard they're holding up next year's Eisner nominations until J-Bolt brings something out, then they're going to hire a truck to take all the awards to J-Bolt's house.

That'll teach Gail. she hasn't won one of those things and J-Bolt is going to win ALL of them.

[castlewalls]

I stand corrected she sent me proof he was invited I am a believer now (u cant see me but I is rolling my eyes)

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/viewmore.jpg

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/livemain.jpg

[OMAR]

I'm not sure about the legality of posting those screenshots here, in terms of copyright.

[Gail Simone]

That IS a tremendous worry, posting stuff from a public forum on another public forum.

[Keith P.]

http://tempest.fluidartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/oh-snap-flowchart.jpg

[castlewalls]

Well if it is a violation of copyright laws I will certainly take it down, I would never post anything on purpose that is UNTRUTHFUL. I'm not sure since Gail is the author of this thread she may email me to kindly take this down and I will do so immediately.
That IS a tremendous worry, posting stuff from a public forum on another public forum.

[Kal El]

His delusions just keep growing and growing. There's no way any convention would ask him to attend, given how little work he's done in the past 25 years.

[castlewalls]

His delusions just keep growing and growing. There's no way any convention would ask him to attend, given how little work he's done in the past 25 years. But, but, but he has a comic book store in Vermont buying a lot of his AUTOGRAPHED posters and they are flying off the shelves SO he has done a lot of work.

[MacQuarrie]

Here's the thing: J-Bolt invariably reveals his bullshit by displaying a staggering ignorance of how things work. Take a look at the post above:

"...the convention authorities said they'll look into another one, equally as close, and ask me to attend that one, with a bit more notice before-hand, at least. That just means a longer wait...and I was honored/excited to have been asked to this one too. Now, it's up in the air until they find the other."

The only way this possibly makes sense is if a vendor or exhibitor was the one inviting J-Bolt to the con (which would be a brilliant publicity stunt, frankly).

I assume by "convention authorities" he means the organizers; why, then, would they expend the time and energy to look for another convention put on by other organizers, and how would they be able to invite him to an event they weren't producing? If it were another one of their shows (the people behind SDCC also produce Wondercon and APE, so it's possible), they wouldn't have to "find" it, they would already know about it. Are these "authorities" going to use some sort of eminent domain powers to force the "authorities" behind the other convention to accept their edict that Jim should be a guest?

As with every bogus claim he has ever made, this one simply collapses under its own ignorance as soon as anyone stops to look at it.

[castlewalls]

I guess that commercial on tv is true then. You cant put anything on the internet that isnt true. Bonjour je suis un modèle français. I wonder how many people will believe that I am a French Model just because I posted that to the internet. You would not believe how many people believe that he was invited to Comic Con in Dallas this past May.

Here is just a simple easy test. When I first heard about Jim I did an internet search on just a couple of his claims. Sorry I am suspicious (the world is out to get me ha ha ha ha ha) and I found this site with a lot of other forums with his name. None of them say any positive remarks. Websites like Linkd, Wiki and IMDB have an unprofessional write up on his business like a kid would write about his accomplishments.

I did a search on this so called famous (<not serious) comic book writer Gail Simone, wow all this information written up I mean you could almost write a biography on this lady from all the POSITIVE information on her. interviews by online magazines the works a WIKI on her that goes on and on and on google images I mean just about anything except the last time she had the sniffles, I will check her twitter tweets for this though.

[Lew'sGhost]

The best thing to do with people like this is to just stop talking about them. Seriously. Lame people are lame. No need to have a lengthy forum documenting the lameness. And no I'm not trying to insult anyone- just stating an observation.

In other news, I have a second full-length comic book about to come out that by industry standards is quite lame. It was written, penciled, lettered, and inked in the time and space of a few of this thread's pages. I demand my own thread which helps chronicle its lesser lameness (so long as it translates to more Facebook likes). Acccordingly, my thread may be proportionately smaller. R-Bolt has spoken!

What's that you ask? You didn't? Oh. So I guess you don't need to know the Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/PrivateerTheLineofDuty so you can go there and "like" it.

[sk716]

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/viewmore.jpg

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/livemain.jpg

Dammit Jim, do you think you might manage to learn something about the things you lie about so that it might sound the slightest bit plausible.

There are no such things as "Convention Authorities." You sir are an idiot and have obviously never even been to a con. Most cons are independent. So nobody from Dallas Comic Con is going to get you invited to the Little Rock Comic Con or the Mid-South Comic Con because they are all independent of one another. Not run by some shadowy cabal, that's Wizard World. But thanks for reminding us that you're a terrible liar.

Cons have organizers. The organizers are usually a group of people who work together to make sure that invited guests get their plane tickets and hotel rooms and a meal or two on the Organizers. Had you been invited to a con and important enough for them to actually want you there as an invited guest, they'd have paid for a bus ticket.

Thanks for playing, though.

[sk716]

I guess that commercial on tv is true then. You cant put anything on the internet that isnt true. Bonjour je suis un modèle français. I wonder how many people will believe that I am a French Model just because I posted that to the internet. You would not believe how many people believe that he was invited to Comic Con in Dallas this past May.

Here is just a simple easy test. When I first heard about Jim I did an internet search on just a couple of his claims. Sorry I am suspicious (the world is out to get me ha ha ha ha ha) and I found this site with a lot of other forums with his name. None of them say any positive remarks. Websites like Linkd, Wiki and IMDB have an unprofessional write up on his business like a kid would write about his accomplishments.

I did a search on this so called famous (<not serious) comic book writer Gail Simone, wow all this information written up I mean you could almost write a biography on this lady from all the POSITIVE information on her. interviews by online magazines the works a WIKI on her that goes on and on and on google images I mean just about anything except the last time she had the sniffles, I will check her twitter tweets for this though.

Gail is a cabal. No, really! I read it on the internet!

[J.R. LeMar]

I'm not sure if I've ever commented on this subject here or on YABS. I've only occasionally checked in on it and loosely followed it. Most notable for me was the time I recall seeing Fisher on Bleeding Cool, where he repeatedly referred to having a "peace treaty" (which he kept putting in quotes) with Gail Simone, where she supposedly agreed to not "bash" him for a certain amount of time (I don't recall, it may have been two or three months), during which he would get his book finished by a certain date. And then everyone could see for themselves whether he could really do it. So he kept asking people to "abide by the 'peace treaty'", and "let him" carry on with his work.

I knew right then he would never accomplish anything. Just like a certain notorious deadbeat who always makes wild claims about future projects and then blames other people when he fails, Fisher's whole point seemed to be that Gail and others talking about him on this thread was somehow physically stopping him from sitting down and actually creating all these projects he has planned. And that if you all just shut up, then he'll be able to do everything. Which is completely bogus, of course. Tom Stillwell has talked about writing his first miniseries while riding the bus to his day job every morning. If he's really been talking about publishing comics for so long and still has nothing to show for it, then he's just not serious about it. Especially in this day and age, where there are so many self-publishing avenues to print and sell your work available. Even if it was totally crappy, you could still get something made, if you want to.

[Mark4myself]

But, but, but he has a comic book store in Vermont buying a lot of his AUTOGRAPHED posters and they are flying off the shelves SO he has done a lot of work.

And which of our comic book stores is it supposedly flying off the shelves in? I'd be half tempted to see if they even have any of his posters.

[Gail Simone]

Gail is a cabal. No, really! I read it on the internet!


I always wanted to be a cabal!

[castlewalls]

Well I do not have a 173 IQ so I had to look up what cabal means GOOGLE do your magic:

OK eyes edjikated now:

1. A conspiratorial group of plotters or intriguers: "Espionage is quite precisely ita cabal of powerful men, working secretly" (Frank Conroy).
2. A secret scheme or plot.
intr.v. ca·balled, ca·bal·ling, ca·bals
To form a cabal; conspire.

[Keith P.]

I always wanted to be a cabal!


Your really more of a coffee klatsch.

[castlewalls]

I think I know how he was invited to the Dallas Comic Con ok which one of you jokesters sent the fake invitation to Jim?

[castlewalls]

Your really more of a coffee klatsch.

OK people you are making me look up the meaning of things my brain is almost full of words not many other people will use. So quit making me feel so OBTUSE

[Gail Simone]

castlewalls, how exactly did you come to hear about J-bolt?

[castlewalls]

You do not want to know, I just know he is not a berry nice person. I will keep my personal nasty comments about him all to myself.

[castlewalls]

Lets just say he is lying about more then one thing then his "status" as a comic book artist/writer/publisher to a lot of people.

[motorfirebox]

I always wanted to be a cabal!
I think of you more as a Dominoe, or maybe a Shatnerstar.

(Get it? Get it? Because they're all misspellings of Liefeld's X-Force characters... ah nevermind.)

[Tom Stillwell]

I saw a guy selling a comic titled Bombshell at Wizard World Chicago. I meant to go back and buy a copy but I couldn't remember where he was. It's nice to see someone actually followed through on making a Bombshell comic.

[castlewalls]

I have yet to see any work done by Jim J-Bolt Fisher LBE subsidiaries and or his movie company whatever it is called. I have seen some of his digiatal photography the left shoulder his abs, head and other photoshop work ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[castlewalls]

I think of you more as a Dominoe, or maybe a Shatnerstar.

(Get it? Get it? Because they're all misspellings of Liefeld's X-Force characters... ah nevermind.)

I dont have much to do on my days off from work wash that hardly worked smell out of my clothes n surf the net for funny J-Bolt stories.

Your post reminded me so much of this site I had to share it. Scroll down to where it reads Items we are selling now. You will see why I found it funny.

http://firsteditioncomics.tripod.com/

[castlewalls]

Besides Gail that posts here how many other people here have published a comic book? I know somewhere I posted something about the value of J-bolts Signature being worth more then William Shatners auto, n I was wondering how much you all charge for an autographed comic book?

[sk716]

Besides Gail that posts here how many other people here have published a comic book? I know somewhere I posted something about the value of J-bolts Signature being worth more then William Shatners auto, n I was wondering how much you all charge for an autographed comic book?

As a general rule, creators don't charge for their signature. If you need to charge money for your autograph it's absolutely worth way less than the fee.

I personally have sold a comic with Gail's signature on it for $30. But it was an extra issue of her Deadpool run and is pretty rare and not necessarily representative of the value of her signature on a comic.

[J.R. LeMar]

I was thinking today about how funny it would be if Fisher tried to set up a Kickstarter for one of his comics. You'd think with all the legions of LBE fans that he's sure are out there, he'd easily be able to raise all the money he needs to get a comic produced and published. From what little (compared to others here) I know of him, including that time he tried to sell and "idea" for a movie, which he swore was a guaranteed blockbuster in the vein of The Matrix and Lord of The Rings, on Ebay for like a million dollars, I'm kinda surprised he hasn't tried it yet. I'd love to see RickO try that too, it would be the ultimate public fail, checking the Kickstarter page every day and seeing no pledges (beyond the two or three relatives that could convince to kick in $5) until it the pledge-time was over. Coming from blokes who swear they have tons of silent fans, it would be hilarious to see that factually dis-proved.

[Tom Stillwell]

Besides Gail that posts here how many other people here have published a comic book? I know somewhere I posted something about the value of J-bolts Signature being worth more then William Shatners auto, n I was wondering how much you all charge for an autographed comic book?

I've self published around a dozen comics over the last several years with more on the way. That's why I can say with absolute certainty that J-Bolt is full of shit when he talks about all these outside sources keeping him from making a comic. In the last seven years I've been sick at times, I've lost family members, I've raised a daughter, I worked full time while making comics at night, etc. If you really want something bad enough you'll make it happen. You do it.

But Jim Fisher doesn't want to make comics. He wants attention. He wants to be admired. He wants fame. He wants all of that without having to do anything to get it. Jim believes he's entitled to those things and rails against anyone telling him differently.

[Erica J Heflin]

I've self published around a dozen comics over the last several years with more on the way. That's why I can say with absolute certainty that J-Bolt is full of shit when he talks about all these outside sources keeping him from making a comic. In the last seven years I've been sick at times, I've lost family members, I've raised a daughter, I worked full time while making comics at night, etc. If you really want something bad enough you'll make it happen. You do it.

But Jim Fisher doesn't want to make comics. He wants attention. He wants to be admired. He wants fame. He wants all of that without having to do anything to get it. Jim believes he's entitled to those things and rails against anyone telling him differently.

Tom is 100% right. I just got my first book out and have more on the way. You juggle your other job, family, and life and you make it happen. I admire all the other creators who do it, too. There is sacrifice, but its manageable and worthwhile if you just do it.

[castlewalls]

OK so each of you have done self publishing. You have a comic book all completed you have your printer picked out you take your work in and drop it off at the printer. How long does it take for the printer to call you up to give you a proof to approve so they can move on to a first run of the comic?

[MacQuarrie]

OK so each of you have done self publishing. You have a comic book all completed you have your printer picked out you take your work in and drop it off at the printer. How long does it take for the printer to call you up to give you a proof to approve so they can move on to a first run of the comic?

Here in the 21st century it's simpler than that. We upload our files to a website and it appears on a page immediately. Or we send them to a company that formats them and uploads them to an app where readers can download them to their iPads.

If we simply have to have printed copies, we just upload our files to the printer's server, and in a day or two they email a digital proof. We click the approval button. A few days later a box of comics gets dropped on the doorstep.

[sk716]

Here in the 21st century it's simpler than that. We upload our files to a website and it appears on a page immediately. Or we send them to a company that formats them and uploads them to an app where readers can download them to their iPads.

If we simply have to have printed copies, we just upload our files to the printer's server, and in a day or two they email a digital proof. We click the approval button. A few days later a box of comics gets dropped on the doorstep.

True.

All you really need to publish a floppy these days is access to a computer and the money to pay for it. Talent and skill are necessary to sell the book, but not required to publish.

[Weeto]

Hell, I've argued that I could have a comic ready from start to finish in 1 week.

Sure my writing would probably suck and the art wouldn't exactly rock the work but it is possible and I'm including printing it. I'm talking full colour on proper paper.

Maybe it helped that I was working in printing but I bet I could actually do this. I might even try the one week comic thing just for fun in the very near future just to prove that I could actually do it.

[Karen El]

Hell, I've argued that I could have a comic ready from start to finish in 1 week.

Sure my writing would probably suck and the art wouldn't exactly rock the work but it is possible and I'm including printing it. I'm talking full colour on proper paper.

Maybe it helped that I was working in printing but I bet I could actually do this. I might even try the one week comic thing just for fun in the very near future just to prove that I could actually do it.

I've done a 24 hour comic twice. Okay, I didn't quite finish in time and that doesn't include printing, but with seven times as long I think I might manage.

[castlewalls]

So basically the only thing required besides talent as an artist and good story is a lot of desire to get it done?>>>> My only talent is finding the truth, I have an honary BS degree in BS detecting. In this story it is not that hard to tell a BS story right from the begining. Someone should tell Jim in order for a lie to be believable an ELEMENT of the TRUTH must be included in the lie.

[Tom Stillwell]

If Jim Fisher spent as much time making comics as he did posting insane rants and trolling for gullible women on the internet he'd have about 50 books done by now.

[sk716]

So basically the only thing required besides talent as an artist and good story is a lot of desire to get it done?>>>> My only talent is finding the truth, I have an honary BS degree in BS detecting. In this story it is not that hard to tell a BS story right from the begining. Someone should tell Jim in order for a lie to be believable an ELEMENT of the TRUTH must be included in the lie.

We have. Repeatedly. For years.

We're "bashers" because we dare point out the obvious flaws in his bullshit.

If you have days to waste:

J-Bolt Thread 2 (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?304937-J-Bolt-News-MkII)

J-Bolt/Lord Red Dragon Poetry (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?175945-J-Bolt-s-Lost-His-Mind-Again!&highlight=j-bolt)

J-Bolt/Lord Red Dragon (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?207956-Surprising-J-Bolt-Lord-Red-Dragon-Allegations!&highlight=j-bolt)

The previous threads seem to have been purged from the CBR database.

There is still a small amount of amusement to be had from his IMDB page, too.

[castlewalls]

Oh Snap! ( ha ha ha ha ha ) I forgot about those pages I read them LAST April when Jim started to play someone I know. He is recycling this story with a few new twists:

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?304937-J-Bolt-News-MkII&p=11060513&viewfull=1#post11060513


http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/0001.jpg

Sorry for the overlaps this is proof sent to me from a lady that believes Jims stories whom I have been trying to convince he is a NUT.

[castlewalls]

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/0002.jpg

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/0003.jpg

[castlewalls]

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/0004.jpg

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab1/castlewalls/MyArtwork/0005.jpg

I see that he is also a Professional Actor. Why cant I get ahold of that golden ring he has I am soooo JEALOUS.

I remember reading that Jim claimed to have an IQ of 173. Surely someone with that high of an IQ would know how to spell heifer. Umm did you know that they have online IQ tests for 8 to 12 year olds. I wonder if Jim took one of those IQ tests to get a 173.

[Weeto]

I've done a 24 hour comic twice. Okay, I didn't quite finish in time and that doesn't include printing, but with seven times as long I think I might manage.

I was meaning a 32 page full colour humour based anthology comic. This was a project I was going to do as a sales pitch for my defunct printing company. To be honest, I only have good quality home office type printing equipment but I can produce decent quality poster, leaflets and stuff so comics are possible with the right paper stock although I probably couldn't print thousands of them regularly. A couple of hundred would be possible though.

I know you're a really good artist and your little Planet Karen stories are really cool. You're a far greater artist than I'll ever be as I have to do at least 80% of my stuff on computer and I often don't even pencil the majority of stuff or only make a rough outline at most. Computer colouring is a godsend though.

When you think of J-Bolt running his mouth about producing comics and he still doesn't have so much as a one shot after all this time, it is kinda ridiculous.

Surely he could draw some generic superhero with badly proportioned limbs and loads of pouches everywhere like Rob Liefield and then stick some random dialogue all over the place like Andrew Kreisberg did in the Green Arrow / Black Canary comics. Half that series featured dialogue from 1970s soap operas interspersed with quotes from soap powder ads from the 1950s.

[AndrewG]

I've self published around a dozen comics over the last several years with more on the way. That's why I can say with absolute certainty that J-Bolt is full of shit when he talks about all these outside sources keeping him from making a comic. In the last seven years I've been sick at times, I've lost family members, I've raised a daughter, I worked full time while making comics at night, etc. If you really want something bad enough you'll make it happen. You do it.

But Jim Fisher doesn't want to make comics. He wants attention. He wants to be admired. He wants fame. He wants all of that without having to do anything to get it. Jim believes he's entitled to those things and rails against anyone telling him differently.

Yeap. We're at 14 books published within 2.5 years and by the end of the year it will be around 18. It's work (not backbreaking work but it requires some sort of commitment to actually getting the book out on time) but there are so many options out there for people to put out their own work in print or digital.

[Gail Simone]

I can't even remember how many arch-enemies Jim has had. He's had so many of these insane conspiracy stories, I have totally lost track.

[sk716]

When I see huge blocks of J-Bolt text anymore my eyes automatically slip away from the text as if they are independently trying to protect my brain from the stupid.

I only managed to catch a couple of sentences, but I think he posted the same screed over at the YABS board. Probably in the MK 2 thread.


ETA - I see that my eyes skipped part of castlewalls post while avoiding J-Bolt idiocy.

[castlewalls]

Actually I barely read what he wrote, just skimming through that post I seen that he has recycled the same story he posted on the MKII board this one a year later. I am amazed at how gullible the women are for this story. I guess my biggest pet peeve is lying and he does tell some tall stories. I wonder what name he goes by for his acting jobs. I would love to look up his filmology on IMDB.

[MacQuarrie]

I wonder what name he goes by for his acting jobs. I would love to look up his filmology on IMDB.
His acting jobs consist of being an extra in the background of one scene from "Rat Race."

[castlewalls]

Hmm he is not featured on the cover and is not listed in the FULL CAST and CREW. So it is what it is he accidentally walked in on the filming he had to sign a waiver stating they could use his face in the movie, he gets no credits and if he doesnt sign the waiver he has to pay for the reshoot? Everything after full cast and crew IS made up by me on the possible scenario of how he made it as an extra on this movie which from the reviews I have read it was not that good of a movie.(cuz it didnt look appealing to me when it was released)

[MacQuarrie]

I think he was actually there legitimately; somebody recruited a bunch of locals to play hotel guests in the lobby, and he was one of them. J-Bolt wrote a long post about the significance of his role and how he played it. Being the idiot he is, he revealed that he was a colossal pain in the ass who refused to do what the director asked for, constantly tried to add his own bits of business to pull focus from the stars, and caused them to do several retakes. In the end, he was cut from all but one scene.

[Morrison_Lad]

Hmm he is not featured on the cover and is not listed in the FULL CAST and CREW. So it is what it is he accidentally walked in on the filming he had to sign a waiver stating they could use his face in the movie, he gets no credits and if he doesnt sign the waiver he has to pay for the reshoot? Everything after full cast and crew IS made up by me on the possible scenario of how he made it as an extra on this movie which from the reviews I have read it was not that good of a movie.(cuz it didnt look appealing to me when it was released)

I'm pretty sure (though NOT positive) that you only are necessarily granted a credit if you have a line. People who are just in the background or whatever don't get credits (unless something special happened with his or her character).

[Gail Simone]

I think he was actually there legitimately; somebody recruited a bunch of locals to play hotel guests in the lobby, and he was one of them. J-Bolt wrote a long post about the significance of his role and how he played it. Being the idiot he is, he revealed that he was a colossal pain in the ass who refused to do what the director asked for, constantly tried to add his own bits of business to pull focus from the stars, and caused them to do several retakes. In the end, he was cut from all but one scene.

Yeah...his pretend manager at the time, that was her job, rounding up nobodies to fill crowd scenes. J-bolt tried to turn it into a featured role. But then this is the same guy who thinks he will play the romantic lead in a Bombshell movie.

[KJ!]

I'm pretty sure (though NOT positive) that you only are necessarily granted a credit if you have a line. People who are just in the background or whatever don't get credits (unless something special happened with his or her character).

Correct.

Extra - nothing.

Featured Extra - generally listed

Extra = cattle call.

[Morrison_Lad]

Correct.

Extra - nothing.

Featured Extra - generally listed

Extra = cattle call.

Thanks. :)

[Weeto]

Just to prove my point about how easy it is to produce and print a comic, I'm going to set myself a lofty challenge.

I intend to write, draw, colour and print a 32 page full colour comic in...

FOUR hours.

I'm sure it won't be Eisner material but I bet it'll be better than anything J-Bolt can come up with. I'm obviously not going to commercially release the book as I'm not a professional artist, although I can do layout design. I'm going to just print one issue out in the four hours.

I know top quality material can take a long time to produce. It I know for a fact that comics can be produced quickly if they need to be at times and I want to prove that guys like J-Bolt who can't produce comics in years are a joke.

I AM going to try to publish the entire book for free on the Internet for you all to read.

I'm intending to produce a humour strip comic.

Further details as soon as I can give you them.

[Karen El]

Correct.

Extra - nothing.

Featured Extra - generally listed

Extra = cattle call.

I was nearly in a movie once. I had a screen test and everything. Should I put it on my résumé?

[Karen El]

Just to prove my point about how easy it is to produce and print a comic, I'm going to set myself a lofty challenge.

I intend to write, draw, colour and print a 32 page full colour comic in...

FOUR hours.

I'm sure it won't be Eisner material but I bet it'll be better than anything J-Bolt can come up with. I'm obviously not going to commercially release the book as I'm not a professional artist, although I can do layout design. I'm going to just print one issue out in the four hours.

I know top quality material can take a long time to produce. It I know for a fact that comics can be produced quickly if they need to be at times and I want to prove that guys like J-Bolt who can't produce comics in years are a joke.

I AM going to try to publish the entire book for free on the Internet for you all to read.

I'm intending to produce a humour strip comic.

Further details as soon as I can give you them.

Are you drawing on paper and then scanning, or doing the art on computer? Because on that kind of schedule scanning 32 pages would significantly bite into your time.

[MacQuarrie]

I actually have a credit on the IMDB as an extra. I did a favor for a friend and filled a seat in a scene in a low budget church film. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4072855/

I'm also supposed to get a credit for Archery Consultant on this film, also low budget: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2311150/

[Weeto]

Are you drawing on paper and then scanning, or doing the art on computer? Because on that kind of schedule scanning 32 pages would significantly bite into your time.

100% computer although I do have a Wacom drawing tablet that I can use.

I'm not 100% sure this is possible, particularly as I am not an artist as my graphic design work tended to be more about placing pre drawn stuff together.

I can't guarantee quality as I tend to draw Liefield like figures with disproportionate limbs drawing by hand and I have a tendency of lettering the figure looking straight towards you or side on to avoid having to draw people at strange angles. If I'm sticking to a Beano style format that shoukdn't be a problem really as comic strips can be drawn that way much of the time.

I just want to outdo J-Bolt by showing that a crazed loony like me with no hand drawing skills and no experience of comic writers can do a book in a few hours while he can't knock out a book in years.

I might not eepven do an anthology and just blast through with a single story to cut drawing time as I can have the same characters all through the book.

I'm probably going to have a go at this sometime next week. I can't really prove how long I worked on the book but if I don't complete it, I'll give a status report on how far I got and what couldn't be done in time.

[Karen El]

100% computer although I do have a Wacom drawing tablet that I can use.

I'm not 100% sure this is possible, particularly as I am not an artist as my graphic design work tended to be more about placing pre drawn stuff together.

I can't guarantee quality as I tend to draw Liefield like figures with disproportionate limbs drawing by hand and I have a tendency of lettering the figure looking straight towards you or side on to avoid having to draw people at strange angles. If I'm sticking to a Beano style format that shoukdn't be a problem really as comic strips can be drawn that way much of the time.

I just want to outdo J-Bolt by showing that a crazed loony like me with no hand drawing skills and no experience of comic writers can do a book in a few hours while he can't knock out a book in years.

I might not eepven do an anthology and just blast through with a single story to cut drawing time as I can have the same characters all through the book.

I'm probably going to have a go at this sometime next week. I can't really prove how long I worked on the book but if I don't complete it, I'll give a status report on how far I got and what couldn't be done in time.

I think it's a great idea, but I do think your time limit is way too short. I'm not sure you'd be able to do it in 4 hours if you were doing stick figures in b/w. it's like 7 minutes per page including colouring and lettering.

[scs]

Just to prove my point about how easy it is to produce and print a comic, I'm going to set myself a lofty challenge.

I intend to write, draw, colour and print a 32 page full colour comic in...

FOUR hours.It's been almost seven hours. You should be done by now. (taps foot impatiently)

[Weeto]

It's been almost seven hours. You should be done by now. (taps foot impatiently)

I didn't say I was doing it right away!

[sk716]

I didn't say I was doing it right away!

Sooooooo ...

Next spring then?

[Weeto]

Sooooooo ...

Next spring then?

Some point next week.

[Weeto]

I thought over the four hour comic thing and while it is probably possible, it would probably be the worst comic ever written or drawn. Apart from Green Arrow / Black Canary of course.

I do have an idea for something more worthwhile though.

[Karen El]

I thought over the four hour comic thing and while it is probably possible, it would probably be the worst comic ever written or drawn. Apart from Green Arrow / Black Canary of course.

I do have an idea for something more worthwhile though.

Well honestly you could make it a 7 day comic and it would still prove your point.

[Weeto]

I'm actually intending to do an ongoing web comic.

Don't expect Planet Weeto though as I'm no competiton for the likes of Karen El.

I'm thinking of a humour based surrealist thing with some crazy stuff. I would guess it will be a strip with different characters but a linked setting.

The one character I have as a definate inclusion is a dog. Just a normal everyday dog.

[Shurato2099]

I'm actually intending to do an ongoing web comic.

Don't expect Planet Weeto though as I'm no competiton for the likes of Karen El.

I'm thinking of a humour based surrealist thing with some crazy stuff. I would guess it will be a strip with different characters but a linked setting.

The one character I have as a definate inclusion is a dog. Just a normal everyday dog.

Web comics can be lots of fun, a couple of friends of mine have been doing one of a couple of comics for over a decade now: first one called Fragile Gravity which was just them kind of goofing around and now Sledgebunny which has a bit more story and character work involved ... for some reason the runaway fave for them at conventions is sketching of this little armadillo that just showed up on a couple of panels in the background.

[castlewalls]

Sooooooo ...

Next spring then?

I was going to say the same thing, but I did not want to group the poster with someone else saying it is going to be next spring then it would turn into the year of Weeto.

[Weeto]

I was going to say the same thing, but I did not want to group the poster with someone else saying it is going to be next spring then it would turn into the year of Weeto.

I AM the greatest comic writer, artist, inker, letterer, publisher, printer, editor, assistant editor, assisant assistant to the assistant assistant editor and all round comics superstar who has ever lived you know...

On this web comic I'll have 679 different jobs to do and it isn't easy.

;)

[sk716]

I AM the greatest comic writer, artist, inker, letterer, publisher, printer, editor, assistant editor, assisant assistant to the assistant assistant editor and all round comics superstar who has ever lived you know...

On this web comic I'll have 679 different jobs to do and it isn't easy.

;)

Now you need a website with a forum and a fake assistant to argue with people about your mainframe.

[castlewalls]

You gonna have enough time to be the star in your movie too?

[Weeto]

Now you need a website with a forum and a fake assistant to argue with people about your mainframe.

Mainframe?

Is that the beat up old Athlon 64 machine or the Dell XPS Desktop on the floor? Or the laptop that has a broken screen frame and needs to be repaired?

Or the Amiga 1200 over in the corner? I think that is a mainframe. Or a supercomputer. According to the January 1993 issue of Amiga Format magazine it is "quite good" and that is a high accolade.

[Weeto]

I'm thinking about a pretty big movie starring, directed by and produced by me.

I don't want to overdo the budget but $6,000,000,0000 seems reasonable considering my earning potential.

[KJ!]

I'm thinking about a pretty big movie starring, directed by and produced by me.

I don't want to overdo the budget but $6,000,000,0000 seems reasonable considering my earning potential.

With an Oscar winning performance by some guy who was in the background of a KFC ad once...

[Weeto]

With an Oscar winning performance by some guy who was in the background of a KFC ad once...

No way!

I have Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor won already. I'm elligible for Supporting Actor as I hold the set up in one scene as apparently a fifteen foit high gold staue of me can't be held up with string and torn Post Its.

[castlewalls]

Well I will give ONE positive thing here for Jim, it reminds me of Monsters Inc. namely Mike Wazowski. It does not matter what it was, he seen the positive in everything. His face on the cover of the magazine, it doesnt matter that you could'nt see googlybear he knew that he was his likeness there.

Reminds me of the day I spent with President Carter. I was in the military and he visited Ft. Carson Co. I was there at the same time so that means I spent the day with President Carter right?

Oh oh I forgot I was with President Bush (Sr.) when he made a stop in Bismarck ND it was soo great, not many regular folk get to be in the company of two different Presidents in their lifetime.

*warning never post anything right after you get up in the morning. It does'nt make much sense when you read it later*

[SallySensational]

'Kay, So . . . now we're responsible for Jim not being able to make time for his loved ones


SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY TO LEARN FROM & LIVE BY...
I just lost the last person I called "Grandma" this morning. Take it from me: NEVER be too busy to talk to someone close to you, doing so as often as they like talking with you. Otherwise, you'll lose them, like I just did, before I had the chance to finally talk with her more in length.
I've been so busy with my Company, succumbing to all the pressures put upon me by the Bashers and my own desire to make all the money from my Company to put legal implications into full effect against ALL the people who have caused me the worst harm, while finally taking my Company and going back home, to Vegas. I've lost my last Grandma, obviously not giving her enough of my time... all because of that. Considering how few of people I actually have in my life, who DO genuinely love me, and want to be a part of my life (NOT want to just try and benefit off any of my success), I cannot forgive myself for not giving more of my life to this wonderful woman I've now lost, and can never make that time up with her.
I should've realized that people like the Bashers are always just simply going to do what they do to me simply because I am their "hobby" (as they've been quoted to say over the years), no matter how hard I work, and no matter who/what I lose in the process. This is why they are called the BASHERS, and have done so against me since April, 1999, when my "Storm" poster first started getting so many great accolades and attention, which they didn't, followed by the even higher compliments and positive rumors that surfaced about my BombShell movie, a year later.
My beliefs in what I do as my life/career, which is to inspire TRUE heroism, through comics and all other visual Entertainment media (not to mention how I've raised children, and treat all other Good people), made me constantly think these people would ever finally lay off of me, and maybe even show some appreciation for the work I've done throughout the years, single-handedly (especially when they scared off most of the people who worked with/for me), and with all the extreme challenges I've had to live with in doing so. I WAS SO FREAKIN' STUPID TO BELIEVE IN THIS!!! And now, because of my moronic way of thinking this about THEM, I idiotically never made enough time to talk with Grandma Elena as much as she loved talking with me... all because I was "far too busy" most of the time. And now she's gone, with me never having that chance to make time with her again.
Folks, please learn from my stupidest mistake ever... no matter how much people push you around; no matter how low people will sink to cause you, as well as what you work for, harm in ALL forms; no matter how much those disgusting individuals try to continue discrediting you, and even insult/blame you personally for the damage they have caused upon you... no matter any of this or anything else of the sort, PLEASE NEVER LET THEM BE THE CAUSE OF YOU NEGLECTING THOSE AROUND YOU WHO REALLY **DO** LOVE YOU, CARE ABOUT YOU, AND/OR ALWAYS WANT TO BE LOVINGLY INVOLVED WITH YOUR LIFE!!!
I'm not making excuses for my own severely mournful mistake of not taking more time to talk with my Loved One, and now having to live with the fact I've lost her, whereas she'll never physically be able to see the finished products of all my life's work, which I let take precedence over taking time to talk with her. I'm just simply passing all this on to possibly help others realize that no matter how much hell the Evil people cause upon your life, ALWAYS take the time to be with the Good people who make your life a little more like Heaven... NO MATTER WHAT. Those Good people may tell you they understand when/why you don't have enough time to talk with them, in dealing with all the Evil people... but you'll feel as I do NOW, never being able to understand when/why I didn't find a way to MAKE enough time for her... and now I'll never be able to fix that.
I was able to sometimes make a little time with her... but that obviously wasn't enough. Don't let yourselves feel like I do right now, and will always feel like this for the rest of my life.
I don't know how I can make amends for this, but until I do find a way, I deserve all the emotional punishment I'm getting because of what I've done (or rather NOT done) and now forever lost.
Just don't put yourselves in the same position to feel even remotely like this... it hurts too much.

Something must be wrong with me because I get absolutely no satisfaction, gratification, or even the slightest feeling of accomplishment knowing that I apparently have this much control of someone I have ever met's everyday life and existence.

[Tom Stillwell]

If Jim Fisher really believes that load of bullshit then how pathetic is it that he ignored his loved one and has absolutely nothing to show for it? Usually when someone bemoans the fact that they've not spent time with those that matter most in life because of pursuing success they are, you know, successful. Doing so after spending a decade being a lunatic on the internet and jack else doesn't count.

[MacQuarrie]

Who are these "Bashers" he keeps prattling on about? I think I spend about five minutes a month thinking about and commenting on stuff relating to him. I must have superpowers if my five minutes a month can incapacitate him for years.

Maybe it has nothing to do with me. Maybe somebody is going to his house, breaking his pencils, pouring soda into his keyboard and physically preventing him from getting near the drawing board. That's the only way any "Bashers" could be interfering with his work. If it's just noise on the internet, he could push away from the monitor and DO THE FUCKING WORK.

[OMAR]

No sympathy? The guy's obviously in pain. It's a sad commentary when some people would have more understanding for a fictional character like Peter Parker being torn between family obligations and the good fight, but here we have a very real person lamenting the cost of the hard choices he's had to make since donning "the mask" and we're really going to beat the "do the work" drum again?

I really think the story is a lesson well taken for all of us, or at least a reminder of something we can forget all too easily. Who among us doesn't have a Grandma Elna that we could spend more time with, while we can? And while we don't all have to constantly fend off the types of twisted, evil monsters who have bedeviled J-Bolt over the years, who among us doesn't have some negative aspect of life that we allow to distract us from constructive work and, yes, from those all-too-fragile human relationships?

It may not be an entirely novel idea but it's a very honest sentiment and, I think, very relatable.

[sk716]

No sympathy? The guy's obviously in pain. It's a sad commentary when some people would have more understanding for a fictional character like Peter Parker being torn between family obligations and the good fight, but here we have a very real person lamenting the cost of the hard choices he's had to make since donning "the mask" and we're really going to beat the "do the work" drum again?

I really think the story is a lesson well taken for all of us, or at least a reminder of something we can forget all too easily. Who among us doesn't have a Grandma Elna that we could spend more time with, while we can? And while we don't all have to constantly fend off the types of twisted, evil monsters who have bedeviled J-Bolt over the years, who among us doesn't have some negative aspect of life that we allow to distract us from constructive work and, yes, from those all-too-fragile human relationships?

It may not be an entirely novel idea but it's a very honest sentiment and, I think, very relatable.

Will you please go crawl back under whatever rock you crawl from. I don't give a damn how much pain he's in, he's blaming people on the internet, that he has no interaction with, for preventing him from seeing his loved ones. What an incredible crock of horseshit. I'm a moderator here so I have to show up and read the threads every day and I STILL have plenty of time to spend with my loved ones.

If Jim get's testicular cancer tomorrow, he'll blame it on us. If his car battery dies, it's our fault. If a bee stings him it's because of us. He's an intellectual infant who needs to take responsibility for his own laziness, stupidity, and ignorance. His life will continue to suck until he learns to take responsibility for his own actions/inaction.

[KJ!]

Omar, I normally find your posts amusing.

But incorporating a death into your act like that is just despicable to me.

People are ignoring the death part, and just commenting on the rest of his bullshit ( we aren't his target audience of unintelligent, gullible and desperate women).

Incorporating the death part itself is low.

And frankly, no, I have no sympathy for him. Considering the things he's done in the past to partners, I have exactly zero sympathy for him. I have sympathy for good people, not for people like that. A flaw, yes. But there you go.

And don't insult us with the 'evil monsters' that have 'bedevilled' Fisher. They're all in his own mind, or are a direct results of his own negative and harmful actions.

Fuck him.

[castlewalls]

So if I whistled at Sally she could take me out with one PUNCH!?!?!?!??!?! I'll chance it I m way over here I doubt she has super human strengths like J-Bolt.:smug: If she does punch me can I blame you all the Bashers or just Jim?

[MacQuarrie]

You're right, Omar, I should have at least acknowledged Jim's grief. I lost three grandparents within 18 months around 2002, and I didn't get to see them more often than about once every 10 years, so I understand the pain of losing a loved one and regretting not having had more time with them. I am sorry for Jim's loss.

That said, there is no way any rational human can suggest that he didn't see his grandma because we prevented it. His computer has an off switch. We have no power over him. His excuses are horseshit. He didn't visit his grandma for the same reason he didn't finish his comic: he didn't feel like it.

Our pal James Owen says "if you really want to do something, nobody can stop you; if you really don't want to do it, nobody can help you."

[castlewalls]

You do not have to like someone to feel sympathy for that person. Loosing someone that has been in your life for a long time is hard on anyone. I would be pretty heartless if I did not show any sympathy or took personal pleasure at someone else suffering because of the loss of a loved one that they had no control of that loss.

The other stuff I will keep quiet about, it would take away from the sympathy.

[castlewalls]

Ummm who is SallySensational anyway Oh and sorry Sally if I offended you on that one post, I seen what Gail had said, and well I had to. I know. I should know better, but I just had to.

[Gail Simone]

I'm sure he's in pain, he lost his grandmother and one of his dogs killed some puppies (but the thread about them is absolutely terrifying...it's one of the creepiest things I've ever read, he puts his dog on trial).

I'm sorry for the loss of his grandmother and puppies. He blames everything on this thread hardly anyone reads, no big deal, who cares, it's how he copes, I guess.

[sk716]

Ummm who is SallySensational anyway Oh and sorry Sally if I offended you on that one post, I seen what Gail had said, and well I had to. I know. I should know better, but I just had to.

Sally is my girlfriend.

[SallySensational]

Ummm who is SallySensational anyway Oh and sorry Sally if I offended you on that one post, I seen what Gail had said, and well I had to. I know. I should know better, but I just had to.

The snarky answer is: someone who knows the rest of the people and the subject matter at hand quite a bit better than you do.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm201zEPNE1qdzplf.jpg And . . .You Are?


Sally is my girlfriend.

There is that, too - that would be the non-snarky answer, although I do like to think that most of the folks here see us as individuals as well as a couple. I don't post much these days because I'm generally too busy (read: ADD) to keep up, but I've been around for, oh, about 7 years forum-wise now.

[J.R. LeMar]

I honestly have never understood why Omar is allowed to continue to keep posting here. Specifically, in this thread. All his posts are absurd.

[SallySensational]

The J-Bolt threads, these days are like making trips in and out of Alice's Wonderland. We stay in reality for a bit, scratching our heads at the absurdity we witness from people like Jim Fisher in the "real world". Then we follow some rabbit into our own very special Dali-esqe, French absurdist sort of Wonderland populated with strange creatures with names like OMAR and J-Bolt.

[castlewalls]

I am sorry for the comment it was only meant for humor. If you are offended EITHER of you I am sorry.

[Cam63]

I honestly have never understood why Omar is allowed to continue to keep posting here. Specifically, in this thread. All his posts are absurd.

We didn't have the heart to return him to the lab.

[Gail Simone]

Castlewalls, could you maybe explain your connection to J-bolt so people know why you feel some enmity with him? That seems fair.

Also, as for who Sally is, she is teh awesome.

[Cam63]

Also, as for who Sally is, she is teh awesome.

If it was the early '70s, The Carpenters would do a song about her.

[KJ!]

I am sorry for the loss of the lady. Loss of life is always a regrettable occurrence.

I simply don't care about Fisher or what he feels. After his actions (the serious stuff, not that he blames us for his failures) I care nothing about him, or his feelings.

Again, not good of me. But there it is.

[KJ!]

Castlewalls, could you maybe explain your connection to J-bolt so people know why you feel some enmity with him? That seems fair.

Also, as for who Sally is, she is teh awesome.

He had mentioned that Fisher made advanced on, his girlfriend. That was one of his first posts, that I think was deleted, as it was very.... Raw.

IIRC.

[SallySensational]

I am sorry for the comment it was only meant for humor. If you are offended EITHER of you I am sorry. No offense taken at all. I hope my attempt at sarcasm wasn't as poor as it reads 24 hours later. It's actually quite embarrassing.


Also, as for who Sally is, she is teh awesome.
Clearly, our occasional bribery of Gail with food continues to work. Oh, and did I mention that SK has managed to produce gluten-free cookies, cupcakes, and PIE? I'll have her send you some recipes.


If it was the early '70s, The Carpenters would do a song about her.
AWWWW, you Aussie boys shure do talk purty!

[Cam63]

AWWWW, you Aussie boys shure do talk purty!

Who told you that !? I'll gut the bastard !

[sk716]

So, it appears that Fisher has started talking about the Bombshell movie again.

[SallySensational]

From the LBE facebook page:


J Bolt Lbe
2 hours ago
BombShell (7 photos)
From the comics to the live action film in production, this is BombShell! She'll blow you away!
Photo: First creation - 1994
Photo: A classic BombShell pose with a new Color Artist submission added in.
Photo: BombShell's re-creation and introduction to the World - 1999
Photo: Thumbnail sketch for BombShell Issue #2, due for J-Bolt's special PhotoShop painting.

I'm not posting the actual images. I like you all better than that. And most of you have already seen them.

[scs]

This discussion is sinking into the same low-level character assassination and piling on that the Olney thread did. I think better than that of most of you.

[Gail Simone]

Hate hate hate that glistening effect he overuses on everything he colors. No one does that anymore, it looks ten years behind the times. It's the lens flare of bad comics coloring.

[Weeto]

Hate hate hate that glistening effect he overuses on everything he colors. No one does tht anymore, it looks ten years behind the times. It's the lens flare of bad comics coloring.

You have to remember that he probably started drawing the pictures ten years ago and has just finished.

He does 479 different jobs, remember!

;)

[J.R. LeMar]

I'm not posting the actual images. I like you all better than that. And most of you have already seen them.

I decided to look him up on FB because I haven't seen it. Wow, this bloke really is deluded, isn't he? He posted a picture back in May and announced a "best caption" contest, and then you see him flip out because no one entered. "Where are all the contest entries?!?" He really thinks he has some large group of fans out there. It reminds me of that time Rick O started a birthday thread for himself and then got indignant because most people just ignored it and didn't wish him a happy birthday.

[sk716]

This discussion is sinking into the same low-level character assassination and piling on that the Olney thread did. I think better than that of most of you.

Clearly you have had no experience with Jim "J-Bolt" Fisher or his delusions.

[sk716]

You have to remember that he probably started drawing the pictures ten years ago and has just finished.

He does 479 different jobs, remember!

;)

Speaking of all those jobs . . . it's the end of next week. Just sayin'.

:P

[MacQuarrie]

This discussion is sinking into the same low-level character assassination and piling on that the Olney thread did. I think better than that of most of you.
I'm not sure I see that. It's not character assassination to accurately report the things a person actually said and did.

Personally, I make it a policy to stay narrowly focused where J-Bolt is concerned; if it's not about him behaving unethically in the comics world, I'm not interested. He can write as many insane manifestoes (manifesti?) as he likes, try to awkwardly seduce as many damaged women as he can find, invent whatever grandiose persona he cares to; that's none of my business. The minute he asks for money for a comic that doesn't exist, or tries to hustle people into bankrolling his movie or subscribing to his imaginary website, then I'll jump back into the fray.

But it's good that other people are blocking his attempts to exploit needy women.

[Shurato2099]

Manifestos. :) Had to look that one up.

[Grimesby]

This discussion is sinking into the same low-level character assassination and piling on that the Olney thread did. I think better than that of most of you.

Character assasination is when you speak untruths about someone. That is not happening here.

[Shurato2099]

Negative untruths specifically, positive untruths are called spin doctoring. :)

[Cam63]

Manifestos. :) Had to look that one up.

Guys with fungal problems ?

[Gail Simone]

I don't find his personal life to be our business but man, it is weird how he threw all that bullshit about having dozens of employees and a huge multi-media company and a mainframe computer and a day shift and night shift for employees and the top artists at DC and Marvel, and then he just completely admitted it was him in his mom's house with nothing and no one, and still tries to pretend he wasn't lying his ass off for years. He lied about his multiple identities for years, was adamant about it. Just a liar from the minute he gets up in the morning.

I can't imagine living like that. He recently said he could get Brad Pitt to play him in a movie because he's so famous, yet he can't even get people to respond to his continued begging for attention on Facebook.

That stuff is mind-boggling to me.

I keep saying it, but creators create. He has every excuse in the world. Meanwhile, a disabled artist we know here, Larime, is making comics with his MOUTH because he doesn't have full use of his
arms. That is what makes me so angry. 13 years of excuses is 13 years too many. Quit bullshitting yourself and everyone around you. It's repulsive.

I haven't talked about it, but two years ago, I almost died on the operating table. They severed a vein near my heart and I was seconds from death. I woke up from routine surgery with my arms restrained and elevated,
unable to move them.

I wrote most of a script that same morning by dictating it to my husband, even though I could barely talk from the tubes that had been shoved down my throat.

Excuses are bullshit. Creators create.

[Weeto]

J-Bolt has posted up some of his art on various places and it isn't THAT bad so why he doesn't just get on with doing something and bring out some comics, even if they are just low to mid level indie books, he might start getting some positive attention from people.

He will never be a comics superstar but maybe he could do something. even if it is minor if he would stop messing around.

[Gail Simone]

J-Bolt has posted up some of his art on various places and it isn't THAT bad so why he doesn't just get on with doing something and bring out some comics, even if they are just low to mid level indie books, he might start getting some positive attention from people.

He will never be a comics superstar but maybe he could do something. even if it is minor if he would stop messing around.


His art is okay. He does pretty good figure work with male characters, but it's dated and he doesn't do anything like work...the backgrounds are shoddy, in particular, and he can't draw women.

He's like the guy who wants every song to be a bad guitar solo.

With practice and discipline, he could be a decent superhero artist.

[Shurato2099]

But, but ... it's a guitar solo ... with a -ladder-, you can't beat ... no, wait, that -is- rubbish.

[Tom Stillwell]

That's the thing. J-Bolt isn't a creator and never will be.

He's a wannabe creator. Wannabes talk endless about how talented and clever they are, the people they know within the industry who think they are awesome, the fantastic comics they'd make if only there wasn't some outside force keeping them for making the comics.

Wannabes talk, creators just do.

At every convention I do there's dozens of creators with books they wrote and/or drew themselves. They print them at Kinko's and Staples or maybe use a print on demand service. Their books are full of hard work and love. They don't care about money or fame. Most know that what they create will never be acclaimed or financially successful. Hell, I know that. But we do it because to not do it is painful. To not make comics is the antithesis of who we are.

If Jim Fisher were really a creator there would be nothing on the planet stopping him for making comics. Period.

[J.R. LeMar]

I haven't talked about it, but two years ago, I almost died on the operating table. They severed a vein near my heart and I was seconds from death. I woke up from routine surgery with my arms restrained and elevated,
unable to move them.

I wrote most of a script that same morning by dictating it to my husband, even though I could barely talk from the tubes that had been shoved down my throat.

HOLY MOLEY!:shock:

[Cam63]

HOLY MOLEY!:shock:

Seconded :shock:

...I trust everything's OK now, Gail. *Hugs to you and your mob*

[Patrick Gerard]

That's the thing. J-Bolt isn't a creator and never will be.

He's a wannabe creator. Wannabes talk endless about how talented and clever they are, the people they know within the industry who think they are awesome, the fantastic comics they'd make if only there wasn't some outside force keeping them for making the comics.

Wannabes talk, creators just do.

At every convention I do there's dozens of creators with books they wrote and/or drew themselves. They print them at Kinko's and Staples or maybe use a print on demand service. Their books are full of hard work and love. They don't care about money or fame. Most know that what they create will never be acclaimed or financially successful. Hell, I know that. But we do it because to not do it is painful. To not make comics is the antithesis of who we are.

If Jim Fisher were really a creator there would be nothing on the planet stopping him for making comics. Period.

Speaking on the other side of that (and yet even I have more output than Fischer), I think there's a problem there. You nail it. I've been thinking about it lately.

Part of the problem is attaching glamour to a thing. If you want to do something, it only needs exactly as much glamour as it takes to inspire you to do it. Any more glamour than that is a burden.

The big problem is when we as humans set our sights on doing something once.

Something you set out to do once is hard. The odds are stacked against you doing it.

It could be that gig that pays well, making a comic, seeing Europe, or going on a date with some beautiful person you know.

If you set out to do it exactly once, you may never do it.

If you set out to make a lifestyle out of it and are prepared to compromise (both on your objective and your lifestyle), you may STILL not do it. But you have a much better shot.

I consider myself a pretty average guy. And, looking back, the dates I've been on have all been with utterly gorgeous women. By all rights, they might widely be considered out of my league. But while, on one hand, I didn't have baby names picked out or anything, I never went on one proper date with somebody I wasn't prepared to go on two dates with. That's apparently a big deal. Something that's come up a lot with girls is that there are guys looking for a notch on the bedpost, a one time hookup. And I'm not knocking that if that's what two people want. But something I've encountered a lot is that people often LIE and pretend they want more. They lie and say they want an emotional connection... or the idea of an emotional connection is alien. Or they don't call people on their BS.

Shooting for two dates with somebody is easier than shooting for one. Among other thing, considerations of substance come into play if you have any. I'd frankly say that most of the women I've dated, while not looking for a proposal (that's the other extreme) were more interested in a first date with someone who wasn't ruling out a second.

Same's true with comics. If you dream is to make a comic book, it's longshot. If your dream is to make lots of comic books, your odds on that first one just shot up.

It's kinda like walking. It becomes difficult if you think about it, focus on taking one step as an achievement. It's a lot easier when you just get up and go somewhere because you have someplace you want to be.

[MacQuarrie]

Speaking on the other side of that (and yet even I have more output than Fischer), I think there's a problem there. You nail it. I've been thinking about it lately.

Part of the problem is attaching glamour to a thing. If you want to do something, it only needs exactly as much glamour as it takes to inspire you to do it. Any more glamour than that is a burden.

The big problem is when we as humans set our sights on doing something once.

Something you set out to do once is hard. The odds are stacked against you doing it.

It could be that gig that pays well, making a comic, seeing Europe, or going on a date with some beautiful person you know.

If you set out to do it exactly once, you may never do it.

If you set out to make a lifestyle out of it and are prepared to compromise (both on your objective and your lifestyle), you may STILL not do it. But you have a much better shot.

I consider myself a pretty average guy. And, looking back, the dates I've been on have all been with utterly gorgeous women. By all rights, they might widely be considered out of my league. But while, on one hand, I didn't have baby names picked out or anything, I never went on one proper date with somebody I wasn't prepared to go on two dates with. That's apparently a big deal. Something that's come up a lot with girls is that there are guys looking for a notch on the bedpost, a one time hookup. And I'm not knocking that if that's what two people want. But something I've encountered a lot is that people often LIE and pretend they want more. They lie and say they want an emotional connection... or the idea of an emotional connection is alien. Or they don't call people on their BS.

Shooting for two dates with somebody is easier than shooting for one. Among other thing, considerations of substance come into play if you have any. I'd frankly say that most of the women I've dated, while not looking for a proposal (that's the other extreme) were more interested in a first date with someone who wasn't ruling out a second.

Same's true with comics. If you dream is to make a comic book, it's longshot. If your dream is to make lots of comic books, your odds on that first one just shot up.

It's kinda like walking. It becomes difficult if you think about it, focus on taking one step as an achievement. It's a lot easier when you just get up and go somewhere because you have someplace you want to be.
I think you just came up with the perfect ice-breaker. (I won't say pickup line, because those don't work.)

Him: Hi. I'd really like to go on a second date with you.
Her: Huh, what? We've never gone out before... wha?
Him: No, we haven't, but as soon as we get that first date out of the way, we can plan the second. How about Friday at 8:00?

I have no doubt that this would work.

And that kind of confidence and initiative will serve you well in creative endeavors like making a comic book, too.

[Cassandra]

HOLY MOLEY!:shock:
Agreed, scary stuff Gail!

I was so inspired by Neil Gaiman's 'make good art' speech. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI)This comic sums it up well:
http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i372/Cassubean/random%20stuff/makegoodart.jpg

[Ravenwing263]

That is really beautiful.

[Cassandra]

That is really beautiful.
I know, I teared up when I first watched the entire speech. Very inspiring.

[Gail Simone]

Agreed, scary stuff Gail!

I was so inspired by Neil Gaiman's 'make good art' speech. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI)This comic sums it up well:
http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i372/Cassubean/random%20stuff/makegoodart.jpg


Wait wait wait. YOU did this?

I have a scene JUST LIKE THIS in an upcoming comic. I just got the art for it YESTERDAY. What the HELL?

[Tom Stillwell]

I don't think she did this. I think Cassandra is just reposting it. I remember seeing that posted on Comics Alliance months ago.

[Cassandra]

Yeah I didn't draw it, someone else drew it from Neil's speech. Freaking love it though, more people should see it.

[JKCarrier]

If Jim Fisher were really a creator there would be nothing on the planet stopping him for making comics. Period.

Exactly. He expects to go from Zero to Superstar through pure hype, without putting in the work. Publisher Larry Young once summed up this syndrome as "Wants to be a rock star; doesn't want to rock".

[Weeto]

If you want to be a rock star, you normallu have to play in grimy little bars and clubs and work your way up. You can't just ask MTV to play a video and expect to have a huge tour afterwards. You need to be a star first.

You can't be a boxing champion without beating journeymen first or an NBA star without playing college or European basketball first, unless you're one of those high school superstars but again, the fact you need to be exceptional proves everything, just as a talent show winner can push up in music.

J-Bolt can't push up the line in comics though as he isn't a novelist, screenwriter or famous artist. He has to pay his dues first and he hasn't started that process yet.

[Tom Stillwell]

I have to admit something here. Very recently I thought about getting out of comics. I've been at this for seven years and I was letting frustration with the industry and the nature of the business get to me. I felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall again and again.

Luckily I have some very good friends that set me straight and that temporary bump is over.

But the bottom line is that if I stopped it was me stopping me. Not anyone or anything else.

[Gail Simone]

Don't quit, Tom, or >I< will hit your head against a brick wall.

[Shurato2099]

That's right, Tom! Don't get discouraged! Because when you get discouraged you feel like quitting. And when you feel like quitting Gail Simone comes to your house and smacks your head into a wall. And when Gail smacks your head into a wall you get a concussion and crippling neck injuries.

Don't get crippling neck injuries, stay in comics.

[Stressfactor]

I have to admit something here. Very recently I thought about getting out of comics. I've been at this for seven years and I was letting frustration with the industry and the nature of the business get to me. I felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall again and again.

Luckily I have some very good friends that set me straight and that temporary bump is over.

But the bottom line is that if I stopped it was me stopping me. Not anyone or anything else.

*grabs Tom by the lapels and gets all up in his grill*

Give me more Honor Brigade and no one gets hurt.

[Cassandra]

Don't quit, Tom, or >I< will hit your head against a brick wall.
Listen to her Tom, Gail is scary!

[Gail Simone]

The weird thing now is, he promoted LBC as all ages for a long time, and on the front page of his FB alone, he has two different photos designed to look like someone giving blowjobs (they aren't, but that's the joke). He has several rants calling people lemmings and sheep and idiots, and lots of posts about how women are deceitful psychopaths. If you WERE interested in his comics, and saw this first, holy shit, I can't imagine anything less inviting, except to other damaged people.

[CutterMike]

The weird thing now is, he promoted LBC as all ages for a long time, and on the front page of his FB alone, he has two different photos designed to look like someone giving blowjobs (they aren't, but that's the joke). He has several rants calling people lemmings and sheep and idiots, and lots of posts about how women are deceitful psychopaths. If you WERE interested in his comics, and saw this first, holy shit, I can't imagine anything less inviting, except to other damaged people.

But they'll be damaged people OF ALL AGES!

[castlewalls]

Who is Steve Carr and how did he stab Jim in the back? Or is the Steve Carr that Jim is talking about just a name of someone whose name is only famous because of the person that is famous. I deliver freight to businesses and I get Tom Cruises signature at least once a week. (Shhhush Tom has aged quite a bit cameras may make people look younger besides adding weight to a person)

[Gail Simone]

What, is Steve Carr on J-bolt's massive list of imaginary enemies now? What is it he supposedly did?

[castlewalls]

I am not sure someone said that on Jims meetme page he has posted that after all the work Jim has done for Steve, Steve went and stabbed in his back. Jim is supposedly rethinking on something cant quite remember what my friend said. I guess after a couple of long conversations with Jim she is starting to see he is a raving lunatic

According to her, from what Jim has told her most of the women that are after him are only after him for his fame and fortune.

[Gail Simone]

Steve is a nice guy who has said publicly that J-bolt helped him when he was broke by letting him stay at Jim's house. He has never said a bad word in public aboutj-bolt that I can recall, certainly nothing bad.

[Weeto]

J-Bolt is just plain weird.

The guy seems to lash out at everyone. It is probably best not to get close to the guy as you're within range of his outbursts.

Hell, he had pretty much attacked everyone on here for something at some point, apart from me, oddly.

I'll probably be the Antichrist by next week anyway, he'll probably accuse me of being Grant Morrison's sockpuppet and I said this stuff because I'm jealous of him.

[sk716]

What, is Steve Carr on J-bolt's massive list of imaginary enemies now? What is it he supposedly did?

With Fishers paranoia and delusions I suspect that imaginary Steve Carr peed in his gas tank, seduced his girlfriend, and stole the most incredible superhero character idea ever all while pointing and laughing at poor J-Bolt.

This is the guy that once insisted that Marvel threatened to kill him.