Hahahahaha!

[t.c.johnson]

Thank you Patrick.

So...an Ashcan doesn't have to be a finished product? It just has to be something that is printed with the characters in it...doesn't even have to be a complete story nor sold on shelves?

.....As JBolt finished his yet?

[Gail Simone]

Hate to sound stupid, but he keeps talking about putting out an ashcan. What is an ashcan anyway? Does he mean a bucket?

It was a weakass marketing technique that became so silly and toxic no one really uses the terminology anymore. It's generally a cheaply printed mini-comic or preview comic
that is supposed to create excitement for an upcoming title. Many of the creators in the Image era would publish ashcans, because they took so little work to do, and Wizard
would inflate their value to an insane level, creating a collector's frenzy. They are now almost all worthless. They're the pogs of comic collecting.

[Gail Simone]

Wasn't he saying he was done talking about this and moving on? Holy crap, it's like ALL he talks about!

Never any actual WORK shown, just this stuff forever!

"TODAY'S SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Here's a SIMPLE scenario of logic for anybody to understand that has an IQ ratio that AT LEAST goes into double digits:
Here's the scenario: you are DEMANDED, with absolutely, positively NO respect, WHATSOEVER, to answer a series of questions, all essentially being the same question, but from different people wanting the same answer, and done so on the same disrespecting forum.
Here's the problem with that scenario: the people/group that are asking this question with EXTREME disrespect are doing so, expecting the answer on this particular forum, from which they are originating the question. The problem is that they all, as a group, have you PERMANENTLY BANNED from that particular forum so that you couldn't answer ANY RESPECTFULLY ASKED QUESTION if you wanted to, for starters.
So... here's the question for such illogical people: HOW THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT FOR ANYBODY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WHEN YOU'VE PERMANENTLY BANNED THEM FROM THE PLACE YOU WANT THE ANSWER, AND WILL NOT EVEN ASK THEM WITH THE RESPECT THAT YOU YOURSELF WANT???
Here's the LOGICAL answer: If you have a question, as an individual or as a group, for somebody, FIRST, you address them in the way YOU want to be addressed, if you truly expect for them to WANT to answer you. SECONDLY, you don't gripe at them for not being able to answer your question (especially when they've been trying to give this information the whole time anyway, though you were the only people who weren't listening), acting as though they are the ones ignoring and disrespecting you, and you DON'T PERMANENTLY BAN THEM FROM THE PLACE YOU EXPECT THEM TO ANSWER YOU!!!
I don't think the logic of all that could be any clearer... does anybody else?
This is a very temporary announcement message, as we now have some great news to share later on today!"

[Gail Simone]

Did he even get banned here? I have no idea what he's talking about.

Did anyone ever ban J-bolt at Jinxworld? I think he's deluded himself, or is confused with CBR.

[Gail Simone]

Also, what the fuck is the question he thinks people are asking?

J-bolt, I'm pretty sure you're not banned here. You must be confused.

[SallySensational]

Fisher, since you're reading this, I'm going to make you an offer. I'm placing an order now for 20 copies of whatever books you are able to publish within the next 60 days. No strings attached. Money up front. I will then take those books and ask two Eisner nominated comic book stores here in Chicago to put them on their shelves...they pay me nothing, they can keep all the sales for themselves. Should those books sell out I will put in another order for 20 books, a perpetual order of 20 if they sell out. Again, no strings attached. I actually lose money on this deal.

Time to put up or shut up.

Tom, Sweetie,

You lose more gauntlets this way. And, you know, for a man with hands as big as yours, those things are hard to find.

So, what shall we do while we're waiting?

Sall

[Gail Simone]

This sounds like typical J-bolt bullshit. Remember the REAL story behind his appearance at a comic store in Vegas?

"TODAY'S SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Radio interview for comic books!
Earlier today, J-Bolt was contacted by a local radio station and asked if he'd be willing to help with a promotion later in the month to raise money for all communities' rights to free radio. This is a VERY worthy cause, which he has always supported and of course accepted their kindly invitation.
On April 17, this radio station is running an all-day promotion, whereas they've preliminarily asked for his support and appearance to help raise money and awareness. Other interview possibilities with this station were also discussed, but for right now, we've made a date.
In order to help raise money for such a worthy cause, J-Bolt will be attending this fun event, bringing in some of the remaining original 1999 "Storm" posters for sale, and signing, with all proceeds from the poster sales going toward this worthwhile cause.
Once the exact times of this event have been scheduled, we will be announcing the full details and where everybody can have such a golden opportunity to help us all out. This will include information on how to place your orders for signed "Storm" posters for those that will not be able to personally attend the event.
Be sure to keep checking back with us for those upcoming details!"

[Gail Simone]

And a repeat of a classic, found on the internet from someone who has never been to these boards:

More classic stuff about J-bolt, from a completely disinterested student of his.

"From http://www.quartertothree.com/game-t...p?t-17373.html


Originally, the thread is about Marvel's lawsuit against the game-makers of City Of Heroes.
Then there's this post.
''So a big part of Marvel's claim was that it was possible to duplicate their copyrighted material which they tried to prove by making their own characters that did this?

They were pissed that CoH's character development process was too flexible?

Man, I used to actually like Marvel.
Welcome...to the real world.

I have a favorite Marvel Is Evil story, mostly because it's goddamned absurd. Back in high school, circa 1989, I audited a summer class at Community College of Southern Nevada (then Clark County Community College), "Comic Book Creating' or somesuch moniker, it had. The "professor," Jason Something, was such an obvious fucking loon I don't know how he conned his way into getting paid to teach what had to be the most useless fucking college class ever. But, his competence wasn't the problem.

The first day, he says to the class, he says:

"Good morning! You students are some of the only people to ever know my real name or see ny face! You see, I usually go by "J-Bolt" to hide my identity and I always wear a mask in public appearances."

And what are we all thinking at this point? This fruit thinks he's a goddamned superhero. Oh, I wish. He continues:

"The reason is, is Marvel wants the copyrights to many of my original comic characters, but most especially my character Bolt. The name is mine! Copyrighted, trademarked, secured and legally mine in every conceivable way! But Marvel thinks they can steal from me. They can't!" (Note: I'm not sure what all IP rights he quoted as having)

Then, his tone turns darkly conspiratorial.

"But Marvel will stop at nothing to get the name and character from me. Nothing! I met with Stan Lee about this. Do you know what he said?"

Are you ready for this, everyone?

"Stan Lee said he was going to kill me for it."

Man, that was just Day One, Hour One. Actually, it was pretty goddamned boring after that. I learned nothing. The best parts after that were few and varied. Like, when he went around the room and asked us who our favorite comic book character was (I think he avoided the term Super Hero because a couple girls were in the class). Well, this was right during the Robotech boom and the birth of anime culture in America. So, half the answers were "Rick Hunter!" I said Spider Man. J-Bolt blanched noticeably for every Rick Hunter response. We used to rap with him after class; he was actually a pretty affable guy, as long as you didn't fucking bring up Marvel. He wasn't a fan of anime, as you could guess. "Ditko, you hear me? Ditko!"

Anyway, he's nuts and his comics sucked. He said that he had a habit of hiring talent right from his classes, you know and I believed him, since he had little of his own. The only blurb (www.moviepoopshoot.com/delusions/7.html) I can recover of this nutbag essentially laughs at him for being a charlatan. He did have some online comics, as linked, but that site's long since dead. I visited it back around 3 or 4 years ago, and it was up. The stuff on it was horrible, stuff Image would have turned down even during its formative years. Anyway, he's lost to the ether now, I guess Stan Lee finished him off.''"

[Gail Simone]

A J-bolt classic.

J-bolt would like about the color of the sky, I swear.

"
A few things...
First off, no, I don't think that our forumla to build up a fanbase will work. I know that the plan is working because we've had Members since the first day of the site's inception. Until we have an ongoing series in the site, Members only pay the one-time fee, which will not increase in price nor frequency of payment until we have that ongoing series.
This formula that we created earned us the title of "the future of comics" by the President of Charles Atlas, Ltd., whom you know has been involved with comics even before a cape was drawn on a page. He makes this statement whenever the press asks him what comics he advertises in now, which not only is LBC one of three companies that they will only advertise in (Marvel and Image being the other 2), but has only granted LBC the licensing rights to create a Charles Atlas comic book and merchandise, when we're ready to do so.
This was accomplished because we were the first company to publish our real comics online, before hard-copy print, as opposed to the other companies that did offer online comics that were special online comics only but did not publish their actual issues online. We paved the road for the ones who decided to follow in our path.
If we were as meaningless as you make us sound, we could not accomplish this.
Though it is true that very few comics achieve a printing quantity of 100,000 or over, it is not only possible, but probable, in consideration of the fact that we've received pre-orders over that amount for WLS#0 and BombShell #1 alone, with the majority of those whom have placed their orders doing so for more than one copy... and that's just counting individual consumers. The retailers' orders, that have come in, reflect that those issues, by themselves, will end up going into reprint due to supply and demand, but limited for collectible values.
The movies are not launching the comics. It is the other way around. The only difference is that the BombShell comic is being timed, for release, to match the movie so that they equally meet in story, with the end of the movie and the issue number that will come out at the same time. This will hold true with all the movies that we do, matching up at the end of the film with the issue number being released to match the story, because I, as a comic book and movie fan, was interested in seeing how the old familiar stories were brought to life, but was bored with the fact that I already knew the ending. Using this method, not only will the ending of the movie be surprising to the audience, but so will the comic. In turn, they'll both end up promoting each other, as opposed to creating a seperate comic book adaption of a movie. This will also end up promoting the merchandise because that will not be geared just for the movie or the comic book, but rather both of them. Movie fans will become enthralled to become comic book and merchandise fans while comic book fans will become enthralled by the movies and merchandise. Therefore, consumers will not buy more of a movie version of the characters, and vise-versa, but the only difference in the sales of merchandise will be reflected by which movie is out at that time, especially in consideration that the characters in the movie will look like the comics, which is what made the character popular to begin with (so why change a successful formula).
The only different merchandise which would be added to a film's enterage is the novelization of the original screenplay, for those who want a sneak peek into the ending and/or don't want to wait for or read the comics, being too anxious for the film's release.
On the same note, characters/stories won't be changed in the movie, any resulting animations, or the comics because they'll all be based on the same formula... the one that first made them popular.
As for your dislike of Draco's costume and storyline, obviously you did not read everything. The story pokes fun at the old cliche' of the backwards record playing. And Manes did not send Draco to Earth to fight against him. He bonded his son with that of a mortal for what he considered as being punishment for Draco's rebellion against his heritage. Every parent has had one or more instances where they punished their child, but the child ended up enjoying and flourishing in the punishment. Draco's brightening of his costume and emblazoning the "D" on his chest plate was his way of rebelling against his father's ways even moreso, by becoming the personification of what his father hated the most... a hero.
I'll conclude my response by asking when, if at all, was Stan Lee, or Todd McFarlane inducted into the Marquis Who's Who In America for their accomplishments involved with the entertainment industry? I was inducted in the 2005 edition for what I've achieved already, and have been requested to send them the new information (which I have) to be inducted again into the 2006 edition for my further accomplishments that include an innovative new mechanism that I designed to help actors/actresses be more comfortable in inclimate conditions, but turned out to have more practical uses for those who work in similar or worse atmospheric areas, such as space travel, arctic research, desert land exploration, etc., yet is barely noticable, even when wearing something as tight as spandex. It was an invention I created while I was working on the Marinna costume design.
I apologize if all this sounds immodest, but it was necessary in order to give you an idea that I know what I'm doing and saying.
I do not take your comments as an attack, and I hope that you do not take mine as being defensive. You are understandably under-informed of why I'm doing as I am, so my only recourse was to fill in some blanks that you might not have been aware of.
Thank you for keeping on your toes. "

[Gail Simone]

Yeah, I TOTALLY believe he received advance orders for two non-existent books produced by a company no one's ever heard of and and creator with no resume and little talent. That sounds likely!

Oh, and he did this without Diamond. Oh, and newsstands don't pre-order individual comics. Oh, and he's full of shit as always.