Well, This Sounds Totally Plausible.

[Gail Simone]

Urgh.

For a long time, J-bolt was mostly just pretending to be working on a comic.

Lately, he's back in full-on bullshit mode. It makes me sad.

"I've been receiving more bids and deposits from comic book retailers and other similar businesses who want a shot at having their shop be the place for THE VERY FIRST appearance/signing of Retro WLS0, which everybody has been anxiously waiting for during the past 25 years. We've finally found a way to make this happen without any further interference by ANYbody, so it's going to be one of the biggest and historical events in Publishing History... which is why LBE is getting such bids/deposits for this first appearance/signing.
If your place of business (even if you're not ONLY a comic book retailer) wants to also put in your secret bid/deposit to see if YOU can end up being the FIRST PLACE EVER for such an event, go ahead and contact me HERE on Facebook, or e-mail me at J-Bolt at lightningboltentertainment dot com to get yours in RIGHT AWAY.
You don't have much time left to do so, since the historical comic publication itself is so close to going into print, whereas I'll be deciding at that time who put in the best bid, and make the first appearance at THEIR place of business, with a LOT of publicity for their store resulting from it.
WHO IS IT GONNA' BE??? GET YOUR BID IN RIGHT AWAY IF YA WANT THE CHANCE FOR IT TO BE **YOU**!!!"


Sure, Jim.

You have fewer people following you on Facebook than foot cancer, and yet the publishing of a decade-old comic that just wasn't any good in the
first place is, "the biggest and historical event in Publishing History (sic, obviously)."

Goddammit, he really seemed like he was trying to publish a real comic. Now THIS bullshit again.

[Stressfactor]

Not to mention that someone needs to tell him that a "bid" is not the same as a "deposit".

In a bid you say of the amount of money you are willing/able to spend on a certain project or item. You, however, do not have to PAY said bid unless you are chosen.

A deposit, on the other hand IS paid out in advance in order to hold a place or item or as insurance against you destroying something that doesn't belong to you or as a way of insuring you return an item which might otherwise cost the manufacturer money. Some deposits are refundable, some are partially refundable and others are non-refundable.

[Shurato2099]

I just don't get the mentality behind this guy. If he put as much work into actually publishing, even if it isn't all that great a final product, as he does into the hype there would be less pointing and laughing.

There's a guy who's been coming around to our little local convention (Technicon, soon to be in our 30th year! Go us!) who's only just getting into comics and self-publishing. His concepts actually aren't bad, his word-craft could use some work and his art is just ... he needs to stick with the words, forget this color and lines stuff ... but he's putting forth the effort, actually producing and putting himself out there ... and, slowly but surely, it's working for him. We've also got a web-comic team that's further along the path to self-sufficience and a guy who is finally making a living doing what he loves on his own terms, which is just great IMO.

J-Bolt is just ... all hat, no cattle.

[Gail Simone]

I can't think of a single store event where they actually PAID to launch a book. That's NEVER the way it is done, not ever.

If he would LISTEN to people who know what the industry is about, he wouldn't look so silly all the time.


Dammit, Jim. Finish the book! People will HELP.

But you have to drop the bullshit.

[Neil C.]

It seems like bullshit is all there is.

[Tom Stillwell]

That man has a head full of cats.

[t.c.johnson]

Sounds a lot like he is trying to cheat some store owners out of cash.

[Tyr]

Gail, why do you keep calling this guy out, instead of letting him stew in his own bullshit?

[KirbyKrackle]

That man has a head full of cats.

I iz in yur hed controling yur menta faculties.

But, how long has this guy been claiming he was going to publish his comic? I could do that in less than a year, if I was struck with the worst case of laziness and procrastination.

[Cassandra]

That man has a head full of cats.

But I love cats, how can this be possible?

J-Bolt is still in my mind the most perfect live example of the Dunning–Kruger effect I have ever seen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...3Kruger_effect
(Well, him and Rob Granito. They can share.)