12/5/2023 0 Comments Vox day alt rightIt makes sense to widen the scope of BC past comics, but it seems the attempt isn’t backed with sufficient staff to make it worthwhile. “Collectibles” is a nice look at action figures, but is mostly PR-driven and is hardly authoritative. There are six categories of articles, but the “pop culture” bit is mostly a half-assed attempt to talk about wrestling and is rarely updated. There’s a fair amount wrong with Bleeding Cool that has nothing to do with Vox Day.ĭisclosure: I’m anti-CG, a loony lefty liberal, and I’ve read Rich for twenty years.īleeding Cool, as a site, is a stone-cold mess. Hopefully Booth will have a better grasp on that. While Johnston has yet to confront Day’s claims that he was involved in the interview, he still has tried to wiggle out of culpability:Īt the very least, Johnston seems to have very little idea how the internet works these days. Of course, later on BC did cover the gold foil issue: ![]() I was reminded of that the other day when the Beat broke a story about Batman #56 gold foil damages. The Beat has decent retailer contacts – including several contributors from the retail community – and this was solidly sourced, but at least one commenter was having none of this: For whatever reason, retailers take BC as gospel and it’s the only comics news site they give any credence. ![]() I have neither the time nor fortitude to sort out these levels of internet paranoia and speculation, but I’ll add one thing: one of the reasons that decent comics folk continue to support BC with interviews and exclusives is because it is a direct conduit to comics retailers. The book was to have been written by Chuck Dixon, and Day is saying they’ll set up their own crowdfunding portal to get it published. More internet turmoil to distract and depress.Īs a sidelight to all of this, Indiegogo has shut down Day’s current campaign to fund Alt-Hero: Q, a book about QAnon, yet another bizarre internet conspiracy theory. ![]() The reaction has been predictable: claims from Day’s dark internet followers that ideas are being suppressed, etc etc. I’ll leave you to sort out who is telling the truth here. This claim was contradicted by Day himself: It reads like the work of someone from a 90s episode of X-Files who just got a 48 baud modem.Īs the controversy raged, Johnston claimed that he had nothing to do with the interview and was helpless to do anything about it: Seifert had recently been writing a series called “Marvel Declassified” that showed the same kind of rambling, conspiracy theory “secret knowledge” attitude as the Day intro. Johnston is listed as head writer in his. Seifert was listed as the site’s managing editor in his bio: Whatever your tastes from mini comics by Sean Appozardi to blockbuster events by Geoff Johns, from the Guardianista middle class commentary of Posy Simmonds to the righteous right hook of Chuck Dixon, from Rob Liefeld’s cankles to Robert Crumb’s thighs, from Frank Quitely’s OctoMumLips to Frank Cho’s shapely hips, you’re welcome here. But as well as news, rumours and gossip, there are reviews, previews, features, interviews, videos, columns and a place for comic book readers to call their own. This site doesn’t just pull back the curtains of the comic book industry, but gives you a series of upskirt shots. ![]() Welcome to – the site written by Rich Johnston and friends, managed by Mark Seifert, and many columnists and friends for Avatar Press. They have literally the worst “About” page I’ve ever seen.ĭoing a search reveals the text that was blacked out, and I can see why you’d want to hide it since upskirts are sexual misconduct. Some people seeing that Booth has assumed the EIC role meant that Rich Johnston had been fired, but Johnston has never held the EIC title at BC. Just who does what on Bleeding Cool is a shadowy affair. So harsh that by the EOD yesterday, the interview had been removed and Bleeding Cool had been reorganized, with Kaitlyn Booth taking over as editor in chief and issuing an apology:Īn Apology Concerning Vox Day: We Made a Mistake. Needless to say the outcry on comics twitter was immediate and harsh. Now let me throw in right here that Day can be the subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry as in this interview on Reveal. But this was not that. It was a long, confusing shambling mess that rather than fact checking Day’s Holocaust denial beliefs, legitimized them by engaging. The BC piece, bylined by Mark Seifert, included a lengthy, rambling intro and various annotations to Day’s answers that seemed to be fact checking him. Day is getting into comics publishing, so perhaps there was a thin thread of news here.
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