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I SPENT 10 YEARS ON THIS

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SATURAY AM LIES ON ME AND HOWS THEIR PARANOIA

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UPDATE: After I made the video, the person that did the fire thing told me who he was. Even though I did not know, nor did I support it, they were right. A person’s videos I watched in the past burnt one of their books. But still, it’s not like I followed the guy and was cheering on burning books. If you also look at any comments I put on Saturday Am videos, they are points of disagreeing using what they say. I’m not going around Saturday Am interviews and twitter (I’m barely even on there) talking about how lame their company is or anything. But, I still got to say that to have a team of people who will respond to individuals for disagreements by threatening legal action is absurd. This company does a lot, but being professional is not one of them and I would debate any of them on their points. Also, they don’t give a crap about your stories. It’s all Apple Black and Clock Striker. Every now and then they will say something about Soul Beat or Hammer, but they aren’t looking to promote you above their 2 main series. You’ll have to do what Jey did which is make 5 volumes to show other companies that you make great consistent artwork and promote yourself away from Saturday AM to get a name for yourself. But, gloves are off now. Once again, I will never say stop supporting the company or do I wish for them not to exist. But I will not be involving myself with them as far as contest entries or anything else ever again. Nor will I be buying any of their products anymore.

DOVER COMIC CON RECAP

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I Understand Why I Don't Have Many Art Friends

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It goes beyond that as well. Over my many years of working on the indie scene, I’ve learned that artists “friends” are fickle. The minute that you even say something that they disagree, they are quick to unfriend, unfollow, and withdraw all contact and support from you. It doesn’t matter if the subject matter is speaking directly to them or not. They value surface level words and appearing kind even if they have to lie to the world. The moment you ask them to go deeper on a subject matter, they can’t and their response is to distance themselves from you. I think it is disrespectful to lie to me and let me go out here looking like a fool instead of telling me the truth. If I have food between my teeth, I would want to be told. These people would sit right across from me and just let me keep talking with the broccoli stuck between my teeth. So, I’m ok with having a small group of friends that try their best to be honest with me even if I don’t like what they say rather than lie so they look like a good person.

#DCSOWHITE is #DUMBASF*CK

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The latest stunt by these pro-black comic readers/artists is to start a petition against DC comics because they haven’t put out a mainline black hero book for the past 1200 days or so. When that didn’t work, they have threatened to take their black dollar from them and boycott the buying of DC comic books until they get with the program. I don’t agree with this movement at all. This, however, does shine some light a point my people don’t want to acknowledge. In a time where we can take our “strong black dollar” and spend it wherever we want, with whomever we want; we’d rather ask white people to showcase us.

There are plenty of indie black comic creators (such as myself) that are out here; from Black Sands, Godhood Comics, Rippaverse, Saturday AM (-cringe-) just to name a few. The truth is our own community doesn’t acknowledge them. For whatever reason, they’d rather give their money to the white owned companies instead of spending it with the indie black creators. If they do, that is reserved for specific types of black people. That is another blog I will write in the future, but that’s not the main focus of this one.

The irony is that most of the black characters they want to get books were created by white people! So then, they will complain about that as well. Not only do DC have to put out a black mainline character, but it also has to be written by a majority black team. The white people can’t write for their OWN characters now!? What kind of logic is that? Imagine, a black person creates a famous white character. Would they allow a bunch of random fans to come in and say “well, you better make sure there is a majority white team to write for that character. You haven’t lived their struggles, so you can’t tell their story!”?. I’ll save you the brain power; THEY ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT ALLOW THAT. They would call those people racists who are trying to control black people and what they do. There would be black comic creators on the white social media platform bitching about how white people can’t handle the power of black excellence or whatever. So, I’m glad as of right now DC has ignored this movement.

Even the corrective actions DC has to do to stop this impending boycott screams narcissism and stupidity.

So, obviously announce that they are going to create some mainline black comics, but the caveats are laughable. It has to be a black creative team, be prioritized in promotion, and be guaranteed to at least 2 years of story. What incentive does DC have to do this? They act like black people are going out here and funding the majority of DC sales. Is DC really going to cry over a fraction of comic buyers that only make up 13% of the population?

Then, let’s look at the rest; release educational information on how “sales” work so the misleading of fans ends and the full transparency begins. So, this refers to the common fact that BLACK LED STORIES DON’T SELL. I will say this, they WILL sell. Spawn has done incredibly. Do you know why? Because the focus isn’t on the struggles of being the black character in the world. He is a well written character that just happens to be black. These pro-blacks fail to understand that the majority of the populus are down right tired of having DEI shoved down their throats. So, in general when they just see a black character on a cover, they hesitate. Years of “my black struggles”, let’s reboot series and race swap characters, and white people are bad…people are just sick of hearing/seeing it. They go in with the assumption that hey are going to be brow beaten with lectures about racism, bigotry, and all these other social justice issues. So they steer clear and these pro-black buyers/creators don’t get that. They think the internet is the reality of the country. They think that just because the internet is praising them for being social justice warriors, that everyday people are going out there thinking the same way. But, that ship is getting further and further from the docks as time passes. People really are getting more and more annoyed with them.

Then, I have no idea what the last one is for. “If the series perform well, make a Power Company book for minor minority characters”. So basically another story featuring more black characters so they can get their shine. But, that’s banking off the fact that these new series actually make money. So, if DC caves (chances are they will throw together some slop just to shut them up), then this book will only be made if said DC trash is successful. Once again, it won’t be because reality is different form the internet.

Outside of the audacity of these pro black comic buyers/creators, this demonstrates the state of my people and why I will never side with them when it comes to race issues. It’s just like when they keep bringing up Black Wall Street, but all these black millionaires haven’t put together something in current day that is similar. We much rather have someone else do it…but on our terms. They want to come in and be the boss of the company, but not work for the company. They are the type that are the ones that say “I pay your salary! You work for me!”. It’s just disgusting at this point. If DC isn’t producing the books you want to see, STOP BUYING THEIR BOOKS and buy from people that are telling the stories you want with the characters you want to see. We don’t need a movement to say this! It just screams desperation at this point to keep begging white people to include you in stuff you had no or at least very little contribution in building yourself.

This overall movement is stupid. The reality is DC does not care about color. They care about profit. If those mainline black characters were actually selling, they wouldn’t cut the stories. No sales report reveal is going to change that. They are a business. They keep the money makers and can the money drains. They aren’t going to continue producing something just for the sake of diversity if it’s causing them to hemorrhage money. That’s just logic. Not racism as they are trying to paint it out to be.

I Do It For The Love, NOT FOR BLACK PEOPLE

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One game that I refused to ever play is the whole “I’m doing this for black people”. I never understood the notion. I do what I do because I love it. My purpose has always been to garner the attention of as many people as possible and provide them quality content. Whether I’m doing comics, games, or just doing prints, I take my time to craft entertaining things for the masses; not just for black people.

That being stated, I understand that because I’m so “anti- black” as most will call it, I will be shunned from the black indie comic industry. I’m fine with that. I never wanted to in the “in crowd” for black indie comics. In fact, I’ve had many indie black creators approach me and try to help me. However, as soon as they find out that I’m not in the cult mind of the pro-black artist, they immediately unfollow me, block me, etc. One sniff of “well, Trump did good here” and it’s game over. One hint of “I don’t think black people are oppressed in 2026” and it’s lights out. One inkling of “I would never support someone JUST because they are black” and it’s bye-bye.

It’s a dangerous mindset to have. It has led me to believe that many black indie creators aren’t really in it to enjoy comic creation. Rather, they are in it to spite white people because it seems most of their narratives and views are that way. Their stories about taking vengeance on the KKK or their hero born out of slavery or just corrupt white people always doing something to oppress the benevolent black person who’s just trying to live their life, it’s just exhausting. They focus more on the suffering of black people instead of the triumphs of black people. Or they focus on the trauma that white people are involved in and rarely if ever focus on the same trauma inflicted by our own people. That would be an interesting story for me to read; the absence of fathers, the effects of black women choosing welfare over building with their black man, gang behavior, pressure to conform to be accepted among the “black culture”, etc, etc.

It’s unfortunate that many black creators find this out the hard way. They get their name uplifted in the circle just based on being black. Then, the moment they have a thought outside of the “narratives” we are suppose to follow in our community, they are ostracized, labelled as a coon, bootlicker, tap dancer for white people, and shamed. Some fold. I choose to laugh in their faces and push my work to people who actually want genuine entertainment. Endlocke, OfficialVerse and all my other projects are here for you to enjoy! I will never brow beat you about “the white boogieman” or “we was slaves” etc etc. Just kick your feet up, relax, and enjoy a bit of escapism.