Artist Entrepreneur. Veteran / Retired USAR Officer. Husband, Father, Founder of Timebound Entertainment. Creator of The Hawk of New York ® comic book series.
@jpalmiotti Social media is a place to keep things social and relatively light. You can create group chats for deep dives into politics or religion or whatever.
@EthanVanSciver that first sentence should have ended with "from within the bowels of the big publishers." or something equally arrogant sounding. I'm too poor to buy Twitter Supreme subscription or whatever it's called to make those lenghty posts.
@EthanVanSciver Your recurring fault here is in not seeing the situation clearly enough to use your massive talent to help course correct. The big publishers didn't just drive readers away, it de-incentivized the right talent from ever wanting to work for them, fracturing the industry.
I'm still alive. Reports of me being aggressively apathetic toward social media are probably still accurate though. I will never lose my passion for making stuff.
@jpalmiotti Amanda is still the gold standard for how to act towards fans in my opinion. Whenever I table, I try to emulate how she treated me and others in front of me at cons. We need more like her. You? Well, I guess you're okay too.
@mikiariyama Lack of vision, lack of selflessness, lack of originality, lack of good stories and characters, a lack of mentorship and stewardship for younger people, an abundance of hubris, an abundance of greed and overzealous technology is killing the hobby.
In April of 2006, Navy Seal Michael Day was shot 28 times, but it didn't stop him.
He was shot everywhere on his body but his head, and continued to fight with his Sig 9MM pistol even after the pistol grips and his thumb was shot off.
With that handleless pistol he killed the three more remaining bad guys. He only walked to a Medevac helicopter when the job was done.
Athletes shouldn't be revered as heroes, men like this should be.
Yes, Mike survived.✝️🙏
God bless Michael Day! 🇺🇲
Jokes aside, Chuck Norris' death hits like a battering ram.
He was an influence so constant, I do not remember a world without a ubiquitous Chuck Norris.
When interviewers would stir the turd tank, trying to incite him to badmouth Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme, he was instead complimentary of both. He knew the commitment Martial Arts takes.
Yet look his background up:
His pedigree objectively exceeded them all. There are millionaire MMA fighters less legit than he was in his earlier competitive career. He was recruited by Bruce Lee not for acting, but for winning a full-contact competition.
But listen to him talk about it.
No pretense. No braggadocio.
Just an impassive acknowledgement of the work it all required.
Here lies a man.
R.I.P.