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Rick Green? Is a cool guy in real life.

I got to help interview him today. We were dissing the quality of the first season of Prisoners of Gravity together. I didn't speak up too much, but I was honestly in awe for most of it and generally felt like a nervous wreck. I was totally made of fail. D:

There are things said in that interview that are... big and interesting things! Like...
- How he got the job hosting the series.
- The reasons why the first season Prisoners of Gravity is "lost" (I now feel bad for digging it up).
- The future of History Bites.
- The possible future of Prisoners of Gravity.
- Some goofy bits with Rick Green acting as Commander Rick. If they keep the full opening... OMG... it's SO over the top. Rick also did the "Prisoners of Gravity" rant from season one.

As soon as it's posted, I'll be linking it. This was the secret thing I was working on, although word had gotten out a couple of days ago. It was also one of my big life goals - those who know me know that Rick Green was my media hero since grade 5 and one of the reasons I decided to chase an education and job in media. Not to recreate his stuff, but to do cool crap like what he did and still does. :)

I've also been welcomed into the staff of This Week in Geek. Heaven help me, I have no idea what I have done.

How did this happen? A couple of weeks back, I got an email from Mike, one of the hosts, thanking me for my site and asking me if I wanted to involved with the interview. Turns out that he had visited my site waaaaay back when I was probably back in high school and was shocked at how much it had grown. So, this somehow spun off into me actually being on the phone during the interview. 0_0

I'm still pretty dazed.

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FCBD does work in some markets, but the stores that have been doing well with it (creating new customers both you and old) are the ones that are already progressive. In Ottawa, FCBD is a horrible event - I could have participated at one store this past May (along with other artists) and turned it down as a result of how poorly they've been managed. At least IMNSHO.

The problem Craig has found that even the stores that ordered his FCBD version of Wahoo Morris didn't do anything to "put bums in seats" as a follow-up. A 32 copy conversion rate based on 10000 copies? That's a horrible conversion percentage no matter how you slice it. Ouch...

Comic shops are one of those "things" that really can vary, but most suffer from the same stereotypes that they've always had. A place for socially awkward boys and young men to hang out in. We need more really good ones (say like Comic Relief in Berkeley) that show the breadth and scope of what comics, as an art form and a medium, can offer. But this is a rant for another time.

The movie tie-in idea has failed mainly because there haven't been "entry level" titles for fans of the various movies to grab. This, to me, is one of the biggest mistake both Marvel and DC have made over the past 15 years. There was a time that there was only one X-Men title (or rather, mutant title) with an occassional mini-series to fill it out. If you like the X-Men movies, where do you start with the comic? Which one? Aside from regular continuity, there's also the Ultimate line that throws even more barriers up. Ditto for Spidey. Even if you're a lapsed fan, there is no simple way to get back into it. A real shame.

Bone: I'm actually a fan of the black and whites myself. But I'm weird that way.

Von