I don’t read comic book journalism anymore.

Part of being a professional on a message board (or any other online forum) is to always take the high road and be polite. If an artist/writer/editor can't do that, they shouldn't be participating in online discussions in their official role. If a comment or question is out of line, just delete it, ignore it, or tell the poster that you will answer if they ask it in a more polite way.

There's a difference between "hardball" questions and "attacks." Most of the ignored questions fall into the second category. They're usually (not always) thinly veiled insults or traps. There's absolutely no upside for any creator to engage with that. I always find the double standards of fan interactions interesting. Someone will leave a disparaging or nasty comment and then get angry if the creator responds in kind. It's like smacking someone over the head and then getting upset because they have the audacity to hit you back. Especially with the defense of, "They should be professional!" And, to be clear, I am well aware that some modern creators are terrible people who spew disgusting and hateful things. I'm sure there's older creators that do that to. So I'm not saying that every creator should be treated with respect. Really, marketing AMAs are just that: marketing. No creator is going to veer too far from trying to sell their book and shining a good light on their employer. Most of them have also gotten pretty good at telling the difference between a genuine inquiry and hostile baiting.

When's the last time you felt like a comics company was meaningfully marketing to you? Grahted, technology has changed things. Still, there needs to be a level of kayfabe where the audience *thinks* the company is interacting with them when it really isn't. Lettercolumns and Bullpen Bulletins used to do that. What's left?

Perch has said that he's a huge a Neil Breen fan and that Cade The Tortured is a work of art in his last video.

They need to start publishing another comic book magazine! They should make a cheap comic magazine like based off of WIZARD magazine and put it out there! It makes absolutely no sense why they don’t! They should sell them for 5 bucks at every major comic book convention like NYCC or SDCC! I think that would be great for spreading the word about comics!

I don't think the CBR forums will be around much longer

Even if you payed me I wouldn’t go to CBR, even when I’m searching for things about manga & anime I will see they have an article about what I’m looking for, I’ll just scroll down to the next search.

CAF is one of the worst - you get ganged up on as well as trolled...

leagueofcomicgeeks has a creator "ask me anything" AMA thread sometimes, similar to the comic book reddit has a creator AMA post. I recall Mirka Andolfo did one, and I asked a question, and she replied, and that was cool. I don't even read her books lol, but I see her covers every now and then. Mark Waid did one recently, and that was pretty popular. There was 1 question that asked him if he'd ever go to the Energon Universe, and THANK GOD he replied saying he doesn't know the TF very well since he didn't grow up with them so he has no interest in writing for the EU. I finally read the first 2 trades of World's Finest from my local library, and while it's solid, I think it was over-praised. I like DWJ's Transformers more. So it's like, man, this is what was the top selling, top reviewed comic, and that's it? Was it really this simple? Why don't more creators just write comics like this? Or rather, why doesn't DC demand their writers to write more like World's Finest?

Who goes to CBR for "gotcha!" journalism?

Every time I visit online forums, I feel like the internet was a mistake. We've given a self administered dopamine button to barely evolved monkeys. How was this not going to end in disaster?

I treat such threads less like marketing and more like rumor control. there are a lot of blowhards in the comics critique-o-sphere who make loud pronouncements, usually with a negative spin, in order to get clicks. close to 100% of these negative takes and attacks are based on zero actual info and are nearly never made in good faith. it's not a bad idea to create a space where people can hear what's up from the horse's mouth, rather than through some based filter.

I never understood the appeal of wanting to interact with creators simply because they're creators. Unless you're trying to get a job or because you're in comics news , but in any case it seems artificial

Based on low views and comments after 30 minutes, I'm guessing everyone had Arby's last night and can't get off the toilet.

I don't know what your average comment rate is but vids that get hundreds of comments can't be read by one person, so I'll excuse you skipping some comments. But not this one. This one you must read:)

I thought you read all our comments. You occasionally reply to a comment.

Yea your current election is a mess, did you see that last debate? How on earth was that allowed to happen? How on earth did they allow him to take the stage?