You read and reviewed 9 comics the day before they were released? How?

Review copies. By Saturday or Sunday I get the review copies and start reading next weeks issues and joint down my review.

Publishers send you books 4-5 days early so you can write 3 to 4 sentences about each under a user name?

DC sends review copies to a lot of official review sites. I’m not one of the reviewers for the site, I help the site. But anyone who is part of the team still gets to look at the copies to put their input

Synthozoid why do you care?

@ myconius, why do you care that I care?

@ waltgator "I am not an advanced reviewed." Do you think the site you work for will keep getting advanced copies from DC if they learn their work is being distributed to non-reviewers?

Dude worry about yourself

because you're a bullshit hypocrite, Synthozoid.

Synthozoid disagrees with the opinions presented in the review, so he looks for anything he can use against the person spouting wrongthink. How does someone ever get *that* upset about differing opinions? We should all calm down... Or not, the laughs are sometimes worth it.

probably never had any real problems to worry about. when you eventually have to pay bills/taxes/insurance/etc... disagreeing with someone over a cartoon book suddenly seems so much less important.

How could Synthozoid disagree? Comic unavailable at the time of comment. Still have not read. Walt, worry about your friend who will lose his advanced copies. Synthozoid is not programmed to worry. Myconius, Synthozoid is a hypocrite? Synthozoid reads copyrighted works without paying for them?

Synthozoid currently observing myconius "frothing."

But you did like the previous Wonder Woman issue. So you would be inclined to seek out the negative reviews and, seeing that they're negative, ask how this uset reviewed them because you thought Walt was just mindlessly trying to tank the average.

Synthozoid currently residing in his mother's basement.

Walt has bigger problems. His friends Jim and Eric over at Weird Science DC will no longer be receiving advanced copies thanks to his behavior.

you truly have no life Synthozoid.

And Weird Science DC has no podcast.

@YourGreenMuse No suspicion that Walt was attempting to tank the average. Suspicion that he read comics that he had no right to view (theft of copyrighted material), suspicion confirmed by Tony Walton himself.

If everyone on the team gets copies, and he's on the team, I think he's allowed to view them. The fact that you have searched out who these people are and given out that information and used it against them is the pettiest shit I've seen in a while. You're a joke.

By his own admission, not on the team. Sorry you don't care about copyright and wish to damage the industry by supporting theft.

Let's see if Tony Walton continues to post reviews before release dates without permission to read those materials. Synthozoid is not the first to notice his early reviews.

Justice League #11.

I don't think it's theft if he works with the team and is given the review copies to give his input.

How do you know his role? He stated that he has a friend who does reviews (he does not do reviews himself) and that friend allows him to read advanced copies. Publishers send out comics to legitimate reviewers in good faith that they will not be shared with the general public, especially before the date of publication. People who read without paying by are killing the direct market and stealing from creators. Synthozoid wishes to read more comics in the future.

His comments said he helps the team that reviews the comics and is given the comics to provide his own input.

And he stated that he buys his own comics anyway.

The amount of new comics I read each week are about 20 issues. That’s about $79.80 each week. Why buy the ones I don’t like and support the not so great books. Support the great books that you love so they don’t get canceled. Only bought first three six issues of superwoman, do you think I was sad that it got canceled? Nope. Not when I knew that DC was going to replace that book with a new book that might actually love.

Superwoman was one of the worst Rebirth titles, I don't blame you at all.

Why buy the ones I don't like? Because you read them without paying for them. I'm going to head into a comic shop, sit down and read 20 comics without paying. I'll only pay for the ones I like. This is all fine and normal and will not harm their business. I'll invite all of my friends to do the same. Still on team Walt, Green Muse? No mention of reviews, or being on a review team, or any right to free access to these materials. Just theft. But Superwoman was bad soooo.... ha ha he he ho ho?

Okay but what if I said that I have a comic book podcast where I y’all about my top 3 books and my bottom 2 books each week. I would still be reviewing the product.

I don't know, I have that "buy what you like" approach with music. I don't judge anyone for listening to an album for free and then deciding whether to buy it after. And plus, it's not like he's stealing directly from the comic shop. The comic shop only orders what they think will sell. If he goes and buys books after, or has a pull list even, they can come to expect that at least this one person will buy this or that.

He's not going in to a shop, reading comics and then leaving. That would create the expectation that he would buy those comics. Comic shops buy comics to sell based on previous sales. If he's never buying a certain comic, it will not hurt the business because there's no expectation of it.

As for the industry overall, one copy is meaningless, honestly. Doesn't mean they don't want your money, but waltgator93 isn't going to tank the industry by doing what he does.

And he mentioned all the stuff about helping a review team in this comment chain. Up above.

YourGreenMuse - if anyone is trying to hurt the industry it's Dork'ozoid leaving spite reviews on IDW comics for no other reason but a poor attempt to get under my skin. IDW is already very close to bankruptcy, & doesn't get much love on this site as it is. - Dork'ozoid leaving 2's doesn't really bother me. i'm not such a fanboy that i've shy'd away from occasionally giving IDW comics 3's and 4's myself. - so how can Dork claim to care about the comic industry when they leave spite reviews?

Yeah, that seems like a petty move. It could actually hurt their sales if the user score on a critic aggregate site is low for a company that has to rely on licensed properties to stay afloat. Those are considered very hit or miss, at least in my circles. I know I personally give more credence to the user score than the critics score.

yeah, it's definitely petty. shows a complete lack of maturity.

Yep, I'm a petty POS, but I drop cash weekly at my LCS, supporting publishers and creators and honoring copyright laws.. @Myconius Is yours the type of constructive comment that Dan requested? ""Dork'ozoid?" Do I need to involve Dan as you did?

You are extremely petty. Just because you do some "good" things does not negate the fact that you have been one petty fucker the last few days.

I did "good" but am also a "petty fucker?" As Dan requested, keep your reviews/comments constructive.

Yes. That's exactly what I just said. Keep up.

Got it. So the "good" I assume is prompting Walt to proudly proclaiming his status as a thief. The "petty fucker" part is doing a google search of screen names and finding the true identities in seconds. The pettier effer part is myconius doing the same thing and coming up empty handed. He's reading this now. Hello Mike!

No, the "good" part was "I drop cash weekly at my LCS, supporting publishers and creators and honoring copyright laws". The "petty fucker" part is you going out of your way to look up info on other users, even if it was easy and simple. That doesn't make you look any better. And there's no evidence the myconius did that. He might've, but if he did, he didn't flaunt that around as some gotcha like a petty fucker would.

@YourGreenMuse - tbh i did NOT try to look that clown up, not would i ever want to. truth is that he/she/it is not worth the effort or time. don't even waste your time conversing with that clown. they are just another fart in the wind.

Hey Mike! You attempted to track me down and failed, you told me, then deleted the remark, tbh. This block feature is not working so well since I blocked you long ago. Since you're here reading this Michael, I do have some constructive criticism: Study basic anatomy, study drawing at your local community college, and try not to be flatulent during inclement weather.

now you've just proved that you are lying. you can't delete or edit these comments. filthy liar.

Mr. Liar, if you would please explain to us all how someone goes about "deleting a remark"?

Perhaps it's still here then. Please stop harassing me, Michael. I'm a petty fucker and a liar. You win.

You are right, Michael. you didn't delete it. It's right here on your favorite thief's review of Heroes in Crisis #3: myconius - Dec 2, 2018 i don't really care what you think or say. there's a reason why you make yourself completely hidden online. there's absolutely nothing worth finding.

just because you use a completely anonymous name does not mean that i went searching for you.

thank you. glad to see that you conceded that i am right.

You are right. Let it go.