J-Bolt News

[MacQuarrie]

I'd keep reposting it exactly as is, every single day. Just to piss him off.
hah.

I might do that.

Ah, spring! The new buds are appearing ont eh trees, the sun is shining again, and J-Bolt returns from his long hibernation. All is right with the world.

[Magneto_X]

NightSwordsman is not J-Bolt. If he was he would have never played CoH/CoV with Gail or the rest of us, ahem, 'bashers'.

Then I apologise to Night Swordsman.

[Cam63]

I reckon J-Bolt could've at least made the Hulk movie more entertaining.

[Magneto_X]

Mac:

That was great! :D

Cam:

I liked the Hulk movie.

[Cam63]

Vive la differance.

[founder81]

I'd keep reposting it exactly as is, every single day. Just to piss him off.

That's so simple, so elequant, it's PERFECT.

[MacQuarrie]

He won't come out and play.

[Wingnut]

Well, I posted something just a few hours ago, and he's already had it tossed by the admins. Part of it said how it was funny that he was getting factual posts tossed, but his threat of charges against Mac remain.

I almost want to report his comment as abuse, and have it tossed, just to piss him off. Then again, it being there serves as continual proof of what an idiot he is.

The 2nd thread you started, Mac, has also been deleted, but the re-post of your original point-by-point message is still up there.

[Wingnut]

He JUST got done posting a little note basically saying that he's taking his toys and going home again. I guess he thought everyone had forgotten about him, and he was ready to start his hype-fest again, but since there are too many people that know the truth that is Jim "J-Bolt" Fisher, he's decided to take his ball, and crawl back under his rock. He's probably sucking his thumb as I type this.

Too bad. Although, he's had his taste of being out and about again, so I'm sure he'll pop again quite soon.

[Wingnut]

Well, now he's had Mac's re-post deleted, and my reply to his goodbye note deleted.

Con-men really don't like when the truth gets out.

[MacQuarrie]

Well, now he's had Mac's re-post deleted, and my reply to his goodbye note deleted.

Con-men really don't like when the truth gets out.
You have to repost everything here so we can archive it.

[OzBat!]

Okay, none of my old links work anymore... could somebody post the links to the IMDB and J-Bolt board threads, wherever they may now lurk?

[MacQuarrie]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093335/board/threads/

But you better hurry. I just reported every post in which he mentions me to the administrators as libellous. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets banned soon.

[Guapo Méndez]

Did someone save his last, eyesore of an answer? It's already been deleted.

[MacQuarrie]

Nope. I couldn't even wade through it.

Does it bother anyone else that J-Bolt, Bombshell, and Lightning Bolt Entertainment have no entry in Wikipedia?

It's enough to make one register an account.

[Typo Lad]

Don't fall off the wagon Jim. Be the better man. It's really not that hard.

[Guapo Méndez]

I agree with Typo. It's not worth the hassle.

[Magneto_X]

Nope. I couldn't even wade through it.

Does it bother anyone else that J-Bolt, Bombshell, and Lightning Bolt Entertainment have no entry in Wikipedia?

It's enough to make one register an account.

Someone has to do this! :D

[MacQuarrie]

I agree with Typo. It's not worth the hassle.
Are you kidding? Do you not remember the delightful time we had when Bolty thought JBolted.com was real?

[Typo Lad]

Jim, I already said this to you in IM, but I would like to say it again, and address all of the YABites at once.

This is no longer a good thing by any stretch of the imagination. J-Bolt is not a good person, no. He is not an honest person. He is, by all appearances, not a terribly sane person. To be blunt, I would not be surprised to discover that he suffers from a serious mental imbalance of some sort, diagnosed or not.

This does not excuse his behavior, obviously. Nor, however, does it excuse ours.

J-Bolt is obviously living in another reality. We all know that Jim’s a good guy. We all know that Jim’s not trying to steal $20, and really didn’t get his posters. We all know that Gail was serious her initial offer of help and advice. He doesn’t. And he never will. He’s not capable of it.

By doing things like creating sites to mock his behaviors, posting in IMDB, or going so far as to write a wiki entry? You’re taking things too far.

When pressed to describe the entire Torah, Written and Oral, in a single sentence, the sage Hillel responded “Do not do to your fellow man what is hateful to you; the rest is details”.

All of us have fallen very, very short of that.

Let’s just ignore him gang. Just like you would an autistic child having a fit in a public place.

[MacQuarrie]

You know what? It's not fun anymore. Jim Fisher is a frigging headcase, and taunting him is just mocking the handicapped.

Walking away (again).

I just sent him an e-mail:


SUBJECT: Okay, I'm done. That's enough for me.

Fisher,

I ignored you for the last nine months. I ignored you for months before that, until you put up that ridiculous tirade about me on your cobweb page.

I'm going back to ignoring you.

I've reported every IMDb post in which you mention me or allude to me to the administrators as libelous. And now I'm done. I won't be posting there anymore, but I will be reading, and I will report every post in which you lie about me.

Go find yourself another nemesis. I am not the source of all your problems, and I have not in any way interfered in anything except your attempts to defraud and lie to people. And I'm not even going to bother to do that anymore.

Dealing with you is like kicking a retarded kid. It's just mean.

Bye.

Jim

I've been told that this e-mail is "a stupid attempt to get last licks, childish, and unworthy" of me. It probably is. But there it is.

He can go ahead and have the last word.

[Typo Lad]

I fully fess up as the person who told Jim he was being childish.

I'm sorry but "I'm IGNORING YOU, you CRAZYHEAD", strikes me as such.

[kcarroll]

I'm sorry, but I still love me some J-Bolt craziness.

I recognize that there are those of you that are concerned that he is unstable, but I still think it's really funny.

I have not gone out of my way anymore than to post occasional questions, but I read everything he posts with a borderline obsession. Those of you that believe this enjoyment as mean-spirited or insensitive toward the psychologically handicapped, I hope you can find it in your hearts to make up some psychological excuse for me as well.

I think he's a con-man. I think he's not a very bright con-man, but he's a con-man nonetheless. I equate the interraction with J-Bolt to that of the spam-baiter. Every moment spent distracting him with questions is a moment he's not actually stealing money from someone else.

[MacQuarrie]

Not that he ever successfully stole much money in the first place.

[Magneto_X]

Disregard post.

[kcarroll]

"Not that he ever successfully stole much money in the first place."

true, but not for lack of trying.

I was growing weary of the defense of j-bolt. There is no evidence that he is mentally challenged. There is evidence that he's a lying tool that interviews himself and tries to pass it off as independent journalism.

That's not insanity. It's stupidity, and it's funny. But maybe just to Mac and his ilk.

[sk716]

"Not that he ever successfully stole much money in the first place."

true, but not for lack of trying.

I was growing weary of the defense of j-bolt. There is no evidence that he is mentally challenged. There is evidence that he's a lying tool that interviews himself and tries to pass it off as independent journalism.

That's not insanity. It's stupidity, and it's funny. But maybe just to Mac and his ilk.

I don't believe he's unbalanced, either. I think he's a liar, a con-man, and a self-aggrandizing dumb-ass, but not unbalanced. He also occasionally behaves as a child who has had his toy taken away. And I know many other adult males who behave like children when they don't get their way.

I'm not going to actively mess with him, but I am going to keep the ongoing record in the same place I've kept it since J-Bolted. So, don't go looking at me if a Wikipedia entry appears.

[Cam63]

I missed some of the J-Bolt goodness due to the admins' at imdb.com having deleted a batch of posts.

[MacQuarrie]

Did someone save his last, eyesore of an answer? It's already been deleted.
It's back up. Somebody should copy it.

Somebody should also tell him that "whereas" does not mean what he thinks it does.

[Cam63]

He probably thinks " whereas " means " where's my ass ? "

[MacQuarrie]

He probably thinks " whereas " means " where's my ass ? "
He obviously doesn't know that it means "because."

It does crack me up when he describes his borderline illiteracy as bad spelling, when he habitually misuses words and clearly does not know their meaning.

[Cam63]

I'd be surprised if he knew how to operate the zipper on his dacks.

[MacQuarrie]

I guess J-Bolt managed to collect enough recyclables to pay his GoDaddy bill, because his site is back up. Unchanged, but back.

Apparently I am still his bete noir. Cool.

[TomStillwell]

Wow. This was my first chance to look at his site. That guy is all kinds of crazy.

I especially liked the About section.

[sk716]

*sigh*

Another false alarm...

[Lester C.]

It sucks I missed the whole J-bolt thing.

[MacQuarrie]

*sigh*

Another false alarm...

Sorry, SK. I was hoping for something new too. But meanwhile, I found this:
http://reelmind.com/asfroot/j-bolt/default.php?movie_id=&speed=&ck=21065
Nothing new here, but it's still fun.

[sk716]

*sigh*

And when is he ever going to finish remodelling that site. I vote we introduce him to Geeklog and then make him a special LBE layout!

He'll never use it, but it would sure irritate him into coming out long enough to call us bashers and insist he's not Jim Fisher.

[MacQuarrie]

Okay, here's some actual J-Bolt news.

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=010442&p=2#000058

One of the people that J-Bolt claimed was involved in his project is a publicist named Judith A. Moose. She recently posted at Comicon.com in the J-Bolt thread, saying:

"Yes, and I know Mac, and I know how he asked, politely. You're missing rather a crucial element, that J-Bolt constantly TELLS people to contact these people involved with him. He TOLD us to contact a comics shop in Las Vegas, Judith Moose, and Jaki Barstow, among several others. On top of that, many people who know him emailed ME out of the blue."

I was wandering around on a search engine and ran across this message board. I'm not sure of when all of this drama was taking place but I can assure you that if he was telling anyone to contact Jaki Baskow or me in 2004 that there is definitely something wrong with this picture. Jaki does not represent him nor does she wish to and I dropped him from my client roster in January 2001.
To which useless deluded troll OMAR replies:
Wow, they just keep crawling out from under the rocks to revive this thread, don't they? Real fans of LBC know what the score is - and all the cheap, easy lies in the world can't change that!
No wonder people thought they were the same person.

[MacQuarrie]

*sigh*

And when is he ever going to finish remodelling that site. I vote we introduce him to Geeklog and then make him a special LBE layout!

He'll never use it, but it would sure irritate him into coming out long enough to call us bashers and insist he's not Jim Fisher.
I've offered. Many times. I've offered to host his site, to build him a new one, to set up real forums for him so he could dump that cheesy BraveNet setup... he doesn't love me anymore.

[sk716]

I've offered. Many times. I've offered to host his site, to build him a new one, to set up real forums for him so he could dump that cheesy BraveNet setup... he doesn't love me anymore.

Doesn't matter, we should do it anyway to amuse ourselves!

Now, let's see, we're gonna need a black background with some lightning....

[TomStillwell]

If I understand everything I've read correctly this "publisher" never actually published anything? Twenty years ago he decided to make a comic and never actually made it? He went around and talked all this stuff and never created anything?

Lame.

What exactly is this OMAR guy a fan of? Delusional fantasties?

I'm boggled here. He puts Bill Brasky to shame.

[MacQuarrie]

You correctly understand everything you've read.

It's Pathology on Parade. I miss the guy.

[PatrickG]

Well... This is a better synopsis.

A guy out in Nevada made up a bunch of characters in high school. He became convinced that they were golden, that pros were stealing his ideas.

He gets married, has a kid, teaches some non-credit community college classes (including one with an actual soon-to-be-name artist).

He writes some crank editorial pieces for a local publication on how the mall discriminates by not letting people smoke inside.

In 2001, this guy creates a five page ashcan along with a section where he interviews himself. He begins trying to build up buzz for a movie. Concocts the story that he has dozens of employees. Tries to market his ashcan in a variety of formats. Prestends to have a staff. Starts refering to his sunglasses as a "mask" and goes by a pseudonym.

He lies about a bunch of famous actors who are "rumored" to be involved. Pressured by online fans, he starts posting fake casting lists.

Gail investigates him and discovers something she never revealed to us. Mac orders posters which he never gets, leading to threats. He responds with a threat to sue, small claims. J-Bolt flips.

Along the way, J-Bolt gets a real publicist which he quickly loses and Jackson Bostwick (TV's Captain Marvel) as a co-producer.

More chaos. Some people here create a fake fansite. J-Bolt flips out at IMDB after the fansite is revealed as fake, takes his toys and goes home.

Oh. And I had an e-mail conversation with Bruce Campbell about him.

[PatrickG]

Oh. Speaking of shamelessly plugging ashcans, I've been very unJolt worthy in my (lack of) self-promotion for my own ashcan:

http://www.comixpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=533

No plans for a special edition hardcover. I use no pseudonyms. I have an op-ed piece but no self-interview. No movie plans.

I'll admit this book is on hold. No fibs. No nothing. I'll get back to it eventually, time and money permitting.

[Gail Simone]

He did also produce one 'finished' comic, that I don't believe was ever actually printed anywhere but on his website, and claimed that he was supporting his dozens of staff with sales from his website, even though the links to buy anything at his site were broken for a year.

Gail

[OzBat!]

Was that the one you had to sign up for to access the "exclusive" portion of his website? That somebody went and provided all the direct links to each page anyway?

That was fun! I wonder how much he paid his extensive staff of web designers for THAT little cock-up in basic server security... :D

[MacQuarrie]

Oh. And I had an e-mail conversation with Bruce Campbell about him.
Oh, so you're the one that was running around contacting celebrities and scaring them off the project. And all this time I thought he was falsely accusing me....

[Forsaken_One]

Y'all are still talking about this guy? Jesus...

[OzBat!]

Nonono, we're talking about Jesus in the three or four religious threads on the community board!

[TomStillwell]

We as humans can't look away from slow train wrecks. It's our nature.

This guy clearly has some mental/emotional problems that he's ignoring.

What gets me is the ease of actually making his "dream" come true if he had just taken the proper steps.

I'm a guy who had my own characters and thought they'd make a good superhero comic book. I found out a friend of mine was a damn good artist with his light under a bushel. He did a nice treatment of my designs and improved on them. I learned to script and plot, we learned together how to make a comic.

Neither of us had any experience beforehand. Just a will to create and the drive to learn the ins and outs.

I got involved in groups about making comics. I talked to creators. I networked at shows. When the book was finally available for purchase I did a few shows myself.

I'm the one-man show that runs my site. I handle all the sales from my store. I work on the marketing, PR, deal with the printer, different shops across the country who I consign to...I handle all this so my artist can just work on what he does best.

When you get that book in the mail from Spinner Rack Comics, I'm the guy who bagged and boarded it.

Self publishing costs money but not a whole lot, otherwise my wife would be quite as supportive as she's been.

So it's possible to make the dream of creating and selling a book a reality. J-Bolt wasn't some dreamer denied his dream by impossible factors.

He's just some loser who started of his quest for comic book fame by lying as much as possible and not putting as much work into creating as he did into fabrication.

What a pathetic person. A failure and fraud by his own hand who has done nothing but blame those who would have helped . Gail deserves a halo for treating him was as much class and compassion as humanly possible.

Some people here create a fake fansite.

That's gold. I wish I had been around to see it.

Pat, I'm going to pick up your book with my next order to comixpress. It looks good.

[Shade]

Was that the one you had to sign up for to access the "exclusive" portion of his website? That somebody went and provided all the direct links to each page anyway?

That was fun! I wonder how much he paid his extensive staff of web designers for THAT little cock-up in basic server security... :D

Well you know, they did have those "mainframe" issues there for a while....so the security breach probably came about during that time.

[the4thpip]

That's gold. I wish I had been around to see it.


You missed out on the4thbolt asking J-Bolt who his greated influence as a humanitarian was... And getting a straight-faced answer! :eek:

[Jared_Humpherys]

You missed out on the4thbolt asking J-Bolt who his greated influence as a humanitarian was... And getting a straight-faced answer! :eek:


IIRC, wasn't the answer himself?

[MacQuarrie]

Tom, there are a whole bunch of simple rules to life that J-Bolt never learned:

"You can't learn anything you think you already know."

"You can't get out of a hole by digging."

"Some things are hard; if they were easy, everyone would do them. Those are the things worth doing."

"If you spend a lot of time talking aobut what you're going to do, you burn up all the energy and excitement that you could have used to actually do those things. Don't talk about what you're going to do; do what you're going to do, and then talk about what you did."

"It's easier to stand on the ground to tell the truth than to climb a tree to lie."

Most mature people have at least an instinctive grasp of these concepts. J-Bolt doesn't. He's more interested in finding people to blame for his failures than being honest with people who can help him succeed.

And yes, you missed some hilarity with the JBolted site. I wish I had the archives.

I DO have some transcripts from his own message forums. They're a bit incoherent since they're just text-grabs and not threaded properly, but you can find them at http://www.monkeyspit.net/jbolt.txt

[Lester C.]

Tom, there are a whole bunch of simple rules to life that J-Bolt never learned:

"You can't learn anything you think you already know."

"You can't get out of a hole by digging."

"Some things are hard; if they were easy, everyone would do them. Those are the things worth doing."

"If you spend a lot of time talking aobut what you're going to do, you burn up all the energy and excitement that you could have used to actually do those things. Don't talk about what you're going to do; do what you're going to do, and then talk about what you did."

"It's easier to stand on the ground to tell the truth than to climb a tree to lie."

Most mature people have at least an instinctive grasp of these concepts. J-Bolt doesn't. He's more interested in finding people to blame for his failures than being honest with people who can help him succeed.

And yes, you missed some hilarity with the JBolted site. I wish I had the archives.

I DO have some transcripts from his own message forums. They're a bit incoherent since they're just text-grabs and not threaded properly, but you can find them at http://www.monkeyspit.net/jbolt.txt

Thank you for that post Jim. The rules of life have been copied and pasted on my computer.

[Sabrinaset]

One of the people that J-Bolt claimed was involved in his project is a publicist named Judith A. Moose.

AHA! NOW we know why Mac joined the Bull Moose Party!

[TomStillwell]

If only we could copy those rules into the heads of everyone on the planet.

Thanks for the link, MacQuarrie. Good times.

[Spackling Compound]

Another rule of life:

"If you want to kick a bent man, you have to bend a little lower."

I thought it was decided many months ago that J was suffering from some illness.

[Spackling Compound]

If only we could copy those rules into the heads of everyone on the planet.

Thanks for the link, MacQuarrie. Good times.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/k/x/kxk30/laws.htm

[Red Jack]

"It's easier to stand on the ground to tell the truth than to climb a tree to lie."

This one took me a minute, I admit. I enjoy a good tree climb.

Part of the reason J-Bolt comes back is because people like me, new to the forum, stumble on the old discussion and, in my case at least, become fascinated.

It's like watching the effect of a black hole's gravity well without actually being able to see the hole itself.

Or, like a religious faith in a way, there are those who have interacted with J-Bolt, read his words, seen his wisdom, and those, like me, who can only hear the tales and marvel and the sheer incredulous bullet train momentum of what seems to be a particularly and deliciously delusional person.

Even if the whole thing is just a complex and beautifully executed hoax, it's a marvelous example of the internet's version of the roadside attraction.

Either way J-Bolt lives. He will outlive all of us. Just like the world's biggest ball of rubberbands or The Thing or Hitler's Staff Car.

As long as there is a nethead anywhere willing to do a spit take over bogus claims and lunatic ravings, J-Bolt will live. And that makes me feel strangely comforted somehow.

There's a little J-Bolt in all of us after all.

Okay. There really isn't. But it sounded good.

[TomStillwell]

Mac (if I may be so informal), that link was a trip.

You guys did a great job of asking pointed questions yet hiding it behind being the fans of LBC he so desperately wanted to believe existed.

Whoever played the part of Ariel, my hat is off to you.

Did you ever find out if Heather was real or not?

The whole Bolt thing...hilarious.

He used Stillwell as the last name for one of his characters. I'm suing, me and all the Stillwells are going to bring a class action.

Boy, that thing sucked me in. I better get back to work.

[Gail Simone]

Heather will always be real as long as we all clap our hands and shout, I DO believe in fairies!

Gail

[TomStillwell]

Fairies? Are you saying Heather is a Lebian?

Damn bashers!

[the4thpip]

IIRC, wasn't the answer himself?
Nah, I seem to remember he went for the usual suspects... Gandhi, Mother Terry, Hay-sus...

[Gail Simone]

I think he mostly felt there weren't many real humanitarians.

Gail

[TomStillwell]

Did anyone actually see the ashcan or #0 comics he had online? If so was it any good?

I can't really tell much from the few graphics on the site.

It would be a shame if J-Bolt had real talent that was hindered by his other issues.

Sorry if I'm drudging up ancient history for some of you folks. This whole thing has me fascinated. I have a degree in psychology and this is a great case study of delusional behavior turned up to 11.

[Gail Simone]

The ashcan was hilarious. He pretended to be an investigative reporter and interviewed himself. It sounds like a joke, but he was dead serious.

The comic...eh. The writing was hideous. A true abomination. He makes Ed Wood look like a genius. The art...if he had an editor and some discipline, I think he could be a pro, but there's a lot of lazy, sloppy work covered by too much color and effects. It's a fun read, but for the wrong reasons.

Gail

[MacQuarrie]

Did anyone actually see the ashcan or #0 comics he had online? If so was it any good?
It's there. You just have to manually change all the links from teh old domain URL to the new one.

Example:

http://www.lightning-bolt-comics.com/Comics/Ashcan/WLS0ashcan1.html
is a dead link. Change it to

http://www.lightningboltentertainment.com/Comics/Ashcan/WLS0ashcan1.html
And there's the ashcan.

Enjoy.

You can also find a lot of other interesting J-Bolt art at http://jboltmania.jbolted.com

[TomStillwell]

The ashcan was hilarious. He pretended to be an investigative reporter and interviewed himself. It sounds like a joke, but he was dead serious.

Oh my. That's gold. Gold!!! I'll remember to use that trick for my next issue.

From what I can tell, this guy probably would have sold a bunch of comics if he had actually made something and delivered the goods. I know I'd pay to read his book after all the bread and circuses. I'm betting many people here would have too.

It's like people buying a Paris Hilton CD. You know it will suck badly but you just have to hear the suckitude yourself.

[MacQuarrie]

If I had a dollar for every person who looked at a J-Bolt post and said "that's gold" I'd be filthy rich. I won't torment him anymore, but he's still the gift that keeps on giving.

[AndrewCrossett]

Hmmm...Lightning Bolt Comics sounded familiar to me. But upon further investigation I seem to have been remembering this (http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics50.html).

Or maybe this (http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics48.html).

No, wait, I was thinking of Lightning Comics (http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics36.html).

[Red Jack]

I STILL haven't seen any physical example of his product. You all keep alluding to the fact that he actually had talent but was just too delusional to apply it properly.

Does any art exist anywhere? edit: aside from the cover of the ashcan.

[sk716]

Tom, there are a whole bunch of simple rules to life that J-Bolt never learned:

"You can't learn anything you think you already know."

"You can't get out of a hole by digging."

"Some things are hard; if they were easy, everyone would do them. Those are the things worth doing."

"If you spend a lot of time talking aobut what you're going to do, you burn up all the energy and excitement that you could have used to actually do those things. Don't talk about what you're going to do; do what you're going to do, and then talk about what you did."

"It's easier to stand on the ground to tell the truth than to climb a tree to lie."

Most mature people have at least an instinctive grasp of these concepts. J-Bolt doesn't. He's more interested in finding people to blame for his failures than being honest with people who can help him succeed.

And yes, you missed some hilarity with the JBolted site. I wish I had the archives.

I DO have some transcripts from his own message forums. They're a bit incoherent since they're just text-grabs and not threaded properly, but you can find them at http://www.monkeyspit.net/jbolt.txt

There are some archives. The forums (http://www.jbolted.com/originalforum/index.php) are preserved just as they we're they are just shifted so noone can use them. I'm sure I still have the original HTML pages on my PC. Maybe it's been long enough I can put them back up.

And don't forget J-Bolt Mania (http://jboltmania.jbolted.com), the official repository for all of the J-Bolt goodness.

There is more tucked away here (http://www.jbolted.com/protected/). I don't remember the username and password anymore so I'll have to unprotect the directory.

[sk716]

I STILL haven't seen any physical example of his product. You all keep alluding to the fact that he actually had talent but was just too delusional to apply it properly.

Does any art exist anywhere? edit: aside from the cover of the ashcan.

Visit J-Bolt Mania (http://jboltmania.jbolted.com/article.php?story=20050501014543573). There are full instructions to see every page of his comics. I can't believe even after all of that he still didn't have the sense to password protect the directory.

[Red Jack]

Visit J-Bolt Mania (http://jboltmania.jbolted.com/article.php?story=20050501014543573). There are full instructions to see every page of his comics. I can't believe even after all of that he still didn't have the sense to password protect the directory.

Thanks.........

edit: Dear god.

edit: Dear god.

edit: You guys are brutal. Clearly this is the work of a child. Have you no pity?

[sk716]

Thanks.........

edit: Dear god.

edit: Dear god.

edit: You guys are brutal. Clearly this is the work of a child. Have you no pity?

None whatsoever.

[palaeomerus]

The ashcan was hilarious. He pretended to be an investigative reporter and interviewed himself. It sounds like a joke, but he was dead serious.

The comic...eh. The writing was hideous. A true abomination. He makes Ed Wood look like a genius. The art...if he had an editor and some discipline, I think he could be a pro, but there's a lot of lazy, sloppy work covered by too much color and effects. It's a fun read, but for the wrong reasons.

Gail

Demon Dawn is the single greatest piece of art ever created and probably represents the absolute pinnacle of human achievement for the next two thousand years.

Other than that you are quite correct.

By the way Gail, since you are a well known Lebian I'd really like to know just who the hell Lebes was what the hell is so special about him/her? Sociologist? Political Scientist? Philosopher? Artist? Film Director? Poet? Fiction Writer? Ornithologist?

If Lebes fought Hegel who would win? How about Lebes vs. Audobon?
I searched Wikipedia and found nothing.

[TomStillwell]

You guys have a whole website devoted to this joker. That's beautiful.

I want you all to bear my children. You have my undying regard.

[Red Jack]

You guys have a whole website devoted to this joker. That's beautiful.

I want you all to bear my children. You have my undying regard.

Hey. I checked out HONOR BRIGADE. Nice work.

How do you do the code for the web comic version?

Image has something like it on their site as well.

[Crowley]

you guys...

we CREATED his FAN FORUM!

tricked him and OMAR into thinking it was genuine for 2 MONTHS and then pulled the rug out from under the bastard...

http://www.jbolted.com/originalforum/index.php

it was awesome!

[Crowley]

ah memories... my final post to J-Dolt:
http://www.jbolted.com/originalforum/viewtopic.php?t=87

[TomStillwell]

Thanks Jack.

How do you do the code for the web comic version?

Actually, you'd have to talk to my website dude. I'm clueless on how all that stuff work. A good friend of mine handles it. He's in design school and I let him use it as a project for his classes.

If you e-mail the admin addy on the site he might even answer. He's a bit anti-social. I'm not even sure he likes me.

I'm sure you're all amazed to find that my site doesn't have a web design team who I spend thousands of dollars on in conjunction with a mainframe.

My friend works for free comics/posters and a chance to practice. The whole thing doesn't cost me $20 per month.

Yet believe it or not all the links work.;)

[Red Jack]

ah memories... my final post to J-Dolt:
http://www.jbolted.com/originalforum/viewtopic.php?t=87


What I don't get is what this guy did to get this– I hesitate to call it a feud– started?

This is a lot of work put in.

Granted he's clearly a raving loon but did he come out, guns blazing? What was his beef with Gail?

[TomStillwell]

Just from the stuff I've read in the last day or two it he's come off as a major jerk, liar, and thief.

I just finished reading through J-Bolted, That's awesome. The guy goes off pretty well on his own...but give him a forum where he thinks he's god? Lordy!

I don't know how you contained yourselves.

It reminds me of a time some friends of mine and I decided to create a fictional anime series called Ninja Demonicron to illustrate how some manga fans will buy into anything. Someone started to talk about it and we followed up adding our own ad lib posts.

"I really liked when Big Teno used the Solar Hammer to defeat Master Sai of the Temple of The Four Lotus."

"I like Teno but he has no idea Sishi is in love with him!"

On we went, flaming each at points of disagreement even. Finally we had people looking all over for ND bootlegs. We felt it was cruel by then and admitted our prank.

The funny thing is...our made up stuff sounded pretty cool.

I need to find that thread.

[sk716]

Just from the stuff I've read in the last day or two it he's come off as a major jerk, liar, and thief.

I just finished reading through J-Bolted, That's awesome. The guy goes off pretty well on his own...but give him a forum where he thinks he's god? Lordy!

I don't know how you contained yourselves.

Barely. The good news is, you can't hear someone laughing over the internet. There was a special Mods Section on the J-Bolted forum so we could communicate and otherwise plan our next moves. For a couple of weeks only a handful of us knew that J-Bolted was not the real thing.

It reminds me of a time some friends of mine and I decided to create a fictional anime series called Ninja Demonicron to illustrate how some manga fans will buy into anything. Someone started to talk about it and we followed up adding our own ad lib posts.

"I really liked when Big Teno used the Solar Hammer to defeat Master Sai of the Temple of The Four Lotus."

"I like Teno but he has no idea Sishi is in love with him!"

On we went, flaming each at points of disagreement even. Finally we had people looking all over for ND bootlegs. We felt it was cruel by then and admitted our prank.

The funny thing is...our made up stuff sounded pretty cool.

I need to find that thread.

Good one.

[sk716]

What I don't get is what this guy did to get this– I hesitate to call it a feud– started?

There is nothing like a little belligerency (That's not even a real word, see you have to make up words when J-Bolt is involved.) to incite someone to do mean things. Once you've sifted through all of the evidence(?) you'll understand a little better.

This is a lot of work put in.

No, not really. I slapped together J-Bolted in a couple of days making it as sloppy and amaturish as possible. When it first went up, I even had a bad link. I wrote a few lines of b.s. embellished by an unnamed little blue duck and another guy with a royal handle. Even a drunken Australian was in on the gag. I don't even think we told Mac it was us until we were already in full swing (plausable deniabiliy).

Granted he's clearly a raving loon but did he come out, guns blazing?

Yes, apparently, that's his style.

What was his beef with Gail?

I think it's because she offered to help him.

[Red Jack]

There is nothing like a little belligerency (That's not even a real word, see you have to make up words when J-Bolt is involved.) to incite someone to do mean things. Once you've sifted through all of the evidence(?) you'll understand a little better.

Yeah. I'm still on on page 60 of the big thread.

I think it's because she offered to help him.

Damn.

Pardon me.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

[Crowley]

you should both know that SK is an Internet Goddess.

She KICKS sooooo much ass!

[Magneto_X]

What I don't get is what this guy did to get this– I hesitate to call it a feud– started?

This is a lot of work put in.

Granted he's clearly a raving loon but did he come out, guns blazing? What was his beef with Gail?

If anything J-Bolt should be *thanking* Gail. She has put in plenty of time and gave him advice when she didn't have to! She evn offered to write a script for him! Naturally he turned her down. :confused:

I don't know about you, but if Gail offered to write something for a comic series I made I'd jump at the chance.

Plus she interview him once.

[the4thpip]

IIRC, wasn't the answer himself?
Wow, I remembered wrong and you were right:

-humanitarian acts: I haven't seen too many people actually DO Humanitarian acts that have influenced me. Oprah makes BILLIONS but will start a charity, then take credit for it, Maury Povich has done a few good deeds, but those get over-shadowed by his tendancy to make his show more like Jerry Springer. I've seen a few good deeds, in my time, but I've never really seen a good "humanitarian." So, I guess, I'll just have to influence myself and make sure that I keep doing what's right, on my own merit. I don't mean to sound boastful with that answer, but can anyone really think of a GOOD HUMANITARIAN to be influenced by? I was raised in the days when comics gave us hope and REAL heroes, not heroes that we're almost as afraid of, as the villain. Therefore, I modelled my sense of humanitarianism based on those comic book morals: "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," "save whoever you can, no matter what the risk/cost to yourself," etc. Stuff like that is what I grew up with and it was a hard fall down when I grew up and learned that the Police, Fire Departments, Politicians, News Industry, all the people that we grew up believing in,... we're, in actuality,... as corrupt as the crooks, if not more. Now, in comics, characters, who had the highest morals, go nuts and start killing people, they don't show the reality of corruption in the World, as it should be...so that kids won't grow up, thinking they're safe, when the truth is quite the opposite. The "Humanitarians" do what they do for tax write-offs, even if they, personally, don't do it. So, I guesss I'm just gonna' have to keep an eye out on myself and make sure MY values don't get twisted... maybe keep looking up the word "humanitarian," once in a while... just to remind myself what I want to be. Then be it.
I guess that would have to stand as my answer, as confusing as it sounds.
J- Cool

[PatrickG]

I find it peculiar that Oprah Winfrey and Maury Povich come up as the first two names in a discussion about humanitarians.

Maybe Oprah, I guess. But it's interesting he picks two day time personalities.

The names that come to mind for me are:

Andrew Carnegie, Martin Luther King, Jerry Lewis, Bono, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Albert Einstein.

[MacQuarrie]

What I don't get is what this guy did to get this– I hesitate to call it a feud– started?

This is a lot of work put in.

Granted he's clearly a raving loon but did he come out, guns blazing? What was his beef with Gail?
Short answer:

J-Bolt showed up here, and on the Ellis forum and a few other comics sites, tooting his horn and announcing the opening of his new website promoting his comics and soon-to-start-production major motion picture. So we all went and looked at his site, in which he solicited monthly subscriptions to access his content, which has not changed in 5 years.

Anyway, the original version of his site included a lot of grandiose claims, such as that "early critics and fans" believe this will be the first comics-based film to win the Academy Award. (When it was pointed out to him that several comics-based films had already won Oscars, that claim disappeared.) You can see some of the early site at the Wayback Machine.

For me it became personal when he went on the attack. He had listed several individuals on the site as beign participants in the project, including his publicist and agent. Curious, and having seen him already called out by other for various untruths and factual errors, I googled up his agent's website and sent a polite e-mail enquiring about her involvement with J-Bolt. She replied with an e-mail asking me to call her, so I did. We chatted for a few minutes, and she stated that she was not representing him at all, had only met him once, and her total involvement was putting him in touch with the man who is allegedly directing this film. I reported the conversation here.

J-Bolt fired back with a transcript of a supposed phone call of his own, in which the publicist called him up and said that I was a crazy loon who was harassing her with all my questions and attacks.

There are a lot of things I will put up with, but being called a liar and accused of doing things I did not do are sure ways to put me on the warpath. Being irish/scot, I have very little aversion to fighting to the death against impossible odds. My primary concern is not winning, it's inflicting as much pain on the other guy as I possibly can. J-Bolt chose to screw with the wrong guy that day. It's been war ever since.

Eventually, after a protracted scorched-earth battle here and on his own forums, J-Bolt waved the white flag, asked forgiveness, and posted a "can we start over?" message here. We all buried the hatchet and gave him a second chance. People offered helpful advice which he accepted gracefully. People answered his questions and explained the realities of comic publishing to him. It went pretty well for a couple of weeks. Then the ego came creeping back in, followed by the psychotic refusal to ever admit an error and the arrogant attitude we thought he had overcome. In a very short time, J-Bolt was worse than ever. Finally he took his ball and went home.

Months passed. Eventually we settled into a cycle, which I think may follow his bipolar cycle (some people have suggested that he may be bi-polar or schizophrenic; I've spoken to him on the phone for several hours, and I do not see any disconnect from reality, what I see is a bullshit artist) in which he goes silent for long periods of time, then pops up and starts some new scheme, like peddling shares of the film's profits on Ebay or listing the project on IMDB in an attempt to create the illusion of legitimacy.

If your web-fu is strong, you can find hints of items he's posted on various film and investment sites seeking backers. He's not crazy, he's gloriously incompetent. But he also has such a raging ego that he thinks he's smarter than everyone else and can bluff and hype his way past everyone. See my bit about inept people: http://www.monkeyspit.net/rantman/inept.php J-Bolt is inept, and the skills he would need in order to be competent are the same skills necessary to assess competence. He's too dumb to know he's dumb.

Fos ome of us, J-Bolt is a freak show. For others, a horrible slow-motion train wreck guaranteed to end badly. For others, he's street theater. For me, keeping an eye on him is just plain old prudence. He's determined to rip somebody off, and I'm not going to let him.

[TomStillwell]

it was a hard fall down when I grew up and learned that the Police, Fire Departments, Politicians, News Industry,...all the people that we grew up believing in,... we're, in actuality,... as corrupt as the crooks, if not more.

I surely hate those damn corrupt firemen. Taking bribes to look the other way when arsonists start fires and whatnot. The system is rampant with those bastards! Lazing about in their plush firehouses on their La-Z-Boy recliners with all that sweet, sweet arsonist payoff money in their bank accounts. Bastards!!!

Yeah, corrupt firemen. Unbelievable.

[AndrewCrossett]

I surely hate those damn corrupt firemen. Taking bribes to look the other way when arsonists start fires and whatnot. The system is rampant with those bastards! Lazing about in their plush firehouses on their La-Z-Boy recliners with all that sweet, sweet arsonist payoff money in their bank accounts. Bastards!!!

Yeah, corrupt firemen. Unbelievable.

Those corrupt garbagemen are even worse. One time I forgot to separate my recyclables. Next day I find a corsage hanging on my front door with a note on it saying "for your grieving widow."

And I'm not even married.

[Gail Simone]

I surely hate those damn corrupt firemen. Taking bribes to look the other way when arsonists start fires and whatnot. The system is rampant with those bastards! Lazing about in their plush firehouses on their La-Z-Boy recliners with all that sweet, sweet arsonist payoff money in their bank accounts. Bastards!!!

Yeah, corrupt firemen. Unbelievable.

He had a long story at one point about how some corrupt firemen had left some old person to die or some such, while he bravely fought the fire.

It was awesome.

Gail

[OMAR]

The ashcan was hilarious. He pretended to be an investigative reporter and interviewed himself. It sounds like a joke, but he was dead serious.

The comic...eh. The writing was hideous. A true abomination. He makes Ed Wood look like a genius. The art...if he had an editor and some discipline, I think he could be a pro, but there's a lot of lazy, sloppy work covered by too much color and effects. It's a fun read, but for the wrong reasons.

Gail

Personal taste will differ, of course - I found the ashcan to be exciting and gripping, but I wasn't viewing it through the eyes of a professional writer, just a long-time comics fan. I found it to be very comparable to the early Valiant titles, in that it was a promising set up with some new twists on familiar concepts.

But this business with the interview was clarified by J-Bolt himself some time ago, and settled once and for all:

"Omar...
Your question has been asked and answered several times, but the forum has been taken down from my company site and it sounds as though the bash forums have taken the answer off of their forums: most likely because it showed them to be the fools they are, which they just won't allow.
Jim Fisher: he is an artist/color artist/SFX designer that I've known for quite a long time. He's very shy and doesn't like for his picture to be taken, which means he doesn't like personal exposure. Rather, he prefers that his work be what he's known as, instead of his image.
J.B. Fisher: he is an expose' reporter that I met when I did a little bit of journalism a number of years back, who keeps trying to retire but is asked by different newspapers to do stories for them because he has no problem about making enemies, no matter who they are, when he does his research and writes the stories. When the Ashcan was being put together, I knew that the best way for the interview to be done was by getting the toughest expose' reporter I could think of in order to make the interview a little more spicy. So, I gave him that job. He did his research on me/my company/ the comic that the Ashcan was promoting and we conducted the interview. To give example of how unbiased this guy is, he's even made enemies out of some of his own family members who ran crooked businesses. By the way, the name similarities, between the 2 Fishers, is what caught my attention about him, when we met. That could be construed as coincidence, but it's what opened up conversation between us, when we met.
I hope this helps you and I appreciate your sentry of my interests. I won't forget it."

[EdContradictory]

He signed his name "J-Cool"?

Something like a J-Bolt only comes across once in a lifetime.

Blessed, YABS is.

[TomStillwell]

I found the ashcan to be pretty bad. I guess the best thing about it was the art and even that was awful.

The characters...oooo...so bad.

It's like the kind of stuff you create at 13 and think it's awesome. If that took more then a week of work to make I'd be astonished.

J-Bolts seems like the classic munchkin. The guy in D&D who always has to have the most powerful character or the dude writing a fanfic that writes character (based on himself of course) with god-like powers.

He doesn't have a computer. He has a mainframe.

He doesn't self publish. He has a multitude of companies.

He doesn't just have talent. He's a genius mastermind running a vast empire while ducking the jealous powers of the comic industry and saving old people.

OMAR, you seem sort of intelligent. Can't you see through the fabrication? I'm an outsider reading everything and it's pretty clear.

It's good to see you still sentry his interests, though.

[TCJohnson]

I found the ashcan to be pretty bad. I guess the best thing about it was the art and even that was awful.

The characters...oooo...so bad.

It's like the kind of stuff you create at 13 and think it's awesome. If that took more then a week of work to make I'd be astonished.

That is the thing about him. J-Bolt was told in highschool that he had some talent, which he does, but decided that it was perfect the way it was and didn't try to push it anymore. these are characters he created when he was in high school.

[Red Jack]

Short answer: cut for length


So it's gladitorial and he keeps coming up short.

I can work with that.

And the blazing incompetence speaks for itself. I think Gail was generous on many fronts, not the least of which was the talent assessment.

[MacQuarrie]

For those playing at home, OMAR is a contrarian. What that means is, he will automatically take the unpopular side in any dispute and attempt to defend it to the bitter end. Not because he believes it, but because it's all just internet jousting to him, and he thinks he's so smart and so articulate and such a brilliant debater that he has to handicap himself by taking the underdog position just to make it interesting.

Sadly, he's not anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is (see my "inept" piece again), and has no persoanl integrity and does not stand behind his own words when caught in one of his constant falsehoods, equivocations, evasions or other such truth-substitutes. He never concedes a point and never admits it when he's been misled.

His primary goal is not to fight for his cause, it is to stir up random people and try to provoke them to rage.

He is, in short, a troll.

Engage him if you must, but don't take him seriously.

[MacQuarrie]

Oh, what the hell...
But this business with the interview was clarified by J-Bolt himself some time ago, and settled once and for all:

"Omar...
Your question has been asked and answered several times, but the forum has been taken down from my company site and it sounds as though the bash forums have taken the answer off of their forums: most likely because it showed them to be the fools they are, which they just won't allow.
Jim Fisher: he is an artist/color artist/SFX designer that I've known for quite a long time. He's very shy and doesn't like for his picture to be taken, which means he doesn't like personal exposure. Rather, he prefers that his work be what he's known as, instead of his image.
J.B. Fisher: he is an expose' reporter that I met when I did a little bit of journalism a number of years back, who keeps trying to retire but is asked by different newspapers to do stories for them because he has no problem about making enemies, no matter who they are, when he does his research and writes the stories. When the Ashcan was being put together, I knew that the best way for the interview to be done was by getting the toughest expose' reporter I could think of in order to make the interview a little more spicy. So, I gave him that job. He did his research on me/my company/ the comic that the Ashcan was promoting and we conducted the interview. To give example of how unbiased this guy is, he's even made enemies out of some of his own family members who ran crooked businesses. By the way, the name similarities, between the 2 Fishers, is what caught my attention about him, when we met. That could be construed as coincidence, but it's what opened up conversation between us, when we met.
I hope this helps you and I appreciate your sentry of my interests. I won't forget it."
Okay, Omar, a challenge:

Find one, just one, article or reference to an article by this J.B. Fisher, in any publication, online or off. Prove he exists.

We've already proven by US Copyright records that Jim Fisher is not "artist/color artist/SFX designer that [J-Bolt has] known for quite a long time", but is in fact J-Bolt himself. This is an indisputable fact. I submit that J. B(olt) Fisher is also J-Bolt.

Put up or shut up.

[Gail Simone]

Hey, Omar!

If J-bolt's not Jim Fisher, which he is and people close to him have told me so including his producer and ex-girlfriend, then why are his creations registered and copyrighted under the name Jim Fisher?

Gail

[Typo Lad]

Why oh why are we feeding Omar?

[Gail Simone]

Hey, Omar!

If J-bolt's not Jim Fisher, which he is and people close to him have told me so including his producer and ex-girlfriend, then why are his creations registered and copyrighted under the name Jim Fisher?

Gail

Unless of course, you want to call Captain Marvel a liar... ;-)

As for Image and Valiant comparisons, yes, it's true that the early image stuff broke a lot of promises and had terrible grammar and spelling throughout. However, all of those people also had bodies of work that they HAD produced that they could point at. J-bolt consistantly talks about it, but neither he, nor 'Jim Fisher' have ever been able to show or even point out a single piece of professional work produced for anyone other than LBC.

Gail

[TomStillwell]

Maybe Jim Fisher is symbolic, like the spirit of America or something.

<stands up>

I AM JIM FISHER!

No, I AM JIM FISHER!!!

[Gail Simone]

Omar's just playing along. He doesn't believe any of this stuff. It's funny.

Gail

[Red Jack]

I'm still grappling with how one can "sentry" a post.

[TomStillwell]

Me too. Every definition of the word is a noun.

[Magneto_X]

Why oh why are we feeding Omar?

Because J-Bolt isn't around, of course!

[the4thpip]

For those playing at home, OMAR is a contrarian. What that means is, he will automatically take the unpopular side in any dispute and attempt to defend it to the bitter end. Not because he believes it, but because it's all just internet jousting to him, and he thinks he's so smart and so articulate and such a brilliant debater that he has to handicap himself by taking the underdog position just to make it interesting.

Sadly, he's not anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is (see my "inept" piece again), and has no persoanl integrity and does not stand behind his own words when caught in one of his constant falsehoods, equivocations, evasions or other such truth-substitutes. He never concedes a point and never admits it when he's been misled.

His primary goal is not to fight for his cause, it is to stir up random people and try to provoke them to rage.

He is, in short, a troll.

Engage him if you must, but don't take him seriously.
Ah, that would explain the discussion I had with him about the vocal qualities of Aretha Franklin versus those of Yoko Ono.

[PatrickG]

Ah, that would explain the discussion I had with him about the vocal qualities of Aretha Franklin versus those of Yoko Ono.

Hey!

Don't blame it on Yokey!

[OMAR]

Hey, Omar!

If J-bolt's not Jim Fisher, which he is and people close to him have told me so including his producer and ex-girlfriend, then why are his creations registered and copyrighted under the name Jim Fisher?

Gail

I don't know. Look, I'm nobody's idea of an internet detective. I asked J-Bolt about this Fisher fellow who worked on his books, and about the expose reporter who did the interview, and you can read his answer for yourself. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Why would he lie?!

As to the specifics of whatever deal J-Bolt and Fisher worked out regarding ownership of the characters or books they worked on together, I have no inside information. Sounds to me, if what you say is true, like they must have some sort of understanding and to me it just points out Bolt's willingness to share the pie with his collaborators. Good for him, as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the man himself doesn't have much of an online presence these days or we could ask him directly and I'm sure he could elaborate. That a 5-year campaign of hatred and derision was enough to turn him off such interactions is hardly surprising, though.

[PatrickG]

Y'Know what, OMAR...

You should be J-Bolt's publicist.

You seem to enjoy defending him. You have better spelling and grammer than he does and you don't melt down.

I think you'd be an asset to his family of companies. Why don't you call him up and have him put your resume in his corporate mainframe?

[TomStillwell]

What, and put Heather Andes out of a job?!!!

[Gail Simone]

I don't know. Look, I'm nobody's idea of an internet detective. I asked J-Bolt about this Fisher fellow who worked on his books, and about the expose reporter who did the interview, and you can read his answer for yourself. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Why would he lie?!

As to the specifics of whatever deal J-Bolt and Fisher worked out regarding ownership of the characters or books they worked on together, I have no inside information. Sounds to me, if what you say is true, like they must have some sort of understanding and to me it just points out Bolt's willingness to share the pie with his collaborators. Good for him, as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the man himself doesn't have much of an online presence these days or we could ask him directly and I'm sure he could elaborate. That a 5-year campaign of hatred and derision was enough to turn him off such interactions is hardly surprising, though.


See?

Omar's in on the gag. He just has a different approach.

Gail

[MacQuarrie]

I don't know. Look, I'm nobody's idea of an internet detective. I asked J-Bolt about this Fisher fellow who worked on his books....
And he lied to you.

He told you flat out that he is not Jim Fisher. He told the US Copyright office that the LBC characters were created and owned by Jim "J-Bolt" Fisher. You can keep trying to claim that he told you the truth and lied to Uncle Sam, but Occam is waving his razor and laughing at you.

You are defending a habitual and chronic liar. I refuse to believe you are doing so because you believe him. Nobody who can type is that gullible. (If you do believe him, you can invest in his movie with the money you're getting from that nigerian prince.)

Please. You're not that stupid. Pretending to be in order to stick to you ill-advised defense of this clown is just making you look as foolish as he is. You can't get out of a hole by digging.

Jim Fisher is, by his own admission, J-Bolt. J.B. Fisher, according to Lexis-Nexus, Google, and many other public and private information services, does not exist. Heather Andes, according to those same sources, does not exist.

You are defending a liar and making yourself look like an idiot. Please stop.

Then, once you've conceded that you were conned, you can get around to that apology you owe me for the lies you posted about me at Comicon.com.

[OMAR]

Unless of course, you want to call Captain Marvel a liar... ;-)

As for Image and Valiant comparisons, yes, it's true that the early image stuff broke a lot of promises and had terrible grammar and spelling throughout. However, all of those people also had bodies of work that they HAD produced that they could point at. J-bolt consistantly talks about it, but neither he, nor 'Jim Fisher' have ever been able to show or even point out a single piece of professional work produced for anyone other than LBC.

Gail

I wasn't thinking of Image but Valiant came to mind because of the new twists that LBC was able to put on some old familiar concepts. Draco and Wolff are both great examples of that - I'm looking forward to following their adventures when the time is right and they are available.

I wasn't aware that J-Bolt had other professional experience at all.

[OMAR]

Omar's just playing along. He doesn't believe any of this stuff. It's funny.

Gail

Well it would be easy to pretend I believed it, but I've never been a "go along to get along" guy and I don't jump on bandwagons. My interactions with J-Bolt were consistantly pleasant and amiable. Why should I believe all the bashing, just to be accepted? I'll prefer to judge him on his work and how he treats people, including his staff and his customer base.

I wonder how many of the people in this thread really gave the LBC characters and stories fair consideration? I'll put the WLS ashcan up against LAB RATS or FABLES any day of the week. Just because it doesn't have a big marketing machine shoving the books down our throats doesn't mean the LBC books are somehow inferior.

[Kyuubi]

OMAR is the best kind of troll.



If that's at all possible.

[the4thpip]

What kind of benchmark is Lab Rats supposed to be? :confused:

[Red Jack]

I'll put the WLS ashcan up against LAB RATS or FABLES any day of the week.

You're kidding. You honestly can't tell the difference?

[Mike Smash!]

Thanks.........

edit: Dear god.

edit: Dear god.

edit: You guys are brutal. Clearly this is the work of a child. Have you no pity?

I just read it. Why the fuck does a hospital have an IV bag of "experimental wolf blood"?

Why does Wolff scream about wanting to left alone after he picked a fight?

Why did I waste time reading it??

Did J-Bolt commission a 12 year old to write this?

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

"J-Bolt once accused Warren Ellis of being an agent of DC Comics out to destroy Lightning Bolt Comics."

And to think I joined the internet like, 2, 3 years after all this. I feel so... so incomplete. :(

[MacQuarrie]

I just read it. Why the fuck does a hospital have an IV bag of "experimental wolf blood"?

Why does Wolff scream about wanting to left alone after he picked a fight?

Why did I waste time reading it??

Did J-Bolt commission a 12 year old to write this?
You missed the best one.

If "pure instinct" has taken over, why does he take his pants when he leaves?

[MacQuarrie]

Well it would be easy to pretend I believed it, but I've never been a "go along to get along" guy and I don't jump on bandwagons. My interactions with J-Bolt were consistantly pleasant and amiable. Why should I believe all the bashing, just to be accepted? I'll prefer to judge him on his work and how he treats people, including his staff and his customer base.
You know, while "going along to get along" is foolish, obstinately doing the opposite is equally foolish.

Of course your interactions with him were pleasant and amiable; you never questioned his blatant falsehoods, never asked for any proof of his extraordinary claims, never behaved as anything other than a bootlicking toady to him. Of course he'd be pleasant and amiable. He lied right to your face and you believed it unquestioningly.

How he treats people? Well, since he obviously does not have a staff, we can't judge this based on how he treats his sock-puppets. Everyone who has ever posted on behalf of LBC is Jim Fisher. Heather is Jim. J.B. is Jim. J-Bolt is Jim. Lightning Bolt Comics is Jim Fisher and nobody else.

Since I am his entire customer base (the only person who has ever bought anything from him), I think it's pretty clear how he treats his customers.

Wha tyou call bashing is nothing more than demanding honesty. The "bashers" could not have harmed his project if he wasn't lying about it. Telling Samantha Fox's agent that J-Bolt is claiming she signed a contract that she didn't is not "bashing." It's preventing fraud.
I wonder how many of the people in this thread really gave the LBC characters and stories fair consideration? I'll put the WLS ashcan up against LAB RATS or FABLES any day of the week. Just because it doesn't have a big marketing machine shoving the books down our throats doesn't mean the LBC books are somehow inferior.
We'd LOVE to give it a chance. All we've seen so far is a couple of promo pages. If he puts out an actual comic, we will all buy it. We can't be fans of something that doesn't exist.

He keeps asking what we think of Marina, but nobody knows what she looks like, what her origin is, what her abilities are, where she comes from... We're all supposed to accept the hype at face value and pretend we've actually seen something to get excited about.

So far all we have to go on is 5 year old promises and mangled english.

[sk716]

Hey, Omar!

If J-bolt's not Jim Fisher, which he is and people close to him have told me so including his producer and ex-girlfriend, then why are his creations registered and copyrighted under the name Jim Fisher?

Gail

Henceforth, I demand a cookie everytime someone mentions the copyright.

I think I'll post the screencap again and have a cookie...

http://jboltmania.jbolted.com/images/jboltcopyright.JPG

[TomStillwell]

I wonder how many of the people in this thread really gave the LBC characters and stories fair consideration? I'll put the WLS ashcan up against LAB RATS or FABLES any day of the week. Just because it doesn't have a big marketing machine shoving the books down our throats doesn't mean the LBC books are somehow inferior.

Well, as someone who wasn't around for all the "bashing", I was willing to give J-Bolt the benefit of doubt when it concerned talent. It was very possible that despite being a loon he could create comics.

Then I looked at what little work is available.

Gail is kind when she says he has talent as an artist, IMHO.

I've said it before that the art was as good as a decently talented junior high student could manage. Unfortunately this was a grown man claiming it was critically acclaimed work he perfected over decades and trying to sell it to people.

The writing was worse than the art, much worse. Again, junior high level. The plot, the characters are all things a young teen would think of as being cool. I would expect a little more from a self proclaimed comic genius.

If my comic partner Brad and I put out such work we'd be ashamed of ourselves. I would burn it.

His "books" aren't inferior because he doesn't have a large marketing department pushing them. They are inferior because of their poor quality.

There are dozens upon dozens of small press and indie books out on in the stores today that are a million times better in quality. Funny, at one point J-Bolt showed his distain for those very books because he thought that they were inferior in quality.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[OMAR]

Y'know, I think it all comes down to unfullfilled dreams. A lot of us out there - I'm particularly thinking of those of us who have the time or inclination to post to internet message boards - have some unfillfilled dreams. I know I do. I'm 32, so I don't feel too bad about that.

What we have in J-Bolt is an example of someone who has gone to great lengths to pursue his lifelong dream. He's made a name for himself by teaching others who went on to success (such as Jason Pearson). He's made a character out of himself by choosing the name "J-Bolt" and wearing his mask/sunglasses. He has developed a web presence, by all accounts he has a staff who are loyal, he is developing a major motion picture deal based on one of his more popular characters. But he hasn't quite been able to carry the ball into the endzone yet, his dreams remain unfullfilled.

What I've learned from watching his online experience is that different people react differently toward someone who is close to realizing a dream. It wouldn't in a million years occur to me to kick at a person like that, belittle their intelligence, call their supposed business associates for any reason. No amount of envy would drive me toward that. If I thought they were exaggerating their success, pretending to be more of a player than they really were - well, what of it? Maybe I'd make a sarcastic comment, maybe go back and forth for a couple of days.

But how many hours, over how many years, have some of you spent in anti-J-Bolt activities? I'm talking about post after post. On message board after message board. Making phone calls. Filling out order forms and sending away for things. Creating fake fansites to humiliate J-Bolt and waste his time. Time that could have been spent productively, working toward actualizing his dreams. He spent time on that message board you people created because he thought he was developing his fanbase but you tricked him. I guess we're supposed to think that makes him pathetic.

Would it be an exageration to say that some of you have spent 100 hours of the limited time you were given on this earth in anti-J-Bolt activity? I think we all know that there's probably at least one of you who has easily racked up 100 hours. To what end?

Do you have children? That's time you could have spent with them.
"I already spend time with my kids" - but you could have spent more with them. Or you could have been promoting a book or creator that you actually like.
"But he cheated me of $15". - Wah. It's $15 F#$%ing dollars. Get over it already. Or better yet, I will mail you the money myself. Send an address to me in a pm and I'll send you a money order tomorrow. Add your shipping on too. If you'll agree to shut up about the f@#$ing poster it'll be the best $20 I ever spent.

[Red Jack]

You missed the best one.

If "pure instinct" has taken over, why does he take his pants when he leaves?

::SPIT TAKE!::

[Guapo Méndez]

"But he cheated me of $15". - Wah. It's $15 F#$%ing dollars. Get over it already. Or better yet, I will mail you the money myself. Send an address to me in a pm and I'll send you a money order tomorrow. Add your shipping on too. If you'll agree to shut up about the f@#$ing poster it'll be the best $20 I ever spent.


Cool. Do you plan to reimburse everyone J-Bolt swindled?

So far, we only know of MacQuarrie (and IIRC, he bought posters for himself and 1 or 2 others, no?), but we could do a "Did you ever subscribe to J-Bolt" page and see how many fell. If the numbers are as massive as Bolty claims, you're gonna be out of a lot of money.

[Red Jack]

Y'know, I think it all comes down to unfullfilled dreams. A lot of us out there - I'm particularly thinking of those of us who have the time or inclination to post to internet message boards - have some unfillfilled dreams. I know I do. I'm 32, so I don't feel too bad about that.

ETC.

I agree with your sentiment, Omar, and I wasn't around for the actual festivities but, if all accounts are to be believed, this guy was given the benefit of the doubt, offered assistance and even cash on several occassions.

To which he responded with unprofessionalism (a word?) lies and hostility.

I am a HUGE fan of people pursuing their dreams, even the crazy ones, (provided no one gets hurt in the process) but, at least according to the meticulously compiled catalogue of transcripts, emails and posts by Mr. Bolt himself, he opened the can.

If I have a concern it is that this person may be truly delusional, therefore psychotic, and capable of all manner of retalitory behaviors.

To this latecomer the whole thing seems to be PAST TENSE. If the guy someday puts out an awesome product, God Bless. I'll buy it. The same as i would if Rob liefeld did so.

i'm just not holding my breath.
















Wait a minute. Did you say he wears a mask AND sunglasses?

[MacQuarrie]

Y'know, I think it all comes down to unfullfilled dreams. A lot of us out there - I'm particularly thinking of those of us who have the time or inclination to post to internet message boards - have some unfillfilled dreams. I know I do. I'm 32, so I don't feel too bad about that.
I'm 47 and I'm working on my dreams. The difference is, I don't run around announcing that I've fulfilled them as soon as the first step is completed. Mark Twain once said, "most people don't want to read good books; they want to have read good books." In othr words, they want the payoff, but not the effort to get it.

J-Bolt doesn't want to fulfill his dreams, he wants to have them fulfilled. He doesn't want to create a great comic, he wants the acclaim of having done so, but without actually working at it.

As Joe Hardy said in "Damn Yankees", "there's nothing to it but to do it." J-Bolt is a poseur. It's more important to look successful than to actually succeed.

What we have in J-Bolt is an example of someone who has gone to great lengths to pursue his lifelong dream. He's made a name for himself by teaching others who went on to success (such as Jason Pearson). He's made a character out of himself by choosing the name "J-Bolt" and wearing his mask/sunglasses. He has developed a web presence, by all accounts he has a staff who are loyal, he is developing a major motion picture deal based on one of his more popular characters. But he hasn't quite been able to carry the ball into the endzone yet, his dreams remain unfullfilled.
Unfortunately, those "great lengths" include an awful lot of lying.

Have you asked Jason Pearson about his experience with J-Bolt's class? I have. It's a great story. Ask him.

"By all accounts"??? By HIS account, and an account that's easily refuted. Why did his loyal staff allow his website to sit untouched, with all the links broken, for over two years? All the links on his site still point to his old domain name, which he lost due to non-payment. Where is his loyal staff?

What I've learned from watching his online experience is that different people react differently toward someone who is close to realizing a dream. It wouldn't in a million years occur to me to kick at a person like that, belittle their intelligence, call their supposed business associates for any reason. No amount of envy would drive me toward that. If I thought they were exaggerating their success, pretending to be more of a player than they really were - well, what of it? Maybe I'd make a sarcastic comment, maybe go back and forth for a couple of days.
If they tried to swindle money out of you, would you be so sanguine?

But how many hours, over how many years, have some of you spent in anti-J-Bolt activities? I'm talking about post after post. On message board after message board. Making phone calls. Filling out order forms and sending away for things. Creating fake fansites to humiliate J-Bolt and waste his time. Time that could have been spent productively, working toward actualizing his dreams. He spent time on that message board you people created because he thought he was developing his fanbase but you tricked him. I guess we're supposed to think that makes him pathetic.

Would it be an exageration to say that some of you have spent 100 hours of the limited time you were given on this earth in anti-J-Bolt activity? I think we all know that there's probably at least one of you who has easily racked up 100 hours. To what end?

Do you have children? That's time you could have spent with them.
"I already spend time with my kids" - but you could have spent more with them. Or you could have been promoting a book or creator that you actually like.
Every hour spent with J-Bolt has been endlessly entertaining. My kids find him hilarious. We spend time laughing at him together.
"But he cheated me of $15". - Wah. It's $15 F#$%ing dollars. Get over it already. Or better yet, I will mail you the money myself. Send an address to me in a pm and I'll send you a money order tomorrow. Add your shipping on too. If you'll agree to shut up about the f@#$ing poster it'll be the best $20 I ever spent.
It was $20, plus shipping, plus the mailing tube that I had to buy and mail to him because they evidently don't have Office Depot in Nevada. All told, about $28. But it's not the money, it's the principle. For over a year, he has had a page of lies about me posted at his site, despite the fact that I have e-mailed him corrections a couple of times. But he amuses me to no end, and I have gotten at least $28 worth of entertainment out of him, so you need not worry about me.

But I'll take you up on your offer, just to prove you're as full of shit as he is. I won't put it in a PM, because I prefer to do my dealings right out here in the open, as I have nothing to hide. I post under my real name, and my address is easily accessible to anyone with 30 seconds to kill. But to save you those 30 seconds, I'll post it.

Jim MacQuarrie
676 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

Do you also need the phone number? Its listed. Try Superpages.com.

[EdContradictory]

OMAR's joking, right?

And wasn't he banned at some point?

Internet message board histories confuse me.

J-Bolt is one of the three great Internet comic book messageboard douchebags I've had the pleasure of encountering online.

[Crowley]

hey OMAR,

here's another hint... Journalists don't get hired by interviewees...

[MacQuarrie]

Omar, since you're evidently ignoring my challenge, here, I'll help you out.

Google search for "J. B. Fisher"+"Las Vegas" (ttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22J.+B.+Fisher%22%2B%22Las+Vegas%22&btnG=Google+Search)

According to J-Bolt, J. B. Fisher is an exposé reporter at or near retirement age who worked in the Las Vegas area. So why is there no mention of him anywhere online except in J-Bolt's ashcan interview?

Probably because he is fictional.

Hey, let's expand the parameters. Find me any evidence at all that a reporter named J.B. Fisher has ever worked in Nevada OR that a woman named Heather Andes has ever lived there between 2000 and the present. I'll accept either one. Produce any evidence at all of the existence of either of these people (apart from LBC-related sources, of course) and I'll concede the point and apologize.

[sk716]

Omar, since you're evidently ignoring my challenge, here, I'll help you out.

Google search for "J. B. Fisher"+"Las Vegas" (ttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22J.+B.+Fisher%22%2B%22Las+Vegas%22&btnG=Google+Search)

According to J-Bolt, J. B. Fisher is an exposé reporter at or near retirement age who worked in the Las Vegas area. So why is there no mention of him anywhere online except in J-Bolt's ashcan interview?

Probably because he is fictional.

Hey, let's expand the parameters. Find me any evidence at all that a reporter named J.B. Fisher has ever worked in Nevada OR that a woman named Heather Andes has ever lived there between 2000 and the present. I'll accept either one. Produce any evidence at all of the existence of either of these people (apart from LBC-related sources, of course) and I'll concede the point and apologize.


Mac, I know we all have a lot of pent up feelings due to J-Bolt's failure to re-appear and be a dip-shit for our amusement, but you're feeding OMAR. Stop it, it just makes him post more.

hey OMAR,

here's another hint... Journalists don't get hired by interviewees...

That goes triple for you.

[Crowley]

OH YEAH!!!

well it goes Quadruple plus INFINITYfor you!!!

[sk716]

OH YEAH!!!

well it goes Quadruple plus INFINITYfor you!!!

And you'll notice I'm not feeding this particular poster, now am I?:p

[OMAR]

Cool. Do you plan to reimburse everyone J-Bolt swindled?

So far, we only know of MacQuarrie (and IIRC, he bought posters for himself and 1 or 2 others, no?), but we could do a "Did you ever subscribe to J-Bolt" page and see how many fell. If the numbers are as massive as Bolty claims, you're gonna be out of a lot of money.

I don't know if anyone was swindled at all. To be honest I kind of doubt it. At worst perhaps the poster sent to MacQuarrie was lost in the mail. If there were others reading this forum who had been unsatisfied with their purchases from LBC, I strongly suspect they would have brought it up before now.

[steeler80]

And to think I joined the internet like, 2, 3 years after all this. I feel so... so incomplete. :(


I missed it too, which is very odd, as I seem to have a sixth sense for stumbling onto such stuff.

[MacQuarrie]

Mac, I know we all have a lot of pent up feelings due to J-Bolt's failure to re-appear and be a dip-shit for our amusement, but you're feeding OMAR. Stop it, it just makes him post more.
Ah, but see, I have put out a simple challenge that depends on him coming up with a fact or two. If OMAR continues to post here without addressing that challenge, then everybody can see for themselves that he is exactly what I said he is. Like I said, it's time to put up or shut up.

Repeating J-Bolt's lies will not work anymore, just like it won't work at Comicon .com anymore, which is why he dropped that thread like a hot rock. He called Judith Moose a liar to her face and hasn't had the guts to go back and face that.

My posters did not get "lost in the mail," because they were never mailed. J-Bolt knows it, I know it, OMAR knows it, but his insane urge to always be the opposition compels him to stick to his irrational and absurd statements in the face of The Great Wall of Fact.

"I must fight him left-handed, otherwise there is no challenge in it."

[MacQuarrie]

I don't know if anyone was swindled at all. To be honest I kind of doubt it. At worst perhaps the poster sent to MacQuarrie was lost in the mail. If there were others reading this forum who had been unsatisfied with their purchases from LBC, I strongly suspect they would have brought it up before now.
How about the inkers and colorists he stiffed? Do they count? The celebrities whose reputations he misappropriated?

[Crowley]

Plus he never made the BOMBSHELL movie!


Pat Morita died of a BROKEN HEART!

[Magneto_X]

hey OMAR,

here's another hint... Journalists don't get hired by interviewees...

It's rare but it can happen. IIRC Heidi MacDonald (from The Beat [?]) has done at least been hired once to interview comic creator/s* for the "back-up section" of their indy comic.

* don't remember the title, unfortunately

[OMAR]

I'm not impressed by you putting your home address and the fact that you have kids on a public forum. I think it's reckless and irresponsible, and will continue to think so after you assure me that you're a well armed Navy Seal with a pack of pitbulls, like every other internet tough guy is. Not cool.

What is the challenge that I'm ignoring or avoiding? What are you challenging me to do? Prove that someone exists? When the hell did I ever claim to be able to do that? I freely admit here and now that I can't prove that any of the LBC staff exist. I never said I could.

I really don't like interacting with you, and this is why. You have this way of flinging out waves of increasingly aggressive questions and challenges in post after post and if I miss one, you start crowing that I'm avoiding you until I have to go back, figure out what the hell you're referring to, and address it.

OK, so here we are. No, I do not claim to be able to use the various internet stalker sites to track anyone down and prove their existence. When I read the various posts I made regarding the staff, I don't see where I ever claimed that.

You state that I know your posters were not lost in the mail. That's an obvious lie. How could I know that?

You state that I "dropped the Comicon thread like a hot rock". Here's a chonology for anyone who might have been tempted to believe you:

09-04-2005 02:16 AM - poster iangould makes what most sane people would have believed to have been the last in the discussion.

06-11-2006 01:36 PM - nine months later, someone claiming to be "Judith A. Moose" posts in a hilariously transparent attempt to portray theselves as one of the agents that once represented J-Bolt. Do I strongly suspect that it was either you or a confederate? Yes, yes I do. But I can't prove it and don't claim to have any proof other than my own common sense.

06-12-2006 05:14 PM - 28 hour later, I notice that the thread has been bumped and I post a response.

06-20-2006 09:03 PM - 8 days and 4 hours later, you post a message to the thread, bumping it back to the top from whatever page it was on with another long, angry tirade that included the question

"Are you calling Judith Moose a liar?"

and ended with the following:

"Now, are you going to finally be a man and admit you were wrong and retract the accusations and lies that you repeated about me, or are you just going to continue to be a pathetic little weasel?"

06-22-2006 11:50 PM - 2 days and 4 hours later, you post here that:

"Repeating J-Bolt's lies will not work anymore, just like it won't work at Comicon .com anymore, which is why he dropped that thread like a hot rock. He called Judith Moose a liar to her face and hasn't had the guts to go back and face that."

I see you've gone from asking whether I called her a liar to saying I did it to her face.

How can you look at those dates and times and claim that I dropped that thread like a hot rock? But yeah, once it becomes about who is a pathetic little weasel and who's an angry, embittered, hate-filled bully who is warping his children by exposing them to embarrassing displays of immaturity, I'm pretty much done with the conversation. I always try to make it about something that can be discussed objectively. By the time I'm down to slinging shit back and forth I usually lose interest and I try to tear myself away or at least ignore the bullies and the namecallers but it's tough. Here I am addressing you directly when I really, really meant to never do it again. I don't think you bring anything interesting or positive to the table, but now I've invited another couple of paragraphs of hysterical, indignant questions peppered with personal insults and schoolyard tough talk. And I'll probably respond to it tomorrow, unless I wind up somehow waking up with a whole lot more self control than I'm going to sleep with.

But to be honest, though I never thought you were particularly clever, tonight you proved to me that you really don't know what you're talking about. In reference to my pledge to send your the $28 in exchange for never having to hear about that f#$%ing poster again, you made the following comment:

"But I'll take you up on your offer, just to prove you're as full of shit as he is."

Heidi MacDonald, over on The Pulse, once defended the use of the word "retarded" as a putdown. I took great umbrage at that, as is my wont, and went back and forth with her, making a big deal about how offensive it was - a genuinely held opinion. Heidi took it all with her usual good humor and I don't think my ramblings did anyhing to change her mind.

And now I'm embarassed. I take it all back, Heidi - sorry about that.

You, sir, are retarded. You haven't picked up on the most basic characteristic of my personality, one that I wear on my sleeve and that you would understand if you knew the slightest thing about human nature. If you had a conscience or any integrity, you'd have the innate ability to recognize those characteristics, even in someone you disagree with. But no, I wasn't counting on that. Just the slightest bit of intelligence, enough to think about what it would mean to me to NOT send the money now. In what F-ed up, parallel universe must you live to think that, even if I was the total scumbag you imagine me to be, I would have made that offer without being committed to send the money. That you think for a second that I'd be willing to let you strut around bragging that you didn't get your handout - that shows me what you're really all about.

Just last week I was laughing to a friend that I had bought a new CD and it was the first I had ever bought out of spite. I don't usually do things out of spite but now I'm sending money out of spite which has to be the topper. I'm not even sure I've typed the word spite this many times before.

You'll get your money, and soon.

[Gail Simone]

Well it would be easy to pretend I believed it, but I've never been a "go along to get along" guy and I don't jump on bandwagons. My interactions with J-Bolt were consistantly pleasant and amiable. Why should I believe all the bashing, just to be accepted? I'll prefer to judge him on his work and how he treats people, including his staff and his customer base.

I wonder how many of the people in this thread really gave the LBC characters and stories fair consideration? I'll put the WLS ashcan up against LAB RATS or FABLES any day of the week. Just because it doesn't have a big marketing machine shoving the books down our throats doesn't mean the LBC books are somehow inferior.


It's good stuff, Omar, but I ain't buyin'. Sorry. I know you're not stupid.

Gail

[Crowley]

OMAR,
I think you're coo-coo for cocoa puffs.

One of these days when I have lots of money I think I'll pay you, iwarrior, mwm1331 and Baker_Baker to enter Thunderdome and have a nerdoff to the death.

[TomStillwell]

Wow. That was rather long.

Now I'm wondering...if you know Mac pushes your buttons then why are you here?

Does he somehow make you look at the forum? Is it possession? Mental manipulation?

No? Hmmm.

If no one is forcing you to be here and respond then it's all on you, buddy.

You walk away and no one...not Mac...not Gail...no one can push your buttons.

Is it pride? Will your pride be hurt if you don't get a response in or defend your yourself?

Be honest with yourself. Don't blame Mac for making you post. You're an adult. Take responsibility for your actions.

If you don't like what is being said here then just walk away and don't hold to some silly notion about pride.

Otherwise, if you stay, then it just proves you are indeed a troll.

[Gail Simone]

Y'know, I think it all comes down to unfullfilled dreams. A lot of us out there - I'm particularly thinking of those of us who have the time or inclination to post to internet message boards - have some unfillfilled dreams. I know I do. I'm 32, so I don't feel too bad about that.

What we have in J-Bolt is an example of someone who has gone to great lengths to pursue his lifelong dream. He's made a name for himself by teaching others who went on to success (such as Jason Pearson). He's made a character out of himself by choosing the name "J-Bolt" and wearing his mask/sunglasses. He has developed a web presence, by all accounts he has a staff who are loyal, he is developing a major motion picture deal based on one of his more popular characters. But he hasn't quite been able to carry the ball into the endzone yet, his dreams remain unfullfilled.

What I've learned from watching his online experience is that different people react differently toward someone who is close to realizing a dream. It wouldn't in a million years occur to me to kick at a person like that, belittle their intelligence, call their supposed business associates for any reason. No amount of envy would drive me toward that. If I thought they were exaggerating their success, pretending to be more of a player than they really were - well, what of it? Maybe I'd make a sarcastic comment, maybe go back and forth for a couple of days.

But how many hours, over how many years, have some of you spent in anti-J-Bolt activities? I'm talking about post after post. On message board after message board. Making phone calls. Filling out order forms and sending away for things. Creating fake fansites to humiliate J-Bolt and waste his time. Time that could have been spent productively, working toward actualizing his dreams. He spent time on that message board you people created because he thought he was developing his fanbase but you tricked him. I guess we're supposed to think that makes him pathetic.

Would it be an exageration to say that some of you have spent 100 hours of the limited time you were given on this earth in anti-J-Bolt activity? I think we all know that there's probably at least one of you who has easily racked up 100 hours. To what end?

Do you have children? That's time you could have spent with them.
"I already spend time with my kids" - but you could have spent more with them. Or you could have been promoting a book or creator that you actually like.
"But he cheated me of $15". - Wah. It's $15 F#$%ing dollars. Get over it already. Or better yet, I will mail you the money myself. Send an address to me in a pm and I'll send you a money order tomorrow. Add your shipping on too. If you'll agree to shut up about the f@#$ing poster it'll be the best $20 I ever spent.



Oh, my god, I almost had an irony fit, being lectured about proper use of time by Omar, quite possibly the industry's most obsessed troll.


Good one, O!

How many stupid fucking threads have you started about John Byrne again?

Sheesh.

Gail

[Gail Simone]

I don't know if anyone was swindled at all. To be honest I kind of doubt it. At worst perhaps the poster sent to MacQuarrie was lost in the mail. If there were others reading this forum who had been unsatisfied with their purchases from LBC, I strongly suspect they would have brought it up before now.

Except that J-bolt had his ebay account suspended after numerous complaints, and not by him, but by ebay.

Get over it, Omar. I know you're not this dumb.

Gail

[Gail Simone]

Wow. That was rather long.

Now I'm wondering...if you know Mac pushes your buttons then why are you here?

Does he somehow make you look at the forum? Is it possession? Mental manipulation?

No? Hmmm.

If no one is forcing you to be here and respond then it's all on you, buddy.

You walk away and no one...not Mac...not Gail...no one can push your buttons.

Is it pride? Will your pride be hurt if you don't get a response in or defend your yourself?

Be honest with yourself. Don't blame Mac for making you post. You're an adult. Take responsibility for your actions.

If you don't like what is being said here then just walk away and don't hold to some silly notion about pride.

Otherwise, if you stay, then it just proves you are indeed a troll.


No troll in the industry has been as obsessive and long-winded as Omar, so his speech about it is hilariously J-boltish in its avoidance of any real facts.

I still think you're just playing, Omar. I've seen you post intelligently more than once, making it impossible for you to ignore the hard evidence we've provided over and over.

Gail

[OzBat!]

Button pushing at twenty paces!

WHO. WILL. WIN??

[MacQuarrie]

I'm not impressed by you putting your home address and the fact that you have kids on a public forum. I think it's reckless and irresponsible, and will continue to think so after you assure me that you're a well armed Navy Seal with a pack of pitbulls, like every other internet tough guy is. Not cool.
See, I don't think it's a big deal at all. My address is freely available to anyone who knows my name. It's listed in the Phone book. It has been for the last 29 years. It's listed on the registry information for the websites that I own, and it's a matter of public record, since I own the property. Anyone who wants to find me can do so, and that's the way it's been since I got on the internet under my real name 13 years ago. Big whoop, so a handful of other comic geeks know where I live. So far, only the telemarketers and junk mail producers seem to care.

One can choose to live a paranoid fearful life, or live a normal one. I pick normal.

What is the challenge that I'm ignoring or avoiding? What are you challenging me to do? Prove that someone exists? When the hell did I ever claim to be able to do that? I freely admit here and now that I can't prove that any of the LBC staff exist. I never said I could.
The challenge you are avoiding is simply this: back up any of your claims with a fact.

You accept all of J-Bolt's claims at face value and happily repeat them on various forums without any regard to their veracity, even when those claims are slanderous. The ones that aren't slanderous are generally self-evidently false to anyone with a lick of common sense, but you parrot them anyway.

Yet, you demand an absurdly high standard of proof from anyone who would contradict J-Bolt's lunatic nonsense, and disregard any evidence put forth. When we presented the copyright registration, you accused us of faking it in photoshop; once we gave you the step-by-s