Rick Olney--Fibber or Mega-Giganta-Fibber? Part 2

[CutterMike]

Were I the suspicious and cynical sort of individual -- which, of course, I'm not! -- I might suspect that that entire collection will be graded "Well-This-Avengers #4-Isn't-Really-Worth-Much-But-I'll-Take-It-Off-Your-Hands-Strictly-As-A-Favor...".

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Translation: he just nicked a box of comics from a kid in the neighborhood. Ah, pRick. What a sad life you live. Stealing comics as a child really defined you as an adult, didn't it?



And yet you stole those comics. What are you going to do? Use them as collateral to put up another shitty con? You gonna buy a few blue pills to even pretend you're still a functional mammal?



Sending you valuable stuff to 'grade' is one helluva bad idea. Not enough people know what kind of scumbag you are.




So you get comics to "grade" and then you get a teacher to "give" comic books. Man, will your thievery ever end?



Don't buy the blue pills, pRick. Buy Alzheimer's medicine. You desperately need it. You still think you are someone who matters.



See?

I love how Rick personally seems to believe the referance in Iron Man II and the whole belief he made Johnston's site now. I'm sure Rich Johnston will have to learn that due to Rick Olney....BC wouldn't exist !

[Guapo Méndez]

I love how Rick personally seems to believe the referance in Iron Man II and the whole belief he made Johnston's site now. I'm sure Rich Johnston will have to learn that due to Rick Olney....BC wouldn't exist !

Hey, if you believe pRick's tripe, then you should have no problem believing Tony Stark was named after me.
Pay no attention to the fact that Iron Man is about 11 years older than me.

[JTPencils]

Sometimes I wonder what color the sky is in NotWit world! It sure as hell has nothing to do with reality (as is the case with most of his existence).

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Sometimes I wonder what color the sky is in NotWit world! It sure as hell has nothing to do with reality (as is the case with most of his existence).

Rick Olney's sky could only be colored with fuchsia, decorated in a kaleidoscope fashion of diamonds and talking fish in the sky saying "You are special Rick" while dancing to when the saints go marching in.

And as we all know, rick is indeed "special". But there is always hope. One day, when the stars are in proper alignment, he will finally write a coherent sentence in picture perfect English. Not only will we all be staggered at this miracle/accident/even chimps get it right sometimes kind of way, we will finally know what medication made Rick the man he is today so we can all stay away from it.

JP

[Guapo Méndez]

Rick Olney's sky could only be colored with fuchsia, decorated in a kaleidoscope fashion of diamonds and talking fish in the sky saying "You are special Rick" while dancing to when the saints go marching in.

And as we all know, rick is indeed "special". But there is always hope. One day, when the stars are in proper alignment, he will finally write a coherent sentence in picture perfect English. Not only will we all be staggered at this miracle/accident/even chimps get it right sometimes kind of way, we will finally know what medication made Rick the man he is today so we can all stay away from it.

JP

There is no sky in the Olneyverse, because *nothing* is above him.

[MacQuarrie]

Last weekend was the first (and probably last) Pasadena Comic Con. It was a colossal flop. Poorly organized, sparsely attended; I heard people call it "the worst-organized con they had ever attended in 40 years." They did just about everything wrong that they could.

And yet.... still I heard people comparing it favorably to the Mighty Mini Con.

It was an epic failure, but at least nobody was deliberately trying to rip people off. Afterward, I talked to one of the organizers. He was honest about the problems, accepted full responsibility for the mistakes, asked everyone to please give him advice on how to improve the next one, and was generally so pleasant and eager to fix things that I would happily give him another chance if they are able to try again. He was the anti-rick.

[JTPencils]

Mac, I've always questioned the wisdom of scheduling a con (or any event) on a holiday weekend. Especially the "first 3 day weekend of summer". You honestly can't think there's going to be decent attendance (unless you're a HUGELY established event like SDCC or something). If the organizers were sincere (and it sounds as if they were), perhaps their next attempt will be better.... you can't think that every con has ever started off perfectly. It takes time, and a certain learning curve of what works, and what doesn't.

And yet... it STILL was better then NotWit's meager attempt at throwing the Twitty Con together! Now that's gotta be something.

[ComicbookJeff]

"Asked to grade comics and maybe buy them" translated from Rick-ese.

Anyone in America knows somebody that knows somebody that has some comics somewhere, and they know nothing about them.
Someone with no knowledge of Rick whatsoever is asking him to look at comics.
Wow!

Is there anyone on this board who HASN'T been asked to take a look at a friends collection or had a friend of a friend say "I have a whole bunch of old comics. I don't know what they are worth though." at one point or another?

We just don't blog about how we are pretend graders like Rick does.

I appraise and/or purchase comic book collections nearly every single day at my shops. I just finished two gigantic appraisals for legal cases and was paid handsomely as an industry expert to the sum of hundreds of dollars per hour.

And I'm willing to bet that that is small potatoes to G-Com.

I can honestly say that in all my years on this planet, having visited all continents but Asia, encountering God knows how many people, that I have never encountered a more delusional person than Rick.

And at the risk of sounding dramatic, Rick Olney is still dangerous.
If there is an iota of truth to his recent blog, (which is always in question)
he is being trusted with someone's comic books after he has stolen so many from others.
He is still trying to fool people into thinking he is a part of this industry when the only function he serves is resident punchline.
And if he succeeds at any of it, someone somewhere will be another victim of the fraud and theft that Rick attempts almost daily.

[Charles RB]

The cycle has started up again:

Oh, and Look! Still MORE for Them to Talk About!
Sure why not!

I was reading my email and after just mentioning Richie of Bleeding Cool and his aniversary of sorts, happened upon this bit of news:

ITEM: Dabble (deliberately scrambled) Brothers
I jhad a close call once-upon-a- time with Dabel Brothers. A rather well know, Inker and former CrossGen employee actually tried to bring my TightLip Entertainment publishing goals more inline with TLE actually taking on one or more of the properties that Dabel was shopping for independent houses to produce and publish.

Now,anyone that has stayed aware of how I came to be in a mess that has since been straightened out, I might add, with a number of creative types has to give me credit for not going down that Dabel path. Umm... because Rick does have brains. Hahhahaha!


[photo of money]

How's that hope and change working out for you anyway, Scott? Sorry to chide you, but you might've had more luck pursuing your homeboy and former landlord for easy money. Heh, heh...

I can substantiate all that I share here, by the way. And yes, Scott Reed shall never see another dollar or penny from me. I still retain all my personal correspondence with the person(s)/parties involved. This was the same guy that brought the deluded Scott Reed to my doorstep. The word 'mooch' is trying get printed here, but I can't figure out the proper context. But I digress...

ITEM: Rob Liefeld
Yes, proof further that everything comes full circle. Haters abound in years past around some people in fandom and the creative arm of this industry called comic books. I was never unfriendly towards Rob or his old promo manager. Might have even helped (stop laughing you wacky taffy chew-horts!) with Mr. Liefeld's first and only appearance at the Pittsburgh Comicon some years back. Yup, you read that right. Heh, heh...

See you next time!

Olney is right, he never went down the Dabel route. The Dabels actually produced some work.

And that's it, after all the "heh heh"'s and the lame insinuations, I shall now read all of Olney's posts in the voice of Up-Chuck from Daria.

[TomStillwell]

Yeah, that is a hot mess of nonsense.

[NatGertler]

Now he's demanding respect for not doing things he hasn't done. This will take a while; for anyone, that's a long list, but for a not-doing-things specialist like Rick, it's even longer than most.

[Gail Simone]

What the hell?

He's GOT to be drunk, right?

This is his most illiterate post since the classic "goos night pukee" run when he set a new standard for drunken little girl-style posting.

[Linkara]

You know the thing that really gets under my skin? It's something I brought up a looong time ago. It's not even the poor literacy - it's the attempts to make everything sound more grandiose by adding more words.

"creative arm of this industry called comic books."

COMIC. INDUSTRY. Not "Comic book entertainment industry," not "industry called comic books," it's the friggin' industry, you drooling moron! You are PURPORTEDLY involved in this industry; it is the primary focus of your stupid-ass blog - just say "the industry" or "the comic industry." PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Adding words does not make the sentence better!

"I just took in a consignment to grade and purchase a quantity of over 100 comics dating back to the 1960s."

"I just took in a consignment of over 100 comics." That is how you phrase that sentence, idiot. "A quantity over 100 comics?" You see, unlike a knotheaded thief like you, I DID go to college and learned how to fricking WRITE. When you add extra words like that, you are trying to pad it out and make it seem longer than it actually is, because you're afraid of having any actual information in it because that requires effort and proof that you do not have!

I'm sorry, but it's the biggest thing about the imbecile's writing that always irks me.

[Gail Simone]

Absolutely. When I see this kind of shit writing in a prospective writer's work, it's the first bit of advice I give them. LEARN HOW TO USE THE RIGHT WORDS, YOU GODDAMN IDIOT.

It scares people, but it's effective. :)