DrunkDuck Bought Out

Doublemint · Post by **Doublemint** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:21 am

Read all about the purchase by Platinum Studios in today's New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/techn ... ref=slogin

I learned about it here:

http://www.panel2panel.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=517

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:26 am

Interesting.

ShardZ · Post by **ShardZ** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:42 am

Apparently the DrunkDuck forums have been hopping (not necessarily in the bad sense) since at least yesterday, and the privacy policy has been revised twice (since when, I don't know). The article lists a heck of a lot of potential deals for the webcomickers. I wonder what connections Platinum has to be able to make tv and movie deals? (MIB was one thing; a webcomic of--publically--little-known status and possibly fluctuating art and storyline would be quite another.)

Maybe I'm misreading, but is it the current DD artists who are being referred to as "comic book artists" in the article?

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:53 am

MIB wasn't a particularly well-known comic either before the movie came out though.

ShardZ · Post by **ShardZ** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:24 am

Yeah... but it could still be seen as having been "professionally" published by a recognized (if small) company, and created by a "professional" artist/writer.

I suppose by "professional" I mean that the artist/writer was paid and possibly had some sort of impressive, consistent work in their portfolio, and that the comic was published (and later pitched) by a company that had a history of publishing similarly impressive and consistently-drawn/written comics. *Shrug*

Whatever happens, it will definitely be interesting.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:24 am

Oh yeah! This was linked in chat. Honestly, I'm not sure that this is a bad thing. Platinum Studios is one of the few companies out there activly reaching out to webtoonists. If you're interested, there was an interview with their chairman a while back on Digital Strips.

Wadefade · Post by **Wadefade** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:42 pm

Wow. Neat.
I wasn't aware of that.

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:16 pm

As I see it - it's really just another reason I'm glad I'm on Comic Genesis and not D.D. (There are so many

) Scott Rosenberg sounds like he's spent all of an hour or two looking into webcomics and decided he wanted a piece of the action... Penny Arcade summed up my impression of his New York Times interview pretty well.

Tycho wrote:Saying that you're going to make the web a place for comics is like suggesting that you plan to colonize the Earth. If they want to break down the walls that keep artists from publishing online, well, I hope they brought a wall with them

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:39 pm

NYT wrote:While the advertising revenue would not be shared with the comic creators, artists would share in the revenue from downloadable comics for cellphones and mobile media devices like iPods, comics-related ring tones, wallpaper and items like T-shirts or plastic scale models of comic book characters.

Eh...

...also, comic-related ring tones? Umm...

Rich of EMD · Post by **Rich of EMD** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:42 pm

I'm a long time DD user, so you can only imagine the f---ing horror I felt when I heard Volte sold out like the little b---- he is. Of course, I was absolutely expecting the worst when I heard about this f---ing update 2.0 he had planned. And then they actually went through with it...

Let me tell ya, DrunkDuck is f---ing dead. They have sold out and I'd place money on it that Platinum Studios will be stealing s--- before long. And the forums went from user-friendly to eye-rapingly bad. Yes, EYE-RAPINGLY BAD! It literally hurts to look at them!

So just look at that PennyArcade strip and read their post about it. They are dead on. DD is totally f---ed!

(LOL! CENSORED POST FTW!)

War · Post by **War** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:50 pm

That is one of the most retarded posts I've read in a long time.

Rich of EMD · Post by **Rich of EMD** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:53 pm

I know. Get used to it. I'll probably be hanging out here for a long while.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:04 pm

Down, War.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:42 pm

You're ok to swear, dude.

This is a silly situation- feels a lot like they heard of these new `Web Comics` on the Internets and they want a piece of a non-existant revenue. What exactly are they trying to do here? They're saying they're opening up the internet to comics? Sorry mate, it's already open. We're doing fine on our own.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:52 pm

Komiyan wrote:You're ok to swear, dude.

This is a silly situation- feels a lot like they heard of these new `Web Comics` on the Internets and they want a piece of a non-existant revenue. What exactly are they trying to do here? They're saying they're opening up the internet to comics? Sorry mate, it's already open. We're doing fine on our own.

Which was the gist of the Penny Arcade post. All of a sudden the rest of the world has noticed that there are webcomics, a new venture over a decade old.

I'm glad Keenspot and ComicGen are organized the way they are; I don't see a healthy future for DrunkDuck.

Rich of EMD · Post by **Rich of EMD** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:53 pm

Oh shit, we can swear? FUCK YES!

And it's not so much opening up the internet for comics as it is turning DD into a Platinum Studios advert.

Ya see, what they are going to do is put all of their print stuff on there in some format before they sell it in RL. And then they will try to recruit new artists from on DD and will keep 90% of the profits made from said comics.

Now all of us will have to compete with thier professional print comics as well. And I don't think any of us want to compete with print comics. If we did, would we be on the internet?

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:02 pm

That guy wrote:As I see it - it's really just another reason I'm glad I'm on Comic Genesis and not D.D. (There are so many ) Scott Rosenberg sounds like he's spent all of an hour or two looking into webcomics and decided he wanted a piece of the action... Penny Arcade summed up my impression of his New York Times interview pretty well.
Tycho wrote:Saying that you're going to make the web a place for comics is like suggesting that you plan to colonize the Earth. If they want to break down the walls that keep artists from publishing online, well, I hope they brought a wall with them

as long as they don't mess with my tubes, I'll be fine

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:05 pm

*ties ahaugen's tubes*

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:06 pm

Scott Rosenberg sounds like he's spent all of an hour or two looking into webcomics and decided he wanted a piece of the action

My thoughts exactly.

My guess is that it is going to turn into a heartless syndicate or fail and go down in horrible, internal flames.

Now all of us will have to compete with thier professional print comics as well.

No more than we are already 'competing' on the internet.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:07 pm

Rich of EMD wrote:And I don't think any of us want to compete with print comics. If we did, would we be on the internet?

We already are, if you can call it that. being that people read print comics and people read webcomics.

People will especially read free stuff. because its free. and they hate their jobs. so they muck around on the computer all day.

calm yourselves.

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