Wes examines Rob Liefeld’s DTC Plan

Hey Readers,

      I'm talk texting, so this will have typos. These are some of my thoughts.

       What Rob Lefeld does as a creator versus what someone like myself would do as a creator is completely different and not just because of our ways of thinking about things and doing things but about how high up on the hog he is and how I'm not. When Allen Moore came out with watchmen it was wildly successful. What helped that greatly is that he had already built a name and that he was one of the people that folks had all agreed that they were going to go out and get his book because they felt like he was somebody in something. In a way similar to that Rob Lefeld has built himself up through his career through marvel and image and so forth to where he's able to go as hard and big as he does in Comics. He has a name. He has a persona. He's vivacious and has the  Number one podcast in all of comic books. Everybody knows who he is. And their collectors that will pay exorbitant amounts of money for special edition comic books by him because they're looking for the value of those to climb. 

     These aren't just readers that I'm talking about, but these are speculators. It's a completely different market than people who were just going to read. I look at things like a normal customer. At least that's the way that I perceive it. I get the books that I feel like I will enjoy reading and if I really enjoy reading them, then I will keep coming back to them. As somebody that writes reviews for Comics, I will try to pick out Comics that I think that I'll enjoy and try to review those. So I don't just pick up something that I think is going to be trash so I can bash it. Having some integrity I will say if I don't like it, but where I don't wanna build up a platform on discontentment I'll say that I don't like it and then I'll move on. It won't come up every single time that I open my mouth.  i've only ever read one short comic that was written by Tom King. I had heard his name plenty of times before. I know far more about him now than I did then. That book was DC Comics, Penguin number six. Maybe that's a bad example. It just came off dry to me and choppy and I thought I just don't care for the way that this guy writes . I've never picked up another book of Tom King. Tell me if I'm wrong and if there's something that you think that I would really love it. 

     Somebody who feels like story matters I just discriminate heavily against the books that I keep reading. I don't have an unlimited supply money. I'm a creator, and I put funding into all that sort of thing to make in create stuff. More over I'm a min reminded person A preacher all that stuff real fill anthropic and what not and I have funds go towards Moore will call them charitable things. I give as to the Lord. So just leisure entertainment I only kind of a lot so much for that but I also wanna make sure that I like it. 

        Books that don't really do it for me. Those books will be traded in for a credit at McKays or whatever so I can trade that for something that I feel like I will like more. I like Wesley Dodd's Sandman. I like the Phantom stranger. There's just certain things that I like. I feel like Dan Jurgens is an amazing writer and right now. I'm enjoying his Batman first night and I'm looking forward to getting his Batman second night. I really skewed towards horror. There's just certain things that I like. 

       I feel like this Rob Lefeld model is really cracked. There's so many holes in it. I want to see comic shops thrive and I think that it is some kind of an abomination for somebody not to want to see these mom and pop shops. thrive. It comes off to me is really scummy and self indulgent. God bless those comic creators that have fought to help comic book shops thrive who have fought to help them. There are some names on that list and I don't want to begin naming it because I don't wanna leave anybody off. 

     Personal speaking, I'm not a fan of variant covers because of how it's done. I totally think that if something is a second printing or third printing or an exclusive that a variant cover is fine. I don't like that. They're in our incentive covers that rape comic shops by forcing them to have to get 10 or 12 or 50 or whatever of this cover to get the other cover. The only way that benefits me personally is a reader is that I picked the one that I think is prettier. I could probably stay a whole lot more than this, but those are my thoughts. 

— B. L. BLANKENSHIP