The Scream Awards are once again upon us! Cast your votes for best Comic book writing, Sci-Fi, and Horror of the year.

Also, as a personal comment, the last vote asks you to submit your choice for what movie you’re dying to see. I humbly suggest REPO! The Genetic Opera as the vote you cast.

EDIT: Fixed link.

Don LaFontain, also known as The Voice or Voice Announcer Guy, died this week at the age of 68.

In a world where the movie trailer voice is silenced, who will rise from the ashes?

Once upon a time, someone calling themselves Fake Scott McCloud (henceforth known as FSM), set up a blog mocking, critiquing and generally airing their dislike for the webcomic PvP. It is called PvP Makes me Sad. That’s fine. We all have opinions.

Long story short, Scott Kurtz, creator of PvP made a post on Twitter which read the following.

Free original PvP artwork to anyone who can bring me the true identity of the Fake Scott McCloud.

So of course, PvP being a very well known webcomic, the fanboys want this most illustrious prize. And fanboys, especially on the internet, are rabid. So what do they do? They track FSM’s IP to New Jersay apparently, take screenshots of said IP idents, and request for password changes to FSM’s sites.

So what does Kurtz do? He Twitters again.

Whoa. Guys. Easy. I don’t want to know his address. just curious if he’s another webcomic guy. This manhunt is at a 10. I need it at a 4.

To this I say the following. Kurtz, you knew from moment one what your fanboys would do. You know what internet anonymity makes people do. Now that you’re being frowned down upon, you’re back-tracking.
And for what? Because you can’t take a little criticisms? Do we really have to go over this again? Your comic is in a public space. It will have eyes on it and mouths to speak what the eyes perceive. You’re not going to please everyone. You just can’t. There will be critics, there will be people who don’t get the joke. There will be people who down right mock you simply because they can. And just like they can mock you, others can find your address and come to your house and invade your privacy. All in the name of (free) art.

Mr. Kurtz? I know what I like. And I don’t like this.

Disclaimer: The opinions in this post do not necessarily reflect all of those at ChoiceComics.net. Q doesn’t read PvP as she finds it boring and over-rated.

In wake of the California earthquakes, news has been all about hyping up the worry over “the big one.” While small threads of truth lie underneath the layers of “OMG WE R ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” portrayed by the news, I feel that some things are just ridiculous hyped up.

Take for instance, this morning watching Good Morning America. Of course, the main story was the earthquakes in California. However, in hyping up the fear factor of the 5.4-5.8 they show scenes of the general public doing what they do in an earthquake (as they were taught). Some where running to door jams, outside, and getting under desks. This is where the news, taking their slight of mouth, tweak a sentence in such a way to portray a totally different feel to the story.

They casually mention everyone running to their spots in terror and then made the comment, “…children even hid under their desks…” while flashing up a picture of children huddled under their school desks. BAM! Oh my god, not the children! Look at their terrified eyes! The apocalypse is here!

Now let me change the apocalyptic event and location of a disaster. Say… well… say “tornadic” weather was about in Kentucky and the following day, news from another area shows cameras showing people huddling in closets and tornado shelters. Then they flash a picture of two children in a bath tub with a mattress over their heads and say, “… they even hid in tubs with mattresses over their heads…” OH NOES!!! That’s terrible!!

No… no its not.

IT IS WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO.