The Alpha and Beta Deck Pre-sale is now officially under way, launching the first two public card decks for the WAGON Webcomic Battle collectible cardgame. This pre-sale marks the beginning of a new innovation in webcomic advertising venues, taking comic characters and stories off of the internet and into the hands of CCG players the world over.

Each deck consists of 42 cards which includes: a standard 40 card WAGON deck, a symbol reference card, and special release Boosted Character card. Each deck also includes one of the top placing winners of the “Draw to Win” Jenny Everywhere card design contest, brought to you by The Shifter Archive Project. Pre-order Alpha and Beta now and you’ll also receive a bonus rare “Kitten of Chaos” card as well.

WAGON Webcomic Battle: Alpha and Beta decks include cards inspired by the following comics:

As posted on the [i]nsignificant forums:

This year we’ll do a little strip exchange. The idea is whichever comic you are assigned, you can do a picture/comic with YOUR characters dressed up as the characters in the assigned comic.

For example:
I am assigned Prepare To Die. so I would do a comic or whatever with Jamie dressed as Mike, Tammy dressed as Manda and Owen dressed as Bill. The situation would be a typical PTD situation (being attacked by musical chairs or something) but the reactions of the characters would be Jamie TRYING to be Mike.

Sign ups will end on Sep 26 and assignments dished out after that (duh). Comics will be due Oct 24 so the receiver can post it on their page on their page as close to All Hallows Eve as possible. Feel free to advertise this among other comicking boards. the more the better.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I can’t wait for the results. Remember sign ups end Sept 26th and comics are due Oct 24th.

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.

The other day I was trying to figure out how to log onto the forums of Buzzcomix. I fumbled around the site until I found the correct spot to login for it. Then I found out that it didn’t work.

I guess the reason is they were in the middle of a redesign. More info in an interview at Comixtalk.

Theme looks good so far!

A recent Playstation Underground survey hints at Digital Comic Books being served over the Playstation Network Store. I wonder if what they offer through there would be region locked? I think this might be the end result of recent partnerships to produce gaming comics.

I hope this isn’t just limited to gaming comics. The potential here is boundless.

Joystiq reports that DC will partner up with Capcom to produce comics based on the popular Devil May Cry and Resident Evil video games. I am very happy with this news being a fan of both series.

This news coming shortly after it was announced that DC will produce a comic for the upcoming game Mirror’s Edge. All will be under the DC Wildstorm umbrella.

I hope this trend continues. PLEASE OH PLEASE I want a Cooking Mama comic please!!

Plot Device Cards are used to support your own Characters or hinder the actions of your opponent’s Character Cards. Some Plot Devices can give an OFF power boost, others can prevent a card from acting, and some others still can destroy another card altogether. The placement and use of your Plot Device Cards can potentially turn around the most hopeless of situations, and can turn a guaranteed defeat into an upset victory.

Just like the Character cards, Plot Devices may have a Bandwidth Cost, indicated at the top of the card next to the PD symbol. In order to play a card you must have the Bandwidth on hand to spend, which you must discard before placing your Character onto the field. At the time of this writing no Plot Device cards have a Bandwidth Cost, but as cards become more powerful that will certainly change.

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