>I called it quits because it was losing the fun aspect to

>>92119801
quitting writing about comic books added 10 years to his life? is it really that stressful?

>>92119801
>Posting Outhouse
>on /co/

>>92119942
As someone who did it for beer money a few years back, it's very difficult to make real money at the job, even for full-timers. You need to work your contacts every day and if you lose a scoop, that precious clicks taken from your ad revenue.

It's a miracle the major sites even still exist. It's why most of them are more "pop culture" than "comics news."

>>92119942
He wasn't just writing, he was also running Newsarama and overseeing the forums.

>>92119994
>You need to work your contacts every day and if you lose a scoop, that precious clicks taken from your ad revenue.

And this also ties in to what he says about how publishers were trying to control the press and how they give exclusives to other sites that they prefer (which also is why you don't see as much criticism towards certain things).

Remember when Newsarama used to have Marvel-exclusive stuff like when Joe Quesada did Joe Fridays or whatever? Then OMD happened and JMS went to Newsarama to talk his side (which ended up making Quesada look bad) and suddenly Quesada's column was showing up on Myspace and then later CBR instead.

>>92119942
Judging by how overdramatic the whole thing is, I'd say the guy has no one to blame but himself.

He's talking about "leaks" concerning comic books as if he's blowing the lid off of government conspiracies. The whole internet news culture is such cancer, all it is is starving dogs fighting for any scrap of information they can get about comics, movies, video games, etc. People are addicted to it. I don't mean to sound like one of those OH I DON'T HAVE A TV fags but my life is so much more enjoyable since I stopped paying attention to that shit and just let myself be surprised by the stuff once it actually comes out.

>>92120011
>overseeing the forums
Now THAT I can see taking years off your life. Imagine trying to oversee /co/. You'd blow your brains out after six weeks.

>>92119801
>>16 hour work days for an entire week

Just for bait bullshit?

>>92120110
>He's talking about "leaks" concerning comic books as if he's blowing the lid off of government conspiracies.

Is it? Because if you look at the screencap, there's also Blade X talking about his own experience when he posted a spoiler on Newsarama back then that prompted someone at Newsarama to call him at the comic shop he worked at to tell him to remove the spoiler.

>>92120226
Interesting since they had no problem with people discussing the 52 leaks every week. I guess that was probably someone at Marvel pressuring them to remove it. We know at least from DC that Didio was either posting as Booster Gold or lurking the forums given his massive hard-on for Herald.

>>92120132
That'd explain a lot