Woops, wrong fantasy.
I finally got to start banking a few articles in case I need them. I just hope I don’t have to use them until I have a few.
I am not the type to do a multiplayer RPG. I’m too much of a control freak when it comes to stories. Basically, I’d ruin the experience for everyone, not just myself. I do enjoy hearing the stories of other’s adventures and misadventures because I love a good story, but taking part? Not for me.
Live Action Role Play, or LARP, is even more not for me. It would require me to break character as little as possible, and depending on the scenario…the guy who spends too much time on the toilet probably shouldn’t be taking an adventure in a place where that’s a hole in the ground. My eating habits don’t help, which is what’s kept me from international traveling. Well, that and lack of money. I do, however, have a lot of respect for it as a unique form of storytelling.
Josiah “Jazza” Brooks doesn’t have my hang-ups. In this video, Jazza took his son and a cameraman to Swordcraft in their native Australia. It was the first visit for “Jazzeric” as he hoped to teach his son about the world, joined by a chronicler who would learn a new trade during the event. Jazzeric would meet new people, experience adventures and form a band…with a really wrong name. See how he prepared for his first event, and how his musical talent (Jazza started his channel with music before transitioning to drawing and now numerous types of artistic experimenting) was part of his quest. Enjoy.
BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Saturday Article Link> What Caused The Current Comic Crash
Comics as a medium survived Fredrick Wertham and an incompetently enforced Comics Code. The rise of stores that only sold comics and comics related merchandise should be evidence of that. Recently, however, comic stores either had to build beyond that or go out of business, and the industry is in freefall while the emperor dusts off the fiddle. Activism and the current pecking order are only partly to blame. Writing for Brian Neumeier’s Kairos blog we have this commentary by Soul Cycle Books going over how comics started making mistake after mistake and have slowly reduced the industry to a shadow of what it once was and I think he nails it perfectly.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 14, 2024 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comic books, comics, commentary.
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