Comments on: On Warren Ellis, and His Ridiculous Self-Publishing Model

By: braak

braak — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:27:53 +0000

New guild rule: join Threat Quality or receive headbutt.

THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!

By: Moff

Moff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:02:35 +0000

You could just try head-butting their glasses off?

By: braak

braak — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:01:19 +0000

Yes. The next phase of Threat Quality is when I start going around to authors who won’t sign with us, beating them with sticks and breaking their fingers.

It’s Threat Quality or nothing, motherfuckers.

By: Moff

Moff — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:23 +0000

See, here is an example of where McLuhan was just absolutely right: In his Laws of Media, he talks about how any new medium retrieves characteristics of some older one in a cyclical fashion. And your aspiration for Threat Quality is essentially that it becomes a 21st-century version of a guild. And, I think, that's eventually how it's going to work out. I mean, whether it happens with TQP specifically depends largely on you, and in part on how quickly the media environment becomes conducive to the form; but at some point within our lives, we're going to see monolithic corporations like, say, HarperCollins (itself part of an even monolithicker corporation, of course) replaced by smaller self-organized groups of individuals. Ideally, this will bring about a more harmonious paradigm of business in which vendors are more responsive to their customers, but, y'know, I'll believe it when I see it.