Comments on: Archaia Teaming with Henson for New Comics Series

By: Jake Forbes

Jake Forbes — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:42:34 +0000

@Siiri, Archaia hasn’t announced a release for this. This year is very unlikely.

By: Siiri

Siiri — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:51:21 +0000

Does anyone know when this is coming out?

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:33:59 +0000

Exactly, Kendra. For starters she was far too easy. Jareth isn’t just interested in a quick bang. She was coming off like a desperate prostitute trying to get a customer. I RP. I don’t cyber.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:50:05 +0000

Mandy, if that had happened to me, I would have told her to quit it, too. Not as Jareth, but as myself. I can’t stand it when people ruin a good rpg with vulgarity, but then again, I’m one of those family-friendly folks, so maybe some people like that kind of stuff. But I’m pretty sure Jareth wouldn’t appreciate it, either. I mean, yeah, he’s a guy, but he also has a bit of class as a ruler of a kingdom. Not only that, he’s in love with Sarah, and I’m pretty sure Sarah would not hump his throne, either.

By: tanuki

tanuki — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:44:47 +0000

Jake, it looks to me as though your surprise success with Labyrint has inspired Henson Co to finally do something with this and other licensed properties that still have cult appeal. They really owe you!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:51:12 +0000

I have a funny story about a Labyrinth RPer I once came across. On AOL I have the screen name JTheGoblinKing. I’ve had it since 1999. And one day a few years ago someone IMed me, asking if I did RP (online text based role play). Well, it had been a few years since the first incarnation of the AOL Labyrinth role playing game and I was a little bored of Jareth and the Labyrinth game storylines but by this point I thought ‘Ah, why not?’ She asked me if I was willing to play Jareth in instant message for her. I said sure.

We started to RP. I began to lose patience quickly. Her character was practically humping Jareth’s throne. Well, it just felt out of character to me that Jareth would find that very appealing. And I broke it to her in so many words. I was starting to lose patience actually. And her reply was ‘You just don’t get it because you’re a guy! Only girls understand Jareth.’ And I replied with ‘Actually, I’m a woman.’ And she replied to that with ‘No wonder you don’t get him then!’ No matter what I said I just couldn’t win.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:44:58 +0000

Thank you very much, Derry. I appreciate it.

By: DerrySue

DerrySue — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:46:01 +0000

Mandy,
I feel bad for you to have to go through all that.
You are a wonderful, insightful person who adds so much to this
site. Thank you.
As far as Henson and this new alliance, let us all support it until we really get an idea about what it will become. Jake does, so we should trust him a bit about this and maybe its a good thing?

By: Kendra

Kendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:46 +0000

That’s what I’m afraid will happen to Labyrinth with these new comics. I’d hate to see something so good melt away because the teenyboppers got too hot-headed over what’s canon and what’s not.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:32:34 +0000

Thank you, Kendra. I was very upset when it first happened. I really had forgotten where the quote came from. It did feel like something Jim Butcher would say so I started to think I had picked it up from one of the Dresden Files novels. When I couldn’t find the original source of the quote I put the disclaimer in part one, stating that the quote used as the answering machine out going message was not mine but something I had read and liked, I just couldn’t recall where I had read it. I neglected the disclaimer in part two mostly because usually with fan fictions you only have to write the disclaimer once anyway and I sort of rushed through writing part 2.

It just boggled my mind that she was able to find my fiction in so many places, publically attack me but never noticed the disclaimer in part 1. At one point in there she tried to accuse me of putting the disclaimer in later. That’s why I allowed the person from that live journal group access into my FanfictionNet account as to see the last time the story was edited. As well as the date stamp on the forums that tell you when a post is edited.

Sometimes I feel like that person was trying to set me up. She started ordering me to remove the quote from the story in every place the story was posted (which I started to do) and then she tried claiming that I added the disclaimer later. Once the post was edited to remove the quote anything could have also been added or removed in the disclaimer. Fortunately I caught on to this before it was too late and I had several forums not yet edited (with stamps that say when a post is edited) as proof that the disclaimer had always been there. And I showed them to the person ‘investigating’ the case before following through on removing the quote from the story.

So now I’m on a watch list for using a quote in the story when in the disclaimer of part 1 of the fan fiction I said I didn’t know where that quote came from! Fan fiction writers can be disturbing…

This is why The Dresden Files TV series wasn’t salvageable (even though I highly recommend the show for anyone who likes urban fantasy. You can find it on hulu and now youtube thanks to lionsgateTV). The fan base is shot. It has too many factions. Book purists (who hate the show), show purists (who hate the books, Those that like both and don’t understand either purist group, Dresden/Bob shippers, Dresden/Murphy shippers, Dresden/Susan shippers… And none of them seem willing to get along with the other. They’re too busy squabbling amongst themselves to do anything substantial for the thing they love.