I'm back after a few busy months both online and off with the first of a few new guides to thank you for your continued support...
Teen Titans, Titans, & Young Justice - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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2018-05-26 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm bringing you a guide that is one of the final pieces to providing full coverage of the Marvel Legacy era of titles. It also greatly simplifies my most-complicated (and most-visited!) single guide by breaking an important character out into his own page...
Mile Morales, Spider-Man - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide...
2018-02-11 22:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I am incredibly excited to finally bring to you one of CK's longest-gestating guides for one of the last major Marvel heroes missing from its coverage!
Venom - The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order
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2017-12-17 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray - the Patreon drama is over (for the moment), with news breaking yesterday that there will be no new fees! Let's celebrate with some more unexpected and super-niche Marvel guides!
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What, you thought all this Patreon drama was going to stop me from making new stuff?
UPDATE: Patreon has retracted their planned fee change for the moment! None of this will be necessary!
Hello, all!
I am writing to provide additional context around Patreon's fee changes and the actions I will be taking to prevent you from being charged more to support this campaign without your explicit, affirmative consent.
Keep reading for a more detailed breakdown.
This morning, you received an email from Patreon (2017-12-07 21:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, I know... you've already seen the picture headlining this post, and you might be a little surprised to learn that I've launched...
Darkhawk - The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide
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2017-12-06 04:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm making this post public because I want to hear from both existing Patrons and folks who might be considering a pledge.
After a year of creating with the support of Patrons I'd like to adjust the first few Reward Tiers. I want to do more for more people who are supporting me. When I set up the levels a year ago I had no idea I'd be making this many comic guides, redesigning, posting so regularly, starting a brand new video show, et cetera.
These are my current thoughts. I'd love your feedback! You don't hav...
2017-11-18 09:56:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm excited to bring you the launch of a major cornerstone piece of content for the DC Comics section of Crushing Comics:
Justice League - The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order
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2017-11-13 00:50:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This will probably be the final Crushing Comics episode I share on here for now, as I'm wary of over-using the push notifications to all Patrons such that you miss an awesome future post about special content (like the one you'll be getting in the next 24hrs).
However, I'm hoping to still get them up on YouTube almost daily throughout the month. We'll see how I do!
This episode benefited from my extensive three days of editing experience. I sketched out what I wanted all the graphics to be on my first watch and got them all in dur...
2017-11-05 03:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I went a little less over-the-top with the editing in this episode, in which I unwrap The Infinity Gauntlet omnibus.
I had a lot more personal storytelling at the beginning of this that I cut. It was good footage, but it was the wrong personal story for the third episode. I'm so used to the way I tell my story via CK - with 17 years worth of related context built in. I have to be aware that I don't have all that backstory built in here on YouTube. I'm a new character all over again.
In rendering this video, I hit a snag wherein the audi...
2017-11-03 20:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the episode I previewed to you earlier this week with compression, color correction, and some pithy editing.
It always takes me some time to re-acclimate to even the simplest elements of video editing once I get over my natural run-and-hide response the first time I have to do anything in the project other than cutting/splicing.
This took about three hours of on-and-off work last night, but even looking at it 12hrs later I'm quite sure I could do it in half the time or less today.
The key will be pressing throug...
2017-11-02 19:42:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm happy to share with an unusual new page that's part encyclopedia, part collection guide, and absolutely essential to the next year of DC Comics:
Watchmen - The Definitive Guide
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2017-11-01 12:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post
It's here! Me, a video camera, and 25,000 comic books, about a hundred of which need unwrapping.
This episode is just a tiny preview; tomorrow's will be a full length episode where I unwrap my first books (which Patrons got to preview earlier this week).
While this show isn't directly linked to any Patreon goals, it's absolutely the result of a year of this campaign - if for no other reason that I couldn't afford to use Adobe Premiere for editing if my Patreons weren't already paying for CK's hosting!
November is always a special ...
2017-11-01 09:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little peak at what I've been up to in my new comics library this week!
Last night I shot about 100 minutes worth of test episodes for the new video series I've thought up to finally take Crushing Krisis into the video era (and to make use of "Crushing Comics" as a title).
I'm typically intimidated by video projects - not by being in front of the camera, but by managing all of the little details. This time I decided to ignore all of that hesitance and forge forward without a lot of fancy setup.
Of course, now I'm re...
2017-10-31 00:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I am so extremely happy to return to providing exclusive content to you with this Patrons' Choice guide based on the results of our April poll: Collecting Scarlet Witch
Patrons' Choice poll winning guides are available to all Patrons from $1.99 and up for an extended period of exclusivity before going public as a thank you for your support and input!
You must 2017-10-29 10:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, good people of Patreon!
I simply wanted to drop you all a note of thanks for supporting me through the past few months of major life transition.
If you haven't been keeping up with CK, in early July I broke the news that our family was leaving Philadelphia to move to New Zealand! In fact, this move was in the works as far back as my last update in May - part of the "Math of May" was that my wife was around the globe from my daughter and I interviewing for jobs.
That change and all the ensuing planning, packing, and tr...
2017-09-25 01:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello, awesome people!
Things have been a bit quiet on the Patreon front this month, so I'm writing to give you a not-so-brief update on what's going on behind the scenes with me.
(These things are pretty long, personal, and wonk-ish, so I have no expectation you'll all read every one, but I love having you in my "in-club" and giving you glimpses at what my life is like behind-the-scenes).
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Since November I've managed to squeeze between 60-160 blogging hours out of each month.
I know - the varia...
2017-05-23 02:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostI need your help deciding what I should do to celebrate our next campaign goal, because it's your contributions to CK's success that we'll be celebrating!
When I first designed this campaign, my plan for celebrating hitting the $120 goal was to guarantee I'd publish at least one new guide each month. Keep in mind, that goal came before I decided to introduce the DC Universe guides, so I was thinking about working through a relatively small number of remaining Marvel guides.
Clearly, I'm already doing publishing one new ...
2017-05-12 22:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Patrons of all levels, shapes, sizes, and colors! I have another major, month-end bulletin for you as CK's insiders and critical supporters.
April was a month I buckled down and blogged A LOT, which meant a lot of the action was on the front page of CK for a change. I love that, but not as much occurred behind-the-scenes as I had hoped.
Below, I've recapped all the action for you in a series of easy-to-swallow bullet points. Then, for those of you who love to devour the details, I'll recap everything in a longer form below.
I can't believe it will be May tomorrow! I'm deep into working on your April choice of a Scarlet Witch guide, and that means it's time to pick your next Patrons' Choice!
The poll includes the four guides that garnered votes last month plus another quartet that you haven't had the chance to vote on before. None of these guides are currently planned to arrive sooner than the end of June without your intervention - some aren't even on the map for 2017.
Vote early and often for many choices as you'd like - the poll will ...
2017-04-30 17:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my biggest ever launch of multiple pages in over half a decade, since I first expanded the X-Men Guide to include Avengers back in 2011. I cannot think of any other fictional universe more-deserving of the distinction or effort.
Guide to Star Wars Comics, Films, Canon Stories, & Legends Comics
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2017-04-23 21:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm excited to share this peculiar guide with you as I continue to work through its final draft. Knowing you could be reading it at any given moment will inspire me to make a few final decisions on its formatting and content.
The Complete Guide to DC Elseworlds, Infinite Earths, & Alternate Realities
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2017-04-19 03:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I have a guide for you that I went a little overboard in completing - Animal Man
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Why did I go so wild on the Animal Man guide? I think I was search...
2017-04-06 19:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's yet another Bat-Guide, inching me ever closer to total Bat-Coverage on Crushing Krisis - The Index To Batman Ongoing Titles
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This guide is not scheduled for general public release at this time. I will share it with Pledgeonauts al...
2017-04-04 14:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Patrons of all levels, shapes, sizes, and colors! I have a major, month-end bulletin for you as CK's insiders and critical supporters.
This month may not have been quite as obvious of a blockbuster as February for CK, but incredibly big stuff still happened thanks in large part to your support - and there's more on the way in April.
Plus, it's the end of the quarter, so I have some big goals to check in on!
Below, I've recapped all the action for you in a series of easy-to-swallow bullet points. Then, for those of you who l...
2017-04-01 01:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe're on the verge of a new month, and that means it's time to pick a new Patrons' Choice guide for me to attack!
The poll includes a selection of all-new, all-different guides that you didn't vote on last month and which aren't currently planned arrive sooner than the end of May without your intervention - some aren't even on the map for 2017.
Vote early and often for many choices as you'd like - the poll will close on EXTENDED Thursday April 6th at noon ET! The winning choice will see special early release not ...
2017-03-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm excited to share the first Patrons' Choice guide based on the results of our March poll: Collecting Alpha Flight
Patrons' Choice poll winning guides are available to all Patrons from $1.99 and up for an extended period of exclusivity before going public as a thank you for your support and input!
You must Log ...
2017-03-29 21:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
To mark the release of the new Justice League trailer, here's the third of the major Justice League heroes to appear on Crushing Comics - Collecting Flash
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This guide is tentatively scheduled for g...
2017-03-25 19:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
New for you this weekend is another guide from Batman's vast supporting cast of characters, although this one might be the most important - Collecting Robin(s).
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This guide is tentatively scheduled for general public release on April 24, but t...
2017-03-18 22:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
