To protect any children who have strayed onto this blog, most of this will be below the fold.

Last night I watched Star Trek, Discoveryso you do not have to. It was an example of what has gone wrong with pop culture. The captain had no courage. The XO was insubordinate, and relied on feelings, to the point where xe used a vulcan mind grip on the captain.

Court Martial offense and instant dismissal: one does not strike an officer.

But instead, xe had to emote. One had sympathies with the Klingon. If humans were this effete, they deserved to be shunned.

Most if not all modern movies are the same — from Star Trek to Dr Who. Even James Bond shall be converged.

And there is a vacuum for plot, story, and old-fashioned heroes. The Dread Ilk have noticed, and thus a new set of comics may be born.

And this has the progressives shaking.

“You overestimate the number of people buying comics.”

And you underestimate the number of people who bought comics for decades and have only recently stopped because they couldn’t put up with the bullshit anymore.

Come to think of it awful lot of those old angry white comic fans (who have been shit upon for years now) would be just about the right age to have teenage sons.

That’s who Alt-Hero is for. Not plebs like me who are going to be quite content with a just a digital copy. The hardcore jaded ex-comic reader who’s old enough to remember when comics were actually good and want to relive some of that glory while sticking it to the rotting corpse of the current mainstream comic industry.

and then there is going to be the Weaponized Autists who are going to be EXTREMELY HAPPY to physically hold three hundred dollars of “FUCK YOU MARVEL!!!” in their hands. There will be at least a couple guys like that… and God bless them for it.

Alt-Hero is going to happen in one form or another. The question is whether or not the current plans are workable. Chewing on the numbers myself I don’t see any way the Alt-Hero project falls flat on its ass unless mission creep sets in. Again Castalia House already has enough of distribution system to deliver the promised product without working with the normal comic industry channels.

“But Castalia House doesn’t know anything about publishing comic books!”

Well guess what? Neither does 2017 Marvel Comics. So let’s see what happens. The timing of this whole project really not have been better due to the baffling events of Marvel Milkshake Madness and ComicsGate trickling along in bursts and spurts.

So let the games begin.

Some samples, including fanart: this has gone viral in 24 hours.

Just spent most of the day sperging out about Alt-Hero. This is going to be one incredible ride.

The SJWs are finally starting to get wind of it but I don’t think it’s dawned on them that they can’t actually stop the boulder rolling towards them. Castalia House has just enough of an internal distribution network that they don’t have to go through normal comic industry channels. There had been some concern about a kickstarter being taken down but the new fundrising site Freestartr is firmly Alt-Tech and can be counted not to yield to outside pressure.

So yes very soon it will indeed be Hammertime.

It would be good to have comics worth reading. The last one I enjoyed was Frank Miller retelling the story of the 300.

Update.

Alt Hero is now up and heading for its goal. Three hours, 19K of 25 K needed to meet its goal.