TJIC is on Twitter! [Member Since: October 17 '07]
I’m one of the founders of HeavyInk.com.
I live in a house with two dogs, a pile of books and comic books, and
five lathes (three metal lathes and two wood lathes).
The dogs are a 12 year old male Australian Cattle Dog named Strider,
and a 2 year old Corgi / Australian Cattle Dog mix named Ocho.
I was interviewed about HeavyInk over at ComicsReporter.
HeavyInk was profiled in MassHighTech here.
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Travis, help me. For some reason I keep getting crash Bang! error whenever I try to access HI from work on my lunch break. What changed? My company doesn’t block it or anything. I go to the site, just get crash bang error.
Thanks for setting this up, dude. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
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NaNoWriMo is go! http://heavyink.com/National_Graphic_Novel_Writ...
Posts* – Wow I can’t even write English properly. No wonder you don’t like me. ;)
Lies! I have 4400 post!
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There are new “add as friends” buttons in the forums; I click those on everyone I see. Haven’t seen a post by you, I guess. Anyway, rectifying the problem…now!
testimonial for you: “If you live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, but still love comics, this site doesn’t rape you on shipping costs!” you might have to edit it a bit
Hey, just wanted to say that I’m very impressed with the site! I just switched over from Mile High and I’m eagerly awaiting my first shipment! Bad thing is the DCnU #2’s from u guys will be here before the #1’s from Mile High! Impressive! …Most impressive.
I’m confused. It looks as though the cover pictures for Arkham Reborn #2 and #3 may have been switched. I own #2 and your cover does not match. I want to buy #3 (cover matches my #2) but am hesitant.
Thanks for the reply.
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Hey, thanks for getting in touch. Right now we’re buried under so much other stuff that a site redesign is VERY low on the priority list. I can’t imagine it happening inside of the next 12 months.
Hey, who would I have to talk to about a heavyink site redesign. I emailed you guys a link you might wanna give a look, http://www.beoriginal.com/heavyink
Thanks, love the site, except the style I guess.
That’s awesome. Zombiedictator and I have thought about getting an ACD. They are awesome dogs too. You know you have an awesome dog when there is a comic written after it. :)
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That’s a cute corgi! I’ve got an Australian Cattle Dog, and a half-ACD / half-Corgi myself.
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Dynamite Pilot sounds interestng – I’ve just subscribed!
It’s Beartato from http://www.nedroid.com/
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cute avatar – is it from some comic book?
I am an Environmental & construction/brushing consultant in the Utility & Oil and Gas Industries. I ensure that when projects are being brushed and constructed that they are done in a manner that is in line with all environmental & construction acts, polices and laws.
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Your blurb says that you get paid to do work that’s similar to reading comic books. What is your job?
Hey Trevor,
I was hoping to possibly interview you (preferably over the phone but I could do an e-mail interview as well) about HeavyInk. I’m writing a magazine article for a class at the University of Utah about comic shops vs. their online counter parts. The article is called “In the Comic World, HeavyInk is the New Black”. I love HeavyInk and want to weigh the pros and cons of the online format vs. in store. Your input would help to give the story weight. There is a possibility the story could be published.
I’d need to have the interview finished by Oct. 31. Let me know if you can and if you can’t please point me in the direction of someone who could.
Thanks :)
Dana
I’m kind of confused =| I subscribed to the nightwing comic book. Will it charge me automatically and send me the comic book? or will i have to buy each issue buy clicking the buy button.
thanks and sorry
yeah exactly…its called a duck-walk…brutal on the whole body…and I must agree, my arms do look damn sexy in that pic. cheers dude!
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Dude – you’re buff!
What’sthat thing that you’re man-handling? Some sort of T-bar with plates at the end?
I have tried my best to get my friends into comic books. In fact, I even started a group in my city for the book “Drawing Words and Writing Pictures” (if you haven’t already, you should check it out)so a bunch of people can come together and learn how to create comics. However, I’ve come to find that most of my friends are more into drawing comics than reading them. All I can say is that they’re missing out.
Marketing books always strike me as a whole buck or facts about psychology with no data or sources. The Marketers who write the books are so gosh darn good at their jobs that the students believe it unquestioningly and soak it up like a sponge. If you want a real good basis you marketing, get some kind of major/miner combo in Psychology and Business. Or heck, skip the business altogether, since both marketing and psychology is the study of searning about and controling other people’s minds. I wanted so desperately to be a biopsych major… basically controlling minds with drugs..
The bowl from your May 27th post is awesome! What is the wood and what sort of finish did you put on it?
Thank you for supporting Robotika!
You have created a great thing. Also, I want a corgi, they are big dogs in small packages.
Hey, are you guys planning on setting something up for comic-con (the one in San Diego) this year? This is going to be my first one and I’d be psyched to see something from Heavyink at the con!
Yeps – I’ve been LARPing since before I worked for TVR. I also do things for a LARP con in Boston. Since I’m just THAT much of a geek. _
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You LARP?
You know, I just realized that it would make an awesome forehead tattoo.
I’ve got to get drunk, pronto!!!
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Just noticed the new avatar. Ha!
Thanks! I wish I was cool enough to wear combat boots and a skirt.
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Most excellent avatar! (I love Daria!)
He has been rightly chastised.
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Daynah, we are definately going to create T-shirts (including limited edition ones), and because you’ve been such a great customer (blogging, forums, all that good stuff) you were already on the short list to get a freebie in the mail.
Someone (cough) has been a bit tardy in delivering the T-shirt design, so it’s not going to be done in time for your con…but keep checking the <s>skies</s> mailbox!
I will be working at a convention on Memorial Day weekend… and I haven’t decided what to wear yet! The only rule for staff is that we wear… “clothes.” If there were a magical heavyink shirt that existed, I would be very happy to wear it for some of the con (not every day, ew).
Great interview with The Comics Reporter!
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_newsmaker_interview_travis_ji_corcoran_of_heavyinkcom/
(Sorry I don’t know how to link properly to that.)
You guys were our Knight in Shining Armor with that whole Atomic Robo/Diamond fuck up.
Thanks again for getting the book out to people!!
hey there, Gravel has me intrigued but I see it linked to Strange Kiss (and the sequel) on some reviews on the web. I saw you really didn’t like the Kiss books but yet are pulling Gravel. What’s your take on it? Good, not good, interesting? Many thanks in advance.
hey – go check out http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html, where awesome scifi author Stephen Brust posted, for free, his own novel set in the ’Verse (set between the end of Firefly and the events of the movie)
Hello – Thanks for ordering, taking the time to read, and then your very thoughtful review of my new comic – THE INFINITE HORIZON. It makes all the difference when a shop owner or in your case – a site operator gets behind an indie book like ours. Thanks for that. I noticed that you’re sold out – I’m sure that’s do to your kind words. I hope you like the rest of the series – issue 2 and the reprint are out in January. Thanks again, and Happy New Year – congrats on this cool site too –
Best,
Gerry Duggan
xkcd is comprised entirely of win. I don’t remember how I discovered it ages ago (I mean, the comic was still in the 20s) but I have since performed exacting and rigorous scientific tests on it. We have confirmed a concentration no lower than 94.27% win with a .03% margin of error.
Good job on the cover thing..was that you? I justs pent way to much time clicking it…good job.
When I figure out how and where I’m going to publish it.
I’m actually quite proud of the title, I can’t wait to get the book done and out there… I’ll probably let you guys see it before it’s done, because you’re all so cool and what not
p.s. why are there so many freaking private profiles on here?
Gentleman, good job. I’m VERY interested to see how this’ll turn out. -mE!
You guys and this site has gotten me back into comics and for that I am very grateful. Thank You!
Are you guys going to be offering toys and such, the same that we would find @ a comic shop?
That service vs. price comparison is gonna be a key differentiator when it comes to marketing this bad boy. Also, the usability of this website far surpasses anything else I’ve seen in terms of strict comics retail online—that alone is worth paying for.
When I’m very very mellow, I transform into a regular fleshy human, but the rest of the time I hang out in my rock-like state…
Wonderful! Love the design.
Mazel tov on the birth of a beautiful website! May it have a long and healthy live. L’chiam!
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Issues Reviews
The Infinite Horizon is a retelling of The Odyssey, and a hundred other works of fiction, and it works as well as the very best of them. The artwork is perfect: spare and almost brutal in its simplicity - the perfect counterpoint for the tale, and the environment: hard men in a hard situation, doing what they need to do to fight their way through hell and back to their loved ones, even if they don't know how they're going to accomplish it.
Recommended.
7 pts.
Because my favorite comic book in print is The Walking Dead, I decided to give a … nibble (”….braiiinnns….”) on every other zombie comic book title out there.
Sadly, I can’t recommend Zombie Highway. I love the colorful artwork, but the story is unclear, the dialogue is crude, and I just don’t see anything to recommend it to me.
Your mileage may vary.
1 pts.
Darn it…this was supposed to ship three weeks ago…and Diamond hasn’t release it yet.
We wantssss our Infinite Horizon fix, my Precious….!!
1 pts.
It turns out that a movie is being made, and Toby Maguire is starring.
...and HeavyInk has copies in stock.
Woot! Get all your Afterburn needs satisfied here!
0 pts.
I’m somewhat disappointed in this. The cover art is beautiful, but the interior art is a bit amateurish. Also the writing isn’t really world-class.
I’ll let my subscription run a few more issues to see how it pans out, but I’m not convinced that I’m going to stick with it.
2 pts.
I’m a huge fan of Courtney Crumrin – I’ve given five stars to everything else in the series.
This installment lost its way, I think.
The great bit of CC is that one little girl was smarter than her horrible yuppie parents, hated her classmates, and was immersed in suburbia … despite knowing a bit about the magical elements around her, and despite being able to practice a bit of magic.
The juxtaposition of cell phones, talk about BMWs, and night creatures and spells was striking…really really good stuff!
Also, her weird relationship with her uncle was quite interesting.
This issue loses all of that.
Courtney is off touring the hinterlands of Europe with her uncle (who is now less mysterious), and everything that was great about the series goes away: no fairies, no night creatures, no juxtaposition and contrasting of the well-lit suburbs with dark magical secrets.
Also, a bit of moralizing was woven into the whole thing – don’t be afraid of folks who are different ; maybe most conflicts are just caused by misunderstanding ; etc., etc.
All in all, still fun, but much weaker than the previous CC books.
Hoping the next one is better…
1 pts.
At first, I thought I wasn’t going to like this comic – it seemed to be an all-too obvious homage to Firefly / Serenity (wild west in space), crossed with warmed-over 1980s cyberpunk (the big crew cut enforcer on designer steroids, corporate espionage, etc.).
The thing is – despite the somewhat derivative inspiration, the book has decent writing, and a good sense of humor (pay attention for the sly Conan reference halfway through)!
I’ll read more.
3 pts.
On of the more boring issues recently. There’s roughly zero action. One character has a crisis of faith (which was interesting the first 40 or so times it happened in the zombie post-apocalypse, but it’s getting a bit old now), and one zombie pops up and gets capped.
Eh.
I’m looking forward to some excitement.
-1 pts.
i disagree, it’s good to see rick stepping up once again as alpha dog. and i just want to say i can’t wait till rick pulls the trigger on this new abe guy, don’t like or trust him. but to be honest…i’m a huge walking dead fanboy…and i love every issue
2 pts.
Absolutely horrible. The first, last, and only issue of Tarot that I have / will ever read.
A great essay ridiculing it is found here:
http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980
The intro to the essay:
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #53 is the worst comic book I own.
It’s tempting to say that it’s the worst comic I’ve ever read, but let’s be honest here: It might be in the running, but I read three issues of Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood and that Jeph Loeb Buffy comic just last month, so it’s up against some stern competition on that front.
Still, when you look at something like Youngblood, you get the idea that Rob Liefeld just couldn’t do any better. Maybe, if he wasn’t hampered by his (considerable) lack of skill as an artist and (even more considerable) lack of skill as a writer, he could’ve done a better job getting what was in his head onto the page, and maybe–however unlikely–it would’ve been a tiny bit better.
With Tarot, though, there’s a basic level of craftsmanshp that makes it hard to imagine that what you get is anything but exactly what Jim Balent wanted it to be. It’s his exact vision, laid out on the page. He actually meant this to happen.
1 pts.
Ignition city is off to a strong start!
I love the artwork, and Warren Ellis restrains his over-the-top impulses (for the most part), letting his geeky-but-exciting side win the day. I’m looking forward to more of this!
1 pts.
A fair bit slower than I would have liked.
Fine, issue 1 is set up … but in issue 2, I’d be expecting some action (fist fights, laser battles, spaceship combat, something!), and there’s not much.
I think, tho, that having set up the world in issue #1, he’s just setting up the lead characters in issue #2.
I’m still quite optimistic about the series!
1 pts.
Awesome quote:
” It’s a sad fact, and an awful truth. Sometimes, in the course of this job, you’re going to have to eat terrible things, all in the name of Justice.”
0 pts.
Suz just delivered my weekly pile of comics, and I flipped to my favorite: Walking Dead #90. I’ve got to say that I was disappointed. Yes, Walking Dead has always been pretty talky, all about dealing with emotions, interpersonal stresses and relationships, etc.
…but the last few issues have left me pretty flat. How long has it been since the group of survivors has been inside the walled compound…and pretty much nothing has happened?
Sigh.
I hope it picks up soon.
1 pts.
