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Leftist: Throne of Bone Reviews Real, Reliable

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Earlier today, a leftist left a negative comment on a review I did in 2016 of Vox Day’s “A Throne of Bones”. They ended by linking to a hatepost claiming the positive Amazon reviews were deceptive based on an analysis by a site called Fakepost.com from 2017. Because, of course, the accuracy of a self-appointed analysis site using an unpublished algorithm is beyond question. However, when I requested a re-analysis, the book listing now gets an ‘A’. I took an archive as one suspects the algorithm may now change. However for posterity …

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According to Fakespot the reviews on ‘A Throne of Bones’ are 90% high quality and it deserves its average 4.5/5 stars.

For a supposedly unimportant author I have seen a surprising number of multi-part, serialised, chapter-by-chapter reviews from left wingers, like the one that inspired this post. You do not have to agree with Vox Day’s politics to like his work, or find the vilification of dissident authors distasteful. Day has produced a number of popular products meeting the promises he set out to his market. The only real criticism is that release has sometimes been slightly slower than hoped for (for example, of the expanded edition of the sequel to ‘A Throne of Bones’). Day however is not in bad company – Robert Jordan died before finishing his epic and PC Hodgell’s Kencyrath series was begun in 1982 and still is not finished.

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According to Fakespot the reviews on ‘A Throne of Bones’ are 90% high quality and it deserves its average 4.5/5 stars.

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Alt Hero Arrives and it is Good

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Alt-Hero 1: Crackdown cover featuring Captain Europa and Dynamique

Alt-Hero 1: Crackdown cover featuring Captain Europa and Dynamique.

Vox Day’s eagerly awaited crowdfunded comic has finally made its debut with Issue 1 – Crackdown and it is a promising start.

Alt-Hero was offered to fans on Freestartr with a sales pitch that it would be a be a challenger and eventually a replacement for Marvel and DC on the basis that those organisations have become, “SJW-converged”. Many fans perceive the output of the major comics publishers as having declined in quality in recent years whilst clumsily pushing increasingly extreme far left views.

Vox Day set out to prove there was a market for an alternative and did so in spades. His initial campaign asked for $25,000. He made nearly ten times that – Alt-Hero raised $235,900. Like Kickstarter, Freestartr allows creators to specify a variety of awards levels including one which begins, “This is for those who could not care less about comics, but enjoy tormenting SJWs and would enjoy the privilege of triggering them […]” How could anyone resist? I went for one of the higher tiers because (a) LOL, (b) LOL and (c) Vox Day has a history of delivering quality product, albeit sometimes with delays.

Although I supported the campaign, I did so with reservations. I like much of Vox Day’s work and that of Castalia House – Mutiny in Space by Rod Walker for example. Mutiny has an eerily accurate portrayal of the far left – and its depiction of a ‘Social Party’ meeting reminded me all too uncomfortable of my youthful attendance at Labour Party meetings before I became a Conservative. However Vox can push too hard sometimes to his own detriment. Fortunately so far Alt-Hero has remained pitch-perfect satire.

WARNING – Spoilers after the Break

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