This was an interesting turn of events and fun too!

I will likely regret giving this website any more attention but thought this was important enough to write.

Jeff Hartz wrote elsewhere: “The maps he gave us were numbered 28 and 29 of 255. If he’s sold whatever amount he’s claiming this week to have sold, how is he dispersing them?”

The original print run of the maps was 250. It increased to 255 to allow 5 maps to be given to LucasFilm for their archives. One can assume they have maps numbered #251-255. Matt Busch stated he sold 27 maps prior to giving the remaining 223 maps to Rick. If the maps given to Jeff Hartz are numbered #28 & #29 it stands to reason Rick has sold no maps at all despite his claims in the past of selling at least 10. This could be incorrect but the numbers seem to add up.

Jeff Hartz: “what surprised me was how fast Bleeding Cool picked up on the first podcast! It wasn’t even on the AH site 10 hours and there was Rich’s article.”

When the first podcast was posted, I was the first comment. It went into moderation and so didn’t show up. I then wrote Rich and told him about the podcast and linked him. The next day I saw suddenly Dante had the first post, mine was second and the comments were no longer being moderated before being posted.

Also a last question to Jeff Hartz if they actually ever comment here at their own site. In your deception in creating the persona of Artful Angie, why did you try and make people think you were a woman in July 2010 at the Comic Book Resources website?

I know your standard line is wanting to keep Rick guessing as your identity. If you gave false information on your hair color or location, that would be one thing. To fake your gender on a website, one that had problems with men pretending to be women in the past, seems way over the top. I find it very difficult to understand how that is appropriate or one would think of that kind of step to take.

Jeff Hartz: “Matthew, I answer all those questions over in the Gail Simone section of the Jinxworld forums.”

I went there and saw a bunch of people saying you have a huge ego, that you are causing a lot of problems and Gail Simone has stated she will lock the thread. Guess your plan to get hits for this site really blew up in your face. The way people are reacting to you at Bleeding Cool isn’t much better.

I saw you did post there and nowhere there did you answer why you pretended to be a woman on a website that had troubles with men pretending to be women. So you either forgot or like Rick Olney does, when you don’t have an answer or that it makes you look bad, you ignore it. I’ll be generous and assume you’ve just forgot to answer like you said you would and if I go back later today you’ll tell them/me why.

As to Rick Olney. It’s Matthew not Matt and save your answers. Nothing you say matters because nothing you say is honest. Do have a good day though and say hi to Beth for me.

Jeff Hartz: I do believe I did answer the question as to why I used a cover when you consider all the different people Rick has insulted and slurred over the years just because they didn’t agree with him.

As I originally stated, I could see making up a lie about your hair color, location, even occupation. There is no reason whatsoever you had to pretend to be a woman. Do you know how wrong that is? I’m going to have to agree with what is being said about you elsewhere. For someone who dislikes Rick Olney so much, you sure do use a lot of his same tactics. From pretending to be someone you aren’t, to ignoring hard questions, to making it all about yourself, you two are cut from the same stone.

Also as Kevin pointed out on Bleeding Cool, you’ve been posting very recently as Artful Angie saying you had emailed Jeff Hartz. That in my eye and many others means all those times you made fun of Rick for talking to himself through sock puppets hypocritical.

I said I’d likely regret giving this site any more attention and I was right. No one ever posts here unless it’s about Rick. Once this is over, you’ll have about as many people reading what you have to say as Rick does. Hope this was all worth it. Hope when you read Michael Mallot say, “so I went through a week of hell for what?” you will remember you could have saved him a lot of pain if you weren’t doing this for your own needs and stopped it then and never act like this again.

I’m done here. Looks like everyone else is too. So of course you want Rick to feel free to post his BS here. Despite saying you were done with him on Gail Simone’s thread. If he stops posting here you won’t have anyone to talk to.