Webcomic Beacon Newscast: Comic News & Discussion for September 30th, 2012

Stefan Barton-Ross (Hero In Training), TV’s Mr. Neil and Ben Carver (Animation Aficionados) join us in this week’s webcomic and comic news discussion. We mostly talk about Kickstarter changing how people run pre-orders, John Campbell’s post on depression that cause an upset, Scott Kurtz and Brad Guigar trying to save City of Heroes, and more! Thom Revor heads the show this week; and thanks to all of our news team: Dean Esmay, Marie Tary, Alex Heberling, Jason Strawsburg, and Eric Kimball.

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Promo: The FuMP

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Network News

Webfiction World podcast seeking new reader for webfiction audio podcasts

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Top Stories

Kickstarter re-commits to ideas instead of pre-orders
Original Source: BoingBoing

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Buzz

Greg Rucka Gets Increasingly Candid About Work For Hire Conditions, Debunks Another Myth
Original Source: The Beat
Additionally: ICv2

John Campbell’s odd post about depression causes upset
Original Source: Kickstarter

XKCD’s endless comic
Original Source: Webcomic Overlook
Additionally: Robot 6

Scott Kurtz and Brad Guigar try to save City of Heros
Original Source: Penny Arcade
Additionally: Evil Inc. Comic

OOTS announcement and accident (Rich out of commission for 6 weeks)
Original Source: Giant in the Playground
Additionally: An update from Rich
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Legal

He’s Baaack! – Charles Carreon sues Walgreens because someone he doesn’t like works there
Original Source: Censorious Douchebag

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Looking for a new Webfiction Reader for the Webfiction World podcast.

Kara Dennison and Witchiebunny (The Webcast Beacon Network’s break bump and intro announcer) are currently assigned to do readings, but we lost a regular webfiction reader due to their own workload.

We are hoping to find someone to do the seral readings for SGL’s Tales of the Big Bad Wolf (Red Riding Hood arc): http://talesofthebigbadwolf.com/red-riding-hood-arc/

Anyone that would like to try out for this reading should contact us aswebfictionworld@gmail.com with a recorded sampling (a minute or two) to see how well you perform. Even if you have a crappy microphone, try it out.

Anyone interested must have a passion for it, and should be committed to doing the readings through the end of the whole arc. If you have both the passion and commitment, AND good reading performance skills, BUT you have a crappy microphone, we can get you a headset to use. Nothing special but should be a well decent quality for a replacement.

Feel free to contact us with any questions and for other details.

DEADLINE FOR US TO PICK A NEW READER: October 20th, 2012