[ SECRET POST #2312 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2312 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 018 secrets from Secret Submission Post #330.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

16. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/Tora_Chan/Buzz_secret_zps4b4aab7e.png

[(Anonymous)]

Don't use your real photobucket! It's not much of a secret if you do that!

That said, this has a really cool composition! :D!

(Also, I have no idea what this secret is about.)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually double checked, looks like everything's private! Way to go!

[insanenoodlyguy]

Short version:

Tessa had a webcomic, "Hanna is not a boys name". About a less then competant supernatural detective and his Zombie straight man. Personally I thought it was all style no substance (character were interesting but there were entirely too many to actually focus on them in the right way), but it defintely had a fandom.

Anyway, artist up and dissapeared. No goodbye, no summary of the story, no hiatus, no nothing.

"But Noodly," one might say, "It's not like you were paying for it. It was free service! They want to stop that, It's their right." If that was all of it, I'd agree!

But she'd accepted a good amount of money for a book SHE NEVER FINISHED. not donations or a kickstarter, pre-orders through a publishing company. A bunch of her stans started harassing the publishing company thinking they had something to do with it rather then blame their special snowflake "oh noes mah anxiety" flake of an author, even though they were totally bro tier about it and gave everybody refunds FROM THEIR MONEY. Dunno what the legal arrangements ended up being between them but the fact is she hung both fans and partners out to dry without so much as a fucking apology.

Her further flaky failure was expected by many. And lookit it go!

ADDING

[(Anonymous)]

Tessa had a few failed comics before Hanna, all of them she got bored of and bailed on. She also begged for pre-orders, saying they would have special doodles and whatnot from her on them. She didn't do many of them, so the company had to refund everyone who pre-ordered (She never finished the product)

As for the comic...No. It was just a bunch of pretty boys who the fan(girls) were able to go slash happy with. There really wasn't any plot to speak of. The stories jumped around randomly with no real structure, just two fistfuls of male characters thrown at the audience.

[ceiling_fan]

It is unfortunate. While I could never get interested in the lack of story, this is one of the few circumstances that I would say the "style over substance" actually worked because it did style exceptionally well. I still look back to it just to see how she works the panels, and the fonts.

The whole saga is rather sad. I'm glad she's still alive.

[(Anonymous)]

The comic was/is a wonderful gift to fanfic writers, though. Interesting characters, but tons of room left for fleshing them out. The 'Hannapocalypse' (or however it's written) is a post-apocalyptic AU shared by several authors, and is probably the best series of fanfics that I've ever read.

[morieris]

I didn't know she had another comic...coming out/in limbo/teased.

[insanenoodlyguy]

I think the point is she doesn't. Again.

Which has made me happy. Some people don't deserve another chance and she's one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

hmn. the characters look like pallet swaps of hinabn characters

[verdantmistress]

I thought this as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I had forgotten about this! So, what's the skinny on what really is holding the release date back? Did Tessa get bored again and leave her co-create holding the bag?

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to scream when I read this, but the sort of gleeful scream that accompanies a drama clusterfuck growing bigger than you ever thought possible.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Go on. Do it. It's fun.

[(Anonymous)]

This pleases me.

I checked tumblr; there was not much. Except this " Tessa Stone is an illusion and HINABN was a drug trip." which, actually....

No News

[(Anonymous)]

I tried googling, and Buzz! is just...no where. It only exists in a few blurbs from back in 2012. Hell, Oni doesn't even list it as one of its titles (As far as I could tell, aside from that initial announcement)

Is there any wank, or is Buzz just going to creep off into the shadows, more like a whisper than a buzzzzzzzzz?

Facts here!

[(Anonymous)]

So, it was announces summer of '12, that Oni was getting a new site, and with it they'd be posting weekly comics. From what I can tell, the site hasn't launched yet. There were screenshots of a few pages from Buzz!, but that's it. It may just be a delayed release because the site isn't finished yet.

Re: Facts here!

[(Anonymous)]

I seriously doubt it.

Re: Facts here!

[(Anonymous)]

No site needs a year to be made.

[(Anonymous)]

I put a similar secret out about 6 months ago, back before it was going to be released.
The comments section is entertainingly identical to the comments on this secret.

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/688755.html?thread=591107187#cmt591107187

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. After the HINABN fiasco, I'm not particularly surprised that Tessa flaked out on another project.

I used to be a fan of HINABN - I actually looked at the homepage for it about a month ago, and the Valentine's comic from 2 years ago telling her fans how much she loved them is still up. You'd think if an author was going to stop doing a comic she'd at least post something to that effect on the site, like "Hey, this comic is going on indefinite hiatus" or "Yeah, I don't want to write this comic any more, so so long and thanks for all the money". I spent the latter half of 2011 and first few months of 2012 thinking that Tessa had died suddenly until I stumbled across a discussion thread on the matter.

/nope, not bitter at all

[(Anonymous)]

OP here: this is why I'm so confused as to why some fans cling to the idea that it's all the publisher's fault and Tessa has to keep quiet because of legal issues. Even if that was the case, why would this stop her from letting her fans know that she's, you know, not fucking dead! No, instead the oh-so-evil publisher had to tell people that she wasn't dead or badly ill.

[(Anonymous)]

Her fans -still- wish her a happy birthday on her long flaked on dA account. It's so damn sad!

[(Anonymous)]

i wonder who is paying for the domain and the hosting

how is the site still up

[al28894]

Not gonna lie, I like the art. Still, I did wonder a few months back when the HECK will this get published.