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Fandom City Buys Space City Comic Con's Social Media, Gets All The Haters Too

Space City Comic Con held in Houston last year, was a rather controversial comic convention. Lots of things went wrong, people got angry claiming non-payment, you know how it goes.

You can read an interview with Space City Comic Con organiser George Comits about how it all went down, right here.

So some people following the convention on social media were surprised to get a note that the convention had just changed its name to Fandom Galaxy.

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Some accused the show of changing its name to avoid bad publicity. They responded in full, claiming they were a brand new company in search of some traffic.

Fandom Galaxy recently acquired the social media no longer in-use by the previous company, its shows, or its promoter. We are a new venture from out of state, drawn to Texas because of the legendary hospitality and warmth of Texans.

We saw an opportunity and began to make a changeover from old ownership. Facebook requires that a page become active as the name is changed, which happened yesterday. At this point, there is no event date or news, because those things are still in planning stages.

There is no longer a "Space City Comic Con". Any chances that it may have had, to fulfill obligations, were removed by the betrayal from within of a shareholder who made a hostile takeover under false pretenses and the one-sided settlement of a unjust lawsuit that bled out that company even as its competitor tried to seize its lists of vendors, clients, agents, and contacts.

There is no re-brand. No rename. No "new look". Fandom Galaxy saw potential and seized the opportunity. We saw fans and vendors who were now without a show they had supported and enjoyed over 6 events. We did not acquire this to repeat the past, but to begin something new – and after all, the social media was strong and already in place! They took their name off, we acquired the social media (NOT the name), and made it all our own, as a starting point to get to know the fandom.

We've gotten some great messages and comments, and we've also gotten some very ugly people posting with ZERO information about us, looking for a place to spew their bile which is directed at someone else. We'd appreciate the opportunity to get to know all of you — ALL of you!! — before we are judged, as we've done nothing as yet besides take down the "old signage" and put up our "new owners" logo.

We look forward to the lively dialogue of every type of fandom, here on our page. For those who prefer to begin to meet us with negative comments, we won't hesitate to block you and remove your comments. It's our page and our right. We'd rather get to know you for the first time, and you get to know us–or at least give us a chance to do our first events and then critique us?

For those who belong to "our tribes" and are gamers, cosplayers, nerds, geeks, comic book fans, fangroups, artists, craftspeople, vendors, entertainers…the list goes on and on… we want to meet you, talk to you, find out if there is a place in your fandom for us, and if there are niches which need a little more attention.

Fandom brings people together. Fandom conventions are gathering places of old friends, where one can make new friends. We have a lot of ideas, and they will be further shaped as we interact with all of you. Thanks for reading! More to come…

– FG

Not exactly sure what it is about people who run such comic conventions that they have to be aggressive in the face of negative commentary online.

But naturally the internet started digging further, and found the Texan filing for the company Fandom Galaxy of Texas.

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From one George Comits. Yup.

The Fandom Galaxy website is now down… but, look, the tagname for the site is "Space City Comic Con".

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So what's really going on here?

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Naturally, people's posts on their Facebook page are being deleted almost as quickly as people can make them… including Fandom Galaxy's own explanation!


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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