There were also allegations of dirty tricks from other conventions…

Kev Diabolique — 5 star 2nd year con and it's still growing exponentially. There will be growing pains, glitches and more that is always the case with anything like this. Other cons and pissed off agents that couldn't bully and manipulate them like other cons like I've seen happening so many times, will try to tear the show down and post bad reviews fraudulently, but it won't work that way lol. I think they are doing a great job, especially for a grass roots effort of about 5-7 people with their own money, not some big convention/business conglomerate that has millions in sponsorships and hundreds of employees and volunteers. I applaud them for going through with this no matter how hectic and hard it is and everyone I've talked to will have your back no matter what. The owner is a genuine caring and charismatic woman that is handicapped with major health issues from major lung problems from what I've seen, which is why she partnered with Pulmonary Fibrosis foundation to make others aware, but still working her ass off to do this for the people and the city to bring awareness, money and something constructive back to the town that she cares for deeply. All of us Daytonians have her back as well as all the celebrities that we know!

But it would be hard for any dirty tricks campaign to organise this massive amount of activity from guests, vendors and attendees alike… but some people were able to make lemonade.

Author William Pattison I might not get to go to Epic Con. They haven't gotten me a flight and time is running out. All I see is I'm getting screwed again. I can't take it again. This time it will crush me, I swear it will. The thing is unlike other people who this is just another convention for me this is my dream I've had for over 20 years. I've wanted to meet my fans since I wrote my books and I've been denied, and some people took great pleasure in doing that to me. I've never been treated like an artist. I've always been treated like garbage. One convention organizer discribled authors as the lowest wrung on the totum pole, beneath even vendors. He said that authors belonged in the back of the vendors hall and have to pay for everything because no one was interested in them. I'm just so scared right now I'm practically in tears.

Something useful to know. It's really hard to put on a comic convention. The successful ones take a huge amount of work and it's a credit to them that this seems normal now and expected now. But undercapitalisation is a real problem, to paraphrase an old quote "How do you make a small fortune in running comic cons? Start with a large fortune". In this case organisers Jackabyte Multimedia & Gaming clearly didn't have the funds to carry through with commitments before receiving ticket sale revenue and as a result, the show was kneecapped. The response is not to delete Facebook posts but to apologise, refund and learn. And maybe garner enough sympathy and understanding to have another go…

UPDATE: This post from the promoter's husband was posted on Facebook but has since been deleted.

before you say Too long didn't read, read! lol

On a serious note though, we are seriously good people just don't take shit from anyone at any time, don't scam, don't like crooks, injustice, racism, shit talkers, trouble makers, liars, we don't go out to harm anyone or anything. What you people did to my wife while she is seriously ill that many witnessed trying to please everyone while they screamed, acted like complete fools in front of everyone including the Police there, was absolutely revolting and fucking immature at best for people that do cons like yourselves. She was stressed the fuck out because of the sabotage that is now very well known, very well documented, happened several times during the show that even some vendors witnessed, helped us with and reported, and still went through with the show as well and it's being taking care of as we speak. Many of you I was even talking to through the whole weekend and laughing with you and you didn't even know who I was. Some talked shit and wasn't the wiser either beca! use you didn't know who I was standing there listening to some of you sound like selfish whiny little brats that don't get their way costing us money and making other good vendors leave that supported us because someone took their spot and tried to fight them regardless of the situation and no damn excuse to act a fucking fool like children. Some of the vendors were so damn childish, disrespectful, high, and drunk that you were fucking fighting for vendor tables, fighting behind the coliseum about spots and expect someone to give you money back after you made Epic Loot and Games leave the round house and they were the shows only true paying partner at the time to run our gaming that would have brought about 200-300+ @$50+ a pop Magic the Gathering regional tournament players here that would have bought vendor items and many sales throughout. The vendors you pushed out were Magic the Gathering vendors that were big supporters from the start of our show that you destroyed bec! ause of idiocracy. You cost us a fucking massive amount of los! s of mon ey and yourselves just from your bad behavior and should have been kicked out by the Police as they were going to do, but we let you stay. I won't even touch on the actual celebs prior to the show that caused a major issue up front and their agents that took money and even flights that bailed with our loot and lied on the facts of these situations, as this is for court and truly can't talk about it. Truly amazingly immature on you guys part and I'm not going to troll any further as it's become boring and unproductive in a sense.

So I ask you, unless you are connected to other shows that want this show to fail that we did indeed expose, such as the guys that showed up and stood on the balcony of the coliseum, whispered to vendors to tell EpicCon that Days of the Dead said hi(this is a fact so no edit, but could be someone else pretending to be), took pictures, watched the drifting while we filmed them doing so and plain clothes Police and Security followed them around that they thought no one knew they were there when I warned them to not show up, as well as the Horror Hound ones that tried the same several times during the weekend, thus some of the made up stuff about metal badges and other petty stuff just to make things more difficult. We have nothing against either one of these shows nor care to, so it needs to stop and they can go back to sabotage each other like they both bitch about for years now. Leave us out of it. It took several vendors and the large portion of the celebs to see some of t! his to finally totally understand. When you have celebs that have lost their minds, including Jake the Snake (was forbidden by us to step into the ring for liability reasons because of his health and he broke that when he got in the ring and did the Snake pit for Rockstar on camera that he wants not posted online), DDP, R.A. out of about of the 40 celebs total that did not do this, try to shake my wife down for money like mob guys and crackheads trying to take the cashbox or get in the safe at about 1pm on Saturday on the main day of the show with many that witnessed it first hand that were utterly shocked at this behavior and got involved against them. This included other celebs that came to help my wife essentially fight them off including Mel Novak among others as well as the undercover Police with R.A. trying to get in the cash box. Many people witnessed this happen at least twice. Now you know why they ultimately were made to leave by the Police not us, not because the! show was a flop, or a scam, or whatever you think, it's becau! se they attempted to attack her and shake her down when the show was just getting started while celebs, vendors and attendees watched in shock. This was unbecoming, unprofessional, and an attempted criminal act that many seen and they voided the contract, thus left for breaking the law by making threats simply because she was a woman that they thought they could shakedown. R.A. literally was in my wife's face a few inches away and threatened my wife with harm and that something bad was going to happen to her if she did not open the safe early Saturday with decent amount of people in there, all while trying to get all of their money before the show was even getting going, violating the contract of the sales guarantee by the end of Sunday. She feared for her life after R.A. made a threat of something bad is going to happen to her on Saturday with the Police and celebs present, thus being removed by the Police. She had to be taken to the EMS for treatment after that and they can verify! it. They screwed themselves on this one because of that behavior and you don't try to shakedown someone like common thugs, thieves and druggies when the show just started or any other time for that matter. It's a civil matter at best and they made it criminal and for what now, for them to leave with whatever they made and people looking at them like they are lunatics now and fans lost so much respect that were there. Jake was caught refusing money for signed autographs that he is required to take, thus this violated his contract for meeting his sales guarantee plain and simple.

We know the show had issues, mistakes and this was not hidden period. We know the show was not a success it should be. For gods sake, why the fuck do you want to destroy it so badly when everything we have went into it for you to just talk shit and name call on my wife like complete idiots and me for defending her that you didn't have the balls to do when I was standing near you, but become a keyboard warrior and insult based on stuff that you truly don't know or understand? That shows that you are idiot trouble makers unless you prove me wrong and the Police and Attorneys are indeed watching all of this, no if and's or buts.. So you weren't happy, so be it, but many were happy that we talked to that said so and many of the celebs have sent their regards as we speak via text messages and will be back if we do this again. So wtf is the point in the clueless insults when you don't know much at all of what transpired other from outside looking in on fogged up windows essentiall! y until now and complaints from a small number off people for a fact, determined to be heard over the majority as usual? It was indeed royally sabotaged, and even many of the celebs that finally sat down and seen it, they helped out to fix it and this was greatly appreciated. So try being considerate for once and stop being fucking destructive assholes and now going on attacks on our business, personal life and things that you can't comprehend. No one ripped anyone off and this show was intended to be for the fans by fans from grassroots and no sponsorship money what so ever other than Epic Loot and Games that was forced out of their paid sponsor spot by asshole vendors fighting and stealing spots, very rudely so at that and guess who has to pay them back? Not you. It will be back contrary to what the people that caused this want, and it will be bigger, better, and more streamlined as we learn.

In the end, you can't make everyone happy, but destructive behavior and now personal attacks are not good for anything but self serving interests. You whine, bitch and moan, but are completely clueless to see anything that really happened, don't know nor care how things really work, much less know how to run a convention like this. Some have self serving interest via other cons, but this show is not interfering with any other show and even if it was, who cares. Grow up and stop making god damn false claims for Christ sake. It's bad enough that we lost all of the money that came in just to pay the celebs due to idiots causing issues so that they did not meet sales guarantees during the weekend. Wanna know where it went, well there you fucking have it, it's all gone and went to the celebs to make them happy and that my friends is the facts of that. The safe was emptied to pay the celebs plain and simple. We ate a big one on this because of trouble makers, but still fucking her! e and many of you whiners, detractors, trouble makers could never deal with this without offing yourself or someone else, much less deal with being genuine good people. So go ahead, continue to cause problems, we are still standing and will continue to stand like we always do. I'm done, and if you don't understand by now after what I was truly upfront and real about the weekends events, you never will. So hate on and get in fucking line with a complaint that will most likely be dropped anyway because we did no one wrong, nor did so intentionally no matter how the trolls cry and moan, oh well. So stop the personal attacks as well.

BTW, my daughter paid for that whole VIP luncheon out of her part time job. That cost her over $1000 to take care of the green room, her cafe part of the show and the VIP luncheon for all that food to try and save the luncheon for you unappreciative assholes to talk trash after the people bailed just like the rest did including the music festival. Hmm just for you dumbasses to complain. She is broke now trying to make sure YOU were taken care of and you owe her your thanks as do we, while you bitch after everyone left us high and dry right before the show because of trouble makers saying shit and threatening them to not come to the show or be part of it. Even C.Thomas Howell's Manager was told to not let him come by someone connected to this attack, but he did anyway and nobody even knew this. Pffft NO ONE WAS SCAMMED! Now, this Ed G. is pissed at Rockstar and posting bullshit about us, we don't even have shit to do with Rockstar nor do we even know who he is. So stop Ed. If! your beef is with them, then keep it with them, we aren't apart of that nor care to be, as we don't even know who you are seriously or even knew who Rockstar was until they wanted a booth at the show that turned into ring somehow, go figure. The Rockstar announcer started fights with our vendors being rude that had nothing to do with us and some vendors got pissed and left, thanks to him.

You want real, you want answers, well there it is. Happy? Probably not, you'll just find more to bitch at and tear us down. Fine, but we don't fall so easily, trust me on that one there. You want to be genuine honest people you claim to be instead of throwing bullshit lies and slander out there, false accusations, personal attacks now, then understand what I just wrote that is 100% fact, because this shit is going to stop and we are very tired of this relentless attack of this small group of people that have have too much voice on what should not even be this way. If you have genuine complaints that you think something criminal is going, bring your ass to Dayton, meet with our partners for the show the FOP and Dayton Police, with us present and lodge a legit complaint, if not stop with the bullshit.

With that said, I'm going to check on my wife to see if she is even ok, probably be back in the hospital thanks to you assholes destroying her hard work and this families life with bullshit. Maybe I might finally get some sleep after a year of long nights and days working on this show if she is ok………………………. …………….Peace