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===Feud with Ethan Van Sciver and ComicsGate===
Apparently once rebuffed[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVjdfm61ug] by [[Ethan Van Sciver]] in an attempt to enlist him to draw for [[Alt★Hero]], Vox Day disparaged the artist as a "moderate" on his blog, touching off a minor round of video commentary in January 2018, during which Sciver also negatively reviewed the Vox-written comic ''Quantum Mortis''.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVjdfm61ug][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GjO1AYXpRs][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuvwiwgyD_M][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbKxYeFNL0]. The two seemed to patch things up in a video chat, and for a half a year, all was quiet.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbKxYeFNL0][][] During the spring and summer of 2018, Sciver, going independent after leaving [[DC Comics]], transitioned from just another artist into one of the central figures of the ComicsGate movement as he devoted more time to expanding his YouTube channel, and especially during the launch of his ''CyberFrog: Bloodhoney'' as the highest-grossing crowd-funded comic book of the year (said channel-promoted/crowd-funding model having been shown viable with the greatly-exceeding expectations success of ''Jawbreakers'' by "Diversity & Comics"' Richard C. Meyer).
In the first week of September, 2018, a collaborative misunderstanding between Vox Day and Sciver boiled over into public YouTube exchanges (Vox Day videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTfqfF9MtE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZ9Vtxee1g&t=132s][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DONeP8SVs][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMkUzcPaWE]; EVS videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utMhoPRvd8][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VzHnpGWZyk&t=1707s][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSh0Jw3WThE&t=2329s]). Vox announced an intention to create a "ComicsGate Comics" imprint. Reaction within the [[ComicsGate]] community was immediate and nigh uniformly negative, as such an imprint would funnel term-searching toward the imprint, when they felt that Vox had not earned the right to the name, either in a general sense, or legally, as in a trademark sense.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnUM0KwphY][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDrlIYZMVFE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwlMfGpVD7I][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoF7EqwT11c][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_TcTIsKOY][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7lSUIDnE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3kl085eyI][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjbbxBDiPc][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaRPbI5Gjak][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-Fei1TTKQ] Vox withdrew the imprint two days later.
