Alias, Speakeasy: PR From Hell
Although things may look different if you cover these companies and companies like them on a daily basis, it's striking how some lower level mainstream comics companies come across if you bump into them once every couple of months or so. Two such companies are Alias and Speakeasy, who publish multiple mediocre to poor-selling genre comics via business set-ups that seem to stand halfway between Image and that company that sold itself to a movie studio without publishing anything. Here Alias brags about streamlining itself and plans a trip to Neverland that uses more vague language than a pair of 1970s adults unpacking a trial separation for their children; on her site Heidi MacDonald and her readers unearth some backing for Speakeasy like it was a grand old family's locked-closet secret. For all I know everything is sweetness and light at these companies, but these pieces of news have a real asking for a phone call through the safety-chain lock feel.
