The point about turning Kickstarter into Comic-Con is a decent point to be fair, it's using a system for something other than what it was intended. The however here is that these folks are still going to Comic-Con and thus are a part of the problem and not the solution. By not donating you send a message, by not going and not participating, et cetera.

But that's not the point of the article. It's a screed against the book using the news as a new bludgeon to which I suppose the producers are thinking "Hook, Line, Sinker".

I've been slow to finish the book thanks to my kids keep me awake at night but I don't understand the hatred. I'll explain more on that front once a finish the book in a few days,

just posted, again innocently,
Confused here. How is asking for money (for a t-shirt, for example) either "gouging" or "panhandling"? Both words describe behavior which asks for something for nothing in return. The Kickstarter campaign, as I read it, offers you something for your money. ??

There you have it folks. "Hate week" has begun. (Orwell 1984)
This could be a good thing. They say "there is no such thing as bad publicity'.

The author is a strange fellow. When I consider something worthless I don't publish an article about it.

Well, the only real problem I see with all the negative publicity is that there is a large mass of people out there who need someone to tell them what to think. Critics have to tell people if a movie is good (apparently even these guys have seen AS3 and poo-poo on it) Analysts tell them what stocks to buy (well, they missed it on a few.. like Enron and Home Depot) and political gas bags tell them who to vote for. So you really have to thank websites like Flavorwire for attempting to keep the masses informed of how they should view something like a Kickstarter campaign, without them I am sure there would be millions distracted and wandering the dark roads asking "Who is Kickstarter?"

You just have to love all the free press the haters are giving the movie. You'd think they'd just want to keep their mouths shut and hope no one knows it's out there.

you would think they'd would just ignore it :-)