Space City Comic Con Rebrands as Fandom Galaxy, Weirdly Lies About It
Last year was kind of a mess for Houston based Space City Comic Con. During last year’s con there were massive issues which included guests getting written bad checks, organizers calling the cops on said guests, and a whole mess of issues with VIP passes. To say that people were a bit angry at the convention and organizer George Comits would be an understatement.
It looked like the end for Space City Comic Con, and they didn’t plan a 2017 event. We thought the con would fade into fandom memory until about a month ago, when new logos started getting uploaded to the con’s social media pages. The official Twitter account and Facebook page were both renamed to “Fandom Galaxy.”
Most people assumed that this was a simple rebranding. The con had historically cycled through a few names, and there was that whole lawsuit over their old one. Frankly (for obvious reasons) it was clear that the con would want to distance itself from past bad press.
But when people started to press the issue, whoever was operating the “Fandom Galaxy” social media denied being connected to the old convention’s management. This is only puzzling because, well, they veritably are.
Fandom Galaxy went so far as to make a lengthy Facebook post earlier this week in which they explicitly claimed that they were not connected to Space City Comic Con’s promoter and were a new group from “out of state.”
Needless to say, this sounded fishy. Why would a new organization want to take over the social media of a con with this much baggage if there was no connection? People began to dig, and one member of Facebook group Rate That Comic Con went so far as to pull up Fandom Galaxy’s paperwork filed with the state of Texas. That state filing has one important detail, and that’s the name at the bottom: George Comits.
People were, of course, quick to post copies of the paperwork to the con’s Facebook page. The con hasn’t issued an official response, but they have since deleted their previous (knowlingly inaccurate) statement from Facebook and disabled visitor posts on the page.
What’s really happening here is that a new legal entity was formed to run the con (likely to avoid debts and legal obligations of the old company), and Comits had hoped to also avoid the negative connotations of the old con’s name. Amazingly, he might have gotten away with it longer too if he hadn’t reused Space City Comic Con’s social media for this venture. Heck, if Fandom Galaxy had just come out and said “we’re a new company, but a lot of the same people,” most of the internet outside of Texas fandom wouldn’t have cared.
But they lied, and now it’s just gotten awkward.
In the end, Fandom Galaxy is the same old con wrapped in a shiny new name, and you should pretty much expect whatever events they hypothetically end up running to be pretty similar to what Comits has run before, for better or for worse. Considering the way the new name was launched though, I’m pretty sure we can tell what direction this is going to go.
We reached out to Fandom Galaxy for comment, but have yet to receive a response.
Update (5/10 1:45pm): We did hear back from Fandom Galaxy’s management. When pushed about George Comits’s involvement, they responded:
He’s an employee. He had to be, because Facebook pages cannot be sold. Also, he has congestive heart failure and if there was an event, we wanted to know the vendors, network etc from his advice. He’s admitted his mistakes to us, but he’s also told us the real version of events – which include the theft of the entire cash office receipts by [REDACTED]
We’ve redacted the name of the person Fandom Galaxy claims stole from the event, as we have no evidence to back it up. We asked Fandom Galaxy for proof, and even though they offered a lengthy explanation we have not had a chance to verify it yet.
Fandom Galaxy isn’t listed as an entity on the Delaware Secretary of State page, but Omniverse Entertainment is, with a formation date of 3/29/2017. Can’t pull more detail without paying them money. 🙁
Based on the filing, Omniverse Entertainment is the actual corporation, with Fandom Galaxy of Texas being the name they’re operating under in Texas.
So now “Fandom Galaxy/Space City Con” is claiming that George is just an “employee” of “Fandom Galaxy” that also however happens to be the person who files and signs their business’ registration paperwork and is listed there as “manager”… ?
Sorry, not going to buy that either.
Can’t wait to see what the next whopper he comes up with will be..
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The congestive heart failure is so irrelevant that I assume they’re trying to make us feel sorry for him. But the rest of that sentence admits that they didn’t keep him on just because the Facebook page couldn’t be sold: they want his input (“advice”) on what to do, and how to deal with vendors.
The “management” that answered their questions was almost certainly George himself. The irrelevant “Congestive Heart” (IE. feel sorry for me!!!”) statement plus commenting about how they know the “real” version of past events all reads ~exactly~ like what Comits would say.
Couldn’t pay me enough to go to ANY con that George Comits is involved in after the way he totally RUINED Space City Con.
Oooh, they’re trying to put the blame on the ONE person who actually tried to make it right last year at Space Shitty Comic Con.
I’m not sure the redacting is necessary, since Georgie Boy used Houston news to make his accusations before (redacted) ponied up the evidence to show he was a liar… and half the talent also talked about Georgie’s version of events not happening as they were all standing outside the door waiting for payment.
But eh, clearly Georgie Boy still thinks that libel is the way to go here when responding to an investigative complaint.
Guess he forgot, the cops on site were on the fan and talent’s side… funny how he’s alleging that missing payments to talent topping at least $700k that I know about (and I’m sure more that isn’t) got “stolen” yet he filed no police report for it, but did happily tell Houston news that’s what happened.
Complete crap. You can’t have that many irrelevant and bizarre statements indicating SCCC involvement unless Fandom Galaxy is basically SCCC. If they care enough to ask George for the ‘true’ version of events, common sense would dictate speaking with the wronged talent and other people involved. Also, why would they blindly accept his version of events without investigating his claims?
The only good thing is that George is too stupid to realize how much he gives away while trying to be clever.
Why are you not mentioning the lawsuit by Comicpalooza’s partial owner over using the name “Space City”….?
We wrote other articles about the suit — but that’s not really what’s at issue. If it was just a name change because of the lawsuit, it wouldn’t have been news. Instead “Fandom Galaxy” insisted it wasn’t connected to Space City Comic Con when it clearly is the same people.