Fine for a first-time paid writing gig, keep clear if you have better opportunities - Freelance Writer ComicBook.com Employee Review

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

* Flexible hours * Flexible demands in terms of expected weekly number of articles * Excellent portfolio building opportunity * Largely hands-off management means that it's easy to write articles that interest you

Cons

* Completely disorganized. Echoing what others have said about an utter lack of top-down management. This sometimes means things like not being sent instructions for invoicing pay, or having them make errors with your invoice once it's been sent out. * Infrequent communication. Editors almost never provide feedback or answer questions. * Changing priorities and directives mean that it's difficult to gage what they actually want from your articles or formatting. * Adherence to SEO-driven practices means that articles are meant to conform to a disengaging style that you know as a fan of the material you'd never read, so you also know that no one else is ever going to read it either. * The churn for how many articles they publish a week means that no one is doing their best work. * Work-life balance is technically great because you aren't incentivized to care about the job in the least.

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4.0
Sep 22, 2021
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Pros

The work is fun, you get to meet cool people and the on-camera journalists are great.

Cons

Pay a bit low for day rates

2.0
Feb 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Get to write about the things you love - Free/early access to things you care about, such as movies, games, comics, and TV shows. - Lots of opportunity for interviewing talent like directors, actors, etc.

Cons

- Pay is pretty disgraceful - They repeatedly force staff to use their crappy forum to drive engagement from other users. It’s 2026, no one is using a brand new forum. All the threads were just staff talking through each other to hit a quota of forum engagement. - Directives are constantly changing, often seemingly based on nothing. Leadership seems to be lost in terms of what to do. When soemthing works, they run it into the ground. - Leadership favors their friends from their previous work places, even when those friends aren’t performing very well. - You can go above and beyond and will still get abruptly laid off via a cold, impersonal email before being locked out of all of your company accounts. - Fired/demoted all of the editors, meaning tons of work was published with typos, inaccurate info, and more. Standards have slipped dramatically. - Managers/leadership weren’t on the same page, they’d tell you different things.

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