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- May 21, 2020
Business-sense wise JDA/Quaff's manga makes sense for a lot reasons - it capitalizes on the the sudden surge in Jon's platform (normally, to his credit, he likes to have months of work on the comic in the can before launching a campaign) and allows both parties to sell back issues of Deus Vult and Shotgun Samurai (both having very good reasons for wanting to boost sales of already created material).
Most importantly, it throws Quaff a lifeline from repeating what happened with Ciderhype with a much needed infusion of cash after Shotgun Samurai's underwhelming $12,000 take for 5 years of off and on work drawing 200 pages and a year of campaigning under the questionable guidance of talent agent Testefy-HD.
Thematically though it still makes no sense to me, because the overlap between the target audience for 1970s Ditko/Buscema tributes like Jesse White-drawn Deus Vult and the audience for teenage isekai manga (I'd imagine) is zero.
Yes, I needed a quick "fill in" campaign while my next big epic OVERMIND gets completed cuz the art ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. We've attempted to recreate the care and feel of 1970s-80s Valerian & Laureline Bandes dessinees with it, which it turns out is a lot of work to get it right and have it be as beautiful as those. Not only do I have that classic feel which my audience loves on it but it's also sci-fi so I think we're gonna hit big big numbers on that. I've got a few experiments I'm going to try with this campaign as well because I'm always trying new things artistically. We've got a vision and direction I'm very excited about and the comic readers will be too.
There are, as you say, a lot of new people who are around who wanted deus vult as well. We've sold nearly another 100 copies of the book. It's getting close to doing Flying Sparks numbers which I'm very happy about.
Thematically, I just wanted to have fun. So did the Quaff. Wasn't an audience calculation was just a us doing what we love. Sometimes as artists you just gotta do that.
Also, Liam has reported my IndieGoGo campaign for a THIRD time this morning. He's trying so hard to get us taken down.