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KingofSomething said:
Narwahl works with real talent now. Doing a book with Meyer now would actually be an act of charity on his part.
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glad to see how he came up. He is probably the only guy aside from EVS and his inner circle that has actually benefited from being in CG. Only he managed to legitimize himself while the other guys are looking like clowns.
 
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You're being perfectly polite and yet I am still filled with rage 😂

Respectfully...WHO FUCKING CARES? I have had infinity minus one conversations with friends about superhero movies since 1989 and ZERO were about the box office. I'm not a studio accountant and neither are you. Why is this ALWAYS the topic of conversation?https://archive.ph/R3uph
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Stop repeating "analysis" from right-wing shithead YouTubers. If SUPERMAN underperforms they will still make movies about DC characters. Nothing will change.

No matter what the movie makes, the BPCs will call it a flop. See it or don't see it but none of what you said is true.
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This is like a geek version of Fantasy Football. Except for instead of pretending that I own an NFL team, I pretend that I am an accountant at a movie studio.

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT ANY MOVIE MAKES AT THE BOX OFFICE.
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I don't understand why people still try to have friendly or polite interactions with Richard. I mean anyone would think he cared about how much movies make at the box office given how often he makes predictions and assertions about it. (Unless they figured out it was all a onesided gay feud with people who have more successful channels than him.)
 
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Mr Processor said:
I don't understand why people still try to have friendly or polite interactions with Richard. I mean anyone would think he cared about how much movies make at the box office given how often he makes predictions and assertions about it. (Unless they figured out it was all a onesided gay feud with people who have more successful channels than him.)
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This is just Meyer's bias on full display again for his Hollywood defense. He has no problem pocket watching when it comes with comics. He'd make fun of their failed Kickstarters, their e-begging for work, their poor sales numbers, crowing that they killed comics. All of this suddenly becomes alien and immature to him when this behavior is shown towards anything else. Don't know if it's the autism or willful dishonesty, but it's annoying.

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So what's he trying to prove here? Wasn't the initial report essentially that Chris is a sperg that won't fuck off? He certainly isn't proving that assessment wrong.
 
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Incecticyder said:
I remember him saying that the military ruins creativity in art. I believe that his old self is something between the kid that likes comics and the marine that had much of his creativity extracted.
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Bullshit. J.R.R. Tolkien, John Kennedy Toole, Rudyard Kipling and Stan Lee were all veterans, and one thing they never lacked was the creative spark, despite Tolkien in particular living through hell on earth. Military service does change you, but it recontextualizes creativity, not stamps it out- honestly, the need to produce real results that stand up to real challenges makes the military value and cultivate creativity in a way that fields like bureaucracy and law abhor. If Richard is having a problem with creativity, maybe the problem is him- especially since he's the one who deliberately smothered his best idea (Jawbreakers) for no reason I can figure out.
 
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Krokodil Overdose said:
Bullshit. J.R.R. Tolkien, John Kennedy Toole, Rudyard Kipling and Stan Lee were all veterans, and one thing they never lacked was the creative spark, despite Tolkien in particular living through hell on earth. Military service does change you, but it recontextualizes creativity, not stamps it out- honestly, the need to produce real results that stand up to real challenges makes the military value and cultivate creativity in a way that fields like bureaucracy and law abhor. If Richard is having a problem with creativity, maybe the problem is him- especially since he's the one who deliberately smothered his best idea (Jawbreakers) for no reason I can figure out.
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I think that his peculiarities might have contributed to his military career destroying his creative spark (what little he had anyway). Everyone is special but he might have been more special than others.
 
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Incecticyder said:
I think that his peculiarities might have contributed to his military career destroying his creative spark (what little he had anyway). Everyone is special but he might have been more special than others.
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I don't think so honestly. The only way I can see the military as having ruined him is if it made him entirely too used to having three hots, a cot, and some spending money and thereby severing the psychological connection between performance and wellbeing. But thats still a failure of the man to learn how to adult back in civilian life, not the military per se. And as hes drifted away fro his time in the service his output has only gotten worse in both quality and quantity.

The thesis of Diversity&Comics was "modern comics suck, here's why, I can do better" (and frankly most Richard C. Meyer comics are infinitely preferable to The New New Warriors or Harley Quinn Fartacular.) The thesis of Comics MATTER w/ Ya Boi Zack is... "MauLer and Critical Drinker are bad people for having large audiences that frequently agree with them." He's degenerated into the Rian Johnson school of subversion where he conspicuously doesn't do the thing and then spends the rest of his time patting himself on the back for not doing the thing, never mind the fact that he accomplished nothing EXCEPT not doing the thing.
 
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I don't think so honestly. The only way I can see the military as having ruined him is if it made him entirely too used to having three hots, a cot, and some spending money and thereby severing the psychological connection between performance and wellbeing. But thats still a failure of the man to learn how to adult back in civilian life, not the military per se. And as hes drifted away fro his time in the service his output has only gotten worse in both quality and quantity.
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I remember that it was Zack's superior that told him that it would ruin creativity. Zack is clearly dealing with OCD and other things too. Maybe that superior had some experience with that?
 
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Rippa just posted a video about AI art. I haven't watched it, but I suspect that Richard will have something to say about it. He might even be mad enough to make THREE community posts about it.
 
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Then why was he worried about the drinker & Eric's crowdfunds if he isn't an accountant. Fans should consider movie budgets because if a movie under performs, then how do you expect sequels or cinematic universes to be successful & and profitable? If all we getting from Hollywood is reboots & cinematic universes at least make them good.
 
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WhimsicalTrolli said:
Then why was he worried about the drinker & Eric's crowdfunds if he isn't an accountant. Fans should consider movie budgets because if a movie under performs, then how do you expect sequels or cinematic universes to be successful & and profitable? If all we getting from Hollywood is reboots & cinematic universes at least make them good.
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Meyer needs to disqualify objective measuring standards of success; hence, boxoffice/crowdfund totals and timeliness to fullfill a comicbook are nuisances that may distract from the artistic merit of a final product.

To be fair, he's not necessarily wrong here, the problem arises when the alternatives he offers are his personal, subjective and ADHD addled criteria so that he may conveniently move the goalpoasts as necessity dictates to prove a given point. I mean HIS comics may be late and raise only 30K but hey, they are first rate... because HE says so.
So it balances out I guess?.
 
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