When people say mid I look at it as agenda less and pure escapism with no political messaging....you know like how they're supposed to be? You may as well call western's mid because they have cowboys and outlaws,
It really seems like you're having trouble grasping the concept of "mid". You take it as an insult when it isn't meant as an insult
or a compliment. It's fairly obvious you're super invested in Rippaverse for one reason or another and that's fine, but getting so worked up because people called something you think is great "mid" is not doing the conversation here much good at all.
Every medium and genre within those mediums has a spectrum of quality. To use your Western example, there are great Westerns (The Searchers, Unforgiven, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), there are terrible Westerns (Wild Wild West, Jonah Hex) and then there's everything else. It's the same for every other genre, too. The fact of the matter is most things in most mediums and genres do not occupy the extreme ends of that spectrum and are therefore varying degrees of "mid".
Sticking with the formula and playing by the rules of a genre don't really have a bearing on whether something is "mid" or not. It's the stories and characters that matter. You can have a comic or a movie presented "how they're supposed to be" and still be mid or bad or even great, but it's all about the story and the characters in that framework.
and clearly more people disagree with the mid comment because they keep selling.
Sometimes the original formula is what works.
More people than what? What is the comparison here? Plenty of comics sell well and are also average (aka "mid"). Spider-Man comics have been mostly shit for
years and still move more units than pretty much anything else Marvel puts out.
You can think his comics are mid, that's your decision. I think of mid as classic storytelling that classic storytelling worked before and I see no reason why it shouldn't now. I mean there are people that like stories like that, it's a lot more common than people think.
I've even come to terms of people calling Rippaverse mid as nothing more than a compliment because to me it means classic and timeless as well as original
Do you think there were no "mid" comics before the woke bullshit started? Classic storytelling is fine but that's not a recipe for greatness in and of itself. I get that a lot of that classic stuff has been shoved into a closet for the last 15 years or so, and that a return to that kind of thing seems extremely refreshing, but quality of story matters. Engaging characters matter. There are decades worth of comics written with all the expected bells and whistles of the superhero genre and its tropes, but very few of them are great. That's not to say they're bad. Most of them are completely average and pretty much forgettable. I can't predict what future audiences will say about Rippa's comics but if they're talking about "Goodyng the Polymath" in 20 years, I'll be surprised but I'll have to give credit where it's due.
Are Rippa's comics the best on the market? Probably not. Are they as bad as CG says they are? Probably not. I think a solid case can be made that they're better than the average CG or Meyerverse book, as low of a bar as that is.
And that's the kind of stuff I enjoy and you would be surprised how many other people enjoy the same thing.
What is with you and this appeal to popularity/bandwagon shit? It's always "more people" this and "many other people" that. The Fast and Furious movies make tons of money while being some of the most disposable brain dead slop ever put on film.
