Hi guys, been lurking since about page 200 but I always just made my comments on Zack's and Ethan's youtube pages. Now that both of them have shadowbanned my comments because I talked about how late Cyberfrog is, I wanted to just talk about it somewhere. Still haven't caught up on all 650 pages here but I should have time today to finish reading the last few.
So Ethan has launched his 5th crowdfund campaign, without delivering the first 3. He did deliver one, published by SJW Dynamite who's currently running ads in their comics bragging that they have Gail Simone and Mark Waid. And Ethan's variant isn't the new Priest Vampirella. If it had been, Ethan's name and cover would've been printed in the back of all 130,000 copies. But it wasn't, so his excuse "I'm trying to break into the mainstream" doesn't really add up. He was working for D.C. last year. We gave him $900,000 to leave the mainstream SJW companies and self-publish, but he hasn't self-published a single thing in the 18 months since he left D.C.
The one thing he has delivered, Vampirella vs Re-Animator #1, was published last year for $3.99. Ethan sold signed copies for a minimum of $110.00 with shipping, for 3 copies of a 20-page black-and-white reprint, and all 3 had the same cover art because he only bothered to draw 1 drawing for the entire project. (For this comic book that already had 10 other variant covers last year). So that's more money than he charged for 3 copies of his big Cyberfrog graphic novel, signed, with a chromium cover. Since I was still waiting for what I paid him for last May, I didn't appreciate him advertising to the world that my investment in a copy of Cyberfrog was worth less - to him - than a 20-page black-and-white reprint of a Cullen Bunn book from last year that nobody's ever heard of.
His Vampirella book was made by rabid anti-Comicsgaters Cullen Bunn and Taylor Esposito. Why did Comicsgate give him $900,000? Not to reprint thousands of copies by SJWs who hate us. He says he's just "harnessing SJWs" to make money, but it seems like he's harnessed Comicsgate for $900,000 and only delivered 1 drawing.
Several months ago on twitter, some private buyer posted pics of the original Cyberfrog cover art that Ethan sold him. The sale wasn't through Indiegogo, so there's no telling how much he paid. But guess what Ethan did sell on Indiegogo? The original interior art pages, for $1,000 each. I think he sold over 50 of them between 2 campaigns. If he can mail the cover art, he can mail us the $50,000 worth of pages we paid for starting last May, 15 months ago. 3 weeks ago someone superchatted him about the $1,000 pages (they had to pay him to ask about what they already paid him for). He said he'd go ahead and mail them. He didn't.
When he bought a new house with our money, he had to pack our $1,000 pages up, drive them past multiple post offices and FedEx locations, and then unload them into his new house. But he hasn't had time in 15 months to mail any of them. He's too busy selling SJW Dynamite reprints, and livestreaming 3 hours a day, instead of delivering almost a million dollars worth of what he owes us.
With over a year of interest, he's probably made at least $30,000 just by holding our money, while some buyers have probably been paying credit card interest the whole time. Even if we paid cash, some of us were planning to retail or ebay our extra copies. That money could've gone to a lot of other things in the past 15 months. I know I had planned to make a small profit from selling Cyberfrogs - it was "only available for 2 months", and I knew other people would want to buy it later. And I was right!
Thousands of people wanted to buy Cyberfrog after the campaign closed! Lucky me, right? Good investment, right? Unfortunately, Ethan has his 3rd campaign still open and still selling Cyberfrog to all the people who would've been paying me on ebay. For the same price I paid 15 months ago. So he's screwed all the retailers and investors. He's still competing against us, after he took our money.
And since there's no reason he couldn't have mailed our $1,000 pages several months ago, we know for a fact that he just doesn't care. He already has our money, so he's in no hurry. He made sure to deliver Cullen Bunn first. That's in his control, he can't blame the printers, but he still hasn't done it.
Speaking of the printers and the "long queue" because of ComicCon - he claims it's been at the printer since May. But he showed physical copies of his SJW Vampirella only 8 days after that campaign ended. Where was the queue then? And if it's been "out of his hands since May" as he now claims, why did he post ""We're at the printers!" on July 10th? Why did he just post the final proofs of the chromium cover last week? If he's only now approved the covers, then his part of the process wasn't done until now. A little more honesty would be nice. At least that would be free for him to give us. It might actually make him more money in the future.
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He didn't even draw 2 pages per week on Cyberfrog. He started this project 10 years ago, and he's even shown pages from 10 years ago. When he worked for D.C., he drew about a page per day. When we pay him up front, he draws a page per week. If he had drawn even 2 pages per week, for the original goal of 50 pages, it would've been done last November on schedule. What has he been doing? I bought a poster of the "fist-bump" cover art from CryptoFashion - it's been hanging on my wall for over a year. So the covers could've been sent for chromium approval a long time ago, and the books would have been printed now instead of waiting on the chromium to come in. 25% of the earliest backers will have 2 birthdays pass, between paying for Cyberfrog and getting Cyberfrog.
Umbrella Guy conceived a child last December, after Cyberfrog was already due, and the baby was delivered first.
