Outrage is the "hot dogs". You need to create slapfights to heat up the stove, and finally, burn a sacrificial cow to make meat out of it. CG just uses one of it's own that it plans to backstab and throw out as the cooking material. The comics are just the napkins to wipe your mouth with.
I don't think it's the $30 a book that's a problem. It's the damn page counts and the quality in these books, from the writing to the art that aren't even worth a penny. I don't know about you guys, but TPB where I live is priced at around $15-$30 (depending on the page count and the quality of binding and material used for pages) in bookstores (there's no LCS in the town I live, so I used to get my stock of comics by either shipping or going to the bookstores). These fuckers started out saying shit like "it's not a floppy, it's a gRaPhIc NoVeL", and that was a prominent defense RCM used when protecting the Queen about the fluting. It ain't a Novel if it doesn't reach over 100 pages. A short novel is called a novella, this ain't even it.
I'm glad you bring this up because I would like to have a serious discussion about the quality of Comicsgate's books and this thread does seem as good a place as any.
To date I've backed:
(2018.) Ravage, Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney, Iron Sights, Red Rooster, Jack Irons, Stardust, Jungle Comics, Beatdown Girl, The Ferryman, Lonestar, Flying Sparks 1, Trumps Space Force, The Berserkonaut, Blue Mamba, Brand, Bigfoot Bill, The Ember War, Detective Dead, Brutas The Badass, Casefile: Arkham, Graveyard Shift, Black & White Remastered.
(2019) Trixie Cain: Blood Reaper, Lonestar 2, The Ferryman 2, Earthworm Jim, Starblades, Jawbreakers: Godking, Allegiance Arts Bundle: Futurists, Norahs Saga, Bass Reeves
(2020) Graveyard Shift 2 variant, Iron Sights 2 and Blade Devil.
I've also grabbed an assortment of non CG books including Preston Poulters White Lily series, Guinevere & The Divinity Factory, Brian Pullido's Lady Death collection and some manga called Danger Zone One all of which were in 2020 also.
If you look at my buying pattern, the bulk of my purchases were in 2018 when I still considered myself to be pro-CG. During 2019 I dropped off massively and stopped supporting a lot of the smaller creators due to the infighting during the Jon Del Arroz, Timothy Lim and Nerkish saga's. We are currently a third of the way through 2020 and I've backed more non-CG books than I have CG.
As for the books themselves I'll rank them how I see them:
VERY GOOD: Bigfoot Bill, Casefile: Arkham, The Futurists
GOOD: Lonestar 1, Flying Sparks 1, Black & White Remastered
OKAY: Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, The Ferryman 1, Trumps Space Force, Brand, The Ember War, Graveyard Shift 1, Jawbreakers: Godking,
LOUSY: Ravage, Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney, Jungle Comics, The Berserkonaut
COMPLETE DOG-SHIT: Iron Sights
UNREAD: Jack Irons, Stardust, Blue Mamba, Trixie Cain: Blood Reaper, Earthworm Jim, Norahs Saga, Bass Reeves,
UNDELIVERED: Red Rooster, Beatdown Girl, Detective Dead, Brutas The Badass, Lonestar 2, The Ferryman 2, Starblades, Graveyard Shift 2, Iron Sights 2, Blade Devil, White Lilly 1-4, Guinevere and the Divinity Factory 2, Lady Death 1-11, Danger Zone One
-Notice right away that four of the undelivered CG books are from 2018, nearly 2 years late. To be fair Jake Bihl who was formerly CG has contacted everyone within the last week about Beatdown Girl and it is currently being shipped.
-Across all 35 CG titles there are 6 purchases I rate as good, 12 less than good, with 17 unread or undelivered. Meaning that so far only 33% of currently read CG books average good or better.
-Some of the better rated CG books are from creators that no longer consider themselves to be CG. Doug TenNapel, Mike S Miller, Jon Del Arroz and Mitch Breitweiser (his stance is debatable.)
-Despite I acknowledge I am no longer pro-CG, I'm not quite anti-CG either as I have still backed CG creators after I stopped following Comicsgate eg: Richard C Meyer, Kyle Ritter, Jon Malin, Raging Golden Eagle.
-My rankings don't include other openly known terrible Comicsgate books (that I didn't back) including: Stealing Solo and the Littlest Umbrella. We can also safely assume that Wart the Wizard, Xenotype and probably Cash Grab are going to be sub-par products also.
All the above is just my opinion on the books I have read. I'd honestly like to hear the opinions of others on the Farms who have backed CG books and can offer any differing opinions or additional thoughts on the quality of the comics they have read so far.