Minus taxes and other expenses EVS has probably made 1/2 million in pure profit this year. Jamal and Mark are going to be broke and obscure long before him. With Marks well documented tanties he couldn't even hold a fry cook job and that's where he may end up if he doesn't settle the lawsuit against him, doesn't seem like he is taking it very seriously.
SJW's shitting on the actual bottoms of the totem pole in the job world (IE- Blue collar work/ service/retail/ food bottom-rung jobs)- you know, actual people who are often poor and downtrodden, just proves to me over and over that the whole SJW movement is for white-guilt-addled privileged fucks looking to score internet brownie points. Using a low-class job as an insult shouldn't mesh well with the socjus/commie agenda, right?
You forget that most of these wannabe commies/Marxists actually HATE working for a living, and would much prefer being welfare-abusing NEETS who sperg-out on Twitter 24/7 as a hobby if they were given the chance.
Backer-tracker shows Electrum on track to make between $27-44k probably ending around $36k, Brutas $18-28k landing at $23k so anti-CG wins right? Well...
Electrum: 272pgs encompassing 26 stories (WTF 10pg per story?), 36 people working on it + 6 sketch artists for reward tier (2 doubles?) ~40 people to be paid, supposed award winners and 'big names'.
Brutas: 48pgs ongoing story, 2 people working (3 if it reaches $20k, 4 if $30k), Donal did Image books and Nasser (CG makes fun of him for being a sped).
So you have a much more expensive book to produce and ship and still need to pay 40? people. Lets be very generous with numbers and say Electrum hits $44k now minus expenses: KS fees leaves about 40k, printing and shipping $33k rewards $32k. Each contributor is receiving $800 and that's being very, very generous. More realistic is $36k - Kickstarter $33k - Printing and shipping $20k - rewards $18k giving each person a whopping $450. Now like the Patton Oswalt kickstarter they also probably have the backing of vertigo or something else to get it into comic shops, but it's no wonder Donal said he made more on this book (at $13k) than his last 5 combined.
The most laughable thing of this campaign for me is this
Each *team* earns an extra $5-15 per page depending on funding (backer tracker has it scraping by $35k), sounds great until you realize that means an extra $50-150 for an individual, 2 people = $25-75, 3 = $16-50, etc
So you have a much more expensive book to produce and ship and still need to pay 40? people. Lets be very generous with numbers and say Electrum hits $44k now minus expenses: KS fees leaves about 40k, printing and shipping $33k rewards $32k. Each contributor is receiving $800 and that's being very, very generous. More realistic is $36k - Kickstarter $33k - Printing and shipping $20k - rewards $18k giving each person a whopping $450. Now like the Patton Oswalt kickstarter they also probably have the backing of vertigo or something else to get it into comic shops, but it's no wonder Donal said he made more on this book (at $13k) than his last 5 combined.
The most laughable thing of this campaign for me is this View attachment 562183
Each *team* earns an extra $5-15 per page depending on funding (backer tracker has it scraping by $35k), sounds great until you realize that means an extra $50-150 for an individual, 2 people = $25-75, 3 = $16-50, etc
Other questions I’ve received will be answered in today’s update, but I think this one is worth its own post.
I don’t have a lot of thoughts on the current Marvel universe because I basically don’t read anything about it. As for character introduced for “diversity sake” I’ve said many times, I am a firm believer that no character is a bad character, it’s the writer’s job to make them work, and give you a plot that makes them work
I wouldn’t want people to misunderstand the purpose of this blog, or what I am trying to achieve, who my target was and always will be: American superhero comics don’t have a problem with diversity. They have MANY, MANY problems, but diversity isn’t one. Writing, that’s the big problem, pure and simple, at least at Marvel.
I never had a problem with the idea of a female mystery character taking over the Hammer of Thor for a time. I have a problem with Jason Aaron’s flipping the established world upside down to make it work, turn the original Thor in a moopey misery guts that for reason doesn’t want to be called his own name or Odin in a hate spewing misogynist.
I had no problem with James Rhodes* taking the mantle of Captain America, in fact, I’ve stated numerous times, I think Remender’s only 6 issues with FalconCap were much more enjoyable than the entirety of his SteveCaptain run. What I had a problem was Nick Spencer turning Steve into a fucking nazi through the most contrived, convoluted and inane plot in the history of mainstream comics, and that’s saying a lot.
(EDIT: *Sam Wilson not James Rhodes I’m a dummy)-
I have no problem with what or who Riri Williams is (a black genius girl replaces Iron Man by building her armor from scraps in her garage? Sure.) I have a problem with how BENDISSSSS wrote that WHO, in the few scenes I had the displeasure of reading, and how Nick Spencer seemed bent on doing in SE. The insufferable smugness, the bizarrely egocentric, narcissistic classroom flashback scene, how she barely faced any challenge at all in her series.
It doesn’t bother me that Kate Bishop is portrayed as cool, badass and in charge in any scene she’s in, I find it ridiculous that in the meantime Clint Barton became King of Fuck Up mountain and the butt of one too many jokes.
I don’t mind the fact that America Chavez is a lesbian from a dimension of lesbians who kicks ass and takes names, but I do mind whatever in the FUCK abomination that ongoing series she was in was. I mean seriously.
I can be sold on a lot of concepts, a lot of changes in directions, I can be made swallow tons of ludicrous shit, continuity errors and shifts in personality, it all depends on the writing, the quality of it, how the story unfolds, or if it hits the right spot at the right moment. But writing is key, the quality of it.
On a point that doesn’t revolve around diversity: when Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers started, I didn’t mind the fact that there’re a million and a half macguffins in the MU that could solve the Incursions problem. I was intrigued, I liked the story, I wanted to see where it was going, and I can forgive a lot for that. But then, it got stuck in its own ass and everything that was wrong with it became glaring and horrible.
Civil War II, in good hands, I could accept a Minority Report plot, but in that story, so shoddily written, for the plot to work every character’s IQ had to drop below zero to justify a few fight scenes and murders!
Hope that works as an answer.
PS: I DO though dislike Amadeus Cho as the Hulk, because there’re tons of cool things you can do with that character that don’t revolve around turning him into a green superstrong giant… again, Hickman, Amadeus Cho as some kind of James Bondy Illuminati agent? That was cool.
SJW's shitting on the actual bottoms of the totem pole in the job world (IE- Blue collar work/ service/retail/ food bottom-rung jobs)- you know, actual people who are often poor and downtrodden, just proves to me over and over that the whole SJW movement is for white-guilt-addled privileged fucks looking to score internet brownie points. Using a low-class job as an insult shouldn't mesh well with the socjus/commie agenda, right?
Yup. It should not surprise you that Mike Rowe doesn't get along well with proggies. Of course, he's been pushing the idea for a while that maybe kids should be going to trade schools, not colleges, so that probably doesn't help
Other questions I’ve received will be answered in today’s update, but I think this one is worth its own post.
I don’t have a lot of thoughts on the current Marvel universe because I basically don’t read anything about it. As for character introduced for “diversity sake” I’ve said many times, I am a firm believer that no character is a bad character, it’s the writer’s job to make them work, and give you a plot that makes them work
I wouldn’t want people to misunderstand the purpose of this blog, or what I am trying to achieve, who my target was and always will be: American superhero comics don’t have a problem with diversity. They have MANY, MANY problems, but diversity isn’t one. Writing, that’s the big problem, pure and simple, at least at Marvel.
I never had a problem with the idea of a female mystery character taking over the Hammer of Thor for a time. I have a problem with Jason Aaron’s flipping the established world upside down to make it work, turn the original Thor in a moopey misery guts that for reason doesn’t want to be called his own name or Odin in a hate spewing misogynist.
I had no problem with James Rhodes* taking the mantle of Captain America, in fact, I’ve stated numerous times, I think Remender’s only 6 issues with FalconCap were much more enjoyable than the entirety of his SteveCaptain run. What I had a problem was Nick Spencer turning Steve into a fucking nazi through the most contrived, convoluted and inane plot in the history of mainstream comics, and that’s saying a lot.
(EDIT: *Sam Wilson not James Rhodes I’m a dummy)-
I have no problem with what or who Riri Williams is (a black genius girl replaces Iron Man by building her armor from scraps in her garage? Sure.) I have a problem with how BENDISSSSS wrote that WHO, in the few scenes I had the displeasure of reading, and how Nick Spencer seemed bent on doing in SE. The insufferable smugness, the bizarrely egocentric, narcissistic classroom flashback scene, how she barely faced any challenge at all in her series.
It doesn’t bother me that Kate Bishop is portrayed as cool, badass and in charge in any scene she’s in, I find it ridiculous that in the meantime Clint Barton became King of Fuck Up mountain and the butt of one too many jokes.
I don’t mind the fact that America Chavez is a lesbian from a dimension of lesbians who kicks ass and takes names, but I do mind whatever in the FUCK abomination that ongoing series she was in was. I mean seriously.
I can be sold on a lot of concepts, a lot of changes in directions, I can be made swallow tons of ludicrous shit, continuity errors and shifts in personality, it all depends on the writing, the quality of it, how the story unfolds, or if it hits the right spot at the right moment. But writing is key, the quality of it.
On a point that doesn’t revolve around diversity: when Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers started, I didn’t mind the fact that there’re a million and a half macguffins in the MU that could solve the Incursions problem. I was intrigued, I liked the story, I wanted to see where it was going, and I can forgive a lot for that. But then, it got stuck in its own ass and everything that was wrong with it became glaring and horrible.
Civil War II, in good hands, I could accept a Minority Report plot, but in that story, so shoddily written, for the plot to work every character’s IQ had to drop below zero to justify a few fight scenes and murders!
Hope that works as an answer.
PS: I DO though dislike Amadeus Cho as the Hulk, because there’re tons of cool things you can do with that character that don’t revolve around turning him into a green superstrong giant… again, Hickman, Amadeus Cho as some kind of James Bondy Illuminati agent? That was cool.
There's nothing wrong with a lot of these ideas, but they're handled so badly, written so ineptly and unlikeably that nobody wants to read them. And the timing -- oh great Cthulhu, the TIMING -- couldn't be worse. Little Jimmy goes to see Avengers and it's fucking awesome, so he goes looking for comics, and he finds Cap is a Nazi, Thor is a girl, and who's this Asian guy pretending to be the Hulk?
There's nothing wrong with a lot of these ideas, but they're handled so badly, written so ineptly and unlikeably that nobody wants to read them. And the timing -- oh great Cthulhu, the TIMING -- couldn't be worse. Little Jimmy goes to see Avengers and it's fucking awesome, so he goes looking for comics, and he finds Cap is a Nazi, Thor is a girl, and who's this Asian guy pretending to be the Hulk?
Remember when Kodak invented the digital camera and ignored it?
Or Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix?
Or Yahoo Google?
I can't help but feel a bunch of cheap tie in comics to cover adventures of the various characters between comics for Marvel is another of those obvious blunders...
Also the "Mixed-Race Experience" sounds like some sort of cheesy 4D IMAX film-type shit you'd see at some Universal Studios park or whatever.
Where can I get my tickets to The MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCE?
Really gets your gears moving when you see these, uh, supposedly "PoC-Centered" groups not really have any "PoC" in them at all.
Maybe they identify as black a la Rachel Dolezal- minus the cosplay and LARPing?
A fan of the book solicited his opinion. He gave it. He was calm about it. He didn't call out the artist. He didn't start ranting. He gave his opinion when people kept asking & he kept giving the same opinion each time he was asked. He didn't seek it out. He didn't stumble across it & then "call it out". He just answered a question. That a bunch of people don't like his answer doesn't make it "going full SJW" or any other such nonsense. Brett's just a normal liberal. I disagree with his impression or interpretation of it, but he's welcome to it. He literally behaved EXACTLY how we claim we want creators to behave but because a number of people didn't LIKE his impression of it doesn't make him "part of the problem" or anything like that. This would be no different than someone asking him what his impressions of Venom was & him answering their question with an answer we don't like. It's not news. It's an answer we don't like. A dozen people asking it & him answering the same calm & reasonable (but wrong) way a dozen times doesn't make it a problem. If a dozen people asked me my thoughts on Waffles & I kept saying " I think they're an affront to pancakes", that doesn't make me a pancake justice warrior. It makes me tired of answering the same question a dozen times. Brett does his best to try to stay out of this issue whenever possible. He couches a lot of his answers because he doesn't want to be involved. In 2018 twitter, we see people get torn apart for anything, so he couches his answers cause he's got no idea how to defuse the situation & get out of it as quickly as possible & as inoffensively as possible. People occasionally try to drag him into it & while he'll discuss it & give his opinions, he doesn't want to. The dude doesn't comment on CG or like or retweet anti-cg or pro-cg stuff. Unless a fan directly brings it up to him, he never mentions anything. He's literally JUST trying to stay out of it & make comics. Let him. The strongest opinion he has is on Man of Steel being a good movie...Neutrality is fine.
You forget that most of these wannabe commies/Marxists actually HATE working for a living, and would much prefer being welfare-abusing NEETS who sperg-out on Twitter 24/7 as a hobby if they were given the chance.
Having known some of these people in real life this is 100% true.
They'll usually pair it up with a nebulous "condition" like back trouble or fibromyalgia, also using that as a virtue signal opportunity. "I WOULD work, but this fucking health care system is turning me into someone who can only collect SSI. Fucking Drumpff!". *120 likes*
You forget that most of these wannabe commies/Marxists actually HATE working for a living, and would much prefer being welfare-abusing NEETS who sperg-out on Twitter 24/7 as a hobby if they were given the chance.
People who work in retail contribute more to society than these fucks, and their job requires a level of professionalism that comic pros are mentally/emotionally incapable of attaining.
it just hit me how fucked DC Comics currently is under Didio. All the goodwill that Geoff Johns earned back with Rebirth, just pissed away the moment Didio got control back.
STRIKE ONE
The first sign of trouble was hiring (((BENDIS))) and giving him full control over Superman from the get-go.
Peter Tomasi was quickly making Superman and Super Sons into must-buy titles, once Bendis was hired DC canceled Super Sons and Bendis fucked with everything people loved about the Tomasi run:
Tomasi made Superman into a family man and made some fantastic stories that focused on the family struggling together against Superman's rougues gallery. This can be best exemplified by one of the early stories 'Son of Superman' (Issues 1-6) after Superman gets absorbed by Eradicator, Jon and Lois have to buy time until Superman breaks free. The have to fight off a guy that's as strong as Superman, in the lunar Bat Cave (yes Batman has a batcave on the moon) Jon using his emerging powers and Lois using any batman weapons she can find, including the HellBat suit (imagine a Bat Armor that allows Batman to go toe-to-toe with Darkseid):
But Bendis cant write a loving family that gets along, so he had to break it. In Man Of Steel, the 6 issue mini prologue to him taking over, he made changes, BIG Changes (some of which i will provide more details on):
Jon's personality changes.
The Super Family is broken up.
Superman forgets super basic stuff like keeping people safe.
Unnecessary change of Superman origin, instead of planet dying naturally it was the plot of a genocidal cosmic elder.
Destruction of Kandor (last living city of Krypton) for cheap emotional manipulation.
Supergirl reverting back to her edgy Red Lantern days (she doesn't get a ring but shes equally pissed off).
One of the reasons this page enrages me is that the Teen Titans didn't include Superboy into their team from the get-go for the same reason Spider-Man wasn't an Avengers for a long time, he was too young.
And once they finally have the vote to add Superboy to the team, they clearly state that the team is too fragmented to have anyone else join them.
To Bendis this read as:
To give a bit more context, In Super Sons of Tomorrow, a time displaced version of Tim Drake (3rd Robin) was on a warpath to kill Jon because his powers went out of control, killing a lot of people in the process. It's also revealed to them that big changes have happened in the DC universe that they were not even aware of.
Jon Kent is a bigger boy scout than his old man, after getting Bendis-ed hes now an angsty teen (At the age of 10):
There's more stuff i can sperg out about, but I just quit reading after issue 2 of Bendis Superman. You can atually spot where exactly I gave up hope for Superman on this page:
Also nice job colorist, Barry Allen's hair is blond, Wally West is the red head (previous page confirming that is supposed to be Barry):
STIKE TWO
The Vertigo relaunch being 100% Social Justice themed. It's like Didio saw Marvel imploding, thought it looked cool and wanted to see it up close. Everyone here knows already about these titles and how terrible it started out with Border Town, I have no expectations of any of these becoming best sellers or cult hits.
STRIKE THREE
The latest announcement coming out of DC from New York Comic Con, Bendis is getting MORE titles. He can barely write one title and now hes on fucking 9. And the worst part is this new line is teen focused and part of the main continuity.
Bendis is incapable of writing teens and is now adding a NEW RIRI WILLIAMS, I'm not even joking: Naomi will be written by Bendis and David Walker, and drawn by Jamal Campbell
Info:
It centers on “the only brown-skinned girl in a very white town” in the Pacific Northwest, according to Bendis. When investigating the origins of her adoption, Bendis said she uncovers a “massive secret within the DC Universe.”
In case you're not familiar with David Walker, he's this guy:
At least Patrick Gleason on art is something to look forward to. I swear, sometimes I think I would actually love a Bendis comic if I was illiterate: Young Justice #1 from Brian Michael Bendis and Patrick Gleason
Info:
Will focus on a superhero team that includes Tim Drake’s Robin, Bart Allen’s Impulse, Conner Kent’s Superboy, and some new characters too, including Ginny Hex, a descendant of Jonah Hex, and Teen Lantern, a young girl from Bolivia with the power of the Green Lanter Corps.
As long as Didio is in charge, DC will be on this downward slope. They might actually start competing with Marvel again, on who can reach bankruptcy first.
There's something about all these SJW dudes, troon or not, where they for some reason just can't grasp normal people. They all seem to have severe unresolved daddy issues. People like that probably shouldn't be trusted with Superman.
There's something about all these SJW dudes, troon or not, where they for some reason just can't grasp normal people. They all seem to have severe unresolved daddy issues. People like that probably shouldn't be trusted with Superman.
It makes a lot of sense that those people are the ones who "lead" the SJWs, they have the most utterly failed lives, so by extension, this gives them a lot of time to soapbox and up the ante on everyone around them.
It's not a coincidence that any article about SJWs shrieking features most of the same people.
it just hit me how fucked DC Comics currently is under Didio. All the goodwill that Geoff Johns earned back with Rebirth, just pissed away the moment Didio got control back.
