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#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!
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FluffyJackal
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He'll just disingenuously move the goalposts...
If the Drinker raises less than 400K... "See? He raised less than I did on my first Jawbreakers"
If less than a million.... "Ha! Ethan made more than these fraudsters!
If less than the first EJ campaign... "Damn son! Years later and you still can't surpass that amount even with that Drinker clown on your side, Whotta buncha shitheads!!1 Huhuhuhurhur!!!""
It would be a Trump 2016 victory level of beautiful if they raise even more than this because that would really f- with Zack's head, but I don't think it's very likely...
Edgeymcedgename
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I'd love it, but it won't be that successful.
Edgeymcedgename
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The Mormon comment is just *chef's kiss*
MisterCH 86
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Indie Comics very rarely ever make 1 million or more on their first book or at all for that matter. Hell the most common amount they ever make is 10 to 50K and sells around 500 to 1K copies of the book during its campaign, especially with the kind of brand it is. For an indie comic, the books from the Rippaverse are doing way above what it needs to be considered to be successful or good, especially when all of them made at least 6 digits in sales numbers and sold over 5K copies each. These people are just upset because THEY are making more money now than any of them are right now....especially now. Hell the Rippaverse made over 2.5 million this year ALONE and it's not even halfway done yet. That's what happens when you deliver and people like what they see.
It will most likely make over 100K just like all the other books in it. And it will probably make more than anything in CG right now as well. They have no wins in their favor, so they have to create some instead.
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Man’s been busy.
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Agreed. Especially when the print medium isn't so hot now, plus there is no ideology-spending intensity to fuel puchases as the number of Comicsgate zealots dwindle over time.
Comics are like action figures. After a while, your market settles down into a more or less constant size of collectors and fanboys. At this rate, as long as July keeps his overhead manageable and a decent amount of profits incoming, he'd be fine.
If he wants a large prosperous business, however, comics isn't it. He'd have to diversify to something normies are more heavily invested in buying. But I'm sure this is something he's aware of - he seems to have some business acumen, more than nearly all of the Comicsgate anyway.
MisterCH 86
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From what I've seen, new readers and fans are getting into it now. In fact a lot of people are getting into comics because of him. Regardless he's doing a great job right now, I hope it stays that way. His recent campaigns are proof of that.
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Jesus fucking Christ, what a slimy little bitch.
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i guarantee the overlap of rippaverse customers and the people still involved in
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He's done this before. He did it for Alphacore. After he shat on it, of course.
MisterCH 86
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Yeah people outside CG know the Rippaverse is doing just fine. Even AI is able to see it.
He's not right in what he says anyway. They all are doing fine, if anything they are over achieving....hell these idiots are STILL going by the Isom 1 outlier and saying Isom 3 failed because it didn't make 1 million. Not only is that unrealistic in what they expected but it ALSO did amazing for a indie comic ESPECIALLY a third issue. These people are crazy and stupid.
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Devlish Flow
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Definitely the sociopath characteristic of "duper's delight".
He'll lie and revise history knowing full well that receipts exist, but with the certainty that the ObamaFans, Tuttles, and VonClaus's will faithfully sweep for him.
It's the perverse and contemptuous manipulation of the dwindling handful of sycophants that fuels him. One important aspect of duper's delight is that the rush of getting away with lying and manipulating becomes its own goal; no material reward needed. It can also generate a rush at any point from contemplating and anticipating the deception to enjoying its eventual success.
Grunka Lunka
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Yeah. Never mind the fact that Razorfist and GPrime both have a decent sized fan base. Razorfist had already written at least two books at this point. And GPrime is fairly known for his art on Twitter and whatnot. Not sure if he advertised it on Tim Pool at all. But GPrime was on his show more than a few times that year if I recall correctly. Had Razorfist wanted it to go beyond 30 days, he would have done a lot more than $350,000. Shoot, Razor didn't even do a livestream with EVS until a couple days before his campaign closing. Poor EVS seemed surprised Razorfist would only keep the campaign up for 30 days. But he said people can get it via his publisher down the line.
Plus, more than a few of the writers on the anthology have at least told EVS to GFY. And if they didn't outright say it. I am sure they were thinking it.
I will say though, I think YF/Dillard compares more with how RF/GP did with Ghosts of the Badlands versus Eric July like EVS/Malin seem to keep trying to compare with. While I don't expect them to do as well as RF/GP. It's a more realistic comparison. Can see YF getting around $150,000 when all is said and done.
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Nobody's bitching about him going out two times a month. But what about the 14 hours a day of unwatchable streams?
Beyond that, has EVS ever met a single deadline, ever? Two weeks becomes two months becomes two years.
BTW, does he still have that giant warehouse? He did videos about it and on the warehouse site, but I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread. And since I don't watch his puerile content any more obviously I'm missing any mentions.
The Tall Man
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That's just cope.
Most of the comic guys are sinking. EVS because he doesn't put out new work, and EJ because he doesn't know how to make a good comic.
EJ's stuff is as lame as the big two, but with lower production quality and worse writing.
EVS just keeps making the same stuff he made with the big two, but at a snail's pace.
They suck because they both want to be like the big two and aren't embracing their position as indie.
If you want to know what a successful indie comic series looks like, look at Tim Lim, Mark Pellegrini, and Iconic Comics in general.
Their IPs are growing in popularity each year, while those two balloons inflated with culture war air are slowly deflating.
They don't get much mention on this thread because they don't spend their time streaming about drama.
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He used to at least be more consistent at DC. He did much better work there too. So the "quality takes time" cope is provably not true.
MisterCH 86
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Buddy it is WAY to late to be repeating that now. Iconic is a good company too but the Rippaverse is still doing better than them AND attracting new readers and making new fans. You may as well STOP trying to call the products terrible at this point because no one even believes any of you when you say that now. It's more of a troll than a fact. And it's not a very effective one at this point either, so WHY you repeat it is beyond me. So do me a favor and don't bother. I already know how Indie Comics are supposed to sell, and what you're expecting is completely unrealistic. They are not only doing just fine but they're doing better than a Indie company usually does for how long it's been out. So yeah WAY too late for you to be saying that at this point....YOU are coping if anything. Nothing you say is going to change that either. I don't know WHO you are repeating, but it's not working. Also I know people who say the same thing about Iconic. Don't make me explain to you how opinions work, because the court of opinions are not on your side. YOU don't have to like them, but don't expect everyone else to follow you on that...like I said WAY to late. Iconic readers are even getting into it and enjoying it. Also STOP accusing EJ of fighting a culture war, I don't know HOW obvious it needs to be for you to accept that his company is apolitical "and yes he flat out admitted it more than once" but if you still think he's trying to do anything other than provide people with entertainment, then there is no help for you at all. I see the audience and fanbase grow myself, there's not a chance in HELL you're going to convince me otherwise.
Of course it's not true, he just says that because he wants to be lazy and gaslight his audience into thinking he knows more than he actually does. From what I understand he's been doing that for a long time. As for the whole "Rippaverse quality is bad" crap people like him love to repeat...Yeah if that's the case it would be doing a lot worse than it is. People do enjoy it, anyone that says otherwise it's just gaslighting you. That whole narrative started with Dick Masterson and is being continued by EVS. Most of the people who say that now are either repeating them, or they do it because people don't like him as a person, OR they think if THEY can't like it NO ONE can. Either way it's all cope with them and it's not true, and deep down they know it.
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