Comfortably making $250K per year in mainstream comics, even at the end.
I wasn’t butting heads with anyone. I wasn’t missing deadlines. especially not on Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. I was a new dad and taking every bit of work I could get, trying to be a workhorse.
Both of those narratives are lies to make it seem like I was at fault, because SJWs prize victimhood and don’t want me to claim mine.
The reality is that I was a loudmouth conservative on social media, reposting Breitbart articles and making fun of Liberals. It really bothered people. When I voted for Trump, leftists came after me. I made sport of them, thinking I was invincible. When I began associating with Diversity & Comics, I began receiving concern trolling threats from big name writers.
People don’t get cancelled for being dicks or late on projects. That’s not reality.
When I said "butting heads" I mean you falling out with the leftists over Trump. You and your bestie, Gail Simone, turned into bitter rivals.
And no, it is not cancelling, it is SJWs making your life and the life of your collaborators a bit harder over concern trolling and spreading rumours. At some point people get less willing to work with you and companies are losing more money than making money from your work, so they stop bothering. This is what twitter psychos try to accomplice with every cancelling victim.
Which kind of my beef with CG/Faggot Meanies: you guys are talking politics yet you are clueless about politics.
But then again, if it sells, it sells.
I can basically summarize everything you said here in one sentence:
YouTube was a mistake.
At least insofar as CG is concerned. I am convinced 90% of their problems would magically go away if they shut their fucking cameras off and got some work done.
Well... no.
These guys acted as great capitalists, 10X the value of their product through youtubing/parasocial relationships and keep delivering value to their clients as a cadre of livestreamers of various shows.
Push comes to shove (Hey, Mike) they can always turn off the cameras and do comics.
The way the comicbook industry is heading, once apathy takes over CG will be done for good and SJWs will move to greener pastures. Give this a couple more years and the culture would shift out of the outrage culture war to something different.
Then EVS can do 30 variant covers for Dynamite, 48 pages of Cyberfrog and some art auctions per year and live comfortably.
Malin etc could do triple that amount of work for similar money.
YBZ can have Chuck Dixon and whatever Philipino Liefeld clone he can find churn out Jawbreaker floppies while he returns to IT.
This is because they:
a) have actual skills that they can use to produce something.
b) have a following of people with dispossable income
Most SJWs or FM people do not.
So no, them closing the cameras will do them more harm than good, but still they have to make haste so they can get more campaigns out while they still matter.
