According to YBZ art is finished and the book will be at the printers by the end of the campaign. I can see him making a couple Ukraine war tourist videos to push the book at the people interested in those type of videos
I'm trying to wrap my head around the timeline of this project.
Zack is saying this book will ship in April, which could be any time from 2 to 6 weeks from now. The Ukraine invasion began the 24th of February which (as of this writing) was 19 days ago. Let's assume Zack began work on this book the exact day the invasion began (he didn't, but let's assume). That would mean he wrote the story and Kelsey drew the entire 26 page thing in
less than 19 days. The campaign page clearly states that all the art in this book is
done and that the lettering "begins immediately". Does this mean he's
currently lettering it? Who knows?
The printing of the book will be "paid for and scheduled" a week (or more) after the campaign closes. The campaign closes March 19th, so the printing will be paid for and scheduled on March 26th
at the earliest. That doesn't mean it'll be printed then, just
scheduled to be printed. Nobody knows how long it'll take, especially considering how much of a control freak Zack is when it comes to holding up printing over stupid details a non-autist would scarcely notice or give a shit about. Does anyone believe Zack has reached the point where he can realistically have a comic written, drawn, lettered, proofed, printed and shipped...all in 8-ish weeks, give or take?
My favorite part of the campaign page has to be this:
Zack thinks backers wanting a product to be more than vaporware when they shell out their money is some kind of
evolution of crowdfunding expectations. If this statement is true, wouldn't he have to admit that the selection pressure of this "evolution" came from the ridiculous number of campaigns that either shipped extremely late or not at all and maybe even acknowledge his role in that situation? Nah.
And what's with the panel from Batman: Year One? "This is where it all began"? Is he comparing
anything about this book to one of the most widely loved, best written, well drawn comics of all time? I'm pretty sure Miller and Mazzucchelli took longer than a few weeks to produce a legitimately timeless comics masterpiece instead of shitting out some dumb idea that'll age like milk.
LOL, that's bullshit. No really, that's hilarious.
Yep, he said it. Here he is talking about the "real cost" of making comics (I've timestamped it so you don't have suffer through him talking about his lawn)
After his usual meandering taking up half the video's runtime, he asserts that Disney bought Marvel as an IP farm but they haven't adapted anything from the last 10 years of the comics. He got called out by Grifter Gary himself in the comments, forcing him to make this video in which he kind of sort of admits he may have possibly been almost wrong about something:
Obviously, the biggest takeaway here is that Zack apparently reads a physical newspaper at restaurants
and the gym in 2022 and genuinely has
no idea why people look at him like he's some kind of walking failed abortion. His best guess is that they've seen too many movies where the bad guy pretends to read a newspaper while spying on people. He really said this.
The man is absolutely retarded and I'm amazed he's allowed to operate a motor vehicle.
