Didn't say they weren't fine.
You raised a fuck-ton of cash to have them developed through crowd funding. I assume that the 400K goal would represent the upper limit hard costs of design and set up to have them produced. Lots' of money for tooling and design. And 200K+ left over for bidding on Elton John's jock strap or Elvis's coke spoon or whatever.
So you should be making hundreds of thousands off them.
But then you said this.
Your 1st Wave campaign shows over 600K and with the toys you sold through your Rekt Planet campaign on top of that and anywhere else you might be selling them would indicate that the toys should be at least comparable money to the comics.
"There isn't very much money in it compared with comics" seems like a curious thing to say about a campaign that grossed high six figures unless you ran into some unexpected troubles which would be totally understandable.
Did you source them out of the States or China?
You might think that, but $600K is BARELY enough to make and ship 4 high quality action figures with a relatively low minimum order quantity. I'd still like another $100K or so, and I'll try to get it with a variant campaign.
At $400K, I planned to go into my own pocket. This really is something I'm doing because I've always wanted to do it, since the CyberFrog Playmates Toys deal fell thru in the 90's.
There MIGHT be hundreds of thousands in it for me, but it'll be after fulfillment is done and we're selling remainder product at a profit. And maybe we'll make a distribution deal somewhere.
But every single fucking penny is going into the toys themselves.
I didn't look at the pictures but I did assume he sourced them out of China.
Sourcing out of China is where a lot of people get burned.
Almost everyone manufactures action figures in China. I don't know what you mean.
I am not an EVS simp, but I do believe that a Cyberfrog series could be on the shelves and sell well.
Ethan could easily follow the example of talented normie fence-sitting pros like SGM or Bryan Edward Hill that are sympathetic to some CG views but not open about it, have backchannels to CGers to shill for his books to their audience and make a quarter of what he made from CF IGGs based on his name recognition and how good his art is.
I plan to back CF once the first arc is done, assuming the world still exists by then...
But EVS is EVS so he had to go and burn bridges and get into the culture war leading expendable tards to the first line while barking orders and making bank.
I don't know how those guys can watch what's happening from their vantage point and stay there. I'd be sick to my stomach every day, having to participate in creative meetings in which "PRIDE" and Diversity were main factors in the stories we were planning, and while all of my fellow creatives were mentally ill over Trump and Conservatism.
And when it comes to the money, even SGM admitted that his big money comes from selling Batman drawings, not from the comics themselves. And what he considers "big money" ain't much. He's still suckling at the teat of a cancerous mammal, and I guess he will until he can't any longer. They're circling him too and he knows it.
The bridges didn't need to be burned, they're already collapsing from decay.
There are some things that I'd do differently if I could go back to 2018, but getting into the culture war isn't one of them. I love ComicsGate.
