I'm kind of confused what Rippa is exactly contributing to his own project. I'm assuming he didn't draw any of it. Is he the writer or did someone else craft dialogue and plot from his general storyline ideas? Did he create every character or are others contributing?
He's not ignorant of the problems, either. Internally, he knows. It's putting his realizations into actions that seems to be a sticking point for Ethan. Look how long it took him to realize that Zack is stupid, and no... he's not coming back into the fold. Old Zack is dead. New Zack is not CG, and is also a few cans short of a six pack. I think Ethan probably figured that out a long time ago, and just deluded himself into believing reality wasn't reality. Only now is he admitting what everybody has long known.
Oh God, the self fellatio faggots here are multiplying. We already have @TheCosmicWarrior, we don't need another.Thanks for the share! The suggestions actually grew on me, so releasing with a new title name on launch, new artist, same great story. We had a preview in Bulletmaker, and all my content there is a great representation of quality you will receive from my camp.
We are publishing late legend Dheeraj Verma's last work and artist for Mike Baron's Thin Blue Line Joseph Arnold is hired to continue. Joe actually did all the concept work originally, art in my opener videos, and the preview in Bulletmaker featuring Mammoth Monk.
As for old threads, I mean have a laugh. Entertainment should be fun, I'm an awkward nerd and I know it haha but I'll make a better book than all these hater chumps who talk shit about me
Even when he does disown someone a year later he's trying to "rehab" them to welcome them back into the fold. *cough cough* Liam/Micah *cough cough*.
More importantly, all of this has painfully little to do with getting comics out in the market. If it was, that would be priority #1.
I agree with your assessment of CG and Ethan, but there is a perfect reason that he doesn't act logically. He already made a shitload of poor decisions and has painted himself into a youtube corner.
Those are just facts i gave, so I disagree.....but I won't refute the fact that JDA is a gaypotato, I'll let him speak for himself
With responses like this, I cannot wait to read what a wordsmith like you has to offer.
Nobody cancelled me. This was all drama before I joined, had nothing to do with me, to be honest.
Its gonna be good. Stay tuned, random internet raccoon.
Welcome to the farms, Word Nerd. Joining the forum is a bit of an improvement from last year when you and your crew attempted to cry rape at us.
...Until it can no longer be ignored. I can't lead something that doesn't want to be lead, and ComicsGaters have said, "NO LEADERS" a hundred times when this topic comes up.
I think some degenerates who were concern trolling my book teams gave the forum a bad impression to someone like me who didn't understand with 0 experience. I see it clearly now as an open, uncensored forum, and I actually prefer that.
"Writer" according to himself but I guess that means different things to different people. Watching the announcement stream, the trailer, and his appearance on FNT, it's really becoming clear how having an unlimited supply of nervous white guys clamoring to do things for you can be a major asset. He's got the charisma, mission statement, social proof in the form of dozens of fellow YouTubers functioning as a sort of rough replacement for actual comics industry cred, and the ability to dip his toes in multiple media categories. Oh, and he's (very) black. Now all he has to do is deliver a minimally-viable product in a satisfactory manner. Contrast this with @FROG struggling to suffer through even an hour or so of JACK Show last night, 100% less CG Kings for 100% more Anna TSWG, be-clowning himself in a way he's clearly not entirely comfortable with. What a contrast, but this weekend will be the peak of Rippa's power level fueled by hype alone. But even if worst case it's an uninspired "generic" vanity project, the sum total of what Eric is doing checks off so many of CG's boxes i'd be looking to up my game if I were @FROG , et al. But that's not a bad thing.
Part of his mission statement is explicitly denying ideology and identity in the content. It's about the art, or whatever. Now, if it were up to me, like most of what he's done so far I wouldn't sperg about it. I'd just shut up and do it and surprise everyone. It's not like he's a nobody going into this. But this is how he rolls and and more power to him. Maybe the swagger and sperging is how you swim with these sharks. I dunno. At the very least, pushing-back against ideologically-motivated content avoids descending into Christian rock -esque heavyhanded-ness. He'll be at least trying not to produce political Chick tracts, which I guess is good. At this point, the Founder Effect ought to weigh heavy on him and like @Captain Manning touched on, leadership matters.
Yeah. Your points are valid, but there is a real problem with no one really knowing wtf is really going on with this "movement".
I don't think it suits him, to be honest. Not with this level of exposure and that exposure is necessitated by his productivity level. I don't think this is a movement or even a "scene". It's some kind of circus / carnival midway syndicate-of-convenience delivered via the internet with a splash of fraternal organization and drinking establishment opened to voyeurs and hecklers. As it's success goes, so will it's tendency to be dragged towards whatever the base level of "entertainment" is for the operative demographic (with every midway's tendency to want to take easy money off of willing rubes). Ethan's interests would seem to be maintaining nominal control over it while simultaneously maintaining plausible deniability about having no real control over it. This all goes back to The Founder Effect as I think if it had come out of something slightly less self-righteous and more transparent, shit like Cecil's scamming might be taken in the spirit it's perpetrated as a walk down the midway.
Is that the FG troll/clown/hustler/cow LowTierGod's final form?
I can't say how Zack feels, because none of us know. Most we can hope for is informed speculation.
I'm curious how ownership of any characters not created by Rippa will be handled. A whole new universe is going to require a lot of characters and having one person invent everyth8ing about every one of them seems like trouble.
Many others in this thread could speak on that better than I could but I'm guessing he's "creating" all of it insofar as he's Idea Guy-ing the whole thing and retaining ownership. A "universe" need only be a few characters with their own narratives and some worldbuilding tying it all together.
Yes that's what WC was known for, their sober and measured criticism of their anointed Caesar who they vowed to protect from any and all threats as well as their promotion of quality works like Cash Grab and Wart the Wizard. Thank you Wordnerd for gracing us with your radioactive dripping cum handprint avatar.
I can't say, I didn't promote or back Cash Grab or Wart the Wizard, and never vowed to do anything. I think it's lazy to approach me with a broad brush when I have nothing to do with the show or anything you mentioned. As for the cum handprint, most people see paint first, then jizz, but I won't judge you for reading my comment before dinner.
