#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[Newman's Lovechild]

It doesn't surprise me you would have been - it seems the most stupid and obsessed of his orbitors are the ones who used to be fans. But you are repeating exactly the same shit that was said then and pretending its insightful material, so I think your reasoning is flawed and your emotions about frog have controlled your opinion rather than any memory or thinking. Instead you've exactly parroted the same anti-cg people who were all absolutely sure Frog was done before rekt planet was released, and for exactly the same reasons - emotional incontinence.

Ethan isn't going to meet you behind the pizzeria.

 

[The Ghost of CG Past]

Ethan isn't going to meet you behind the pizzeria.

If CG was a meritocracy and not some bubble ballsuckathon it would be better, but perhaps that would only benefit my campaigns.

There is no consequence for poor quality, late delivery, or bad ideas. Just have to follow blind and toot the big channel narrative and you are in. That's not how I roll.

I think in protecting their interests, these dudes have diluted the message and their credibility to criticize, which is the founding principal of CG: To criticize entertainment and offer an alternative of better quality. We all know that message has fallen short and fell to the wayside. Fucking shame.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

There’s no way I can think of to prove his claims are true.

Simple. He literally has no reason to lie. Dide’s got more integrity than that.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Cover B has an error on it...
View attachment 3490621

Yeah I saw that!!

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

I am super interested in how fast the turnaround for the next book will be. This campaign ends in September and the books have been printed since i think Feb. The second book is likely drawn and could easily be at the printers by now. That means a second campaign in October/November isn't out of the question. Even if it gets pushed back to early 2023 that turnaround should really get some noggins joggin inside of CG.

Rippa has the normie audience that CG wants to expand into and setting expectations of getting a book within months and not years will close that door.

I'll be more interested to find out how much of his audience sticks. Years into this CG nonsense and I STILL can't get my brain around how the value to price proposition with these books makes any sense, even for CG true believers. I guess stickin it to the Ess Jay Dubyas, lapping up the diahrrea Zack is now excreting two years after Zack has disavowed everything he once stood for, etc., etc., world without end appeals to more people than I ever thought it would.

But YR's audience is not this audience, or at any rate not entirely. Do they bounce after one $35 purchase (does this include domestic shipping even?) or do they keep coming back to the well at this level? My personal feeling is that YR better hold off on that second cargo van until this is settled, but I've certainly been wrong before, multiple times, even.

 

[The Coon]

Inspired by Tupac. Men can make fun of eachother. And he does look like Kimbo Slice even if he does have a million dollars in sales.

I believe the thread was talking about supporting indie, which I have been a backer since before comicsgate. He deflected because he is just getting into independent comics now, and it proved my point. Thanks for your interest Dongs, love you too, sugar.

I like Nick Rekieta, but that is the only mention out of this comment.

I'm not interested in going back into that fold. I can produce great content, and originally in my debut with Liam, Bancroft, Cider, Ody, I offered to help CG make better books if it was needed. That door is closed now. I think people get the wrong idea about me. I'm not a desperate bitch. I won't come in on hands and knees, IF I EVER go back to CG, it would have to smarten the fuck up and I would take a throne. Non Negotiable.

All interesting points, but Malin is not a master diplomat. He is a master dipshit lol.

Guy refused my invite to the drawstream, and he tells all his fans he was discovered by Image to get Liefeld points but he and I came from the same place: Digital Webbing.
His release was DW #1 (Summer Release) and was not spectacular work from what I hear if you can find a copy. Original writer owns the rights to the work. Not Image camp, we came from the HTML trench like many others in comics.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

But YR's audience is not this audience, or at any rate not entirely. Do they bounce after one $35 purchase (does this include domestic shipping even?) or do they keep coming back to the well at this level? My personal feeling is that YR better hold off on that second cargo van until this is settled, but I've certainly been wrong before, multiple times, even.

That seems most reasonable.

I will support his first book because I like him and his idea. But if the content is not good, I'll stick to just watching his YouTube on occasion.

 

[TheMadAutist]

I will support his first book because I like him and his idea.

You have shitty taste in people as well as the content you consoom.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

You have shitty taste in people as well as the content you consoom.

No I don't he's a nice guy.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I'll be more interested to find out how much of his audience sticks. Years into this CG nonsense and I STILL can't get my brain around how the value to price proposition with these books makes any sense, even for CG true believers. I guess stickin it to the Ess Jay Dubyas, lapping up the diahrrea Zack is now excreting two years after Zack has disavowed everything he once stood for, etc., etc., world without end appeals to more people than I ever thought it would.

But YR's audience is not this audience, or at any rate not entirely. Do they bounce after one $35 purchase (does this include domestic shipping even?) or do they keep coming back to the well at this level? My personal feeling is that YR better hold off on that second cargo van until this is settled, but I've certainly been wrong before, multiple times, even.

The bigger problem is actually like, if he DOES stick with a regular release schedule, the price is going to become a much bigger issue. Retards might be willing to send $35 every couple years towards Zack or EVS to own the ess jay dubyas, but $35 every 2 months is going to start to add up and make them question whether or not it’s actually worth it.

 

[TheMadAutist]

No I don't he's a nice guy.

People used to say that about Boogie.

 

[Michael Janke]

it's interesting that eric july has enough money to fund the next 15 comics, in fact he might be able to fund more since he's fully paid off the warehouse he uses and all the facilities for producing and distributing the comics are owned. not counting fufillment, he probably uses UPS to do so.
though he's probably pocketing a good chunk of that as profit.
but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Cover B has an error on it...
View attachment 3490621

Is that part of the actual book cover, though, or just part of the picture taken of the book cover?

it's interesting that eric july has enough money to fund the next 15 comics, in fact he might be able to fund more since he's fully paid off the warehouse he uses and all the facilities for producing and distributing the comics are owned. not counting fufillment, he probably uses UPS to do so.
though he's probably pocketing a good chunk of that as profit.
but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

Press X to doubt on this one. Even if July ends up being a viable competitor with Marvel and DC, manga is an entirely different ballgame. The West would have to change cultures entirely in order to do so now that manga has taken over the youth crowd.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

He might catch up to manga.

...Of coooourse!

 

[The Coon]

it's interesting that eric july has enough money to fund the next 15 comics, in fact he might be able to fund more since he's fully paid off the warehouse he uses and all the facilities for producing and distributing the comics are owned. not counting fufillment, he probably uses UPS to do so.
though he's probably pocketing a good chunk of that as profit.
but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

Dude, Pump the brakes. Marvel and DC are still owned by huge mega companies that really don't give a shit about them being profitable with comics as long as they can continue to pump out IP, story arcs for possible movies in the future and art for merch like shirts and shit. I'm all for having big goals, but IF he ever completes with the big 2 it will be a very long time from now. Also, remember rippaverse comics haven't even made it to customers hands yet.

 

[Least Concern]

The Lotus Eaters, Sargon's current venture (although this video doesn't feature him), has done a video on the Rippaverse. July seems to have done a decent job of busting this out of the typical CG echo-chamber - many of whose members, I'm sure, will bristle at the thumbnail's implication that there has been no books attempting to please fans before July's project.

 

[Mister Dongs]

but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

Let's uh, get one comic book out first before we start laying expectations on the youtuber's shoulders to singlehandedly save the comic book industry like so much Liam Gray.

 

[Gar For Archer]

it's interesting that eric july has enough money to fund the next 15 comics, in fact he might be able to fund more since he's fully paid off the warehouse he uses and all the facilities for producing and distributing the comics are owned. not counting fufillment, he probably uses UPS to do so.
though he's probably pocketing a good chunk of that as profit.
but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

To do any of that, he first needs to prove that his books actually appeal to an audience that are buying for the story rather than for the man behind them. A YouTube cult of personality is sufficient to make him and CG figures like EVS a lot of money, because these one-man ops have much less overhead than a big publisher like Marvel or DC. But an IP cannot seriously compete with the big boys purely on the money of retards simping for their Internet daddies.

IF YungNigga’s story is actually as good as he claims, AND he can keep up a consistent schedule, AND he lowers the cost to something more reasonably affordable to a casual audience, AND he sets up a store on Amazon where people can easily purchase the entire series without going through his janky website, I could see him at least on the road to becoming a serious competitor to Marvel and DC in 10 years - not just in sales, but in attracting talent by offering better rates.

Manga though? Straight up delusional, literally no way it’s happening within the next 20 years - probably ever. Like @Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed says, manga does what comics has failed to do for decades now - appeal to kids. Rippaverse is clearly putting the “smelly comic book nerd with a chip on his shoulder for Marvel and DC” first in line as the target audience, and I see nothing in the pitch that sounds remotely appealing to a kid who’s used to reading shit like Demon Slayer or My Hero Academia or One Punch Man or Attack on Titan.

 

[Michael Janke]

Let's uh, get one comic book out first before we start laying expectations on the youtuber's shoulders to singlehandedly save the comic book industry like so much Liam Gray.

in my head with my imagination going wild, i imagine daily wire becoming Fox or Disney big and buying out rippa verse comics or RV comics years into the future and releasing it's own cinematic universe.
then i realized we'd have jews pushing out comic book movies again.

 

[Yosha]

but eric pulled in enough money that he could start his own comics company, making other comics other than rippaverse. bring in other people to make more comics under him. he just might be able to challenge the big 2. he might catch up to manga.

A manga that comes on 20th place on the selling chart, sells around 150K copies in a MONTH. While #1 sells over 1M copies. And thats just in Japan.... So good luck Eric.

and i am just talking about volumes sales.. A weekly shonen jump magazine, that contains chapters from a lot of popular series, sells 1.5M copies per WEEK.