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Gar For Archer said:
Black and white isn’t inherently a drawback, but generally speaking, I will always pick a competently-colored manga over its b/w original when given the option.

Of course, due to the sheer length of most popular manga, and the additional costs associated with both the act of coloring AND printing the work in color, fully colorized works are hard to come by because the money just isn’t there - the vast majority of manga fans are happy to read black and white.
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I mean if you're talking on a production level then yes black and white is more cost-effective but the appeal of Japanese art style is the vibrant color that goes along with it. Yeah I can understand it and like a slice of life (School Days) manga where nothing really happens it's just a bunch of talking throughout the panels then yeah you might as well save money I'm not trying to colorize it will be no better than colorizing a movie from the 40s that's just a slow drama that you have on to fall asleep to.

It's just kind of a shame that more of the Shonen/Action/Adventure oriented manga doesn't use colors since like old American comics just brings out more of the energy that's coming out of each panel. Sure it might be expensive yes but if manga wants to make it big here in the States on a mainstream level it has to make some changes. Even the cheapest/poorest American comics were still in color.

TheMadAutist said:
Wonder how much Rippa paid for that cosplay?
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Probably too much if he paid her up front. She could give him 50% off if he gives her the BBC out back."Y'all know why they call me "YoungRippa" right bitch?"
 
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The Coon said:
Self awareness only brings in the simp bucks when you are a comedian like Chrissie Mayr.
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Speaking of, in a turn that should surprise no one, the Simpcast host had her first full-on, unironic, #MeToo stream tonight. The subject in this case is a professional stand-up comedian and podcaster and former long-term boyfriend of hers, Pat Dixon, who was accused by the not-at-all-trouble-waiting-to-happen Mayr of physically assaulting her (or tapping her really hard when she was performing yoga for him) some time in the past. This accusation surfaces in the context of a discussion over him punching some dude a few months ago, and detailed in the Cumia thread. Pat Dixon will be familiar to anyone who has subscribed to Anthony Cumia's paywalled Compound Media podcast channel. Wont bore with the breakdown of the ensuing roastie panel discussion since it's not relevant to this thread, but suffice to say every horrifying thing you've come to know and love about "female power networking" and gyno-mob takedowns is on display here, right or wrong, for better or worse. Let's just say they spend well over an hour canceling the pugilistic Dixon with unquestionable certitude through heresay, conjecture, rumor, gossip, and specious implications and yet can not ultimately decide if ever hitting anyone under any circumstances is right or wrong. Not anywhere near a meltdown, but spiritual echoes of last year's Mary Meyhem / Jessie Milestone drama. Warning bells. These are the people who would collectively hold veto power over everyone in their "community" at all times.

It should be reiterated as always that Chrissie hadn't even seen Star Wars until she was brought on to the Friday Night Tights crew sometime last year I think (as comedic color commentator or something) and was a leftist until approximately yesterday. I'm sure it's nothing, though. These are the people whose emotional maintenance you neglect at your own peril. They are not here to contribute. They are not even here to conduct a transaction. They are here ultimately because they crave a certain type of attention to which they simultaneously feel entitled to and disgusted by. To CG, G+G, FNT, "Fandom Menace"' et al., I would say you let these people in and you were warned.

The stream was immediately copyright struck but will update if/when she reups. She usually does since she likes to "premiere" her previous livestreams which allows her to trick 2x the simps into superchatting.

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Chrissie Mayr, some rando stripper, AIDS Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, some other rando stripper

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Stream is back up. Relevant discussion begins at aprox. 50:20.
Basically, comedian Pat Dixon is brought on to a podcast to explain why he punched some other podcaster. Chrissie's name is inevitably brought into the discussion because all these people know each other and the rumors had already started, Chrissie and the "victim" are friends, and Chrissie uses mention of those rumors to make canceling accusations based off of an 8-year old event where Dixon asked her to demonstrate yoga poses and he "hit her really hard" when tapping her during said poses (as men in relationships are wont to do).
tl;dr guy punches guy in a bar over some guy shit becomes "you beat me 8 years ago" because insane women are now involved.

These are the people being invited on to drunken streams and drunken meetups and drunken convention parties. You were warned.
 
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Shekelslovakia said:
I mean if you're talking on a production level then yes black and white is more cost-effective but the appeal of Japanese art style is the vibrant color that goes along with it. Yeah I can understand it and like a slice of life (School Days) manga where nothing really happens it's just a bunch of talking throughout the panels then yeah you might as well save money I'm not trying to colorize it will be no better than colorizing a movie from the 40s that's just a slow drama that you have on to fall asleep to.

It's just kind of a shame that more of the Shonen/Action/Adventure oriented manga doesn't use colors since like old American comics just brings out more of the energy that's coming out of each panel. Sure it might be expensive yes but if manga wants to make it big here in the States on a mainstream level it has to make some changes. Even the cheapest/poorest American comics were still in color.


Probably too much if he paid her up front. She could give him 50% off if he gives her the BBC out back."Y'all know why they call me "YoungRippa" right bitch?"
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…I dunno where you’ve been dude, manga is big in the States on a mainstream level.Way more so than any colored American comic. Maybe not MCU mainstream, but this isn’t the 90’s anymore, where the only people who watched anime were nerds passing around bootleg tapes.

The vast majority of readers do not care about color, it’s a nice bonus when it’s there, not a dealbreaker when it’s missing. Even if colored editions were easily available, I’m sure you’ll find that most readers are still just gonna buy the cheaper b+w version anyways. This is something American comics needs to learn from manga, not the other way around.
 
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Shekelslovakia said:
I mean if you're talking on a production level then yes black and white is more cost-effective but the appeal of Japanese art style is the vibrant color that goes along with it. Yeah I can understand it and like a slice of life (School Days) manga where nothing really happens it's just a bunch of talking throughout the panels then yeah you might as well save money I'm not trying to colorize it will be no better than colorizing a movie from the 40s that's just a slow drama that you have on to fall asleep to.

It's just kind of a shame that more of the Shonen/Action/Adventure oriented manga doesn't use colors since like old American comics just brings out more of the energy that's coming out of each panel. Sure it might be expensive yes but if manga wants to make it big here in the States on a mainstream level it has to make some changes. Even the cheapest/poorest American comics were still in color.


Probably too much if he paid her up front. She could give him 50% off if he gives her the BBC out back."Y'all know why they call me "YoungRippa" right bitch?"
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The Yaira cosplayer is Krista Nova
 
Breaking News!!! Liam is back, at least for an update on his book Boy Island. I am pretty sure he is just reading off a script for this Livestream. Check it out before it's gone
 
Shekelslovakia said:
I mean if you're talking on a production level then yes black and white is more cost-effective but the appeal of Japanese art style is the vibrant color that goes along with it. Yeah I can understand it and like a slice of life (School Days) manga where nothing really happens it's just a bunch of talking throughout the panels then yeah you might as well save money I'm not trying to colorize it will be no better than colorizing a movie from the 40s that's just a slow drama that you have on to fall asleep to.

It's just kind of a shame that more of the Shonen/Action/Adventure oriented manga doesn't use colors since like old American comics just brings out more of the energy that's coming out of each panel. Sure it might be expensive yes but if manga wants to make it big here in the States on a mainstream level it has to make some changes. Even the cheapest/poorest American comics were still in color.
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Since manga makes relatively few concessions to American readers other than translate into English, b+w will probably stay for a while considering it hasn´t gotten in the way of overtaking American comics in their own backyard.

B&w can even be a welcome trait by some readers, kind of like some anime fans prefer to see the original cartoons in Japanese with English subtitles instead of the dub.
 
Ike Aim said:
Speaking of, in a turn that should surprise no one, the Simpcast host had her first full-on, unironic, #MeToo stream tonight. The subject in this case is a professional stand-up comedian and podcaster and former long-term boyfriend of hers, Pat Dixon, who was accused by the not-at-all-trouble-waiting-to-happen Mayr of physically assaulting her (or tapping her really hard when she was performing yoga for him) some time in the past. This accusation surfaces in the context of a discussion over him punching some dude a few months ago, and detailed in the Cumia thread. Pat Dixon will be familiar to anyone who has subscribed to Anthony Cumia's paywalled Compound Media podcast channel. Wont bore with the breakdown of the ensuing roastie panel discussion since it's not relevant to this thread, but suffice to say every horrifying thing you've come to know and love about "female power networking" and gyno-mob takedowns is on display here, right or wrong, for better or worse. Let's just say they spend well over an hour canceling the pugilistic Dixon with unquestionable certitude through heresay, conjecture, rumor, gossip, and specious implications and yet can not ultimately decide if ever hitting anyone under any circumstances is right or wrong. Not anywhere near a meltdown, but spiritual echoes of last year's Mary Meyhem / Jessie Milestone drama. Warning bells. These are the people who would collectively hold veto power over everyone in their "community" at all times.

It should be reiterated as always that Chrissie hadn't even seen Star Wars until she was brought on to the Friday Night Tights crew sometime last year I think (as comedic color commentator or something) and was a leftist until approximately yesterday. I'm sure it's nothing, though. These are the people whose emotional maintenance you neglect at your own peril. They are not here to contribute. They are not even here to conduct a transaction. They are here ultimately because they crave a certain type of attention to which they simultaneously feel entitled to and disgusted by. To CG, G+G, FNT, "Fandom Menace"' et al., I would say you let these people in and you were warned.

The stream was immediately copyright struck but will update if/when she reups. She usually does since she likes to "premiere" her previous livestreams which allows her to trick 2x the simps into superchatting.

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Never have female friends and never be alone with a woman in circumstances you can't record. Simple advice for clown world times. It doesn't matter if you're left or right. These women know what's up and their emotional babbling will be believed especially because they're reasonably attractive. It's all a performance.
 
The Coon said:
Breaking News!!! Liam is back, at least for an update on his book Boy Island. I am pretty sure he is just reading off a script for this Livestream. Check it out before it's gone
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48 minutes of incoherent rambling and reminiscence about Astro Boy. Such prose needs to be preserved for the ages. (I made it about 4 minutes in.)
 
Steinercard said:
Never have female friends and never be alone with a woman in circumstances you can't record. Simple advice for clown world times. It doesn't matter if you're left or right. These women know what's up and their emotional babbling will be believed especially because they're reasonably attractive. It's all a performance.
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And never under any circumstances hire a female. These are the lessons of #MeToo and modern feminism in general.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
And never under any circumstances hire a female. These are the lessons of #MeToo and feminism in general.
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Why not? You can pay them 70% of what a man makes and for some reason they never sue employers for it, even though it's totally a real thing that happens all the time.
 
Miniluv said:
Why not? You can pay them 70% of what a man makes and for some reason they never sue employers for it, even though it's totally a real thing that happens all the time.
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Even without the MeToo stuff they'll get pregnant within six months and then take a paid year off. I've watched this happen three times in the past two years.
 
make_it_so said:
One of the great things about this thread is that it introduced me to Comics by Perch.

And today, he had a viewer question video that asked, among other things, why the ComcisGate creators don't band together and try to form their own imprint a la Image Comics did in the 90s.

Going by what we're seeing with RippaVerse and PayPal, part of it might be because even when the creators appear to have their shit together to actually publish and ship their comics, there's still some pretty basic business sense that they're missing.
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At some point you start to realize that Perch is YBZ that had kids with the same mother.

Speaking of YBZ he is hitting hard his Blackpilled phase:
He felt like he had spend 4 years of his life for nothing, only to realize how many (and most of them shit) books he worked on and this is what matters. And that he has evolved as a writer and his upcoming Jawbreakers (with a new book coming every 8 months) will be much better and emotional (because, apparently, this is what Jawbreakers fans want).
In a previous video he says that he was tired of the comicbook outrage so he read some books and it was great.

Now, instead of going to a local comicshop, getting an older book (or a GN) and reading it on camera kayfabe style, he still makes those self-referencial videos.
 
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This isn't shilling, but it IS peacocking. They're sending over the first batch of samples of completed Frog action figures in the next week.

This is a dream come true. I can't believe how good they look. I hope some of you ordered a few.
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Ike Aim said:
Speaking of, in a turn that should surprise no one, the Simpcast host had her first full-on, unironic, #MeToo stream tonight. The subject in this case is a professional stand-up comedian and podcaster and former long-term boyfriend of hers, Pat Dixon, who was accused by the not-at-all-trouble-waiting-to-happen Mayr of physically assaulting her (or tapping her really hard when she was performing yoga for him) some time in the past. This accusation surfaces in the context of a discussion over him punching some dude a few months ago, and detailed in the Cumia thread. Pat Dixon will be familiar to anyone who has subscribed to Anthony Cumia's paywalled Compound Media podcast channel. Wont bore with the breakdown of the ensuing roastie panel discussion since it's not relevant to this thread, but suffice to say every horrifying thing you've come to know and love about "female power networking" and gyno-mob takedowns is on display here, right or wrong, for better or worse. Let's just say they spend well over an hour canceling the pugilistic Dixon with unquestionable certitude through heresay, conjecture, rumor, gossip, and specious implications and yet can not ultimately decide if ever hitting anyone under any circumstances is right or wrong. Not anywhere near a meltdown, but spiritual echoes of last year's Mary Meyhem / Jessie Milestone drama. Warning bells. These are the people who would collectively hold veto power over everyone in their "community" at all times.

It should be reiterated as always that Chrissie hadn't even seen Star Wars until she was brought on to the Friday Night Tights crew sometime last year I think (as comedic color commentator or something) and was a leftist until approximately yesterday. I'm sure it's nothing, though. These are the people whose emotional maintenance you neglect at your own peril. They are not here to contribute. They are not even here to conduct a transaction. They are here ultimately because they crave a certain type of attention to which they simultaneously feel entitled to and disgusted by. To CG, G+G, FNT, "Fandom Menace"' et al., I would say you let these people in and you were warned.

The stream was immediately copyright struck but will update if/when she reups. She usually does since she likes to "premiere" her previous livestreams which allows her to trick 2x the simps into superchatting.

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I don't know a single guy who hasn't had a woman hit him, beat him with some object, be emotionally and verbally abusive to him, scream and cry if he wasn't in the mood that night to coerce action, or some combination of the above. Little 10 year old boys even commonly have to deal with young teenage girls pushing them around in that one period of time where they have males similar in age that they can physically overpower.

The difference is men usually know to SHUT THE FUCK UP AND MOVE ON. Unless you had some dynamic with children being endangered or the like going on, or it was an actual truly serious assault, just fuck off already. Maybe put some of that effort you dump into "I was screaming at him and insulting his entire family for three days straight and then, when I was slapping the shit out of him for trying to ignore me, he grabbed my wrist and twisted it!" into bitching out your boss and demanding a pay raise after you actually do a decent job your life would be going a little better.

Go file a police report or fuck off. At least let all those wasted tax dollars have the silver lining of the police are paid to listen to your shit and figure out if you're legit so we don't have to.

I kinda liked The Real BBC and FNT before it was just Az endlessly fawning over Nina instead of talking about the actual content of comic books or Mayr delivering jokes with the same voice inflections of Jerry Seinfeld having a stroke and everyone awkwardly laughing through the cringe because Chrissie Mayr's Boobs might send another superchat. Even Mauler joining Real BBC and knowing absolute fuck-all about comics was at least genuinely curious and had something add or a question that would lead to still discussing the content of comics.

I'll say something nice for X-Ray Girl, though, so I'm not just entirely woman bashing. She at least did decent at her job and only chimed in when she was directly addressed or actually had something relevant to say. I stopped watching either show a while ago, though, so I'm sure that's changed as well.
 
Miniluv said:
Then there are cosplayers who take a non sexualized character and sexualize it, sort of like how most modern women's Halloween costumes became slutty variations of everything from firefighters to Super Mario.

I saw a woman at a con once wearing glasses and a man's suit with her shirt unbuttoned almost to the waist, her extremely ample cleavage was held in by what could only be the strongest titty tape yet devised. She claimed she was dressed as Clark Kent. A lot of the "fake geek girl" vitriol was initially aimed at women going to cons and dressing up like that for attention/money when they didn't really have any interest in anything the cons were catering to. I've even met some business minded ladies who work as strippers and escorts and regularly go to cons in costume because, duh, it's thirsty geeks with tons of money who can't wait to part with it.
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I can't help but feel like it's because of the fake geek girls that nerd culture is in the shitter, or at least one of the reasons.
 
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