Back in the 90s he would have probably found work at Vertigo.
As a janitor, sure.
If you honestly believe Richard C Meyer is capable of writing anything on the level of Sandman, The Invisibles, Transmetroplitan, or Preacher, you are either dented beyond capacity for rational thought or you are actually Zack. But I repeat myself.
I think his books will age well and may even be looked upon more fondly in hindsight.
You think his Chick Tracts about the pandemic, lockdowns, cancel culture, and that dumb ass Ukraine thing will age well?
Zack was held in check by his alarming cough. Once he got that under control, the manic side of his personality was given free rein.
Zack never got his cough under control. He still coughs directly into the microphone in every single video.
I remember he said his doctor told him the cough was likely a symptom of acid reflux due to his diet of nothing but frozen breakfast burritos and fast food. I'm assuming this doctor was actually a divorced dentist birthday party clown who Zack trusted but who never actually studied the medicine he practiced, which is why he still eats Whataburger daily and coughs at everyone.
What was once a diversion that gave pause for thought became an unwelcome, close up and personal insight into the troubled mind of an OCD sufferer.
Zack does not have OCD. He isn't compulsively washing his hands or constantly locking his front door or anything that could be considered obsessive or compulsive. Zack is just weird and has massive control issues. He refers to these control issues as "OCD" when it's really just him standing at the crossroads of perfectionism and midwittery. Nobody with actual OCD would have been in a shoe store watching a gangbang and kissing a hag who ate a stranger's jizz.
If anything, his staunch resistance to taking anyone's advice (no matter how sound) and his refusal to acknowledge that he may have been wrong about anything at all points to him having oppositional defiant disorder and some overlapping narcissism.
Zack at this point has a reputation in the comics industry, I can't think of a single reason anyone would hire him. If he were an extremely talented writer or artist, it is possible that a very reformed industry (i.e. not the current industry) would hire him despite his shortcomings in order to sell books. But it's a moot point because he doesn't have that level of talent.
He's not Frank Miller or Alan Moore, he's Ya Boi Zack. The trouble is he probably thinks he is Frank Miller or Alan Moore. He should have used his Indiegogos to turn Splatto into an actual comic book company. But he didn't want to run a small, minor, but profitable indie company. He wants to write all those comics he's putting in Comic Book: The Comic Book.
Zack seems to hold two things to be true at this point:
1) He makes "the best comics out there". He actually said this.
2) His association with CG (and by extension the Zeroes) is the entire reason he isn't living his dream of writing about Scarlett and Snake Eyes going on dates.
Of course, Zack will never acknowledge that he is hated by the industry he loves for things he actually said and did.
Of course, I do think Zack is right about the Fandom Grift, they bring nothing to the table, no original thought, a rot geek culture and little more than echo chamber safe spaces for the losers of the culture war.
All that is certainly true to a point, but that's not why Zack is actually mad about it. He's mad because he believes the Zeroes are lying to people and purposely trying to tank his newly beloved Hollywood for nothing more than superchats. He said he "trusted" these guys until he saw some piece of media that he liked and they didn't, so now they're all liars and clowns. It never occurred to Zack that his mileage may vary and to take media criticism with a grain of salt.
And he's disingenuous as fuck about it too, as you can see here:
Space Marine 2 is getting rave reviews across the board. The Zeroes love it. As I'm writing this, Critical Drinker is streaming his playthrough and he seems to be having a great time with it. Zack insists that these guys don't consume the media they criticize but that's not the case. He doesn't acknowledge that they DO, in fact, like things.
Since Zack can't be fucked to actually play Space Marine 2, he can't really do his contrarian thing and make it sound like the game sucks. He just sort of deflects the massive success of something the Birthday Party Clowns enjoy by comparing it to the homosexual dogshit he watches.
It's not just "the things they hate are good and the things they like are terrible" anymore, it's now "the things they enjoy might BE good but they aren't as good as my Netflix faggot show".
