Or maybe they want their money back, because you’re back, hat in hand, for more cash when you haven’t delivered the first thing they paid for.
2010. It's so far in he future now. People are moving on from paper in general. The audience that remembers the good old days is too old for this shit.
Manga are comics but the tankōbon format you saw in B&N is better. More pages, an evergreen volume you can keep in print for a lifetime. More portable and durable. Not some fragile limited edition collectible bullshit to be sealed in plastic forever. Plus people are used to reading manga digitally so you can also capture the audience that doesn't even care about collecting. But it requires work and our cows want to sell low page count collectibles to out of touch retards.
The psychology of crowdfunding is something like putting yourself in the shoes of the beggar. Like imagine if you or I or many others were crowd funding comics, we would be consistent and have a real company and make lots of them. Then in a moment of weakness and delusions you think I can get behind that and donate. But that's a rational productive version of publishing and not what Ethan or Zack or a lot of others in this space have in mind. It's a last grasp for money after other failures doing the same shit and avoiding doing real work.
Honest question for someone that keeps track of these things (i.e. not me)
There are over ten versions of bloodhoney. 3 main variants, three line art variants, an ultimate/remastered version with variants, and a Trump cover with multiple variants, something called Bloodhoney drained. Plus the box. It's extra funny that no comic book database site or anything has bothered to list very many of these things.
It's both sad and amusing that it took EVS being a contrarian about Joker 2 to get his paypigs to start asking for refunds. They should have stopped giving him money and demanding refunds when he took longer than a Presidential term to get a book out. They should be madder about getting scammed, not pieman having shit taste.
I just got a color eReader (Kobo Clara Colour). I showed it to my family, and said, "Hey, see this, what do you notice." None of them noticed anything, until I pointed out it was in color. The colors are pretty muted on it, but if you have the backlight on they look decent. I was reading old issues of The Vault of Horror on it and it really does make a difference. Kindle has a color eReader now too.
I like to have physical media, I know where I is and it can't be taken away from me or edited for "modern" Audiences.
To be fair, he could be lying, which is Ethan’s favorite thing to do.
Isn't this kinda like a Ponzi Scheme?
"the government does it, so why cant I?"
I blame these peoples' inherent character defects. Like you said, a rational person, a normal person would be grateful beyond belief to have been handed the kind of golden opportunities. An artist who truly cared about making a living making comic books for fans to read would have made the best of their opportunity. But EVS' ego, narcissism, gluttony, laziness, etc got the better of him. Zack's "neurodivergence" and ego got the best of him.
I think EVS thinks he's the cleverest mastermind. I can totally see him trying to keep up his Ponzi schemes indefinitely. (Didn't somebody on this thread uncover how EVS was pulling other scams we didn't know about where he promised work, took money, but never delivered?)
He's Autistic and can't earn minimum wages. People like that should be locked in cages.
I enjoy having a physical book, but I really wish a lot of these guys would get over their fear of piracy and put out some pdf's. You would think these guys were going to become broke overnight from the way they desperately avoid the option. Sure they got a couple of a logs just waiting with baited breath for some books to show up on a piracy site so they can spread it around, but it's way fewer than they think.
True, EVS could be lying and he definitely isn't above making himself look like the victim for sympathy bucks, but the few loyal fans left seem to be completely against the shill campaign him and Meyer are doing for Joker 2. I bet a couple of them are actually pissed off enough to demand refunds. You can't foster the type of fanbase they have and then demand they enjoy the slop they've been rallying against for years. Even from your most loyal fans, you're gonna get some resistance
By next year Reethan should have lost enough paypigs to have to forge a new more retarded alliance. Maybe he'll start streaming with Andrew Tate or something.
maybe my history is wrong but that already happened, and jordan peterson