#Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

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WhimsicalTrolli said:

But is writing about a left wing streamer turned redhood or your fear of fonzi who's character was established as a high school dropout would distrupt anything?
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He starts the video waxing enthusiastic about a video where a crocodile eats another crocodile's leg. What does this have to do with the subject of the video? Nothing.
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So, then as he rambles on he gets to a video by Perch.
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As the savior of comic books, Ya Boi Zack feels it is up to him to answer this challenge. He rambles on a bit longer. He talks about the comics he is working on fulfilling and does a sales pitch for "Cuffs." He then says he used to believe that crowdfunding was the disruptor, the future, and now he thinks it was an illusion.

He points out that he doesn't have the skills necessary to make crowdfunding a success, an interesting confession. (Though he claims his books are incredible.)

He then waxes nostalgic about kids buying comics from spinner racks with their allowance money after riding their bikes to 7-eleven. He thinks we need to bring that back.

If Zack were to turn his mind to disrupting the comic book industry: No need to change from the floppy format, that's perfect. Heavy advertising on tiktok and facebook (everyone loves facebook). Instagram! Instacart! A comic book shop on Instacart! Better pay for the creators of these comic books nobody wants to buy! Hire the best of the best of the best! Recruit people in their 20s! Recruit people away from tech and into the comic book industry! Don't sell to a shrinking base of depressed middle aged men (why are we always depressed Zack). Zack's Disruption: TikTok and Facebook! Increased pay!

Then he talks about how he forgot how to play Batman Arkham Knight after he stopped playing for a while. Then how he learned to play it again and is excited to play it again after this video. Then he talks about how Mags works for cheap and everyone needs to get paid $100 per page minimum! $150 for colors! $250 for line art! A full time marketing department! Facebook! TikTok! People need to read the books and not just buy them to have them!

As to me, the thing that's disrupted comic reading for me is this:
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This is a color eReader from Kobo. But then I'm a middle-aged man and not the hip 20 year old Zack lusts after.

 
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Mr Processor said:
He then says he used to believe that crowdfunding was the disruptor, the future, and now he thinks it was an illusion.
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Is he really going to ignore the success that Rippa has had in comics using crowdfunding? He just needs to copy the blueprint that Rippa has already setup instead of trying to find a completely new system.
 
ronnal said:
Is he really going to ignore the success that Rippa has had in comics using crowdfunding? He just needs to copy the blueprint that Rippa has already setup instead of trying to find a completely new system.
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Rippa didn't exactly do crowdfunding. What he did was appropriate the crowdfunding audience and show them a pre-order page that looks like the indiegogo kickstarter pages they are used to. Instead of being a third party it was under his own control. It wasn't necessary but this way he can still use the counting stats to brag like people in the crowdfunder space. Richard C Meyer's time to do this would have been 2018. His youtube peaked that is when his fans would support anything. So he did indiegogos for comics and the lawsuit fundraiser. He could have started a more real comic company like Rippa and done a preorder, but this is what he did. Now he has a failing youtube channel. A big part of the success of Rippaverse was launching while Eric's channel was peaking and hot. Also we know YBZ does zero networking, less than zero truly negative networking. He just could not do what Rippaverse did and I find Rippaverse to be a half ass comic company in some ways like lacking official digital copies which is pretty essential in this century. Meanwhile Richard C Meyer with a back catalog of 10+ books does not have digital or even have his own website you can order them physically on.
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As to me, the thing that's disrupted comic reading for me is this:
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This is a color eReader from Kobo
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Every comic imaginable is at your fingertips with these things without clutter. If people want to front about the writing and content and art being most important they need to get over the collector edition speculator mindset and go digital at least as an option.
 
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Refresh my memory, which Vet-owned businessman read and reviewed a horrible She-Hulk comic run not written for guys like him, written by "I am not Starfire" writer?

Oh right, Zack.
 
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