Something that's funny to me that I'm sure everyone else has noticed is just how much more trust buyers have in a Rippaverse book than in a Comicsgate book. Just look at
Isom and
Cyberfrog. Both on their 3rd issue of their respective series, but you know only one of them is actually going to release on time while the other one takes the rest of the decade to limp into customer's hands. The difference is night and day.
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This is the part that fucking blows my mind. 35 fucking campaigns. Which ones are memorable? Which ones even got into people's hands? Richard and EVS can say "no one reads the Rippa books" all they want, but the fact that there are 35 campaigns and he's still limping across his goals and has constantly less demand for his books proves it is in fact no one who reads their books...
Ironically back in 2018 Zack would say how impressed he was with Brian Pulido's business model of releasing 2-3 comicbooks per year like clockwork. Even if sometimes he would only make some 40K, Pulido would keep a tight, consistent schedule and Meyer would actually wax poetic about his admiration for BP's work ethic. Of course we now know YaNiggaZack's praxis is too lacking to match what Pulido's doing....
This. That is beautifully put in pinpointing this weird shift in Richard. I honestly think if he had been late with one or two, most people didn't mind. Because he gave updates in autistic detail... Then the workload became too much of a burden. Coming up with half-baked ideas, hiring artists, spending money to mail, having no home to call his base... He just got lazy, and sloppy, and one late project turned into two, into four, into every single project became late.
Want to know which campaign was the last time Richard saw 100k? in 2022, Critical Drinker's book (and even that one didn't make it to 100k before the closing). I looked through every campaign he did since then and now he would be lucky to get Brian's measly 40k (for transparency, his final Jawbreakers did make it to 50k at closing and now sits at 62k
If you look at the project, the overwhelming purchases came from the Drinker combo. 1818 out of the 3025 backers bought the CD combo. Even the Stallone pack got a pittiable 77 backers on its own.
This is what Richard wrote to introduce Drinker to the audience
Will Jordan has built up a massive audience with his witty & insightful videos on THE CRITICAL DRINKER YouTube channel. But he is also an accomplished writer of action-packed novels and screenplays. We are proud to publish Will's first comic book, A NEW KIND OF WAR. This tells the story of Rambo's mentor, Colonel Trautman, when he was a young officer serving during the Korean War. Art by Kenneth Loh.
This is a pretty strong endorsement. Odd, Richard didn't seem to think he was just a hateful Englishman who deserved to have his Country nuked for not liking movies, and talking about the message... So what happened? I don't know for sure, but maybe the fact that Drinker's books got out before everything else, maybe the fact Drinker's name sold most of those comics, maybe some Froggit got in his ear about toeing the line if he wanted to stay in good graces with the CG mafia? Who knows. Because it's clear to me that cutting ties with those people is proving to be less lucrative the more it goes on. He had overlapping fans with EVS and the CG crowd, same with the FNT crowd, and even though all the FNT crowd has done was... not like something Richard likes, whereas CG actively engages in gayops and attempts to shut down fellow indie businessmen, he chose to stick with CG. Hm. Well, you don't gain any extra fans from CG since they are already here - but you DO lose a whole lot of fans from FNT who would have been fine for you to disagree, but stay out of the shit-slinging, and now see the one-sided attacks as unhinged - I'm sure that totally won't fuck up your bottom line when it comes to your next 4 year long project endeavor Richard. Good business move there, retard.
And BOOMER? This little bastard a KID or what?
