For those wondering, this desperate touting of success is just on the finance, because being forced to admit that people are just pay pigging and paying for either more deluxe versions out of spite or autistic speculation hurts the success story.
Sure, I fully expect at least another 1-3k more backers to show up, but that's still less than the first campaign. Less people want Rekt Planet than Blood Honey.
I'll wait for the numbers to come in but I expect a 20-30% drop in Cyberfrog backer numbers. But hey, what issue 2 doesn't have a drop like that?
2017's outbreak of open warfare between comicsgate and the industry has calmed down and as a result I'd expect numbers to fall as interest wains, but there is still a pretty solid core of hyper-loyal comicsgaters to support campaigns.
It's the other trends that that make me wonder about the long-term viability of comicsgate.
The 'We're bringing comics back the 90's!' ethos seems to include repeating all the bullshit that completely tanked the industry during that period.
The focus on glossy style over substance.
Flooding the 'shelves' with multiple campaigns at the same time.
The reliance on high prices and whale collectors rather than a growing fan base.
The multitudes of variant covers, or the comic book 'tism tax' as I refer to them.
Late and gay.
A speculator market convinced that this time the 50 books they bought will be worth something outside of a speculator bubble.
(I'm waiting for the inevitable crossovers and universe launches.)
You can take the artist out of the industry but you can't take the industry out of the artist it seems.
As a result I don't want to hear shit about how much money a campaign has made as a justification for calling it a success. Claiming success that masks falling readership with higher prices and a bewildering array of variant covers is no different to the shell game Marvel and DC are playing.
YaBoi seems to have gone off the deep end with Expendables. His philosophy of lean, mean and easy to understand campaigns has been replaced with Mike S Miller levels of utterly haphazard campaigning.
Then you have this..
Chapter 2 in the Brand saga starts here. | Check out 'BRAND: WAY OF THE GUN' on Indiegogo.
www.indiegogo.com
$12,114 USD 224 backers
41 hours left (previous campaign made 78k)
Antonio is just fucking exceptional for launching a second book while irate backers were waiting for him to deliver on his first campaign. At one point he also intend on releasing the first issue as a free .pdf to anybody that wanted it as a promotional gimmick for the second book. Frog nearly had a stroke when he heard that and very quickly stamped on that notion.
Speaking of .pdf's.
I got my Red Rooster preview from Mitch and I have to say, I really liked what I saw, almost as much as I'm disappointed by how late that book is and the fact that Red Rooster is a textbook case of how not to crowd-fund, which is a shame, because Red Rooster is probably the best book comicsgate as produced so far (IMO) and I personally don't give a shit how late it is. I'm waiting for a comic book I backed on indiegogo, not a heart transplant. His model however suggests I won't be getting any follow up because there's no Walmart where I live. Perhaps he'll release the Allegiance books as graphic novels as some point.
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