New backers might be more than ones lost. I only mention because Aaron Alfeche is wonderful. Literally Buscema to Malin's Barry Smith.
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New backers might be more than ones lost. I only mention because Aaron Alfeche is wonderful. Literally Buscema to Malin's Barry Smith.
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Ditto. Or Joseph Wight, who did Twilight X.
Antarctic Press had a few of those creators in their stable. Hell, Vol 1 of Kamen America has a AP edition.
Had I attended WellRead's KA review stream, I would have brought up this:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Shotaro Ishinomori, Shotaro Ishinomori: 0783324863765: Amazon.com: Books
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [Shotaro Ishinomori, Shotaro Ishinomori] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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It's written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori (of Kamen RIDER fame), but it was specifically done as a contract job with Nintendo for serialization in Nintendo Power (an English language magazine). Consequently, it reads left to right, and is in color. Viz collected it into one book. I picked it up a couple of months ago out of nostalgia.
Is it a comic or a manga? It's both and neither. You can successfully cross-breed the two styles, you just have to make sure a fucking idiot isn't in charge (like Liam).
Agreed.
Yeah, that was weird.
It's a... uhhh... comic book. So, that's not a particularly good defense.
It's like saying "well, 499 is certainly a thing."
EDIT: Typo.
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Awe Vikki and Dean closed the stream after a minute.
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Damn, that looks cool. Thanks for posting this; I think I'm gonna order it.
On the topic of Kamen America, I stayed away from it for a while as I was sort of a CG diehard and didn't feel like buying books from anyone I thought to be "anti-CG." Then I realized how gay that was and how little those labels mean. So I jumped in on Kamen America because it appeals to me aesthetically and it did look like a decent blend of Western and Japanese styles/sentiments. And honestly, it's really enjoyable. The books are well written and well drawn. The characters are pretty fun and the tone of the whole book is just charming. And the ON-TME DELIVERY is just the icing on the fucking cake. I backed Kamen America 3 and received it maybe a month later. Love that shit. Anyways, from now on I'm just going to back books that appeal to me and continue to back creators who deliver enjoyable product.
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Given the title of it was "Ya Boi Zack's Art?" all they had to do was say "IT'S SHIT!" and then end the stream.
I would have upvoted that. Technical difficulties be damned.
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LIAM GRAY TREEHOUSE UPDATE - *S*O*S
Our great gift that keeps on giving LIAM GRAY is in need of money to complete his TREEHOUSE! He has gone to IndieGoGo for help
LINK TO INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/conquest-studio#/
*QUESTION TO ANYONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT RUNNING IGG CAMPAIGN*- are you allowed to do a grift like this on IndieGoGo?
Please help our dear lolcow. These videos must keep going
Our great gift that keeps on giving LIAM GRAY is in need of money to complete his TREEHOUSE! He has gone to IndieGoGo for help
LINK TO INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/conquest-studio#/
*QUESTION TO ANYONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT RUNNING IGG CAMPAIGN*- are you allowed to do a grift like this on IndieGoGo?
Please help our dear lolcow. These videos must keep going
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WTF is happening in this thread?
*Antarctic Press cucks on the Lost Souls deal which enrages a large portion of Comicsgate, former CG indie darlings Tim Lim, Rags crew, Punchline crew and several others defend Antarctic at the time which isolates them from the movement.
*An off hand comment from FROG on Trump political comics being Comicsgate sparks division.
*This comment then leads to a livestream discussion between FROG and Doug Ernst.
*Which was followed by a massive livestream with all the old faces which was dubbed "the transcript" stream, in which Tim Lim confronted FROG with a transcript of his words in the above clip.
*After these series of streams the issue was largely resolved and FROG promoted Trump Space Force to over $70K. The next time Lim would land in hot water was walking away from the original Cash Grab collaboration with Nerkish and Cecil. What is often lost to memory is that it was Nerkish who first walked away from Cash Grab and Comicsgate in solidarity with Miss Sashi who was being harassed daily by Warcampaign, Tim merely agreed with him and left the project as well.
*After which was followed by the "Black Glove Incident" which I've already covered previously in the thread and provide links to the original posts as it happened in real time.
Much of this drama is getting close to 3 years old now and is extremely tedious and gay. Both FROG and Tim Lim have moved on and are doing their own thing quite successfully. This cold war that exists between them is boring and played out. Who cares about 3 year old drama now at this point?
I originally talked about it in a Comicsgate News Update last year here.
Relevant articles and archives:
https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/mailershow.html?display=3069b72b-47c1-ea11-80c4-b083fed06a4f
http://archive.md/BhbNd
Bailed out by charities, charged in new crimes - South Southwest
http://archive.md/mncy9
Meyer's choice of words should be amended to "I love this book and I think/hope you will too" instead of declaring "You WILL love this book" each time he launches a new one. He promised people they'd love Pandemic, Ballad of No and Iron Sights and look how those turned out.
He's shedding nearly 40% of his backers from each Jawbreakers campaign, refuses to livestream to promote on either his or others channels, is putting out topical political books like Pandemic and Ballad of No, has neglected to fulfill his two largest campaigns (The Expendables and Jawbreakers: Grand Bizarre), abandoned his lawsuit against Mark Waid and has launched five campaigns since his unfulfilled big ticket campaigns previously mentioned.
My version of these events are as followed.
*Antarctic Press cucks on the Lost Souls deal which enrages a large portion of Comicsgate, former CG indie darlings Tim Lim, Rags crew, Punchline crew and several others defend Antarctic at the time which isolates them from the movement.
*An off hand comment from FROG on Trump political comics being Comicsgate sparks division.
The comment clipped below, decide for yourselves.
*This comment then leads to a livestream discussion between FROG and Doug Ernst.
DOUGLAS ERNST vs EVS working out a GRIEVANCE, LIVE
*Which was followed by a massive livestream with all the old faces which was dubbed "the transcript" stream, in which Tim Lim confronted FROG with a transcript of his words in the above clip.
COMICSGATE-GATE SUPER MASSIVE LIVE STREAM!!!
*After these series of streams the issue was largely resolved and FROG promoted Trump Space Force to over $70K. The next time Lim would land in hot water was walking away from the original Cash Grab collaboration with Nerkish and Cecil. What is often lost to memory is that it was Nerkish who first walked away from Cash Grab and Comicsgate in solidarity with Miss Sashi who was being harassed daily by Warcampaign, Tim merely agreed with him and left the project as well.
*After which was followed by the "Black Glove Incident" which I've already covered previously in the thread and provide links to the original posts as it happened in real time.
Much of this drama is getting close to 3 years old now and is extremely tedious and gay. Both FROG and Tim Lim have moved on and are doing their own thing quite successfully. This cold war that exists between them is boring and played out. Who cares about 3 year old drama now at this point?
No, Vox was booted around July/August of 2018 while Lim didn't officially leave until he left the Cash Grab project publicly with Nerkish during November several months later.
Dynamite Comics whom FROG and Comicsgate were previously involved with was funneling funds to something called "The Bail Project" a social justice group which raised funds to get dangerous PoC criminals out of jail and back onto the streets.
I originally talked about it in a Comicsgate News Update last year here.
Relevant articles and archives:
https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/mailershow.html?display=3069b72b-47c1-ea11-80c4-b083fed06a4f
http://archive.md/BhbNd
Bailed out by charities, charged in new crimes - South Southwest
http://archive.md/mncy9
That is a poor form of marketing and one which a consumer will remember if they have a poor experience with the product after previously being promised that they will "love this book" like it's a definitive fact.
Meyer's choice of words should be amended to "I love this book and I think/hope you will too" instead of declaring "You WILL love this book" each time he launches a new one. He promised people they'd love Pandemic, Ballad of No and Iron Sights and look how those turned out.
I think I can remember Zack shilling the first Kamen America, Zack cites Lim's success in his spreadsheets and I've never heard him criticize him openly.
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Bearing in mind the page rates of most comicbook artists today, the bar is higher than 70% of most comics published today.
I thought Ren wasn't brown enough for Richard - I extuingish PoC by having children with WoC adding some crackers to their chocolate gene pool - Meyer.
As far as I remember, YBZ is cool with Tim Lim and JSG is a megafan.
"YBZ is not comicsgate" is partly because he is not into the gayops and the beefs between creators.
Let me present to you exhibit a:
YBZ has always been into that weird artsy artwork, to the point that even JSG did a great dig at him a couple years ago that made me chuckle. It was there all along just most people skipped those videos.
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Testefy is having WAY too much fun with this.
And I'm okay with that.
Speaking of...
Is it bad form if I buy the AP edition of KA1, for the sake of completionism? I know Dunn cucked to Waid, but I also have to imagine Dunn was dealing with a tremendous amount of faggotry for it to get to that point.
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This video came out in January this year, after Meyer announced his plan to model his channel after the much smaller youtuber and well known comic book farthuffer Cartoonist Kayfabe.
Original Ya Boi Zack was all about "your job is to give the customer what they want" this, "hot dog salesman" that as the prescription that would pull the comic book industry out of its tailspin instead of its catering to a non-existent audience. Current Year Richard C Meyer by contrast is... this.
For all of Frog's talk about the dynamism and expressionism in 499 and Jon Malin's teeth-clenched platitudes while railing against simplified, degenerate art in previous shows, there are people readily available even within Comicsgate who do it far better: Matt Crotts' Kyrie series for example is going for the same vibrant, flat color style that "Narzack" is going for, but unlike Narwhal actually has the talent and work ethic to successfully execute it.
In addition to an entry-level tier of digital option for $7 vs $25, you can buy 240 pages of work ($35) for less than the 88 pages bundle of 499 + this... thing ($40).
If nothing else, this should demonstrate how important it is for independent creators to be able to market themselves and their product to build a customer base. Watching Meyer's journey from
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So what happened to all the money he boasted that he had?
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He doesn't need the xenotype money remember?
He already has lots of money and is good at sex
#ROMANCE
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You're looking at it. It's building the shitty treehouse. Are you not impressed?
Honestly, between splitting the Xenotype money with Ody (who has since told him to fuck off), and the ridiculous and costly printing decisions he made (thanks to him listening to WC imbeciles), it's amazing he made anything.
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This should go without saying, but if Liam had both money and an inkling of common sense, he would hire a contractor to put this thing together. He's no Bob Vila. It's because he lacks either that we're enjoying this bountiful harvest of milk. @TESTEFY-HD is working around the clock to bottle as much of it as he can.
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That Killing Joke one is a great example of the difference between 'garish' and 'shit', which Frog should maybe look into.
I bought that 'deluxe' hardcover in 2008 with the Bolland recolor. Had myself quite an autistic 'ree' moment with it, at one point I was questioning my own memory, like 'Did I just imagine how awesome this comic was?'
Then I realized it had been 'Special Editioned' and boring Brian Bolland had painted over the amazing John Higgins colors! I was like ree.
I think later they published another edition with both colorings in it. I was pissed! But ultimately the whole debacle was an important education for me in the powerful magic of color.
And fortunately, one of the actual good comics I found in my attic the other day was the original 1988 TPB, with the Higgins colors printed on nice quality paper, much better!
And hey, maybe Narzack will release a super-deluxe, double-color-job edition of 499 one day! Then will you philistines stop questioning the genius of Narzack?? LMAO!
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The cucking is lame but having to deal with "It would be a shame if something happened" tier threats over a stupid book from "concerned individuals" who could actually follow through isn't a great situation. Not even Meyer is holding it against him. Might as well get the book, it's been long enough.Speaking of...
Is it bad form if I buy the AP edition of KA1, for the sake of completionism? I know Dunn cucked to Waid, but I also have to imagine Dunn was dealing with a tremendous amount of faggotry for it to get to that point.
Just as long as you never make a deal with someone proven to fold faster than Superman on laundry day.
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That's the Absolute edition. But the classic Higgins version is printed on thin newsprint you can see through. It's a travesty. It includes an afterword in which Higgins describes his coloring choices and accepts the recolor with grace and warmth, which is something Tim Sale (in his introduction) and Brian Bolland couldn't muster for the original version.
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A thing with older comics being reprinted is that the original colour was not for glossy paper. Once you see a 70's or 80's comicbook printed on glossy paper you realize how much it sucks (while cheap, pulpy paper makes it look like it belongs in a museum)
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Is 499 even worth $4.99?
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This will all end in tears, I just know it.
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That depends, would you pay money for a comic made by Deviant Art?
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This is sub deviant Art quality, it takes skill to fall that low.