Marvel Comics threatens comic pros with SHUT DOWN?!

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PLEASE stop stealing our books! Marvel Comics threatens comic pros with SHUT DOWN?!

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our time has come

for 300 years we prepared

we grew stronger

while you rested in your cradle of power

let’s talk about the comic book industry

and what’s happened to it now i’ve done

several of these videos

because i really like to point out how

far

the comic book industry has fallen

i mean you don’t have to look any

further than the graphic

novel sales for adult books

and the top 20 all manga

this happened in may it happened in

april

and i think it’s a safe bet it will

probably happen in june as well

but let’s go to a different topic let’s

talk about piracy

okay comics movies

video games manga anime

it happens to every form of

entertainment

manga had a big problem with this and

still does but people still buy

it it’s still a very a very

highly successful medium despite piracy

uh there’s enough people buying the

books that it kind of works out not just

the books they buy the merchandise

stuff like that it helps take care of

things

merchandise goes a long way from what i

understand

the whole reason that we got godzilla

versus kong great movie

check it out it’s because the toys

for the godzilla movies sold very well

particularly for

king of all monsters which was a box

office flop

but that movie did so the toys

did so good for that movie they decided

to move forward with another one that’s

what i that’s what i’ve been told

take it with a little bit of a grain of

salt but i kind of believe it when you

consider three dollar toys that sell for

15

flew off shelves well we got to keep

that cash cow going

so merchandise goes a long way but

people there’s still enough people

buying these books right here

that the piracy is a non-issue

and a lot of those people that pirate do

end up buying merchandise it all kind of

works out

for manga and however doesn’t work out

very well

for the comic book industry and

now you’ve got creators coming out and

begging people not to pirate them

here’s a comic book writer who blocked

me by the way

so sorry i will never be buying any of

your books again

so i said make books people want he says

16k

likes comic creators deserve to be able

to make a

living and instead we get radioactive

takes like this

if you can’t afford to buy books or go

to comixology please ask your library to

stock them thank you

and he’s responding to a tweet that says

y’all gotta stop shaming people for

watching movies and reading comics on

illegal sites

so it’s i’m not here to to

throw any moral stuff on pirating

if you had enough people interested in

buying your books

you wouldn’t need to worry about the

table scraps

so much but the problem is nobody wants

to buy

these books and it’s apparently leading

to a big issue

uh eric larson has revealed some stuff

that i found very interesting

we’re gonna go over because there’s two

takes here here’s the take on piracy

and he has a take on apparently what he

hears in the comic book industry eric

larson in case you don’t know

cfo at image comics and

used to work still does kind of do

things with marvel once in a while he

had a really

really uh good run on spider-man a long

time ago

but he’s also saying hey

stop pirate stop pirating and it’s like

well

you know i don’t think you can really

stop

that so here’s the conversation he’s

having and let’s go over this and we’ll

talk about

on the piracy debate there is no debate

it’s criminal behavior

people are struggling to make a living

and you are taking what they are

creating without giving them

compensation there is no justification

comic book industry is dead set

on telling this woke these woke ass

stories

and pushing these politics and their

books

and it just turns a lot of people off

the only people that you’re

attracting with this behavior are people

that are going

to pirate it’s the fact

you’re telling these people that really

don’t have much money to buy your books

and they just they’re not going to do

that they’ll read them

and they’ll support them uh with likes

and stuff

but nine times out of ten they’re

probably telling their friends just to

go pirate them

i’m sorry it’s just the fact especially

when you’re just bringing back kamala

khan for the 30th time

all the sights are celebrating kamala

khan returns

in new miss marvel comic book series

just in time for her disney

plus debut well she wouldn’t be

returning if her book had sold well in

the first place

so another reboot for kamala khan this

is like her 50th reboot because

nobody cares about this character and

her ugly powers

and her ugly costume i said it a million

times and i’ll say it again

her costume looks like it came from a

clearance rack at walmart

and her powers suck she makes gigantic

fists

all the time literally the one power

no woman wants what woman wants gigantic

hands it’s literally the stupidest power

and i hear when she goes to marvel the

mcu she’s not going to have this power

she’s going to have some technology that

makes her

that makes her bigger already making the

character better

for the mcu getting rid of this stupid

inhuman origin too that that’s a

that’s a smart move so

this was his first tweet and then this

guy comes in and says where do you draw

the line for bloated cross title blatant

cash grab stories

that marvel consistently pulls with

their main titles though look at

x of swords from last year is it fair to

expect a kid who is reading x-men to buy

22 extra comics 100 plus over three

months

this guy has a fair point here this is

something that marvel does all the time

constantly tying books together making

it so you can’t just read your one

you know i like just reading one book i

don’t like to read crossover titles so

much anymore because most of the time

they’re

especially when it comes to marvel so if

i’m reading amazing spider-man i’d like

to just be able to read amazing

spider-man and not

30 other spider-man books well x-men

have decided to pretty much make all of

their books talk together you really

can’t read

x-men without reading pretty much all of

the books

it’s expensive and then you take in the

fact that

they’re doing this hellfire gal right

now ex of swords was the same way but

this is worse because the premises is

boring

and i’ve made a video making one of the

costumes it’s the hellfire gala

where there’s 12 issues of a dinner

party how amazing

i’m sure that’s really getting the kids

exciting meanwhile my hero academia

dominating the charts here

consistently the first volume is in the

top 20.

and uh the latest issue is still on

there oh here’s

issue two uh these are all new people

getting into the

to the manga for the first time

okay so you know our super powered

culture well we’ll just go read that at

my hero academia

instead of reading that marvel who came

up with the idea first

because you have 12 issue dinner parties

which

you have to read you can’t just read

x-men and that’s the problem

this is what encourages people to pirate

but uh eric larson says there’s nothing

about it which entitles you to own it if

it’s too expensive don’t buy it

how about you make better books that

make me want to buy it

it’s less of a problem of entitlement as

it is a problem of a corporate

assumption that all consumers are able

to withstand that rate of comment

content imagine a landlord giving notice

that the next two months you have to pay

them

seven times as much as usual to keep

your apartment eric larson responds

these companies are floundering and

failing

the threat from upstairs is that they’ll

go to

all reprints and stop rep and stop

producing new material

they are doing everything that they can

to stay alive

if you can’t afford it do without now

this is an

interesting comment here and we’ll come

back to this

of course i do agree with everything

you’re saying stealing from artists

and creators is wrong in all scenarios

it was just a specific instance that

came to mind when a company’s decision

made me scratch my head because it

almost

inherently begets pirating and this

guy’s absolutely 100 right

okay you’re 100 right i’m not condoning

or or dismissing pirating i’m not saying

it’s okay i’m not saying it’s not right

do what you want to i’m not your dad i’m

not telling you

what to do i will say you know

an industry that runs on cash grabbing

comics and rebooting

properties that never work this kamal

khan book

has never been a big hit i hear a lot of

rumors that scholastic

goes crazy for her but i’ve never seen

evidence for that

never seen evidence for that

i’ve never seen evidence that the

graphic novels sell

i don’t believe this character is a

success or hit

they literally just push her because of

identity politics

that’s it that’s the only reason

and then you say oh these new companies

are floundering and feel or these

companies are

floundering and feeling well no

they’re floundering and feeling they

constantly push identity i need any

politics

they they constantly push you know

woke i’d ideologies all over the place

in all of their books and then you tell

me they’re floundering and failing

wow what a shocker that

five dollar books that are full of

identity politics

are failing but what do these companies

do what does the comic book industry do

they double down they triple down the

quadruple down

on all the smoke nonsense and now

they’re failing

and according to eric larson threatening

to go to reprints

now eric larson is a big insight he

knows what’s going on in the comic book

industry so

interesting stuff there but i can’t say

that i would be surprised now i don’t

think comic books are going away anytime

soon

but i think that if the popularity of

comic book movies were to fall down

yeah and i’m gonna ask you don’t really

need they have so much back

material that they don’t even really

need the comics that much anymore

so i don’t know we’ll see interesting

stuff

you cannot deny that

you know people are moving to japanese

stories and i don’t blame them they’re

better

they don’t push any and they’re

fun

you get you reap what you sow man

anyway that’s pretty much it let me know

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after credits comment here i would also

like to point out

eric larson that many comic book

creators in the west have spent the past

couple of years telling me that

if you don’t like my politics don’t buy

my books or to literally

f off and blocking me and all this stuff

i don’t feel too bad for them

anyway peace

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