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THE FIRE HAS STARTED - COMICS RETAILER EXPLAINS WHY 2017 WILL BE THE YEAR OF COLLAPSE
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So what, they have been saying this for years.
Call me when something actually happens.
As again, nothing happens.
There's been 2 major crashes before, and this isn't near that yet. Close, but wait until 2020. This is just a shitty article asking for people to come into his store to his livelihood is't closed.
If he was smart enough to predict this "crash", he wouldn't of opened a store right before he predicted it.
>"Over at DC, they hit pay dirt with Rebirth, but they refuse to take their foot off the gas. While they’ve managed to earn back the trust of their pre-existing audience, they are actively alienating the one that has been slowly forming with their accelerated publishing schedule."
People still think feminist scums read comics?
Well, I suppose 0 isn't negative, so you can pretend it's positive.
all according to plan baybee
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I can live with this.
I think that's less to do with feminists and more to do with DC putting out so many books that new readership can't keep up. It's a problem of too much, too fast.
The need for new readership has been a pressing issue since before the sjw shit started. Unlike vidya or any other medium, comics don't have new blood coming in to replace the old blood going out. This problem the major reason why comics are dying in the US.
In fact, DC and Marvel appealing to sjws was an attempt to solve the new readership problem. Of course, it failed spectacularly.
Not sure how relatable this is, but the anime industry suffers from their audience aging too fast:
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The year of miracles can benefit all, but only if you believe in memes. Invest your spiritual power in memes and all is possible.
If Marvel will crash, it will only happen if you meme it. Do not doubt. Do not second guess. Be sure. Be smug. 2017 is the year that Marvel and DC comics will implode upon themselves.
The salt will flow endlessly from the jobless writers and untalented artists who cannot ply their useless trade elsewhere. All that will exist will be the trades and omnibuses of the good old times. The modern era of comics will be looked back upon with scorn and contempt, as the rose colored glasses come off and longtime fans are allowed time to reflect upon the decline of their favorite characters and series.
And this was avoidable. Continue popular cartoons with the comicbooks, make the MCU congurent with its own comics line, have the movies take up right after the conclusion or cliffhanger of a comic strip amd vice versa.
Star Wars did it with G.Tarts Star Wars:Clone Wars. It worked wonderfully.
Normalfags won't read 30 issues just to understand a hour-long movie.
Even if they did, the comic would either be filled with memes and non-stop fights like the movies, or be boring dialogue expositions to justify the past and future movies.
That being said, I always thought they were going to do 1-6 miniseries between the films that only introduce/explore side characters and give them away at the films, but they never did, losing their chance.
Also, DC could bring themselves way out in front if they just gave WB their characters for less in terms of licensing. Another DCAU and they'd be swimming in spare cash again.
Well there is JL Action and the new Netflix backed Young Justice season coming up.
And? Thats worse how exactly? Have a limited issue run that last no more than six months, then let the audience wait.
Anything competent to drive sales.
And stories would still be good.
I feel like CN is gonna try to kill JL Action. There wasn't alot of advertising for it and while it is popular with people I still feel like they're salty about DC Nation. We all know in the entertainment industry people hold grudges for petty shit all the time.
That last bit is a lie and you know it. Marvel has done small issues set before the movie events every so often. They all suck. It's like reading a Saturday morning cartoon.
Yeah I've heard that too. CN is suicidal at this point it seems.
The most profitable anime right now are sequel to popular anime like Dragon ball z and digimon or fan service packed action series like fairy tail or western capeshit inspired shows. I think anime in time will start making ultra violent 90s style throw backs. Girl friendly moeshit becoming less profitable.
Well that means a good portion of /a/ is gonna kill themselves if they lose their moeshit
Hopefully
They only have enough airtime for one DC show, and TTG is taking all of it.
Not sure why they don't just make a DC hour, 2 episodes of each. It'd sell toys well.
Future's looking so god damn bright.
Are they even making toys for TTGO?
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Life is good sometimes
Don't know, but there's definitely merchandise like lunchboxes, shirts, bags etc. Those have always sold more than toys anyways.
Conflicted, are we?
Go jack off to little girls back at the tot/a/litarian
state. Holla Forums has always been the safe haven for the spurned animu's, cast off and disreguarded as "Holla Forums tier" or "Toonamishit" by the moe m/a/triarchy.
Also, part seven is seinen, not that you care because you are b8ing, but take from that what you will
Not even Griffith can save that pile of trash anymore.
Accurate, honestly.
Toonami wasn't always allowed you mouth breather, it was permitted to stay just last year. It was never allowed on 4/co/, and only allowed here because we don't like Adventure Time.
Don't be salty because no one likes your shitty anime.
Totally changes the other 6 parts, right?
Should probably just kill yourself now, fam.
How can I trust you now?
That means…a second Golden Age for Super Robots? Bring on the Mazingers, Getters and Brave series!
Second Golden Age for Super Robots, you say?
Toonami was never allowed on 4/co/
I call fucking bullshit
Back when I was last on 4/co/ back in 2014 there was a thread up that said TOONAMI GENERAL
Now user, what could people possibly be discussing in a thread marked == TOONAMI GENERAL ==?
Certainly not anime, oh no.
Because as you said
So tell me, what possible reason could a thread with 300+ replies with == TOONAMI GENERAL == as its OP be doing on a board that doesn't allow anime?
tl,dr kys newfag, you don't even remember 4/co/
Hail /a/!
Death to Holla Forums!
How can cartoons compete? specially cartoon "girls"
Cherry picking is a fun activity, isn't it?
You can select any random anime girl whatever and a random cartoon girl and cartoons will never win or hell, even come close to low tier anime girls.
That make much more sense! Thanks!
Any random cartoon girl? Okay, here.
Oh, here's another one.
Reminder that animu girls have a habit of not actually looking like Yellow women.
Nigga, how can you miss the point of cherry picking so hard.
I mean those aren't even flattering shots of those two.
Top left of white side is the only attractive one.
All of the other white girls have horrible facial proportions or look ((( White ))) Looking at you,bottom right
Not that I am implying any on the Asian side look attractive.
It would be great if they went bankrupt
Also I wouldn't mind seeing most of the libshit writers killed in the streets
Im cool with either option really
But I doubt it's gonna happen tbh. The crash has been foretold for years but hasn't happened yet
Something I found a while back.
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I just want 70s and 80's style anime to come back.
That's going to be popular only with the group of people who didn't read comics but they tried appealing to in the first place: Leftists and angsty teens.
I don't think that's going to happen, user.
Outside of Indie and fanworks, that is.
How I missed the old 70's and 80's art..especially the works of Tsukasa Hojo.
Become interested in games published prior to the release of the Dreamcast. A number of great Japanese titles have downright beautiful art.
The situation is more complex than that. There are many factors that currently prevent new readership, such as price, format, content, availability, etc. All that piled onto the subtle balance needed to maintain the current fanbase while instituting reforms.
For any real change to occur in comics, something has to give.
At the top of the list, I'd say the thing most likely to "give" will be the writers who have become so enamored with identity politics and feminist ideology. It will be a matter of self-destruction, because the reason they haven't backpedaled or eased off on the kool-aid pushing is because they've invested so much of themselves, their work, and their self-worth in this idiotic ideology.
I foresee many of them either quitting or being fired after they refuse to make any sort of real change that acknowledges the reality that teenaged girls on tumblr and middle aged women don't buy comics the way young men and boys do.
I mean there's trying to get the attention of new audience..and then there's pandering to a crowd that will not buy the product but still complains about not pandering to them.
I never understand this shit.
The writers create the shit in the first place. Editorial does fuck all and just approves it.
Sometimes, editorial would fuck up the writing with insane mandates
JoJo has earned it's rightful place on this board, we are unstoppable, we've killed Adventure Time and Steven Universe and even drove out Loud House fags away, it is the only general that is not just necrobumping with mediocre rule34 pics.
If that's true then why do we still have threads of those series right now?
necrobumping 4 times a week is not "having a thread"
lmao you haven't done shit. AT fags and loud house pedos still post once a millenia like they've been doing before the jojo general, and Steven Universe fags always leave when there's a hiatus. They will start posting 3-5 threads once new episodes return.
That's not how mainstream comics work at all.
The Editorial fucking hires these assholes and tells them what to do. If the writer is pushing IDPOL, then the editor is allowing them to do it.
Friendly reminder that /jojo/ is responsible for me getting mod.
I never would have been able to do it if not for their insatiable autism.
I will not argue that anime look nothing like real life counter parts.
But there are far more 3dpd burgers and britbong out there than what could look like as anime girls. So no one wins that comparison image.
The main difference between SJW shit in comics and the moe wave in anime is that moefags actually consume the product. They buy the manga/LN. They buy the BDs. They buy figurines, dakis and whatever mundane merch comes from the series they like. They are actually founding the industry, which is why nostalgiafags aren't getting that much attention. The OVA bubble had burst a long time ago, instead being replaced by "buy the BDs if you want to see this uncensored" and ultraviolence doesn't really get on TV anymore (unless you have shows like Terra Formars where the screen is 90% dark). However, grittiness is still around, and after having fucked the mecha genre in a way not even TTGL and Shin Mazinger could bring it back, it latched onto magical girls since Madoka and from now on every non-Precure magical girl show would have a DARK TWEEST on it somewhere.
Classic shonen is pretty much dead aside from what the Jump pulls out. DBS is what happens when you refuse to let a show die and has become pure fanfiction. Multiverses, time fuckery, more revived villains and retarded transformations because spics, niggers and yuros keep riding nostalgia from ~20 years ago. Only One Piece is still going somewhere, Naruto became a corpse and refuses to stay dead via milking the ending, and Bleach and other attempts at becoming the next big shonen like Toriko have been mercykilled. The only shonen in recent memory that could have some semblance of success is BNHA, but they might've milked the cow too early.
In regards to Berserk and Jojo, that always get brought up as the "enemies of moe" for some retarded reason protip: you can still watch/read both and moeshit, they aren't mutually exclusive as normalfags make it out to be, Miura doesn't give a fuck anymore, and by the time the ending goes around it'd be a big letdown for either fans who wanted it to go full edge and "muh Griffith dindu nuffin" or wanted Guts to finally get a good ending. Jojo's will still be around for normalfags to ruin it by making the same references over and over. The 2012 anime was a mistake.
find me a cartoon girl that wouldn't look like an eldritch abomination or at the very least a gypsy with fetal alcohol syndrome if she was represented by a real life woman with overall looks and shapes untouched
If the editors did their jobs, these people wouldn't be able to publish the shit they do. However, editors are more likely to change their tune to stay sitting near the top of the shit pyramid, rather than getting dragged down with all the plebs who think their ideology will cushion their fall to the bottom.
Actually SJWs do buy comics, just not these comics. They buy Image trades.
I still think the solution to this would be monthly omnibus editions, like a shonen jump for western comics.
I'd buy it, but I'm a crazy kook who doesn't even buy comics, just reads them online, what do I know?
Is this why cartoons cant be waifus? because they are ugly? tht Image was Impliying that Anime women are white women not that they are ugly.
How superficial /a/.
Just out of curiosity, why don't they just do a lot more self contained stories rather than a mishmash of trying to keep continuity and tie in with other series?
Because they're broke financially (Which is what the entire topic is about).
Because money, dear user. Money.
Why have them buy only one issue when you can make them buy twenty?
Most anime characters would look look like ayy lmao's with hair under those stipulations.
Why don't drug dealers sell candy instead of cocaine?
You have to keep the readership (and the shop owners) addicted.
Is using memetic algorithims in my computer while shitposting increase my spiritual power or will the memetic algorithm drain my spiritual power?
fuck off
Nigger, it's been here ever since they did the relaunch, stop pretending like you're not new.
Capped.
Yes.
You achieve harmony in your being, user.
Same here. The 90s had a good style too. Everything nowadays seems to lack color. There's an over reliance on beige. Nothing seems to pop out at you anymore.
The joke is that loads of attractive animu girls (and boys) look like White girls (and boys) with pointy eyes at best.
Just read all of it.
In summery
Such stunning insight.
But why aren't they selling?
Get outa town!
OK look.
I've been doing independent research on anime at the start of this year.
Writing a little about each one from cursory observations, for fun.
I'd say I've watched most touchstones but I like to see evolution of ideas and such, maybe find some hidden gems.
Perhaps just learning more about the industry that devolved into light novel filth for Japanese middleschoolers.
I've made it up to the mid-1980s so far.
Along the way I found an anime called Stop!! Hibari-kun! made in 1983.
Basic romcom shit.
The catch is that it is about a guy who's mom dies so he goes to live with a mob boss she knew, who has a son who is a trap.
Couldn't find it online because Toei is pretty good about putting the kibosh to things people throw up online.
But I could find the manga!
I'm reading the manga.
I like it.
The very sick thing is that I know I would enjoy this more than anything the big 2 are cranking out.
I can get chuckles out of it.
Today the subject matter in this would be deemed hate speech because crossdressing jokes and child pornography because there are jokes with boobs that incorporate one of Hibari's sisters, there is also instances of underage drinking etc.
If I could get this in a comicbook I would, but I can't.
Comics devolved into whiny shits complaining about whatever dumb bullshit was in the news in an attempt to be contemporary and throw a big faggy preachy libtard PC message at readers.
I don't want to read all their bitching and moaning about Trump.
They started doing that since before he was president.
If they haven't done it already someone in the Marvel offices right now is workshoping a comic that incorporates "Woman Marches".
That is gayer than this manga about a guy literally struggling with his sexuality in the face of a convincing and promiscuous trap.
In what parallel dimension is this supposed to happen? Anime has always had girl friendly moeshit since forever.
that's pretty much all I buy.
Not even for much, I'll nip into a discount book store, buy a Kirby/Lee Captain America book for next to nothing and mournfully enjoy it while thinking about how the industry and quality has been in decline since the 80s
What do they even buy? Saga?
Image has some decent stuff occasionally like Manhattan Projects
Is saga still even good?
No. But it's still got enough to keep hipster SJW attention.
And you can cherry pick as many asian women the same you can white woman. All anime females have similar disigns to disney. But not even 20% of white woman look similar to anime girl. 3dpd is what it is.
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They don't read 'em, they just push their toxic ideology to teenagers through 'em.
Spoiler that shit user, there are kids here.