Message from @da britian
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i check in and this is what i see.
I am shocked..shocked.
Other is also beating the big two combined
Piracy doesn't match the convenience.
It's so satisfying to have a nice 200 page book.
Archie comics is doing OK.
You cannot blitz through images as fast as you can flip pages.
Archie is doing okay because they get to sell in grocery stores still.
This was something other companies lost way back in the day when Frederic Wertham was on the warpath.
That censorious ass.
Man, I read some EC Horror comics from the fifties, they were pretty good were even a bit ahead of their time when they were made, but those got crushed thanks to the comic book scare & it is a real tragedy that has fallen onto the medium thanks to that man.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess this Viz Media thingy aren't social justice advocates?
Wasn't there like an indie visual novel with a guy just hiring known artists out of his own pocket and going #YOLO, and the comic/book got to like #2 top selling?
Viz Media is Manga (Japanese comics)
Yeah but what do they do? License rights, import and translate? Legit never heard of them
VIZ Media LLC is an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC.
In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shueisha, Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro).[3] As of 2017, Viz Media is the largest publisher of graphic novels and comic books in the United States, with a 23% share of the market.[4]
Based in Los Angeles, Viz Productions coordinates the licenses of Japanese material (manga, books and film) to American film companies. Their goal is to involve the Japanese creators in the production and facilitate communication between all parties in the US and Japan. VIZ Productions' first film is the live action adaptation of All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Their second is the American live-action adaptation to the manga, Death Note, starring Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe. Their third will be Detective Pikachu, starring Justice Smith and Ryan Reynolds.
If I had a manga company operating in the West I'd mirror all pages so you read from left to right, *just* to trigger and confuse people
Oh hey, I like Edge of Tomorrow. Emily Blunt is great. While far from a masterpiece and ultimately unremarkable, as a "consume & forget" simple action movie I prefer it over a lot of contemporary action films.
As far as rough western adaptations of Japanese stuff goes, it did pretty well... critically.
Admittedly the poor marketing did not do that movie favors.
It is one thing to make some tweaks to the title, it is another to throw out the title of your movie **2 times.**
It's a shame because america loses in this scenario.
Any comics coming OUT OF america has been invaded by SJWs.
And even before the invasion, it wasn't doing so well.
My old dreams died due to this shit. I know all about it.
It's so depressing how sluggish that industry is.
There is no training, no apprenticeship. No building yourself up from the bottom.
You'll get promoted if you're popular already.
Not popular already? Go away. We can't do anything with you.
GO AWAYYYYY!! >A<
What do we gotta do? HELP?
FUCK YOU!
"Just... Just get popular out there somehow! It's the big wide internet! Surely you can find some way to get attention! Not our problem!!"
"It's easier than ever! And other buzz-sentences!"
I blame Wertham for a chunk of screwing American comics in the long run, he cut down the industry diversity of comic companies & genres to a few. I don't blame all of this on him, the American industry shot itself in the foot again, once in the nineties & now it just kinda hubbles. Though Archie comics is doing OK.
What I just describe just now is not his fault.