0:00:01 Unknown_00: No one cared who I was till I put on the gloves. Unknown_00: Um, I don't even know why I wear them at this point. I probably had a good reason for it at some point, but no, I no longer do. But I'm going to continue doing it. I like to gaslight my audience yet. Alright, so the title video probably gave it away, but I am reviewing comics again. I don't know why. I'm not a comic book person, but I like to, for my little Gumroad Locals videos, I like to have fun. I like to explore new things, okay? I like to experiment a little bit, because if it was like a big locale thing... I would want everybody to have it, but it's not. I owe my audience something for subscribing, right? Something special. 0:00:35 Unknown_00: So I figured I'd do weird stuff, avant-garde, gloves behavior, and try to make something entertaining from it. Unknown_01: I've been told anyways that influencers are personalities, not necessarily their content. Unknown_00: I don't know if that's true, but I got comic books. As I explained in my stream, I received five. 0:01:12 Unknown_01: Actually, I have, let me just show you all this. Unknown_01: These are still unopened. Unknown_00: I have the entire Butch Killigan extended fucking universe here. This is an alternative color. I'm going to leave that in the wrapping. I have a spare that someone sent me. Unknown_00: Don't know if that was Sven or somebody else. Then I have another thing. I guess I'll just keep those wrapped up so I have like a proper full set of this, huh? Unknown_01: Like a deck of playing cards. Unknown_01: I briefly showed these on stream, but I'll go ahead and cover them now. 0:01:48 Unknown_00: These are like cards, I think? Yeah, they're like cards. They have like stats and stuff. Unknown_00: And then there's like different ones. I probably have the entire set. Then I have a little thank you from Sven for buying his books. And I'll get into my feelings about the state of the industry as I, an outsider, have interpreted it, okay? Unknown_01: And just one other thing. I got these very nice posters that you can see here. And I mentioned that this one was very anime-ish, but I will tolerate it. 0:02:26 Unknown_00: I'll tolerate its existence, okay, for the pursuit of the arts. Unknown_00: As I have said on stream, I believe art is very important. I believe that art is downstream of culture. And once you have no art, you have no culture. So that's why the Liberals won and took over the whole world, is that they started making movies and music and shit, and now they just run shit. That's how it works. I genuinely believe so. Unknown_00: In my pursuit, I put little coins around where the camera records so I don't accidentally capture stuff. Ooh, out of frame, out of sight, out of mind. Film magic. I have talked... Sorry, I am recording with my microphone, with my camera in front of me, so it's kind of awkward. But I've talked at length about this. I did a quick review of it for locals. By the way, my system for these reviews is so far going to be... Sticky notes. I put sticky notes throughout the comics. And you'll get to see my handwriting. The main thing that I had to say about Butch Killigan 1 is that Sven is a very good artist. 0:03:42 Unknown_00: This page in particular just stands out in memory. Like when I started this up, like, oh, I have to show people... this crazy thing because it's also a reference to a famous Dutch painting I want to say that when he studied I don't know if he studied art like formally in like a university or if he just saw this in person but this literally hangs in like a Dutch Museum of Art what this is this is referencing here and then there's another thing where it's like this is also just unnecessarily fucking good and would take an unnecessary amount of fucking work to accomplish and 0:04:17 Unknown_00: And then this page, which teases the next book, is precisely as advertised, believe it or not. This is not an extension of the truth. He already knew. He already had a vision in mind for the next book. And this advertisement was not a fake. So I'm going to set that aside because I've already talked about this. I'm going to talk about Butch Killigan 2, as you can see from my sticky notes. Unknown_01: I have a surprising amount to say. Unknown_01: I'm also having to watch my camera here. Unknown_00: My camera is not made for video recording, so it will turn off if it gets too hot. 0:04:59 Unknown_00: But I have it reduced all the way down to... Oh, I have accidentally increased it a little bit. Unknown_00: I want to drop it down to 24 frames, I think. No, it's back to manual focus. It was fine how it was before. God damn it. Unknown_00: I hate the internet. Unknown_01: I have no one but myself to blame, chat. Anyways, I'm going to do a two-for-one with this review, by the way. Unknown_00: I decided I would not do a full Gumroad for this. Unknown_00: I will have things to say about this, but I'll get to that in a second. For now, we're just going to focus. Spoiler alert, my sticky note. I already gave it away. my first criticism, but let's just talk about something that I liked. I actually liked this. 0:05:37 Unknown_00: The thing is, I don't know what you're supposed to get out of a comic book. Like, if I sit down and I'm looking at a comic book, it's basically a foreign media to me. It's like, am I supposed to get a good story out of it? Am I supposed to appreciate the art? I imagine that it's supposed to be some combination of the two, right? Like in a movie, what do you want to get out of a movie? Well, ideally, it has a really compelling story with characters that you remember in a foreign universe that's interesting to you, that has some sort of stickiness to it that you keep after you stop watching it. Like Fight Club, my favorite movie of all time. I quote Fight Club all the fucking time for no reason. There's just so much about it that's permanently jammed into my fucking brain. So with a comic, it's like, well, what do I hope to get out of this? And with Sven, it's a lot of interesting visuals. I want to desperately, I want to call this like a flow of consciousness. I want to say it really feels like Zen had a idea of what he wanted to portray. And he has many different weird sets with many different weird visuals to accompany them. And it's not extraordinarily cohesive. As it moves from from thing to thing. But I feel like that's kind of I feel like I'm insulting it when I say that. I feel like you would agree that's probably insulting and makes them sound like a poor writer. 0:07:20 Unknown_00: However, the tranny comic that I'll be reviewing next has given me some new perspective on what exactly. a flowing plot looks like in a comic. So it would be unfair to Sven to say that this is something that doesn't flow. It definitely does. And it hits a lot of interesting points, but it just doesn't... I don't know where it's going, and I don't know where it's going in a bad way. Whereas if I was watching a movie and there was all this stuff happening, it was all very interesting, you're along for the ride, you enjoy it, but then you're like, hmm, I wonder if this is going anywhere. I wonder if there is a... Ah, that's a good way of putting it. I wonder if there is an intentional sequence that we're heading towards, or if this is just sort of like, I want to make fun of these things. And that's basically what this is, is a criticism of modern culture, which sounds... Calling something a cultural criticism sounds like an insult in and of itself these days. One thing I would like to point out, this is very important, there are no advertisements in this anywhere, which I have grown to appreciate. So, right off the bat, Butch wakes up in a hospital having been comatose. There's something that doesn't make sense. Obviously, he would have lost all his muscle being comatose for 10 years, but it sets up the sort of Walking Dead season one intro where Butch is now in a world that he doesn't understand. as opposed to the first comic and this is kind of like where it's like i don't really know if he knows where he's going with this but he's supposed to be like a cop in the first one and then he becomes comatose and now he's in a in a world he doesn't understand and uh they actually do a really good job of um well i say they he is the writer he is the artist and he is the letterer and i make several comments about lettering here in a second uh throughout this um 0:09:20 Unknown_00: One thing I didn't leave a note for is that he actually does the anime cutesy style very well, despite being a Western artist. This whole sequence makes fun of the AI workflow and how anything that you try to do involving a corporation these days involves talking to a fucking robot in hell. that is literally sodomizing, because there's a Buscemi-faced dildo that is supposed to be a vital measurer, supposed to monitor his heart rate and stuff through his anus, and he decides to put a Steve Buscemi face on it to make it extra creepy, which I appreciate. 0:09:59 Unknown_00: And there's a reference to that song from, what's his face, the really famous guy that sings I was in Squid Games. Unknown_00: Frank Sinatra. Okay, there's lots of stuff. I don't want to just go through the entire comic. I feel like I'd be doing a disservice to him. Unknown_00: So I'm going to try and skip through to my notes. I tried to do myself a benefit as much as possible by leaving my notes. Unknown_00: Lettering. Okay, so we have the robot here, and the robot has a different kind of lettering than the rest of the thing. Now, believe it or not, he did this lettering all by himself. He did not need to hire somebody to do the lettering for him. It's really nice. 0:10:39 Unknown_00: So there's like a janny bot that he hijacks through these sequences. Okay. Unknown_01: And I would like to draw a comparison here in a second with the Janney bot. Unknown_00: Uh, lots of stuff in the background, like attention to detail, uh, prescribing life one beat at a time. Everybody's ticker in their body as a subscription service, which I find amusing because it feels that way. Doesn't it? Unknown_00: Um, his idea, his, his art of like what, 0:11:17 Unknown_00: Like a Zogbot, I guess, would be the closest word for it. These are all these people in line, and they're complaining about bullshit ailments. And they're also all... They have artificial wombs. He very specifically calls out that these are not just Zogbots in the healthcare system. They are very specifically artificial wombs on a man. Unknown_00: So it's sort of nonstop like that, where he just goes through and makes fun of all these different... Unknown_00: nightmares. Uh, there's a fight sequence where the Troons recognize that he's not wearing an augmented reality, uh, seeing device and they get mad at him because it's ruining their, uh, perception of reality because he's not participating in it. So those people on the other page, this is their avatars, like in the augmented reality. And, um, it was immediately, obviously just kind of flipping through this, what was happening because, uh, Sven does a good job of using the artistic medium to immediately just like I appreciate how he even like dumbs down like his art style, like this, like how this looks amateurish. And this is exactly what you'd see in like Second Life. or not Second Life, what do they call it now, VRChat? You got VRChat, you have like the fucking, she looks like Bulma from Dragon Ball, and she's like, this is exactly how people get low-quality OC as their virtual reality avatar in VRChat. 0:12:42 Unknown_00: So there's so much that he does with the medium that elevates it. Unknown_01: I'm not trying to just like sell. I am kind of bitter about something I'll get to. Unknown_00: I'm not trying to just actually sell you on this, but. Unknown_00: I did actually really enjoy this more than I thought I would. The fight sequence that was building up to just immediately terminates because they run out of credits for like elevated heart rate. Like their heart rate is limited, throttled in their body unless they pay for it. Of course, Butch as a meat man is not limited by such things. 0:13:19 Unknown_00: Um, there's a very funny sequence here where the robot becomes likable and, um, Unknown_00: I leave a note here to talk about Vito's robot. If you remember from my review of Vito's comic, which I don't have a physical copy of, um, cause I would not allow such a thing to exist in my house. Um, Vito's, uh, robot sidekick in that is extremely annoying and not funny and very Josh, Joss Whedon esque. And, um, 0:13:57 Unknown_00: This is what I'm looking for. And he just insists that this is like a sidekick that I have to give a fuck about. And it sucks. But in this, the robot sort of accompanies him through his trip to escape the hospital. And you end up liking him just because he's sort of like a not insane character. Everybody else has lost their fucking mind. So he's so normal that you're like, oh, I like this. And there's even a thing where it's like the robot expects to be destroyed by this madman who's tearing his way through the hospital. And instead, Butch spares his life, and then he immediately repays him by leaving. He just abandons him. And what's funny is that he actually exits the story... So it's this weird thing where the robot exists. He's one of the only relatable, likable personalities in the whole story moving forward. He sets up that he's going to be like a sidekick and then just immediately gets rid of him anyways. And it almost feels like a jab at Vito, but obviously Vito's not important enough that anybody would make a jab like this. And I think his comment came out as, Of course, I think both Butch Killigan comics were pitched, advertised, sold, distributed in final form before Vito got his one. And they're both as long or longer than Vito's comics. This is exactly as advertised. This is like the frame from the first book at the advertisement ending. And as you can see, it's exactly as advertised. You expect that once he's out of the madhouse hospital, the corporal hell hospital, that the streets are going to be better or safer. But no, of course not. 0:15:15 Unknown_00: Reality itself is a fucking nightmare. I'll even say lettering right here. You can see that there is Zalgo text in this comic. 0:15:52 Unknown_00: Oh, there's another Steve Buscemi. He really likes Steve Buscemi. Sven excels at horrific imagery. He's like... He's like an H.R. Giger or something. He has these memes that he likes to pull out that just make things creepy. Here we have a Troon committing 41% for asking for sweet release as he splatters on the ground. And then there is a Zalgotex. I'm just pointing out here that Sven, all by himself, without a professional letterer, was actually able to do some pretty exciting lettering here as a font appreciator myself. At this point, he finds his wife that he's looking for, and his wife is like a chain-smoking hoe, which is actually my one thing I really don't like about this, and I'll get back to it in a second. I just kind of skipped through that because I felt like it would be a disservice to anybody who actually wants to read this to go through what is the main thesis of it. There's a brief aside where he... Butch has caught a sort of parasite that is... 0:16:25 Unknown_00: Sorry, there's a deer outside my window staring at me. What the fuck you want, buddy? there's a sort of a thesis going on where Butch has like a parasitic computer that wants to commit suicide. And the computer is trying to make Butch commit suicide with it. And obviously he's able to avoid being killed. But it leads into an interesting sequence about hope versus despair, which obviously I as a positive poly and positive poly advocate really appreciate. I did like that sequence because this comic is so fucking dark in terms of its actual themes. A little bit of levity like that and saneness helps a lot. If everything is just crazy and everything is just miserable all the time, the story in general of any kind of story, regardless of if it's a book or a visual novel or a movie, it stops mattering because you just kind of... You end up developing an immunity to its things. Anyways, I like this part. 0:17:54 Unknown_00: There's a bunch of African-American youth in the city, and they explain that there's a Mao Zedong mosquito that will suck on your neck unless you have a vaccine. And there's lots of little commentaries like that. It's not necessarily too important to the plot, but... It's just his vision of a nightmare world, and he does a very good job of painting it. Unknown_00: Let's see, so then at some point he decides to break it. Oh, he gets really upset at the vending machine that's selling illegal hard drugs. And then he breaks it, and of course that summons the cop, who immediately shows up and addresses him by citizen, so that's gender neutral, even though citizen's a gender neutral word. And here we have our law enforcement, so let me prop this up a bit. You can see here that law enforcement gets its bag of shit from Sven as well, which I appreciate, because... 0:18:29 Unknown_01: You know how they is in the UK. So there's a sequence here. 0:19:04 Unknown_00: And most of this is just making fun of the ineptitude of the law enforcement, which is a theme that I approve of. And it resolves itself with Butch returning to his policeman roots and violently assaulting the gender nonconforming criminals, proving that violence is actually a solution to many problems in life. And that is sort of how it closes out. So, as I said, I don't know where it's going with this. And that's sort of my big criticism, is that while there's lots of stuff in it that I like, I feel like it needs to be a little bit more grounded in terms of understanding the motives of the main character. Because if you have a story about hope in the middle, and his... realization is that he wants to live for revenge, which I don't actually think is a very good motivation to live. If you have a story like this, you need like a very grounded motivation. And there's a part in the middle that I kind of skipped over where he, I'm not sure if this is a joke or like a masquerade or what, but he meets his wife that he's chasing after and that he establishes in book one that he's really in love with. And she's like a loser and he immediately loses interest in her and walks away. And I maybe I missed something. But if that is actually her and he's just like done with her, that's really sad. And because she was supposed to be pregnant and I guess it was like based on the advertising. You would expect that that would be like a huge part of the story, but it's just like it moves on. So it needs a little bit more grounding, I think, to be a comprehensive story. There's lots of stuff that is funny that made me laugh or sensibly chuckle, but that was not one. And I felt like, oh, well, once he meets her, it's like, well, then what's the fucking point? You know, what does he hope to accomplish? What does he want to do? In the first, it was like he's chasing after his wife or trying to protect her or whatever from, like, the nightmares. And then the second's like, oh, he meets her, and then he's like, okay, I want revenge. So he goes and beats up a gendered, nonconforming person in a ballerina outfit. So I'm not entirely sure where he's going with it. There's lots of creativity on display. I just wish it was a little bit more focused. 0:21:00 Unknown_00: But I liked it a lot. And I liked it much, much better than Vito's comic. So it's not just that he's a indie artist. 0:21:35 Unknown_01: This is a very, let me just show you. Unknown_01: Here's the both books. This is a very thick comic, in part because this is printed on the collectible softback. Unknown_00: But you can see here, not something to scoff at. Quite a lot of book that you get. These were each like 25 euros, I want to say. Now let me show you something for comparison. Unknown_01: This is the DC comic by The Tranny that I bought. 0:22:08 Unknown_00: Let's go ahead and do the sandwich view here. You see that? You see what you're getting? Guess what costs the most? The Tranny book by DC. I guess what I'm paying for is this piece of shit right fucking here, as if this means anything to me. And not only did this cost more... The DC book costs more than Butch Killigan. This special edition that I had to buy because I had already burned all the other copies, this special edition costs more than both of them combined with some change left over and is by far the worst product. Unknown_01: Let's get into that. 0:22:45 Unknown_01: Let me take this. Let's start with the first thing we've already seen. Unknown_00: too fucking dark let me just turn the lights out real quick because I don't so there's something about how I have my lights position here that's doing it a service like without the proper lighting directly overhead you cannot make out what is going on in this fucking cover it is like pure black the way that I have it set up is actually doing it a huge service let me see if I can turn it 0:23:18 Unknown_00: Oh, yeah. If you don't get the light directly on it, like, this is what you see. It's, like, pure fucking black. Same with this. It's like, unless you have the light right on it, this is what it looks like when I pulled it out of the box. I'm just like, what the fuck? Note here, Tranny, Felker Martin... Unknown_00: spokes no it was gretchen was was his name so this is the cover um already i don't like it um this is the alternative cover i should say is done by a japanese guy i think or a korean guy um that's the variant cover and that's important because the main characters are very black very american and this guy decided to make the female look like an anime girl with like a A little bit of color, a little bit of like that chocolate color to her, but in the actual story, she's properly black. 0:24:05 Unknown_00: First thing I noticed, let's open this up. So the variant cover, and this was a surprise to me because it's not the way that it is on the softbacks that I bought before with Sven, is that it seems like the variant covers are just stapled onto the actual book. Like this is the regular cover, I believe. I'm pretty sure. And then it's like the variant cover is just like a stapled on top. By the way, this was advertised as hollow foil. I was expecting something really bright and colorful with like things that you only see at certain angles, like a hollow foil Charizard card or something. And instead, it's just like, you know, this dark, somewhat glossy piece of paper that's stapled onto the actual book. Like, it's cheaper for them, I guess, to print like a thousand comics and then staple the ten variant covers onto individual ones as opposed to binding them differently. So that's a huge pain in the ass. 0:24:50 Unknown_00: DC obviously committed to equality. We have here, DC gets pumpkin spicy this fall with steamy variant covers. So it's kind of like goon bait, but check out what the goon bait is for. Like, you have, like, a girl in, like, comfy clothes. Don't get me wrong, women look really good in comfy clothes, but, like, that's not properly cheesecake. That's cheesecake. But then there's, like, half of these are dedicated to, like, male sexual exploitation, which is, like, I guess that's who's buying DC these days, right? 0:25:29 Unknown_01: So that's very funny to see. Unknown_01: Okay, now this, like I opened the book, I didn't read it, but I was just kind of like checking it out when I first got it. Unknown_00: The fucking progressive ad inside the book, the very first page of the actual book is the fucking progressive ad with fucking Flo. Flo's a DC hero, apparently. And then not only is this a progressive ad, it's an ad for Superman the movie. So it's like not only do you get the ad for progressive, it's an ad inside an ad inside something I paid 70 fucking dollars for. It's completely unacceptable. And I complained a lot about... This was Black Comic Book Man, and I had the exact same fucking issue with Black Comic Book Man. He put an advertisement for his wife's Etsy business or whatever the fuck in the middle of the comic. Completely unacceptable. I paid $45 fucking dollars for Black Comic Book Man's comic, and then I paid $70 for this piece of shit, and the first thing I see is a fucking ad and a fucking ad. And I just... It really frustrates me. And when people are willing to tolerate a decline in quality like that, it's the reason why you get what you fucking deserve. You get shit like this. 0:26:45 Unknown_00: So I just flipped through it. It's very short. Unknown_00: Oh, the credits here. Let's read the credits out. I'll just take this so I can see it real quick. Gretchen Felker Martin as writer. Can I get this interview? No, it's going to be blurry. I'm sorry. Unknown_00: Jeff Spokes, artist and cover artist of the original cover. 0:27:19 Unknown_00: Becca Carey as letterer. You saw the lettering that Sven Soffels was able to do by himself. I guess this lettering requires a special artist to do. Unknown_00: They don't do anything interesting with the lettering. Unknown_00: Arian Turturro, editor. Rob Levine as group editor. Brian Holland as the cover. Oh no, that's one of the other ones. I got the variant by the Kyu Yong Iom, which is the foil cover variant. He did a good job on his cover, I guess, but It wasn't even the best one. There was another one that I wanted, but it was like sold out everywhere. So all these fucking people involved to make what is effectively like a 10 page comic. So the first pages are cops blowing their brains out. There is one thing I'll give it credit for. That's kind of cool. Okay, so if you look really closely, the cop that kills himself in the cell phone footage has double eyes. It's not even like double pupils. It's double retina. 0:28:26 Unknown_00: Supposedly, the plot of this is something about the tower taking control of people. So my note says something about the happening for cops. Because it specifically says that only cops are affected by this, which, I mean, I don't know why Tranny cares about cops, I guess because he's black. One thing I will give it credit for, because the Sven book was black and white, and while it was really excellent line art, I love the colors in this. The art is fantastic, but that's because it's coming from a professional comic book artist. Unknown_00: Tranny had nothing to do with this, and the art is really quite excellent. The coloring is very nice as well. 0:29:02 Unknown_01: Okay, so I make a note. Unknown_00: I don't understand this DC bullshit. And this was my really big takeaway is that the Sven Stoffel's comic is like deliberately. It's advertised as a mind bending comic experience, right? Like it's supposed to like fuck with you and be crazy and. I understood what was happening in that a fuck of a lot better than I did in this comic, because it's like, what does Batman have to do with this? Why isn't this guy that's on the fucking cover, why isn't he doing something? His name is Red Hood, right? The book's named after him. What the fuck is he doing? 0:29:38 Unknown_00: Also, as I say here, I paid $70 for this. Why are they on a couch? You're a comic book writer. You can put your characters literally anywhere doing anything. And where does he have his characters? He has them sitting on a fucking bed in a shitty studio apartment talking about their feelings. And it's like, that's not what I fucking paid for. There's never a scene where Butch Killigan's sitting on a fucking couch talking about his feelings. Actually, there is. But it's to establish that he loves his wife. And therefore, that doesn't count. We got a nice little male sexual exploitation here where you can see his booty. Why that needs to be in the book, I don't know. Make it fair, I guess, get that cheesecake in there. I do like New Orleans as a setting. New Orleans is a very cool town. It's very unique and American, just in terms of its vibe, the French influence, a lot of that. 0:30:10 Unknown_00: Just how everything looks, how it feels there. And they make it very clear that this is New Orleans because they talk about the levees. They have, I knew just looking at this building, like, oh, that's fucking New Orleans. But now they talk about the levees. The guy has like a French last name that I won't try to pronounce and spare you the pain of that. But very obviously, New Orleans, I support that. New Orleans is not really well utilized, despite how cool it is as a town. Some shit about Batman. I don't know what the fuck's going on here. There's a cool action sequence, I guess. I like how this is laid out. The artist did a good job. They're in a cathedral for this, which is a cool place for a fight setting. 0:30:44 Unknown_00: But like I said, I have no idea what's going on. I like how the guy has French tuffle thingies for his chest. That's kind of cool. Lots of interesting designs and art here, but that's not... 0:31:19 Unknown_00: Like, there needs to be something fucking happening, but I understand. Just fighting, the tough little man gets shot. Unknown_00: I say cringe here because let's read this aloud. Okay, let me pull this up so I can read it. Unknown_00: So black woman walks inside her house. Unknown_00: Mommy. And then he even writes, we made French toast and watch minions. You can't see that, but I promise you he spelled it French toast and watch minions. That's a trunes idea of what children talk like. Again, he knows because he talks like that to his discord kitten, I'm sure. And now we're back on a fucking couch in our kitchen talking about our feelings again. Half the fucking comic is just sitting around on a fucking couch. And then it's over. That's it. That's the entire book. It's like literally 10 pages long. And then we have a preview for... Superman! And what's really crazy about this, and I hope I can do this justice, is the art for the Superman comic sucks! Like, this shitty little comic that was made by a tranny that they're just doing for DEI points has a way better artist assigned to it. There's stuff in this where it's, like, the faces aren't filled out, they have, like, eyes that are missing, um, colors or any kind of detail at all. 0:32:36 Unknown_00: Um, and it's just, like, it's just super fucking lazy, and it's, like, I would never be enticed to buy this comic because, like, this dude's, like, painting with fucking watercolors, like he's Bob Ross or something, making a fucking superhero comic. What the fuck, man? As if I could ever, like... You know, Superman's like the lamest hero, because he has no weakness. 0:33:19 Unknown_00: His weakness is that he's persecuted for xenophobia. That's his weakness. That and rocks. Unknown_00: I mean, don't get me wrong, I like silver, but I wouldn't call it a weakness. So then there's Batman v. Deadpool, Court, Children of the Round Table, Peacemakers on HBO Max, Black Canary of the... This thing is literally... fucking half advertisements what the fuck so i'm i i hate this i honestly hate this this sucks and i um doesn't make any fucking sense it was 70 fucking dollars the hollow foil that i paid for was too fucking dark to be seen in normal lighting um there was no story that I could understand. Like, I literally read through it, and I'm like, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Why is there Batman in this? Like, okay, New Orleans, cool costumes, but what the fuck is happening? The book, like, I read through that one before I even read through the first Butch Gilligan again for a second read, and it was just like, I understand what's going on. I understand the commentary happening here. Like, I want to see what happens. It's long. It's much longer, but I read through the entire thing without any issue. It's like, what the fuck? 0:34:04 Unknown_00: So I asked, um, I failed to ask this on my last stream, but I mentioned like, Oh, anime people sit tight. I have a question. And then I never asked my question. Here was my question. Um, 0:34:43 Unknown_00: Do mangas have advertisements like this? Do mangas have advertisements like in this piece of shit? And the anime is informing me on the Kiwi Farms, right, where I asked this question, or I remember to ask the question for this video, and they told me, kind of. It's a mixed bag. What happens is that there are things called Shonen or Shonen Daily, which is a monthly magazine, And mangas are published in episodes, which I mean, this is a fucking episode. You can't tell me that this is a full story. I don't know. There's no start. There's no finish and nothing happens. So it's like, what the fuck? Um, literally, that's the best way to sum this up. Nothing starts, nothing happens, and then what the fuck? And then also there's some interesting character designs and art happening in the middle. That's the best way to describe it. So this is an episode for sure. It would make sense if I had bought the DC... September episode, right? And it had one of these in it, and I specifically pulled that out because I was interested in looking at the Tranny's work because I just got shit-canned. I would have nobody but myself to blame if I spent $70 on a zine or whatever and didn't like one of the episodes and didn't understand what was happening in it because I hadn't read the previous episodes. I was sold this as a complete book for $70. Like, I have... Here, hold up. 0:35:52 Unknown_01: Check this out, Chad. Unknown_01: I bought this book on permaculture by Bill Mollison. Unknown_00: This is a real book. This is like a spy. It's a fucking hardback book with a bunch of pages in it so I can do my gardening, right? Didn't cost $70. I bought a whole bunch of books that didn't cost $70. 0:36:30 Unknown_00: I feel insulted by this. It's not even the tyranny's fault. It's like, what the fuck is your business model? The design thing that Shonen Daily does seems a lot more sense. And then they told me that after the episodes are compiled into a full narrative, they will publish... Unknown_00: a book like this that has some length to it and has a start, middle and end. And then if you buy that, if you buy this kind of book, which is a compilation of episodes from the Shonen, then you'll get a real book with no advertisements in it at all, usually. So the design that you have a monthly subscription for will have advertisements, which makes sense if it's a magazine with different, especially with like different episodes inside compiled together. But then when you buy the soft cover book, that's like the full the full story, you get no ads. That's that's much more acceptable than the way that I am fucking raped by flow from progressive. As soon as I opened my goddamn $70 collectible edition, you know what I mean? 0:37:07 Unknown_00: So that's my take. This is the first DC anything I've ever bought and read. And I got to say, this is absolutely fucking disgusting. And people who are supporting this and myself included should be ashamed of themselves because it's like you're paying to encourage DC to just rape you. This is absolute fucking garbage. Um, and what really sucks is that I checked, um, Sven's kick kickstarters for his books. He got like 20,000, less than $20,000, I think for both of them. Um, like 20, like 18,000 euros and then 15,000 euros for, for each of the campaigns. And he put out like a full product that he should be really proud of. And that I think is really cool. But this is what costs more than both the books combined. And I bet you this fucking tranny got paid a lot more than Svend did for Butch Gilligan. So it's really dire. It's really sad. I'm disappointed. I had no expectations. And I'm still disappointed by this piece of shit. Because it's not even funny bad. The way that the guy on the phone... 0:38:22 Unknown_00: explain this to me is that he said, um, they didn't order that many of them to begin with. 0:38:56 Unknown_00: And then he said that the ones that he had read before were just like generic Cape shit slop. He said that they were utterly unremarkable. So, um, my expectations were zero and I'm still just like, I'm flabbergasted by how disrespectful the purchase was, how disrespectful DC was to me as a customer. And if, if I was a normal person and I was, and if I had just picked this up, cause I, uh, i like all this and let's pretend that it was like bright and colorful i'm like oh that's really cool i want to i want to own that because it's like such a cool poster or whatever and i bought it and i read through it i would i would never buy a dc comic again i would never buy a comic again until like with movies i'm told 10 years down the road oh yeah you didn't watch that that came out in 2012 it's actually really good then i'd go watch it um that would be my my take with comic books though If you like comics and you like supporting indie creators who give a shit, go buy Butch Killigan. Don't buy Vito's shit. Vito's book sucked ass. This is proof, by the way, because Vito got $120,000 for his shit, shit comic book as if the color is going to save that piece of shit. Meanwhile, Sven puts out four times as much comic. It's all done by him. Every part of it. He didn't offload it to random Mexicans. And he gets like, what? A third of that. And he didn't get involved in any drama. He didn't beat up one black comic book man to advertise his shit. Maybe he should. Maybe he should pick a fight with black comic book man. Apparently, that's how you get the money. Because otherwise, nobody seems to give a fuck about the actual output. They give a fuck about the internet drama and what team they're fighting for. So... I don't know. I don't mean to be all fucking cringe and gay about this, but I know, I know Sven and he was really, I don't want to use the word desperate. He, but he really was like, he really wanted me to help him move, move units and sell his comics. Sorry, bump my camera there. Now you can see my coins and my floor, hopefully not my feet. And I didn't. I didn't help them that much because I was like, I'm not much of a salesman. I don't want to do that. I don't know if it would be good. And now I look at it a year later, way too late for it to matter. And I'm like, this is actually pretty good. And they tried and nobody else seems to give a fuck anymore. So. That's my review of the entire comic books industry and the entire manga industry, actually, for that matter. As it stands, as someone who knows nothing about any of those things and who has read one, two, three, four, five, six comics, including Vito's at this point in time. Thank you for watching. If you're a Gumroad or local subscriber, thank you very much. If you're watching this and you're not a subscriber, mattatheinternet.locals.com. If you have a Rumble account, mattatheinternet.gumroad.com. For everybody else, the Gumroad experience is apparently a lot easier and a lot better. So mattatheinternet.gumroad.com. Thank you very much for watching. I hope you've enjoyed. Take it easy. Bye-bye.