I was watching a video by ItsaGundam and he was talking about the current state of comic books and he mentioned how they always say now that comic books are for everyone (which a lot of other IPs and video games say that too). He said they always were for everyone which I agree somewhat but I would say that it isn't for everyone, but anyone who is interested can get into comic books.
I think Marvel and DC comics should be a great lesson in how not to market/run a business. I would also throw Star Wars and gaming companies into the mix. Ahaus7 said once that video games should have never started to pander to extreme minorities and the same could be said for the rest of them.
I can remember a few years ago when I first heard high ranking women in comics who instead of talking about how much they loved comics or what they read growing up talked endlessly about diversity and how they didn't see people that "looked like them". Also Star Wars loves to hire men and women who seem to be clueless about Star Wars and if you look at their social media, you can almost always find the usual "down with whitey" nonsense.
What do you think? Is it accurate to say these things have always been for everyone? Also, do you think at some point these industries will realize that it is idiotic to market to people who don't like the product?
I don’t get it. Nothing came up. As for the hobbies I just stick to older stuff once I realized they weren’t interested in my money
The correct mindset is to realize that these things are beyond your ability to control the trajectory of what they become.
Confronted with this, you can either rage about it to no effect, or walk away and create new things.
This is why for the last year I've been translating the back six volumes of FSS (since nobody else is).
That’s part of the reason I stopped watching most modern tv and reading newer books. What is FSS? I have done some writing.
But you are right. Raging about how everything sucks now gets old. Better to buy some older sci-fi I like and I’m also more involved in church.
Mamoru Nagano's Five Star Stories. There was a partial english release but it'll never be completed. Vol 11 through 16 were never localized (the english numbering doesn't match up to the JP numbering; there technically are 26 US volumes corresponding to the first 10 JP tankobons).
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