How to extend Reach!

It feels like this is an uphill battle.

Indies are a viable way around converged crap.

Trying to get NOTABLE/POPULOUS "Conservative" platforms to cover media that wants to genuinely entertain is like pulling blood from a stone. Just holy fuck. You can offer people the moon but that doesn't make them pay attention to it.

Star Wars/OLD BELOVED FRANCHISE X is fucking dead people. Let it burn out completely. Same with all the other IPs converged by nonsense. Once the ashes are thrown away. Once mediums are reset, then maybe later creatives can redeem these IPs but don't feed them right now. Starve the fucking zombies. They just see you as paypigs.

If you still have some love for the old shit, buy it pre-owned. Then actively seek out things giving you that hit of entertainment you need.

I guess its like pulling a junkie out of a habit. It takes willpower to look at various converged entertainment sectors and go: FUCK OFF with your BS. Ill not take one more bone you throw my way to shut me up. Every time I mention something like this on the twitters Ill loose a few people. But at this point I am at my wits end.

I get it, money and time invested. But they don't deserve it anymore. Convert your energy, time and money to things more worthwhile. That give you that sense of adventure. That want to entertain you. Not berate you.

Read these:

• Dont Give Money to People Who Hate You
• Corporate Cancer

Ill keep saying this until I am past blue in the Face:

Corporate IPs are using our nostalgia against us. Cut them off. Promote other things, compare them to old IPs if you have to but get readers on another track. DC comics is throwing old established fans minuscule bones. LOOK SEE?! They want you to stay a good little paypig while they rip the rest of their universe to shreds.

OH! We will bring back a character people miss (Stephanie Brown) but don't pay attention to Bendis buttfucking Superman Family over a barrel with his testicle shaped head. (I am glad they are sinking as a company. Please erase DC and Marvel Comics, they made me actively hate "modern" cape and cowl comics. They had a key with Rebirth but crashed into a wall with that. Rebirth had brought me back into comics after about a decade away.)

Lots of these comics companies have multiverses. Use that to bring in/test bed new audiences. Bleeding off your actual audience for "imaginary not there/to be invested" audiences will end up being detrimental to a company.

Comic book stores as they were will not exist much longer. Most of my hobby shops within a 30-40 min radius sell much more beyond just comics now. They have to inorder to break even. Even to the point where they sell videogames, 40k, minis, dvds/blurays, figurines ect all in the same place. TTRPGS. The list goes on.

Conservative INC is impotent. They don't want to engage in entertainment. Thinking that the bigger culture war is somewhere else. No, the very foundation of it is in what we view, read, write, put on the small screen, the big screen. Even if Uplift Protocol is a drop in the ocean, it's still a drop that means everything to me. With enough drops, we can change entertainment. That's why this bit in Cloud Atlas stays with me.

 Entertainment has so many drops in their side's ocean that its down-pouring over everything. So here's my drops: Lets make it rain.

Offer limitless heroism!

Let the capes unfurl and make reading heroic again!