Miller and Moore are both quintessentially themselves. Their books can NEVER be mistaken for anyone else's and that (in the world of art) requires an unshakeable confidence. Confidence is the antithesis of fear.
Alan Moore is honestly a scary man to look at but it's men like that where you expect the best stories to come from tbh. Then there's Grant Morrison, he doesn't need a weird look but man is he out there too, great stuff. Seeing that one panel where Superman saved the would-be suicide victim in All-star Superman despite everything on his plate at the time was a great encapsulation of everything Superman stands for. Also Alan Moore always looks sleep deprived someone get him a Benadryl
I remember when Mark Wade was unafraid... to interfere with a contract. Back before he started texting old asian men late into the night, begging for absolution.
Yes we can. - Stop writing comics to appeal to everyone humanly possible, and forcing romances and etc where they don't fit. Be okay with writing something that won't appeal to everyone. - allow people to see success outside the monogenre (which is really several popular genres). Being forced to make something superheroes, or zombies, or pulp if you wanna succeed is SO STIFLING YOU HAVE NO IDEA - get creative, get ambitious. Be unafraid to do something people don't see all the time, or maybe haven't seen before. - Don't just seek to entertain. Seek to make something badass, that knocks the socks off of everyone that reads it. Those are jabs at comicsgate itself. They're too content with making something "just good", and instead of writing something new and fun, they keep writing throwback comics - the same type I've seen hundreds of before Comicsgate existed - and very few of them are must-buys.
@@carbootstudios2459 Comic recommendations? From modern comics? I know great comics are out there, but besides the couple guys like Meyer already singled out... Literally none I'm aware of. As I sort of hinted at earlier, if a comic is simply "good" I don't consider it worth my time. I want to read those comics you can call truly great, which stick put from the pack. And I just don't get that right now.
Frank Miller is a personal inspiration to me. He's an icon, a legend, and one of my all time favorites. And before Henry Stanley posts his spam reply, Holy Terror ain't that bad. It's FAR better than the grief people give it.
I mean if that's their goal then if they had any sense of strategy then that means they should work harder on their comics. It's basic logic. If you want to move on to a more expensive to produce form of medium then you should make damn sure your prototype is something people want to see. I don't know why they think anyone should give a shit about their future movie or TV show when their comics are so trash.
Thanks Ya Boi, you're a great influence to those of us disenfranchised by the comicbook companies formally known as "The Big Two"🙌. Btw I listened to you on 1.25 playback speed which was HILARIOUS 😂 you should hear yourself sped up sometime. Goodtimes
Alan Moore and Frank were in a class of there own. You know who your reading when you reading them. No fear!Nice little trip down amnesia lane,thank you. No one can ever doubt your love of comics and it's refreshing.Keep on keepin' on! M.
I think EVS is like that. He's stopped being fearful of the industry and seems just to want to have fun with his book and those that support it. As you said Zack there is maybe 2 people left in mainstream comics that have enthusiasm, which seems to be the real killer for them.
Zack, my boi, no worries about losing your stuff it happens. I was the same way, so I got a firebox to put all my personal stuff in (Birth Certificate, SSC, etc.) I keep it in my pantry with a lock on it for instances like the one you had, and it's helped a bunch. Just some advice. Great video man!
Let's make a circle of protection around Frank Miller and Alan Moore so they live forever and not suffer the fate Papa Stan suffered from the freaks after he died
Fortunately for them, their name alone at this point is a brand. They don't need the big 2, they both could do a crowdfunded book and outsell anything on the shelf.
This is truly beautiful, genuinely, a time where all ideas of depth and the human experience get to be propogated by INDIVIDUALS (not idealogues) is something I find to be essential for art to exist. I hope you do bring it back, you might be the Messiah of the comics culture in some very underappreciated ways. As for business, I will work hard and I'm sure others who care for comics will try to bring it into mainstream, especially if you and this movement for normalcy and freedom can succeed.
9:03 "The blood starts flowing in your veins again. It's very enervating and energizing and exciting." "Enervating" means the exact opposite of energizing. It means draining of energy and causing lethargy and dullness.
I know Watchmen is regarded as his magnum opus, but that Swamp-Thing run is the best thing Moore's ever done IMO. There's some really genuine heart there, esp for a series about a character he never expected to be writing for. I don't reread many full runs b/c I worry I'm not advancing myself in any way, and those books are esp dense, but that series was rly something special. IIRC Zack doesn't like Swamp-Thing, and that's kind of a shame. I liked Supreme a lot, too. But I know the meta stuff might be a turn-off for some ppl.
@@juicyjuice5216 Seconded. Moore gets much kudos (absolutely deserved) for WATCHMEN but I find his "deconstruction" of superheroes is better in OLYMPUS and word for word, the "AMERICAN GOTHIC" run of SWAMP THING is the best stuff he's ever done. Real, real shame BIG NUMBERS was scuttled...
I must admit i actually get a little into things i don't usually care for when someone talks about it with sincere excitement and care. I hope you guard that feeling because it's what makes the world a little less cold.
I remember one of the first e-mails that I ever sent you was about you getting your own t-shirts. I'm glad to see you have shirts now. I can't wait to buy one!
People like you and Ethan have gotten me legitimately excited to try to become a part of comics in a way that can bring back the excitement of the past. I've got a story in my head that just keeps bugging me, and I've been putting it on paper recently. What do I really have to lose? It ends up being worse than "Born Again" but better than "Hex Wives"? I can live with that.
What's so funny is that comics were so subversive in those days. Some of the most amazing writing was coming out of comics, and fans were in the know but the mainstream completely ignored it because they still thought all comics were like Archie. It was a proper subculture.
I like tv and movies. I enjoy prose. I think animation is cool. But I *LOVE* comics. I'm passionate about comics and have been since I was 7 years old. Even now, 35 years later in this day and age of crappy SJW comics, I still get super excited every week when I walk into the comic shop. I think comic books are coolest things ever created. It both pisses me off and saddens me that today comics are seen as only stepping stones to Hollywood and TV. It genuinely bums me out that there are no more young Alan Moores and Frank Millers in the industry today. Comics are being created by too many people who are not and never were even fans and don't care at all about the medium, and that sucks.
"Am I that basic?" Yes 😋 and I wouldn't have it any other way! But seriously, I dunno what it was, but this thing lit a fire under me! Listening to you talk with this much spirit gives me the spirit, you're contagious! So ya know what, Fuggit! I ain't got the clout, got no seniority, no contacts, no drawing ability, I'm basically fresh outta university at 28, but I got fire! I got inborn writing talent! I will not back down to freakish weirdos! I got a pretentious but accessable writing style! POACH MY UNUSED ABILITIES, YE WHO CALLS THYSELF BY MY NAME!
I actually really like these types of videos where you're talking about a general issue in comics, more so than the comics themselves. (Not that the reviews are bad! It's just like you said...it's more fun to listen to someone talk about things he cares about than things that make him annoyed or angry.)
I’ve mentioned it before but the inevitability of the current industry’s collapse will lead to a power vacuum and I’m really optimistic that some real talent will come in and start piecing things back together, myself included 😎
Two legends from the industry. They gave zero effs what people thought, and look at how their old books are still read today in order to get people into comics.
I respect you Zack because you take a bad day and use it too decide to not be afraid. P.S. Does anyone know if that Norwegian band is real or there name.
Alan Moore in that thumbnail, man. Trust him to wear a hammer and sickle t-shirt. Hey everyone, remember when the political wacko's in comics were supremely talented and took pride in their work?
DC & Marvel's days of taking risks because of a visionary author are sadly behind them. No matter how "overrated" some people think they are, writers like Moore, Miller and I'd say sometimes Grant Morrison (All Star Superman comes to mind) have written the best comics of all time. Mind you, they're not the best CREATORS (those are long gone from this world, Stan being the last one), but they're just in another league when it comes to giving established ones a new spin. And you know what? There COULD BE new talent as great as them, but they just lack any good reason to be in comics, writing characters that will never belong to them and even worse, are forced to work under a political climate where everything is offensive. Can you imagine something like Miracleman made today?? I also miss slightly lesser known but still famous names like Wolfman, Starlin, Claremont, Byrne, etc. Anyways Moore's Swamp Thing will always be my favorite run of all time. The fact that he made more comics as good as that run is astonishing, just like Miller being the same person that did not only the best Daredevil run but also The Dark Knight Rises / Year One. This video made me sad :(
This UK anthology was my introduction to Frank Miller's Daredevil. I was already aware of Alan Moore and Alan Davis' work through 2000ad, so on seeing the book for the first time at a jumble (yard sale) I picked up as many of them as I could pay for and physically carry. Coincidentally, in the same stack were reprints of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's Tomb of Dracula beginning with Blade's debut. Have faith, while the quality of some contemporary, popular books may have dipped somewhat in the last decade I believe we'll get to experience a renaissance of sorts in our lifetime. We are human, we have hands, we like to turn pages and read stories.
Frank Millar writing is pretty scary now a days. I mean last thing he really did was Holy Terror. Before that was dark knight strikes again. dk3 he really didn't write.
OK, the Moores and Millers are far and few, and yes, you‘re not on their level, but you sure delivered mate, you gave me two GOOD comics which kept what they promised. I don‘t need anything else. So keep them coming.
If you want to bring this kind of excitement back you have to start at education: Moore and Miller came from loving comics plus working a lot plus being born genuinely talented. Nowadays your “comic book artists” are not interested nor on Krigstein or Moebius or Otomo - they are interested on likes, retweets and being the whole center of the world.
Considering that I don't read comics and I never got into the genre other than some Mickey Mouse shit from when I was young, I do watch your vids and reviews rather regularly. So you're doing really well on the excitement part you were talking about. Watching people who are excited about what they do and know what they're doing and know how to convey that excitement is entertaining to watch.
It wouldn't matter if Alan Moore and Frank Miller thought I was a dick and said comicsgate was 100% wrong, I would still love them and everything they wrote just as much.
Teared up a bit there. I'm terrified that the rising generation can't even comprehend how wonderful it once felt to be 20 years old and free, with virtually no one looking over your shoulder. Free to be stupid. Free to be amazing. Hopefully you're starting something grand that will demonstrate one way to get back to living without fear.
I HOPE that you bring a perk with the posters, honestly, I really don't like Xaxi, so I couldn't care less for her poster, but the other 3 are gorgeous. I'd love to have them bliss my walls! I don't know how much it cost you to have them made, but I'd say that $10 to $15 is reasonable. I'd recommend keeping the postage free since almost definitely all the people buying the posters are people who've already backed your comic, so you can just throw them in with the comics. I'm an international backer so if you charge for delivery it'll probably be more than the price of the posters. PS. I'll probably spend the rest of my life saying this, but it sure would be awesome to have a Polish hero (or villain) in your comic. All the best, and wish you even more success Zack!
"Marvel Comics Fans 1961 - 1986" is a great Facebook group. all older dudes, all political discussion banned but gotta stay within timeline tho. Some classic writers and artists post in it too
Make work to make money, but also make work for the next generation. Not only will the catty politics of today not hamper you, you’ll have a better chance of speaking to people with more timeless themes.
I think the last time I heard "put the kibosh on someone" used was in the first Captain America movie, to make the audience laugh at cringey old-timey slang. Or maybe it was in a Gail Simone comic from last year.
We need more people in the comics industry that care about comics as much as Moore and Miller. We need to swap the boring people in the industry with the indie creators who actually love comics
Last night I look The Dark Knight Returns book again and I actually watched the movie I was saying to myself the same thing, this is some badass material
I like how the title of the video is about Alan Moore and Frank Miller, but you spend the first 5 minutes describing how you got butthurt and had to eat the pain away. Never change, Zack 😂
I dunno, Zack. Internet has really damaged the brick-and-mortar stores. I could see comics pivoting to a more print-on-demand model. Also, there's nothing wrong with that pulse-pounding excitement for your craft. Good writing or not, that passion translates into your work.
It's about writing with passion. I love most of Frank and Alans work, but It's not about being the next them, It's being the next you. Sorry, I stole that from Spider-verse, but It's such a great line. I honestly don't know why these people are In comics; they don't enjoy It, they hate the fans, they hate the characters. I just don't understand why they are there.
That is what they do they see people taking joy in things and because they cannot feel anything positive they set out to destroy the things we love I used to love opening a comic find joy in escaping the mundane for a little while but now I think what shit will be in this now?
Where I live they don't give you a SIN card anymore, they just print your SIN off on a regular 11/8 sheet of paper. I lost it within a week (more than likely tossed it in the garbage). Now everything goes in a very specific box.
bought the last issue of feast or Famine from alterna, so i can go back and re-read the whole thing. As for the whole train annalogy for missing your chance early on, well you may have missed the train but you still got on it tho.
You are legitimately the king of average middle America guys. Which makes your status as public enemy #1 even more baffling. I have literally listened to you spend at least 5 minutes talking about how your buddy treated you to a convenience store breakfast burrito. You are the worst villain ever. That’s like if there was a Twitter campaign to ruin the life of the neighborhood milkman.
Miller and Moore are both quintessentially themselves.
Their books can NEVER be mistaken for anyone else's and that (in the world of art) requires an unshakeable confidence.
Confidence is the antithesis of fear.
I heard Moore hates his past work.
Which is why the Green Lantern willpower is the opposite of Yellow Lantern fear.
@@gir3009 Moore hates everyone and everything.
@@SolarDragon007 Which is strange example for Zack to use.
@@gir3009 so? All that matters in art is the moment. Ive done art i hate but thats all part of the learning process.
Alan Moore is honestly a scary man to look at but it's men like that where you expect the best stories to come from tbh. Then there's Grant Morrison, he doesn't need a weird look but man is he out there too, great stuff. Seeing that one panel where Superman saved the would-be suicide victim in All-star Superman despite everything on his plate at the time was a great encapsulation of everything Superman stands for.
Also Alan Moore always looks sleep deprived someone get him a Benadryl
I remember when Mark Wade was unafraid... to interfere with a contract. Back before he started texting old asian men late into the night, begging for absolution.
I love both these creators. The comic industry was lucky to have them. I doubt it’ll have anyone of these men’s caliber again
Yes we can.
- Stop writing comics to appeal to everyone humanly possible, and forcing romances and etc where they don't fit. Be okay with writing something that won't appeal to everyone.
- allow people to see success outside the monogenre (which is really several popular genres). Being forced to make something superheroes, or zombies, or pulp if you wanna succeed is SO STIFLING YOU HAVE NO IDEA
- get creative, get ambitious. Be unafraid to do something people don't see all the time, or maybe haven't seen before.
- Don't just seek to entertain. Seek to make something badass, that knocks the socks off of everyone that reads it.
Those are jabs at comicsgate itself. They're too content with making something "just good", and instead of writing something new and fun, they keep writing throwback comics - the same type I've seen hundreds of before Comicsgate existed - and very few of them are must-buys.
@@carbootstudios2459 Comic recommendations? From modern comics? I know great comics are out there, but besides the couple guys like Meyer already singled out... Literally none I'm aware of. As I sort of hinted at earlier, if a comic is simply "good" I don't consider it worth my time. I want to read those comics you can call truly great, which stick put from the pack. And I just don't get that right now.
Frank Miller is a personal inspiration to me. He's an icon, a legend, and one of my all time favorites. And before Henry Stanley posts his spam reply, Holy Terror ain't that bad. It's FAR better than the grief people give it.
People dont want to do comics today
They want to use it to make tv shows or films and really dont care about comics.
I mean if that's their goal then if they had any sense of strategy then that means they should work harder on their comics. It's basic logic. If you want to move on to a more expensive to produce form of medium then you should make damn sure your prototype is something people want to see. I don't know why they think anyone should give a shit about their future movie or TV show when their comics are so trash.
@Trevor Walker Yeah it's still hard to comprehend the modern entertainment industry. Merit seems to have little to do with advancement anymore.
Thanks Ya Boi, you're a great influence to those of us disenfranchised by the comicbook companies formally known as "The Big Two"🙌. Btw I listened to you on 1.25 playback speed which was HILARIOUS 😂 you should hear yourself sped up sometime. Goodtimes
Lmao he sounds like a young woody allen
@@grandwizardnoticer8975 this makes sense. Like if you run with weights on, then you take them off and you're faster than before. 👍
Despite their flaws, I can admire a person making choices and not taking shit from anybody. These days especially.
Alan Moore and Frank were in a class of there own. You know who your reading when you reading them. No fear!Nice little trip down amnesia lane,thank you. No one can ever doubt your love of comics and it's refreshing.Keep on keepin' on! M.
I think EVS is like that. He's stopped being fearful of the industry and seems just to want to have fun with his book and those that support it. As you said Zack there is maybe 2 people left in mainstream comics that have enthusiasm, which seems to be the real killer for them.
i think that is a take away lesson for everything now a days.
"Weigh like a buck 40"
Boi alan moore like 6'4" and has like 12 pounds of beard
Zack, my boi, no worries about losing your stuff it happens. I was the same way, so I got a firebox to put all my personal stuff in (Birth Certificate, SSC, etc.) I keep it in my pantry with a lock on it for instances like the one you had, and it's helped a bunch. Just some advice. Great video man!
Same here but no lock. The lock will only make it more likely to get stolen.
Let's make a circle of protection around Frank Miller and Alan Moore so they live forever and not suffer the fate Papa Stan suffered from the freaks after he died
Your level of excitement is infectious, brother-- and I like it! 😁
Fortunately for them, their name alone at this point is a brand. They don't need the big 2, they both could do a crowdfunded book and outsell anything on the shelf.
Nice to see you finally get in the saddle, it only took you like 3 years. :P
But seriously you brought a smile to the old face. Thanks Zach.
Frank Miller and Alan Moore were both big inspirations for me. Miller for his dialogue and Moore for his style.
This is truly beautiful, genuinely, a time where all ideas of depth and the human experience get to be propogated by INDIVIDUALS (not idealogues) is something I find to be essential for art to exist. I hope you do bring it back, you might be the Messiah of the comics culture in some very underappreciated ways. As for business, I will work hard and I'm sure others who care for comics will try to bring it into mainstream, especially if you and this movement for normalcy and freedom can succeed.
9:03 "The blood starts flowing in your veins again. It's very enervating and energizing and exciting."
"Enervating" means the exact opposite of energizing. It means draining of energy and causing lethargy and dullness.
I will juat say right now I love Moore on Swamp Thing. That volume one tradeback he did was phenomenal.
I know Watchmen is regarded as his magnum opus, but that Swamp-Thing run is the best thing Moore's ever done IMO. There's some really genuine heart there, esp for a series about a character he never expected to be writing for. I don't reread many full runs b/c I worry I'm not advancing myself in any way, and those books are esp dense, but that series was rly something special. IIRC Zack doesn't like Swamp-Thing, and that's kind of a shame.
I liked Supreme a lot, too. But I know the meta stuff might be a turn-off for some ppl.
I was one of those picking them up at the store as they came out. Those were some fun comics days!
Pog is still one of my fav stories of all time.
@@juicyjuice5216
Seconded. Moore gets much kudos (absolutely deserved) for WATCHMEN but I find his "deconstruction" of superheroes is better in OLYMPUS and word for word, the "AMERICAN GOTHIC" run of SWAMP THING is the best stuff he's ever done. Real, real shame BIG NUMBERS was scuttled...
I must admit i actually get a little into things i don't usually care for when someone talks about it with sincere excitement and care.
I hope you guard that feeling because it's what makes the world a little less cold.
I remember one of the first e-mails that I ever sent you was about you getting your own t-shirts. I'm glad to see you have shirts now. I can't wait to buy one!
People like you and Ethan have gotten me legitimately excited to try to become a part of comics in a way that can bring back the excitement of the past.
I've got a story in my head that just keeps bugging me, and I've been putting it on paper recently. What do I really have to lose? It ends up being worse than "Born Again" but better than "Hex Wives"? I can live with that.
I'm recently reading Swamp Thing - Alan Moore edition and it's absolutely amazing. Damn, comics were so good back then.
What's so funny is that comics were so subversive in those days. Some of the most amazing writing was coming out of comics, and fans were in the know but the mainstream completely ignored it because they still thought all comics were like Archie. It was a proper subculture.
1:00 LOL, that really was the gentlest second-degree burn that I've seen online in a while.
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I like tv and movies. I enjoy prose. I think animation is cool. But I *LOVE* comics. I'm passionate about comics and have been since I was 7 years old. Even now, 35 years later in this day and age of crappy SJW comics, I still get super excited every week when I walk into the comic shop. I think comic books are coolest things ever created. It both pisses me off and saddens me that today comics are seen as only stepping stones to Hollywood and TV. It genuinely bums me out that there are no more young Alan Moores and Frank Millers in the industry today. Comics are being created by too many people who are not and never were even fans and don't care at all about the medium, and that sucks.
Hard times and can't buy comics for a while. Will be purchasing your work as soon as I have the cash to spare. Keep up the great work!
Love your channel and your lifestyle. I enjoy the first 5 to 10 minutes before you get to your thesis. Great video, Zach.
YaBoi, its your attention to detail and precision that keeps us coming back vid after vid...
Alan Moore really had to suffer for being talented. He was fighting the NPCs and the corporations for decades.
As an IT guy myself, I'm always shocked by how bad with technology so many other IT folks are.
Very inspiring stuff! Thanks for sharing this.
"Am I that basic?" Yes 😋 and I wouldn't have it any other way!
But seriously, I dunno what it was, but this thing lit a fire under me! Listening to you talk with this much spirit gives me the spirit, you're contagious!
So ya know what, Fuggit! I ain't got the clout, got no seniority, no contacts, no drawing ability, I'm basically fresh outta university at 28, but I got fire! I got inborn writing talent! I will not back down to freakish weirdos! I got a pretentious but accessable writing style! POACH MY UNUSED ABILITIES, YE WHO CALLS THYSELF BY MY NAME!
"If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?"
I actually really like these types of videos where you're talking about a general issue in comics, more so than the comics themselves. (Not that the reviews are bad! It's just like you said...it's more fun to listen to someone talk about things he cares about than things that make him annoyed or angry.)
I’ve mentioned it before but the inevitability of the current industry’s collapse will lead to a power vacuum and I’m really optimistic that some real talent will come in and start piecing things back together, myself included 😎
Same man. Like a Phoenix from the ashes
Two legends from the industry. They gave zero effs what people thought, and look at how their old books are still read today in order to get people into comics.
Loved your video. It really inspired me to work for what i belive. Thanks.
I respect you Zack because you take a bad day and use it too decide to not be afraid.
P.S. Does anyone know if that Norwegian band is real or there name.
Alan Moore in that thumbnail, man. Trust him to wear a hammer and sickle t-shirt. Hey everyone, remember when the political wacko's in comics were supremely talented and took pride in their work?
Marlon Aransibia yeahnow its the opposite
Well said, coach! Those words really make me feel so BRAVE!
Man, I really want to read Watchmen again! Well done Zacky.
@Neil Brown yeah crap. Wait what's crap again?
thanks for the new campaign, you finally caught me while I have some cash
DC & Marvel's days of taking risks because of a visionary author are sadly behind them. No matter how "overrated" some people think they are, writers like Moore, Miller and I'd say sometimes Grant Morrison (All Star Superman comes to mind) have written the best comics of all time. Mind you, they're not the best CREATORS (those are long gone from this world, Stan being the last one), but they're just in another league when it comes to giving established ones a new spin. And you know what? There COULD BE new talent as great as them, but they just lack any good reason to be in comics, writing characters that will never belong to them and even worse, are forced to work under a political climate where everything is offensive. Can you imagine something like Miracleman made today?? I also miss slightly lesser known but still famous names like Wolfman, Starlin, Claremont, Byrne, etc.
Anyways Moore's Swamp Thing will always be my favorite run of all time. The fact that he made more comics as good as that run is astonishing, just like Miller being the same person that did not only the best Daredevil run but also The Dark Knight Rises / Year One. This video made me sad :(
This UK anthology was my introduction to Frank Miller's Daredevil.
I was already aware of Alan Moore and Alan Davis' work through 2000ad, so on seeing the book for the first time at a jumble (yard sale) I picked up as many of them as I could pay for and physically carry. Coincidentally, in the same stack were reprints of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's Tomb of Dracula beginning with Blade's debut.
Have faith, while the quality of some contemporary, popular books may have dipped somewhat in the last decade I believe we'll get to experience a renaissance of sorts in our lifetime. We are human, we have hands, we like to turn pages and read stories.
Is accidentally streaming more or less frustrating than sonic burger's inability to hear the words "two slices of cheese"?
"TWO slices of cheese? Does this guy think we got a CHEF back here?"
"Facebook's nice...."
No Zack, no! It's so bad for people.
I'm always gonna love Alan for Constantine reasons. Plus, I am afraid to say anything bad about him because HE IS ALWAYS WATCHING-EVERYWHERE...
Frank Millar writing is pretty scary now a days. I mean last thing he really did was Holy Terror. Before that was dark knight strikes again. dk3 he really didn't write.
You forgot about Xerxes, which was pretty darn good.
@@wk3820 I forget about but I haven't heard good things about it either.
@@josephine190 ???????????????????????????????
OK, the Moores and Millers are far and few, and yes, you‘re not on their level, but you sure delivered mate, you gave me two GOOD comics which kept what they promised. I don‘t need anything else.
So keep them coming.
You got me feeling emotional on this one Zack
If you want to bring this kind of excitement back you have to start at education: Moore and Miller came from loving comics plus working a lot plus being born genuinely talented. Nowadays your “comic book artists” are not interested nor on Krigstein or Moebius or Otomo - they are interested on likes, retweets and being the whole center of the world.
Considering that I don't read comics and I never got into the genre other than some Mickey Mouse shit from when I was young, I do watch your vids and reviews rather regularly. So you're doing really well on the excitement part you were talking about. Watching people who are excited about what they do and know what they're doing and know how to convey that excitement is entertaining to watch.
I needed this enthusiasm; thank you Sir.
Moore, you're what writers used to aspire to be. Now they're afraid their ideas will get them in trouble.
It wouldn't matter if Alan Moore and Frank Miller thought I was a dick and said comicsgate was 100% wrong,
I would still love them and everything they wrote just as much.
Just stream man seriously. The disappointment, Oh the humanity. Oh well. Let the disappointment continue!
Teared up a bit there. I'm terrified that the rising generation can't even comprehend how wonderful it once felt to be 20 years old and free, with virtually no one looking over your shoulder. Free to be stupid. Free to be amazing. Hopefully you're starting something grand that will demonstrate one way to get back to living without fear.
I HOPE that you bring a perk with the posters, honestly, I really don't like Xaxi, so I couldn't care less for her poster, but the other 3 are gorgeous. I'd love to have them bliss my walls! I don't know how much it cost you to have them made, but I'd say that $10 to $15 is reasonable. I'd recommend keeping the postage free since almost definitely all the people buying the posters are people who've already backed your comic, so you can just throw them in with the comics. I'm an international backer so if you charge for delivery it'll probably be more than the price of the posters.
PS. I'll probably spend the rest of my life saying this, but it sure would be awesome to have a Polish hero (or villain) in your comic. All the best, and wish you even more success Zack!
"Marvel Comics Fans 1961 - 1986" is a great Facebook group. all older dudes, all political discussion banned but gotta stay within timeline tho. Some classic writers and artists post in it too
Make work to make money, but also make work for the next generation. Not only will the catty politics of today not hamper you, you’ll have a better chance of speaking to people with more timeless themes.
Hear, hear!
All he talks about is what he ate ??
Wtf.. No, he also talks about running errands...
Very entertaining !
I think the last time I heard "put the kibosh on someone" used was in the first Captain America movie, to make the audience laugh at cringey old-timey slang. Or maybe it was in a Gail Simone comic from last year.
This video hit me like a monster truck straight to the nuts.
Comic s matter !!
We need more people in the comics industry that care about comics as much as Moore and Miller. We need to swap the boring people in the industry with the indie creators who actually love comics
Last night I look The Dark Knight Returns book again and I actually watched the movie I was saying to myself the same thing, this is some badass material
I like how the title of the video is about Alan Moore and Frank Miller, but you spend the first 5 minutes describing how you got butthurt and had to eat the pain away. Never change, Zack 😂
“Fear is the mind killer.”
Fortune favors the bold. Get some, Zach!
I believe comics can be that great again.
Longhorn is the best.
Keeping it in comics, what beats fear? Willpower
I'm honestly just buying the second one for the poster I missed out on the first time
I look at both Alan Moore and Frank Miller's work as reference...
@@carbootstudios2459 both there works - the good and the bad....keeping it all in perspective...along with other comics creators
@@carbootstudios2459 yep. its all about seeing what they did. and learning the craft...
@@carbootstudios2459 what are some comic creators work that you use as reference?
@@carbootstudios2459 I'll have to check out Jamie...Mike and Warren are ok, Neil Gaiman though, I am on the fence with him.
@@carbootstudios2459 I dunno, some of his work comes off too pretentious at points...and some of the Sandman stuff he did felt unfinished.
I am jumping into the POOL!!!!
My social security card has been missing for at least a decade… had it in a spot it would be easy to find in and it disappeared
This video feels important.
Speaking of Moore, I hope the swamp thing movie goes well
Jawbreakers❤ i also like watchmen
Kibosh sounds like a mid to late 90s Image title.
I dunno, Zack. Internet has really damaged the brick-and-mortar stores. I could see comics pivoting to a more print-on-demand model. Also, there's nothing wrong with that pulse-pounding excitement for your craft. Good writing or not, that passion translates into your work.
Jawbreakers kibosh... cant wait!
It's about writing with passion. I love most of Frank and Alans work, but It's not about being the next them, It's being the next you. Sorry, I stole that from Spider-verse, but It's such a great line.
I honestly don't know why these people are In comics; they don't enjoy It, they hate the fans, they hate the characters. I just don't understand why they are there.
That is what they do they see people taking joy in things and because they cannot feel anything positive they set out to destroy the things we love I used to love opening a comic find joy in escaping the mundane for a little while but now I think what shit will be in this now?
99K. About to break 100k. You gotta do a silver Play button unboxing video soon.
If the DMV doesn't know me, do I even exist?
Where I live they don't give you a SIN card anymore, they just print your SIN off on a regular 11/8 sheet of paper. I lost it within a week (more than likely tossed it in the garbage). Now everything goes in a very specific box.
Probably a pipe dream but if you'd get Mahnke on board that would be stellar.
I have a mock trial tomorrow mourning. Wish me luck!
Daredevils had some reprints but the Captain Britain Story was new(at the time).issue 7 features the first use of the name Earth 616. (Pointless fact)
bought the last issue of feast or Famine from alterna, so i can go back and re-read the whole thing. As for the whole train annalogy for missing your chance early on, well you may have missed the train but you still got on it tho.
Fear is the mindkiller
I think I got screwed on the posters because of the 1st round fulfillment issues. I would buy the poster pack for like $20 total.
Teespring? What’s a Teespring?
Also: 2nd printing means business rolling along aka success...
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIII BOOOIIII! CHALUPA!!!
You are legitimately the king of average middle America guys. Which makes your status as public enemy #1 even more baffling. I have literally listened to you spend at least 5 minutes talking about how your buddy treated you to a convenience store breakfast burrito. You are the worst villain ever. That’s like if there was a Twitter campaign to ruin the life of the neighborhood milkman.
Hoping and praying to get into the industry
Can we see Luna? - haven't seen her for ages!