These are the same people who work so hard to get likes on Twitter and Instagram. They should put that same energy into making comics good.

Yes I want comics to be big, and get frustrated when it feels like the industry is happy being small. Perch correctly summarizes me. :) Also, I think comics are like Hydrox. I don't think they want to be Oreo because they feel it's out of reach.

Competition is what drives everyone to improve and revolutionise, and make comics bigger. People need to want to be number 1, that will make comics bigger!

The game changer in comics was everyone wanting to be #1 on social media rather than in sales.

I want to say the only reason Rob name keeps getting up there with Lee is because 1. Rob is great at self promotion 2. Deadpool 3. Image and heroes reborn linking their names together.

Every time Perch says “be number 1” you have to take a drink, let’s play.

"Fuck All of YOU" Like a freaking Boss, Man, Thanks for this! You are a great Couch!!

Perch, look at the quality of people in the industry and ask if they are *capable* of this introspection first. They aren’t competitors, man. Great take. Kinda just applies to Life in general.

Todd was undoubtedly the hottest artist of the 90s.

Mr Perch, there’s a type of person that doesn’t want to compete. Are there too many non-competitors in comics?

It's hard to be number 1 when you're a poop emoji 💩

Completely agree. Getting antsy to publish some projects.

Toppermost of the poppermost.

11:20 Perch you know these people don’t like competition, because that then means someone has to be a winner, be the best, and they don’t like that at all.

Jim Lee should be ashamed of himself . He betrayed the fans and he flat out does not care about the state of comics now or he would do things at dc differently . Rob only got what he got because he was on a blue jeans commercial , not because he has any real talent .. because he doesn't . And Todd is talented , but pretty wierd .

Yea you need to add more video, this is KZfaq, show us the dashboard of your Porsche at least.

I want to have the best Pikachu Collection in the world! Bwahahaha!

I didn't know how much I needed this pep talk

I just returned from Anime Expo. And anime/manga is aiming to rule the world. Even Disney was there trying to take a piece of that manga/anime pie.

This has nothing to do with the topic of the video, but since you brought up Kevin Maguire I just wanted to tell everyone to read his Strikeback! miniseries that started at Malibu and finished at Image. I picked up all 6 issues recently and it's the most fun I've had reading comics in years.

The lack of drive to be #1 is largely because Marvel and D.C. are part of large conglomerates and thus there is no need to be competitive to stay in business.

The sad part is, both DC and Marvel supposedly have people who are specifically there to grow the business. What is it that they're actually doing these days. To be fair, both DC and Marvel have tried no ideas to grow their market. DC experimented with their Walmart deal. Marvel tried the Digest Format in 2014-2015. Both of them are currently experimenting with manga sized trades at lower prices than their standard trade format. It really may just be the case of an industry dying a slow death. General interest really could be waning. Especially since prices keep rising. Comics has only one way to grow. Just one: attract kids. Most adults aren't going to get into comics in their late 20s. It's a dead end approach. Comics have to aim at kids, and it has to be affordable to them. Right now, it's a boutique business that's slowly pricing itself out of existence.

True if someone like Tee Franklin actually tried to improve they could improve tremendously and I think we would forgive her more if she actually put in effort

Bad Idea comics won't beat anyone. Everything they do is irritating. They make getting their books as difficult as possible.

Thank you, Perch! It was a good one.

When I worked for DirecTV and Papa John's they would talk about being number one all the time. But that was when GW and Obama were in office. In the years since most adults I work with don't care. Because according to them if we're number one or number 50 as long as they're getting a paycheck they don't care. For a number of people being a good cog in the wheel at walmart has zero bearing on their pay. You are a warm body to build that endcap. You are and will be replaced.

Lee and liefeld still work or at least still in yhe Comic book zeitgeist. One of them is podcaster the other is a sleeping potato running a sinking ship.

Todd is a toy guy now.

Jack Kirby died in early 1994. All he did in the 90s were some random indie comics. So he was #1 in the 60s or posibly the 70s, but not very influential the 90s.

Sorry, Perch, but this doesn't feel applicable to me. I'm not about to lie to myself or others over my skills and talents. Being Number 1 and being successful are not necessarily the same thing. I may be able to draw pretty well, but I am not "the best," not "Number 1." However, that does not mean I'm untalented or underserving of respect.

Singers have a number one song in their 20s then never rise again. Movie stars- especially women- have their biggest role when they are young, then never have that big a role for the rest of their careers. I think it’s kinda the same thing. People believe Avengers Endgame was the pinnacle of comic movie popularity. They don’t expect the genre will ever go back to number one. They also feel the comic book movie superseded the comic book.

It all makes sense now! Comics is government contracting without government money

i swear this whole vid just triggers me into wanting to watch that "lazy town" video ! :D

I want to do something different, if I win then someone else wins however, if I go telling who I’m doing differently for that might ruin the surprise, but like all the best things it doesn’t require much thought.

I wish more cartoons today would be #1. Its been over ten years since we had a good Ninja Turtles cartoon

Jordan Peterson has a whole talk on lobster physiology and how a defeated lobster wants to stay defeated. Look, you can hate Peterson, but self awareness of the lobster phenomenon in ourselves is very helpful. Comics need to stop being so defeatist.

It’s so frustrating. Business & The Arts are exact opposites of each other. Being number 1 is a business mentality. It’s not an Arts mentality and won’t work because as DC and Marvel has shown people for the last few decades. People will like what they like. This is why business people are needed to get certain stories out there because Artists don’t understand that stuff. Business is about Absolutes. Art is all about expression and creativity. We definitely need both but it’s a balancing act. The biggest compliment you can give to an Artist’s work is enjoying it and sharing that joy with others.

Comics needs to stop acting like a dying industry, because dying industries demand more from customers and go down faster.

Manga exists Perch, so comics can’t ever be number 1, they’ll never create a story as good as Berserk, they’ll never create a world as interesting as Made in Abyss, or a villain as good as Bondrewd. And judging by the state they’re currently in I can’t see them ever being a challenge for manga.

You are wrong about being #1. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but being #1 has never been the goal in any literal sense anywhere I have been, nor should it be. It's a fool's errand and a source of failure. Being successful has no relation to being #1 I've been many places. I've worked at the biggest company in certain fields (and the biggest company in the world) on the biggest products in the world and on products that were not. The goal is not to be #1. The goals are almost always about your company, your product, your sales, not the other guys. If a goal is about the other guys, it is a side effect of another goal. Saying you ARE #1 whatever is for PR Jedis in press releases or for hype at a company meeting. It's in advertisements, but advertisers invent their own form of #1 so it means nothing. Why? Unless you are in sports, you do not get anything for beating the other company. You get something for being better yourself. You can be doing much worse and still become #1 if the other guy goes out of business. You may do wonderful and move out of #1 because somebody else invents something new and everyone is making more money. Companies that confuse being #1 with being successful create goals they cannot meet. So at the major, successful companies or the small companies I have worked for, the company will often announce when they are #1, but that is not the goal.

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