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[Leonardo_thebest]

Diversity in comics is riding high and acting untouchable.

He's an idiot, sure, but he has a following 60k strong, so maybe he's just playing the fool. Monthly sales on any title barely break 100k these days, and the average buyer takes home 2-3 books or more a month, so at best you could argue there are 150k regulars to the 3 thousand stores still standing.

TLDR; He's winning, using the same strategy as Trump.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Never underestimate the power of human fanaticism.

Fanatics are real, and they’re fairly undiscerning consumers. Once you know what sets them off, you can feed it to them or bait them with it. Journalists bank on this as well as publicists and advertisers. “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

Fanatics are real, and they’re fairly undiscerning consumers. Once you know what sets them off, you can feed it to them or bait them with it. Journalists bank on this as well as publicists and
advertisers. “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”

Precisely.
Sad state of affairs. Some people using good ideas for lucrative means, which robs those ideas of meaning.