The Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial over one holdout juror. Everybody agrees on what happened; the dispute was whether she was criminally responsible given the postpartum psychosis defense. That’s not what this video is about. I want to talk about a reaction I watched, where the racial makeup … Read More
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 arrives in 2027, and every confirmed change so far points at a deeper MMO. Here is what Bandai Namco and Dimps have shown, what it means if you build your own character, and the one thing I hope they do not cut. Xenoverse has never been … Read More
I’m not here to dunk on Marvel’s Wolverine. Plenty of people are doing that today. What interests me is what the reaction signals about where every entertainment industry currently sits. Skill Up’s review is the clip everybody’s sharing, and his point is that the game coddles the player to the … Read More
Trump announced a $5,000 dividend to every adult citizen if Republicans win the midterms. Vance narrowed it within the hour to exclude the wealthy. Set the politics aside and just look at the arithmetic. Every adult citizen at $5,000 runs somewhere around $1.2 trillion. Cap it at $100,000 household income … Read More
Link: https://rippaverse.com/collections/the-rippaverse-animated-universe/ Change the opening to lead with the business reality rather than the personal note: Independent publishers almost never make animation, and the reason is structural. A single episode costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and studios only make it work through production committees that recoup on merchandise and … Read More
Every time a big legacy property drops, the conversation explodes, and the people defending it ask the same thing: why don’t the critics just disengage? Disengaging probably is healthier. But it misses what’s actually happening. Most of us grew up in an era with far fewer places to get entertainment, … Read More
Why don’t you respond to your haters? I get asked constantly, usually by people who remember the Monetize Your Haters segments, and I want to take my time answering it properly. The short version is that I’m the same guy with different priorities. When you’re the owner and the face … Read More
How do IP deals actually work? A creator recently said publicly that she had little control over an adaptation of her own work, and a lot of people responded with “why would anybody agree to that.” The answer is that giving up control isn’t a bad negotiation. It’s the price … Read More
RippaZine #6 is out, so I can finally talk about Echoes of Cypheon. This is a complete change of pace from anything I’ve written in the Rippaverse. If you’ve followed The Great War of Separation, you know the land mass you’d recognize as the United States got fractured, and parts … Read More
Leprido is the first anthropomorphic character I created for the Rippaverse. He debuts in Isom #3 as hired muscle for Darren Fontaino, and he wrecks everything: he fights Isom, and he has a great fight with Santwan that Cliff Richards absolutely nailed. Marcos Rios is my main concept artist, and … Read More
