Hi everyone, it's your boy Zach, and uh, very mild summer, like super mild, the grass is still green, it's frickin' the middle of July. Anyway, so have you ever been telling a story, and then you get interrupted, and then when the person says, oh, so sorry, sorry, and they circle back to you, and you're like, it was actually kind of a boring story. The thing you interrupted me with was actually much more interesting.
So, Marvel is moving to California, and C.B. Cebulski got, uh, got fired. Taken out of his position as EIC, and he's uh, it's a total rare rabbit move, it's like, hey weeb, we're sending you to Japan, he's like, oh no, can I pack my conics full of bibs? But, um, so if you don't know, C.B. Cebulski is a weeb, fluent in Japanese, uh, he was actually working in China, I believe, um, trying to open up that market when he got tapped on the shoulder to be EIC, he's been EIC for about a decade, got nerfed straight out the gate with the Akira Yoshida, um, it reminds me of that Shane Gillis, where he's like, I was making fun of Asians and it was fine, and then suddenly it wasn't allowed, and I was like the first person to get zapped for it. Um, so, yeah, so, actually I forget, I totally forget my train of thought, why I even said that.
Anyway, um, so, uh, oh, so, uh, yeah. Throughout all of human history, you were allowed to use pen names, and it didn't have to be your race or your nationality or your gender, and then suddenly you weren't allowed to do that. So he got zapped for doing something that, like, he was the first guy, he's like, oh, okay, apparently you're only allowed to have a pen name of your gender, of your, whatever, nationality.
Um, so he's just kind of been quiet, kind of like a, like they say, a caretaker president. Um, uh, things have gotten better, but slowly. Um, I see people saying, it's like, I saw someone say, it's so sad that I can't read, I don't enjoy a single Marvel comic.
It's like, yeah, you're not trying. There's at least one or two good Marvel comics every week, pretty much, on average. Um, but, um, it's kind of like that thing I say about war stories.
Uh, if you're ever wondering if a war story is true, if it gets really fucking boring right in the middle, it's true. So, it's like, and then we waited for the trucks to bring us back to base camp, but they sent the wrong trucks. Actually, it was the right trucks, but they were full.
So then the first sergeant had to, uh, call back to battalion, except for the batteries were dead. And then we all got scuffed up because the batteries were dead. Then we found out the first sergeant used up all the batteries talking to his honey dip who works in S3.
Like, okay, it's like, can you get back to the war? The shooting and everything. This is most of war. It's just stupid logistical problems.
Um, so, just describing the news just makes my brain flatline because it's all, like, very boring, basic bitch, like, business moves. Like, let's consolidate redundant, you know, business units. Let's get the business unit co-located with the boss of the business unit.
Let's send, uh, uh, CB Cebulski to Japan to try and expand that market. Um, I don't remember if there was a, what does Perch always say? A coherent strategy for digital? It feels like it's in there, in the mix somewhere. So I got an email and someone was like, um, what do you think about this? I was like, I don't know.
And then they're like, I'm concerned. I'm like, the word concern, I'm like, what is your concern? That things won't be perfect forever? Um, it's a bunch of very bland, boring, obvious business decisions that probably should have been done 5, 10, 15 years ago. So what's it going to lead to? I don't think you're really going to notice much of a difference.
Um, Steve Wacker, who's the new EIC, he was gone for a little while. He's in a, he's in that group. I mean, at least it's not Tom Brevoort.
He's a huge asshole. And technically, usually that number two guy, that's the one who steps in, but he's just so abrasive, like it's never been in the cards. And one of the benefits of moving across country is you get people who have like, you know, their family, their wife is a teacher and they have a house.
They're like, I don't want to, I don't want to move. I'm a couple of years away from retirement. Can I just work remotely? And then that makes it easier to get rid of them.
So, supposedly Tom Brevoort is not moving. Other people are. And, um, I don't really care.
I just care about the comics. Comics have been getting better. They are still lagging.
Marvel is basically the only part of the industry, quality entertainment wise, for me, that is lagging, but it's still, you know, one to two good books per week, so, you know, it's not super dramatic. It's not a woke Marvel wants to kill me. It's like things will probably get slightly better, but in ways that you mainly don't notice.
So that's it. Five and a half minutes. This probably could have been a community post.
Uh, really not much to add. Um, uh, what I will say is in business, boring is usually good. Um, I used to have a lot of Tesla stock, such a fricking rollercoaster.
I hated it. So then I was like, oh, Nvidia, their CEO is super boring. And then I bought a bunch of Nvidia and it did great.
And then he decided they always, they always want to be celebrities at some point. So he like starts wearing a leather jacket and he's like, what did he say? Quantum computing won't make a profit for 20 years. It's like, why would you say that? This wasn't like you weren't under oath.
You didn't have to say that. And then that just tanked the stock and then it was just, it just flamed out. So boring is, uh, actually tends to be a good sign.
And if you're listening to war stories and they get really boring, that means they're probably true. Um, if you see a bunch of business decisions and they're boring, that means they're probably good. I don't really care.
I don't work there. I just, uh, I just want comics to be good, man. And they're, they're better.
You know, it's a relative term. They're better than they were. Oh, I keep forgetting to do that video.
Yeah. About like Rob Liefeld is like, they're like, um, comics now are better than they've been in 20 years. And then he's like, so you're saying all bad, all old comics are bad.
It's like, that's not what you said. Anyway, I saved all the comics I read in June of 2006. I was going to compare them to June of 1988 when I first started regularly.
It's like the same amount. It's the same amount. But again, that's subjective.
It's things I like that I read. Um, but it was like the same number of books. So, uh, I don't like when it's like less than 10 minutes.
It feels like I could say more. It's like that scene in Schindler's List. With this watch, I could have made two more anecdotes.
Um, but yeah, uh, boring news on a boring day. Um, as a reader, you probably won't notice it. As a consumer, you probably won't notice it.
It's literally going to be like, oh, we were renting, you know, uh, 30 water coolers. And now we're only renting 15 and that saved us $32,000. It's going to be a lot of that type of stuff.
The executives and CEOs are going to love it. Because it's going to be a lot of cost-cutting measures. But, uh, creatively, I don't think.
I mean, Steve Wacker fits totally in with Alonzo and Kasada. And so if you didn't like the last 20 years of Marvel Comics, it's, it's. What does George Lucas say? It's like history.
It rhymes. Um, it's not going to be a radical re-departure. Absolute is still going to eat their lunch for, oh geez, when the Absolute Batman cartoon comes out.
Shit, that's going to be huge. So, um, yeah, sorry. I'm sorry life isn't interesting all the time.
Sometimes boring news is, well, sometimes news is really boring and usually that means it's true. Um, anyway, thanks for watching. Bye.
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