New Youngblood publisher Terrific Production LLC has yet to reveal a creative team, release date, or concept for the launch of any of its comics, but now the company’s famed Twitter account has revealed a possible reason why: to protect this sensitive information from the prying eyes of rival comic book publishers, who Terrific has in the past demanded stop stealing their artists.
Terrific took to Twitter to post a call for volunteers to engage in a special operation at New York Comic Con last week: providing intelligence on the upcoming releases of other comic book publishers who might be trying to interfere with Terrific’s Youngblood Unchained #1 launch. This operation, according to Terrific, is a preemptive strike against “oppressors” who are trying to “gather intelligence about us.”
We Need Eyes And Ears at the NYCC October
If you are going to the NYCC we want you to transmit to us any New Launches or New Projects that can interfere with our #comicbook solicitation dates. Our oppressors wish to gather intelligence about us so we will gather it in reverse.— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 27, 2019
Terrific’s tweet prompted global entertainment superstar and fashion icon Donny Cates to chime in, perhaps sore from that time Terrific tried to recruit Ryan Stegman to join their company. An argument ensued.
Dear Mr. Cates, This will happen after #NYCC when all the publishers will have announced what date they will launch their best projects. To sell 200,000 #comicbook copies for Youngblood #comic #1 we want the best launch date to offer #comicartist big royalty checks. In Addition..
— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 27, 2019
Cates, outwitted by Andrew Rev and his crack social media team, soon found himself giving up deeply protected industry secrets, such as the existence of the Previews World website which lists the exact dates that every comic book in the direct market is set to come out months in advance. Imagine if Rev gets ahold of this secretive technology! Teriffic Production LLC will be unstoppable! Not even Cates’ hardcore fans, the self-termed Catesbronies, will be able to do anything about it.
You can look at sales data and receive this information either way. You don’t need “spies” you need google. No is trying to “steal” your creative teams, as you have none to steal.
— DONNY⚡️CATES (@Doncates) September 27, 2019
But Terrific wasn’t falling for this.
I know everyone on my caliber. None of them are working with you.
— DONNY⚡️CATES (@Doncates) September 27, 2019
Terrific responded, but immediately retracted their question, for Cates’ own good.
Mr. Cates let help protect your good name by not responding but you have bad information.
— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 27, 2019
Cates, for his part, was grateful for the save. TERRIFICALLY!
I’m so glad you are here to protect me.
— DONNY⚡️CATES (@Doncates) September 27, 2019
Terrific has been closely guarding the names of its creators from fellow comic book publishers, which they equated with the Nazi High Command during World War 2. Terrific claims to be hiring multiple creative teams to draw Youngblood so that their competitors won’t know which one is actually going to be published.
In order to protect the identity the teams that are working on Youngblood which our enemies wish to know as much as the Nazi's high command wanted to know the date of D-Day and the location of the invasion. We are hiring multiple Youngblood art teams so that enemy will not be
— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 27, 2019
#comicretaile #comiccollector #comicartists We will soon be asking our followers and sympathizers of which we believe we have almost 100,000 to provide their emails so we can notify them in Priority as to the Time and Date of the Landing of our First #Comicbooks and what to buy
— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 27, 2019
The only people who will know the release date of Terrific’s new comic books will be the 100,000 fans of Terrific Productions LLC, who will be notified via email. It’s a foolproof plan that can’t possibly fail. But lest the Terrifically Legion worry that Terrific is wasting valuable resources by hiring multiple creative teams to draw a single comic as a fake-out, the publisher showed off the fat wad of cash they’re saving in their quest to become the next Image partner.
@ErikJLarsen , I have my Benjamins ready for the first #image #comicbooks issue #1 in case you think I might personally not have the money for my first issue. Terrifically ( Not I reduced size of the $100’s so no one cancounterfeit these by reducing the area of the $100) pic.twitter.com/r1QThw7NK9
— Terrific Production"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 26, 2019
Ballin’.
The saga continues…
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