Marvel’s Qimu disaster

“Hello, here is Pacific Comics… Ah, you want a thousand copies too? I’m really sorry, we don’t have enough goods here, if they arrive, we will notify you. ”

Pacific Building, at this time the comic book editing department is busy.

The first issue of the new comic magazine was printed in 100,000 copies, and now there are not many left, and this is less than three days before it started.

As the editor-in-chief of The Comic Club, Jacob was both excited and annoyed.

In the past few days, bookstores in other regions have constantly called in and asked them to print them.

Even for his big company, printing is a rare occurrence, and you can imagine how popular “Comic Club” has been.

According to this trend, “Comic Club” will definitely be printed in large quantities.

At that time, it will definitely not be as simple as 100,000 copies, at least 500,000 copies, and the highest record of “Comic Club” has not yet reached 500,000 copies.

“It’s really a terrifying data, it seems that this year’s year-end bonus has been seen.”

Jacob sat in his office, smiling as he looked at the data sent in bookstores across New York.

At the same time, the assistant also knocked on the door of his office.

“Yo, Ennie, any good news?” Jacob, who was in a good mood, asked with a smile.

“Editor-in-chief, the statistical results are out.”

Whenever a new issue of “Comic Club” is sold, readers can select their favorite works on the official website and rate them, and then randomly select the evaluations of a thousand readers for a preliminary ranking.

Of course, this ranking is not counted, just for the editors-in-chief to see.

Jacob nodded, opened the computer directly to log in to his account, and saw the week’s ranking record.

When he found the English of “One Punch Man”, he couldn’t help but gasp and stood up with an excited face.

“Editor-in-chief?”

Assistant Anne was directly startled by him, and it was the first time she saw her editor-in-chief show this expression.

Ignoring the surprised Annie, Jacob wiped his eyes incredulously and looked seriously at the computer screen.

First place, “One Punch Man”, with 91% of the votes!

“Shett!”

Although Jacob expected One-Punch Man to be hot, he did not expect that the vote rate would be so high!

Obviously, the reason why “Comic Club” is suddenly popular, a large part of it is aimed at the one-punch man.

After seeing this news, Jacob felt a burst of joy in his heart, although he was the editor-in-chief of “Comic Club”, there were many places that he did not decide alone.

Jacob worked hard to get One-Punch Man on the cover of Comic Club.

For this, he also paid some price.

But now it seems that his choice is correct, and the results achieved by the one-punch man are the best proof of his vision.

Jacob leaned back on the sofa, waved at the assistant, and said: “Okay, tell the printing house to work overtime, we need to create miracles.” ”

The comic book industry in the United States is extremely developed, but only Jacob, the editors-in-chief, know that the comic book industry has almost withered in recent years.

Since the appearance of the phenomenal comic book “Captain America”, many cartoonists have begun to follow the superhero theme comics, but without exception they have pounced in the turbulent frenzy.

And One Punch Man is so hot at the beginning that it qualifies to make it the best-selling comic of the year.

……

Saiki didn’t know that his comics had caused a sensation in the outside world, and after eating breakfast, he took out his brush and manuscript paper and continued to draw the plot of “One Punch Man”.

Since signing a publishing contract with Pacific Manga Magazine, Saiki has been accumulating manuscripts, and until now, there are almost 10 episodes of manuscripts.

In my free time, I can independently complete about 2 episodes of the original manuscript every day, which is such a terrifying speed and efficiency, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

After drawing a few pages of drawings, the time had come to half past five, and suddenly, a telephone ringing interrupted his movements.

Qi Mu gently put down the brush, then appeared in the hallway and picked up the phone.

“Qi Mu, I have good news for you, your painting of “One Punch Man” is on fire, and it has reached 91%!”

On the other side of the phone, Jacob’s excited voice was heard.

“Well, I see.”

Qi Mu said calmly, for this result, he had already predicted it.

Fundamentally, there is a problem with the comic book industry in this world.

Although there are many superhero-themed comics, each comic has begun to be routine, and there are even fewer comics with excellent quality.

Just one “Captain America” will not satisfy these hungry/thirsty readers.

Moreover, “Captain America” will only be updated once a week, and sometimes it will even be closed for a while.

After all, this comic has lasted for decades, the story is almost at the end, it is impossible to continue, and there are very few left to draw.

Therefore, comic fans will become hungry, and their spirit will not be replenished.

As long as the comics look good, they will buy them to see, which is one of the reasons why the rapid development of the comic industry is somewhat deformed, resulting in no innovation at all, all began to be routine, and now the entire comic industry has almost reached a marginal state.

The ubiquitous routines make readers very bored.

And “One Punch Man” has naturally become an antidote to their spirit, even if it is only three episodes, but it completely subverts the setting of the traditional superhero theme, but makes comic fans crazy.

Qi Mu’s indifferent tone made Jacob slightly stunned, if he changed to other cartoonists, after hearing this news, he would definitely go crazy with excitement, how could he be as calm as Qi Mu is now, thinking about Qi Mu’s age, Jacob didn’t know what to say, is this the common disease of genius?

After hesitating, Jacob continued: “I have one more thing I want to discuss with you, now that the latest issue of “Comic Club” has been sold out, I am sure that it will be more popular later, and according to the survey, most of those readers are coming for your “One Punch Man”, so I want you to keep updating two stories a week, of course, you have the right to refuse this matter…”

“Okay, I agree.”

This update speed is not a problem at all for Qi Mu.

“Uh, you agreed?”

In fact, Jacob thought that Saiki would refuse, this request is too reluctant after all, other cartoonists update one word a week, the speed is good, but he asked Saiki to update two words a week, which sounds like deliberately embarrassing a child.

However, the other party’s such a decisive agreement directly caught him off guard.

Seeing that children around the age of ten can bravely challenge difficulties, Jacob is naturally not willing to lag behind, a burst of blood rushed to his heart, he patted his chest, and promised with a promise: “Don’t worry, I will arrange assistants and studios for you, if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!” ”

“No need.”

After speaking, Qi Mu directly hung up the phone, leaving only Jacob, whose expression instantly froze.