Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

What he was paying attention to was a comic book lying quietly in the corner, but it was different from other comic books he had read. He had never read this one and had no impression of it.

It even seems that it is not valued by the boss and is just placed in the corner.

《Heye Comic》

Seeing this, the boss smiled and said, "Oh, this one, this is a new publication, produced by a local company in Luosheng City. This is the first issue, not many people buy it, and there are few stocks. We only bought 20 copies in our store. It's not very popular, so I don't know how the overall evaluation is. But it seems that there is only one work serialized in it, so I don't recommend you to buy it."

“Is there only one work being serialized?” Yamada thought as he looked at the publication, which was about the same thickness as other publications.

The reason why comic publications are called publications is naturally because there are many serialized works in them, which are gathered together and bound into volumes. When you buy one, you can see the latest episodes of many serialized works, as well as many other contents. The interest is different from that of single volumes.

If you can only read one work, what's the difference between it and a single volume? Why create a comic? Isn't it redundant?
The only explanation is that there are very few works that this magazine can publish nowadays, and there is only this one at present, but it is unwilling to accept other works of lower quality to make up the number, which would ruin the overall quality of the comic magazine?

Seems like it could be explained?

Anyway, the final number of works in a publication will definitely increase.

Now, he has basically read all other comics. The serialization period of a work is very long. The serialized works in these comics are basically the same as those he has seen before.
Comics are not interesting if you read them from the middle and cannot connect to the previous content. The biggest interest is to follow the latest issue.
If you start reading a newly created comic from the first issue,
“Give me one,” Yamada said.

"OK!" The shop owner nodded and agreed readily: "The total is three dollars."

"So cheap?" Yamada looked surprised as he took out the money.

The general price of comic publications is around 10 to 15 US dollars, such as "DT Comics". The one he ordered, "Shonen Go", which was shipped from overseas, is much more expensive, basically around 30 to 45 US dollars.

When had he ever seen a $3 publication?
"I can't help it. Their prices are low to begin with, and this publication is hard to sell because it's not well-known at all. I've been here for a week and haven't sold a single copy. I was thinking, since both the purchase price and the price are low, I just ordered a few to try it out. If it doesn't work out, if it doesn't sell, I'll just give it away with the publication, like giving away a He Ye or something like that when you buy DT."

And there was one more thing the boss didn’t say, which was that if the results continued like this, he probably wouldn’t continue to place orders starting from the next period.

Yamada just shrugged.

He didn't care much about this statement.

Anyway, he doesn't follow these comics, and he buys them now just for the transition. After all, something is better than nothing.

His taste is quite picky, and there are only a few comics that he can read. Now there is only one such magazine, "Weekly Go".

After paying for the comics, Yamada drove home with a bag full of food.

After returning to his empty home, he spent some time preparing a sumptuous dinner and pouring some drinks before he hummed a little tune and took out the comics he had prepared long ago.

It’s just a bit of a pity, after all, what he originally wanted to buy was "Weekly Shonen Go".

With a dissatisfied mood, he finally opened the magazine called "Heye Comic".

"Transformers?"

On the first page, he saw the published works.

The name is "Transformers", the author is named Mike, and the script writer column is written as: Xia Yuan.

As for the style of painting, it is a bit unexpected. It is somewhat different from most of the popular American comics nowadays, and even has a bit of Asian style.

Then there's the plot.

This story is about a planet with silicon-based life. In order to find energy blocks, Megatron from the planet Cybertron came to the Blue Planet. However, in the Arctic, he was strongly disturbed by the magnetic field and was accidentally frozen under the ice.

With the help of scientists who accidentally fell into the ice valley, Megatron scanned information about the energy blocks onto the scientists' glasses.

Immediately afterwards, Megatron was secretly transferred by the U.S. military to a secret base under the Hoover Dam. This secret was known only to a seven-member military team composed of successive defense secretaries.

Because Megatron transmitted the information without their knowledge, the Decepticon advance forces, Cyclone and Scorpion, attacked the U.S. military base in Qatar.

The emergence of Transformers has aroused the vigilance of the current Minister of Defense. These mysterious creatures with unexpected and terrifying power have caught humans off guard.

The minister organized a group of young computer experts to search for the whereabouts of the Decepticons.

At the same time, Roadblock helped his partner Panic sneak into America's private plane Air Force One. Through the computer, he learned that in order to find Megatron, he must find the glasses of the Witwicky family, and its current owner Sam Witwicky has become the target of the Decepticons.

“Not bad!” As he watched, Yamada was actually surprised.

How should I put it? Up to now, this story was not difficult at all, and it actually began to attract him!

Because the background story is very grand, involving extraterrestrial civilizations that are many times more developed than Blue Planet.

And the setting is very novel and interesting.

Silicon-based life? Mechanical life? Mechanical ascension?

“That’s interesting!” Yamada picked up a piece of sashimi with chopsticks and continued reading.

In the comics, the story shifts to Sam, a high school student whose life is not going well. He advertises his glasses everywhere, but no one in the school believes his story about the history of the glasses.

Disappointed, Sam put the glasses up for auction online, but never attracted any interest from buyers.

During this time, his father gave him a dilapidated car, which happened to be a transformation of Bumblebee, a member of the Autobots.

At first, he was laughed at by his classmates who liked to bully him at school because he owned this car. He felt ashamed when other classmates' beautiful new cars crushed him. He was also embarrassed to invite his goddess to ride with them.

However, Sam never expected that the broken car he owned would inexplicably undergo a miraculous transformation and become a new car, a very cool super sports car at that.

Supercar, this is the ultimate dream of every male high school student!

So, the Bumblebee carrying Sam helped Sam make a beautiful girlfriend, Michaela Baines, and the story ended there.

This episode's story is over.

Although only one work is serialized, the content is definitely more abundant and more complete than that in other comics.

But it is a serialized work after all, right? It is impossible to tell the whole story in one issue.

However, Yamada felt very empty!
There was a bit of scratching in the emptiness.

This feeling surprised Yamada, because he knew that this was a sign of being addicted to reading comics!
Because he really wanted to know what would happen next?
"This Transformers is great!" Yamada said in amazement.

This was something he had never thought of, but it happened just like that. This journal that he bought for three dollars actually gave him unexpected surprises and interests. (End of this chapter)