American manga: I drew Superman in the Great Depression

"Ms. Louise Walton, are you sure these are Mr. Colin Looper's exact words?"

In the Fox Film Company conference room, Louise's remarks unsurprisingly caused an uproar among the people present.

Including the company's original senior management, they also had expressions of disbelief on their faces. Although they had expected that Colin might fire some employees to save money, they did not expect that the other party would directly fire all the employees of the Fox Film Company.

.

You know, due to the impact of the Great Recession, Fox's financial report went from a profit of 10 million the previous year to a loss of 4 million. In order to fill this deficit, the studio directly laid off more than 20% of its employees, and

Directly write IOUs to employees on the grounds that they cannot pay wages.

Salary figures at the eight major studios have been cut by two-thirds. All signs prove that Hollywood is facing an unprecedented cold winter.

Even not long ago, "Variety" lamented in a report: "When will the film industry regain the good dream of the silent film period?"

Fox employees don't know when the movie industry will be able to regain its good dreams, but what Louis has announced now is undoubtedly a complete nightmare for them.

Colin Looper, the newspaper tycoon who came all the way from New York, is more cold-blooded than imagined.

"There is no doubt about the mother."

Seeing the performance of the Fox employees in the conference room, Louis nodded calmly and replied.

Hearing Louis's answer, the expression on the face of the man in charge of Fox became a bit paler. If everything is true, then not only a large number of the company's employees, but even him, also died overnight

Become a member of the unemployed army.

"..."

In this way, there was silence in the noisy conference room for a long time. It was not until everyone's excitement gradually calmed down that Louis opened his mouth to tell the second half of what Colin had told him.

"Yes, that's right. According to Mr. Colin Looper's request, all employees of Fox Film Company will be fired from now on. Next, you may choose to pack your belongings and leave the company, or..."

Following the turn in Louise's words, the lawyer behind her immediately took out the prepared contract from her bag.

"Sign this new employment contract and become a new employee of the company."

With that said, Louis turned his head and nodded to the lawyer beside him, who immediately handed the contract to everyone in the conference room.

"This is……"

I took over the contract distributed by the lawyer with a blank look on my face. In the ups and downs of this development, which was like a roller coaster, I finally calmed down and flipped through the contract in my hand.

The new contract signed by the lawyers is almost the same as the previous employment contract at Fox Film Company, except for the salary part.

The salary of Messenger Film Company in the new contract is almost one-third of that of the previous Fox Film Company. This means that once the original Fox Film Company employees sign this contract, they will need to do the same work as before, but

I only received less than one-third of my previous salary.

"The decision-making power is in your hands. It is up to you to decide whether to go or stay."

Looking at the hesitant people in front of him, Louis reminded him in a calm tone.

Her move seemed to give everyone at Fox the right to choose, but in fact it reminded them that once they give up this contract, they will only lose their jobs.

After looking down at the contract in his hand and looking up at Louis in front of him, the person in charge gritted his teeth and made a decision, picked up the pen in front of him and signed his name.

The person in charge's move immediately triggered a chain effect like a domino, and the rest of the people made the decision unanimously without any hesitation.

Almost no one in the entire conference room rejected this contract.

Not only that, even within the entire Fox Film Company, no employee has made the decision to leave.

Everyone accepted the new conditions given by Colin and became new employees of Messenger Film Company in the form of a salary reduction.

In other words, just one morning after taking over Fox Film Company, Colin successfully reduced nearly two-thirds of the company's personnel costs.

Although it does this in a form that is likely to be hung as a street lamp.

But it doesn't matter. With his ability, even if he hangs from a street lamp for a whole day, he will not hurt himself at all. What's more, don't forget that this is the cold winter of the film industry during the Great Depression. Compared with those who work in major studios,

It is very commendable that Colin is willing to continue paying wages to employees who have packed up and left due to the factory layoffs.

After dealing with the personnel issues of Fox, no, it should be called Messenger Films now, the first task assigned by Colin was to deal with the issue of "Titanic" and to release the animation that was originally broadcast on TV into theaters.

, in order to attract those audiences who have changed their listening habits because of radio, and return to the cinema.

Colin launched an active publicity and marketing campaign in the cinemas owned by Courier Film Company. He opened a new column in "The Courier World" to publish movie promotion advertisements and wonderful reviews from film critics every day.

To a certain extent, it stimulates the interest of people living in poverty in watching movies.

At the same time, various movie theaters owned by the company have reduced ticket prices by 50% or more, making it only 10 or 15 cents to watch a movie.

"Discount" is a sales promotion "killer" that will never go out of style in any era.

Secondly, a movie ticket no longer only allows you to watch one movie, but can watch two movies, or even more.

For the same money, you can watch an A-type movie and a B-type movie. Of course, in addition to the combination of this movie, Colin cleverly implanted Superman animation into it, giving people a buy-one-get-one-free feeling.

.In addition, he divided the time of the cinema into segments, and implemented different ticket prices for different viewing periods.

Advertising through the Courier World, you'll pay just 10 cents to watch a movie before 7 p.m. and an additional 15 cents to watch the rest of the night.

Of course, the change in movie ticket prices is only a small part of the publicity. In order to attract the audience to the cinema to watch the movie, or Superman animation, Colin directly introduced the concept of "gifts" into

In the promotion of the movie, it was used vividly.

For example, any woman who participates in the event can get a free dinner plate, a lottery ticket that can be cashed in gold based on the seat number, or a silver tableware, etc.

The choice of these tableware is naturally based on Superman peripherals. At the same time, Colin deliberately had a set of silver tableware taken apart, and only one of them was given away for each movie.

Many housewives regularly go to the cinema again and again in order to collect this seemingly precious set of tableware for free.

Colin's move also indirectly led to a large number of women entering the cinema, even if their purpose of going in was not just for the movie.

Of course, Colin was not the only one to use various promotional methods. In fact, the connection between popcorn and movie theaters also occurred during the Great Depression.

With the transition from silent films to the sound era, chewing delicious popcorn while watching a movie in the cinema will no longer have as much of an impact on the people around you as it did in the silent film era, and popcorn has become one of the few

There are many products that can be sold on concessions in movie theaters.

…

In the real world, Colin, who is divided by the timeline, is working hard to gain more [faith] by using the Superman animation shown in the cinema.

On the other hand, in the purple dimension, Colin, who has the ability to master the time stone fragments, has not stopped his actions to continue splitting the timeline.

Through the power of the fragments of the Time Stone obtained from the Red Skull, the previous timeline was erased again, and a new Colin passed through the dimensional passage of Dr. Dark Strange and entered a new world.

"Another lifeless world?"

Due to the influence of the gem fragments, Colin, who was split from each timeline, retained the memories of other timelines. Looking at the dark and dead world in front of him, Colin subconsciously came up with this idea.

In the erasure timeline, he has experienced such a world countless times.

Fortunately, the existence of [Super Brain Power] ensures that Colin can maintain his sanity as much as possible. Otherwise, in the process of countless time erasures, he is likely to collapse directly like the original Red Skull.

Taking a deep breath, this world is not only gray on the outside, but also filled with an infiltrating dead silence in the air.

It was as if some force had taken away all the vitality of this world, leaving only the soundless silence and darkness.

Frowning, he used his [super vision] to scan everything in front of him. The dead silence and darkness like thick fog shrouded every corner of the world. This familiar feeling reminded Colin of Strange's purple dimension.

"So, this is another dimension?"

At other times, Colin might have carefully explored the truth about the existence of this world. However, considering the situation in the purple world and his purpose of constantly erasing the time travel dimension channel, Colin immediately restrained his inner good intentions and planned to

Let your other self in the purple dimension erase the timeline in front of you and start over again.

Suddenly, in the gray world wrapped in layers of dead silence, there was a somewhat strange sound.

This sound was extremely subtle, and you would probably miss it if you didn't pay careful attention. However, under the influence of [Super Hearing], Colin still heard the movement clearly.

Then very quickly, something seemed to be born out of the seemingly endless darkness.

That's right, birth, because in Colin's original eyes, it should have been a dead silence without anything existing.

This is an extremely ugly existence. Its appearance is somewhat similar to that of a dog, but it seems to have some kind of invisibility ability. If it were not for the existence of [microscopic vision] and [super clairvoyance], even Colin would not be able to see it.

You have to see each other's existence in this dead world.

Under Colin's gaze, he saw this creature cautiously lurking in front of him, roaring silently as if trying to knock it down and bite it.

This is a very deadly and threatening hunter, but unfortunately it has chosen the wrong target.

At the same time as it fell forward, Colin stretched out his arm and hit the invisible vicious dog hard on the head.

Unexpectedly, the vicious dog's body was stronger than expected. Although Colin also restrained most of his strength, the power of this fist was enough to destroy a building, but it fell on the invisible vicious dog.

On the head, it just let out a wail.

Along with the howling of the vicious dogs, more vicious dogs seemed to be born from the dead silence around them. They also appeared silently around Colin, completely surrounding him.

[Contact the twisted time node and collect a small amount of time fragments x 5]

However, compared to these invisible vicious dogs surrounding him, it was the content that appeared on the text in front of him that made the expression on Colin's face even more surprising.

Through a series of contacts and attempts, he has clearly understood the cause of these [time fragments].

[Time Shards] will only appear under the influence of Time Stone fragments.

And since he was able to obtain the [Time Fragment] from the invisible evil dog before, it also means that there is an unknown time gem fragment in the world in front of him.

No, maybe not unknown.

Considering the current number of Time Stone fragments remaining, Colin looked at the invisible vicious dogs around him and this dimension that was somewhat similar to Strange's purple dimension, and had some vague ideas.

"Colin Looper..."

And at the moment when the idea emerged in Colin's mind, the world that was originally shrouded in deathly silence seemed to begin to change a bit. The vicious dogs hiding around showed their hideous and ugly appearance. At the same time, countless people appeared in the entire dimension.

The murmurs continued and finally formed into a huge roar.

"Unexpectedly, you actually came here by yourself, came to the dark dimension, my world..."

Along with this roar that resounded throughout the dimension, a blazing head appeared in the sky above the dimension. This head was extremely huge, just like the sun hanging in the sky, constantly emitting hot temperatures that could melt steel. It stared at

In front of Colin, who was like an ant, the flames on his head began to surge uncontrollably, making the surrounding air even hotter.

Oow, ooh, ooh——

Around Colin, the vicious dogs with ugly appearances kept howling due to the heat of the flames, but the head didn't care about this.