Daily Inspiration Quote by Jhonen Vasquez

There’s a polite shrug in that opening clause - “All the power to them” - that immediately reads as both goodwill and distancing. Vasquez isn’t declaring war on mainstream TV; he’s doing the smarter, sharper thing: granting everyone permission to chase the familiar while quietly refusing to be drafted into it. The line works because it dodges the usual creative-industry binary of sincerity versus snobbery. He’s not calling other shows “bad.” He’s calling the ecosystem boring.

The real payload sits in “yet another,” a phrase that frames sameness as an assembly line problem, not an artistic choice. Vasquez has always traded in a kind of gleeful abrasion (Invader Zim’s manic hostility, its visual clutter, its contempt for normality). So the subtext here is identity protection: a cartoonist defending a personal frequency against a market that rewards recognizability, brand safety, and the smoothing-out of weird edges into “content.”

“Looks like” is telling, too. He’s not only rejecting copied plots; he’s rejecting copied aesthetics, the TV habit of converging on the same lighting, the same pacing, the same character designs that telegraph demographic math. In an era where animation and genre TV are often reverse-engineered from whatever just worked, Vasquez is insisting that style is the point - and that originality isn’t a halo, it’s a survival strategy. The intent is less manifesto than boundary: you can keep the template; he’s keeping the risk.