>Over 2 million sold without having an actual product
What’s your excuse Cinemaphile? Why haven’t you made it big yet?
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>Over 2 million sold without having an actual product
I'm not popular among the conservative counterculture
Best answer, yes. I'm guessing if someone decided to mass translate the European comics industry to English and try to sell it here, it still won't be as popular as this thing because it probably won't be made with the intent of owning the libs. Sad reality really.
And also because people generally don't give a shit about European comics like they do Japanese ones.
Mainly because most Euro comics don't go anywhere.
Brcause they're boring.
Well there was this capeshit one where the MC can break the panels and the fourth wall so that's fun but it's nice as a newspaper comic but it's eh.
Like the time the one Euro comic had to go to Shelbyville?
>boo hoo i'm not popular enough
Wow. I wonder why?
Who are you, shill?
I still don't know what Rippaverse is about, but just like mainstream comics placing political optics above story, the fact that so much of the marketing is "We're not WOKE, we're making a REAL comic, everyone wants us to fail but we'll deliver TRUE comic storylines and provide the industry an alternative to wokeshit" is very unappealing. Just write your fricking story, christ.
It's like Kamen America: Once you get past the art and the overt politics, there's just no substance worth talking about. The "popularity" of Rippaverse is artificial that it's not even funny. The dude clearly has nothing to sell but being nonwoke.
sounds good enough for me, ill buy 10 copies
You need money to make money.
>conservative
>AnCap
Really homie?
Just pay someone to draw an OC, find YA BOY ZACK, and claim you're cancelling cancel culture. Then you, too, can grift with the best of them. Grifting SocJus gays and anti-woke goofs is probably the easiest thing you can do. Just make sure you get out after two years before they inevitably turn on you, then you can start grifting the other side by claiming to be penetant and reformed.
This sounds really motivating but then looking at rippa, he was apparently already an established music producer then spent a good several years being a comicsgater to build up a devoted fanbase of anti-woke chuds. Unfortunately, I'm neither established nor do I think that i can pretend to be so passionate about trivial shit...and I'd go crazy diving into the whole woke/socjus/anti-woke void for that long. I respect that hustle
This doesn't make any sense through. If you're black, isn't the practically easy, defacto way to power to be a liberal?
Why go through a 'anti woke' phase to make money when its infinitely more profitable to just join Amazon/Marvel/DC/ect and just pander to the choir about how white people are evil, especially when the entire financial and political class of the USA [and especially do in Hollywood] seems to hate white people so much?
The 'grifting' argument never made sense to me because there's infinitely more money to be made from being a wokester then being a conservative
Fricker made 2 mil on the Anti-woke crowd by overcharging,
Get yo head out of your ass.
How much money did Black Lives Matter receive in donations during the Summer riots from Mega corporations and ? How many billions do token diversity actors in Star Wars, Rings of Power, and Hollywood's defacto insistence on casting any token Black for money?
It just doesnt make any sense to claim that it's easier to make money off 'anti woke' warriors when the capital they have access to is just exponentially lower
They don't actually hire black writers. The last good black writers DC had, had their characters buried because they owned half the copyright. Seriously, I'm not even fricking with you. Start looking into the writers of these stories.
There are a lot of black people trying to make it in comics, why aren't they all making it in? There are few black people marketing themselves as anti-woke who have a background in media and promotion that could land them conservative media endorsement and CG attention. It's like how the frick did Herman Cain become a GOP presidential candidate? Conservative groups find blacks to promote based on their needs, not based on the candidates ability. There are better black conservative republicans but Herman Cain checked the box the way they wanted.
Essentially this. I know nothing about the comic because I dont feel like diving into this autism(and it's not even out yet) but the first time I heard of it was from CGs/ragebait/right leaning youtubers who were championing Rippa and using him to call the left racist for not supporting a black comic creator. It's pretty funny how fast they will use the designated black man on their side to pull the same tactics as their opposition to finally use that race card. It would be the equivalence of fox news calling democrats racists for not voting for Herman. It's nonsense
>There are a lot of black people trying to make it in comics, why aren't they all making it in?
Because their writing sucks.
American writing in general sucks, which is part of why people prefer manga.
>This doesn't make any sense through. If you're black, isn't the practically easy, defacto way to power to be a liberal?
Were the people that told you that liberal themselves?
That audience didn't come out of nowhere. What's your excuse for not building one and then releasing a comic?
What's your excuse for being a shill? Oh, you want their money, too.
Is being a Le Based Black Man the only road to success for new comic writers?
Then work at Marvel?
Im not a grifter and i lack an audience of contrarians
Meant for
Hy huge wiener is holding me back.
STOP POSTING ABOUT RIPPA, I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT!
Nothing really interesting happening in the comics world save for this tbh. It gets tiring to see, sure but it's just the only thing happening right now.
culture war shit happens every day.
True but this is big news for one of the factions of the greater culture war
This
It's either
>new outrage over current new Marvel/DC woke comic
or this, which i don't see as just a generic comic but actual possible doors to non woke comics that defy the boring narration and "the message" of the progressives. Imagine if the 90's Swat Kats was released in style of Ethan Van Sciver with pro american plotline and sexy Briggs
thankfully the last thread got derailed with coomposting so the shills are losing traction
>everyone that I don't agree with is a shill
This argument is so tiring. Isom threads won't be going away anytime soon, get used to them anon.
If you aren't shills why do you never have anything to talk about beyond bringing sales numbers and the narrative of "XgayS ARE SEEEEEEEETHING"
Probably because shitheels come into rippaverse threads to start shit everytime actual discussion starts. It just shows the current fear in the air over rippaverse, which I don't understand because it's not a scary thing. It's just a black guy starting his own company, not the end of society itself.
>It just shows the current fear in the air over rippaverse
This comment itself is fearful. But since industry Defenders tend to have the emotional understanding of a 6-year-old, I can see how you wouldn't realize how transparent you are
Adult Society does not place importance on someone laughing at someone else, that's your private Man Child world
Ok tourist
I'm excited for anything outside of the current garbage industry which is gatekept by people who can't write a good story. You can whine as the world changes and corrects for the better.
guy how exactly does one exist outside of the industry by hiring artists from within it?
>you can't poach talent, only the industry can!
Eat my ass.
Damn dude. Someone's got the grumpy dumpies.
Just very tired of corporate shills.
>Anyone that asks a question is a corporate shill
Snowflake level sensitivity my dude
You get called out because you ask disingenuous questions, you play innocent but for every bullshit play you make more books are purchased.
>You get called out because you ask disingenuous questions,
You guys say that about every question. I think maybe you're just triggered by questions.
Just certain questions. Mainly the ones they can't answer. The dodging on display would make Piccolo proud!
Every question asked has been answered, nice try though. Are you about to have another meltdown like the troon in the earlier threads? Please do, I'd love to see the jannies sack your ass.
>Every question asked has been answered
And still you keep posting and responding. What's up with that?
Does that bother you or something?
Keep your disingenuous and meaningless questions to yourself. Don't pretend like you're operating above the primal drive to fight back against outside tribes in the comics world
Both guys he hired USED to work for Marvel and DC, they don't anymore.
That doesn't really change the nature of the question. There's just an inherent paradox about promoting a product as something new and vitally necessary for change while relying on all the same archetypes and talent pool and playing on the nostalgia for the way things were 30 years ago.
Like I said in an earlier post, he's gotten people that can do the "House Style" that people liked and made big two comics great once upon a time, but the downside of doing that is that it just looks like a knockoff of stuff I read back in the day, not something new or different.
Tf are you talking about? He's literally doing a superhero comic. Should he have everything be done Picasso style?
What I'm trying to say is that there's an elephant in the room no one seems to really be addressing:
Let's say hypothetically that all of July's comics come out on time, and they're totally apolitical, and they're well written, and without flaw, and hell, let's say the price point goes down to something more reasonable and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them. That's great
But it's still just more capeshit. It's another universe of spandex strongmen to go onto the ever expanding pile. Even if everything about this is perfect and delivers on its every promise, that promise itself is just "More of the stuff you had decades ago!"
>Should he have everything be done Picasso style?
Honestly man yes! If all you're exposing yourself to is capeshit than you're missing on an absurd amount of high quality art in comic books and that's a damn shame.
So you're saying that even if it was perfect you'd still find something to b***h about. Yes, it's capeshit. That's what he marketed it as. Go read something else if you don't like that.
I already am.
Why are you here?
To point out to people that there's a whole world of indies, european comics, and manga that don't play these capeshit culture wars games and that if you expanded your worldview a little you'd all be much happier. I only want good things for you, and those good things exist outside of shitposting at each other about this stuff.
Dude, shut up with your pretentious bullshit. We all know there's comics outside of capeshit.
Do you? Because all this board seems to talk about is single out of context panels from big two corporate neoliberal floatsam and how we all need to be running a 24/7 campaign against that instead of enjoying the vast breadth of pure artistry the medium has to offer, and that's incredible disappointing.
This thread is about an indie comic is it not? I'm telling you guys to check out some other indies. And yes, as a matter of fact I tried making a thread yesterday about some obscure comics I found and thought I'd recommend. I got told they all looked boring and that I was a troony.
>I got told they all looked boring and that I was a troony.
Well, that's modern Cinemaphile for ya.
They probably are boring and you probably are a troony.
So...do you do this in every capeshit thread or just these ones?
Even as someone who is literally watching an anime as we speak, I think you're being kind of asinine about this.
How are you watching anime and typing do you have two sets of eyes?
I find a way.
>But it's still just more capeshit. It's another universe of spandex strongmen to go onto the ever expanding pile.
Another good point here.
In the end they are just making the same thing Marvel and DC did. Sure Marvel/DC doesn't make good ones anymore but it would hurt for the new creators to try and branch out from capeshit.
He's said he plans on expanding into other genres in the future.
Have to see it to believe it.
I have the feeling this may end up as another Angry Video Game Nerd movie fail.
>In the end they are just making the same thing Marvel and DC did.
And Image
And Malibu
And Wildstorm
And Awesome
And Dark Horse,
and so on and so on and so on. Everyone did a cape universe back in the 90s. Another one is nice but it isn't exactly vital.
You know what would interest me would be a line of comics based on sports. Manga gets that, and there could probably be some good cross promotion potential if done properly.
Yes. Capeshit is a dead horse in comics and people will never stop consuming it but at the very least, it's what was promised. People are going into it expecting "golden" era capeshit should be getting their "golden" era capeshit. I doubt it will be all of those things you mentioned but that's his customers problem, and theyll likely be to distracted being counter culture obsessed chuds to notice that their $35 dollar toilet paper has pictures and words on it.
Entertainment doesn't have to be revolutionary to be worthwhile. I've often thought of superhero comics like soap operas: people don't read them for innovation or great writing, they read them because it's the characters they like having ongoing adventures. They're comfort food, and being familiar doesn't mean they're bad (but nor does it mean they can get away with being half-assed, for that matter).
I mean 99% of anime is the same shit but repackaged with a new powerup/premise/main protagonist
The main flaw with modern superhero comics is the fact they dont embrace what weebshit did which is that they dont make their superheroes actually earn their power in any meaningful way
A western capeshit hero with a premise more like Batman would probably do well, it'l depend on the execution
If I had a choice between two cape comics tha tI know nothing about, I'd pick the Picasso over the general style 9 times outta 10. But that's probably not the norm.
The artist Cliff Richards still is working for DC which I respect.
Okay, so start discussion and I'll see how things go from there
I mean that other guy is just dumping generic waifus
Well I'm actually interested in how exactly he's going to represent Darren (the shot calling friend). Whether Eric is going to make in involved in some sort of mafia or gang, or what my theory is, possibly a corporate stooge/hitman kind of position.
>I mean that other guy is just dumping generic waifus
You could post rippaverse waifus except there's only the one and she's boring looking.
Two million dollars and they can't even give us what bargain bin isekai manga is full of.
To continue, I've said before I don't exactly think it'll be completely devoid of politics. Though I think he'll try to be really self aware and avoid it where he can, I can see his Libertarian ideals possibly leaking over into having a Cyperpunk dystopian sort of Corporation as the big bad. Which, if he can not be hamfisted with it, I think could be well received across the board.
>I can see his Libertarian ideals possibly leaking over into having a Cyperpunk dystopian sort of Corporation as the big bad
It's not abnormal for writers to include their personal beliefs into their story. You're meant to write what you know, after all.
Do we know what the full rogues gallery looks like?
So far we're looking at Darren, a three person group called Alphacore, a bruiser that goes by Santwan and Yaira might be an ally or in conflict with Isom. I assume they might start off at odds before teaming up, but who knows.
Do these names have some personal significance? Because they all kinda suck.
I hope whoever's paying you for your astroturfing is getting a refund
>I think could be well received across the board
totally not shilling! gay
>more schizophrenic paranoia
Nice. Screenshotted for posterity.
I'm mostly interested in Alphacore, since from their design they look like they might be involved with some branch of the government. Rippa alluded to Isom having a run in with a hero he has a past with and I'm pretty sure it Yaria given the covers but from the interior previews it looks like the Alphacore people arn't too pleased to see him either. Maybe it's one of them? Dunno. Yaria is on cover B but Alphacore is on cover C
I'm interested in the powerset of Alphacore, it seems like the woman member can't actually fly herself from what we've seen in the limited inner shots. I wonder if he'll be trying do a balanced X-team kinda set of power for them where they work off of eachother.
All speculation mind you but I get the feeling that the guy and the woman are the head honchos and they have a bunch of mooks in helmets like the third guy shown.
Interesting. I thought Alphacore was a trio, but the idea that it's a hero/villain organization is cool. Reminds me of Hero Academia where the heroes have their own companies. Eric does kind of talk about Hero Academia in passing, so he could have gotten some inspiration there.
That might just be my own misconception but something about the black and OD green screams government/military to me. The dude in the helmet kind of looks less kitted out to me, like more expendable?
Since we've only seen one panel it's hard to tell. I get the trope of "faceless" means you're an unimportant goon, but there's not anything so far to support more underlings. The 3 of them are on cover C, I feel like there would have been a hint by having more goons off in the far background.
Like I said it's just a feeling I got from looking at the disparity in their designs. The man and the woman are festooned with capes, glowing cables and whatnot while the helmeted dude is just rocking a jacket and some bdu pants, with a sidearm.
Do you think they're villains, corrupt heroes in the pocket of someone else, or do they have a misunderstanding with Isom?
I think maybe they'll start off as antagonists. Like we'll get Isom's opinion of them "corpo/government stooges" or whatever and they'll think Isom is some reckless butthole that's too rusty or flighty to be left to operate with impunity but maybe they get fleshed out in a later story.
No they have goons. They're a group, corporation, military type thing. Hence the goons in this panel taken from the trailer
Interesting, I didn't catch that. But do you think helmet guy is a goon or a higher up?
maybe the head mook
lmao, executive vice president, goon squad B.
Also, Eric just now mentioned that they're 15 pages into issue #2.
>they're 15 pages into issue #2
15 pages already written and inked, only awaiting coloring. Fricking nice.
Looking forward to people giving up on issue one and Eric being forced to sell issue 2 as toilet paper.
That's assuming he'd even bother to print issue 2. A lot of these indie projects, especially ones designed to get people's "political contribution" money rather than their "art I enjoy" money, burn out before they get that far.
heh, head mook. I wonder if it's the same guy? A cloning or splitting type power for many mooks?
>they have a bunch of mooks in helmets like the third guy shown
Ohh.. See I was just thinking it was a three person group but you might be on to something. Having a bunch of faceless mooks like that would definitely fit a corpo-type antagonist.
Though when I say corpo that's pure speculation, I'm biased in that I tend to enjoy cyberpunk corporate dystopian stuff.
There's nothing to talk about. His shills can only post what amounts to "cope, seethe, mald" over and over.
To be fair they can also apparently report the waifu guy en masse because they're butthurt and easily triggered..
Through dick, unity.
"Actor". So... she's filling in... for a guy? While being a super model? How is that supposed to work? Wouldn't it be easier to just CGI the whole scene?
I know, right? This isn't like Michael Myers where the character is in baggy clothes that could disguise the fact it's a woman playing a man. She's a supermodel in a skintight costume. Why is this panel a thing? I can't imagine this scene is so integral to the story that the writer had to include it despite all the logical errors it introduces in a single panel.
>How is that supposed to work?
The director is Mysterio.
And if it's far enough away or depending on the actor's build sometimes they can get away with it.
Aww, you ain't given yourself enough credit Fake Holiday. Whats that saying about stones and glass houses again?
i'm still writing it and my art skills are horrible and i want my comic to look a very specific way.
so i have to get good at drawing which will take a long time.
Why don't you just learn cg?
Yeah, he can start learning Daz 3d.
People made Millions off of my ideas before I had even published them in a way that makes it difficult to publish my ideas for the first time. In response I have been dismantling the legacies of these plagiarists, which doesn't amount to much as they ran out of steam without being able to copy me very poorly
Which plagiarists?
STFU guy
And here's one of the sad and lonely remaining fans of garbage nobody likes anymore, afraid of seeing what I was working on over a decade ago. He's also currently in a Craig of the creek thread advocating for pedophilia acceptance
Today's industry Comics are horrible. It would be really easy to make a lot of money by appealing to normal people instead of perverts, that's why these projects all get attacked so much
>by appealing to normal people instead of perverts
By "perverts" you mean gay and trans people?
>when I could open my wallet for Krazy Krow and get girls like this instead?
Bro do either. Support independents however you can, you don't have to go buy Isom yourself. Rippaverse has already brought eyes on a few other people's projects, I say support what you can because competition is good.
I support any black man tricking dumb white people out of their money
>without having an actual product
Actually the comic's already done. It just doesn't ship until August.
See the issue is every gripe you've had so far is an assumption. Show me where anyone thinks this is the first successful campaign ever, it's celebrated because of the amount raised vs time campaign spent live.
>See the issue is every gripe you've had so far is an assumption. Show me where anyone thinks this is the first successful campaign ever, it's celebrated because of the amount raised vs time campaign spent live.
Yes, yes it has. Nobody's fault but your own for being unable to handle reality.
>Yes, yes it has.
Nope.
And I'll ask again.
If the goal is to go back to the way comics were before sjws made the female character designs all prudish, why is Yaira's design itself so prudish? Shouldn't she be wearing a leotard of some sort?
Now go ahead and call me disingenuous again.
>why is Yaira's design itself so prudish?
Why do you consider it prudish?
>Why do you consider it prudish?
The amount of coverage for one.
The fact that it bears such a striking resemblance to Amythst's reboot costume marketed towards young girls for another.
I mean in all honesty I think Kamen America is a terrible book but and its character designs are stolen from anime and video games but at least it attempted to do some sexy girls. Rippaverse has just the one female character it's pushing so far, and, art quality aside, it doesn't look all that different from a tumblr redesign.
I'm not gonna sit here and say Marvel is generally any better either. But at least a couple months ago we got those pages of Mary Jane in the black cat costume.
>The fact that it bears such a striking resemblance to Amythst's reboot costume marketed towards young girls for another.
You suggesting that this visionary, this genius, this totally-not-a-pathetic-e-celeb is... copying?!
Let me be 100% clear about this. I absolutely do not think he's intentionally copying anything with the character designs.
I think that he hired Current Yearr DC artists to draw out his universe, and that came with the downside of them using Current Year design sensibilities. That's not copying. It's just something that happens. House style is a double edged sword; it keeps things looking consistent yes, but it means it will naturally look samey because that's its intent.
Plus it's insanely difficult and rare to have a 100% original design. Any design he came up with people would say he copied somebody.
True, but I expect we will see costume updates over time. Though it'll be story driven rather than just having a new artist and costume. I don't know how deep Isom will go with sexification to be fair as Eric had been clear that Isom wasn't to be targeted at a specific age group. He does plan to do some M-rated under that brand so maybe if this business venture survives there will be some outfits that satisfy you. Though if you're not into the designs atm I can't blame you for just observing rather than buying.
>why is Yaira's design itself so prudish?
Erics a Christian or at least raised Christian. And Christianity is just as anti-skin as the SJWs.
>Erics a Christian or at least raised Christian.
That explains the cross on Isom.
It's also a bad sign.
>Being Christian is a bad sign
>posts lewd picture of a 14 year old
every time.
I'd rather have more Body Bags than this. It's more honest. Shame Pearson is so goddamn lazy.
Christian is a bad sign
Daredevil is a devout catholic but they don't feel the need to put a cross on his design. Huntress sometimes has a cross theme I guess but look at the rest of her.
>Daredevil is a devout catholic but they don't feel the need to put a cross on his design
I think the subtle cross symbol on the costume wouldve been a good enough motif but having the other smaller cross just above his dick was an odd choice.
It's probably meant to evoke the image of a chastity belt or a wiener cage or something. Maybe his unique ability is super blue balls.
Great. Because when I think of things that AREN'T preachy, christcucks are right at the top of the list.
If anything if this many people are willing to support Eric despite being an unproven variable. How much must the normal comic book industry suck by comparison?
Equal amounts.
Just because I think this shit looks like garbage doesn't mean I like how the big two are doing things. It means I'm laughing at all of you in the language of manga supremacy.
How is it prudish? Just because she doesn't show any cleavage and only shows a little thigh? She's a beautiful and damn sexy girl. The costume you posted is shit by the way.
Okay now THAT is disingenous. We've had thousands of threads about how getting rid of this design for Carol Danvers was political pandering to feminists and a major step back for the character.
You'd think a creator that claims to be going back to stuff like this would reflect it but I guess that means he'd go to hell?
>How is it prudish?
Disingenous question, already answered.
Who cares whether I get something out of it? Do you get something out of being a fan of anything?
This kind of autism is why I don't engage with the comics industry and just pirate everything.
Nothing beats monetizing your haters. If the writers at DC didn't blacklist Ethan Van Sciver he wouldn't be a millionaire and there would not be Cyberfrog action figures. The people who pushed them out of the comic industry are all fighting for sub-minimum wage gigs.
you do know that "fren" stands for Far Right Ethno-Nationalist, right? Wouldn't want you using the wrong terms and get confused for a nazi or anything.
Fren is from Apu pepe, it was made by the Finnish before the great culture war.
I wish people had talked about my campaign like this. Is this what it takes, you just have to shill on Cinemaphile all day?
What was your campaign about?
Market yourself man. Do regular updates on platforms like instagram, youtube, etc. Make yourself known for consistency, if you're worried about burnout then work ahead a bit and get a backlog going so you can constantly provide updates and releases on a timely schedule. Doing this will let you take breaks to avoid burnout without actually disrupting your consistency in content uploads. Once people trust that you get the work done on time, the word will spread.
Also, if you don't mind randoms on Cinemaphile peeping, I'm not against seeing your content. I'm down to support independent creators and have been saying to share the love beyond just rippaverse.
Who are you?
You're self-sabotaging by submitting to Cinemaphile's allergy to advertising, but ignore the carping from the sidelines and actually promote your work.
I don't have 200k in start up money.
>200k in start up money.
Tbf that was so he could do as much of it it in the house as possible so he owns it. You could probably get away with spending less.
how are you making Cinemaphile a better place by wasting your time posting breasts when people just want to discuss a new comic coming out? What the frick happened to this place? has Cinemaphile always been this shitted up? Hell i don't even remember things being this bad in 2013
It's an age old imageboard tactic. It simultaneously serves to derail the thread and bring it to the bump limit faster. Don't engage.
So what exactly is Isom's power? Yara seems to use energy but all we have to go off of for Isom's abilities is his physicality.
Seems to at least have some form of super strength, probably the durability to go with it.
>So what exactly is Isom's power?
Unique Abilities
i think Eric mentioned in one of his launch streams that it's like some form of super athleticism. There's a panel where's he's steamrolling through a group of Alphacore redshirts and we see him working a punching bag in a panel too. I'm thinking the whole Super Strength thing will be Santwan's thing
Not much to go on, but the rocks around him is a couple depictions have to be significant. Like he could be able to manipulate earth or it's just trying to indicate that his super strength is shattering the ground or something.
Nah, he's just destroying the ground underneath him with his strength. He's just your typical super strength bruiser.
Come watch /our/ based black man, EVS approved
>Issue #2 confirmed already being worked on. 15 pages confirmed done with pencil and ink, just need to send it to gabe for coloring.
>EVS confirmed doing a cover for Issue #2
this dude is going to be releasing multiple issues a year or something?
2 more before the end of the year. That's the plan anyway.
i wonder how long the second issue will be. no way he makes it 96 pages long like the first.
Unlikely, as he said the first issue is especially long. If it's 50 pages I'd be happy with that.
so the second issue should cost less. which means the second campaign will probably make way less money.
i wonder how well though out his long term plans are.
He needs to get a foot in distributing to the regular comic shops. I wonder if he'll be anywhere around SDCC also or at least have a representative at SDCC.
That seems extremely pointless. The kind of person that is going to be interested in his works is tapped in already and can just get it direct from him. Why would he give a cut to comic shops that he doesn't have to?
And as far as the shops go, why would they spend shelf space on this when funko trash or manga is more profitable?
why give a cut to a comic shop ? Because Comic shops are what are keeping the industry at least semi traditional and encourage physical social interaction instead of online digital shopping.Comic Shops also buy multiple copies in bulk to sell.
i doubt many comic shops would want to sell his comic.
i wonder though if having his own store will hurt him in the long run.
Apparently he's had some people contact him after fans called local shops. I doubt any franchises are involved, but I could see some local shops potentially carrying some copies.
If he want to change the culture in the comics he should release at least 10 different titles a year. The worst thing happening is if his comics are forgotten like Jawbreakers or Cyberfrog
These people are fricking boring.
Pretty much all Youtubers, podcasters, and commentators are boring as frick.
That's why they're only good as background noise for the most part.
No, there are degrees of quality and this one is worse than normal. It's so bad a guy tried to move into the topic of latina booties before awkwardly moving onto listening to prank call content. Desperate people with no personality beyond what they think is edgy and offensive. Or maybe the better voices are staying silent there are so many in this call and no one wants to bounce off what's in front of them because not even they find it engaging.
>No, there are degrees of quality
Not really, the vast majority of them are unwatchable trash unless you're a zoomer with ADHD.
>prank call content
Prank call? No, that was someone involved in the Depp/Heard case trying to swat That Umbrella Guy.
Anyone else notice the cross above Isom's crotch? Not sure how that's gonna play out storywise. Like, did he go to the super-tailer and say "Yeah right above my wiener. Yeah, perfect!"
Maybe he shoots lasers out of it.
Of course one of the bad guys is a gangsta with a grill.
superhero comics suck and i won't pander to the mongoloids who read them
The story is going to be shit right? They are buying a comic from someone with ZERO writing experience
Meh, I've read plenty of stuff that was written by people with no writing experience that was still an enjoyable read.
lol just go full conservative grift and make tons of cash. why cant any of you do it?
it's certainly heartening to see that the race marxist BS might be winding down. Can't wait to see what angle they come up with next. This time it was just swapping all the classist terms for racial term. Maybe they'll try to make a coalition out of the furry community or something
It's taken long enough. I think this mask off moment over Eric was good for the zeitgeist.
remember that you can hide the threads. no need to posting in them. and if you do, you can use sage in the options
any goodwill that I had about this comic was destroyed with massive shilling on Cinemaphile go frick yourself op, your shit will be forgotten in a month
>black man buck breaks an entire board
how did this even happen?
by making 20 threads at teh same time?
when are we getting r34
I'm so fricking hype
It's fine and all that he is making a lot of money, but my question here is it's the comic good? can't say cus is not even out yet and people are throwing money at it and from what I see, all they care about is money.
Is fine to make a profit out of your works, but if money is first before passion then you are just a hack for me.
I'm not going to judge the comic until is out and I can read it but until then the whole thing feels like another Cecil CashGrab scam.
I don't care for politics or the (artificial)drama, I just like comics and tried to get any info in what this comic is about, even something as simple as what's his power? But the only thing I can find is that it's "an original comic that isnt woke"...which is apparently a huge selling point for many anti-woke people but I honestly dont see that pitch being a sustainable model outside of its initial burst of sales
>even something as simple as what's his power?
Unique Abilities.
That's what the press release says.
>unique
Well, that helps. The only pictures I've seem of him was being physically like punching the bag. Itll be hilarious if he's another electric black hero
I always assumed that woke comics failed because comics fans dont buy them and the woke crowd that they pander to doesnt buy comics either. They unironically keep getting good PR from the people that hate them though because without them never shutting up about it, I never would've known that they made superman and robin gay. The problem with the rippa "strategy" is that it seems to just be a counter culture than have anything of substance to show.
So he vomits fecal matter on his opponents?
Thats unique.
A comic not being woke is a huge selling point.
If it's not woke, it MAY be good.
Story has to be good, not just no woke.
If you're a conservative or even just a normal person making a comic or a book or a movie. You have to be twice as good as the mainstream but only expect a fraction of the credit or the publicity for it. Because the big corpos who have a monopoly and their cronies in the press will bury your success. Eric getting news coverage like this is the exception that proves the rule.
>You have to be twice as good as the mainstream but only expect a fraction of the credit or the publicity for it.
Fox News isn't covering any random comic book. This oppression olympics stuff is getting old.
WOuld you rather be known as the guy who made millions with a comicsgate comic or the guy who made a good comic?
To them it's the same thing.
I actually had an argument with Raging Golden Eagle some time ago. His comic made quite the money and ComicsGate gays were shilling it like the best thing ever and how it would destroy woke media. But when it came out and I got to read it, the story was so trash and makes me wonder what the hell were they thinking when writing something so bad.
Will Rippa fall into the same path? Only time will tell.
>Will Rippa fall into the same path? Only time will tell.
Yes. Because there are people that have a vested interest in seeing it fail and people that have a vested interested in seeing it succeed. There will be no acceptance of criticism, everyone will accuse their counterparts of being disingenous or arguing in bad faith.
The only winning move is to move to Cinemaphile,
Well I for one prefer manga any day of the week.
Cool, I like both. Well, used to like both until western comics went to shit.
Same my dude, same.
There was a crowdfund game that was the "spiritual successor" to a classic game that many fans backed in protest to the corporation that everyone hated at the time. In the end the game was a literal scam and the end product was shit because everyone was blinded by "let's get back at corporation" to see the bigger picture. Funny enough this has happened in comics too but the anti-woke crowd is more likely to die on that hill and refuse to admit that they backed a lemon. I guess the moral of the story is that backing things out of spite is a bad idea and counter culture is still dumb as frick
See, this argument work if the same thing hadn't happened a few years later and resulted in a game that WASN'T complete shit.
Pic related.
The issue with MN9 was that Inafune was a hack who was never the reason why Mega Man was what it was to begin with, he just rode the "I used to work at Capcom" train and idiots believed him.
Rippa's crap doesn't really have that issue because he's not an established creator and he's not advertising his comic around him being some industry mastermind like Inafune did.
It's very much just a "I'll wait and see, but I'm not expecting much" situation.
>"I'll wait and see, but I'm not expecting much"
I'm with you on that.
Yeah, the clear difference is that people learned way too late that inafune was a fraud but castlevania's creator was actually reputable and had the actual prestige. Rippa ismt claiming to be an industry legend but he's definitely adding the fuel by making this project be more like a movement for the backers. But either way, as someone who's also bored of the current state of the big 2, I hope it can deliver, if not, no loss.
Wait bloodstained was made by castlevania's creator? I thought it was just a fan. Neat
Made by the guy who produced a ton of the 21st century games and was the assistant director on Symphony of the Night.
He had a similar claim to fame as Inafune, but unlike Inafune he actually contributed meaningfully to the games he worked on.
That game is actually good when you gitgud
>some of your attempts at replacing a defacto monopoly that hates you with years of experience failed, guess you shouldnt try again chud
lmao are you stupid?
not all of the comics were bad through, Kamen America and Cyberfrog were decent enough and are continuing from what i recall
He already hit the jackpot. Even if the comics is garbage, his "fans" will either defend it or just claim that the book was "made to send a message to the industry". So it just depends how much he values his status as a comicsgator because otherwise it's just a big paycheck.
This remind me how rippaverse is the Cinemaphile equivalent of NASB. the developers spent most of their advertisements being anti-nintendo and bragging about how they will kill smash.
This is why you should promote your works with what's in the work and not with stuff like "it'e better than smash" or "it's not woke".
And just like every attempted smash "killer"/clone, it's a releases like a wet fart then is quickly forgotten and only held on by the most autistic of autist.
Thats because the devs forgot melee fans will never ever move on from melee
Preferably both.
Marvel and DC [comic book stores in general too] started out as laundering schemes for the mafia, so what?
If the comics are good and stand the test of time nobody is gonna renember that
They try to run with the "is not woke" theme, but forget to actually make something out of it. Like character development, world building and all that that is necessary for good story telling.
If this comic is just another "is not woke" Cg trash then frick it, I don't give a rat's ass and Rippa won't get a cent from me.
I wouldve actually bought an issue but the about of drama that's intentionally made to use as fuel for this comics is as annoying as the amount of shill threads. It will pop up on a storytime or a free download as soon as the public gets it.
>The woke comics disregard characters, plot, and worldbuilding and just use being woke as their selling point
>The anti-woke comics disregard characters, plot, and worldbuilding and just use being anti-woke as their selling point
It's kinda funny how both woke and anti-woke are like two sides of the same coin.
>I wouldve actually bought an issue but
Solid point you got there, in the end both sides forget what good story telling is.
Because culture wars writing comes with a built in shield against criticism. "You only think it's bad because you're Group X"
When rippaverse gets story timed you'll see a lot of those posts.
>I wouldve actually bought an issue but
Doubt.
Yea, I would rather pirate it first.
At least you're being honest now. Shame you had to be questioned on it for that honesty to come out.
You paying for it?
Yup. Got a B variant cover coming in, ordered before the first million.
Do let us know how you will feel when you get it.
Alright, I've already decided that if it's preachy I won't be picking up #2 anyway. I'll drop a post when it comes in, if it's shit I'll say it's shit, not a big deal.
That's one of the things I tell people, to be honest.
If something is shit then go right and say it, but in the case of these comicsgate gays, their fans will buy whatever they shit out, even if is trash and defend it like the best thing ever.
Tribalism has people fricked up. I'm not about to spend money on something I don't even like to "piss off" someone I don't even know. If it's shit and he's heavy handed with political shit (I'm not expecting something completely apolitical, because shit leaks over idc who you are). If it's the same bullshit political lectures, "but totally different because [insert politics here]" I'm not about to waste money on a #2. I like to give indies the benefit of the doubt though, it's not easy to break out.
Yeah, I hope he sticks to his apolitical claim because I've seen some of his rants and he comes off aggressively "libertarian". It'd be like a tumblr twitter user with blue check marks, gender pronouns, and a rainbow in their profile saying that despite their beliefs, their new book will not have anything political at all. It just brings a lot of doubt
The point being? I am merely remarking upon the lack of an international European comics market save for a few connoisseurs and some niche communities.
Best of luck to the Rippaverse though.
Is anyone gonna scan and storytime it when it drops? I'm not paying $35 for a floppy, I don't even buy the normal price ones.
It's not really a floppy, it's 96 pages.
Well that's better at least but that's still too high for me, I buy trades with more pages for like $14
That $35 could be spent on an epic collection where I get ~300 pages of a book I know I like
Then go buy that and stop b***hing, frick
>S-S-Stop complaining and just don't read it.
Eric's whole shtick for years has been criticizing books, frick off.
Don't care, frick off
Or three manga books.
I don't read much manga, most of it is satanic.
Personally I'm gonna use that $35 money to buy Nier Automata. I never got around to getting a copy, I'll have $10 left over, and the siren call of big robot booty is much more enticing than anything on display here.
Good game, go buy it.
I would rather spend $35 at my local comic shop where I can get 36 back issues for 30 and spend the remaining on 2 slices of Pizza.
Damn dude that's a hell of a deal. Respect.
With taxes and their shipping rates it's closer to $50. Already played automata, so I guess I'll just play the first nier
From bigger publishers who could afford that price.
So what? I'm not paying the same amount of money for less than a third of the content without at least having any knowledge about the quality.
OK. Then frick off.
Can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Cinemaphile isn't for you this is DC country.
Does Rippa have any experience in writing? Not even for a comic, just writing in general?
Yes, he's written political stuff and used to do ghostwriting.
Thanks, didn't know he was a rapper. That actually does more for his credibility than any of his political vids.
I'm gonna give his book an honest lookover once it gets the eventual storytime here, but I'm behind on too many comics as it to drop $35 on only 96 pages. The last book I got was 20 bucks for 292 pages.
He's a moderately successful rapper who wrote all of his own music and used to write articles. Not sure if he ever wrote fiction of any kind, though.
Probably not.
Does anyone know if his YT videos are even scripted?
Most of them seem like snippets cut from streams.
See
Fair enough.
Personally I'd be fine with it even if he had no professional writing experience, I've read stuff written by people who got their start writing porn doujin and fanfics that I still ended up enjoying, so that's not really a deal breaker for me personally.
I stated he was a journalist, but I do not really support Rippa. I really wanted to see him fail and laugh at him, but instead he's making money but not really getting a significant amount of readers.
I think he was a journalist, he's really good at maintaining a journalistic narrative base on his views and goals to influence people.
I am tired of hearing about how a product or a creator is "not woke" or "anti-woke". Not because anti/not woke media is bad, but because they have become buzzwords that are regularly used to attract specific groups of people who care more about being catered to than the quality of the content and product they consume. gullible fricking idiots like the one reading this spoiler. And those type of people make it very easy for bad content to be made for cheap cost and big profit.
The irony that the anti-woke become as insufferable as the woke. Such is the nature of couter culture obsessed idiots. I dont mind either way, a comic that I was never going to read anyways is taking money away from a group of people I couldn't give less of a shit about. It's like onlyfans subscribers, it's not like the waste of air sad men throwing their money away wouldve used their spare funds to promote actual good content anyway.
2 million WHAT sold? Empty promises? Lies?
Comicsgate gays don't like criticism, let us see how Rippa react when his stuff comes out.
They have their own echo chamber, delusions, and the rippa channel himself to tell them that it's just the "left hating 'our' success". I feel some respect towards rippa hitting it big by exploiting comicsgate gays.
Gives me inspiration to exploit the gamergate gays who cry about anime tiddies getting censored by making a game full of all the anime tiddies...but I think I'm late to that market
>Gives me inspiration to exploit the gamergate gays who cry about anime tiddies getting censored by making a game full of all the anime tiddies...but I think I'm late to that marke
Yeah, eroge have existed for a very, very long time. Just a wee late.
I was thinking less dating sims, more dead or alive type stuff but even that's oversaturated. Damn, japan really is running laps on our market cartoon, comics, and games.
>more dead or alive type stuff but even that's oversaturate
Stop it, you're killing me with nostalgia. Damn wokescolds and them getting Koei to stop releasing DoA in the west.
just get it from play asia
If you do it make the game play good.
I want, more than anything else, a 3d castlevania style platformer where the main character is just an absurdly top heavy titcow.
>but I think I'm late to that market
That and you wouldn't really be able to compete with the Asians in that regard.
Everyone is already kind of aware that western games have been in the crapper for basically the entire last generation.
>That and you wouldn't really be able to compete with the Asians in that regard.
Seems like a common refrain in these "we must defeat the censors" things.
If you want to pull a rippa you'd need to at the very least have spent the last 5-7 years minimum building up an audience of gamergate gays to rally behind you...being a retired established entertainment producer/music writer definitely helps get your foot in the door of influence though.
>no censorship
>no one banning you for spouting your asinine, dogshit 'its just a grift!!! despite it being far easier to just be a liberal wokester and make a shit ton of money!!!' opinion #8696
>echo chamber
if this was reddit you'd have gotten banned already. quit your crybaby b***hing. you banning everyone from everywhere and then saying there are 'echo chambers' is the height of delusion
Holy jealous batman
Are you going to pretend you're not a seething leftist?
You realize you're proving his point? That anyone that criticizes this will just be dismissed as a seething leftist? I know you're going to do it to me too now, but you get this is the response he was fishing for right?
But you are a seething leftist, that is the point.
In the end, both sides are kinda shit.
If you criticize the left then you are a nazy bigot, if you criticize the right then you are a leftie wokie.
For now I say let us just wait for the damn thing to be released then we can talk about whether is good or not.
But still, I'm not paying a dime for something that is not even out yet and promises mean shit to me.
>For now I say let us just wait for the damn thing to be released then we can talk about whether is good or not.
But it simultaneously can't be and/or is guaranteed to be be. That's the point. People are too invested in the culture war now to ever accept if it's good/bad.
Then it shall be their lost for throwing money at something that is not even out. But hey, it may be good so who can't really tell at this point.
My opinion is that things this shielded from criticism seldom have a reason to be good, so they rarely are.
You're not criticizing anything though, you're just seething.
There's nothing to criticize yet.
And that's not even what I'm attempting to do. I'm attempting to predict the behaviors of anons. Which is shockingly easy.
They will defend this no matter what, because to do otherwise would mean that the left wins. Even if it's nothing but 90 pages of a libertarian manifesto, they'll say it's apolitical because otherwise Eric July lied to them. They'll perseverate and say it's "based" instead and then say people are seething.
Similarly, people dedicated to leftism will never see any merit or positive qualities the comic may have. They will focus on the most minute details to try and squirrel out a flaw because to do otherwise would mean the right wins, and they will take responses such as yours as further evidence that the only reason people are defending the comic is to "make leftists seethe".
We have done this exchange multiple times and are getting exceedingly efficient at it. I see no reason that Rippaverse should avoid this inevitability.
Now tell me to cope as is required by the script.
I don't think it counts as defending the comic to make the simple observation that you're a seething leftist.
Thank you. Your response has been recorded and added to the spreadsheet.
I see you take getting blown the frick out very seriously.
These conversations are more entertaining than even the best capeshit could ever be.
c-cope and seethe l-leftist, you'll never b-be a woman ;;-;;
1. The only reason you're upset at this literal who comic is because you're a leftist, which makes you an autistic radical authoritarian control freak, and are mad that something exists that you can't control.
2. We're not talking about "anyone", we're talking about you, but that tactic is also exclusively used by leftist scum such as yourself.
Go out for a bit, anon, you need some fresh air.
I'm outside right now, you should take your own advice.
Put down the phone, anon and look at the grass for a bit.
>The only reason you're upset
Lemme stop you right there projectionist.
Well you failed, so continue your seething I guess.
More like continue feeding me yous and increasing the post count.
Well thanks for keeping the thread bumped.
Thank yourself. I've been saging my posts
The fanart is as shitty as the promo art. Just like Kamen America.
Kamen America's fan art is better than its interior art
If you're talking about the art at the end of the book, that's not fanart. Those are commissions.
Genzoman is as generic as Tim Lim. The "story" is shit.
I think only the cover of Kamen America is good. I wonder how's the story.
The main character's origin story is that she just wants to make dresses but a teacher told her she could pick a non feminine job if she wanted. Then we later meet the teacher as a dying homeless woman and she explains it's because her woke agenda pushing scared everyone out of her life.
>inb4 "based"
Im part of the star citizen team.
You are nothing rippa.
he built his own fanbase over years and im pretty sure his project got exponentialyl bigger due to comic book fatigue
>comics are too political and bad
>yay comics agreeing with my world view
Muppets. I just want to go back to comics being well written, despite their political leanings. I mean flash's Wally west was a right leaning working class man and oliver queen was a left leaning rich man. And both had great stories.
Common normie will not know about this thinking its another Marvel woke shit with gigga homie. It should promote itself on something that defies "current year" like maybe having him actually punch a commie or wear American flag or something. Or better yet, how about not doing Capeshit and focus on makin non woke Starship Trooper or Resident Evil comic? Those IP's are pretty cheap to get. Starship trooper got a shitty game recently and Resident a shitty cheap tv series.
Common normies don't matter because this isn't being sold in stores. Even if it was, the Rippaverse claims to be apolitical, so it couldn't get away with having its characters literally draped in the American flag.
There is a limit on support a niche comic publisher can get. His existence will depend on how he promotes itself and what interesting IP he owns. Making bland superhero stories just for the old geeks will make him irrelevant within a year.
I can't tell if it's woke lefties or Mangagays who want to see Rippaverse fail. UNless he turn into some homosexual who only make all black cast original IP's talking about anarcho capitalism, i think he is doint a service to everyone tired of comic industry being either woke or Japanese
Mangagay here I hope he succed
It's woke lefties LARPing as mangagays.
Actual mangagays don't care about any comics, the woke types try to pretend that indie comics are on the level of manga and associate the two, which is hilarious.
OVER TWO MILLION?!
THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! THERE'S NO WAY THERE'S THAT MANY RACISTS!
How many layers of irony are you on?
BAAAASED RIPPAVERSE
I made the mistake of trying to hone my skills and got disillusioned, instead of taking the relatively easier route of building a cult of personality that will invest in whatever I put out.
As a center left white dude my politics aren't spicy enough. No one is going to want to read about a teenage alien girl from a medieval society walking around in a futuristic earth wondering why the cops she is training under simply don't cut off the hands of the criminals they arrest.
Honestly I think I've read something similar before. Like a reverse isekai where a warrior character goes to modern day and is confused at stuff.
The joke is that this character is actually well aware of human culture and customs but just actively ignores them because she's pretty passively racist it towards humans. While her siblings want to learn and/or have sex with them.
idgi
You mean like Cop Craft, you fricking hack?
Like what? Anime is trash
He's saying your concept has already been done before.
Shame the anime was QUALITY shit.
Ahaha, well it has a hell of a lot more too it I was only mentioning it because said character in OC work is probably the most outwardly political. Although I gotta joke about one of the 4 medieval alien hicks making a comment about a trans characters top scares, asking what battle they fought in.
Yaira book when? If Rippa can afford Ed Benes or a discount Ed Benes...
>IS NOT POLITICAL
>every character is american black in a country where they are a small minority
ENJOY YOUR MARVEL LITE LMAO
>every character is american black
You moron
Let me guess, there will be race mixing and this blonde woman will have the black guy's children and they will live happily as a christcuck family.
(YOU) Absolute moron
Yes, anon. I'm sure there won't be any form of development. How moronic of me to think of it. Surely, they won't ever stop being enemies like the cover in your pic shows. I bow to you, Einstein.
/misc/ is that way my friend, who let you out of your containment board?
there's no such thing as a containment board.
So I call you out on being stupid and I'm /misc/? How does this work?
>durr there's gonna be racemixing
>show evidence that points otherwise
>sassy/smug it could happen therefore you're stupid
Yeah you're a moron
>>show evidence that points otherwise
I already proved you wrong
>doubles down on the ad hominem
Why are you so stupid?
Every new picture I see of Isom the cross changes color what's up with that?
>there wont be any woke in my comics
>first issue, hero fights a white woman with blue hair
kek
He's going for a gut punch, just a black man trying to get by in a post roe v wade world.
doubt it since Eric is married to a black woman
Also it's Eric's personal opinion that black men should be in relationships with black women in general. Not that he's against race mixing per se, but he's very pro black, which is hilarious since some people think he sells out to whites.
Us racists are very accepting of racists of all races, it's the "anti-racists" you gotta watch out for.
Right, which goes back to how conservative philosophy of tolerance is "I will allow you to exist, but you need to stay away". Racists like saying "if you don't like it, leave" because it makes open racism a tool to promote segregation. Black nationalists and white nationalists can agree to separate and would prefer a balkanized US.
And that's a good thing.
Eric isn't conservative.
People for whatever reason keep projecting onto Eric and then criticize their projections
R34 when
YOU moron
Alphacore is the bad guys, right?
Eric said in regards to them that they basically fit a grey zone so who knows
(YOU) moronttjap
>Avery Silman lives in Florepark, Texas
>Avery
>Texas
>Tex Avery
Big Chungus confirmed in the Rippaverse
Streisand effect. No one cared about Rippa until it was banned from a subreddit.
What are people really arguing about here? Sure hyping a comic with the only promise being of being un-woke is kinda silly but if the comic turns out good and devoid of politics unlike the Big 2, then it's a win for comic fans...if it's unreadable trash then at the very least he was mostly supported by those lame CGers with no skin off our noses. Makes me think that there really is shill group that is stirring up an argument for argument sake.
All marketing a comic for being 'un-woke' is, is arguing for arguments sake, except the comic artist also gets a lot of money.
It's not just for arguments' sake. It's so the creator can have material for his twitch streams and youtube clips.
Speaking of: Hi Eric! Give us beard grooming tips please!
Because it's not devoid of politics, it's steeped in it. A lot of the criticism comes from how moronic people are for falling for the politics based marketing, but then they say it isn't political, it's just anti-woke, which doesn't make sense because if it were apolitical, why would it be anti-anything?
The criticism from the left has been nonexistent. A youtube rantsona guy made a summary which only found one tweet really being unfair to the creator. The other two tweets in the 23 minute long video were mild bit of criticism and it's telling that they have to be included at all.
It's not out yet, so your conjecture is just projection.
Oh cool, someone used the other definition of projection; it's a forecast.
It's already political in that it's calling itself anti-woke. Star Wars was called woke and political for having black characters. From Finn being "too black" to the black woman in Kenobi, these characters didn't talk politics. If the source itself doesn't have to be directly "political" and it can be political based on outside factors that could lead to certain decisions, the rippaverse is political. If an interracial kiss is seen a political, than the black couples in a guy who prefers people to marry in their own race is more political because you actually have someone's politics said outright for reference instead of just conjecture.
You don't realize what being "woke" is do you? It's not just having politics in your story. It's putting aside your story and your characters to stand on an imaginary soapbox and b***h to the reader, instead of having any action or fun.
If he had said he was anti-political, you would have a point, but that's not what he is going after. Anti-woke, no matter how much you claim doesn't exist or is just a buzzword, does have a meaning.
It means it won't stop the story dead in it's tract to complain about real world issues. It means it won't shit on the reader for being a particular shade and having a specific heritage. It means it won't bend over backwards to appease a crowd who already isn't interested in the media despite how much they b***h and complain about it.
It's pretty simple and I'm convinced people try to write off woke as a buzzword to try and stop people from using it to point out Objectively badly written stories.
>It's already political in that it's calling itself anti-woke
Where? Some interview?
non-woke ≠ anti-woke
Yup, Kamen America was anti woke and so was Postal 2. We can still make apolitical shows like Invincible or comics that are just non woke. We dont have to choose between this and woke crap like America Chavez
Postal was a reaction to censorship culture, especially Postal 2.
>Postal was a reaction to censorship culture, especially Postal 2.
I still have zero idea why president's wives are given any sort of power at all.
Proximity to power gives them a platform. Platforms are power. Consider we've been doing these 500 posts threads daily for a random douchebag on youtube that, in a pre social media era, would have died in obscurity.
>We can still make apolitical shows like Invincible
It's almost impossible to have a thread about the show without someone complaining about the race swaps. I think you meant the comic. But even then Mark having gay best friend wasn't wildly accepted.
It wasn't that woke considering his Black girlfriend was a b***h and he hooks up with the White super heroine
The comic has interracial relationships.
George Lucas was in interacial relationship in real life and you can't cumming to the OG, Rebels or KOTOR
Ironically had they not let white folk try to write for Finn that movie would probably have been better. The rogue stormtrooper angle is way more interesting than the mary sue jedi angle anyway.
>Why are you saying you're innocent!?!?! That's something a guilty person would say!!!
Frick off kafkatrap commie homosexual
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's contradictory as frick to claim that your work is one thing but sell it off the premise of being another thing. It doesnt help that the creator of it is a staunch "libertarian" and politics obsessed. So it leads to believe that he means that it just wont have politics that are against his sensibilities.
The other youtubers in his circle seem to be using reddit banning his discussion as their biggest source of fuel. If Twitter banned them sure, but playing up a literal who reddit mods to act like a victim is pretty funny. It's similar to when Kenobi used the racist tweet of select couple of twitter users to deflect from criticism of how show the bad was. Nice to see them employing the tactics of their enemies
Nah, yer a gay.
The basic observation that people are sick of hamfisted marxist propaganda written by people falling over each other to occupy the farthest left and most radical authoritarian spot possible on the political compass doesn't say anything about their comic beyond " it isn't that".
The idea that a character is racially marxist or "radical authoritarian" is a product of your own politics. Reacting to that through a comic is political. Again, this goes back to the standard of people seeing non-whites in things like Star Wars as political.
Anti-woke does have a meaning and it's reaction. Claiming to be apolitical and just doing what you want as a neutral guy telling fun neutral stories is one thing, claiming you're making anti-woke super hero comics, comics which often have to do with crime and the politics of policing and self-policing, and claiming that's not political, you're being dishonest.
Woke SJW liberals will tell you they're political, but anti-woke anti-SJW "centrist" anti-liberals will try to claim they aren't political because they don't want to admit they're gays by their own standards.
>The idea that a character is racially marxist or "radical authoritarian" is a product of your own politics
This is possibly the most insane example of projection I've ever seen.
No, a character is the product of the author.
Nah, I can see a lineup of tumblr diversity vitiligo trans teens and see it as marxist without knowing the author. Why the frick would that standard change now?
>they don't want to admit they're gays by their own standards
Yeah, it's a safe bet that all of this just means that "this comic will have politics that appeal to me" than be devoid of politics being everyone has a political magnifying glass and will always find some politics in a story even if it's a fantasy setting story that's trying to has nothing to do in the real world(LOTR).
I've seen more anti-shilling then I have any actual shilling in every thread about this comic. Every single one.
It's gotten to the point that some people are image dumping in an attempt to get people to shut up or for a janny to nuke the thread.
That isn't the tactic of a shill. That is the tactic of a coward who wants to kill off any and all discussion because they personally don't like it.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start dumping pony scat images in an last ditch effort to kill off this thread.
What discussion are they killing off?
The shills make 20 of the same topics and the anti-shills trying to take down some of the threads by troony spamming are both insufferable
>The shills make 20 of the same topics and the anti-shills trying to take down
That's demonstrably false when you have morons crying about why their thread shitting on isom got removed. It shows that the majority of those threads are made by anti-shills. The more you b***h and try to censor it, the more people are going to hear about the book. You could just stop repeating the side effect and just chill, then you'd stop making Eric so much money.
>I'm annoyed by both shills and anti-shill
>hurr moron, you're just hating on Rippa
The nice thing about catering to the anti-woke crowd is that quality does not matter; even if it's trash, people will defend it by saying "haha wow, the other side is really mad about this!"
Just look at kamen america threads
Kamern America was a satire comic that openly make fun of Lefties. Rippaverse suppose to be about normal comics like in the 90's about characters and a story. Pretty much like Invincible of Robert Kirkman
I don't see any reason to complain either
If:
1. Its good and non woke - you should be happy theres a healthy competition
2. If you're annoyed at spam - you can ignore the threads
3. If you're Manga fan then you will have something non cringe to show off to Japan
The only people who would have interest in hating on RIppaverse are literal shills of DC and Marvel or actual SJW's who think Cinemaphile is now Tumblr 2.0. We should really just cleanse this site with non stop gore posting until the twitter crowd frick off
>3. If you're Manga fan then you will have something non cringe to show off to Japan
Now that is wishful thinking.
They became weebs because of classic Disney and even now they borrow a lot of shit like all recent Furry anime based on Zootopia. All you need to do is stop with cringe woke stories or Christcuck morals and you can inspire them for new kinds of Manga and Anime
But I became a weeb because of big anime titty and Rippaverse is for good christians that hate big anime titty.
Rippa literally presents a big titty character in one of the covers, Yaira or something
No anon I mean *big* titty.
Yara or whatever her name is doesn't really stack up to this random manga I just picked up six hours ago.
If she does it for you then more power to you but my standards are a bit higher than some tumblr wonder woman recolor
>something non cringe to show off to Japan
In the end, it'll still be just another western capeshitter in japan and even if it wasnt super related and was a true diamond in the rough comic, it wouldnt make up for the heaving piles of dogshit that still makes up the rest of the comic market
I'm giving Eric beenfit of the doubt that he wont just focus on a single capeshit universe. I'm hoping he will use the money to build up his studio, hire writers and artists like EVS and own some cheaper IP's like Resident Evil, Starship Troopers or Swat Kats to become a visible alternative to cape shit. And one day they could own IDW and also get Transformers or GI Joe for the new generation of kids
That's kind of dumb considering he pretty much always talks about wanting to focus on a single capeshit universe. It's like his childhood dream.
Black Man=Black Hands
wow
I don't even get what's supposed to be a left/right wing about this but everyone appears to be treating it like it is.
Yes Marvel/DC is beyond garbage. Slow clap for not being them.
But I just don't see the supposed politics of it.
Granted that I missed pretty much all the marketing leading up to this point. But why are people on both the left and right so riled up about this, and talking about it as if it's some right wing comic BTFO:ing leftists or something? I read the summary and watched the trailer and I don't get what's supposedly right wing about any of it nor how it's supposedly dunking on anything left wing.
I read the policies on the rippaverse site too and found nothing really political there either. And yet you can't find a single rippaverse thread on Cinemaphile that doesn't mention politics? What am I not getting?
It's not complicated, all leftists are radical totalitarian control freaks, and anything outside their control is "right wing".
This. Just look at reddit. Literally the second news of this hit them they banned any and all discussion about it.
It's just the usual group of frickwads who ruin everything getting mad at an independent making his dream come true.
It totally goes both ways. Just insinuating that Rippaverse might end up shit like previous projects that have tried to go independent. And you're met with tons of comments claiming you're just a rabid leftist lashing out.
Isn't it entirely possible that it'll just be another Kamen America? Which fell flat completely because it just wasn't good.
Problem is no one is saying that in such a calm manner as you. They're yelling it at the top of their throats while shitting their pants claiming it WILL happen.
There is a difference in how people will react to you saying such things.
>Problem is no one is saying that in such a calm manner as you.
I did. Repeatedly. You just cried about me being a seething leftist in response.
The fact you claim that I did that proves my point when I only joined in the discussion in the last 10 minutes.
suuure you did
Scroll up and read through the thread again. Very few people are screaming and shitting themselves. Most of the criticism is either "this is way too much money for an unknown comic" or simply "this is a scam". Most of the hyperbolic vitriol I've seen on Cinemaphile is directed against the haters, but I can't tell if those are astroturf shills, /misc/ tourists, or just trolls, so I'm not going to hold it against the comic's audience.
The left really doesn't fricking care, threads of people looking for twitter seethe coming up empty. The mission statement is great, but like how people smell marxism in every interracial kiss, there's politics in a super hero comic made by a conservative. Politics can't as easily be put aside if this is made by someone overtly political and it already has to do with concepts of policing and criminal justice. It becomes clear what people mean when they say "political". It's cool to bash specific politics or the over politicization of certain things, but that's not what's happening here.
Leftytroons are malding over it, and it's not even out.
>But why are people on both the left and right so riled up about this, and talking about it as if it's some right wing comic BTFO:ing leftists or something?
Show me where that's happening. It seems like most that aren't raging leftwingers understand the point of the comic is not to be leftwing or rightwing.
/pol/acks (including lefty/misc/ autists) and unironic redditors need to apply Left/Right politics to this as hard as possible despite Eric being a Libertarian.
Standard terminally-online bullshit as expected from IRL losers
Sell me on this comic without bringing up the "big 2" or the "culture war".
It's cape heroes. But a completely new setting that's not tied to past tradition.
So it might be worth giving a look to see what it'll be. I can't sell it any more than that because I am not sold beyond that myself. If it's good, good, but if it's shit then it's shit.
I certainly won't spend any money on something I haven't even seen and that no one can even vouch for yet. And you probably shouldn't either.
No, because you're going to read it anyway when it's storytimed here.
...this super hero has "unique powers" we cant say what just yet, just have some pictures of him posing. He's also love christ so much that he has a cross just above his dick. The comic will take you back to the golden era of 90s capeshit.
>we know so little about this comic that we cant even know something as basic as what his powers are yet they still found a way to generate so much discussion
Bravo. I dont know how he did it.
This shit is so stupid but also pretty memeable in a forced funny way
wait what
Is it actually good, or is it ‘mediocre but I don’t see any sjw shit so its good compared to other shit out there now’?
We don't know anything. I think people are more excited to a publisher being anti woke. All those creators of Cyberfrog, Death Mask or Kamen America could finally get into mainstream with a real publisher and comepete with Image and IDW and then also with DC and Marvel
Eric is self publishing, but I don't think he has any desire to use his company to publish other people's books. His attitude is basically "you're on your own". From the looks of it, he wants to maintain brand continuity and publish only things in his universe. That's not to say people won't be writing for him, but they'll be under his purview, not stand-alone stories.
That suck. Then he is not an alternative to DC or Marvel. Just a one hit wonder like EVS who also doing same stuff but take more time as he draw and writes the story himself
This project is his baby and childhood dream, the upside is that he's passionate about it, but the flip side is his desire to keep absolute control will limit him.
People will forget about Rippaverse before this year end, then
Does he have a single video talking about a comic run he enjoys or reference a good comic in his life? I gone threw his videos and call him a comic fan is like calling the qautering or clownfishtv fans.
He seems to just enjoy Marvel/DC capeshit. He spent the last few years preparing this. Obviously he stopped buying and promoting the competition if you look at the recent videos
His frequently cites Crisis on Infinite Earths as one of his favorite arcs of all time.
There's also this:
That's kinda weird isn't it? He dislikes multiverses but one of his favorite arcs needs a multiverse to work?
Eh, those are supposed to be big events but the gravity of those events lessen the more you just repeat them. Too many changed from IC just didn't actually matter in the grand scheme, things always went back to the usual after said events. Characters that disappeared or died during them get written back in until another crisis event, repeat.
That's true. And stuff like death being a revolving door in capeshit is a problem.
But the thing is, that's what happens when you have characters that don't age in franchises that are 80 years old. While it's laudable that July is saying he'll avoid that in his universe, it's not exactly special in the indie scene, even the indie cape scene. I can write a three issue mini series and meet that same low bar of no retcons.
He says he likes it because it was DC's attempt to resolve the mess of a multiverse that they made, coming out the other side with a cleaned up universe.
It also means he's going to be blind to potential pitfalls. There's a concept in writing called "killing your darlings". It means that just because you care or worked super hard about a particular element it may need to be axed for the greater good of the story.
Master work guys tend towards an inability to do that because they think everything they think up is gold.
Animation has a couple notorious examples of this.
"#1 black publisher in the nation" is spilling spaghetti everywhere. He mad about Eric's donations and that news outlets he doesn't like are reporting on it. This dumbass chucklehead started his business after Mark Cuban (also Fox News lmfao) to invest a couple hundred thousand. This dude really went up and begged a white guy for money, gives away over half the ownership of his company in the process and he's trying to say Eric's the problem? Bruh, Sambo? You're the dude that went on shark tank begging for investors, jfc.
I look it up and thats a literal who Black creator who has like 2K views on his podcast on You Tube. Its a classic case of "how dare he get more famous and richer than my comic when i was sucking up to BLM and Twitter all those years???"
>I look it up and thats a literal who Black creator who has like 2K views on his podcast on You Tube.
Definitely, it's more about how he thinks that title is his and is too important to him. Dude is the definition of sellout and is upset Eric didn't have to sell half his company in order to break out.
Frick that guy. I don't know the complete history, he said this has been going on for years, but calling people sambo for pandering to media companies who get paid to make you think you shouldn't say "slavery" in elementary schools distracts from what they're doing wrong.
Also why do these threads have more people typing like they're on black twitter? Actual black newbies/marketers? Anons just typing like that to show authenticity?
Clean it up jannies.
I know you've already gotten banned once because I saw your posts removed. You wouldn't be ban evading and raiding, would you?
Looks like you are. Good to know.
Jannies will range ban the spammers soon enough, I'll just keep the thread bumped until then. Same with the next rippa thread.
Where are the rips aaaahb
yay more capeshit!
Can we whip non white acting blacks to death yet
Nah, you gay fr
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