In terms of what?
If we look at the backers and money raised at face value, it did pretty damn well
If we consider sustainability, it's reaching diminishing returns which to be fair is expected of a series past its first issues (seriously frick speculators)
However, there's simply not much to even discuss about the Rippaverse comics themselves
They come out on a glacial pace, have no interesting hooks, the art and designs are generic, etc
There's nothing interesting about this setting or characters that makes itself distinct from all the dime a dozen superhero universe attempts
>Eh the second issue had a fifty percent drop off
Yeah that's expected of post first issue titles
Granted this is going by comparing it to direct market titles, not entirely sure if that's normal for crowdfunded comics
I think some comics have shown growth since their initial run on kickstarter. Assuming the figures on his site are correct I feel it would be hard to grow from millions of dollars in sales, but I don't think the 43,000 people that backed Isom 1 are the entire market he could be pulling.
>Alphacore is floundering.
They are at 1 million in sales (or damn near close enough) and that's after they dropped their prices from $35 to $28. I'd say that they're doing just fine.
I wouldn't call it a failure since he got backed, made the product, and shipped it but it's coming out at bande dessinee speeds while not being quite up to that quality. Pretty much what this guys said:
Rippa said he was taking on Marvel and DC. He said he was going to beat them into the ground. He said he was going to create a new universe of characters, all with compelling backstories. He said he was going to manage a regular release schedule and keep to it.
He managed half a point at most - he created characters, sure, but I couldn't tell you a goddamn thing about them. He failed at every other point.
In terms of longevity the Rippaverse isn't looking good. ISOM #2 sold half as well as ISOM #1. Alphacore is selling half as well as ISOM #2. It's not a good place to be.
You can blame it on the comics being "not good" but the quality of these comics is subjective so instead I'll say this: Eric July has mishandled the Rippaverse by engaging in online wars that has generated a lot of negativity towards the project and himself. Most people don't want to deal with a bunch of negativity, and when you're constantly getting into stupid online fights with "trolls," they'll see this and back out. Right now the Rippaverse is down to its most faithful of fans, people willing to fight Eric July's holy wars by giving him money, but the thing about fanatics is if you say or do the wrong thing, they can turn on you and become dedicated haters easily. If they ask you a question and you ignore it or tell them to frick off or block them, that can turn them into one of your biggest haters just like that, especially since they know they can easily hop the fence and join "the other side."
Ultimately, it's not a great place to be and what he's going to be forced to do moving forward is scale back and cater to those superfans for as long as he can as sales continue to dwindle and the Rippaverse fades into the background and people lose interest.
>Eric July has mishandled the Rippaverse by engaging in online wars that has generated a lot of negativity towards the project and himself.
The online wars are the only reason anyone is talking about this at all though.
The initial talk surrounding the Rippaverse was generated because Eric July claimed the comic would be "non-woke" (a claim he's backpedaled on, saying he never said that when he did say that) and that he was going after the establishment (Marvel/DC). This was an online holy war, but against a target that wasn't going to fight back really. Marvel and DC were never going to go "oh FRICK THAT GUY" and start tweeting at him. And "WOKE" isn't a person so it can't fire back. So this first war of his he won by default, and was able to cash in on.
But this second holy war is against "da dang dirty trolls" and unlike when he's fighting against "WOKE" and Marvel/DC, the trolls actually will fire back. And they did. And now his sales are in the shitter as support has dwindled down to the core diehard fanatics.
I've said it again and again, Eric is practically another splinter of CWC. Cannot take criticism, lacks self-reflection, delusional to the point he thinks he's the face of the industry and has a whole movement behind him (it's a few thousand comicgate morons). Constantly in trouble with legal shit too now.
I half expect future issues to have some version of Vito and 'da dirty trollz' to appear as the comic's villains which Isom has to fight.
Don't forget they both are utterly obsessed with going on youtube and recording themselves rant about whatever insane schizo bullshit comes out of their mouth or drama they're in that week. Usually about percieved enemies.
>Decompressed being the usual decompression >Overpriced horribly >Generic capeshit
Wow, it's three things wrong with comics rolled in one package and multiplied
For some weird reason people asking him "what's your favorite part of ISOM" caused him to lose his shit on stream.
https://twitter.com/dickmasterson/status/1716198897214013513
I have no clue why this question riles him and his fans up, but for a few weeks he kept sperging out over what they dubbed "the question." Eventually he decided to try to "own the meme" and started making a ton of jokes about it in an attempt to roll with the punches.
It's kind of hard to grasp because for anyone else you'd just simply answer the question. Like if someone were to ask what you liked about Batman Returns, you might say Catwoman and Batman's relationship, and if asked for a scene, you might say the mistletoe kiss scene. It's a common question that is easily answered.
But for whatever reason Eric July is a massive idiot who can't say what he likes about his own comic book.
The funny thing is even the blatant paid shills for The Marvels have a list of bullet points of things they can praise. Rippaverse doesn't even bother with that much.
I can't find it off-hand but an ISOM fan started a twitter thread with the expressed purpose of compiling a list of answers to "The Question" that they were then going to link to any time someone asked them what they liked about the comic. Because you know, why answer the question honestly?
you conveniently ignore the part where it was juju the cow and his pedophile wack pack who started asking it as an implicit accusation to the person being asked, that they hadn't actually read it.
>Out selling Marvel & DC >already has spinoffs coming out >already made millions already
Cinemaphile you homosexuals need to get a life. The book is a success whether you like it or not. It did. Being mad at others success makes you a seething b***h. Get over yourselves. Noone cares about your deviantart or drawgay posts.
Marvel makes $282 million in comic sales a year.
And Eric puts out what, 1-2 comics a year? Which are already losing steam with dwindling sales by the 3rd campaign.
The comic was backed on the idea that it's "non woke" and that was it. I wouldn't say it was dead on arrival because, and I'm giving him props here, Eric did get plenty of people supporting until that rightie hate boner for libs died down. That and people who generally b***h about woke shit about comics are only ONLY concerned for that translating to film.
I know it's not that long but tldr; His demographic doesn't read comics.
I mean, fricking Ben Shapiro hasn't optioned the comic, and he's hiring every 'anti-woke' entertainment person out there. I think that tells you everything.
>The comic was backed on the idea that it's "non woke" and that was it.
I like Eric July, but this is true. Every time he pushed his comics, all he talked about was how he was going to respect the fans and never about the actual content of the comics.
I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
>I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
This. The only reason we have a Marvel Universe is because Fantastic Four sold like gangbusters and his editor demanded he make up more shit.
>I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
The man is already talking about a Rippaverse MMO with an action combat fighting system like Dragonball Xenoverse. He doesn't live in this reality.
>make a comic about a comeback superhero >literally the superhero's first appearance >act like he has any kind of history >really, he has no established history
In 2017, I fricked Eric July on the train tracks behind the CSCD in Denton. Man, his ass could grip. Real tight, super bushy (have you seen his shoulders??), and a sphincter you could only dream of. I had fun at first. But he was so weirdly macho about it. He kept saying things like "thats right b***h, am I gonna make you nut?" and "fricking gay I bet you can't wait to bust in my fat hairy man ass hahaha homosexual". I just ignored him and kept railing. He continued unironically calling me his b***h and a gay as he had several hands free prostate orgasms spilling seminal fluids onto the train tracks, getting more angry and dominant after each one. "Yea i bet you like dudes. You look like a pussy" he'd say "I cant even feel your limpdick b***h." I just kept clapping, wondering wtf is up with him. After about 20 minutes of railing Eric's boypussy, drenched in sweat and his cream, I finally got a nut off despite his constant berating and degrading comments. He immediately hopped off, laid flat on his back and bent his legs over his head so the cum dripped out of his butthole directly into his mouth. "The frick you looking at? You like this gay boy?" He kept saying. After he got every last drop. He cackled like a rooster and punched me in the face as hard as he could. He nearly broke his hand, but I was fine. "Fricking gay" he said as he limped off into the sunset, shaking his wrist. That was the first and last time I fricked Eric July on the train tracks behind the CSCD in Denton.
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what the frick is with left page?
and right
that's not how you do paneling or motion
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[...] >inb4 manga
it's fricking mahnwa
get fricked
You can see what he tried to do, but it's really bad. The shoe being in frame for the first panel makes it look so amateruish. The second showing a jump nowhere near the actual destination in the third is the real killer. No motion at all. So tacked on.
It's NON-WOKE, Eric July is PUTTING THE COMICS INDUSTRY ON NOTICE and he CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT HIS FAVORITE PART OF HIS OWN COMIC IS.
Oh, and his FIRST GROUND-BREAKING, REVOLUTIONARY COMIC had about 20 pages of adverts to pad out the length, including an advert for his wife's cosmetics company. That should tell you all you need to know right there.
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what the frick is with left page?
and right
that's not how you do paneling or motion
[...]
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You can see what he tried to do, but it's really bad. The shoe being in frame for the first panel makes it look so amateruish. The second showing a jump nowhere near the actual destination in the third is the real killer. No motion at all. So tacked on.
And with left, the best thing to have done wasn't an overdramatic spin-around kick. He should've weaved under and done a left hook: liver blow that motherfricker. A kick to the back does jackshit, especially against someone that much bigger than you. Superpowers not withstanding.
The comic sucks ass, but consider the genius of Eric's business/grifting Model
These comics probably take like $15-20K to write, pencil, draw at MOST and then maybe another few thousand to print copies.
If he's breaking a million dollars with a $25K comic each time, he's breaking the system.
Wonder if he saw MoronicOpinion's review of his comic recently where he points out how many sub-plots and plot points get randomly introduced, then dropped and never addressed within these 90 page toiletdumps.
You just know his braindead readers are going to be parroting his damage control and internalizing it for themselves.
So at this point I'm assuming most of they money he raises is going to commissioning portraits of himself making various faces that he can then use in is youtube thumbnails?
In terms of what?
If we look at the backers and money raised at face value, it did pretty damn well
If we consider sustainability, it's reaching diminishing returns which to be fair is expected of a series past its first issues (seriously frick speculators)
However, there's simply not much to even discuss about the Rippaverse comics themselves
They come out on a glacial pace, have no interesting hooks, the art and designs are generic, etc
There's nothing interesting about this setting or characters that makes itself distinct from all the dime a dozen superhero universe attempts
>If we consider sustainability, it's reaching diminishing returns which to be fair is expected of a series past its first issues
Eh the second issue had a fifty percent drop off and Alphacore is floundering.
>Eh the second issue had a fifty percent drop off
Yeah that's expected of post first issue titles
Granted this is going by comparing it to direct market titles, not entirely sure if that's normal for crowdfunded comics
I think some comics have shown growth since their initial run on kickstarter. Assuming the figures on his site are correct I feel it would be hard to grow from millions of dollars in sales, but I don't think the 43,000 people that backed Isom 1 are the entire market he could be pulling.
>Alphacore is floundering.
They are at 1 million in sales (or damn near close enough) and that's after they dropped their prices from $35 to $28. I'd say that they're doing just fine.
If a DC comic got that amount of buyers it'd be immediately cancelled.
DC is a HUGE corporation with tons of overhead.
I wouldn't call it a failure since he got backed, made the product, and shipped it but it's coming out at bande dessinee speeds while not being quite up to that quality. Pretty much what this guys said:
Hopefully he's still having fun.
Nope, considering he's breaking down due to the criticism m, facing a lawsuit and is now an Internet punchline.
Rippa said he was taking on Marvel and DC. He said he was going to beat them into the ground. He said he was going to create a new universe of characters, all with compelling backstories. He said he was going to manage a regular release schedule and keep to it.
He managed half a point at most - he created characters, sure, but I couldn't tell you a goddamn thing about them. He failed at every other point.
It's also kind of shit that he instantly damaged his story telling potential by stating there will be no multiverse or Legacy characters.
In terms of longevity the Rippaverse isn't looking good. ISOM #2 sold half as well as ISOM #1. Alphacore is selling half as well as ISOM #2. It's not a good place to be.
You can blame it on the comics being "not good" but the quality of these comics is subjective so instead I'll say this: Eric July has mishandled the Rippaverse by engaging in online wars that has generated a lot of negativity towards the project and himself. Most people don't want to deal with a bunch of negativity, and when you're constantly getting into stupid online fights with "trolls," they'll see this and back out. Right now the Rippaverse is down to its most faithful of fans, people willing to fight Eric July's holy wars by giving him money, but the thing about fanatics is if you say or do the wrong thing, they can turn on you and become dedicated haters easily. If they ask you a question and you ignore it or tell them to frick off or block them, that can turn them into one of your biggest haters just like that, especially since they know they can easily hop the fence and join "the other side."
Ultimately, it's not a great place to be and what he's going to be forced to do moving forward is scale back and cater to those superfans for as long as he can as sales continue to dwindle and the Rippaverse fades into the background and people lose interest.
>Eric July has mishandled the Rippaverse by engaging in online wars that has generated a lot of negativity towards the project and himself.
The online wars are the only reason anyone is talking about this at all though.
The initial talk surrounding the Rippaverse was generated because Eric July claimed the comic would be "non-woke" (a claim he's backpedaled on, saying he never said that when he did say that) and that he was going after the establishment (Marvel/DC). This was an online holy war, but against a target that wasn't going to fight back really. Marvel and DC were never going to go "oh FRICK THAT GUY" and start tweeting at him. And "WOKE" isn't a person so it can't fire back. So this first war of his he won by default, and was able to cash in on.
But this second holy war is against "da dang dirty trolls" and unlike when he's fighting against "WOKE" and Marvel/DC, the trolls actually will fire back. And they did. And now his sales are in the shitter as support has dwindled down to the core diehard fanatics.
I've said it again and again, Eric is practically another splinter of CWC. Cannot take criticism, lacks self-reflection, delusional to the point he thinks he's the face of the industry and has a whole movement behind him (it's a few thousand comicgate morons). Constantly in trouble with legal shit too now.
I half expect future issues to have some version of Vito and 'da dirty trollz' to appear as the comic's villains which Isom has to fight.
Don't forget they both are utterly obsessed with going on youtube and recording themselves rant about whatever insane schizo bullshit comes out of their mouth or drama they're in that week. Usually about percieved enemies.
>I half expect future issues to have some version of Vito and 'da dirty trollz' to appear as the comic's villains which Isom has to fight.
Honestly if he was a better writer he could have had an interesting arc about that but no, its Eric there's not hope there
>Kickstarter comic.
Get used to it, soon all comics will be crowdfunded.
wishful thinking and I hope your comic gets enough money to be somewhat relevant for a while.
Did the 2nd issue ever come out?
Yes, as it turns out Isom gave up being a superhero because a kid died.
That's it.
They give up on the missing girl plot and go to hell, Isoms still a c**t.
The art and writing is shit, also
>black main character
>Decompressed being the usual decompression
>Overpriced horribly
>Generic capeshit
Wow, it's three things wrong with comics rolled in one package and multiplied
*beyond the usual decompression
The creator Eric July is a moron who had a meltdown over someone asking him what his favorite part of his own comic was.
kek what?
For some weird reason people asking him "what's your favorite part of ISOM" caused him to lose his shit on stream.
https://twitter.com/dickmasterson/status/1716198897214013513
I have no clue why this question riles him and his fans up, but for a few weeks he kept sperging out over what they dubbed "the question." Eventually he decided to try to "own the meme" and started making a ton of jokes about it in an attempt to roll with the punches.
It's kind of hard to grasp because for anyone else you'd just simply answer the question. Like if someone were to ask what you liked about Batman Returns, you might say Catwoman and Batman's relationship, and if asked for a scene, you might say the mistletoe kiss scene. It's a common question that is easily answered.
But for whatever reason Eric July is a massive idiot who can't say what he likes about his own comic book.
The funny thing is even the blatant paid shills for The Marvels have a list of bullet points of things they can praise. Rippaverse doesn't even bother with that much.
I can't find it off-hand but an ISOM fan started a twitter thread with the expressed purpose of compiling a list of answers to "The Question" that they were then going to link to any time someone asked them what they liked about the comic. Because you know, why answer the question honestly?
you conveniently ignore the part where it was juju the cow and his pedophile wack pack who started asking it as an implicit accusation to the person being asked, that they hadn't actually read it.
Asking someone a simple question isn't an "attack" and perceiving it as such is completely mentally unhinged.
Even if the question is asked in bad faith simply answering the question is a much better look than going on a complete meltdown.
It parted a bunch of morons from their money, I think it achieved the goal it was made for.
Tell me again why we can't have a thread talking about Comics youtube yet a million seething over generic black comic book man?
What are Isom's powers?
Even guy stopped shilling this
>Out selling Marvel & DC
>already has spinoffs coming out
>already made millions already
Cinemaphile you homosexuals need to get a life. The book is a success whether you like it or not. It did. Being mad at others success makes you a seething b***h. Get over yourselves. Noone cares about your deviantart or drawgay posts.
Hi, Eric
cope
Like how Eric does with the knowledge his friends won't be honest with him.
>Out selling Marvel & DC
Alphacore is at 9k backers right now
Those are b***h numbers for a first issue
I’ll have you know Noone N Newman cares very much about my deviantart, thank you very much.
Marvel makes $282 million in comic sales a year.
And Eric puts out what, 1-2 comics a year? Which are already losing steam with dwindling sales by the 3rd campaign.
The comic was backed on the idea that it's "non woke" and that was it. I wouldn't say it was dead on arrival because, and I'm giving him props here, Eric did get plenty of people supporting until that rightie hate boner for libs died down. That and people who generally b***h about woke shit about comics are only ONLY concerned for that translating to film.
I know it's not that long but tldr; His demographic doesn't read comics.
I mean, fricking Ben Shapiro hasn't optioned the comic, and he's hiring every 'anti-woke' entertainment person out there. I think that tells you everything.
Yeah, so is he playing all the dwarfs in his snow white movie?
It would be based if he did.
>The comic was backed on the idea that it's "non woke" and that was it.
I like Eric July, but this is true. Every time he pushed his comics, all he talked about was how he was going to respect the fans and never about the actual content of the comics.
I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
>I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
This. The only reason we have a Marvel Universe is because Fantastic Four sold like gangbusters and his editor demanded he make up more shit.
>I also think it's incredibly stupid for him to talk about building a whole comic book 'universe' before the first issue of his first comic even started selling.
The man is already talking about a Rippaverse MMO with an action combat fighting system like Dragonball Xenoverse. He doesn't live in this reality.
The writing sucks and the art has no flow and is full of inconsistencies and errors.
end of thread.
did it the fail?
Storytime?
>make a comic about a comeback superhero
>literally the superhero's first appearance
>act like he has any kind of history
>really, he has no established history
IT'S THE ONLY PROFITABLE COMIC PUBLISHER IN AMERICA!
THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF "FAILING"!
Why did Ison quit?
nobody reads comics
In 2017, I fricked Eric July on the train tracks behind the CSCD in Denton. Man, his ass could grip. Real tight, super bushy (have you seen his shoulders??), and a sphincter you could only dream of. I had fun at first. But he was so weirdly macho about it. He kept saying things like "thats right b***h, am I gonna make you nut?" and "fricking gay I bet you can't wait to bust in my fat hairy man ass hahaha homosexual". I just ignored him and kept railing. He continued unironically calling me his b***h and a gay as he had several hands free prostate orgasms spilling seminal fluids onto the train tracks, getting more angry and dominant after each one. "Yea i bet you like dudes. You look like a pussy" he'd say "I cant even feel your limpdick b***h." I just kept clapping, wondering wtf is up with him. After about 20 minutes of railing Eric's boypussy, drenched in sweat and his cream, I finally got a nut off despite his constant berating and degrading comments. He immediately hopped off, laid flat on his back and bent his legs over his head so the cum dripped out of his butthole directly into his mouth. "The frick you looking at? You like this gay boy?" He kept saying. After he got every last drop. He cackled like a rooster and punched me in the face as hard as he could. He nearly broke his hand, but I was fine. "Fricking gay" he said as he limped off into the sunset, shaking his wrist. That was the first and last time I fricked Eric July on the train tracks behind the CSCD in Denton.
what the frick is with left page?
and right
that's not how you do paneling or motion
>inb4 manga
it's fricking mahnwa
get fricked
You can see what he tried to do, but it's really bad. The shoe being in frame for the first panel makes it look so amateruish. The second showing a jump nowhere near the actual destination in the third is the real killer. No motion at all. So tacked on.
All I heard about this comic it's how non-woke it is. That doesn't tell me anything about its quality.
It's NON-WOKE, Eric July is PUTTING THE COMICS INDUSTRY ON NOTICE and he CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT HIS FAVORITE PART OF HIS OWN COMIC IS.
Oh, and his FIRST GROUND-BREAKING, REVOLUTIONARY COMIC had about 20 pages of adverts to pad out the length, including an advert for his wife's cosmetics company. That should tell you all you need to know right there.
And with left, the best thing to have done wasn't an overdramatic spin-around kick. He should've weaved under and done a left hook: liver blow that motherfricker. A kick to the back does jackshit, especially against someone that much bigger than you. Superpowers not withstanding.
Money laundering schemes are intended to quietly shutdown after the money was been washed.
>People aren't shitting all over modern DC and Marvel.
At least I can tell what the frick is happening in the Marvel/DC thing.
>Majority of those Marvel and DC panels are about a decade old
have a nice day, Christopher gesualdi.
maybe try writing your own homosexual book instead of stinking up Cinemaphile with your moronic fantasies.
Because it's not Carnage!
What is the appeal of this? Capeshit with a black guy in spandex? WOAW
It’s anti-woke.
>inclusiveness is antiwoke
No, no it's not.
Eric July is making anti-woke comics and you are mad because you are a libcuck who reads woke comics like Marvel and DC.
what's your favourite moment across the two issues?
You are gaslighting me.
The comic sucks ass, but consider the genius of Eric's business/grifting Model
These comics probably take like $15-20K to write, pencil, draw at MOST and then maybe another few thousand to print copies.
If he's breaking a million dollars with a $25K comic each time, he's breaking the system.
Nobody likes black super heroes from “da hood” including black people.
Isom isn't from 'da hood', he's a rancher from Texas. Which is honestly degrees worse.
Holy frick...the mother fricker is trying to argue that the confusing plot is a not a fault but a feature.
Wonder if he saw MoronicOpinion's review of his comic recently where he points out how many sub-plots and plot points get randomly introduced, then dropped and never addressed within these 90 page toiletdumps.
You just know his braindead readers are going to be parroting his damage control and internalizing it for themselves.
So at this point I'm assuming most of they money he raises is going to commissioning portraits of himself making various faces that he can then use in is youtube thumbnails?
It didn't