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Rippaverse: ISOM #2 Closing In On $1.5 Million. Eric July is back with the highly anticipated second installment. The Rippaverse has launched the campaign for the highly anticipated graphic novel ISOM #2 which is already approaching $1.5 million in presales.
The campaign follows the successful launch of the first issue which brought in over $3.7 million.
ISOM follows Avery – a Texas rancher forced to put his hero suit back on – as he navigates a world of danger and intrigue…and he isn’t alone.
“With stunning artwork by Cliff Richards, coloring by Gabe Eltaeb, lettering by Eric Weathers, and a gripping storyline by Eric July, this graphic novel is a must-read for fans of the traditional superhero genre,” offers the Rippaverse. “You’ll be hooked on the action-packed story from the first page to the last.”
ISOM #2 can be ordered through rippaverse.com and is a 112-page book with covers from Ternion (Cover A), Ethan Van Sciver (Cover B), and Shane Davis (Foil Cover C). Check out a preview below.
Eric July has also announced ISOM #2 will be made available for comic book retailers.
“On our website, we added a retailer portal that’s specifically for your local comic book shop so what they can do is go to ripperverse.com. They can go right there, they can submit us all their information, we will then send them their login and it’s easy for them to just order however many books they want,” July announced on his YouTube channel.
What is the Rippaverse?
This comic book company was not created at random. Our founder (Eric July) had been rooted in the culture of American comic books since he was a youngster and being a creative in the industry was always a dream of his. But the unfortunate state of the industry gave him the push that he needed to give it a shot. We’ve seen what works, and we’ve certainly seen what NOT to do. Rippaverse Comics is the product of a comic book guy that still believes the magic of the culture. With that being said, we are guided by a set of principles that remain the staple of this company.
‘Cyberfrog’ Creator Ethan Van Sciver Explains “The Problems With SJW Comics Today And The Reasons COMICSGATE Was Born”
Writer, artist, and creator Ethan Van Sciver’s work is never done as the mainstream comic industry gets worse and worse. But far from simply enjoying the decline, he and several others rolled up their sleeves and developed thriving alternatives with their own books and imprints. By doing this, they also engendered a movement known as ComicsGate that’s become a boogeyman for the mainstream.
None of this happened in a vacuum, naturally, and Van Sciver detailed with bullet points in a Twitter thread why talent had to pivot in the face of the diminishing quality of the Big Two and the opprobrium of their gatekeepers. He tagged a few comrades as well – Eric July, Shane Davis, Jon Malin, Jon Del Arroz, and Michael Bancroft.
In his “The problems with SJW comics today, and the reasons [COMICS GATE] was born,” thread, Van Sciver began by issuing his top gripe with the art form as it stands – “Terrible [post-modernist] writing focused on afflicting the ‘comfortable’ and alleviating the ‘oppressed.’”
He started to rattle off his pointed criticisms two and three at a time and they dovetail neatly together as much as they do with the first two complaints. Van Sciver added that his next two problems were a “New insurgence of moral relativism, nihilism and cynicism,” and “Strong racial animus towards heterosexual white males.”
Going further down his list, he grouped more of the three most common complaints with books dipping in quality. These phenomena which follow from bad writing and illustrating are “Defilement of iconic comic book moments… Denigration, humiliation, and termination of legacy heroes,” and “Cheap, ugly surrealist artwork,” which he often compares to content sent out on Tumblr.
After he railed against the quota “employment of artists and writers with a progressive political bias, or multiple ‘diversity’ qualifiers,” and “Open antagonism towards older readers,” examples of dreck from a recent Batgirl issue and Aubrey Sitterson’s run on GI Joe for IDW were plastered in the thread via replies along with the rah-rah approval of EVS and ComicsGate’s supporters.
Though both the man and the movement have their followers, the rifts between CG and the mainstream of the industry might never be mended. Fortunately, the same isn’t true of divisions within the community. Recall that EVS tagged Jon Del Arroz in his thread, the author of Cyberfrog parody Robotoad: Rekt Manlet. It seems they smoothed things over. “Repentance and forgiveness…hand in hand” indeed.
What do you make of Ethan Van Sciver’s analysis of the problems with SJW comics coming out of Marvel and DC?
