Way of the Rat, Hunter Ninja Bear, several other indy books. Chuck Dixon has created his own characters and written them well. This comic was just fine. The writing was fine and certainly better than ISOM. At this point your jealousy is very transparent.
I can understand it if you count Knight Quest and KnightsEnd as part of it, but the writing of Bane, Bullock, Scarecrow, and Joker is great in Knightfall and those issues are all Dixon.
He also wrote Vengeance of Bane which is the excellent origin story of Bane. It's so good it makes you wish there was a Kid Bane miniseries. But Vito might prefer Vengeance of Bane pt 2, where it's post-Knightfall and Bane is a washed-up, grotesquely overweight loser getting bullied in jail. That might chime with Vito more, I feel like he would maybe get something valuable out of it (the desire to shed excessive fat deposits from one's body)
He's just trying to shit on anything rippaverse yeah isom wasn't award winning but it wasn't horrible isom 2 was pretty good and alphacore was awesome I can't wait to see what there gonna drop next I have seen a few of vitos videos not a big fan i still plan to buy a copy of his book to check ot because i want More good books n just because i don't like his view doesn't mean I went like his book but not a big fan of his TH-cam takes so far
I've read Isom 1&2 as well as Alphacore. I can say that Alphacore was the best of the trio so far (ISOM 2 is also really fun) but I'll add that Alphacore is firmly playing in the sandbox that Isom did the heavy lifting in setting up. But Chuck Dixon has some really great villain designs and the plot was really big really high energy superhero action. If that's what you've been missing in modern books but you haven't grabbed Isom then I would recommend you try Alphacore and see if that book doesn't make you want to read the Isom books.
@@churchvstheworld5815 The Isom comics were garbage. I'm a little bit more hopeful about Alphacore because it's Chuck Dixon who, unlike Eric July, can actually write.
Do you delay your own comic so others can't judge your vision just as harshly? Because I trust rippaverse's author more due to him at least putting his stuff out there.
Bro your such a hater it makes you look like a shlub everything about this rippaverse thing is fun and enjoyable isom1 was a little slow but not bad and it's just gotten better man
I don't think Rippaverse is the greatest thing ever, but I don't think every comic can just vomit out why characters do everything, that's the art of story telling.
Yeah but Eric has done it 3 times successfully and made millions on every comic so far, sooooo yeah I think you need to recognize Eric is making quality characters that fulfill a new legacy that the old comic industry failed to acknowledge.
Yeah but with his isom book it's 90 pages and we know almost nothing about him. You look at all great heroes batman, superman, Daredevil and spiderman in their debuts we know story with 5-10 pages. Isom feels like filler even Dixon can't salvage alphacore sure it mighty slightly better written still he's working with poor material
@@thestranger9608 lmfao so in other words, you didn't read alphacore 😂. You woke crybabies are a joke. Alphacore was pure genius and went past it's goal and made a million just like every other comic Eric is connected to directly. And what do you mean "nothing was divulged" We know his name is Avery silman, he goes by Isom when he wears his suit, we know he was off grid and gave up super heroing around because of meeting an impossibly strong enemy and losing himself. He's asked to look for a family friend despite giving that life up and living off grid with his own business, then he's dragged back into that world when an old friend becomes a named big shot in the criminal underworld of the city which is directly connected to a disappearance, and we know his power isn't a normal super power like every other hero in the known world so far, but "we know nothing right?" You're a clown bud, keep making up BS, Eric July still meets his goals and makes profits, keep that copium going 😂. Alphacore was the best thing written yet.
Vito - the ultimate drama farmer - can't be authentic if he tried (he doesn't) - how about you get your own comic finished instead of keep delaying it because you keep crying over how successful rippaverse is.
Vito release your book. "The multiverse is home to a variety of superpowered beings; noble heroes who risk their lives to protect their worlds from destruction. Unfortunately for multiversal assassin Sam King, these heroes won’t be going down without a fight." I can't wait to read an entire series based on something that was a sidenote in Mark Millar's Wanted aka interdimensional hopping where a super powered assassin kills superheroes. But I guess in Wanted they were given more reasons to hop dimensions such as pulling off heists for tech and weapons. But I think stripping that down to one simple goal can be fun as well. We can't wait for the first release from you Vito. You keep talking shit but from where I'm standing Eric and his company have released 3 books that actually exist in the real physical world while you've released.... ? Eric July and Chuck Dixon don't need advice on how to do a first issue from someone who has yet to release a first issue. 🤡🤡🤡
@@VitoTwo No, he saved up for years and built an audience and then invested his own money into ISOM #1. He then reinvested his earnings from ISOM #1 into his business to grow and expand it. This is basic business 101 and the fact that you are being dishonest again is very sad. Just finish your comic already that we paid for, and if you get writers block just go watch Jet Li's movie The One. Its basically the same thing as SuperKiller
@@Avx829 Yeah he really tried phrasing it in such a way to completely misrepresent the order of events and ignore basic business principles. @VitoTwo is such a bottom feeder.
Vito respectfully, the target audience of examples you gave(Naruto and One Piece) is for young teens. Shounen Mangaka deliberately dumb down the story and give their MCs overdone grandiose goals due to their target audience comprehension levels and attention span. You're a grown man, why do character's need to have grandiose overdone goals for you to be able to resonate with said character? Futhermore, if you're going to use a manga category, The Rippaverse target audience is more comparable to Seinen manga.
These are good points. I don't need the motivations/goals of every character that is out there. Most of them have the same motivations and just learning about it is boring. Most people don't have some big deep reason behind why they do things they just developed a moral system with rules that work for them and then go do things. We all understand that bad guys are bad and they should be stopped and if a super hero is somewhat good then I understand they might have some vested interest in stopping the bad guy.
@@Avx829 Agreed bro the I whole I want to be... the Hokage/Pirate King/Number one hero/Wizard King/Shaman King/Pokemon Master/God of the new world...etc gets really boring imo. I get wanting to root for a character but that's the most superficial reason to root for a character. The journey is more important than the destination imo. Which is probably why I vibe with Seinen manga/anime more...One of, if not my outright favourite Seinen anime of all time is Monster. Grandiose goals are no were to be seen in Kenzo Tenma or most of the characters... A drastically less grounded and more popular Seinen... One Punch Man... Saitama has 0 grandiose goal too. Yet I and a lot of other people think Saitama is written better and is far more likable than someone like Deku who has a obvious goal.
You only talked about 2 examples. you need to give your other ones too right? out of all the ones he said i think going for naruto and one piece is low hanging fruit here, respectfully, of course.
@@alicemoon3119 Apologies for the long post. You would have a point that I picked the low hanging fruit by highlighting Naruto and One Piece if I didn't highlight shounen as a whole. An MC pursuing a grandiose status based goal(god/king/champion/number 1)is the shounen cookie cutter formula. What Vito and presumably you make a mistake with, is that you think manga is just shounen and all western comics should follow the shounen cookie cutter formula. When you sell a product you have to think about your demographic... Q:Did Eric July pick a publishing company like Shonen Jump that primarily target young teens? A:No. Q:Is Eric July's TH-cam audience and the people that backed his "anti-woke" Rippaverse comic campaign young teens? A:No Then why would possibly hold The Rippaverse to the same standards as shonen. Thats weird to me. Compare it to its manga counterpart... Seinen, where it typically doesn't use the cookie cutter formula.
@@VitoTwo Thanks for the reply. :) I'm actually still watching this video because I keep getting interrupted. I never read Isom. I'm going strictly off what I've seen on other videos. I saw someone interviewing Eric, and he explained that Isom went searching for the girl because his mother would want him to do it or something. LOL!
@@sirjameslvn He found her, she wouldn't talk and ran away, so he avenged the disrespect he was given while he was there so he gave santoin a receipt to prove that he's onto what was going on, which caused Darren to try to cement his position to avenge that response as he saw that as him being shown up. Lazy comprehension on both of yalls parts if you really don't understand the flow of the story.
@@lambertar According to the recent update, he has been personally storyboarding every page. Also, if the comic is being delayed by over a year, it speaks of poor management on Vito's part, even if he wasn't involved in the creative process.
@@asioca1992 Yes, he indeed has. Shipping on the campaign was due for December, we are end January, it's FAR from a year late right now. And yes, it's very possible Vito fucked up some scheduling, it's his first comic and I believe making comics isn't an exact science. It's a crowdfunding, those are rarely on time. Nothing sus yet.
@@lambertar "Those are rarely on time" is not an excuse when most crowdfunding campaigns are poorly managed more often than not as well. If anything, it's just more evidence that it's gonna end up something closer to Mighty Number 9 than Bloodstained, if you catch my drift. Also, he has enough time to take potshots at someone who already got his stuff out on time, but he doesn't have the time to coordinate with his artists to keep to his schedule? Give me a break man, if he doesn't have the chops to stand up to the competition, he shouldn't be talking in the first place.
I like manga and western comics. I like Rippaverse and Cyberfrog. Some stories require mysteries to to be unveiled. Sometimes you dont get a character played out exactly what you anticipate. Sometimes its good to explain everything in one page sometimes its best to understand a characters motivation without explaining anything and you have to wait until issue 6 to find out who they are. Sometimes you have to wait til the end of the series to get what the character was doing all along. Sometimes the twist happens mid way through and sometimes the twist is at the end. Sometimes you have to find out a characters actions in a spinoff series from another characters point of view. So when you explain "Who is this guy? Where is his motivations? Why are they doing it? How are they doing it? Whats their main goal? Whats the end goal of their goal?". So with that you cant expect EVERYTHING to be explained in ONE comic. If thats the case it would be the shortest story in a mini series or a continuous mainline series. So all this complaining seems more that you hate Eric and its easy to shit on his story. So your complaints are just whiny when you could just not constantly rail on Eric but its good that you did because it just proves how dishonest, disingenuous, spiteful, and you genuinely just want to hate on Eric.
Was it mysterious when they told us why Isom retired without ever hinting to it? Even tho it was the most cliched "I failed to save someone" ever? "One comic" Dude, these are not monthly comics, these are 100 pages or more
@@milagrosgutierrezmartin9506 so you need innuendos and hints to tell you whats goin on? Do you need exhibition of characters telling you what they di before they do it. Lol. Ok. May as well read childrens books then.
@@mosj9876 Children`s books have better worldbuilding and characters than this. Was it so hard to flesh out Avery by dropping a couple comments here and there that he had retired, and was bitter towards heroism? LOL The Goon forshadowed Chinatown for years. That's how you build a mystery, by letting readers know there is a mystery. Yes, having the characters show their motivation or even talk about it is better than the "lol, so random" of these comics. Characters do things in here just because they are what you do in a superhero comic. Like Avery donning his costume. Why? He doesn't want to be a hero, he doesn't want to protect his identity, he doesn't care about Jasmine. So he got his costume because superheroes wear costumes and it's a superhero comic.
For a new company, newly in the space, it is actually pretty good. It's not great, but I look at it like the first episode first season of a new show. If it progresses, it's heading in a good direction. As to why Alphacore is doing what they do, I thought they summed that up pretty well when when Solari is arguing with the Chief. Solari is stuck in his military past. He is trying to take a military approach to protecting civilians, and as ex-military, he doesn’t get why those optics suck. He sees civilians seeing him patroling as a good thing (overwatch as he calls it, a military term), and he says so. It is the first issue, so I expect a bit of slow play as to motivation and power sets. But I felt like the gist of it was laid out. One thing I found egregiously stupid is the scene where Galvin lures the jail guard in by asking for a light. What is it 1965? Virtually every state ptison has banned smoking, and even if they hadn't, it would still be treated as a privilege not afforded to a psycho who attacked several cops. I think it can get better, but they need to build a writing team that is encouraged to nitpick.
@@VitoTwo nothing about a cheeseburger stands out, but in a day and age when everyone is "re-imagining" or deconstructing cheeseburgers, just getting a run of the mill, but competently executed cheeseburger can be a revelation. That's what it is. Basic, but well executed enough for another visit. A wagyu burger from a cow named Terrance topped with a carpaccio of Maldivian long line caught Yellow Fin Tuna might be the only thing that hits the spot for you. But, I was pretty satisfied with what I got, a basic greasy cheeseburger of a comic.
Why does Naruto want to be the best ninja? Why does Luffy want to be King of the Pirates? You gave us what they want not why they want it, which was supposed to be your point.
Naruto wants to be the best ninja due to how the village mistreats him, wanting to prove he has value despite being seen by the village as a screwup and a menace. Luffy witnesses the heroism of Shanks and his crew and resolves to become a pirate just like them. All of this motivation is contained in the very first chapter of each story. What does each member of Alphacore want and why do they want it? I don't know and I don't know.
Can we stop all this hate in the comic community? Are you going to be okay when everyone shits on your comic when it comes out? Correction IF your comic comes out now that you have delayed it again. I am sure hoping you don't screw over myself and everyone else who backed SuperKiller because I would hate to be out a hundred bucks because some guy was too busy hating on other independent creators instead of focusing on his own fans and comic. Maybe get your comic out first and see the reviews of it before you continue to shit all over Eric because as of right now you are making so many enemies that your comic is going to be review bombed into the ground. You might be okay with that but what artist is going to want to associate with you when their reputation will get tanked by being associated to your comic! That is just my two cents but do whatever the fuck you want to do.
I'm all about free speech so Vito is free to speak his mind about someone else's work. However, free speech doesn't mean free from consequences, so Vito should be prepared when he reap what he sow.
Vito I can tell that you unironically thought this video out. It’s clear what your opinions are and you give great examples of what you’re talking about. I feel you made this video in not only good faith but great faith. That being said no cameo by Ricky R. Tardo so it’s gonna be a 0/10 from me dawg. I’m sorry
They feel like Soldiers and it feels like his black characters are disrespected because they are not as much in the light. For instance Isom gets humilate several times in his own comi, Bloodruth is forgettable, Braxwell ugly design feels like he's going to get killed off
Hadn't read it yet because I just ordered but millions of people love it. Isom 2 was better than Isom 1. Can't wait for Yaira.also just ordered a signed copy of Dean Cain's All American Lawman after he appeared on Eric's podcast. Would have ordered a copy of the dude from Underworld's book but the campaign had already ended.
Valid points, obviously most of the people that are buying these books are doing it because they're Eric fans, not fans of rippaverse stories. They know his books are mediocre at best but they can't admit it because they eat that "we will win" shit up.
After watching more of your video, I agree and am welcome to see more of what comes. I look forward to the companies triumphs and failures so you can have more content to push them to be better as we all did with the big 2 and others.
One thing I really hate about the Rippaverse is that it treats its graphic novels like monthly floppies. The books are padded out and tell very little story. The books are over priced with no tight story arc. Alpha Core has a great writer on it - but it is obvious the characters mean nothing to him. The art is all over the place. The whole thing left me bored.
Chuck Dickson wrote Robin year one and Batgirl year one which has Good character work and good motivation. Its sadly missing in Alphacore though. I am a fan of Joe Bennet's earlier work from Spider-Man in the 90s. I feel like it was more fluid and expressive. The art in Alphacore is good though, similar to his work on Immortal Hulk. Good review. Surprisingly objective. hehehe
All this time spent on the comics of Eric July yet no time to focus on creating his own comic and is happy to keep buyers waiting. Hmmm. And LOL at the unproduced writer saying a veteran writer understands "some" of the concepts of story and structure.
Didnt vito lauch a Indiegogo like 7 or 8 months ago and still hasnt shipped anything? Isnt this Erics second comic within that time and third in total :-P like you said maybe he should work on his comic instead of crapping on people who are doing better
I really wish you would just focus on your own creations and leave others alone. Maybe Eric started this beef? Otherwise I don't see why you hate him so much
I would say that starting and maintaining business that makes millions is definitely a talent. He might not be a good writer or artist, but it takes talent to do what he has.@@VitoTwo
In 5 seasons of The Wire, Bunk and McNulty never sat down and said “do you know why I do this?” You know why? Because the audience understand what a police officer is.
The response was silly but then again it is fair to point out that motivation is a pretty important part of a character, it helps shape our understanding of them and allows writers to come up with narratively satisfying dynamics, both between allies and between enemies. It doesn’t have to be explicit, and it doesn’t even have to be the why they’re doing this job out of all jobs, but you’d still need to understand their values, both in terms of moral and in terms of desires. Edit : and now that I think about his video a bit more, he did give a decent argument in the video about why superpowered individuals aren’t directly comparable to cops in regard to how straightforward their motivations are, a cop is the same as anyone else except they chose to work for law enforcement, it’s not like there’s a quick and easy way to use their powers for selfish reasons, and if anything them becoming police officers is what put them over regular people in the first place. A contrario superpowered individuals have an edge over almost everybody else, which gives them temptations that nobody else has, so there’s a much greater incentive as an author to explain why your characters decided to use their powers for good rather than evil or neither. Still not an irredeemable flaw but at the bare minimum it’s a pretty huge missed opportunity.
@@nathanjora7627 because I live on this planet, have a passing awareness of comic media and have two eyes, I was able to infer from the paramilitary costumes, base, and supporting characters that the three leads are most likely motivated by a sense of duty like most service personnel. Also because I can be charitable to Eric July (even those he is a massive dick) because I haven’t invest a significant chunk of income into antagonising him..
@@uu119816 « a sense of duty » is incredibly vague though, you can have a sense of duty for any variety of reasons, and it can manifest in a variety of ways. And yeah even with all his criticisms what transpires from his video is just that it’s a solid book with a pretty significant but far from irredeemable flaw, it’s possible to accept both that he’s laying it on too thick and that he’s right that it’s a pretty significant blunder.
It's not. And it should be. A lot of the writers and artists over at Marvel and DC have to toe the line, whether they agre with it or not. Rippa doesn't. He can basically do whatever he wants.... And this is what he does? It's worse because he has the freedom to do what he wants yet it isn't good at all. With so much money, way more than a lot of indies, he comes out with something vapid and uninspired. It's more than obvious that he doesn't have a creative bone in his body, and that he truly isn't emotionally attached to his characters/world.
So why is Disney failing so hard? Why is the comic book industry crashing? Because nobody wants what they're peddling.@@ThaCityBoi All you guys can do is make baseless statements you can't even back up what you say.. Just like Vito just saying "No, it's not. It's way worse" without anything to back it up.. People who are wrong do that because they can't back up what they say.
The problem is you're using Disney crashing as evidence that Eric July's comics are good. Both Disney and the Rippaverse can be bad, and for different reasons.@@JoeBlue99
This is why manga and manhwa are winning. Look at the rippaverse, started by a guy, he doesn’t write the stories, doesn’t even draw them. And it’s supposed to be a single thing. Meanwhile in manga you have either a one guy doing everything, or a duo of artist + writer. And the best part, they all finish at some point
Work consistency. Thats why Invincible are good and the walking dead. The european comics are in the front of manga a while, not in sales but in quality and american comics are going to a all time low.
@@merial7 yeah European comics are wonderful too but just speaking from a large audience target, manga and manhwa’s reach is unmatched. And why waste time reading about the prejudice people with super powers suffer if you have decades of X-men to read or what if Superman was cocky and wore green like the alpha core character. At this point superhero stories are like zombie stories to me, every single variation has already been done, move on
AlphaBore #1 * Supersmart Supercops find strange USB Key * Plug strange USB key into their system for the floating Police Station * USB key had a virus on it that causes havok on their systems And you lost me Chuck. Anyone who knows anything about computer systems KNOWS INSTINCTIVELY to not plug strange unknown devices into your computer, let alone a computer attach to a network of critical systems. It's OpSec 101 dude, a total noob mistake but these are supposed to be Super Cops? Yeah, waiter!! Cheque please!!
Vito....you really need to check out EARLY Xmen, like #1, #10....you will not find what you are talking about in early Xmen comics. Magneto was a pure evil 2 dimensional idiot, Quicksilver was there to protect his sister, his sister was there cuz she was a hopeless air-headed idiot, toad was a bumbling idiot, the illusion guy had no personality he was just there. Good guys....a bunch of weirdos jumping around in pajamas following their professor. None of them had any real personalities. Their reason for being there is to fight magneto, and that was it. No real debth until probably past #100. You will probably find similar issues infact, in MOST early comics. Rippaverse looks and sounds like the most amazing thing ever, compared to big company early comics. So.....he's brand new, give the guy some slack. Obiously, you don't like the guy. You had a point with his subscription thing, but as a brand new comic book writer, he's not doing too bad plot wise, character wise. It'll obviously take time to get into the story.
Stories have characters. Characters with motivations, personalities, vices, and virtues. A good story isnt just "things happened". The worst flaw of the Rippaverse is wasted potential.
I loved this book!! Its also not like its a one and done book! There will be more! And I'm looking forward to seeing more character development! Can't wait! All the best!
Eric was a comic book guy, bought and read countless books and yet can't come up with a good story. He clearly doesn't have a creative imagination. From what I can see Eric's biggest concern is keeping his Hustle going.
You're way underselling and dismissive of Chuck Dixon. He's been at it a long time, he's good at what he does and has done some amazing stories. That said, Eric July imo is pretty poor as a creator and doesn't seem to know what he's doing, anything conceived and directed by him is already behind the 8-ball...
They could of had a neat backstory where 4 characters start out as cops, one of them is kind of shady and the rest of the police force is corrupt. The shady character is tasked on taking out the others with a "accident" that results in all of them gaining powers. The shady cop learns that the police department intentionally had him involved to take him out as well, the corruption runs deep in the city council so the cop turns on the whole city. The other three cops have always been disgusted with the corruption and here on out vow to stop their old partner and clean the city's corruption by becoming better symbols of justice through being superheros. That's a base idea that I came up with in seconds on the spot. The ground work was already there based on the premise of this story.
Not really... You don't seem to realise the people buying it don't like the woke nonsense in mainstream comics.. So despite the flaws of The Ripperverse it isn't filled with cringe woke shit.. So it won't do any damage. As Mainstream comics and entertainment is being destroyed by woke activists. The people that don't want that which is the majority will go else where.. That's why woke entertainment is failing. As soon as better alternative arise the dominant forces like Disney are done for.
Imagine being Vito calling a comic book that has sold over $1.2M in a couple of months, that paying customers have in hand, and was written by a legend of the game in Chuck Dixon a failure. Imagine being that level of salty basement dweller calling people you don't like "failure" when you are a "never was".
@@VitoTwo You are not even comparing apples and oranges. Disney's market cap is a $164.12B and owns established IPs that they are choosing to run into the ground. Eric July started Rippaverse with $400K of his own money with zero outside investors and has to create his own IPs, has set up his own distribution channel, and been received well by his paying customers because they have their products in hand. Perhaps instead of whining and being jealous of a man's success, try doing what he's doing. It might even help you pay your mom some of the food bill once in a while.
So about on par with the best of Comcisgate (campaigns run by guys who don't need a warehouse and 12 employees) and well below Isom 2. The money is dwindling...
@@VitoTwo the preorder campaign goal was $300,000 so it has reached 382% at $1,145,571.00 I bet these toxic cancel piglets would love to have raised over $4m in just two comic book campaigns and Work with A legend like Chuck Dixon, if this is what failure looks Ike sign me up!
Rise of Skywalker made 1.2 billion, therefore it's good. Elon Musk is rich, so he's a genius. Jamie oliver is famous, rich, and a chef so his Asian food is great. Detected the fallacy in the argument already or would you like to roam in reality a bit longer to soak it all in?
Vito, I had my doubts with you. I'm now considering being your spiritual advisor, with the sole condition that you do peyote in the deserts of San Francisco.
My complaint is their costumes suck. It says nothing about the character. I havent read the book yet because everytime i go on julys website shit is down.
@@Karthig1987 nice try? You mean when i tried to buy a book and the shit wouldnt unfreeze? Why dont you mail me a book and ill venmo you the money in between ur cahk suhkin sessions.
Lol it's because they're police officers, so it's more uniforms than costumes. So that makes sense. Think about it : IRL, do miltary and cops uniforms say something about who wear them ? 🤷🏾♂️
Vito, I generally respect your opinions as both critic and analyst. However, you can't make the same assumptions about all media (SHOUNEN) as you make for ComicsGate/Indie comics. Shounen is designed for younger audiences, deliberately to attract them with less-intense stories. Comparatively, the first chapter of Berserk doesn't do much, but outline Guts' current situation, yet Guts is immediately compelling. Your criticisms are valid, but without outlining WHY they are that way, it comes as being bad-faith. That Alphacore has a setup for more development is fine. It encourages more investment later. However, the story sets up (A) stakes for Alphacore as Wolves-On-A-Leash to the public and (B) their personal dynamics in the future.
From what it looks like, he struggles making human characters. And having an actual plot. From all his years consuming comic books, Eric just took the superhero side of things. The shallowest part of what makes a superhero special.
Everywhere else, I'm hearing it was great 🤷♂️ it also sold over a million dollars in a few months. Your channel just kinda seems like a hater channel. A bunch of anti-Rippaverse videos.
I'm not a fan! I was going to back it but after seeing the comic, I was confused. Nothing new or interesting. I'm glad I didn't backed it and I can't find people with Balls saying that it's bad! Jon del Arroz and others had to give it a high score. I wonder why...? Dixon is there so... Kissing ass is fine. Thank you for being honest and having balls, like EVS!
You sent a tweet advocating that your followers bully Rippaverse fans. Eric July never advocated for aggression. I forgot I was subscribed, time to fix that, I don’t support those who advocate bullying
Vito, i like you. I’m a Patreon. I genuinely feel you need to be more gracious with your criticism of this book. The writing isn’t as obviously bad as Isom, the art is solid. If you continue with the insane nitpicking and unjustified bitching public opinion will turn against you. Be the bigger man than Eric
@@VitoTwo well, like I said, maybe consider how you’re coming off. Eric is a lolcow because of he’s over reaction to minor things and absurd cynical criticism, right? Don’t do the same thing
Chuck Dixon was taken off detective comics in the early 2000s for lack of sales and hasn’t been on a hot book since. Why do people think he’s some titan of the industry
Dude, you said U know comics, but it soundz like U are a real hater. Because dis Guy has done sumthing dat people who like him aren't supposed to do and that's make Comics.
Eric July was a guest of the "You Are Here" TH-cam show. I would listen to him speaking and was turned off. He had nothing to say, and seemed desperate for attention. So when I found out he was writing comics, during a time of BLM and George Floyd, I knew this was exploitation. You keep wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt. If people really want these comics, I think that only proves that comic book fans are desperate to have just anything right now. Many buy for the potential resale value as well. Many had a fetish for black people during a woke movement. There's a void that consumers want to have filled and the big companies aren't meeting expectations. Mediocrity is not meteoric. If there's any success here it's due to expectations being low. It likely helps that Nerdrotic keeps promoting July.
I definitely agree about the the big companies not meeting expectations. I stopped buying modern Marvel and DC in 2021 and just get older stuff from them (early 00s and prior). I got ISOM 1 and 2 and liked them ok. I have Alphacore, but haven't read it yet. I get there is a fetish by some for black people, but to his credit Eric isn't constantly talking about how oppressed he is. I'm black and 43 and I am so tired of hearing black people half my age drone on and on about things they never experienced, but the hyping of a character/writer simply for being black or checking a certain box is a real thing, but I don't think Eric is doing that since he is a lifelong comic fan. I'm also a big Nerdrotic fan so I can say that does help. There are other indies I want to check out as well.
Way of the Rat, Hunter Ninja Bear, several other indy books. Chuck Dixon has created his own characters and written them well. This comic was just fine. The writing was fine and certainly better than ISOM. At this point your jealousy is very transparent.
Were those books also missing basic character motivations?
@@VitoTwono, The Way of the Rat is an underrated series. Very good.
Dixon introduced Bane in Knightfall, and the parts of Knightfall he writes are far and away the best parts. You're off-base on the introduction thing.
I read Knightfall. It sucks.
I can understand it if you count Knight Quest and KnightsEnd as part of it, but the writing of Bane, Bullock, Scarecrow, and Joker is great in Knightfall and those issues are all Dixon.
@@antoids7945knight quest was shoe horned in by dc, Denny and co didn’t want Bruce Wayne in it at all
He also wrote Vengeance of Bane which is the excellent origin story of Bane. It's so good it makes you wish there was a Kid Bane miniseries. But Vito might prefer Vengeance of Bane pt 2, where it's post-Knightfall and Bane is a washed-up, grotesquely overweight loser getting bullied in jail. That might chime with Vito more, I feel like he would maybe get something valuable out of it (the desire to shed excessive fat deposits from one's body)
He's just trying to shit on anything rippaverse yeah isom wasn't award winning but it wasn't horrible isom 2 was pretty good and alphacore was awesome I can't wait to see what there gonna drop next I have seen a few of vitos videos not a big fan i still plan to buy a copy of his book to check ot because i want More good books n just because i don't like his view doesn't mean I went like his book but not a big fan of his TH-cam takes so far
I don't know dude, you made this comic sound pretty good. I'm considering it now and i wasn't before.
I've read Isom 1&2 as well as Alphacore. I can say that Alphacore was the best of the trio so far (ISOM 2 is also really fun) but I'll add that Alphacore is firmly playing in the sandbox that Isom did the heavy lifting in setting up.
But Chuck Dixon has some really great villain designs and the plot was really big really high energy superhero action. If that's what you've been missing in modern books but you haven't grabbed Isom then I would recommend you try Alphacore and see if that book doesn't make you want to read the Isom books.
I have seen it, it's not bad. A nice bit of fresh air
I have the trio isom 1 was slow but decent but isom 2 was good and alphacore is pretty great it just keeps getting better
@@churchvstheworld5815 The Isom comics were garbage. I'm a little bit more hopeful about Alphacore because it's Chuck Dixon who, unlike Eric July, can actually write.
Do you delay your own comic so others can't judge your vision just as harshly?
Because I trust rippaverse's author more due to him at least putting his stuff out there.
I also put my stuff out there. Feel free to criticize the many products out there with my name on them.
When yours comes out im going to micro analyze every period and comma use and count the cracks on the sidewalk.@@VitoTwo
@@jonathansoko1085 good
Bro your such a hater it makes you look like a shlub everything about this rippaverse thing is fun and enjoyable isom1 was a little slow but not bad and it's just gotten better man
@@VitoTwo Such as? Because the only thing I see on "Superkillers" is the indiegogo page and multiple delays.
IMO comics are beyond from saved, the wokes already poisoned the well and manga already replace them in a lot of book store
Your dumb if you think that
Exactly comics have become a niche for people in their 30s-50s who grew up on them, manga is the norm now that the younger generation has adopted
I don't think Rippaverse is the greatest thing ever, but I don't think every comic can just vomit out why characters do everything, that's the art of story telling.
Yeah but Eric has done it 3 times successfully and made millions on every comic so far, sooooo yeah I think you need to recognize Eric is making quality characters that fulfill a new legacy that the old comic industry failed to acknowledge.
Yeah but with his isom book it's 90 pages and we know almost nothing about him. You look at all great heroes batman, superman, Daredevil and spiderman in their debuts we know story with 5-10 pages. Isom feels like filler even Dixon can't salvage alphacore sure it mighty slightly better written still he's working with poor material
@@thestranger9608 lmfao so in other words, you didn't read alphacore 😂. You woke crybabies are a joke. Alphacore was pure genius and went past it's goal and made a million just like every other comic Eric is connected to directly. And what do you mean "nothing was divulged" We know his name is Avery silman, he goes by Isom when he wears his suit, we know he was off grid and gave up super heroing around because of meeting an impossibly strong enemy and losing himself. He's asked to look for a family friend despite giving that life up and living off grid with his own business, then he's dragged back into that world when an old friend becomes a named big shot in the criminal underworld of the city which is directly connected to a disappearance, and we know his power isn't a normal super power like every other hero in the known world so far, but "we know nothing right?"
You're a clown bud, keep making up BS, Eric July still meets his goals and makes profits, keep that copium going 😂.
Alphacore was the best thing written yet.
@@thestranger9608 Batman's first issue barely told us anything about batman, wtf are you talking about about 😂
@@VaeVictus17 uh we know his orgin, what drives him and who he is. 180 pages of isom who the hell is Avery?
Vito - the ultimate drama farmer - can't be authentic if he tried (he doesn't) - how about you get your own comic finished instead of keep delaying it because you keep crying over how successful rippaverse is.
Lol...
Vito release your book.
"The multiverse is home to a variety of superpowered beings; noble heroes who risk their lives to protect their worlds from destruction.
Unfortunately for multiversal assassin Sam King, these heroes won’t be going down without a fight."
I can't wait to read an entire series based on something that was a sidenote in Mark Millar's Wanted aka interdimensional hopping where a super powered assassin kills superheroes. But I guess in Wanted they were given more reasons to hop dimensions such as pulling off heists for tech and weapons. But I think stripping that down to one simple goal can be fun as well.
We can't wait for the first release from you Vito. You keep talking shit but from where I'm standing Eric and his company have released 3 books that actually exist in the real physical world while you've released.... ?
Eric July and Chuck Dixon don't need advice on how to do a first issue from someone who has yet to release a first issue. 🤡🤡🤡
Wow Eric made three comics with 7 million dollars? How incredible.
@@VitoTwo Okay Vito 👍 maybe less talky talky to me and more writey writey on your super duper killer book. I can't wait. Classic in chrysalis I'm sure
@@VitoTwo No, he saved up for years and built an audience and then invested his own money into ISOM #1. He then reinvested his earnings from ISOM #1 into his business to grow and expand it. This is basic business 101 and the fact that you are being dishonest again is very sad. Just finish your comic already that we paid for, and if you get writers block just go watch Jet Li's movie The One. Its basically the same thing as SuperKiller
@@Avx829 Yeah he really tried phrasing it in such a way to completely misrepresent the order of events and ignore basic business principles.
@VitoTwo is such a bottom feeder.
@@RiddlesOfSteel 🤣🙌🤣
Vito respectfully, the target audience of examples you gave(Naruto and One Piece) is for young teens. Shounen Mangaka deliberately dumb down the story and give their MCs overdone grandiose goals due to their target audience comprehension levels and attention span.
You're a grown man, why do character's need to have grandiose overdone goals for you to be able to resonate with said character?
Futhermore, if you're going to use a manga category, The Rippaverse target audience is more comparable to Seinen manga.
These are good points. I don't need the motivations/goals of every character that is out there. Most of them have the same motivations and just learning about it is boring. Most people don't have some big deep reason behind why they do things they just developed a moral system with rules that work for them and then go do things. We all understand that bad guys are bad and they should be stopped and if a super hero is somewhat good then I understand they might have some vested interest in stopping the bad guy.
@@Avx829 Agreed bro the I whole I want to be... the Hokage/Pirate King/Number one hero/Wizard King/Shaman King/Pokemon Master/God of the new world...etc gets really boring imo.
I get wanting to root for a character but that's the most superficial reason to root for a character. The journey is more important than the destination imo.
Which is probably why I vibe with Seinen manga/anime more...One of, if not my outright favourite Seinen anime of all time is Monster. Grandiose goals are no were to be seen in Kenzo Tenma or most of the characters... A drastically less grounded and more popular Seinen... One Punch Man... Saitama has 0 grandiose goal too. Yet I and a lot of other people think Saitama is written better and is far more likable than someone like Deku who has a obvious goal.
You only talked about 2 examples. you need to give your other ones too right? out of all the ones he said i think going for naruto and one piece is low hanging fruit here, respectfully, of course.
@@alicemoon3119 Apologies for the long post. You would have a point that I picked the low hanging fruit by highlighting Naruto and One Piece if I didn't highlight shounen as a whole.
An MC pursuing a grandiose status based goal(god/king/champion/number 1)is the shounen cookie cutter formula.
What Vito and presumably you make a mistake with, is that you think manga is just shounen and all western comics should follow the shounen cookie cutter formula.
When you sell a product you have to think about your demographic...
Q:Did Eric July pick a publishing company like Shonen Jump that primarily target young teens?
A:No.
Q:Is Eric July's TH-cam audience and the people that backed his "anti-woke" Rippaverse comic campaign young teens?
A:No
Then why would possibly hold The Rippaverse to the same standards as shonen. Thats weird to me. Compare it to its manga counterpart... Seinen, where it typically doesn't use the cookie cutter formula.
I thought rippaverse audience were 40-50 year olds that hate manga and woke comics
11:15 How is it enough that "he wants to help this girl" but it wasn't enough for Isom to want to help find some girl?
Isom has no connection to that girl and immediately abandons his search for her. Clearly not his driving core character motivation.
@@VitoTwo Thanks for the reply. :) I'm actually still watching this video because I keep getting interrupted. I never read Isom. I'm going strictly off what I've seen on other videos. I saw someone interviewing Eric, and he explained that Isom went searching for the girl because his mother would want him to do it or something. LOL!
@@SummerSwan50@vitotwo it’s really funny because Isom actually finds the girl but decides to beat up some goons’ boss instead of chasing her down
@@sirjameslvn He found her, she wouldn't talk and ran away, so he avenged the disrespect he was given while he was there so he gave santoin a receipt to prove that he's onto what was going on, which caused Darren to try to cement his position to avenge that response as he saw that as him being shown up. Lazy comprehension on both of yalls parts if you really don't understand the flow of the story.
Wait a minute, are you trying to get Eric to hire you??
Ha no
You should
I heard it sold a million. Is that true vito?
It’s not
Copies no. Campaign $$$$ wise yes.
"This is not a superhero costume; this is just a jacket", made me laugh really hard for some reason lol. Keep it up Vito!
Dick Tracy, Blade, 🤨
@@rockon8174 you retarted to compare two very stylized and iconic heroes to a guy wearing a motorcycle helment and a regular ass jacket
I'm just waiting on Superkiller... It's been over a year now
Giving your time and energy to the wrong bloke, getting a little sus
You realize that Vito is not drawing his comic himself ? 🤨
@@lambertar According to the recent update, he has been personally storyboarding every page. Also, if the comic is being delayed by over a year, it speaks of poor management on Vito's part, even if he wasn't involved in the creative process.
@@asioca1992
Yes, he indeed has.
Shipping on the campaign was due for December, we are end January, it's FAR from a year late right now.
And yes, it's very possible Vito fucked up some scheduling, it's his first comic and I believe making comics isn't an exact science. It's a crowdfunding, those are rarely on time.
Nothing sus yet.
@@lambertar "Those are rarely on time" is not an excuse when most crowdfunding campaigns are poorly managed more often than not as well. If anything, it's just more evidence that it's gonna end up something closer to Mighty Number 9 than Bloodstained, if you catch my drift. Also, he has enough time to take potshots at someone who already got his stuff out on time, but he doesn't have the time to coordinate with his artists to keep to his schedule?
Give me a break man, if he doesn't have the chops to stand up to the competition, he shouldn't be talking in the first place.
I like manga and western comics. I like Rippaverse and Cyberfrog. Some stories require mysteries to to be unveiled. Sometimes you dont get a character played out exactly what you anticipate. Sometimes its good to explain everything in one page sometimes its best to understand a characters motivation without explaining anything and you have to wait until issue 6 to find out who they are. Sometimes you have to wait til the end of the series to get what the character was doing all along. Sometimes the twist happens mid way through and sometimes the twist is at the end. Sometimes you have to find out a characters actions in a spinoff series from another characters point of view. So when you explain "Who is this guy? Where is his motivations? Why are they doing it? How are they doing it? Whats their main goal? Whats the end goal of their goal?". So with that you cant expect EVERYTHING to be explained in ONE comic. If thats the case it would be the shortest story in a mini series or a continuous mainline series. So all this complaining seems more that you hate Eric and its easy to shit on his story. So your complaints are just whiny when you could just not constantly rail on Eric but its good that you did because it just proves how dishonest, disingenuous, spiteful, and you genuinely just want to hate on Eric.
Was it mysterious when they told us why Isom retired without ever hinting to it? Even tho it was the most cliched "I failed to save someone" ever?
"One comic" Dude, these are not monthly comics, these are 100 pages or more
@@milagrosgutierrezmartin9506 so you need innuendos and hints to tell you whats goin on? Do you need exhibition of characters telling you what they di before they do it. Lol. Ok. May as well read childrens books then.
@@mosj9876 Children`s books have better worldbuilding and characters than this.
Was it so hard to flesh out Avery by dropping a couple comments here and there that he had retired, and was bitter towards heroism?
LOL The Goon forshadowed Chinatown for years. That's how you build a mystery, by letting readers know there is a mystery.
Yes, having the characters show their motivation or even talk about it is better than the "lol, so random" of these comics. Characters do things in here just because they are what you do in a superhero comic. Like Avery donning his costume. Why? He doesn't want to be a hero, he doesn't want to protect his identity, he doesn't care about Jasmine. So he got his costume because superheroes wear costumes and it's a superhero comic.
For a new company, newly in the space, it is actually pretty good.
It's not great, but I look at it like the first episode first season of a new show. If it progresses, it's heading in a good direction.
As to why Alphacore is doing what they do, I thought they summed that up pretty well when when Solari is arguing with the Chief. Solari is stuck in his military past. He is trying to take a military approach to protecting civilians, and as ex-military, he doesn’t get why those optics suck.
He sees civilians seeing him patroling as a good thing (overwatch as he calls it, a military term), and he says so. It is the first issue, so I expect a bit of slow play as to motivation and power sets. But I felt like the gist of it was laid out.
One thing I found egregiously stupid is the scene where Galvin lures the jail guard in by asking for a light. What is it 1965? Virtually every state ptison has banned smoking, and even if they hadn't, it would still be treated as a privilege not afforded to a psycho who attacked several cops.
I think it can get better, but they need to build a writing team that is encouraged to nitpick.
Nothing about it stands out. You cut afford to make an average book without a decent hook in this modern age and expect to get people invested.
@@VitoTwo nothing about a cheeseburger stands out, but in a day and age when everyone is "re-imagining" or deconstructing cheeseburgers, just getting a run of the mill, but competently executed cheeseburger can be a revelation.
That's what it is. Basic, but well executed enough for another visit. A wagyu burger from a cow named Terrance topped with a carpaccio of Maldivian long line caught Yellow Fin Tuna might be the only thing that hits the spot for you. But, I was pretty satisfied with what I got, a basic greasy cheeseburger of a comic.
Why does Naruto want to be the best ninja?
Why does Luffy want to be King of the Pirates?
You gave us what they want not why they want it, which was supposed to be your point.
Yes, this analysis was pretty shithouse
Naruto wants to be the best ninja due to how the village mistreats him, wanting to prove he has value despite being seen by the village as a screwup and a menace. Luffy witnesses the heroism of Shanks and his crew and resolves to become a pirate just like them. All of this motivation is contained in the very first chapter of each story.
What does each member of Alphacore want and why do they want it? I don't know and I don't know.
@@VitoTwo Cool. That should have been in your video just as motivation should have been in July's comic.
Can we stop all this hate in the comic community? Are you going to be okay when everyone shits on your comic when it comes out? Correction IF your comic comes out now that you have delayed it again. I am sure hoping you don't screw over myself and everyone else who backed SuperKiller because I would hate to be out a hundred bucks because some guy was too busy hating on other independent creators instead of focusing on his own fans and comic. Maybe get your comic out first and see the reviews of it before you continue to shit all over Eric because as of right now you are making so many enemies that your comic is going to be review bombed into the ground. You might be okay with that but what artist is going to want to associate with you when their reputation will get tanked by being associated to your comic! That is just my two cents but do whatever the fuck you want to do.
It feels like Vito is more SALTY about the success more than anything else, comes off really petty and a bad attitude to have
I'm all about free speech so Vito is free to speak his mind about someone else's work. However, free speech doesn't mean free from consequences, so Vito should be prepared when he reap what he sow.
I was on board with this video until you start hyping up loli
LOL, So the Rippaverses biggest hater is giving there recent comic a bad rating.....Yeah, like I'm going to believe this guy.
Story begins with character. How do they not know this already?
we are alphacore and Failure is not what we do
But I bet their willing to learn.
they're @@lazuruswolf6668
@@lazuruswolf6668 I'm sure they've excelled at failure.
Vito I can tell that you unironically thought this video out. It’s clear what your opinions are and you give great examples of what you’re talking about. I feel you made this video in not only good faith but great faith. That being said no cameo by Ricky R. Tardo so it’s gonna be a 0/10 from me dawg. I’m sorry
Lol
They feel like Soldiers and it feels like his black characters are disrespected because they are not as much in the light. For instance Isom gets humilate several times in his own comi, Bloodruth is forgettable, Braxwell ugly design feels like he's going to get killed off
So if the first issue dosen't include why its a failure. So you say Batman is a failure.
Hadn't read it yet because I just ordered but millions of people love it. Isom 2 was better than Isom 1. Can't wait for Yaira.also just ordered a signed copy of Dean Cain's All American Lawman after he appeared on Eric's podcast. Would have ordered a copy of the dude from Underworld's book but the campaign had already ended.
Millions of people ? 🤨
Yeah, that's not accurate. total, they've only sold 22k copies thus far. That's impressive for a small publisher, but not millions.
Valid points, obviously most of the people that are buying these books are doing it because they're Eric fans, not fans of rippaverse stories.
They know his books are mediocre at best but they can't admit it because they eat that "we will win" shit up.
After watching more of your video, I agree and am welcome to see more of what comes. I look forward to the companies triumphs and failures so you can have more content to push them to be better as we all did with the big 2 and others.
One thing I really hate about the Rippaverse is that it treats its graphic novels like monthly floppies. The books are padded out and tell very little story.
The books are over priced with no tight story arc.
Alpha Core has a great writer on it - but it is obvious the characters mean nothing to him. The art is all over the place. The whole thing left me bored.
R i c k y
R e t a r d o 🥵
Please catch my mini Alphacore review before it's taken down
Chuck Dickson wrote Robin year one and Batgirl year one which has Good character work and good motivation. Its sadly missing in Alphacore though. I am a fan of Joe Bennet's earlier work from Spider-Man in the 90s. I feel like it was more fluid and expressive. The art in Alphacore is good though, similar to his work on Immortal Hulk. Good review. Surprisingly objective. hehehe
All this time spent on the comics of Eric July yet no time to focus on creating his own comic and is happy to keep buyers waiting. Hmmm.
And LOL at the unproduced writer saying a veteran writer understands "some" of the concepts of story and structure.
Didnt vito lauch a Indiegogo like 7 or 8 months ago and still hasnt shipped anything? Isnt this Erics second comic within that time and third in total :-P like you said maybe he should work on his comic instead of crapping on people who are doing better
That's because Vito doesn't have Eric July level retardation. Vito has the mental capacity to expertly critique Eric while writing a comic of his own.
I really wish you would just focus on your own creations and leave others alone.
Maybe Eric started this beef? Otherwise I don't see why you hate him so much
Because he's talentless
This hating 101 at its best if you better shut up and prove it 😂😂😂
I would say that starting and maintaining business that makes millions is definitely a talent. He might not be a good writer or artist, but it takes talent to do what he has.@@VitoTwo
In 5 seasons of The Wire, Bunk and McNulty never sat down and said “do you know why I do this?” You know why? Because the audience understand what a police officer is.
Ah, and what superpowers do Bunk and McNulty have?
@@VitoTwo Nice deflection. what do powers have to do with their motivation? Your criticism is very superficial
The response was silly but then again it is fair to point out that motivation is a pretty important part of a character, it helps shape our understanding of them and allows writers to come up with narratively satisfying dynamics, both between allies and between enemies.
It doesn’t have to be explicit, and it doesn’t even have to be the why they’re doing this job out of all jobs, but you’d still need to understand their values, both in terms of moral and in terms of desires.
Edit : and now that I think about his video a bit more, he did give a decent argument in the video about why superpowered individuals aren’t directly comparable to cops in regard to how straightforward their motivations are, a cop is the same as anyone else except they chose to work for law enforcement, it’s not like there’s a quick and easy way to use their powers for selfish reasons, and if anything them becoming police officers is what put them over regular people in the first place. A contrario superpowered individuals have an edge over almost everybody else, which gives them temptations that nobody else has, so there’s a much greater incentive as an author to explain why your characters decided to use their powers for good rather than evil or neither.
Still not an irredeemable flaw but at the bare minimum it’s a pretty huge missed opportunity.
@@nathanjora7627 because I live on this planet, have a passing awareness of comic media and have two eyes, I was able to infer from the paramilitary costumes, base, and supporting characters that the three leads are most likely motivated by a sense of duty like most service personnel.
Also because I can be charitable to Eric July (even those he is a massive dick) because I haven’t invest a significant chunk of income into antagonising him..
@@uu119816 « a sense of duty » is incredibly vague though, you can have a sense of duty for any variety of reasons, and it can manifest in a variety of ways.
And yeah even with all his criticisms what transpires from his video is just that it’s a solid book with a pretty significant but far from irredeemable flaw, it’s possible to accept both that he’s laying it on too thick and that he’s right that it’s a pretty significant blunder.
Donuts are yummy.
You seem to forget that even with these flaws.... Still better than the trash Marvel and DC have been putting out... Which is mostly the point.
It's not. It's way worse.
It's not. And it should be. A lot of the writers and artists over at Marvel and DC have to toe the line, whether they agre with it or not. Rippa doesn't. He can basically do whatever he wants.... And this is what he does?
It's worse because he has the freedom to do what he wants yet it isn't good at all.
With so much money, way more than a lot of indies, he comes out with something vapid and uninspired.
It's more than obvious that he doesn't have a creative bone in his body, and that he truly isn't emotionally attached to his characters/world.
No that’s not the point, Rippatard. Lol
So why is Disney failing so hard? Why is the comic book industry crashing? Because nobody wants what they're peddling.@@ThaCityBoi
All you guys can do is make baseless statements you can't even back up what you say.. Just like Vito just saying "No, it's not. It's way worse" without anything to back it up..
People who are wrong do that because they can't back up what they say.
The problem is you're using Disney crashing as evidence that Eric July's comics are good.
Both Disney and the Rippaverse can be bad, and for different reasons.@@JoeBlue99
"Just .... LEAVE BRITNEY ALONEEEEE, VITOOO!"
Valid criticism of them being all super strong and durable. All basically the same. True, we need to know what motivates them also.
This is why manga and manhwa are winning. Look at the rippaverse, started by a guy, he doesn’t write the stories, doesn’t even draw them. And it’s supposed to be a single thing. Meanwhile in manga you have either a one guy doing everything, or a duo of artist + writer.
And the best part, they all finish at some point
Meanwhile your kind can’t even sell marvel comics. Manga is winning because you wokemouths ruined American comics
Work consistency. Thats why Invincible are good and the walking dead. The european comics are in the front of manga a while, not in sales but in quality and american comics are going to a all time low.
@@merial7 yeah European comics are wonderful too but just speaking from a large audience target, manga and manhwa’s reach is unmatched. And why waste time reading about the prejudice people with super powers suffer if you have decades of X-men to read or what if Superman was cocky and wore green like the alpha core character.
At this point superhero stories are like zombie stories to me, every single variation has already been done, move on
@@nnnneeeeuuuuand thse thing scarevsuposed to be destroying woke msrvel and DC so thre based
Mangaka have assistants they don't credit in their books bro ima manga fan so you're wrong
I made it a little over 5 minutes into this video. It’s a bunch of jealous drivel.
Great info! Needed this. Thanks
Why does this remind me of "Agents of Shield" when you start explaining it?
AlphaBore #1
* Supersmart Supercops find strange USB Key
* Plug strange USB key into their system for the floating Police Station
* USB key had a virus on it that causes havok on their systems
And you lost me Chuck. Anyone who knows anything about computer systems KNOWS INSTINCTIVELY to not plug strange unknown devices into your computer, let alone a computer attach to a network of critical systems. It's OpSec 101 dude, a total noob mistake but these are supposed to be Super Cops? Yeah, waiter!! Cheque please!!
Vito....you really need to check out EARLY Xmen, like #1, #10....you will not find what you are talking about in early Xmen comics. Magneto was a pure evil 2 dimensional idiot, Quicksilver was there to protect his sister, his sister was there cuz she was a hopeless air-headed idiot, toad was a bumbling idiot, the illusion guy had no personality he was just there. Good guys....a bunch of weirdos jumping around in pajamas following their professor. None of them had any real personalities. Their reason for being there is to fight magneto, and that was it. No real debth until probably past #100. You will probably find similar issues infact, in MOST early comics.
Rippaverse looks and sounds like the most amazing thing ever, compared to big company early comics. So.....he's brand new, give the guy some slack. Obiously, you don't like the guy. You had a point with his subscription thing, but as a brand new comic book writer, he's not doing too bad plot wise, character wise. It'll obviously take time to get into the story.
Those early comics are ALSO bad
The literal best comic book in a decade, and you hate it.
Its fine to hate it, but dont pretend it failed. It made over a million.
"What's up, buddy"
Have you read steel ball run? Where is your patience as a reader?
Stories have characters. Characters with motivations, personalities, vices, and virtues. A good story isnt just "things happened".
The worst flaw of the Rippaverse is wasted potential.
I loved this book!! Its also not like its a one and done book! There will be more! And I'm looking forward to seeing more character development! Can't wait! All the best!
Rippaverse is the future of comics. And let me tell you, the future is bleak.
Lol you comic nerds need to hang it up and pick up Manga. Low ass sales
The real question does issue #1 show Ricky playing the stopwatch game?
I really liked those AI art pieces you showed of the characters in the bar. Nicely done.
Eric was a comic book guy, bought and read countless books and yet can't come up with a good story. He clearly doesn't have a creative imagination. From what I can see Eric's biggest concern is keeping his Hustle going.
You're way underselling and dismissive of Chuck Dixon. He's been at it a long time, he's good at what he does and has done some amazing stories. That said, Eric July imo is pretty poor as a creator and doesn't seem to know what he's doing, anything conceived and directed by him is already behind the 8-ball...
They could of had a neat backstory where 4 characters start out as cops, one of them is kind of shady and the rest of the police force is corrupt. The shady character is tasked on taking out the others with a "accident" that results in all of them gaining powers. The shady cop learns that the police department intentionally had him involved to take him out as well, the corruption runs deep in the city council so the cop turns on the whole city. The other three cops have always been disgusted with the corruption and here on out vow to stop their old partner and clean the city's corruption by becoming better symbols of justice through being superheros. That's a base idea that I came up with in seconds on the spot. The ground work was already there based on the premise of this story.
Let me know when your book comes out
Nice self title, so accurate.
Braxwell's real name is Ricky. You know that.
Bane's origin is really cool so I have no idea why he didn't do it to at least one of the Alphacore trio. Maybe Eric called dibs on that story.
Yeah I can't take your review seriously given you clearly have some kind of weird hatred for Eric.
I hate bad writers
@@VitoTwo Whatever you say, still weird 👍
Vito is doing damage to the Alphacore business with his reviews. More tortureus interfer3nce!
Not really... You don't seem to realise the people buying it don't like the woke nonsense in mainstream comics.. So despite the flaws of The Ripperverse it isn't filled with cringe woke shit.. So it won't do any damage. As Mainstream comics and entertainment is being destroyed by woke activists. The people that don't want that which is the majority will go else where.. That's why woke entertainment is failing. As soon as better alternative arise the dominant forces like Disney are done for.
1,000 views? Lol no he isn't.
12k books sold??? Nah he isn't.
It's going to be hilarious, because all these same arguments are going to be used against you. If "Super Killer" ever comes out that is.
Imagine being Vito calling a comic book that has sold over $1.2M in a couple of months, that paying customers have in hand, and was written by a legend of the game in Chuck Dixon a failure. Imagine being that level of salty basement dweller calling people you don't like "failure" when you are a "never was".
The Last Jedi made how many millions of dollars again? Nobody argued when I called that a failure.
@@VitoTwo You are not even comparing apples and oranges. Disney's market cap is a $164.12B and owns established IPs that they are choosing to run into the ground.
Eric July started Rippaverse with $400K of his own money with zero outside investors and has to create his own IPs, has set up his own distribution channel, and been received well by his paying customers because they have their products in hand.
Perhaps instead of whining and being jealous of a man's success, try doing what he's doing. It might even help you pay your mom some of the food bill once in a while.
@@gibranespinoza6603 so he's allowed to make trash because he has less money?
meanwhile back in reality ALPHACORE #1 Campaign reaches $1,131,745 in sales
So about on par with the best of Comcisgate (campaigns run by guys who don't need a warehouse and 12 employees) and well below Isom 2. The money is dwindling...
@@VitoTwo the preorder campaign goal was $300,000 so it has reached 382% at $1,145,571.00 I bet these toxic cancel piglets would love to have raised over $4m in just two comic book campaigns and Work with A legend like Chuck Dixon, if this is what failure looks Ike sign me up!
Rise of Skywalker made 1.2 billion, therefore it's good. Elon Musk is rich, so he's a genius. Jamie oliver is famous, rich, and a chef so his Asian food is great. Detected the fallacy in the argument already or would you like to roam in reality a bit longer to soak it all in?
You’re the man Vito
i tried reading it from a pirate site, it was boring, the only interesting part was the badguy. the good guy powers are never explained
Lol pirate site. Nice
Clinton Cast sounds dank, thanks for telling me about it.
Alpha-Core. The comic sounds like some kind of mid 2000s buttrock band.
Vito, I had my doubts with you. I'm now considering being your spiritual advisor, with the sole condition that you do peyote in the deserts of San Francisco.
In a live stream.
Braxwell? You mean Ricky?
This is a 35-minute video, not 45, Vito
They do it for some weird sexual reason.
My complaint is their costumes suck. It says nothing about the character. I havent read the book yet because everytime i go on julys website shit is down.
Right? The character designs are most generic shit ever.
It's never been down for this release lol. Nice try.
@@Karthig1987 nice try? You mean when i tried to buy a book and the shit wouldnt unfreeze? Why dont you mail me a book and ill venmo you the money in between ur cahk suhkin sessions.
Lol it's because they're police officers, so it's more uniforms than costumes. So that makes sense. Think about it : IRL, do miltary and cops uniforms say something about who wear them ? 🤷🏾♂️
How many comics have you written?
Vito, I generally respect your opinions as both critic and analyst. However, you can't make the same assumptions about all media (SHOUNEN) as you make for ComicsGate/Indie comics. Shounen is designed for younger audiences, deliberately to attract them with less-intense stories. Comparatively, the first chapter of Berserk doesn't do much, but outline Guts' current situation, yet Guts is immediately compelling.
Your criticisms are valid, but without outlining WHY they are that way, it comes as being bad-faith. That Alphacore has a setup for more development is fine. It encourages more investment later. However, the story sets up (A) stakes for Alphacore as Wolves-On-A-Leash to the public and (B) their personal dynamics in the future.
BO-RING
From what it looks like, he struggles making human characters. And having an actual plot. From all his years consuming comic books, Eric just took the superhero side of things. The shallowest part of what makes a superhero special.
Everywhere else, I'm hearing it was great 🤷♂️ it also sold over a million dollars in a few months.
Your channel just kinda seems like a hater channel. A bunch of anti-Rippaverse videos.
Not a fan of AI art but the part where the characters are in the bar is better than the art in the whole comic 😏
Be honest Vito would you waste you A material on a July book?
If he paid good enough, yeah
I'm not a fan! I was going to back it but after seeing the comic, I was confused.
Nothing new or interesting.
I'm glad I didn't backed it and I can't find people with Balls saying that it's bad! Jon del Arroz and others had to give it a high score. I wonder why...? Dixon is there so... Kissing ass is fine.
Thank you for being honest and having balls, like EVS!
His name is RICKY.
The Clinton Cash comic is boring
European comics are better then manga.
Eric July, the litigious anarcho-capitalist
Coming from the guy who push his 1st book again lol!!! (now Q2 of 24)
So?
You know they are a Trinity ripoff. That's why jacket guy doesn't show his face.
This should have been another Bonus episode
You sent a tweet advocating that your followers bully Rippaverse fans. Eric July never advocated for aggression. I forgot I was subscribed, time to fix that, I don’t support those who advocate bullying
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Vito, i like you. I’m a Patreon. I genuinely feel you need to be more gracious with your criticism of this book. The writing isn’t as obviously bad as Isom, the art is solid. If you continue with the insane nitpicking and unjustified bitching public opinion will turn against you. Be the bigger man than Eric
I genuinely hate this book. It's an uninteresting waste of time. It's a mindless slugfest with almost no soul.
@@VitoTwo well, like I said, maybe consider how you’re coming off. Eric is a lolcow because of he’s over reaction to minor things and absurd cynical criticism, right? Don’t do the same thing
Chuck Dixon was taken off detective comics in the early 2000s for lack of sales and hasn’t been on a hot book since. Why do people think he’s some titan of the industry
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The book's story reminded me of that SWAT reboot show
Gotta be one of the least practical flying bases I ever seen.
We need "I stand with Vito" tshirts
You mean sit with Vito.
HAHAHA so much ratio
PS: paused the video at 0:01 then left a dislike lol
Dude, you said U know comics, but it soundz like U are a real hater. Because dis Guy has done sumthing dat people who like him aren't supposed to do and that's make Comics.
I read maybe 20 pages of Alphacore. I got it. Do you think the black guy in the helmet will be revealed as Isom?
That is your opinion..you dont know what audiences want...
Eric July was a guest of the "You Are Here" TH-cam show.
I would listen to him speaking and was turned off.
He had nothing to say, and seemed desperate for attention.
So when I found out he was writing comics, during a time of BLM and George Floyd, I knew this was exploitation.
You keep wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt.
If people really want these comics, I think that only proves that comic book fans are desperate to have just anything right now.
Many buy for the potential resale value as well.
Many had a fetish for black people during a woke movement.
There's a void that consumers want to have filled and the big companies aren't meeting expectations.
Mediocrity is not meteoric.
If there's any success here it's due to expectations being low.
It likely helps that Nerdrotic keeps promoting July.
I definitely agree about the the big companies not meeting expectations. I stopped buying modern Marvel and DC in 2021 and just get older stuff from them (early 00s and prior). I got ISOM 1 and 2 and liked them ok. I have Alphacore, but haven't read it yet. I get there is a fetish by some for black people, but to his credit Eric isn't constantly talking about how oppressed he is. I'm black and 43 and I am so tired of hearing black people half my age drone on and on about things they never experienced, but the hyping of a character/writer simply for being black or checking a certain box is a real thing, but I don't think Eric is doing that since he is a lifelong comic fan. I'm also a big Nerdrotic fan so I can say that does help. There are other indies I want to check out as well.
But Vito is a PDF file