Just watched EVS reviews for Isom 1 and 2, they're just not good, not even mediocre

posted 300 days ago by ParadigmShift2070 300 days ago by ParadigmShift2070 +32 / -8

The whole thing is just so soulless, the project succeeded because Eric July is black and the "counter culture" crowd desperately wanted to prove that they're not racist.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 4 points 300 days ago +5 / -1

the comments on readcomicsonline

For those wondering, and before you click on the links use an ad-block for the love of all things sane:

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Isom

tl;dr "kudos for self posting and going against DC and Marvel but the comic is only ok"

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– CarmenOfSandiego 5 points 300 days ago +6 / -1

Some examples taken from the main page and both issues.

Overall thoughts by some posted on the main page of the comic.

This comic did well for what is and its niche fanbase but let's not oversell the comic or July himself. It's nowhere close to being the "revolutionary comic to rival Marvel and DC", it's simply a comic that's just as mediocre as the comics Marvel and DC are releasing. Like many casual comic readers don't even know this comic exists.

1). This is a comic piracy site, having comics here for free, that's the whole point. 2). The hate boner, that some people have for Eric July was amusing at first, but now borders on disturbing. Some of these people need some serious professional help, judging on how they go off online, because of a mediocre superhero comic, produced by a Youtube guy, of all things! 3). The book itself is ''mid'', like the hip kids say. Nothing groundbreaking that will change comics or something, but still better than some of the embarrassing crap that US mainstream companies churn out. I've definitely read way, way worse here. ( Check out the ending of the latest Punisher run, that was some absolutely embarrassingly bad shit.) 4). If people want to pay for this, it´s their money, let them. I´m definitely not gonna pay 35 $ for this, just like I won´t pay Marvel or DC any money for some of that insultingly bad shit that they´re releasing.

In reply to this:

i'm not sure whats funnier, the hateboner people have for July doing his own thing outside of the big companies, or the hateboner he has for anyone who criticizes his book. At the end of the day if he's producing a product and people want to read it, good for him. so much from the big guys is crap, so someone else might as well produce crap too.

And in reply to this:

After reading issue 2, his comic reminds me of the schlock that Zenescope produces , minus the sexy pin-up characters. Hey, now that´s idea for future Rippaverse titles: Moar pin-up boobies! It´s really baffling, that people would lose their minds because of something like this. Oh and July is a grifter who knows exactly what his doing, when he´s starting these flame wars online. People, talking about you it´s good for business, even if they´re trashtalking on you. Makes you consider, the sorry state of the US comics industry, when the most talked publication is some 2nd tier schlock from some Youtuber, while the Big 2 are producing stuff, that´s so embarrassingly bad, it´s not even worth pirating....

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It's not even mid. The main character is an absolute man baby.

Avery Silman is a man baby. Seriously. What did I just read? The main character starts fighting with the nightclub guy and his goons because "I was met with disrespect and this cannot stand"? So the "hero" has a massive ego that he can't keep in check, so he just starts brawling with some goons. How heroic and inspiring. Not. A sane, rational person would simply move on and get over it. So Avery Silman isn't just a man baby, he's also irrational and bordering needing a stay in the loony bin. How is this better than the trash Marvel and DC serve these days? It's not.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 4 points 300 days ago +5 / -1

Issue 1 comments.

not a bad read and it strached the itch marvel and dc left [highest voted]

this was was actually much better than I thought it would be. I'm honestly inclined to buy the books now so that this can continue. Shipping fee will kill me though, I just know it.

well...it's kinda good...it's strange the number of pages

Meh...it was about what I expected. Art is okay...not good, but it's not the worst. Probably put it on par with books I've read from places like Zenoscope, Dynamite, IDW, etc. Story is using the well worn trope of "guy doing a favor finds he's stumbled into something bigger than expected", but that's not always a bad thing. There's a reason it's become a trope..it works Biggest issue is that July is clearly very new to writing comics. Some of the dialogue is stilted or just downright awkward (ex: during that last fight with the super powered bouncer). There's also some interlude scenes that just don't fit, which I think is a result of him trying to do too much world building all at once. Sometimes less is just more...both with dialogue and story Honestly, there could be something here, the world seems like it does have some potential, but I personally wouldn't have dropped $35.00 on it.

Damn, that was pretty good. Think i'll order this one and whatever else is out, just wanted a test ride because it was on the pricey side.

Not bad, not bad at all for a first issue. I don't know if its worth the 30$ bucks though. Would like some more world building and explanation behind the super powers going forward but I'm interested in issue 2.

The costume on the promotional images seemed very (too) generic to me and now that I'd read the comic, well the story is likewise generic. Imho the story tastes like french fries without salt. One big mistake is trying to build an entire universe of different potential future titles in a single issue: is impossible because i something to do step by step over the time. Still he tried to do that by throwing in the story too many superpowered characters without any consistent introduction, only to disappear just after some briefly "screentime". I mean the panel saying "Yaira will return.... soon enough" made me think "why I should care about this character to return? The comic told me nothing at all about her for me to care about".

This is aggressively mid to bad. The art is okay (Though sometimes the figures look too stiff), nothing interesting to look at but not egregious. The writing is bad and the characters are kinda unlikable. Its paced fine but the actual panel flow is bland, stock, and uninspiring. Like its boring. It should get better perhaps but this is just boring and the writing is bad. Aggressively mid.

tl;dr the single biggest criticism is the price, with varying reviews in terms of story and art.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 5 points 300 days ago +6 / -1

Issue 2 comments.

[A sharp decline from the mostly positive comments in issue 1]

embarassingly bad. i wish more of these weirdos' crowdfunded comics got uploaded, it's hilarious to see the crap few hundreds of idiots are massively overpaying "to own the wokes" . what an easy grift

I came here to say, after reading the first two issues, after hearing all of the hype about how "oh wow, this is the only non-woke superhero comic", this comic is just boring to me. I've seen better comics that managed to hook me in on issue one, this comic is not groundbreaking

I would not said that this is bad, but little bit predictable that feels like it from 1995-2003 era. Luke Cage blames himself that Black Hulk randomly killed White woman...is it really was so important in story? i mean to kill white woman, remorse story flash back at... 2nd episode, wuf, if guy not sure how his powers works... maybe he should Team-up with other heroes or use a weapon, or he has some army/cop/boxer/firefighter background, flashback would be were much needed. Then he meets two wendigos that burn when touching him, so our MC saint or god's person or fused with sacred relic? Then he meets Elisa Bloodstone, that just a Sydnee now, then whole wendigos cave, big bad "We must eliminate him, we don't wonna burn each time we randomly touch some superhero" ... likewise of this wendigos meeting anyone other? or they just live in same district?

Black man confronts people and fights them part two. This is one of the most generic comics ever I've read. Bland character designs and slow pace for a book released yearly. I think a lot of people are buying this out of spite and hype because this isn't any better than the junk Marvel and DC produce.

tl;dr the comic feels to generic and "90s" bland.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 5 points 300 days ago +6 / -1

Pro-tip: None of this post is worth reading because it's just TDS style sperging.

there was a troll

Assuming this was the user "hellsonly" who repeatedly calls Eric by the name "Ewic Juwy" therefore sounding like a 3 year old, who then made another account to comment on the second issue for whatever reason. FYI the term "Ewic" appears 20 times in the comments of the first issue alone and "Juwy" appears 17 times, in part because the troll fails to spell it at least once - that's how demented this troll is.

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Lil Ewic Juwy has never exposed one. All he does is sit his down in his little boy room rant and rave about how comics and movies suck but never give an real critical points but just whine about how "woke" they are. Now that this book is here on this site it makes it easier to see how untalented he is. Even the art that is supposedly professional is pathetic. There is no consistency of how the main character looks. But I will give him credit in that he realizes he could make money off you idiots with ease.

If people want to pay $100 for a gold foil variant they can go do that. Pointing out how this just a vanity thing to have is not disturbing. Its a statement of fact. Juwy is untalented hack lets be clear here. Whether or not he knows this is a question based on how delusional and narcissistic he really is. But he is, I am sure of this smart enough to know that his audience are absolute fucking braindead lemmings that being so entrenched in this "war against woke" they will buy this book as a an act of owning the libs. And honestly you would really have to tell me what crap can be worse than this.

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Comicsgate... I just call you cunts or bitches. And I recall the big problem with you lil bois was that there were too many female characters, along with too many gay and trans characters as well. The race thing is just the icing on the cake for the more bigoted minded but smaller in dick and ball sized pricks. And yea Ewic is a race a race baiting c**n. And you can look up the definition of the word that is what Ewic Juwy is. He is the black guy who puts down all things black so to make himself look like the "one of the good ones" to white people. Like Clandace Owens. Also you little bitch you are not normal folk. If you were, you would say fuck it I got my old stories to read if anything else. You're just self-indulgent, self-important dirtbag.

Hey dirtbag this book sucks in terms of execution. Its a narrative mess. You only support it because Ewic Juwy serves a purpose as being token mouthpiece that you can reference to in why you hate comics starring black character. female characters, gay characters, and yea trans characters. You are normal folk, you are trash folk. You are garbage.

Ultimately my criticism is not for Ewic because its clear he figured he didnt have to do much to get his peanut gallery audience to his crap. My criticism is directed at the those who pay $35 plus shipping at the least for this crap and whine about the lousiness of other comics of the superhero be they produced by Marvel or DC or whoever else. I don't buy from DC and Marvel anymore because of the many resets they do. They are gonna do what they are gonna do because they are owned by corporate conglomerates, but if you wanted to still stick to the genre you could find other comics by other publishers. They were always there. This shit is not revolutionary as he claims and as those in his audience repeat. And if this gn was made first before he made his his big mark by being a youtube b**ch I really would have to wonder would anyone of those who claims its good now say it if they ever heard Ewic Juwy.

This asshole, EWIC JUWY again makes a living badmouthing comics books whining about black characters and gay and trans characters being introduced. He makes a living by being a bitch. To be exact a TOKEN bitch because him being black and making the kind of racist comments he does from calling Miles Morales Peter Darker and whining about a chick who is black playing a mermaid in the latest retelling a story that has been redone many times over provides cover for racist white pricks because they could say "Im not racist, here's this black guy saying this stuff". I k now this game that sellouts like Juwy play. And there is a term in the black community that defines the kind of slime ball that Juwy is. Its starts with a C and ends with an N. And this is a word. And he knows that word because I'm sure it a word members of his own family use on him seeing how they are disgusted by his act.

Oh, Im not showing pwoper wespect to Ewic Juwy!!! :(

No shit dumdum. What I typed up is actual sarcasm. Ewic Juwy is underserving of respect in all things except for one. Making money off rubes like you who would pay $35 plus $10 or so extra for shipping on the crap he farted out. But even then its not an amazing feat given the utter stupidity and need for you idiots to "own the left".

I would say go get laid if you're that much of loser but then again maybe its a vicious circle for you. You whine about a non-canon Superman story that is meant kid, you whine about chicks with dicks, and you awre pissed awff by my pwonounciation of Ewic Juwy's name.>

it was not fine. There was no coherence. And the comic dedicated to many pages to meaningless cameo teasers that were executed poorly. And yes I admit I see Ewic Uwy as nothing more than a professional whiner but I was open to seeing if he could prove me wrong. He did not. If I was driven by personal disgust to shit on all artists and writers because I loathe them personally then that would mean I would be shitting on the works of Richard Wagner because he was an odious man, but I don't I actually do like his music.

Everyone in the comic talked like Ewic Juwy.

If I was offended by all idiots by shit from carnies then I would be totally pissed off at how the world is and go on killing spree because of my disgust for the stupidity of mankind. I am ridiculing the "fan base" of Ewic Juwy and all these other youtube twats who base their popularity on bitching about comics because they are "woke" and claiming that by being "woke the stories suck and that they know what is better. In fact I am admittedly with myself in not be so cynical enough to go do the same shit this clown did because I can really come up with some ham material easily, but then that would just make a hack in the same vein as Ewic Juwy. And yes the dialogue is stilted and awkward but guess what that is also how Juwy speaks as well. With that said they all speak in the same stilted and awkward manner that Juwy demonstrates too. You can include how he shoehorns lines that just stand out, like the one where Darren while speaking to his underlings utters the world galvanize during the meeting in his office.

I ridicule him and his fanbase no matter where it is. The jerkoff got himself an audience by trashing the comics of others. He talks out of ass about what makes a comic story, and to be exact a super-hero comic story good and bad. Here is "work" that he fully he conceived, printed and published that he in his hubris considered finer than what is put out by DC and Marvel, specifically Marvel and critically speaking its junk. You know, this I know this, anyone who read the book, knows this. I also know that his peanut gallery will keep buying the next installment of the crap that he will fart out until he is constipated or if his audience will ever gain the courage to admit to themselves that they are being taken as marks. I am under no delusion that is going to happen soon. Also I joined up disquis because I see these same people who gladly lick Juwy's taint bitching up a storm whining about gays and trans and "wokeism" and many of them using more vicious vocabulary than I am willing to type up. And since I am the view that keeping quiet and not say anything back doesn't really do shit and just increases the garbage I'm gonna fling shit back their way. And to be exact its gonna be a shot covered rock.

The thing is there is a blueprint to follow, Valiant did a fucking fantastic job in quickly setting up a universe, But Im gonna make the wager Ewic being the arrogant twerp that he is wanted to have first crack on these useless side characters.

yea the way its made out that she is being pimped out is very weak. And there is nothing that shows that she is forced into being a prostitute. And the way the bouncers behave would actually be legitimate because here's this guy no one knows starting shit. Also he is committing murder. Im gonna make a wild guess this is based on an incident Ewic Uwy had at some bar where he thought he was hot shit and got trounced and this is fantasy of what he would do if he had superpowers. Superpowers that are not really explained in anyway, but I presume that Benpai from Drunken peasants is right on the money in saying are powers that come Jesus.

If it was connected to Q-anon, it would probably be better because then it would be a great funny book. Also when I think of comic books from the likes of Marvel, DC, or Image, Dark Horse, Boom how are they influenced from the coastal elites? Cause the coastal elites tend to be the type of assholes that dont give a shit about anything but their own position. They dont a give a shit about "wokeism" as Ewic rants about.

There no such thing as woke garbage because there is no such thing as woke ideology nor woke stories dumbass. You're that fucking braindead shit for brains that would whine about the new Snow White being played by a chick whose family comes from Poland and Colombia and claim, Snow White is supposed to be white, white as snow. Of course the only people that white of skin color would be albinos and last I checked there are those of African descent would be that complexion too. So piss off.

lets see who built the world.... You mean this system of failed neoliberal capitalism and globalization??? Or are you talking about general the concept of civilization? Yea pretty sure when it comes to civilization, the so-called anglo-saxons were more scavengers than builders.

This is absolutely the dumbest comic to be published since Liberality for All. I give credit to the guy who sacrificed $35 that could have been used on something better just so to scan it and put this online. Now all can see how Ewic July is a no talent jerkoff.

Oh yes me dogging Ewic Juwy is an attack on all creators in the medium of sequential art storytelling!!! Oh sure it is, popop

Jerkoff I finished making any comments about lil ewic on this site weeks ago. Im responding to you right now because I got a notification that you made a comment to me. Right now you are the one with the hate boner, for me. So either admit it or fuck off.

Norfrica....Have to wonder if the name was supposed to be a place holder name the way Cobra-La was supposed to be a place holder name for the G.I. Joe movie, or is this really the best name Ewic could come up with.

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These ones are less full on TDS style ranting, however.

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