BlazeTV contributor Eric July is taking it all in to launch an independent comic book company in 2022. He was convinced he wasn’t the only “comic book lifer” exhausted by the left-wing hype and infantilizing backlash churned out by awakening publishers like Marvel and DC Comics.
That risk paid off big last year.
Ripperverse Comics in July released “Isom #1” in 2022. Avery Silman is the story of a brave Texas rancher who resumes his mission in Cincinnati fashion after it becomes clear that the city once again needs the help of the costumed hero Isom. .
The book I received rave reviews League of Comic Geeks pre-orders raised more than $3.7 million against a target of $100,000, putting compelling content unencumbered by signals of awakened innocence: story. I have demonstrated a great desire for books that are familiar.
The Dallas-based podcaster, musician, and author I’m back with a second comic.
Within 24 hours of Isom #2’s pre-orders going up, July had raised more than $863,000 (247% above its set sales target), demonstrating that last year’s success is not temporary. It proved to be an actionable market signal.
In fact, the excitement for the second installment in the series created enough tension to temporarily cripple the Rippaverse website.
July told TheBlaze that the website went down on Monday following an unprecedented influx of pre-orders and activity. Julai stressed that the accident was “unacceptable” and that he was working to strengthen the comics industry’s growing infrastructure, but admitted it was still a “major problem”. rice field.
There was no guarantee of such overwhelming interest prior to the company’s launch last year, but from the start, Julai was convinced he was on the lookout for “the perfect storm.”
After all, as a self-professed “comic book enthusiast” with a customer-centric view of the industry, Julai understood exactly how the comics industry was “self-destructing.”
Major publishers are looking for readers who once turned to comics as a form of escapism and excitement: quintessential characters and transcendent tales that stand the test of time, free from trendy jargon and propaganda. appeared to be aggressive in alienating readers.
In many cases, even when ideology was not the protagonist, readers had to contend with demoralizing stories in a dead world populated by recycled characters.
In 2021, DC Comics will publish a comic book about a character named Robin coming out as bisexual after being asked out on a date by another male character.
According to the New York Post,Marvel modeled the evil character after former President Donald Trump.
Become a multi-billion dollar company hired identityist leftist Ta-Nehisi Coates Transform Dr. Jordan Peterson’s idea into the mouth of the fictional Nazi villain Red Skull.
Marvel also decided it was appropriate to introduce two inspired heroes named “Snowflake” and “Safe Space” into its bloated fictional world. The former are “non-binary” characters who identify themselves as a dehumanized plural.
DC Comics is also clearly inferior.
Superman, sometimes gay A very unpopular series that was canceled after issue 18 and has a son who promotes climate change issues.
“While changing all of these characters and then pushing absurd amounts of social justice, like insulting the audience and insulting everything else, I thought, ‘I’m the one in question.’ It’s going to be the solution,” Julai said. The Blaze last year.
As a solution, July didn’t try to write a great anti-awakening comic book. Rather, he wanted to write an “unawakened” comic book that anyone could feel comfortable working on without worrying about being pitched into a grand political project.
“There’s a lot of bad American comic content. It’s bad,” Ms. Julai told TheBlaze on Tuesday. “People who have been reading comics all their lives, like me, finally said, ‘Hey, these people clearly didn’t write this book with readers like me in mind.’ I will never buy it.”
Manga lovers who have lost interest in mainstream works “still love comics,” said Julai. “They like American comics.”
Despite their appetites, readers are not always satisfied with foreign content, even if they have not woken up. For example, Japanese manga “doesn’t make you itch.”
The inability of certain existing fandoms to penetrate makes the search even more difficult.
“For many newcomers, trying to get into a familiar character in a movie can be intimidating,” Julai said.
One of the obvious advantages of a fresh comic world like the one offered in the Ripperverse, untainted by focus groups and ESG emperors, is that future readers will be able to memorize entire genealogies or complex multiple You don’t have to struggle with movies. Multi-series backstory and reboot.
For example, “Isom #2” says, “It’s not intergalactic. It’s not interplanetary. It doesn’t have any crazy crossovers. No…it’s a street-level story.”
Written by July, the book looks like its writings dig up the following details: his personal story, painted by artist Cliff Richards. In addition to penciling Dark Horse Comics’ “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” series and Dell He Ray He was responsible for the artwork for his novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, as well as graphics for Dell He Ray He Works, he has worked on various projects. He has also worked on his DC Comics titles.
The paintings are colored by former DC Comics colorist Gabe Eltaev, who took issue with the Superman characters being waking up and being demeaned, saying, “They ruined these characters.” They don’t have the right to do that,’ and quit in 2021. do this. “
The Ripperverse Population grows quickly Also includes Chuck Dixon content. Dixon is a prolific author with Marvel’s pre-awakening comics ‘The Punisher’, DC Comics’ ‘Batman’ and hundreds of others.
Beyond top-notch artwork and stories, Julai suggested that some fans may find the company’s independence, decentralization and personal touch appealing.
“I think the days of megacorporations are over. This is not going to go away. My point is that there will be more companies like ours that can be successful while remaining relatively small. … “I’m in the warehouse. I’m packing orders. I’m in direct eye contact with the audience. That’s something someone like Bob Iger doesn’t get.”
This direct line of sight goes both ways, and you can see that customers are dealing with “people who care about what they do and who care about it.” Viewers will understand this and the fact that we do not despise them. It’s the audience,” said July.
Conversely, the Rippaverse Comic “recognizes that in order for us to survive, we must give them what they want.”
Despite constant ranting from the left, July has shown to be doing quite well so far.
“People were very upset when they learned that someone they felt ideologically different from them had built their own sandbox in an industry they felt they owned.” said he. “I’ve never had a more backlash in my life for all the hot political statements I’ve made. Nothing compares to it. It doesn’t even compare.”
“I said everything I could think of in the book, but they can’t stop it so it doesn’t matter. That’s why we did it in an independent way. We will continue to We will continue to be great.” We love our customers. They will continue to support us. ”
The Left, at the same time facing widespread support for the book, unable to discontinue the Rippaverse because of its independence, said, “They know they can’t do it against us, so they can yell into the abyss we are virtually unaffected and even if they are influential they will fan the truth and encourage people to buy more lipverse books I am just doing.”
Eric July’s Isom 2 Shane Davis Cover Drawing Processyoutube.be
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