The Ripperverse is launched

[Coola Yagami]

So Eric July, a known Youtuber that covers comics and how the wokeness affected the overall industry has been talking about making his own comics for years and has finally done it.

Buying his own warehouse, creating his own website, basically doing everything so that he is the owner of the whole shebang and doesn't have to answer to anyone but himself.

The first comic of his new universe, Isom # 1 was launched Monday and has already went over a million in orders. Unlike something from Indiegogo or Kickstarter, the book is complete, it's just a matter of printing and shipping enough copies as the orders come in.

So far from what we know, Isom is about a guy that became superhero for a while, but an incident made him see that isn't the life for him, so he moved on to live a peaceful farm life. When his sister calls him up to find a missing family member, he's about to see himself dragged back into the life again.

He's been doing a good job keeping spoilers out to the point we don't know his powers yet, but the art and all the characters so far look top notch.


A big part of this is also just making a fun action packed comic that doesn't include modern day politics. A comic book about a black man made by a black man but the entire premise isn't just 'look how black I am'. So far the left has been flipping out over his success calling him everything from a scam to flat out the n-word despite being 'the tolerant left'. Reddit is even banning people that talk about it. The jealous and envy is insane.

I plan to purchase a copy this weekend. I'll be reviewing it as soon as I get it, but this is gonna be a 96 page monster, so that's gonna take a while.

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[Coola Yagami]

Now that I see just how much backlash this book is getting just because it's not following the 'woke narrative', I probably will only review this over on Odysee. I don't want woke weirdos messing with me on my channel. My channel has always been solely about entertainment and even when something gets political (example, the Joker movie), I always leave the politics out of it and just review the movie or whatever based on the actual material.

But now you got Reddit banning people over mentioning the book, one of the actual artists showing the sketch process he used on the main character is banned, I don't want that crazy **** on my doorstep.

[Andrew NDB]

Sounds like he's doing this the right way. Good for him.

[Coola Yagami]

Apparently, Rippa's pre-orders beat Keanu Reeve's comic campaign BRZRKR from last year... and that one had Keanu ****in' Reevese backing it.

It's pretty amazing. And again, this isn't a crowdfunding campaign where you chip in and hope they meet the goal and then wait for them to start making the books and get em months down the line. The books are done and they ship in August, this isn't crowd-funding, this is actually pre-ordering the book.

On other news, I did buy the first issue of Goshawk and Falconette, made by X52 Studios, the same people behind Arachna (which I also bought number 2 of). Now those are Indiegogo campaigns but they have always met their goals within 24 hours of announcing it due to a lot of advertising and updates beforehand.


To be perfectly honest, between picking up late 80's/early 90's Batman, comics like Tomb Raider, Danger Girl, Gen 13, The Magdalena and these indie crowfunded comics like Arachna, Goshawk, O-Girl and now the Rippaverse..... I honestly don't need modern day Marvel and DC anymore.

Hell, even if I buy the new Armageddon Game stuff from IDW, it's still IDW, not the 'big two'.

[Coola Yagami]

Just bought my copy. Went for Cover B cause, hey, Yaira's on it. Kinda sounds like if she makes a big enough splash she might get her own series.

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Rippa's been communicating a lot with the fanbase. The shirts he's selling of the characters come in 2 variants (either the main character, or the whole crew) but they come in grey. Fans have been demanding they make shirts also come in black, as well as possibly caps. He might be adding in black shirts and caps as the campaign continues. In that case, I might double dip and get me some of those too.

[Coola Yagami]

Dude just hit 2.5 Million. While it's slowing down, the number keeps rising. The incentive of different covers and the idea of 'buy one to read and buy one to keep sealed' is also making people buy more than one copy as well as the merch.

[Bahamut810]

This is peak comicsgate!

[Coola Yagami]

This is peak comicsgate!

Not sure if you mean that in a good way or a bad way. It seems nowadays any indie comic is slapped with that label and people tied to Marvel and DC tend to use that to anyone they don't like or anyone that creates comics that don't follow 'the narrative'.

Despite trying to use that label as a 'right-wing' thing (oh noes!!!!) The only comic I seen from 'that side' was a blatant political parody was Wallmight My Hero MAGAdemia where Allmight/Trump fought against supervillain versions of Hillary and Bernie.

[Vegita-San]

anyone who says something is comics gate IS comics gate. the woke loosers trying to gate keep everything we ever loved are loosing, and it's wonderous.

support rippa.

[Coola Yagami]

Oh you should see all the racist **** they've been throwing at Rippa since he started, even by other black people. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

"We need more diverse characters."
"NO. NOT LIKE THAT."

Leave it to the left to make something political about something that chooses to not deal with modern day politics.

[Cowabung-Gal]

I like Eric. Do I agree with everything he says? No. But you’ve gotta admit, he’s got a lot more common sense than all of the weirdos at DC and Marvel combined. I hope that he becomes tremendously successful in the comic book business, and it seems that he already is.

Right now his biggest adversary is the white liberal. How ironic.

[Coola Yagami]

I like Eric. Do I agree with everything he says? No. But you’ve gotta admit, he’s got a lot more common sense than all of the weirdos at DC and Marvel combined. I hope that he becomes tremendously successful in the comic book business, and it seems that he already is.

Right now his biggest adversary is the white liberal. How ironic.

Not just the white liberals, black liberals too. This chump that makes Godhood Comics that prides himself in making almost everyone black and virtue signals about blackity black black and whatnot, is salty that Eric is being more successful for him, while using a black character where the entire story and premise isn't about him being black.

He just hit 2.9 Mil. He also added caps and a new shirt for the female character Yaira due to the intense demand for merch regarding her. Based on that I'm predicting him to hit 3 Mil by this time tomorrow.

[AquaParade]

I’m not interested in the book but good for him. Marvel and DC editorial needs to be made fools of, bc they do a terrible job.

[Coola Yagami]

Up to 3 Mil and counting. I'll be buying a second book and a shirt come payday. Cover C seems to be the basic cover you can get even after the campaign ended, Covers A and B are like 'once they're gone, they're gone', so I'll leave my Cover B one sealed. But I do want at least one of the shirts.

The haters are now resorting to saying he's getting funding elsewhere because they can't face the fact that there are that many people interested in his product.

[Leo656]

I don't care at all about this but good for the free market economy in action, working as it's supposed to.

[Coola Yagami]

Dude hit 3 Mil.

Also Paypal is ****ing him over, holding about 1.25 Mil in funds he has no access to until they decide to release it.

Despite that however, he is still shipping the books out regardless mid-August. So when it comes to the customer, this won't affect them.

As you'd expect though, the haters are trying to use this as 'proof' that he's trying to run with the money despite him being transparent about it and offering to still ship the books out regardless.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Also Paypal is ****ing him over, holding about 1.25 Mil in funds he has no access to until they decide to release it.

That’s what happens when you go up against the Machine.

[ZariusTwo]

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[Coola Yagami]

Started shipping this past Monday the 26th. Some people already got it so I'm trying my best to avoid spoilers and review videos. Waiting for my confirmation email that mine has been shipped.

[Coola Yagami]

Already got my copy, plan to read it and review it over the weekend.

[Coola Yagami]

So here's my spoiler-heavy review. It doesn't particularly sound like anyone here will be buying the book, so feel free to go nuts.

https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2022/10/isom-1-first-book-of-rippaverse.html

[Coola Yagami]

So Isom # 2 is near completion, sounds like they're inking the last few pages. Sounds like he wants to make 3-4 books this year. From what I gather it's gonna be Isom # 2 and 3-4 separate books from the other characters. I'm assuming Yaira is gonna be getting her own book.

She appeared mostly in the middle of her own drama as an extended cameo and bumped into Isom. Naturally it leaves the door open to her book to find out why she was attacking a police station.

[Coola Yagami]

Isom 2 pre-order campaign hit this Monday and they're already close to 900K.

Chuck Dixon is working on AlphaCore #1, a team introduced in Isom 1.
The Soska Sisters are working on Yaira #1 also introduced in Isom 1.

Come payday I'm grabbing issue 2 and some of the leftover shirts from the last campaign that are currently on sale.

[Cowabung-Gal]

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[Coola Yagami]

Currently at 1.2 million and still growing.

[Coola Yagami]

I just bought Isom # 2 and a Yaira shirt (those are on sale since they were part of the first campaign).

[ssjup81]

I have to thank you Coola_Yagami for introducing me to this and having finally gotten an opportunity to go through Isom #1 in person when visiting a while back, I ordered the Catch Up bundle set. I can’t wait to read both of them as they’ll be my copies. :)

[Coola Yagami]

I have to thank you Coola_Yagami for introducing me to this and having finally gotten an opportunity to go through Isom #1 in person when visiting a while back, I ordered the Catch Up bundle set. I can’t wait to read both of them as they’ll be my copies. :)

I can't wait for the limited release 'Trucks and Stairs' edition.


Honestly though, if it was my series and I was doing some playful trolling, I would have drawn a random van in the background in one one of the panels with a label reading 'Trucks and Stairs Inc' or something.

[ssjup81]

I can't wait for the limited release 'Trucks and Stairs' edition.


Honestly though, if it was my series and I was doing some playful trolling, I would have drawn a random van in the background in one one of the panels with a label reading 'Trucks and Stairs Inc' or something.That would be a cool trolling moment. He should do something like that and make a vague reference for it.

[Coola Yagami]

That would be a cool trolling moment. He should do something like that and make a vague reference for it.

Either that or have some people painting some of the trucks and one of them is slightly off and we see some random fat dude running up to them saying 'hold up, that truck is the wrong color!!'

[Coola Yagami]

Currently close to hitting 1.7 Mil. He will be adding a comic shortbox and Isom # 2 Cover D when that happens.

You can also purchase the books at half price to donate them.

[Coola Yagami]

Past 2 Mil and shipping starts July 31st!

[Coola Yagami]

Finally got my shipping notification this past Friday. I can't wait for Thursday or maybe I'll get it sooner. Jups got hers a day earlier than what the tracking info said.

[Coola Yagami]

https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2023/09/isom-2-review-heavy-spoilers.html

My spoiler-heavy review on Isom 2. I doubt anyone here cares too much about spoilers.

Now that the Fall is coming in, July will be announcing the Alphacore campaign soon.

[ssjup81]

Well, I had the opportunity of finally reading through Isom 2. There's just so much going on at this point and I'm super curious about what will happen next. It's like this issue is setting up other plot points to be seen in later issues. I can't help but wonder how many issues this series will have with all these threads being placed that will have to be eventually tied up.

[Coola Yagami]

The AlphaCore campaign started a few weeks ago, I intend to get my copies next payday.

It took about 2 weeks but it finally hit its first Million. It seems to be moving slower than the previous campaigns, but since it ends in January, I'm positive it will at least hit 2 Mil.

[ZariusTwo]

The Yaira comic got a live-action promotional trailer and some people, fans included, have been giving it a hard time.

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I can see where their critiques are coming from, the pace and the editing is pretty bad, and the lines are pretty wooden (or at the very least belong to an old-fashioned sense of comics writing, think early 60s to mid 70s)

Eric also announced a Rippaverse magazine

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[Coola Yagami]

Already purchased Yaira and the Rippazine.

[ZariusTwo]

I know Eric fans probably dislike any and all criticism levelled at him, but I've found the "RippoffVerse" content Scyther's been sharing pretty entertaining of late.

Their Nerdrotic videos are spot on.

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I'm open minded, I've never read any Rippaverse books so I can't tell if they're bad or not, at best I've heard they're "so ok, they're average", but I enjoy watching the back and forth as his name grows bigger in the industry. You're going to attract critics as well as fans. If only the critics could all be this entertaining.

[Coola Yagami]

His critics are wackos though.

One dude wants to get in enough shape to be able to grab Eric and shave his shoulders.

Another guy showed up at one of his warehouses and left stickers on it as if saying '

Another guy took pics of Eric's grandfather's grave.

Another one pretended to be a 'confused fan' telling a church with the acronym I.S.O.M that they thought the character Isom came from them, which kickstarted a small legal battle over the name, which was their intention.

Some of them scanned in the entire isom comic abd posted it for free on a site, and when July had it shut down they accused him of false flagging. But I mean. It wasn't parody or anything, they were literally pirating his work.

Despite the actual owner of a charity openly being happy to work with July, these same detractors are trying to say that July working with the charity is silent sort of scam.

It never stops with them.

[Jeff]

having read the opening post of this thread and then skimming through the rest of the comics, I'm left confused. What makes these Rippaverse titles stand-out among the mainstream "woke" comics. What, if you will, makes them anti-woke? I read the review of Isom and it seems like standard comic book superhero fare. I don't say that in a bad way, it's very much Valiant-esque, or even early Image which itself was a rebellion against mainstream comics.

[ZariusTwo]

July has teamed with McFarlane toys to produce a new Yaira figurine statue

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[Coola Yagami]

having read the opening post of this thread and then skimming through the rest of the comics, I'm left confused. What makes these Rippaverse titles stand-out among the mainstream "woke" comics. What, if you will, makes them anti-woke? I read the review of Isom and it seems like standard comic book superhero fare. I don't say that in a bad way, it's very much Valiant-esque, or even early Image which itself was a rebellion against mainstream comics.

I guess because it's a comic that goes more into story and characters rather than this over-empathizing on race and identity politics. Like the lead character, Isom, is black, but Eric didn't use that as a selling point. I remember the usual Twitter suspects being angry that he used a black main character and focused more on his mission without making the story about 'how rough it is to be a black man in America'.

It's not so much 'anti-woke' as it's just... not woke.

To be honest, since you brought up Image, Spawn was a black man, and that was never the focus of the story. All the hell stuff was.


Anyways Yaira is due to ship soon. I'll be waiting for my email alert.

[ZariusTwo]

Yaira is out now. Most reviews I've seen appear to be positive.

[ZariusTwo]

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[ZariusTwo]

The Rippasend programme is publishing Youtuber Yellowflash's book 'Golden Patriot'

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[Coola Yagami]

I've been trying to find the time to read these books, but I did Yaira, Goodyng, and the Rippazine issues 1 and 2.

I also recently bought a new indie book called Super Kaiju Rock n Roller Derby Fun Time Go! from Fun Time Go Inc. I'll check that out when I can.

To be honest, I haven't even read that TMNT 30th anniversary book yet.

[ZariusTwo]

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[Coola Yagami]

Yep. I'm currently on vacation, but I'll be getting that on my next paycheck.

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[Coola Yagami]

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There are so many. Literally the only ones I will most likely pass on are Zalen and Norfrica. I was not expecting Michael and Lilian to get their own books.

[ZariusTwo]

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[Coola Yagami]

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I'm getting Yaira 2 this week. Still on the fence with this one, BUT it does feature a younger Bryan Solari, so that would make for interesting backstory.

[Coola Yagami]

Just purchased Yaira 2 and Rippazine 3 last week. Isom 3 has been announced, and despite attempts from haters, the comic is still called Isom without any issues.

[ZariusTwo]

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[neatoman]

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[Coola Yagami]

I just purchased Yaira 3 on the last day before the campaign closed. Planning on getting Saints and Sinners and Rippazine 4 this following Friday.

[Coola Yagami]

Here are my reviews of the Rippaverse comics so far. Man, it feels like forever that the first Isom came out.

Isom #1
https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2022/10/isom-1-first-book-of-rippaverse.html

Isom # 2
https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2023/09/isom-2-review-heavy-spoilers.html

Alpha Core # 1
https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2024/03/alphacore-1.html

Yaira # 1
https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2025/06/yaira-1-review-heavy-spoilers.html

Rippazine # 1 Salvage, P.I
https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2025/06/rippazine-1-pi-salvage.html (https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/2025/06/rippazine-1-pi-salvage.html#google_vignette)