Ethan Van Sciver's ISOM #1 Review: The Definitive Cut
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2024
- #comicsgate #ericjuly #isom
Human Sunbeam Ethan Van Sciver (GREEN LANTERN, CYBERFROG) casts his critical eye on the biggest crowdfunded campaign of all time - Eric July's ISOM #1.
EVS's original stream has been edited down to give you the most streamlined review experience possible.
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Generalized comic book structure philosophy.
Traditional: Show. Don't tell.
Woke: Tell. Don't show.
Eric: Don't show. Don't tell.
But gimme money! 😅
Dont show don't tell equals
"Moving differently"
"Story Not Included" is a fantastic tag line
😂 Got me to watch it a second time
@@rickyratcomics same!
BRAVO ETHAN... YOU REALLY NEED TO PACKAGE THIS AND RELEASE THIS ON DVD... AS A STAND ALONE LESSON IN WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN MAKING COMICS... IT IS BRILLIANTLY TAUGHT... LESSON LEARNED... BRAVO ETHAN... BRAVO
But what ACTUALLY happened? "Save the girl that you know and is family" " i dont want to"
Goes to bother her at work and harrass her boss. Some people politely tell him to stop causing trouble. Isom kills them.
Its like what Rippa wishes he could do whenever anyone bothers him. Hes still obsessed over his ex and has unresolved rage issues lol
I think dick masterson was on to something when he called isom a self insert
at first i thought dick was just being a dick and a troll in it for some laughs. Then looking back on it, it was all 100% legitimate criticism and basically 99% correct. A little joke here and there, but otherwise a very professional review. @@Mr.banes42
The "I've got a force field, you can't touch me!" "Oh, I'm going to touch you!" was pure gold
8:00
"What's his name?"
"Isom."
"No, what's his super hero name?"
"... Isom."
ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL!
Yeah that cover is horrible
Me gusta decir cosas en diferentes idiomas, para dañar el algoritmo.
Bad poses
Bad colors
3d art
😂
I’ll have to agree with that.
@@Mikethompson303bueno papi 😂
I wonder why Isom even has a costume. He doesn't want to be a hero again. And he already blew his secret identity to the weirdly powerful pimp
And how embarrasing is that your nemesis is a pimp that has a nightclub? That's like having Spiderman having Hammerhead or Tombstone for a nemesis. Dude is an absolute bottom tier villain.
I remember when certain youtubers were saying that if you can't stand what DC and Marvel comics have become you should back Isom and I was thinking, wait, who even makes this comic and how do I know if it's actually any good? Well, this is the answer, thank you Ethan, out of all people.
I've just realized that all 4 figures on the cover have the same pose, just rotated in different directions 😂
Only a few poses were free to use LOL
@@Gomezli16 you mean - a bulk deal, like for charity? 🤔🧐🤑
Personal pet peeves:
whoever wrote this comic book has no clue about Isom's character. If he has chosen a farm life, probably to get away from some traumatic event that happened in the city (who knows when and where, since it's all earlier than 2 weeks ago, somewhere), then they would know that punching bags would be a waste of time and energy 😂😂😂 seriously, a ghayest thing to do on a farm - ask anyone - as there are godzillion productive ways to "exercise" and heal all day, every day: ploughing, planting, cutting grass, chopping woods, carrying heavy buckets of water or corn to feed all the animals, clean after them!!! I hesitate to go on a vaccation, or leave my animals just for a day, unless I can leave all those chores to somebody else to do.
Is this the reason why he didn't want to look for Jasmine? No partner, neighbor, best friend to jump in and help around while he's away? Did he let his cattle and chickens starve to death?
Whoever wrote this, obv has never spent a single day on a farm in their spoilt, lazy, entitled city life.
Dialogues
From EVS' review, seems like every line is spoken by the same boring ⏹️ person. No humor, no soul, no fun, just boredom, go there, do this or that, preach, inducing emotions: flatline, anger, fear. I've read IKEA instruction page with more love for a piece of furniture.
Next, artwork...
Buildings, repetitive blank/dark windows, plain empty ambients look just lazy and boring. I know they are tidious PITA for an artist to draw, but everything you put out in this world should be a ticket to history books, not a garbage patch in the middle of the ocean.
Warehouse with nothing inside - how come you're rich, and have nothing inside?
Have you ever seen Indiana Jones, X Files, X-Men, Spiderman, Ironman, just a hint to give you an idea WHAT to store inside a warehouse? Should WE fill in the gaps of your page? 😂😂😂 Is it a JJ Abrams' Mystery box?
And finally:
How can anyone sleep with their shoes on? 🤮
...
On a light note:
So far *Alphacore comic book looks the best (*not to be confused with Alphacore by NASA, Alphacore microelectronics, Alphacore health, Alphacore insulation or Alphacore military, etc.)
Wow lol
Holy cow!
Being able to see a master break down and explain comic structure like this is a treasure. Thanks to whomever dropped the big money and a special thank you to EVS for imparting some of his vast knowledge onto us neophyte comic creators. Thank you!
ISOM does have a story but you have to do a lot of drugs to even start to see it. LOL
Thank you for this. We were tired of the astroturfing that Isom was a good comic book. Those that criticize it, gets false flag by Eric's team and get their twitter banned. That's why Obtusegnome emailed that ministry because his twitter was banned by Rippaverse LLC.
Are they really false flagging? So they've gone full blown mundane matt lolcow
@@Mr.banes42 Geek Getaway on youtube got his twitter account banned 3 times, but he won all 3 appeals. If you scroll down his community post there's a picture of a notice from Rippaverse LLC take down. Vicky got her account banned too and she went on Nick's stream to debate against Epic Mike and even Epic Mike agreed that some bannings were unfair.
I don't like July but don't pretend like that obtusegnome crap wasn't juju and his pet p3do.
@@justanotherguy3294 Nick the coke addicted child abuser that evs is defending?
Eric got a lot of money from this first issue.
He should have hired industry professional artists, writers, and editors to launch his first issue that doesn't use 3D assets to do their work if he wants to be the superior alternative to mainstream comics.
mannn this was a masterclass in how to draw comics... Amaxing breakdown, literally there was just so much skill and knowledge imparted onto every page of this comic. Eric July would have to be stupid not to take note of the free evelaution EVS gave
Well, he was a gang banger, he did say he should "air somebody out", so I don't know how smart he actually is
LMAOOOOOO i heard about that LMAOOOO the hardest part is the bitnez part of comics apparently lol@@Mr.banes42
This is honestly a great review, no bs and dropping gems for free. I'm learning
41:00 that yellow car must be 13 feet long
Somewhere near Florida.....
if there was time for it, it would be cool to see a reimagined pencils/inks on the cover. I liked what this cover was going for but having an untrained eye i dont pick up on all those technical comments regarding perspective and space etc until it's pointed out
Thanks for doing this review and breakdown. I actually did buy/crowdfund this issue and really wanted to love it. Instead, I just felt lost. I couldn’t understand where we came from, where we were and where we were going. It felt like I was supposed to like it, but I just couldn’t. I liked certain things in the book, but couldn’t get a “whole” out of it: just some good parts.
See, this is constructive feedback, where most people are just saying "the book sucks!" which doesn't help anybody and is just a personal attack on Eric by angry people. Dispite whatever flaws the book has, it's a successful title thus far.
Ethan is a master storyteller, and really shows up Eric July's ISOM for being the toilet tissue that it is. Bravo!
He should just hire him. Western comics are dead.
Generic July loves to soak the cork.
Oh, so Ethan did say that the characters themselves are 3D models too. I thought so. They look like marble statues.
53:00 The thing with 3D assets is that a lot of people don't know how to use them properly. Often times it is just an asset bash that does not even fit to the style of the comic. An example of good 3d background usage are some animes and mangas, like Jujutsu Kaisen or AOT. The textures look "painted" and they added plenty of 2d details on top to combine it even further. The 3d models in ISOM almost look like placeholders, with no color, details or sense of perspective.
Those ISOM crosses aren't crosses. Crosses have the bottom leg longer than the other three. They are 👉plus➕signs👈.
He is a vampire slayer I bet. It Blade in an alternate universe.
Uncle E, please don't forget to add some 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔 on his farm in ISOM 2 review!!!
I don't get all the hate-this is very useful for showing you how NOT to write and draw a comic.
Brutal takedown.
This review was vicious but honest.
It has a vibe of just some mascot character created to prop us some kinda product...you used to get stuff like this in the 80's and 90's.
Or like, remember those books people used to get for their kid - a sort of lame, washed out and badly drawn comic book where the kids head would be pasted onto some super hero - it has that kind of aesthetic about it.
That aside...the title ISOM is enough to put me off, seeing the cover would only make me double down - no wonder you wanted a grand to review this.
In essence that’s what this ISOM thing is, it’s a marketing device
Ethan, you should make your own cover or redo some of the panels to show how it's done.
It's all fun in games until you realize this comic was worth 3 million dollars
What a true "Cash Grab" campaign.
“It’s none of our business “ this line is so damn true . I spit by drink out when u said that .
Other comicsgaters can't even defend this thing haha
I had no context for the drama surrounding this book until I saw a couple REAL reviews of the book. By real I mean in depth, constructive criticism.
As I learned about and saw for myself what was in the book all I could think was "embarrassing." This is simply really embarrassing fan fiction. It's like what an 11 year old thinks is supposed to be in a comic book but they have yet to understand the concept of storytelling.
The only way this book is passable is if it's advertised as a first draft. And how much is it? $35?
The events of the last few weeks are coming into focus for me. If you are a big time YT creator and you spend your life complaining about things, TV shows, Marvel/DC, Star Wars, comics, WHATEVER...you're (probably) not a good creator of art. You're an insightful and/or entertaining and/or shrewd critic. In and of itself, not a bad thing at all. They are just completely out of their element when it comes to making real things.
You mean Eric July?
@@largefactory Yes and pretty much any of these culture war Tubers who make comics. Ethan STARTED in comics, so it doesn't apply to him.
@@GrandTheftWatto - yeah most of it is grifter trash. Superkiller and Ghost of the Badlands look pretty good though
I think cliff paid a kid to put this book together .
Thank you for this Ethan. This might be your best video. I learned a lot
E pulled his punches, I hope he goes scorched Erf on ISOM 2
You mean Scotch Earf
What an awfully mediocre work of fiction and art with no visual depth and such superficially mundane paneling and visual story telling! Thanks for the scathing and brutally honest review Ethan.
The first one definitely left me lacking, so I didn't order the second figuring I could pick it up later if I heard good things. From everything I have seen the second one is worse than the first.
looking forward to part two tonight! lol
Watching him write in the comic for some reason feels so right
Thought balloons can work. They have a time and place and context. Don't throw them out completely.
The ad is Eric's wife's business. He gave her a page in ISOM as a shout out.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think her etsy store is even up anymore.
I been on the eric july rabbit hole for a littlr bit. It's crazy to me that people still support the guy. People get crazy mad when a game use a lot of pre-made assets. But in this situation a lot of people are still praising and defending Eric for putting out a badly written book made of 3d assets.
I never worked on a comics and closer I ever got to artistic expresion if my collection of not-so-well painted Warhammer miniatures. But even I know that putting tiny introduction text witch POI character name is pretty shoddy. Especially when you put PALE BLUE TEXT ON PALE BLUE BACKGROUDN.
All of this criticism was constructive, if you can take it without getting in your feelings.
Release the EVS Cut!
I got Isom 1&2, I remember reading the first one and also thinking it lacked a story and any character development. It took me awhile to read the 2nd one (honestly just got it because E did the cover), and felt it was more of the same with more action. I got Alphacore because Chuck wrote it, but that comic was almost as bad as Isom 1 (the art is better). The Rippaverse is a mess, heres a prime example, Ingrid (from Alphacore) is seen flying on the cover and in Isom 1. In Alphacore 1, she specifically states she can't fly...WTF? That is just one example of NOT holding to Canon. I dont agree with everything EVS stated in his review of ISOM 1, but the bulk of it was on the money. Im done with Rippaverse, 3 strikes and you're out.
That was ethan saying that lol
I feel like this would make great low low budget film on tubi…a tubi exclusive.
I'd rather read a Tony the Tiger comic than this
I nearly bought this for my kid too, I'm glad I didn't because I've spent years telling him that superheroes don't kill people.
1:10:16 perfect summary of ISOM
You're awesome! Will you be doing this for the ISOM 2 review?
Thank you. More than likely!
thank you for the upload
It has to hurt if it's going to heal. -The Neverending Story.
still laughing at "it's like nothing here is any of my business"
HAIL COMICSGATE!
Lmaooooo all the Twitter freaks have come to all one place.
I thought the single block/ac unit sticking out was a small box isom threw.
Using 3d assets to produce a comic seems Hanna-Barbera-esc.
Devastating.
Story not included 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I think I can tell you why ISOM is so awkwardly positioned on the cover. The "artist" didn't want ISOM's body to intersect the other characters, so he leaned him forward until we could see everybody with minimal intersecting characters. It's a weird hang-up that amateur artists have. They're worried about conjestion, so they try to keep everything as visible as possible.
One punch man #1 is $15. Let that sink in.....
I see a copy editor but did they have an actual editor? Like the person that designs the book and mitigates issues like the dead space on the first page? Assuming that was EJ which is... "ill-advised."
IDK what you are talking about-- the plot is clearly about teaching people they best not disrespect Eric July......I mean ISOM!!
This is gold!
Sad honestly. I know a guy that has been writing a story for like 3+ years. He never even made a page yet he just buckled down and wrote this lengthy story, Hasn't done any crowdfunding and only a couple people know about it, and he's ecstatic about his project. He had a weird fever dream and hardly ever shut up about it since. The attitude that Rippa has towards this is really giving off some strong grifter vibes. Not helped by the fact that he's burning all his bridges and has gotten very close to causing CG to implode entirely with different factions splitting off. He has really let me down.
Now someone needs to chop this up and set Ethan's voice to Hitler for Hitler's Downfall, and make HItler say, "I'm gonna throw my pen across the room" in Ethan's voice right before he throws his pen.
We can call it "Hitler is Informed He Must Review Isom #1."
So, what you're saying is that if I, who can't draw a lick, wanted to do a comic all I would have to do is use all these 3d assets and it would be OK? Because Isom seems to be 75% 3d assets and the people that did it were supposedly pros. One other question. You went through this whole book. What powers do any of them possess? Everyone in the book just beats people up. The scene with his niece has no power to, no one cares about that little girl. Instead of her and Jasmine, have her BE Jasmine. She's the one the club MerQ guy took then Avery would be invested in getting her back. Have a flashback of him being reluctant because the last time he had a run in with the massive dude that kicks his butt in Isom #1 beating the absolute snot out of Isom. Then show Avery in gym visualizing how to beat him and learning from his mistakes.
Why does Isom's costume have a stylized cat butt over his belly button?
The Republic of Texas
The only thing to redeem itself is for Eric July and JJ Abrams to have a collab stream for them to open Mystery Boxes.
For a comic that's supposedly meant to be an alternate to the mainstream SJW crap, this comic certainly reads like mainstream SJW crap, complete with bad art.
I have never read a comic book in my life and have no interest in doing so, but this video is interesting af. Is this Eric July guy a scam artist?
@@enduser-c0re thanks
Sadly not. July seems very serious in what he is doing, at least he makes the impresison.
But he seems to be virtually immune to critique and from what I saw from a few videos from him it seems that he can react quite angry very quickly. I think he probably has not many people who dare to correct him.
If I am correct then this is a very potent but poor mixture for good story telling, especially when you are a beginner.
He is seemingly genuine in his efforts, unfortunately he doesn’t have any talent, which includes an eye for what is right and wrong both in comic books and in real life, very poor grammar as well, he mumbles a lot when he talks, so between the mumbling and the ignorant sentence structure he can be difficult to listen to, I don’t think he is evil just not good
I bought isom 1. In hindsight i was reading it , not looking at the art work. Which is what i want. I seriously didnt notice all the . It was bland, i was never "wow!, look at that cool panel". I read it once in 30 min. Havnt looked at it since. So i paid 35$ as a "what not to do ".
Same. I even backed the second issue in the hopes that it will get better - everybody learns and tries to improve, right? Wrong apparently.
July seems to be the incarnation of the phrase "it takes one to notice one" - he unironically basically repeats everything he usually so accurately accuses the modern comic and culture industry in general.
PERFECT thank you!
🐔 🐔 🐔
This is the first time ive seen a comic being made from asset flips
Seems like some drama went down? Not sure a friendship can come back from this kind of takedown, even if it is 100 percent accurate in its criticisms.
You can go into any random comic book store, and the art in almost every book is better than the art in Isom to say nothing of the story
How can you compare the story to other comics?!? Where did you find it? I certainly didn't. So I am not sure how the stroy compares to other books.
@@Armin1983 I have the first two issues of Isom all you have to do is compare those to the other books that are currently out in fiscal stores. Isom is a terrible book and even worse by comparison to what professionals are producing
Eric to put it plain and simply has no idea what he’s doing
For people who complain about movies introducing so many characters and not focusing on the main character are awfully quiet
Hay man you're back I hope you enjoy Christmas break...
Thanks! You too!
Can’t 3D assets when utilized correctly look really good?
They could, but in this case they were basically traced on. A bit more leniency would be given if the 3d assets were originally made but a lot of these were stuff that was being sold online
Yeah they can. I seen folks use them but as reference not to trace em.
Somewhere near Florida. So Georgia? 😂
Isn’t it kinda embarrassing that Eric would decide to use 3D assets instead of hand drawn art? Why?
Lazyly write your characters like if all dialog was expository thought bubbles.
There is no character in this book
Not one
Hail CG
48:41 is such a sadly stereotypical example of needless escalation, atthis point, i wouldnt be surprised to hear a chirp from his house, just disappointed.
Looking over your shoulder = insecure
Batteries not included
Kinda funny you say you recommended Gabe to Eric and then you spent the next hour ripping his work apart.
Eric doesn't seem to have done any editing on this once he got the work back, though. He has to have noticed that Avery has no testicles @1:06:00 right? Is he canonically female? Or did Eric just not care?
Yeah, Gabe was Ethan's pet when he left DC.
looks like a $12 usd comic. People way overpaid
ISOM 1 Dogshit
ISOM 2 Chickenshit
Alphacore ?
Super mediocre. The story is better written because Dixon knows his trade. But it's still based on July's vision. And it shows.
we know
Remember when evs said the exact opposite. Bro needs his own brain
35 dollars for a comic?. For rip off general Zod and crew .can't you buy a trade paper back for that ?
....Drop mic.