It is his best bad option in a sea of even worse options. His fans have diminished in numbers, cash and good will due to many factors with his lateness, contempt for the customer and disregard for professionalism being the biggest. Going back to DC would guarantee at least a steady salary.
EVS is not someone who can draw in crowds as he used to do. If he gets his act together and starts delivering product on time maybe. But there is no way to guarantee such behavior.
I think that due to the political landscape being exposed as not nearly as leftist as once thought, his CG association should not harm him if seen in a vacuum. It is his disregard for deadlines that should be his greatest obstacle for getting into DC's good graces again. They can excuse an idiot that delivers product but an idiot that does not? I do not think so.
Maybe his best hope is for more of his ancient supporting characters to get resurrected so he can collect additional royalties. I don't think anyone wants his work ethic on new stuff.
Basically, they have to pivot to the 'new zeitgeist'.
His best option probably. That goes specifically if he can either resurrect or create a character that is as liked as his Jessica Cruz. He struck lightning in a bottle with her and I doubt that can be easily repeated.
Is there a list somewhere of all the characters EVS had a hand in creating and might expect a royalty check from? I know a few have come up over the years when he does a victory lap after learning one is going to be in a movie.
He mostly lived off the money he made when injustice 2 featured Atrocious before he started making money off crowdfunding.
At this point Eric July is ignoring those comicsgate psychos, as well as the obsessive carpers that try everything they can to damage the product or the company's reputation. The market as well as all the people getting into it speak louder than any of the haters, no matter how they try to look at it. Call me whatever you want, but I'm just being realistic with facts....I don't go by gossip, opinions, speculations, conspiracy theories or fairy tales. If that makes me a meat rider, a ball washer or whatever gay ass shit people like to say when they get disagreed with ESPECIALLY when logic is not on their side, than that's fine by me.
At this point I stopped believing people who accuse people of grifting because it's been taken out of context WAY too many times at this point. Just because people want change in the pop culture of something they once enjoy and probably still do, doesn't make them grifters.
After a while the hate feels more fake and forced than genuine now, especially when other companies INCLUDING Iconic have done the same things and made the same choices as Rippaverse did. It's not possible for me to take the hate and gossip it gets seriously now.
I think his comics are mediocre, and he has yet to publish anything I would want to spend money on, but I don't hate the man.
Respectfully, outside of CG and Juju's crack pack, who is even doing that?
You do know Isom is not the only book he made or shipped right? I mean I think Kamen America from Iconic is mediocre and I honestly don't see how anyone else doesn't, but that doesn't mean I think Iconic is all mediocre....in fact I actually enjoy Soulfinder.
The occasional shitposter that doesn't even READ or even care about Comics at this point. Or people who listen to the SWC Bros that are convinced that Eric is trying to take over the industry and NOT let anyone else get into it without his say so somehow. The internet is FULL of crazy people sadly.
The only people that hate Eric, are people who believe he "betrayed" them, or "betrayed" someone they care about.
He is just a normal human who wanted to get into comics and had quite a bit of success with it. He has nothing truly worthy of "hate" unless you are envious.
