I haven’t been feeling up to talking about goofy crap for a while. A few days after my posts about Canadian TV channels because that’s the kinda shit I like to talk about on this sad sad blog. I just didn’t feel like talking due to several issues going on in my life, one of which I don’t want to sully by mentioning it here. It was pretty serious and all that. I don’t want to get into it because this article will be very angry and all that. Just letting you know I’m gonna get into some serious stuff with this article. Discussions of hateful people going on about transgender people. So if you don’t want to read any more I can understand that. Anyway, Jughead Jones has nothing to do with this comic but seeing as the writer of this comic (and owner of his own shitty company) likes to DCMA people who criticize him off the internet I’m not using any images from his garbage comics so I picked Jughead because I like him.
There’s going to be a LOT of boring boring history I have to get into before we get into anything here. It all started in 2017 with a complete shithead known as Diversity and Comics on YouTube. He would get angry at how every Marvel Comic and DC Comic and others had become “SJW” because they had characters that weren’t white people. He made really bad review videos about him yelling about comics that were pretty good honestly. I went and read these comics because how awful his reviews were. They were well done for the most part. I can’t say anything positive about that America Chavez comic written by that lady who’s name I can’t remember (her comic was still better than the one I will talk about in this article). He made a comic and it was really bad but that’s besides the point. He was gonna get it put out by some no name company I don’t remember the name of. Then Mark Waid came in and called that company and let them know that this guys fans had been fucking harassing writers and artists of these SJW comics.
One of the people that was harassed was Magdalene “Mags” Vissagio a trans woman (why do trans woman always pick names that haven’t been used since the Middle Ages?) they would say all the usual stuff to her. You know the stuff I don’t really want to sully this blog with. And they’d say this stuff was criticism. You know what actually is criticism, it’s THIS: Mags writes decent enough comic books with a decent sense of humour and entertainment value that literally have terrible endings. She cannot end a comic to save her life. It was really bad time to be a comic creator who wasn’t the whitest white man (and if you were a white man who helped them you’d get tons of shit too). Then comic creators for DC and Marvel joined in at the behest of Ethan Van Sciver. He got a bunch of conservative wieners to make comic books. The movement was named Comicsgate because of another movement called Gamergate. This is just a small history because if I wanted to go over everything I’d have to probably talk to a lot of people on Twitter and make like a six hour documentary. This is a lot of words to say “Twitter/YouTube drama over comic books that I look at because I’m very sad.”
I finally got so sick of it all that I want this post to be my final word on the whole thing and probably hopefully get off Twitter (which Elon Musk somehow made even shittier!) for good. Never going back to that site. I will say one thing here: Not a single comic made by these guys that I have been able to read due to piracy (because fuck if I’m going to give money to harassers) has been any good. They were all pretty bad and you should know that I’m a forgiving reviewer of things. I am not a hard man to entertain. I’m also going to be fair and say that things were said and done on the comics creators side that was not very fair either. I don’t really want to get into it but one person tried to find the Diversity and Comics guys son and I’m of the idea to leave the family out of this stuff.
There’s more people involved with this now but I don’t want to get into the drama involving this comic. I just want to discuss it. It was written by Eric July and drawn by a very competent artist named Cliff Richards. Competent but has no real flair to it. There’s people who have less competence than Richards but somehow at least have flair. I don’t like his art as all but Rob Liefeld is way less competent than Cliff Richards but has more flair and charm. Cliff Richards art is honestly really boring. There’s nothing there to praise or get angry at. I’m saying this now because the real problems is the writing. Oh god the writing.
Isom #1 is honestly quite boring. Isom (Avery Silman) comes out of retirement to help look for a Family Friend named Jasmine. He goes to a gangster named Darren who he knew as a teenager and some Super powered guy named Santwan fights Avery Silman and he gets thrown out of a window. He sees some random lady (who I will be fair and say has a decent design from whoever designed her and her costume. I will be fair one more time later on too!) who is named Yaira. They know it each other but she’s fighting General Zod and his group of Kryptonians (he ripped them off lol). He then goes back to the Club and fights Santwan again. He then talks to his sister and then gets a new super suit. That’s all that happens in 96 pages. It’s pretty dull.
Isom #2 opens up with Avery’s sister going to her job that if you showed in a Marvel Comic they would call woke. Avery’s sister is an intelligent black woman but that’s only woke when Marvel Comics does it I guess. Or DC Comics. Anyway Darren shows up and hurts her. Then he gets kicked out of the building and the people working there that helped him getting fired. Darren is one dumb motherfucker. Then Isom in his new suit goes back to his farm and finds out that Sam one of his workers has been kidnapped by Satan Monkey’s helpers. No I’m not joking. They are literally throwing the plot of #1 about helping the missing girl which I don’t think I’ve ever seen in a story. Unless it’s some artsy stuff by David Lynch or something. Most stories seem to want to finish up their story before dropping it pages into #2. Also it kinda ruins the finding the girl story because Isom if he can beat fucking Demons should be able to kick the shit out of Darren’s asshole.
He then meets a new character who is Libertarian Man who is a Firefighter that you pay to fight fires (I should also tell you that these people hate when comics get “political” but are okay with this because they are dickholes) and get DNA and other help from. He tells Isom all about a woman he must go and this is the other thing I’m gonna be fair about, she is pretty well designed and her costume is pretty cool. Simple but cool. Her name is Bloodruth. Also somewhere between this (I am not re-reading this) they waste like 4 pages introducing a Wrestler guy. I don’t even remember if they name him. I just thought you’d like to know that. Oh, I also forgot that they tried to kill Avery’s sister’s boss. Darren the gangster did it. I forgot because the character is literally that boring.
He teams up with Bloodruth and they go fight some demons. They then talk about hell and Alternative Dimensions. Eric July talks down on Alternative Universes because he thinks they are lazy and no matter what stories have been told within them. He said he wouldnt do that stuff and he did, within 2 issues. Alternative Dimensions are the same damn thing Eric. I don’t care what any of you goobers say. Not that you’ll ever get off twitter to yell at me on this blog anyway. I’ll just ignore anyone who isn’t the one usual comment-er. Anyway they fight the demons until the head demon wants Isom dead. The issue ends.
There’s more stuff, like Isom being an unlikable hero and his backstory which involves him fighting a boring monster (how the hell do you draw a boring monster) and having a girl he doesn’t even know dying. This is the kinda thing that would make most heroes do even better. Work even harder to save more people. It would have worked if Isom even knew the person. Anyway Isom is unlikable, he literally takes a nap before saving Sam from the Hell Demon Monkeys (which should look cooler) and in issue one talks about how he wants to get Darren for making him look bad and no longer cares about Jasmine. Isom sucks.
FINAL VERDICT: Isom is the worst comic book I’ve read. It is a passionless piece of entertainment. No one really cared that much except maybe the designer of the characters and even then only for like two of them. Isom is even worse than Marville, which at least was interestingly bad. Isom is dull as shit. I would rather read every Deadpool appearance from 1991 to 2023. Thirty two years of shit than read another issue of Isom. I’d rather watch every episode of Mama’s Family, Charles in Charge and The New Adventures of He-Man on repeat for a week than read another issue of this. You’d think from reading my synopsis of Isom #2 that it was at least more entertaining than the first issue but nope, still dull as shit. I’d watch Clutch Cargo, the 1981 movie Night of Horror and every single thing starring Casper the Friendly Ghost before going back to see any more Isom. This thing is a train wreck and somehow it’s also very fucking boring. I don’t know how but he at least achieved that much!
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