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Since the launch of Rippaverse Comics, the instant fan favorite was Yaira–probably because we have a woman who was allowed to be sexy without being sexual. The Rippaverse seems to be built on its secrets, which is fine if they pay off. Yaira has been shrouded in mystery. Not having access to the comics due to my current financial situation, I’m pulling info out off of the Rippaverse website and the Rippaverse wiki, because of course there’s a wiki for the most talked about indie publisher since Image Comics began. While many of the company’s critiques come from those invested in the failure of Eric “Youngrippa” July’s company due to disagreeing with his politics and past criticisms of the how the comic industry operates in the early 2020s, there have been concerns even among those who want him to succeed.
He seems to be succeeding rather well. Yaira #1 has already blown away Isom #1’s debut campaign by reaching the $1mil mark in one day. People are really excited to find out who this character is. There were cosplays just from the announcement and a set of oversized preview trading cards. Her previous appearances have not made her look the hero. In Isom, she’s attacked Isom, believing him to be a member of the supercops of Alphacore, who already told her to stay out of the city that is the heart of the Rippaverse thus far, Florospark in Texas. In turn, Isom thought Yaira was working for his enemies and both were wrong.
Yaira #1 is scheduled to be released in June, but why wait that long to speculate on the hottest name out there…no pun intended since ice appears to be part of her power set. Using the wiki, the live-action teaser trailer for the comic, and a little bit of guesswork, let’s speculate as to what Yaira’s whole deal may turn out to be. Right now only the character’s creator, Eric July, the writers of the book, Jen and Silva Soska, and the art and lettering team know for sure, but I feel like doing something fun today because today seems to hate me.
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“Heck of a time to have to use the restroom.”
Knuckles The Echidna #15
Archie Comics Publications (August, 1998)
“The Chaotix Caper” part 3
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
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I kind of feel like a chump for this one.
Here we are, MatPat’s final episode of Film Theory and I’m doing a VS article on it. It doesn’t feel right, but it is necessary.
MatPat is a dad, and I’m not. However, in his final episode, entitled “Don’t Trust Your Heroes”, he tries to make a point that there are an increasingly low level of male role models for kids in kids entertainment. I was ready to at least mostly agree with him…and then he explained it. He sounded more and more like one of those parent groups that would convince the networks that any kids show was designed for a five year old and should be treated as such. I think his son, Ollie, is around five at the most and that’s the assumption I’ll be going with in my comments. This is where the problem is, as the examples he goes into for “violent kids TV” (hopefully that’s not exaggerating) aren’t really kids stuff, or at least not five year old boy stuff.
So what do I think is his big misstep? First I want us all to watch the video so we’re on the same footing, go over where I agree and disagree with him (and being a VS article it’s going to mostly be disagree), and then explain what I think he got the most wrong.
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“Let’s force that Pat Lee guy to pay the writer and artists!”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7
Dreamwave Productions (December, 2003)
FINAL ISSUE because Pat Lee spent the company’s money on fancy cars for himself and his family and couldn’t pay the writers and artists, so the company died here.
“Kali Flower”
WRITER: Peter David
PENCILER: Lesean
INKER: Erik Sander
COLORISTS: Stuart ng, Jono Im Lee, & Sigmund Torre
FLATS: Kenny Li
LETTERER: Matt Moylan
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I’m going to miss MatPat on these shows. It was one of the early YouTube shows I started following regularly, and they’ve made for good article fodder, be it a full article due to inspiring some thought in me, or a Daily Video post because I thought it was really good and wanted to share with the BW readership in the hopes they’d like it and subscribe to the full show. I’m curious to see what the new hosts will bring to the four Theorist channels, but I will miss Matthew Patrick’s voice, enthusiasm, and perspective, even when I disagreed with him.
Which makes it a bit sad that tonight’s article is me disagreeing with his final Film Theory video. I also plan to show the first video of all four shows of the new hosts in a special post. I suspect I’ll continue watching Game Theory and Film Theory but the other two I honestly only watched for MatPat, so they have some stronger winning over to do, but that’s because the topics don’t interest me as much as their connection to storytelling, which I started a blog over, is more limited by nature. Still disappointed MatPat never went over the sad history of Sonny, the Cocoa Puffs cuckoo bird, on Food Theory and if you’ve seen my pictures and videos you know Style Theory won’t help me. 🙂
So thank you, MatPat, for bring us something to enjoy, something to get us through bad times, or just something to entertain us and think about at times we really needed it. You’ve brought a lot of fun, laughs, thoughts, and joy to the lives of many people, and that’s NOT a theory. Thanks for creating.
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