I don't think you should even be fucking with graves at all, defiling them or not. About the only thing I could see is simply taking a picture of it, not to gloat or anything but just to establish someone is actually dead, i.e. like when Barb dies if she's put in the columbarium next to Bob. Not yelling Julaaaay, not putting dumb bullshit on it, not even standing in front of it with a gay soy grimace.
I don't even have an opinion on the comic itself. It doesn't look like my cup of tea. But it's utterly pathetic to be so obviously jealous of some other dude for just being a better businessman, whatever you think of him as an artist.
He wants to sell this product, people want to buy it, what the fuck? Why would you fuck with the livelihood of a man who has done literally nothing to you whatsoever? That's a good recipe for getting shot.
And then gratuitously throw in absolutely deplorable fucked up shit like fucking with the graves of his ancestors? That's just subhuman.
One of the main things I found annoying about Eric's detractors, was how they judged the first comic he wrote and published. There was no chance that the first outing was going to live up to peoples made up expectations. Cyberfrog Blood Honey, and several other #1's from comicsgate came out half-baked, or not as good as they could be. Why would Isom be any different? Haven't people learned this from tech products they buy? The initial release has bugs in it, needs to be patched, etc.
So a rational person says to themselves, "is there potential here", and of course there is. There's quality, there's a lack of quality, and ultimately its not perfect. It's #1. How many people think the pilot episode of a show is the greatest episode of a series? If that's the case it probably means you're regressing, and not progressing over time. When people talk about "the best spider-man comics" they aren't talking about Amazing Fantasy #15, when Spider-man debuted. It was fine, but its not "Amazing". When people talk about great wrestlers or MMA fighters they're usually not talking about their debut, because the initial launch is a leap of faith. They're unknown. Maybe they don't have their gimmick together, or their confidence isn't there yet. Maybe they are too eager or haven't worked out the cardio properly yet.
But if you're an asshole, you just negate that, and try and say across the board, "this guy sucks." That's what Dax did without even reading the comic first. That's what Vito did before releasing his own comic, as if he has all this knowledge about making comics while doing #1 of his at the same time, but slower and with less resources.
If it was just about "a comic being bad" then it would've been left at "Isom 1 is bad, needs work here, here, and here". As much as Nick wants to say "I hope he gets a trillion billion dollars and drowns Dax in it" or whatever, I highly doubt they're actually interested in seeing Eric improve, because then what would they be left with? They wouldn't be able to say anything, or do anything negative.
If they wanted his business to succeed they wouldn't be contacting ministries and charities, they'd be sending him a message like "make sure you dot your i's and cross your t's, cause I've had experience with trademark stuff".
There isn't a charitable bone in Dax's body, because he has the biggest chip in the universe on his shoulder.
The thing it boils down to is that Dax and Vito just want to do negative shit, regardless of whatever their reasoning is. That's why they're hated.
Dick Masterson thinking he can get into Hollywood after doing everything Hollywood would find offensive and blacklistable is funny though. It shows how delusional he is. Just because you hire Vito on your show as a token, doesn't mean you're getting invited to the Epstein parties, pal.