Forgive my bringing up older and OTT, but I felt the need to give a proper response to questions asked of me, even if they may be rhetorical.
These are comics we're talking about. Even if this were true, what proportion of his audience would know? What proportion would even care?
I find this is true, to an extent. I think that graphic novels tend to be better written than serial comics, often attracting legitimately good to decent authors to write stories. I’m a DnD nerd and read some of the comics for the lore. RA Salvatore is mid writer IMO, but his writing is leagues better than what you find in most serialized comics.
And surely if the story is shit and doesn't appeal to anyone, nobody would buy the damn things?
This is a point of contention for what I was describing. The argument from July’s detractors is that many are purchasing his comics as a form of virtue signaling rather than for the quality. This is what sparked the line from Dick and Vito about “what’s your favorite part of Isom?” which was a way of taking a dig at people who had bought the comic, promoted it, while also admitting they hadn’t read it.
This is all just shit I’ve tangentially heard and I’m trying to be as honest and neutral about it as I can. I find it to be a tempest in a teapot and overblown. Pick fights where you want and how you want, but that doesn’t shield you from blowback. And when you start serially stalking/harassing people over dumb shit, you’re crossing a serious line. A line that some take major umbrage with.
I know Eric likes to talk about how hood he is, maybe he is and maybe he isn’t, but shit like that can have some very dangerous repercussions. Being arrested is one of the least of those repercussions. People get beaten to the point of hospitalization and even death over extremely petty shit. It’s why the best strategy is to laugh and move on instead of fomenting a feud.