SUPERKILLER Review (September 8th, 2025) 2025-09-08

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Unknown_00: Hello! Welcome to another exciting new thingy for the Gumroad slash Locals. The first contentful update for the Locals in a while, and the first contentful update for the Gumroad for even longer, because if you're listening on Gumroad, you've only just regained access to it after my mighty war against Stripe yielded some fruits.

Unknown_00: Uh... This is the only video I've ever recorded in 16 by 9, or 9 by 16, I think. And you may be wondering why I have done this. I don't actually know. I think what happened is I was setting up OBS. I was like, let me put the comic book and then crop it nice and tidy. And then after I did that, I was like, oh, yeah, there's like a lot of dead space on my screen now. So you know what? Let's just do it in 9 by 16. Why not? Sounds like a good idea. Um, speaking of bearing fruits, this is super killer. This is the black and white inked final. Like they have to color it in, but this is final ish. Um, there's only two things they're adding. Uh, they're adding the color and then they're adding boobs. Uh, cause this is censored. Vito decided that he would try to, uh, persuade people to buy his comic book by adding a partially visible nudity.

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Unknown_00: And so I will get to that. This has been several years in the making. Thousands of years ago, Black Comic Book Man published Black Comic Book about Black Comic Book Guy called...

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Unknown_00: I have literally forgotten the name. It's been so long that I have forgotten the name of Eric July's comic book, which I have two different books for. I actually have a collectible edition, too. So I have three of these comic books somewhere in my trailer, in my swamp. And I have completely fucking forgotten the name of what this is. But to epically own Black Comic Book Man and his Black Comic Book hero, whoever it may be, Uh, Vito just Walter decided, you know what? I'll make my own comic book and it will be super epically awesome. And I will epically own black comic book men, uh, to which Dax Herrera, AKA Dick Masterson, AKA Juju the cow, a man who I believe, uh, if I remember correctly, and I know that's a tenuous prospect with me is a man who gets fucked in the ass while dressed as a cow. Now, this book is the end product of over $120,000 of fundraising, which is preposterous.

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Unknown_00: I have done merchandising. I have done creative works. I have hosted internet forums. $120,000 is an excessive amount of profit for a creative endeavor like this.

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Unknown_00: You do not need $120,000.

Unknown_00: By the way, one of the things that I remember...

Unknown_00: very vividly about this campaign is that Vito said that Eric July's black comic book guy was only like half the length of a, of what an actual comic should be. And his was going to be like a hundred pages. I'm pretty sure. Um, so this is only 60 pages. I think it's 70, it's 70 pages. So I don't know if black comic book man's comic was actually half the length or what, but okay. I have actually looked this up cause it was driving me crazy. Eric July's comic is called Isom, which is a very bad name. I don't, I'm sorry. I know it's named after his grandfather or whatever, but it's like super killer is a name I've never forgotten. I've been anticipating this piece of shit for two fucking years now. Isom is a bad name. Um, I got it backwards, actually. It was Eric July that had advertised his comic book as being longer than average. It is 96 pages long.

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Unknown_00: Whereas Superkiller was advertised as being half that length, about 52 pages long. Which... I mean, to Vito's credit, that was a good idea. Making this 70 pages long, as it turned out to be, was a bad idea. You could easily cut 20 pages from this. So I've ranted on for too long. I've already made a fool of myself in this review, as you would expect. So let's just read it. So this is the cover. The first thing that immediately comes to mind is that I hate this robot. I don't know what the fuck this robot's for. This robot sucks ass. Oh, you can see my mouse. Lovely. I'm recording this on Arch Linux, by the way, in case you're wondering. So this robot sucks donkey balls, and it's not funny at all. I don't know why it's in this book. I also just hate how Super Killer looks.

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Unknown_00: He's very obviously supposed to be a... In the story, it's very obviously supposed to be Vito's fantasy for how he would imagine himself, I guess. It feels like that. But I hate how he looks. I hate his stupid fucking anime hair. I hate his stupid fucking mouth. The mouths in this, by the way, are the worst thing ever. And I happen to know a lot about Western-style mouths.

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Unknown_00: It's a dark joke. Sorry if you don't get that. If you're confused and scared now, you should be. I don't like how his pose in this is preposterous. He has no bulge. He's literally dickless. And this is like the thing in the front of why is he not pointing the gun at the viewer? You would think that the gun is like the main character of the story. So why is the gun like to the side? Why does the gun look like such a piece of shit? Why the fuck is this like Amazon Alexa Android in this at all? Why does he have no dick? It's like in Ghostbusters. It's true, sir. This man has no dick. Why does he have no dick? Why is his torso contorted in such a way? Honestly, it's just bad art. And the thing is, is that the art's not done by Vito. That was a huge thing. He's going to hire a professional artist. I think it's LeBeau down here who is the actual artist for the comic book. And it's like, I don't want to focus on the art too much because it's like the art's by this other guy who's not Vito. Vito's the fat pedo, so I want to beat him like a piñata. But the art sucks too.

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Unknown_00: And I can't even blame Vito for that. It's just bad. Oh, I can use my arrow keys. Okay.

Unknown_00: Artist, Keter Lebeau at fault for this. Colorist, Valentina Pinto. I guess we're just outsourcing this shit to people with names I can't recognize at all. What the fuck is a letterer? I guess that's the guy who lays out the... God, what a humiliating job. He has to lay out Vito's writing into the comic and try to make it look cool. Then editor, Aquarius Rex. Is that really his fucking name?

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Unknown_00: Okay, so I talked about Vito's leaked comic. So there's a version of this that was not ready, that was leaked. And I've criticized this. I don't remember if I criticized it on stream or if I criticized it in the...

Unknown_00: In a gumroad or something.

Unknown_00: In the original version, this is how it opens. You might notice this is like a completely different art style and everything. And this is supposed to be a comic within a comic. So they actually added like a lot of stuff to it to try and make it obvious that this is not a part of the main storyline. When you open this in the original version, it just cuts straight to this. So I had no idea what the fuck was going on, and I had no idea why it looked so shitty. But at least this time they added this first page in to establish that it's somebody reading a comic. And I have a note for this, by the way. Okay, so just to establish the universe. Super Killer is one killer or one superhero of, as it says here,

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Unknown_00: The universe contains 3,483 super-powered individuals, with 167 of them operating in this city alone. So you have an entire universe. In fact, it's not just a universe, it's a multiverse, because there's, like, parallel universe, like, travel happening, okay?

Unknown_00: Okay, so I guess it says that. It says this universe contains. But then it's like, okay, so imagine this. Imagine you took 300... 483 people. Would 167 of them be in New York City or whatever? Why would they all live together in that concentration?

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Unknown_00: Unless, like, white people are more likely to be superheroes or something. But I don't think that's what the chase is.

Unknown_00: So Super Killer Man is here to kill Meteor Man. This is the old comics of him. And then it cuts to Beck. Beck is the female character. Beck is based off a real person, as Vito has explained, that he knew in college. And I think she killed herself. probably, I'm going to blame Vito for this. I have no evidence. I'm not trying to do like a Carl Jobs here and accuse somebody of facilitating somebody else's suicide. I'm not saying I have evidence that Vito's obesity and mental health and insufferable personality led her to commit suicide. I don't even know if she committed suicide. I'm just saying that if I had to guess, if a gun was pointed to my head and someone said, Josh, you have to guess why she committed suicide, I would say Vito probably drove her to suicide. But I don't know. I just want to clarify that. OK, so.

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Unknown_00: She's by the way, Meteor Man's logo looks like the Whataburger logo, but upside down. So she's reading a comic. Now, this is supposed to be tongue in cheek. She's reading the Meteor Man comic, and she goes, ugh, this comic sucks so bad. Comics sure do suck. And the whole point of this is to establish that this is the new cutting type of comic Vito Gesualdi is mastering. He's going to be putting these old comics to shame, the golden era, and Super Killer is the new thing. That's literally what he's going for. So right off the bat, that's a really dumb idea. When you come out the gate swinging and you're saying, this is the new cool thing, instantly the bar is raised. Like, when I read Isom, I think this is Black Comic Man's first comic. He wrote it himself. He doesn't have experience. He's just trying to make a comic that he likes. I understand. So the bar is really low. I'm willing to accept a lot of stuff. Like, when I read his comic, I think, now this is like a trope from a comic that he's read and he really liked and he put this in here because he liked it. And it's like, I get it. I get what he's doing. And I'm sympathetic towards that because, you know, it's just like... Trying to be like, I guess little boys want to make their own comics, right? So it's like a childhood fantasy to grow up and be a comic book writer or whatever. Whereas Vito, and it's not under any pretense that it's like the best thing ever made. Whereas Vito is setting this up that we are flushing away the turds of the past. Meteor Man is fucking dead. Superman, garbage. Super killer. That's where it's at. So now I have to look at this like this should be excellent this should be a really great story because you've set the bar that high by your own mission in a parallel by the way there was a game that came out at tf2's peak so this was like 10 plus years ago tf2 was like the hottest first person shooter ever fucking created so many people played it it was adored it was amazed like everyone loved this fucking game and then um i can't remember what it was what company it was but they came i think it was even like ubisoft Ubisoft comes out and says, we're going to put, this is a TF2 killer. And it was called Brink. And you've never heard of Brink. Nobody's ever fucking played Brink. And their game server closed within like three months of the game coming out.

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Unknown_00: So when you do this kind of like, I'm putting Superman in the fucking grave with Super Killer, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Unknown_01: Let's continue.

Unknown_00: This is a Russian stereotype. This guy is a fat, bald, like her boss. And he's like a creepy weirdo. I have no idea why he's so creepy. And it's honestly, it's not even worth mentioning him because he does absolutely nothing to advance the plot. In fact, Beck herself does very little to advance the plot. She seems to be here just because Vito is a creepy weirdo obsessed with his dead friend. that he may or may not have killed through his insufferable, just to get away from him, allegedly. One thing to point out in regards to the art is that she is designed to have enormous breasts. She's supposed to have the biggest breasts ever. But they change in every frame. She only has one boob here. And then she has, like, enormous boobs here. And then you can see that they're, like, triple D massive mommy milker jugs. But the artist does not apparently know how to draw women at all. And just look at this real quick. Look at, like, her throat area. What the fuck is that shading? She has such an angular jaw. She has such really strong highlights. And, like, her lips are outlined. Like, she took eyeliner and outlined her lips. She's hideous throughout this entire comic. Super killer himself. doesn't look that bad. He looks ugly, but that's a preference. I would not want a character to be drawn like this, designed like this, if I was making a comic book. Beck looks bad. She looks a lot like, in fact, especially because of the little hat, she looks a lot like the transgender woman from... I don't remember if it was ever identified if she was transgender or just really masculine. But the Monarch's girlfriend in Avenger Bros... Like I, it just looks like that. And it's like, that's, you know, that's supposed to be your friend. You're supposed to be paying tribute to her and shit. And she just looks like garbage in this comic. Every, in every frame, every frame of Beck has a stupid face. Just, I have notes in here on my note that is just stupid face. Uh, where is the first time I see stupid faces on page 15, but every face she has looks stupid. Like I said, none of this shit matters. This guy is not funny. All the jokes here suck. I'm not even going to fucking bother. He's like Russian and a creep. I have a note here. Oh, there's a tease in page six where he says, the girl says, Beck says,

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Unknown_00: Manga seems to be devolving into straight-up porn. I'm all for fan service, but do you really need to strip your female character naked in the very first issue? Grow up. I wonder what's going to happen in this. Oh, Vito is so smart putting these little allusions to the future, foreshadowing in the story.

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Unknown_00: Uh, page seven, uh, Dimitri is the most hideous character ever. He looks like a fallout, um, like ogre. What the fuck do you call it? Mutant. He's a super mutant. He looks like a fucking super mutant. Why does he look like a fucking evil ogre from runescape? Why does it look like a super mutant? What is the point of this character? There is none. Uh, he's extremely like debauched and like horned up. And there's a thing like a joke later on where he has a sign on his door that It says, like, close orgy in progress or something. Look at that shadowing, by the way. What do you call that? Why is it so fucking stupid?

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Unknown_01: There's a... Her backstory is explained in this.

Unknown_00: Maybe if I'm lucky... Wait, no.

Unknown_00: That's in the previous page where she explains that she wants to be a superhero. Oh, here it is. She's a little girl. Of course, Vita the Pita needs to have some lolly in here, and I'll get to that in a second. Stupid face. Like, just hideous. Look at this fucking face. That's not what a person looks like. That's not what a human being looks like.

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Unknown_00: When I was a kid, my dream was to be a superhero. Stupid face.

Unknown_00: Skip ahead. 12. Ugly. This frame has been laughed at for the entire development. This was in the leaks. This has not changed. He looks terrible. I don't know what else to say. This is your hero shot of the main character. His entrance into the story, by the way, because his first appearance was on page one just to establish that there is a story that's not Meteor Man. You don't even see him. So this is the first shot you get to see of the hero. And I guess like that's intentional. Oh, he's a weak, pathetic loser or something, but it has like a reverse setup, which I'll get to when we get there.

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Unknown_00: No, this is the sign that says private orgy in progress.

Unknown_00: Something about the back door. Okay. Yeah. Sex joke. I get it. He's eating a burger. It's really sloppy. Okay, cool.

Unknown_00: This is the part where, for whatever reason, for literally no reason, actually, not for whatever reason, but for no reason, Beck immediately starts caring for this guy. I guess because he's a superhero and she's like a superhero groupie, starts mopping up his blood, starts feeding him, starts giving him his life. So you can see the letterer was really put through his paces here with all this fucking garbage everywhere. Oh, here we have another stupid face. This is actually written in my notes. Stupid face. I don't know what the fuck this is. And what's weird is that he has this really strong insistence of adding highlights to faces.

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Unknown_00: And then for whatever reason, he really needs to also... outline those highlights so you can see like the outline here on her nose the little outlines of the highlights on her lips and it just makes it look like she has herpes or warts or something when we can also see the cavities of her teeth it's just like this dude cannot draw a fucking mouth and this does this frame does not look finished where's her fucking head at why is it like this what emphasis does this add that she's very surprised

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Unknown_00: OK, cool. So she says that you're a bad guy. And then we have food eating because for some reason that has to be in the show. I don't know. Like, imagine you have a fistful of French fries and you're shoving sloppy, soggy French fries in your fucking face. And you're somehow saying, really, I'm a simple contractor. My agency gives me a target and I take care of them. How do you say that while eating like that?

Unknown_00: Like, it's just stupid. And then he shoots himself in the head. Bang.

Unknown_00: And he's got Reddit nose. Okay.

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Unknown_00: Okay, now this is Dick Masterson actually pointing this out. And you know what? I'm not going to lie. This could all be fucking gay fake bullshit that they've done intentionally just to piss me off.

Unknown_00: But you can see that the gun here is flush against the table. And that the handle of the gun was actually flush against the table like that. the gun would be like levitated at a 45 degree angle off the table. And that's because this is traced. And they even found the picture that it's traced from. So when Vito said, I want to see this gun, they've just traced a picture of a literal child's toy and put it into the comic. And he's just like, yeah, that's okay.

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Unknown_00: Okay, so at this point, outside of how terrible the gun actually looks, despite the fact that Era of July was infinitely roasted because background props of his comics were traced from 3D models, the actual power of Super Killer is introduced. And when I heard this, I thought that was like his only power. But there's more powers revealed later that sort of undermines the entire premise of what I thought the comic was going to be. I thought the whole point was that he had a gun that could kill any superhero and that was it. And he just had to outsmart or outplay superheroes in order to stay alive.

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Unknown_00: He explains that it takes one or two shots from his three-shot pistol, because I guess an extended magazine is asking a bit much, to kill anybody. And as you can see, the toy gun they traced doesn't even have a trigger guard, so you better not fuck up and bump that against anything unnecessarily.

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Unknown_01: Let's see. Notes.

Unknown_01: The Beck cares about clunky, stupid fucking dialogue while eating.

Unknown_00: What is the point of him eating in this? The gun trace.

Unknown_00: I left a note that these two pages have seven are decent writing. So this is and that's worth pointing out because this is information that's actually relevant to the plot. It establishes who the character is. So this is words on the screen that actually matter to getting shit going.

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Unknown_00: Oh, and one of the things, I actually wrote this on the piece of paper, but if we go all the way back to the beginning on page two or whatever, I remember thinking like, why is he just in this park, like in his suit? You can see he's wearing his super suit, but he's not like doing anything. He's just feeding pigeons and eating from like a lunchbox. Why is he wearing the suit? So he goes in to rob a bank and there's actually a funny joke where they ask him to take off his suit and and his suit is literally just his skin, and he cannot take it all. So it's like he's naked, technically. That explains why he has no dick, I guess. But he can't take off his suit. I thought that was funny, because I remember thinking, why is he just wearing this constantly?

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Unknown_00: Though, actually, it does kind of contradict the fact that he comes in kind of torn up. You can see his suit is torn. So it doesn't make any fucking sense. He didn't... He probably thought that was a funny joke just for this one scene, and then didn't think, hey, maybe I should make it consistent that his suit doesn't tear later. You know, shit like that. Anyway, so he rubs the bank.

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Unknown_00: There's a weird thing here where he's shouting, Allahu Akbar. And that's kind of funny, I guess. Like, if you were half, like, very... What's the word? lazily just trying to feign robbing a bank I guess firing a gun and shouting Allahu Akbar is like funny unfortunately he ruins his own fucking joke because the people react by going eek not our freedom oh god he hates our freedom so the actual butt of the joke is not him trying to stage a bank robbery to entice meteor man to come and fight him so he can shoot him the actual joke here is that white people are afraid of Muslims which is fucking gay

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Unknown_00: So Meteor Man shows up. Now, I have a note here, and it probably hits you in the face too while you're looking at this, is that this is the actual entry of Meteor Man. Now, this is all fucking words on this fucking page. This is like the main antagonist of this comic. He's showing up for the first time. This is the first confrontation between our anti-hero and the antagonist. So you would expect, especially because he's built up to be like the main guy, the Superman of this universe, there would be the dramatic entry scene where he breaks through the roof, like in all the comics of Superman breaking through a fucking roof. And this huge dynamic entry that kind of builds him up. And so he just shows up. Like, was he just in the bank? Was he there making a deposit at the time that Super Killer was shouting Allahu Akbar? Because that's what it looks like.

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Unknown_01: I have no notes for this page it's just a lot of this writing is just bullshit it's just references to fucking Deadpool and Vito just like making nonsense humor throughout the entire thing like Christian West and Chandler random access humor

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Unknown_00: And then comes the setup where Meteor Man expects him to shoot him. And the bullets ricochet off. And then he cocks him with the actual super killer super gun.

Unknown_00: And Meteor Man realizes that he is injured. So he is like, oh, fuck. And he starts screaming. Now, at this point, for whatever reason, the artist decides that he has to look like a fucking monster.

Unknown_00: Apparently the gun, which needs two or three shots to kill any superhero, has a serious delay, or it has to recharge. So it holds three shots, but it also needs to recharge, I guess, for dramatic tension.

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Unknown_00: Super Hero Man is going full Joker mode. He looks super scary. And then at this point, Superman... hits him with his fist so hard that he is ejected from the window of the bank out into the open. And then he has to fly. And again, his face looks like a scary monster face for some reason, even though he's Meteor Man. And he starts getting repaired while at his moon base.

Unknown_00: Yes, I'm being serious. This is how it goes. So at this point, in between being punched as hard as possible, and we established the timeline. He was hit at the bank before showing up at Beck's Diner so he could eat a burger while waiting for Meteor Man to show up. Now, this is a weird plot thing where...

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Unknown_00: He expects that Meteor Man will take a while to heal, and then after he's done healing, he'll come back to try and eliminate this guy, which can hurt him for whatever reason. So as soon as he figures that out, he's going to come looking for the jerk who shot him. What's the guy's ETA on that arty? So now he's talking to the robot, and the robot says, about 15 seconds, boss. So the arty, the robot, the Alexa, has like a... like a henchman like dopey henchman personality that also swears a lot because lol so random um and then he says ah plenty of time wait 15 seconds now this seems like a genuine reaction like He says that up here, his healing factor could eventually repair the damage, but it will take months, maybe years. So we establish that he is expecting it will take Meteor Man years to potentially recover from getting shot the one time.

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Unknown_00: However, it only takes him 15 seconds before he's coming back from the moon to engage Superkiller. And that's really important because of what happens next. This is the plot thing. So now we get an actual dynamic entry. I don't know why the first dynamic entry was denied, but then he actually shows up like a fucking superhero. Of course, he looks like a vampire. He looks like fucking Count Dracula instead of Meteor Man or Superman or whatever. To show he's super, super pissed. Now, you would expect, because he's super pissed, he would just immediately start trying to kill this fucking guy that has some way to murder him. Instead, he tries to negotiate with him about the gun, and he threatens him, and he banters. They make jokes. There's actually more jokes. Half of this is just Meteor Man and him bantering cheekily.

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Unknown_00: Uh, so, um, super killer takes back hostage. You can see that her boobs have changed in size four times in the last three frames.

Unknown_00: Page is this 27.

Unknown_01: The hostage situation is set up. Oh yeah.

0:28:08
Unknown_01: He seems very, why doesn't Superman just kill him? That's a good question. Josh from the past.

Unknown_00: See, then says, kid, I ain't been hurt this bad in a long time, and I'm planning to rip you limb from limb until you tell me how to fix whatever your gun did to me. But if you really want to kill some bitch waitress before we get started, be my guest. Which Beck responds, what did he call me? And now here's the writing chops. Here's this new edgy comedy that's going to blow away all the comics of the past. Hey, Grandpa, that kind of language is totally problematic, Superkiller says. Yeah, Dex agrees. Terms like waitress reinforce hurtful gender norms and contribute to the erasure of non-binary individuals. You should have called her a bitch server. Um, and then literally, and this is, this is actually funny because Vito wrote that and he thought it would be like, yuck, yuck, yuck. He just imagined it was, yeah, this is it. This is going to get Dax to go. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. And then he has no idea how to respond to it because it's such a terrible juxtaposition. Meteor Man is angry. He wants to kill this guy. He wants to secure this weapon because he is an immortal god, alien creature from another planet, right? And this random wimpy kid somehow has a means to injure him grievously. And in the midst of this joke telling, he has nothing to say. He has literally no follow up because it's not established that, you know, it would make more sense if he was like super PC woke. And because then it would be like you're kind of rooting for him to die anyways. He considers himself a super nice guy, but he's like super woke and he's like super nice. Like you show me that pride parade being really nice, which would have been made sense in this universe because there's a gay joke coming up. But Meteor Man has literally no response to this. He doesn't even say a word. It's just a visible confusion. The reaction of your antagonist should not be visible confusion to your in-universe jokes. That is a joke that would make sense during the bank robbery where it's all play pretend and neither side is taking it in earnest because they both have different expectations about what's happening. This is supposed to be like super serious. The guy drew the super serious goblin monster face. So this should be super serious. He should, his response to this joke should be to rip off his fingernails or something, or shoot a laser beam through his fucking skull. Why is it just standing there? Um, like Goku emanating power with wind flying around you. Just like, Oh, what?

0:30:27
Unknown_00: It was, I thought that was really stupid as fuck. Um,

Unknown_00: Because Vito just can't stop making weird. So, as I said, he can't stop making weird, lame, boring fucking banter. The next seven pages of this confrontation, weird, lame, boring fucking banter. No tension, no stakes whatsoever. He throws soup at him. There's a part where he goes, did you throw soup at me? He's like, yeah, I did, huh? And this is the core plot issue that I have with this. the soup is actually an extremely important, um, plot device. And the plot device is that he threw kryptonite or meteorite or whatever the fuck into the soup. So the soup is like imbued with, with kryptonite. And that's why splashing him hurt him and took away his powers. Uh,

0:31:00
Unknown_00: And there's more to this fucking bullshit than that. But this is the issue, right? So he started the bank robbery.

0:31:37
Unknown_00: And I had imagined, had anticipated to kill him with two shots. I had assumed that the entire point of the bank robbery was to get him to show up so you can just pop him unexpectedly. But then Meteor Man just punches him through the fucking wall. He goes flying out the fucking wall, and then he's super injured. And we get back to the original start of the comic where he's walking through the door injured. So we also see that super killer walk through the door during Beck's shift. It's not like he was there when she showed up in the morning. He walked in during the middle of the night. So...

0:32:13
Unknown_00: What's really, really confusing is that to get the kryptonite, he had to set this up. He knew that Meteor Man would take two shots. He knew that Meteor Man's reaction to being shot would be to hit him and then fly away. He knew then that Meteor Man would come back the next day, but yet in the actual plot of this, I guess just for the excuse to have a lame joke where he's shocked by how soon he's coming, he says, what, 15 seconds? But you knew this was coming. You had set it up the night before. You knew that this precise series of events would happen and it would allow you to put Kryptonite in his suit. But then it also undermines the entire point of the comic. I thought the comic... was that he doesn't need kryptonite. He has a gun that surpasses kryptonite. It surpasses the need for any other kind of secret weapon. Why do you have to weaken Meteor Man when you could have just shot him? You could have just shot him a second time here instead of pointing a gun at Beck, because that's all that it takes to kill him.

0:32:53
Unknown_00: So I really don't understand the whole point of this. The entire... The entire concept of what he has set up falls apart. We're on page 30 has completely fallen apart halfway through the book. And it's, that is the kind of thing where it's not just like, I don't like your humor. I don't like where this is going. I don't appreciate the plot. It's like you are giving me rules for your character and for your world to further your satire. And the rules don't make sense. And your character's actions don't make any sense. And it's a slog. It's a slog to look at all these fucking jokes. It doesn't... You just want to get the fuck over it.

0:33:29
Unknown_00: That's page... Yeah, through 37, I think, is where the banter stops. He finds the mediatorium. Very clever. And then he explains. And this is... Just baffling. So...

0:34:06
Unknown_00: All the mediatorium, apparently, all the kryptonite in the world had been thrown into the sun. So there would be no place to get mediatorium. Why does he need it? I don't fucking know. But apparently he needs it. So he puts in the legwork to find the mediatorium. And it is a chunk that only exists, and I swear to God, you can look at the fucking comic. It exists because when Superman was younger, he hooked up with a young boy. and started fucking them in the ass, and they got gay married. So this Superman is gay, and he's gay married to a boy that he groomed and is literally grooming. What? Meteor Man is sleeping with a kid? Oh, please. Snap hasn't been a kid since the 50s. We didn't start dating until he was already in college. And then Beck says, but you met him when he was just a child. You groomed him. So for whatever reason, Vito was just so obsessed with pedophilia and the idea of underage sex with boys that even in this, he had to make Meteor Man like a gay homo child molester.

0:35:16
Unknown_00: And then it is explained the reason why his boy lover is allowed to keep the last chunk of mediatorium is that they use it in BDSM power play. So Meteor Man is not only gay, he not only likes to get fucked in the ass, but he's also sub. And he has to be stripped of his powers in order to enjoy gay sex with his man-boy-lover thing that's going on here. So he stole the mediatorium from the... now 50-year-old man that he groomed. And also killed him for whatever reason. This also, by the way,

Unknown_00: This also undermines, as Dax put it, he put it in his critical review, the fact that Meteor Man is now a gay pedophile and a creepy weird kinkster and also a complete fucking asshole, apparently. It makes it very morally ambiguous. It's not like Meteor Man is this super nice guy that we have to feel bad about, right? Dying? It's like, he's a monster. He's just an asshole. Why do I give a fuck if Super Killer then blows his stupid fucking brains out? I don't give a shit. And that's like... an issue. Like you can, there are, there are movies and books where death is anthropomorphized and death is not a maniac. He's not a terrorist going around, you know, evilly reaping souls to destroy lives just for the sake of it. Death has also often betrayed really sympathetically. He has a job, he has a duty and, and there's a purpose to what he does, and he accepts the responsibility of what he does with the respect and solemnness that it deserves. And if you want a character like that, you can make Superkiller somebody who is killing good people for an ultimate purpose. But the purpose of what he does is to make room for for better heroes the entire satirical purpose of this fucking comic is that super killer uses his meme gun to wipe off the face of the planet off the multiverse superheroes that suck to make room for superheroes that don't suck because apparently there's a finite number of how many superheroes can exist in the multiverse um So you can play it that way too, that he's not a maniac. He's just somebody who has to do a job to keep the ebb and flow of the universe in check.

0:37:43
Unknown_00: But it's not that either. It's that not only does he have to do this, He's doing this to guys who apparently deserve it. So there's no moral quandary here. There's no ethical deliberation to be made. Just kill him. Who gives a fuck? He's like a gay pederast. Why do I care about him? He's an asshole. So another opportunity to add complexity or depth to this story is completely missed because it's written by a fucking man-child who can't understand these concepts.

0:38:26
Unknown_01: Okay.

Unknown_01: Then there's more gay shit.

Unknown_00: Then he kills them, so this is like a double page. There we go. There's their intense drawing. He fucking blows Meteor Man's brain out. You even have a little SCP thing down here. Meteor Man, Class C Nexus Entity. Status terminated.

Unknown_00: And of course, his last words, by the way, are also painfully unfunny. He says, look, man, I didn't pick this stupid costume, nor did I choose to put that idiotic symbol on my chest. But you're right. There is a name whispered in hushed voices across the multiverse, a name soaked in the tears of the damned and the blood of the countless fallen heroes. They call me Super Killer. And then Meteor Man says, kid, that's the stupidest name I've ever heard of. And then he dies. So Meteor Man gave like this huge touching speech about how he lives a long, prosperous life and he understands it's his time. And then Hander cuts all this with this fucking dumb gay bullshit. And then Super Killer seems to take glee in killing this pederast, which I guess I can understand. There's no...

0:39:32
Unknown_00: Like I said, no solemnness at all, no sense of obligation or duty. It's just dumb jokes one after the other. Then, of course, the Alexa meme robot says, oh, yeah, that guy is dead as hell. You killed the fuck out of that guy. Another successful mission, boss, and with only a few hours to spare. So that's...

Unknown_00: Oh, the robot apparently just pops another universe whenever he needs to. So that's, what's going on with that. Uh, back is then for whatever reason, despite being a bystander that can only hinder his mission has shown that, uh, apparently super killer also has no ass. Let's take a moment here to acknowledge the fact that this guy has a Hank Hill ass.

0:40:09
Unknown_00: Yeah. Um, so Beck starts wondering about his universe. Um, apparently this also seems to undermine the entire, um, plot of this narrative of the story. Apparently when meteor man is killed, he's considered like plot essential to this universe. So when he's dead, the universe just implodes. And then of course, um, the way that this is demonstrated is that a hole rips open directly over the city for whatever reason, uh, and starts to suck everything in. And then this is where it's like, it just starts getting really, really incredibly fucking dumb. We're at like page 50 in a normal comic. Like this is like, this is page 50. This is like where it's supposed to end. I guess at this point in the original plot, he's supposed to leave. But then he decides he's going to add, I think he even said this in one of his Patreon goals or whatever, that he was going to add bonus content. So this is where normally the plot went in. Meteor Man's been killed. You're supposed to want more. I want to see more of this guy and how he has to go around the multiverse killing people.

0:41:26
Unknown_00: So before I get into the next segment, which is dumb as shit, let's just put on this nice little drawing of the Earth being consumed by a black hole, which somehow is not affecting them specifically, but everybody else around them.

Unknown_01: Let's talk about...

Unknown_01: I forgot what I was going to say.

Unknown_00: So instead of talking about the plot, let's talk about what I expected to happen in the plot. First of all, I expected Superkiller to be a normal person with no extraordinary powers. He does actually have a superpower that is going to be revealed in the subsequent pages.

Unknown_00: I expected that the gun would be his main tool. I expected that the gun would not need assistance from anything like meteorite, To weaken people. I thought that the whole point was that one shot, one kill, every time, every superhero. And I expected that the plot of this would make fun, parody, and satirize existing intellectual property. and poke fun at them before ultimately they are culled. And this would be Vito's great critique of the entire comic book industry from the glory days like Superman to whatever, the mutant universe to... DC, or whatever the fuck. I don't know. I don't know any of these fucking things. But I thought that it would be funny. I thought that it would poke fun at the logical inconsistencies that a universe with superheroes would bring. I thought there would be some cleverness to this, some level of parody. And I thought that the ultimate point would be

0:42:44
Unknown_00: to have Super Killer kill Isom and epically own Eric July. And that did not happen. Now, it didn't have to be Isom, but I thought that's what it would go to. I thought that the Meteor Man would just set it up because that's such the quintessential superhero. We're going to have a mini intro story about how this works to understand before he has to do the whole hunting down Isom thing. As an example, So, like, in the first 10 pages, you would be introduced to Beck, you'd be introduced to Superkiller, you'd understand how Beck and him became a partner, you'd understand the mechanics of the gun, and you'd understand the limitations of the main character and what his objectives are. So, for instance, the first 10 pages, instead of being lazy bullshit featuring a Russian guy who dies in the universe and has nothing to add to the plot whatsoever... Super Killer meets Beck, finds out that Beck is like this huge comic book nerd who knows all about comics and therefore understands these concepts and can assist Super Killer in taking his responsibilities by giving him clever ways to subvert the tactics that you would expect from each superhero he has to go after. Whereas that's not the case. And this super killer sets up this extraordinarily convoluted three part system to ending Meteor Man. He does it with the assistance of something outside of his gun. His gun really he could have just shot Meteor Man in the fucking head by the end of the comic. So every single thing I expected to see didn't happen. Beck served no purpose in the story. The gun wasn't really the antithesis to the hero like you expected. He used absolutely no cleverness to defeat Meteor Man unless you count throwing a rock at him from a bowl of soup to be clever. Uh, the bank robbery was kind of clever. The soup was just gay and retarded. So that's what I expected. A very brief, cause he's not a very complex hero. It just, he meets Beck. He figures out something with her about how she goes, Oh, he always shows up to every single bank robbery because he's actually paid by the big bank to, to stop, um, crime. So if you rob any of these banks, he'll show up. So then taking the idea from Beck, uh, he goes to the bank she says by the way oh he's he's a super showboat he always makes a big spectacle because he wants to sign autographs or whatever the fuck um and then use that time to shoot him and he'll expect you to shoot him but he expects to survive and then he just dies and then that would be the end of the superman you would understand dex rolling it you would understand the guns rolling it you understand his objective and then perhaps in the next 40 pages you could uh make endless fun out of Eric July and ISM and do a very memetic comic where certain assets are traced very obviously to like deliberate fun at him. And then just like dissect his world and, uh, the supers and shits and the ISM world and just make a good, make a laugh out of it. I thought that's what would happen. And that's not what happened. Uh, it was stupid, but,

0:46:03
Unknown_00: So we're almost done. There's like 18 pages left and I don't even know what the fuck is happening after this. So when it's become known to Beck that the universe is imploding, um, she takes his gun.

0:46:46
Unknown_00: And of course you would expect a guy that has a gun that can kill anybody in one shot. He would be very protective of his gun, but he's not. She just somehow yoinks the gun from him. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, hold him at gunpoint. Um, and then says, I want to, Oh, she shoots him in the head. Okay. She suits him in the head and he survives. This was another thing that I really fucking hated. Um, so we just set up that the gun kills everybody except the best of the best, the coolest of the cool, and he gets shot and survives. So he's not a normal man. Um, He is like a flesh suit wrapped around a healing core, and the healing core will infinitely revive him forever and ever. He's effectively biologically immortal, and he's also immune to his own weapon.

0:47:22
Unknown_00: So he fears nothing. He has the most powerful weapon in the world, and he's also effectively immortal and can just physically take on Superman one on one, which if that's the case, it's like, why do we even need the gun? Just give him like a baseball bat and let him kill Superman that way. Why does he need the gun if he's like immortal?

0:47:54
Unknown_00: So that's also dumb. That also undermined any potential for like a fun story where it's like the stakes are really high. This is just a normal dude. He only has a gun. So everything he has to do, everything he does has to be clever, has to be methodical, has to be considerate and careful the entire way. Because if he fucks up and he picks on the wrong superhero and they have a power he's not expecting, then he's just dead. But that's not the case. He's basically fucking immortal. I guess that we can have fight scenes or whatever. And that's what Vito wanted.

0:48:28
Unknown_00: So she walks through the space portal and then is in the vacuum of space. You would instantly die in the vacuum of space like this. Your eardrums would be ripped out of your fucking head. Your eyeballs would freeze instantly. It would be horrific. So she's in space.

Unknown_00: And then there's a big plot. Now, this is where the nudity comes in. She's starting to be like dissolved by space goo. And then the robot's like, sorry, boss, I can't save him unless she becomes your sidekick. Only sidekicks and superheroes are allowed in this universe, boss. You know how it is. And then he's like, do the unthinkable. Add her as my sidekick. And then all the while, there's a thing where his other sidekick died horrifically for some reason. His other sidekick, by the way, is also supposed to be a woman and is drawn as shittily as fucking possible. Like, the artist didn't even bother, like, shade the hair or do anything. It looks just like fucking garbage. Um... Look at how fucking ugly this is. Look at how fucking stupid these faces are. Look at how fucking flat that hair is. Honestly, her face looks like Super Killer's face, but wearing a cheap Asuka wig or some shit. It just looks fucking awful. So there's a tragic flashback about how he lost his other thing, and then she becomes completely naked. It's all censored. You have to buy the full color version if you want to see her Vagoomba in reality. We also get this lovely thing where you're just like staring straight at her Vagoomba from below. It's really strange.

0:50:10
Unknown_00: Her breasts also change size three different times as well. And he says, add her as my superhero sidekick. And then she's added. And then he follows her into the next universe. Now, this is almost a funny joke. What happens here is almost a funny joke. They land in this new universe and he lands on top of the naked woman, who's also an amputee now, I guess. And then everyone freaks out and is like, get off of her, you pervert. And then as she's recovering, she's having these flashbacks about how, oh man, I'm actually a sidekick now. My superhero dream is finally fulfilled. I can't believe it. I'm a sidekick. I also have this lovely picture of her nude right next to her as a little girl because Vito's a fucking retard. Um, and then as she's like, and this is what's kind of funny as like a setup is that she's thinking like, oh man, like I can't believe it. I'm finally, finally a psychic. And then like, he's like being terrorized by the people who think he's like a rapist. And that's like a funny setup because it's like as a sidekick, she should be helping him. But apparently not. But unfortunately, he ruins even that. So it's just like this is actually like slapstick comedy. There's like a fight ball happening. Then it escalates where they're beating him with bats and chains. Then there's dogs tearing him apart. And finally, they're fucking crucifying him as she's like, oh, man, I'm sidekick. That's actually funny. But then what happens? The people in the park actually like it's not like a skit where she wakes up and she's like, oh, I nail him from that cross. Don't worry. He wasn't raping me. We just I just took a tumble. Don't worry about it. I can I can explain this all the way. That's not a gag. Like, that's actually a plot device. And then after he's immolated, an evil enemy recovers his power core, his healing core thing.

0:51:51
Unknown_00: And then I don't know if I'm a schizophrenic or something, but all the people have null symbols on their faces. So I don't know if this is supposed to represent something in particular, the arch nemesis of Vito.

Unknown_00: Maybe. Maybe it was designed to fuck with me. I don't know.

0:52:24
Unknown_00: But this is the next enemy. It's Mr. Null and or Mr. Zero Face and his legion of zero and or null face robots. And so the one funny kind of thing that happens is actually a plot device lead into the next episode. And it's just nonsense. And it's also just kind of weird because it's like... Not only did we not get the mini-series with Meteor Man that sets up how it...

Unknown_00: how a normal job is supposed to happen. We never got that in the actual plot. The actual plot was like weird. And you would, you would think it would be really important to show how does super killer operate and, If everything goes according to plan, that's a really important thing. When they show a movie, they have to show you what normal is before you get into abnormal, before you get into wacky hijinks, you have to know when things are going wrong and are deviating from what you would expect from, from this character and how he operates. But already we're in a situation where is it Mr. No zero phase. has obtained his healing core, and we just established that he had a healing core. It was 15 fucking pages ago where it was revealed to us that his instant kill gun doesn't actually work and that he also has the ability to heal any injury. Now, already, we have somehow burnt him to a crisp and extracted his instant healing core thing in the hands of Mr. Null Zero. So, every single narrative device that you would expect in this comic... to further the plot, establish a baseline, introduce characters, introduce modus operandi, every single thing that you would expect has been failed. Vito has completely, totally, and utterly failed to write a, not just a good comic book, he has failed to write a comprehensible story. It does not have arcs. It does not have stages.

0:54:23
Unknown_00: There's usually a first act, a second act, and a third act. There is no fucking acts. There's nothing. It's just nonsense. It's literally like he sat down and had a stream of consciousness and then went back and added a couple things only because people made fun of them. And now this is, then he got bored and said, fuck it. It took so long. I'll add 20 more pages. And then he just wrote 20 more pages, flow of consciousness. Um, and it sucks. It's genuinely fucking terrible. And I hope it hurts. I, I, I, there's a part of me that's screaming out like this is a big gay op by veto, but it's like, it's a $120,000 gay op and it's taken two and a half years. And I guess it could be for attention. Cause Dick really seems to fucking despise him now. like i'm hoping that it's real i hope that he actually put his heart and soul into this that this was supposed to be like a loving memoir for his old friend that definitely didn't commit suicide because she didn't want to be around him anymore i really desperately fucking hope that this meant a lot to him because it sucks and it deserves to be denigrated and ridiculed by by absolutely everybody that can bother to read through it um

0:55:41
Unknown_00: So that's my review. I hope you have enjoyed this. If there's any more super killer, I'll be sure to read it. I actually have three comic books by Rusty Cage that I have not even opened. And maybe I'll talk. I'll read through them and give my thoughts on over Halloween for some Halloween stuff. Next video I'll do. I have it. Let me just move over here. I can hit it.

Unknown_00: You hear that?

Unknown_00: You won't be able to hear that if I run that through an editor. So I have a contraption in my room that I finally got set up, and I will be moving some computer stuff around, and I like to record that.

0:56:21
Unknown_00: Thanks for watching. Thanks for subscribing on Locals on the Gumroad. If you're watching this on Locals on the Gumroad, I appreciate it, and I'll see you guys next stream. Thank you. Bye-bye.