As a former Marvel Comics fan, this writer can faithfully report that the company has taken a turn for the worse over the last decade — and a rather dramatic turn at that. For both of the big two comic publishers — Marvel and DC — what was once a sandbox filled with wish fulfillment and outside-the-box storytelling is now nothing more than yet another mindless entertainment industry full of soul-sucking, detached-from-reality, corporatized businesses where personal agendas consistently trump good (or even just logical) storytelling. That’s why the prospect of Eric July’s Rippaverse \– a ne…