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Rexxed posted:sunn You suck at actually reading the thread. Pursued by bees posted:That depends on whether there are also other additional and preferably humorous words written on the shirt. I just thought that was a surprising and kinda clever play on the band's name. PHIZ KALIFA posted:that "mad bear face" t-shirt What is this?
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A Moose posted:hey I think I managed to find one of the worst-aging comics in history Nedroid warps reality to fit itself. That kid has been turning 8 for ages, and dec 17 still comes around every year.
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System Metternich posted:I'll probably regret asking this, but what is "Sim" supposed to be here? A Canadian who started out doing funny animal comics, did a Conan the Barbarian pastiche (that featured a funny animal in a human world) that ended up becoming really popular and continued for hundreds of issues, and ended up hating all women because they're bitches! e: (Disclaimer: I didn't read any of this.) https://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/sim.html 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 23:43 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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I really enjoyed Cerebus at first and then I was suddenly like what the gently caress am I reading Much like growing up reading Xanth novels, which I also did
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Jerry Cotton posted:A Canadian who started out doing funny animal comics, did a Conan the Barbarian pastiche (that featured a funny animal in a human world) that ended up becoming really popular and continued for hundreds of issues, and ended up hating all women because they're bitches! Christ, that's some serious side mouth. 
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The Bloop posted:I really enjoyed Cerebus at first and then I was suddenly like what the gently caress am I reading It started lovely, was really funny for a short time, became fart-huffery for years, and then went full-on 
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Jul 8, 2019 23:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:It started lovely, was really funny for a short time, became fart-huffery for years, and then went full-on which one are you referring to?
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Just Offscreen posted:The gently caress? My point is that he doesn't "feature" them so much as run a plotline then abandon them to afterthought territory while going for something more niche.
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RFC2324 posted:which one are you referring to? Well Sinfest was never funny so
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well Sinfest was never funny so So Xanth?
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The Bloop posted:I really enjoyed Cerebus at first and then I was suddenly like what the gently caress am I reading I had this horrible moment around 13 where I suddenly realized that I had been reading vast, vast quantities of fantasy/sci fi rape porn over the last year or two.
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Jerry Cotton posted:It started lovely, was really funny for a short time, became fart-huffery for years, and then went full-on That's pretty much the basic arc of Cerberus, but what makes it particularly memorable is how hailed Sims was as a creative voice. In '97, no less than Alan Moore called Cerberus the "hydrogen" of modern comics, in that it was the fundamental element that everything else was based on. Sims was really respected for an actual maturity in his writing (ironically, often for how many of his female characters are defined by their agency and the pathos of their struggles against societal misogyny) that came out of nowhere and led to a lot of 80s and 90s comics culture really celebrating him on the record. Which became incredibly hilarious when he got divorced and the brainworms he'd kept off the page got their day in the sun. One of the unique elements of comic books is that, as a long running serialized medium, it's not as easy to divide someone's early works from their later ones. Leo Tolstoy went absolutely nuts to the point that one of his last works is about a man explaining he had to kill his wife because sex is just too gross, and yet, War and Peace can stand independent of the lurking craziness. Modern Simpsons is trash, but you can see it's a group effort that isn't made by the same group who made it in '95. You sure can't do that with Cerberus, though! The cheap parody, the fleshed-out world, the social commentary that runs the gamut from insightful to fart huffing to absolutely loving bonkers--it's all condensed around a "Sims used to be great! You've gotta believe me!"
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Jul 9, 2019 03:03
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If I made comics and Alan Moore praised me, I'd quit.  / 
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Shamshel posted:I had this horrible moment around 13 where I suddenly realized that I had been reading vast, vast quantities of fantasy/sci fi rape porn over the last year or two.  The internet was a mistake. Either that or my parents giving me unrestricted access to it was.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well Sinfest was never funny so Handpuppet God was the height of comedy, how DARE YOU!?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I hate that I still recognize Sluggy by sight. Don't think I've kept up with it for more than a decade now.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I love that I still recognize it. I'm not even sure Abrams knows what year it is. He appears completely disconnected from the world. My brother and I got four of the print-on-demands or whatever they had back in the day. And one of Bruno the Bandit, which is essentially webcomic Cerebus .
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Early to mid 00s webcomics that survive a year seem to usually go on forever and either stagnate hard or go completely insane.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Early to mid 00s webcomics that survive a year seem to usually go on forever and either stagnate hard or go completely insane. In fairness, isn't that most comics?
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HPanda posted:In fairness, isn't that most comics? I think them being popular enough to go big on crowdfunding websites before the market got absolutely flooded helps both with their longevity and the scale with which they can go bugfuck. Hey, remember how the megatokyo dude (who the gently caress am i trying to fool like i don't remember the name Piro) made incredibly softcore porn of his own characters and had a meltdown about it
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Paladinus posted:It's about ethics in robot loving! That's the thing, it isn't anything like robots that want to be human, it's like humans that want to be robots that want to be humans, and gently caress them. There's so drat much you could do with "robot with human fetish". They would not be encumbered by our biological instincts that make us obsessed with things like butts, social status, and bilateral symmetry. It's like when a furry draws sex dogs with human facial expressions and human asses, but rarely sex humans with dog mouths and dog asses*. Here's an idea: a robot with a human fetish, but instead of being hung up on looking human, which is no real challenge, it wants to smell human. A group of hideous asymmetric brain-robot covered with patches of hair and moist tissue, percolating live cultures of gut flora and dental plaque, emitting realistic human body odor, grease sweat, and farts. They're satisfied when dogs can't tell the difference in the dark, and don't give a poo poo about walking on 2 legs or dating an author insert. Also they like to crush living things then dissolve them in pulsing meaty sacks and hoses full of acid slurry. I want to see that interacting with a manic pixie coffeehouse nerd. Take a step back and try something creative. Q: What was that webcomic about human/animal hybrids where the human and animal parts were the total opposite of the usual ones? Like a giraffe with human face and hands? A: I don't know, but when I tried to GIS it I found this wtf... DOCTOR HORMONE          yes. THE EYE
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whoops, wrong comics thread. Oh well. THE EYE 
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sinburger posted:My point is that he doesn't "feature" them so much as run a plotline then abandon them to afterthought territory while going for something more niche. You can think QC is dumb and/or bad, but I feel like "decides to include different types of people" is not super relevant. Like those plotlines getting abandoned wouldn't be improved somehow by making the characters less "niche". It would just be.... better plotlines or better character writing. Man Providence is amazing and I wish Alan Moore would have talked about it more when he was interviewed for Chapo
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One of my favorite games is to go to a good webcomic, like Whomp!, and click a random comic to see which ones are still going (few, if any), which have been abandoned (usually with a "Is [comic] dead? Short answer: No. Long answer, I'm working on another comic, and I" post dated from 2016), which ones have finished, and which are still going but have resorted to drawing lovely erotica and begging for pledges for Patreon.
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yeah even XKCD's honor roll is getting. . . Sparse. Weird to see this kind of harrowing in real time, meanwhile we've got kids with no issues spending money online getting professional quality webcomics through various & sundry publishing alliances. we're no longer the prime webcomic audience because we show our support with a single T-shirt purchase and a lifetime of forums abuse. we. . . . we failed to checksum ourselves. . . thus, we have. . . wrecksummed.. . ourselfs
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Absurd Alhazred posted:And one of Bruno the Bandit, which is essentially webcomic Cerebus . Wait, what? All i can remember of Bruno was that it was painfully unfunny, even when I thought Sluggy Freelance was cool.
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THe new generations are completely obsessed with porn (who would have thought exposing every kid to hardcore porn on the internet 24/7 since they were 7 years old would have an effect??)
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FactsAreUseless posted:I love that I still recognize it. I'm not even sure Abrams knows what year it is. He appears completely disconnected from the world. An original strip a day, every day, since 1997 is loving impressive. Who gives a poo poo if his art doesn't change.
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I quite like QC it seems like one of those webcomics that knows what it is (slice of life/soap opera) and just seems to be chugging along doing it's own thing. I don't get why we've slipped back into the loving early 2000's and seem to believe that people doing there own thing becomes worth mocking again.
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Bear Enthusiast posted:You can think QC is dumb and/or bad, but I feel like "decides to include different types of people" is not super relevant. Like those plotlines getting abandoned wouldn't be improved somehow by making the characters less "niche". It would just be.... better plotlines or better character writing. I liked how QC portrayed LGBTQ characters initially, since it presented select characters as LGBTQ without making it their defining trait (ie it was telling stories about people). But then he decided to hard swerve into robot sex and stick there, so instead of it being a progressive comic about a varied type of people, it started coming across as an author publicly working out his android fetish.
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Bear Enthusiast posted:Man Providence is amazing and I wish Alan Moore would have talked about it more when he was interviewed for Chapo Is that the Lovecraft pastiche that includes the bodyswap mind control rape of a young girl because I wish Alan Moore would cut that poo poo out
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sinburger posted:I liked how QC portrayed LGBTQ characters initially, since it presented select characters as LGBTQ without making it their defining trait (ie it was telling stories about people). But then he decided to hard swerve into robot sex and stick there, so instead of it being a progressive comic about a varied type of people, it started coming across as an author publicly working out his android fetish. The weird thing is that iirc it takes place in a setting with robots and secret agents and poo poo and still focuses on aimless 20somethings until that.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The weird thing is that iirc it takes place in a setting with robots and secret agents and poo poo and still focuses on aimless 20somethings until that. I mean... hasn't anyone else wanted to watch a setting from the point of view of just some random person going about their life?
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sinburger posted:I liked how QC portrayed LGBTQ characters initially, since it presented select characters as LGBTQ without making it their defining trait (ie it was telling stories about people). But then he decided to hard swerve into robot sex and stick there, so instead of it being a progressive comic about a varied type of people, it started coming across as an author publicly working out his android fetish. Yeah, I stopped reading when the robots stopped being part of the setting and became everything.I want to know about what happened to the humans. They're loving immortal robots who can switch bodies at will, gently caress'em
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is that the Lovecraft pastiche that includes the bodyswap mind control rape of a young girl because I wish Alan Moore would cut that poo poo out Something like that, I think my brain purposefully burned that bit out of my memory. New statement: Most of Providence is really good!
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