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ChubbyChecker posted:yeah If Thorsby's art, as rough and amateurish as it is, looks like moon over june then you need to go to an ophthalmologist right now because something is terribly wrong with your eyes. And/or turn on your monitor.
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Thorsby’s work is like a litmus test for shallow people. The art and presentation aren’t great, but they’re absolutely worth reading
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Kit Walker posted:Thorsby’s work is like a litmus test for shallow people. The art and presentation aren’t great, but they’re absolutely worth reading I've read all the ones that have been posted so far and they've been extremely uninteresting. I'm not really sold on reading more
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Jul 15, 2021 12:06
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Grumio posted:I'm happy for y'all but I feel physical revulsion trying to read HfD It's the same for me. And I actually like comics with stupid art. I read through the whole of It hurts! and Tails get trolled and had no problem with the art. But there's something about HfD that makes me feel as if I was looking at unflushed turd. It's something about the style, not the execution. The art is not bad, it's just ugly. Despite that I still tried to read, including what was posted in this thread, it and it wasn't really interesting enough to justify looking at it. I would honestly prefer somebody posting all of Moon over June over this abomination, because the former is at least amusing (in how bad it is). Captain Jesus has a new favorite as of 12:43 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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some plague rats posted:I've read all the ones that have been posted so far and they've been extremely uninteresting. 
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Jul 15, 2021 12:22
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it gets good once they leave the pound e: wrong comic
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Jul 15, 2021 12:26
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I giggled at that exertion fart in the first panel
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ultrafilter posted:Thorsby has some problems with art, character motivations and dialogue, but he's extremely good at setting up a long-term plot and making something happen in each comic. If you can get over the issues, the good parts are very good. So once you get past him being bad at anything you might enjoy in a comic, he's really good?
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Jul 15, 2021 13:28
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Kit Walker posted:Thorsby’s work is like a litmus test for shallow people. The art and presentation aren’t great, but they’re absolutely worth reading curse those shallow people, always judging visual media by its looks  
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it's like they always say, you can't judge a painting by its qualities as a painting
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Jul 15, 2021 13:47
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Sunswipe posted:So once you get past him being bad at anything you might enjoy in a comic, he's really good? It must be one of those pure irony things where people like it explicitly because it sucks?
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One More Fat Nerd posted:It must be one of those pure irony things where people like it explicitly because it sucks? No. I like it because it's very good.
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Jul 15, 2021 13:52
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Thorsby.
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Jul 15, 2021 13:57
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Ah we've reached the part of the PYF comics thread where people lose all ability to understand other people can like stuff they don't without it bieng some sort of troll or psy-op.
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the holy poopacy posted:curse those shallow people, always judging visual media by its looks You’re free to rob yourself of interesting experiences because of your kneejerk reaction to their appearance. It’s no skin off my back
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Jul 15, 2021 14:11
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All the pro Thorsby posters are clearly receiving bribes from the Danish ministry of culture.
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Jul 15, 2021 14:13
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I'd be fine with Thorsby's art if it was either ugly or amateur, but its a very special combination of an amateur trying to replicate an ugly art style. I'm reading them, but all I'm seeing is forced whimsy and the writing of someone who thinks the D&D Monster Manual is literature. In other words, this ironic appreciation thing is a waste of everyone's time.
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Jul 15, 2021 14:25
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Disco Pope posted:I'd be fine with Thorsby's art if it was either ugly or amateur, but its a very special combination of an amateur trying to replicate an ugly art style. I'm reading them, but all I'm seeing is forced whimsy and the writing of someone who thinks the D&D Monster Manual is literature. In other words, this ironic appreciation thing is a waste of everyone's time. It's not ironic. It's actually good.
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Jul 15, 2021 14:28
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I unironically like almost every Thorsby comic.
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Jul 15, 2021 14:33
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Arrhythmia posted:It's not ironic. It's actually good. Sure, like how watching The Room and drinking PBR is good.
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Jul 15, 2021 14:34
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I just really like Fusk & Vorte.
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I know that there have been plenty of badly drawn comics that goons only like ironically, like Gamer Dilbert or That One Twitter Comic About The Guy Who Was Betty Boop's Husband*. I also realize that claims of sincerity are often used insincerely, as part of the joke. "This but unironically", etc. I'm not doing any of that right now. Thorsby is a legitimately good writer. Not "good considering how bad the art is" or "good for a webcomic", he is actually, for real, very good at writing interesting and entertaining stories. My recommendation for people who are skeptical is Lies, Sisters, and Wives, a very short (34 page) self-contained comic by Thorsby. Even if it's not to your tastes, I think it shows off his strengths pretty well. *Yes, the line is blurry between "I ironically enjoy this bad comic" and "I sincerely enjoy this ironic comic, where part of the joke is how bad it is". The point is that Thorsby's comics are neither, please don't argue about many levels of irony you were on when you laughed at the betty boop comic.
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Kit Walker posted:You’re free to rob yourself of interesting experiences because of your kneejerk reaction to their appearance. It’s no skin off my back a kneejerk reaction formed from a scant reading of a couple thousand pages or so I read all of Thorsby's comics and enjoyed them in their own way but I'm going to call them what they are
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Disco Pope posted:I'd be fine with Thorsby's art if it was either ugly or amateur, but its a very special combination of an amateur trying to replicate an ugly art style. I'm reading them, but all I'm seeing is forced whimsy and the writing of someone who thinks the D&D Monster Manual is literature. In other words, this ironic appreciation thing is a waste of everyone's time. "I don't like <thing> so anyone who does must be enjoying it ironically"
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The basic problem with the art in Hitmen for Destiny is that it seems like Thorsby starts out trying to draw nearly everything by hand with a computer mouse, and as a result tons of things that should be straight lines or smooth curves end up as wonky wobbly messes, including character faces, expressions, everyday objects, houses, etc. This is something that gets better over the course of the comic and is vastly improved in everything he made after Hitmen, which was his first comic. Take, for instance, the contrast between these two drawing of a person holding a rifle while standing in a window. This is from the first Hitmen comic:  This is from the last Hitmen comic (carefully cropped to avoid spoilers):  The second still won't win any art awards, but it does look immeasurably better than the first, and that's just something I pulled from the first/last comic. There's tons of other comparisons that show the art improving over time. Thorsby's art never gets good, but it changes from being legitimately off-putting at the beginning of Hitmen to being functional to communicate the story, especially in his other comics made after Hitmen. I understand where people are coming from saying they find it too ugly to get into, but in my personal opinion that no one else is required to share I think they're missing out because the writing is worth it. vyelkin has a new favorite as of 14:50 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Slimy Hog posted:"I don't like <thing> so anyone who does must be enjoying it ironically" I mean, when it's that ugly and TV-tropey, it's a reasonable assumption. But I'll keep any further doubts to myself, keep reading and maybe I'll be won over. That one he did about the cheater and the divorce he did had "never interacted with an actual human before" energy too, but I guess it was it engaging.
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It must be nice to be that cool.
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I'm cool, and I read thorsby comics
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thorsbys good and his art has gotten better so like or dislike whatever you want but I wouldn't skip at least giving his comics a read if you haven't yet, its well worth it
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I'm just enjoying the jerkass professor.
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The miracle of thorsby is that his comics are at least 70 percent  by volume but manage to not be insanely evil
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Hitmen for Destiny #18: Humming Snatcher ================= Hitmen for Destiny #19: Excursion 
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I love how quickly the situation in Lostclock's class goes from fine to kinda bad to utterly hosed. Also that woman who gets killed by the octospider seems to have somehow come back to life.
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Whybird posted:I love how quickly the situation in Lostclock's class goes from fine to kinda bad to utterly hosed. Yeah it gives me the impression that monster college is a pretty risky situation. I wonder what the draw even is, like do you make fat stacks by consulting with monster hunters or something? Actually that seems plausible The woman who was killed by the octospider didn't have a mole, the surviving lady with short black hair is a different student who has a mole. There's also a second student with short black hair who has survived, who we'll get to meet soon!  e: also I wanna be this guy 
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We've reached the true beginning of the portal insanity, and this is the sequence that, for me personally, was the "it gets good, trust me" moment.
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That blue guy's got a nice butt
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Philippe posted:That blue guy's got a nice butt Yeah I just noticed that when I reposted it lol, guess we know where Thorsby stands on the Big Question 
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