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Comics (web and otherwise) that must die
Garcin:
Some of you may not be thinking this all the way through. If it weren't for comics like Megatokyo, some of the Megatokyo forum-dwellers might be here . . . .
Anyway . . . does anyone actually read newspaper comics anymore? I mean, in my mind that not so much bad as completely irrelevant.
mysteriousbriefcase:
--- Quote from: Night Rocker ---Family Circus MUST ROT IN HELL!
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to quote nothing nice to say, is it supposed to piss you off?
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Moiche ---
Anyway . . . does anyone actually read newspaper comics anymore? I mean, in my mind that not so much bad as completely irrelevant.
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If no one bought newspapers, they would have disappeared a LONG time ago. And most of the people who buy papers turn to the comics section too.
Of course, most of the people who read the newspaper "funnies" don't even know webcomics exist. They may not even know there are web-based versions of the comics in the paper.
Sean C:
--- Quote from: Aphi ---I'm going to get rather a LOT of flak for this...
If only PVP online and its tyrannical maker could die in the tarpits somewhere!
Oh, and, uh, For Better or For Worse, totally agreed.
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He's really not tyrannical - just emotionally charged. PvP isn't a bad strip either, and Kurtz has been really trying to make it better and has even admitted he had been giving one character a raw deal. I'm not flaming, I just can't get on board with that idea.
Garcin:
I used to find PVP mildly entertaining. I can't now think of the last time it was even that (maybe the whole Joss Whedon is our master now thing?) I understand that Kurtz is successful at what he does, and apparently he just picked up some more awards, so someone out there in this grand internet of our must enjoy it. I'm fairly confident that their senses of humor aren't synched with mine though. And the medieval bits with the bard . . . dear me are those ever bad. I don't even get what the comedic intent is. I find it on a par with newspaper comics in terms of non-funniness.
But more importantly, I find Kurtz's take on female/male relationships and gender roles anti-deluvian. I went over the last 20 or so over the weekend, and this latest plot arc is out of a bad 80's sitcom (redundant, yes I know). I'm all for a good fart joke, but good is the operative word. "I don't think it's the horse" does not a punch line make for the above 12 crowd.
Now fruit-fucker juicing zombies, The Boy's IQ dropping, librarian chicks quipping in iambic pentameter, Snake slitting Mario's throat, dinosaurs talking about Kant, Roast Beef driving a man to a heart attack by commenting on his thighs <stops>, a small girl being made to cry to test the durability of tissue, a gay black robot bent on world domination, a pink boneless cat being used as a scarf -- these things are funny. And if you don't think so you're clearly wrong.
--- Quote from: themacnut ---If no one bought newspapers, they would have disappeared a LONG time ago. And most of the people who buy papers turn to the comics section too.
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Didn't mean to suggest that paper newspapers are irrelevant, just that the newspaper funny sections are. And by irrelevant I don't mean unpopular -- I mean irrelevant to us, the people who enjoyed QC enough to bother posting in the forum. I honestly don't know anyone in my generation who reads that shit. What with the standards of most family newspapers and the desire to reach all niches and all generations that characterize most newspapers, you're pretty much always going to have shit. I mean, if they published Achewood in the New York Times, that would be awesome, I'd look forward to it every morning -- but they never will. I don't think 99% of the NYT readership would appreciate Pat's Id's cock hanging out of a pair of chaps. It's like that old latin maxim "vox populi, vox poopie."
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