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WDT: June 14-18, 2010 (1686-1690)

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LeeC:

--- Quote from: jasononline on 19 Jun 2010, 21:38 ---Why does anyone care that Jeph changed the comic?  He didn't like a strip so he changed it, I don't really see what's the problem with that.  Self-censorship would be him changing it to avoid offending his readers; it seems more likely that he just didn't like it (he even said he found it a bit weird on his twitter before he posted it).

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my comment had nothing to do with it, I just wanted to see if I was going crazy or not

steveh11:
*I* definitely preferred the original, but it's not me that draws the comic, it's Jeph.  His comic, his rules...

Steve.

Carl-E:

--- Quote from: Binary on 19 Jun 2010, 17:57 ---I didn't "ask Jeph to do something he feels uncomfortable with to please you guys." And he's a REAL PERSON with real feelings, so I'm not going to pick apart his motivations in this forum the way we do with the comic characters.

I simply wanted to say (and will repeat): "PLEASE stop beating yourself up over this one." Everything else I wrote was intended to explain why I feel that way.

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Seconded.  I was under the (apparantly false) impression that it was some tweets or other complaints that made him change it, not his own uneasiness.  Bu the fact is, the original came from his own conscious/subconscious/id/ego/whatever's in there, and it was funny.  Weird, yes;  Offensive, probably (to some), when isn't YB offensive?  But his instincts were fine.  By second guessing himself, it really lessened the strip. 

Although to be honest, if we never saw the original, would we be nearly as dissapointed with the revised version? 

I think not... it's still pretty funny, in a mild-grossout way.  Still not as funy as YB handling a Zippo, but when you put cloaca into the punchline, it helps. 

It's Jephs's strip, and if he's not comfortable with the original, that's his business.  But I will say that for most artists, second guessing your instincts can be a serious mistake.  So again, "PLEASE stop beating yourself up over this one."

evilbobthebob:
So, uh, I guess no one noticed the retweet of an apparent interview Jeph did on Naked News?

I will say now that I have not seen or looked for said interview  :-P

raoullefere:
I, too, regret that Jeph is second-guessing himself. I do it all the time, and god only knows how much I detest that and wish like hell I could get over it. I know why I do it, but it doesn't help me stop it, and it does fuck-all to my creativity, such as it is, or isn't.

Damn. Doing it again.

Anyway, in that spirit…

--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 19 Jun 2010, 17:26 ---Meh. I DID find it needlessly misogynistic and was pretty surprised Jeph would go there, but decided to let it pass as it's Yelling Bird.

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So it would've been cool if it'd been, say, Steve, with Cosette lighting the fuse?

--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 19 Jun 2010, 17:26 ---There is a difference between the YB squawking about things and having those things represented

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Ah. So it's okay to write about something; just don't draw pictures of it.

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