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

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Prince of Space:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 21 Jun 2010, 13:55 ---If we're not going to complain, then what the heck are the forums for?  

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Fo' real.

I once read in a Skeptic magazine: 'We need to be diligent in explaining ourselves in a calm, rational manner when we disagree with something.  We also must make our material accessible to anyone and everyone, otherwise we're merely spreading the word to those who already believe as we do.  (see: preaching to the choir)

Honestly, as long as everyone is being civil, there's no reason that opinions shouldn't be expressed.  It's healthy to take others' viewpoints into consideration.  I think so far everyone has been very amicable in expressing our distaste/etc., so...good on us. 

And I'm pretty sure it is already understood that it's Jeph's comic and he can do as he pleases.  No one is debating that. ;)

raoullefere:
Personally, I'd like to put the two strips together, with the new one changed to "12 more to go." At first glance, that's what I thought had happened, but then I clicked 'previous.'

As for Tex Avery, Looney Toons, and the like, sure they're disturbing. At some level you're getting a direct look into the artist's mind—that's always going to be disturbing. We spend a massive amount of effort suppressing this and that urge, impulse and thought, but for one moment you're getting the raw deal. Worse, it threatens to expose your raw deal. That can, indeed, be very uncomfortable, even frightening.

But that doesn't mean I don't still laugh at  Duck! Rabbit, Duck! when I see Daffy get his bill blown off. Part of laughter, I think, involves being uncomfortable, or dealing with the uncomfortable. All the pathos and pain Daffy goes through trying to outsmart Bugs is funny, maybe because it's pathos and pain, but removed by being centered on a ridiculously unrealistic cartoon character who never dies  and even sticks the bill right back on, making it 'safe' to laugh. You know, like a talking, abusive sparrow. I think Jeph's been pretty careful to keep YB and Sweet-tits out of QC's mainstream reality, giving them some of that same distance.

Anyway, I'd have thought the situation every bit as funny if not moreso if it'd been Steve and Marten* (though I can't work out who'd be funnier lighting the rocket). Upset with the violence? Fair enough. But to try to tie this strip to misogyny when nothing is being done to the female character specifically because of her gender says far more about the folks making those accusations than it does about Jeph. Last time I looked (very recently, I assure you) both sexes had ass cheeks capable of holding a rocket stem.

Well, mostly. I guess Steve would have to be the launch platform.

*It would resonate more strongly with the 'light a match' family of semi-scatological humor. Girls aren't so much into that, so far as I know. But it fits in with Jeph, who is famous for his fart jokes.

J:
i was thinking about this, and while i still don't get what is particularly offensive about someone firing bottle rockets from their intergluteal cleft, i suspect what jeph thought was creepy was not so much the comic it's self, as it was the idea of marking his birthday with such a comic. it is conceivable that someone (particularly someone unfamiliar with the yelling bird character) might read it as a sort of 'gift to himself' and infer that jeph actually rather enjoys the idea. to such a person, jeph might very likely appear to be a creepy motherfucker.

if he had used it to denote any other special event, this might not have been a concern.

Tuitsuro:
Bottom line is, we'll probably never know what was going through his mind when he took it down; and for that matter, we'll never know what was going through his mind when he put it up.  Just as with any of his comics, we can only speculate. 

The Duke:

--- Quote from: Jander on 21 Jun 2010, 15:31 ---
--- Quote from: The Duke on 21 Jun 2010, 15:18 ---But in this case, it's not related to the main story.  It's more like Pixar changing the short film at the beginning of the movie after the opening week (if they even do those anymore).

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So because ST and YB are minor characters(or even unrelated to QC characters) their stories aren't important?

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Well...yeah.  They're filler, Jeph says so himself all the time.

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