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WCDT 7-11 March 2011 (1876-80)
Dr. ROFLPWN:
@snubnose: ...So if I grasp what you're saying, we cannot have a concrete idea of what any character in this comic looks like at any given time based on Jeph's art. That what we see every day is like...dream afterimages or something? Pardon my French, but that's just fucking dumb. That ranks among the dumbest shit I have ever heard. I really doubt Jeph means for the characters to be perceived as appearing other than how they're drawn.
@CaptainFish: Or she's been consistently bullied most of her life and has a metric fuckton of body image issues, which seems more likely to me.
@Odin: Well yeah, from the perspective that matters, her own, she's an ogre, but also see Carl's argument, cause he worded it better. I'm too busy tripping over all this goddamn "you cannot perceive what the characters in a visual medium actually look like" horseshit.
@Carl: my thoughts exactly. Hat doff.
Odin:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 11 Mar 2011, 08:10 ---@Odin: Well yeah, from the perspective that matters, her own, she's an ogre, but also see Carl's argument, cause he worded it better. I'm too busy tripping over all this goddamn "you cannot perceive what the characters in a visual medium actually look like" horseshit.
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This isn't a question of perception, since Marigold doesn't have any actual free will here (she is going to do exactly what Jeph makes her do), though.
In this instance, Jeph is dictating that Marigold is actually ugly. Look again at how quickly Dora and Hannelore dropped their arguments (shitty as they were to start with).
westrim:
My, it sure is getting nasty in here. :police: T-rex, get em! :mrgreen:
CaptainFish:
When it comes to pretty ladies in comics, I'm just reminded of the excellent guest strip Rene Engström did for scarygoround.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 11 Mar 2011, 07:50 ---What we've got here is a serious battle between "perception is reality" vs. "appearances can be deceiving", and they're both fighting dirty.
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And we're all waiting for the mud wrestling to begin. Or did you mean something else by "fighting dirty?"
all of this is truth: a. nothing is preventing Mar from seeing herself as pretty if she chooses to present herself that way; and
b. except the author of the comic - who may be going for the lulz at the moment, setting up some character development
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