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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
And The MOMENT OF THE WEEK was?
Marigold's OOPS! 0 (0%)
The entire internet is mad at me! 1 (3.4%)
Only one thing to do: Cat GIFs? LOTS of Cat GIFs. 2 (6.9%)
Here, Marten! Open it and see! Tee hee! 1 (3.4%)
Oh, hey, Emily invited you too! 0 (0%)
Yeah, what'd you think it was, a love letter? 0 (0%)
OH MY GOD YOU ARE PRECIOUS (Sh-shut up! Shut it all the way up!) 5 (17.2%)
Party at Emily Azuma's parent's lake house! (And Cristi's handwriting!) 1 (3.4%)
You should invite all your friends, too! There's plenty of room! 0 (0%)
A thousand people would probably be too many. (How big is your parents' lake house?) 0 (0%)
Faye with the watiress outfit - "Hey, Buttass, what's up?" 1 (3.4%)
Emily the intern is throwing a party, wanna come? 0 (0%)
Dora: Am I invited? Marten: Oh yeah, def- (Tai: AAH! AAAAH!) 1 (3.4%)
Tai: One of my interns is throwing a party. Wanna come? 1 (3.4%)
Marigold walks by. (DAT A$$) 10 (34.5%)
Angus gets caught "peeking" 2 (6.9%)
GIBBS-SMACK! 3 (10.3%)
What was that? NOTHING! 1 (3.4%)
Total Members Voted: 29
Redball:
How many women, having just walked past a male roommate and his girlfriend, having heard a "Smack!" a second later, would have needed to ask, "What was that?" Marigold, perhaps having no idea a guy would watch her bottom, I can understand. Most women?
Is it cold in here?:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Oct 2012, 10:57 ---Welcome, new person!
You had no way of knowing this, and it's not a rules thing, but that issue has become an Oh No Not That Again discussion. The points that come up every time, in case you were wondering, are It's Just A Cartoon, It's Just A Smack, But She Left A Bruise On Marten, But He Never Asked Her To Stop, But He Shouldn't Have To, I Smack My Friends And Vice Versa, and several others I don't have the energy to recall.
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Thank you, this brings a little perspective to the hostility here I guess.
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Further, I believe you are posting in good faith, based on what I've seen so far.
DNR:
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The phrase 'he who fights monsters..' springs to me, in response to several comments made. For example, using all caps to e-cry that; 'OMG. IT'S JUST A COMIC. WHY ARE YOU TALKING IT SO SERIOUSLY'. As I've said in a previous post, books, films, comics, portraits, prose stories - forms of fiction, and creative non-fiction, etc - have artists whom color their creations with ideologies--standards, norms, etc. They create worlds and inject it with character who hold certain views. In the same way art may be critiqued for it's literal presentation--e.g, in comics, slapdash coloring work--it can be critiqued for the aforementioned society layered into it. That's how criticism works--and, further, there's no 'entry-qualification' for criticism. It can be the entire Godfather trilogy, or a single frame of The Simpsons--the former, perhaps, considered for it's mixing of the American dream (unprecedented access to power and fortune) and the mobster-ism of the 'old country; the latter, it's mise-en-scene. On that note, you're doing QC a disservice, it's a hugely popular web-comic--arguably more eagerly read nowadays, by a lot of people, and for a greater period, than plenty of classic-literature. How many books have thousands of pages read by thousands of readers every, single, day? If any justification were needed for its critique--its popularity and long-life are obvious claims.
On this topic, there are two juxtaposition counter-arguments going on presently, that: you shouldn't criticize because it's just a comic, and, it's shouldn't be criticized because it is a social mirror to life--it has couples arguing, hitting each-other, etc, because that happens with real-couples. As is obvious, there arguments cannot co-exist. Keeping with the sentiment of the latter, (that QC is being somewhat 'real'), there seems to be a consistent argument being made I'd prefer QC to be stale, PC, and conservative. This is somewhat of a straw-man argument. Authors can do what they want--I only wish to comment on the way in which do so. I don't want, nor expect, QC to be a stuffy melo-drama with Victorian sensibilities--I just want to comment on it's representation of interrelationship violence, on a board (which I thought) encouraged discussion about the comics.
This brings me to the matter of the author. It's been said that Jeph provides this forum for us. Therewith, we should be polite. I'm uncomfortable with this logic, somewhat. It reminds me of what users of CAD forum users say whenever Buckley has acted dickishly. Yes, Jeph provides the forum. Thus, he has the right to ban users, closed topics, whatever. But 'you should be nicer, this is X's domain, not yours' isn't the best retort when people present views which differ to your own--because, really, have I not been reasonably postie. As well, surely Jeph is as much indebted to his readers, as his readers are to him--that's a different augment, though.
Is it cold in here?:
Criticism is entirely within the rules here. I wouldn't moderate on any other basis.
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