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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
mikmaxs:
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--- Quote from: Eastrim on 31 Aug 2016, 20:03 ---Wow, this comic is deserves a flood of Not Cool Jeph emails and messages headed his way. An entire comic in the main line referencing something that only the 3.5 thousand Patreon supporters got to see? Not Cool Jeph.
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If I pay now, can I still see the strip?
Also, this is totally cool. Premium paid content is to what we are generally going as a society, so why not web comics too?
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Paid premium content is fine. Making it so that the free content is worse unless you also have the paid content is not so fine.
YMMV, but I for one didn't really think this comic was funny. I didn't get the joke, because unlike the "We're talking about something zany the audience doesn't get to see" comics, it's approached here as though the audience knows exactly what they're talking about.
Since I don't know what they're talking about, though, the intro is confusing and the punchline isn't very funny.
It feels as though Jeph is saying "Go sign up on my Patreon! It's funny, I swear!"
I won't begrudge him too much, because his comic is a free publication and he can do whatever he wants with it, but it's a sub-par writing choice and comes off as self promotion in the place of humor.
Tova:
If you didn't find it funny, then knowing something about what caused it won't make it funnier.
Edit: to go a bit further into it, Patreons know what Marigold was yelling about, but are no wiser than you are about how Dale ended up with concussion. The humour, either way, lies in wondering how the heck that happened.
Edit number two: The whole conversation is basically a noodle incident.
wlewisiii:
Frankly I got a bigger kick out of seeing Brun walking by in the background texting away, presumably to Clinton. The rest was meh to me even with seeing the other strip.
brasca:
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 31 Aug 2016, 20:24 ---
--- Quote from: freeman on 31 Aug 2016, 20:07 ---
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 31 Aug 2016, 20:03 ---Wow, this comic is deserves a flood of Not Cool Jeph emails and messages headed his way. An entire comic in the main line referencing something that only the 3.5 thousand Patreon supporters got to see? Not Cool Jeph.
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If I pay now, can I still see the strip?
Also, this is totally cool. Premium paid content is to what we are generally going as a society, so why not web comics too?
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Yep, you can! Just checked & I can see Patreon posts from way before I actually joined. $1/month isn't much, the main barrier for me was having yet another login to remember :-P
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I suppose I could pay a $1 per month for extra content. I don't have a cable or satellite subscription so I save a lot of money anyway.
Even without the joke I should hope that May's contribution to the rent compensates for everything else. Then again she isn't all that worse than having Faye for a roommate.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Aug 2016, 21:03 ---If you didn't find it funny, then knowing something about what caused it won't make it funnier.
Edit: to go a bit further into it, Patreons know what Marigold was yelling about, but are no wiser than you are about how Dale ended up with concussion. The humour, either way, lies in wondering how the heck that happened.
Edit number two: The whole conversation is basically a noodle incident.
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But we don't know that. Those of us who aren't getting the paid premium content are left wondering "Wait, what? Did I miss a strip? What's going on? This is a reference to a Patreon strip? What did we miss? This would probably be funnier if we knew," instead of "Haha, noodle incident, wonder what happened to Dale?" Kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as it feels like Jeph is using the free comic as, basically, a glorified ad for his premium content. Which, as said above, is his right, but it's offputting.
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