finding yourself in possession of both a series of unbagged bagels AND a stack of old CD spindles is a sign that matters may have progressed beyond the power of a 'hack' to solve
Yeah I think the problem is that you have to really have a dark sense of humor to see that it has not really changed themes... I can see how the occasional comic taken by itself may seem a lighthearted bit of fun. But I think the people thinking its all over the place don't quite get the setting.
They should use this idea...whenever you read a Camp comic, think to yourself that its actually written by Steven King.
Slap that guys name on any old childrens book and see how your view of it changes.
The problem with that is that typically it's playing the darkness for surrealistic humor. When the kids are scrounging around looking for food because nobody feeds them and nobody loves them, the reaction we're supposed to respond with is, "haha, wtf", not "oh man those poor kids."
Similarly when one of the main characters is feeling down, the punchline is usually making it even worse in a ridiculous way.
So the thing is that yeah, the setting hasn't changed. The plot hasn't changed. But these recent comics are presenting what's normally been established in the story as setup for punchlines as instead sources of dramatic conflict. It creates a tone problem, like a slapstick movie where suddenly in the middle someone gets bonked in the head and has to go to the hospital and suffer through serious physical rehabilitation. Even if it's well-executed, it still leaves the audience sitting there going, "err, wait, didn't you already tell me it's OK to laugh at this before?"
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
FalsePostive guy seems to be much better at drawing weird shit than like, humans. I love the design of eyeball monster face crystalbeast, and the aliens from before but his people are sort of ghastly at all times. I'd love to seem him do something massive but with only weird shit, like I bet he could do a seriously gorgeous page of Kill Six Billion Demons
Yeah I think the problem is that you have to really have a dark sense of humor to see that it has not really changed themes... I can see how the occasional comic taken by itself may seem a lighthearted bit of fun. But I think the people thinking its all over the place don't quite get the setting.
They should use this idea...whenever you read a Camp comic, think to yourself that its actually written by Steven King.
Slap that guys name on any old childrens book and see how your view of it changes.
The problem with that is that typically it's playing the darkness for surrealistic humor. When the kids are scrounging around looking for food because nobody feeds them and nobody loves them, the reaction we're supposed to respond with is, "haha, wtf", not "oh man those poor kids."
Similarly when one of the main characters is feeling down, the punchline is usually making it even worse in a ridiculous way.
So the thing is that yeah, the setting hasn't changed. The plot hasn't changed. But these recent comics are presenting what's normally been established in the story as setup for punchlines as instead sources of dramatic conflict. It creates a tone problem, like a slapstick movie where suddenly in the middle someone gets bonked in the head and has to go to the hospital and suffer through serious physical rehabilitation. Even if it's well-executed, it still leaves the audience sitting there going, "err, wait, didn't you already tell me it's OK to laugh at this before?"
I have never felt okay about laughing at Camp Weedonwancha
it's been rough chuckles right from the start
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like, even though they're explicitly showing it with Seventeen's flashbacks, I've felt the awful stuff lurking around the borders of the comic was always there, right from Katie's original pitch on Strip Search.
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Judecca is about trying to make a life for oneself in the afterlife.
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camp weedonwancha has the problem where it can't decide whether it's a crossover of under the dome/stand by me or an extremely dark episode of rugrats
is this all slapstick black humor? is it a legitimately disturbing tale of young children attempting to survive in the wild? it's gotta make up its mind, because if next week it asks me to laugh at a kid attempting to eat their own feces because they're starving to death, go fuck yourself
camp weedonwancha has the problem where it can't decide whether it's a crossover of under the dome/stand by me or an extremely dark episode of rugrats
is this all slapstick black humor? is it a legitimately disturbing tale of young children attempting to survive in the wild? it's gotta make up its mind, because if next week it asks me to laugh at a kid attempting to eat their own feces because they're starving to death, go fuck yourself
CWDW is basically that episode of Venture Bros. where Hank and Dean die like a million times and Brock and Doc have a good long laugh about how death-prone the boys are
THose kids going sliding on that rope, and between frames one of them clearly falls into the canyon and nobody notices? That is grade A black humor
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that whole strip was about how eve's tone is a lot less serious now.
also, screw you
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is whomp a tragedy of addiction, loneliness and the anomie of modern life, or is it a funny comic about a fat guy who loves mcnuggets
Ronnie makes it pretty clear when a particular Whomp is supposed to be funny, when it's supposed to be Rough Chucks, and when it's supposed to be straight up horror/mind fuckery. He's very good about tone, while other writers have trouble with that.
FalsePostive guy seems to be much better at drawing weird shit than like, humans. I love the design of eyeball monster face crystalbeast, and the aliens from before but his people are sort of ghastly at all times. I'd love to seem him do something massive but with only weird shit, like I bet he could do a seriously gorgeous page of Kill Six Billion Demons
I disagree.
Humans are, for the most part, pretty hideous when viewed through a non-human lens.
Giant breathing holes on our face, into which we ALSO shove food? Constantly jamming appendages into holes through which we breath or hear? WE are disgusting by non-human standards.
FalsePostive guy seems to be much better at drawing weird shit than like, humans. I love the design of eyeball monster face crystalbeast, and the aliens from before but his people are sort of ghastly at all times. I'd love to seem him do something massive but with only weird shit, like I bet he could do a seriously gorgeous page of Kill Six Billion Demons
I disagree.
Humans are, for the most part, pretty hideous when viewed through a non-human lens.
Giant breathing holes on our face, into which we ALSO shove food? Constantly jamming appendages into holes through which we breath or hear? WE are disgusting by non-human standards.
How would you know what a non-human considers standard?
I'm kind of assuming something worse than being eaten is involved, being a space living crystal demon god thing.
I'm guessing based on some sort of mind reading thing and the size of the creature that is it less about his body and more his mind that is on the menu.
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New Judecca is up. NSFW (nekkid bodies)
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FalsePostive guy seems to be much better at drawing weird shit than like, humans. I love the design of eyeball monster face crystalbeast, and the aliens from before but his people are sort of ghastly at all times. I'd love to seem him do something massive but with only weird shit, like I bet he could do a seriously gorgeous page of Kill Six Billion Demons
I disagree.
Humans are, for the most part, pretty hideous when viewed through a non-human lens.
Giant breathing holes on our face, into which we ALSO shove food? Constantly jamming appendages into holes through which we breath or hear? WE are disgusting by non-human standards.
How would you know what a non-human considers standard?
FalsePostive guy seems to be much better at drawing weird shit than like, humans. I love the design of eyeball monster face crystalbeast, and the aliens from before but his people are sort of ghastly at all times. I'd love to seem him do something massive but with only weird shit, like I bet he could do a seriously gorgeous page of Kill Six Billion Demons
I disagree.
Humans are, for the most part, pretty hideous when viewed through a non-human lens.
Giant breathing holes on our face, into which we ALSO shove food? Constantly jamming appendages into holes through which we breath or hear? WE are disgusting by non-human standards.
How would you know what a non-human considers standard?
We are prudish as all heck by standards of every other living thing on our rock so I don't know where Taramoor is coming from
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I believe David Malki wrote a book on life hacks
The problem with that is that typically it's playing the darkness for surrealistic humor. When the kids are scrounging around looking for food because nobody feeds them and nobody loves them, the reaction we're supposed to respond with is, "haha, wtf", not "oh man those poor kids."
Similarly when one of the main characters is feeling down, the punchline is usually making it even worse in a ridiculous way.
So the thing is that yeah, the setting hasn't changed. The plot hasn't changed. But these recent comics are presenting what's normally been established in the story as setup for punchlines as instead sources of dramatic conflict. It creates a tone problem, like a slapstick movie where suddenly in the middle someone gets bonked in the head and has to go to the hospital and suffer through serious physical rehabilitation. Even if it's well-executed, it still leaves the audience sitting there going, "err, wait, didn't you already tell me it's OK to laugh at this before?"
what is judecca even about
can someone give me a precis
from what i can glean it's porno by way of german expressionism
I have never felt okay about laughing at Camp Weedonwancha
it's been rough chuckles right from the start
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
camp weedonwancha has the problem where it can't decide whether it's a crossover of under the dome/stand by me or an extremely dark episode of rugrats
is this all slapstick black humor? is it a legitimately disturbing tale of young children attempting to survive in the wild? it's gotta make up its mind, because if next week it asks me to laugh at a kid attempting to eat their own feces because they're starving to death, go fuck yourself
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
sharky and mute maid girl are in the afterlife, which is basically a very dark version of the land of the dead from grim fandango
sharky has gotten in deep with various murky criminal organizations and was nearly killed by some thugs
also he has a tragic backstory, surprising no one
i legit do not understand why it can't be both
i'm talking about the actual plot and events of the comic
slapstick warner bros cartoon antics feel a little out of place if the situation is painted as literally life or death
I am closely studying the comic.
this comic + me forever
like someone else said, it's been 100% rough chux since day one
oh hey it's octopus pie
THose kids going sliding on that rope, and between frames one of them clearly falls into the canyon and nobody notices? That is grade A black humor
also, screw you
they re bad
I'm kind of assuming something worse than being eaten is involved, being a space living crystal demon god thing.
edit: Geth loves Mexican Grindhouse. We need to sate its lust with El Chupanuggra Cabalga de Nuevo
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Ronnie makes it pretty clear when a particular Whomp is supposed to be funny, when it's supposed to be Rough Chucks, and when it's supposed to be straight up horror/mind fuckery. He's very good about tone, while other writers have trouble with that.
I didn't even see the hair. That is... ominous.
I disagree.
Humans are, for the most part, pretty hideous when viewed through a non-human lens.
Giant breathing holes on our face, into which we ALSO shove food? Constantly jamming appendages into holes through which we breath or hear? WE are disgusting by non-human standards.
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How would you know what a non-human considers standard?
I'm guessing based on some sort of mind reading thing and the size of the creature that is it less about his body and more his mind that is on the menu.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
elder gods are people too
We are prudish as all heck by standards of every other living thing on our rock so I don't know where Taramoor is coming from