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Webcomics: Are They Good or Bad?

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Badablack wrote: »
    Until Spookybot causes a roomful of stripclub patrons to ejaculate themselves to death I’m not gonna be convinced of any similarities.

    :?

  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    desire is literally up their own ass most of the time.

    yes literally.

    literally.

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    Hats off in todays OOTS:
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    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1153.html

    A precious family bonding moment where we all learn a little something.
    We learn to not fuck with Granma Sigdi.

    I can't help but think the warning actually helped Hilgya respect her.

    god I am really loving OOTS at the moment

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  • valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Hats off in todays OOTS:
    ivj8go3wv3jd.png

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1153.html

    A precious family bonding moment where we all learn a little something.
    We learn to not fuck with Granma Sigdi.

    I can't help but think the warning actually helped Hilgya respect her.

    god I am really loving OOTS at the moment

    I had to come back and awesome that after reading it.

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    knitdan wrote: »
    I love spookybot

    But then again I love everything about QC in the last few years
    I would not mind spookybot but spookybot is such like a clear, clear reference that it's hard to take the character seriously.

    It'd be like if someone riffing on darth vader just suddenly popped up. Like sure I like Darth Vader but it'd be kind of hard to take a character explicitly riffing on darth vader seriously.

    But in general yeah JJ's writing mostly just seems to gradually improve over time.

    What are they a reference to?
    They are a reference to 'The Endless' of the graphic novel series Sandman, and specifically with their aesthetic and personality they are very much just Desire from said series.

    They may both look a bit similar, but Desire is the most purely evil character in that series and spookybot has shown themselves to have a strong sense of ethics and actual personality.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
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  • NotYouNotYou Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
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    Gunnerkrigg Court

    This can all be solved with a trial by combat.

    Is no one gonna mention the swole-ness of parley in that last panel?

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Parley is always swole.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Parley is going to make them kith

  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
  • valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    Javen wrote: »
    Parley is going to make them kith

    Only if the kithes them too.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
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    Dumbing of Age

    Malaya has a wonderful personality, possibly.

    klemming on
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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »

    Okay i am going to sound like a biggest goose but i am pretty sure JJ's art looked much better at some point

  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    i feel like his earlier style (not the first comics, obviously. 2007ish?) had a bit more personality to it even if it wasn't as crisp.

    i remember when i first started coming here and QC was only posted ironically. not sure if people were only faking it being ironic or his writing improved. though i think a turning point began once people realized JJ actually seemed like a good dude.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Adus wrote: »
    i feel like his earlier style (not the first comics, obviously. 2007ish?) had a bit more personality to it even if it wasn't as crisp.

    i remember when i first started coming here and QC was only posted ironically. not sure if people were only faking it being ironic or his writing improved. though i think a turning point began once people realized JJ actually seemed like a good dude.

    You can only post something ironically for so long before it starts being something you sincerely enjoy

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I've never understood liking something ironically. Either like it or don't, no need to try and play it off.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    When I like something because it is shit is that ironical enjoyment

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    When I like something because it is shit is that ironical enjoyment

    I don't know, I can't enjoy something I think is bad. That entire mindset is alien to me

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    I think a lot of times '"liking ironically" gets used to mean "guilty pleasure"

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    I like a lot of things that are terrible by most measures not because of the badness but because the parts that make it bad by most measures are an important part of what makes it special and improving it would remove what makes it precious.

    I think the best term for it is naïve art even if a lot of the "so bad it is good" stuff is made by professionals. The art would lose a lot if the person making it had more of something resembling formal education and training or competence at using that training.

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    please let it be known that i have never posted qc ironically, i always liked it and everyone gave me shit for posting it

    but whos laughing now????

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    crwth wrote: »
    please let it be known that i have never posted qc ironically, i always liked it and everyone gave me shit for posting it

    but whos laughing now????

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »

    gus knows what queer ladies want

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Doobh wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »

    gus knows what queer ladies want

    Disembodied blue heads?

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    knitdan wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    knitdan wrote: »
    I love spookybot

    But then again I love everything about QC in the last few years
    I would not mind spookybot but spookybot is such like a clear, clear reference that it's hard to take the character seriously.

    It'd be like if someone riffing on darth vader just suddenly popped up. Like sure I like Darth Vader but it'd be kind of hard to take a character explicitly riffing on darth vader seriously.

    But in general yeah JJ's writing mostly just seems to gradually improve over time.

    What are they a reference to?
    They are a reference to 'The Endless' of the graphic novel series Sandman, and specifically with their aesthetic and personality they are very much just Desire from said series.

    They may both look a bit similar, but Desire is the most purely evil character in that series and spookybot has shown themselves to have a strong sense of ethics and actual personality.
    I wouldn't call Desire evil, personally. The most antagonistic character in the series? Sure. But evil? nah. That's like calling a hurricane evil. I consider lots of other characters, Morpheus included, to actually be on morally shakier ground than Desire.

    Gundi on
  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    When I like something because it is shit is that ironical enjoyment

    I don't know, I can't enjoy something I think is bad. That entire mindset is alien to me

    I've been called worse by better buddy

  • ElaroElaro Apologetic Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I've never understood liking something ironically. Either like it or don't, no need to try and play it off.

    Ever since I was introduced to the concept, I've understood it to mean "stuff that you enjoy but that you wouldn't go to bat for". Like me and the Commissars in Warhammer 40 000. Or just... 40K in general. Stuff that you appreciate from an emotional distance.

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    Doobh wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »

    gus knows what queer ladies want

    Disembodied blue heads?

    that's how I know you don't know what I want

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Novelty stimulates the senses. Since we have more access to classically well made art than ever before thanks to the internet, bold incompetence is one way to catch our eye

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    Novelty stimulates the senses. Since we have more access to classically well made art than ever before thanks to the internet, bold incompetence is one way to catch our eye

    see:

    harkovast

    Youtube
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