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Penny Arcade - Comic - Bazed And Confused
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Bazed And Confused
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Given the series and what I know of Jerry, I can nearly guarantee he's read those books at one point. I bet some of that seeped into this comic.
Update:
Hah! I asked Jerry and this is his response:
So neither of them were referencing it intentionally, but I bet it set up house in their brains in some dark corner. Wonder if they'll mention it in the news post.
Spoilers for plot but also sexual assault discussion.
In a later book he returns to the realm (where more time has passed than for him), and this daughter falls in love with with him.
The books are a powerful read, but I (and many readers) have a love/hate relationship with them. They're often a miserable slog, and you ask yourself why you bother reading them. It's kind of like how 1984 isn't exactly a "fun" book, but it's still a good book. Not that these books are on that level. But there's just something about them.
It's one of the few series I put down almost immediately as a kid due to sheer distaste. Which is saying something because reading was one of my few accessible forms of entertainment back then. I will admit it takes a certain skill to write a character that unlikable, but I was offput to the point that I did not care to find out by further reading if there was ever a "redemption" arc of character development for them.
It's totally understandable, and I ask myself whether it was worth it to have stuck with them. Especially when the third series came out.
And FYI, there never really is a redemption, per se. More of a coming to terms. At least, from memory.
The second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant helped me learn English way back when.
Regarding redemption, IIRC, by the time the protagonist accepts the setting as a real place, both the mother and the daughter in question have been dead for thousands of years, due to how time works there.
Okay, that's kind of funny. Not because of you, but because of Stephen Thesaurus Donaldson. He's the "let me pull out as many obscure words as I can find" guy. He'll also take an obscure word and way overuse it, putting a word you've never heard before in over and over again.
Here's some examples: jerrid, surquedy, incused, fetor (oh boy, was that one used about 1,000 times), roynish, lucubration, catenulated, condign (another favorite), serried, moil.
That's just a sampling. Here's a more exhaustive (and exhausting) list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150218032816/http://gdiproductions.net/srdamd/
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/11/04/a-malevolent-banquet
I guess I don’t read a lot of books for adults
The Last Chronicles of yadda yadda. There were four big books in it this time.
At this point, I can't even tell you 90% of what happened in all 10 books.
Hmmm, depends on what you mean. The stuff in the Covenant series isn't very explicit (in terms of graphic writing). It's horrible stuff happening but they don't go into details. On the other hand, Chuck Tingle. That's a very different kind of thing, and there's probably more of it you can get in non-fanfic form than in olden times.
But I'd say F&SF has always been a pretty randy crowd in general. That said, you could read S&SF fiction forever and steer clear of that, so I wouldn't be too happy about avoiding it.
It's just something I noticed that, at least on this forum, any time F&SF books are brought up at all, it's someone talking about the wild SA, pedo, or incest content in a given series. And that's the kind of stuff I have no desire to read regardless of how explicitly described it is. And having grown up on a lot gentler YA stuff (Wheel of Time and Mercedes Lackey were about as edgy as it got for me), it's just crazy to me how much this seems to be part and parcel with the genre. Not to judge, I guess it's just a sign that the genre is not for me.
It's not new. There's pretty much always been a "_____ but horny" variant of every genre, and science fiction and fantasy have excuses to go a bit harder on it. The erosion of obscenity laws has helped proliferate them (you can mail them and don't need to curtain off a special shame room to sell them) but there's a reason every trash mid century genre novel had a big muscle dude and a woman naked except for some very optimistic cloth scraps on the cover.
Everything you didn't want to know and were wise enough not to ask:
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1eaypm/comment/c9yh5bi/
"Bobby has created the opposite of art."
It just keeps getting weirder the farther you go.
Do they... Do they need a wizard to lick the egg? Can they not reproduce otherwise?
The wizard can just spit on it.
Listen, if raising twin clones of your mother as your daughters and then fucking them is "wrong" then I for one, uhm... I... Look, it's not as if... well, yeah, OK I see your point