Bridgette's Belly


 * **Original review author:** || Long Tom ||
 * **Webcomic name:** || Bridgette's Belly (current hosting site) Bridgette's Belly (old Keenspot site) ||
 * **Author:** || Andrew Fraser (courtesy of WikiFur) ||
 * **Start Date** || January 2010 ||
 * **End Date** || Ongoing ||
 * **Genre** || The original version was a furry pregnancy fetish comic, since taken down; the current one is a furry soap opera. ||
 * **Defining Flaw** || Perhaps not as hideous as the original incarnation, but it still has horrid artwork, unfunny jokes, slow and confusing story development, failure to include necessary information about the scenario (see below), and spelling mistakes up the wazoo. ||

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 * Art: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png Akin to what Jay Naylor might have drawn-as a toddler. ||
 * Storyline: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png Slow-moving, and the comic leaves a number of important details unexplained (described below). ||
 * Characters: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png The characters act realistically enough for the most part. ||
 * Miscellaneous Details: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png The original //Bridgette's Belly// was a furry pregnancy fetish comic, while the rebooted one is merely a furry soap opera. ||
 * Overall: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png I cannot comment on the original, which I haven't seen, but this new comic is hardly good either. ||

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++ About The Pre-Rebooted Comic

Before we get to the review, a bit of history. This review is actually a new version of an old review that we had for this comic that was tragically lost when the site was vandalized back in 2011. Since then we have been procrastinating regarding writing the review again. And in that time the creator of the comic hastily deleted all archives of the comic before 2010. Which were, due to constant criticism, a major source of embarrassment to him. So, before we get to reviewing what is left of this comic, let me just offer you a summary of what its creator is trying to hide.

The original //Bridgette's Belly// was a fetish comic. Specifically a pregnancy-fetish comic with furries. The plot is that Bridgette is pregnant, no one knows who the father is or how she got pregnant without her knowing who did it. But it doesn't matter. All that matters is that she is pregnant so that Fraser can draw pin-ups of her to get his dick hard. She remains pregnant for well over a year and then she has an anticlimactic birth scene, after which we don't see her baby for another year because the plot instead focuses on her eating and getting fat so that she can continue to look pregnant. That way Fraser can continue to jerk off to his comic. A year later the baby shows up again and she gives him away to someone else to raise. Why? because the baby didn't matter beyond his use as an instrument to keep her pregnant. Then she goes to sleep and wakes up pregnant again with no explanation.

From my understanding this process repeats itself a number of times, and when the comic's early years get deleted, we are left with the current comic which begins with Bridgette already having three kids.

And now, on to the review of the current version.

++ Background

I only learned of this comic through the BWW, and that the original review had been wiped out, so I volunteered to make up a new one. I learned that it was originally a furry pregnancy fetish comic as described above (hence the name), but that has since been eliminated, and now Bridgette is merely a single mother of three small children.

++ Downfall

Imagine being a parent and your child comes back with a report card with all "F's" on it. You chastise your child and let the child know that you expect far better grades next time. And next time, the child brings a report card with all "D's" on it. Well, the child did bring back a better report card, technically speaking.

++ Story and Plot

Bridgette is a single mother of three little kids, though with no intentions of having more. She lives with Doug, but strictly as a tenant. Her romantic interest is actually with Aziz, to the disapproval of his sister Rheesha.

Meanwhile, Doug and Bea have their own romance, which had an ignominious beginning, but despite this, the relationship has endured, and finally Doug proposes to Bea. And to everyone's dismay, Bea's mother makes a sudden visit to her daughter, and they have to accommodate her. When the mother arrives, she is appalled to know that Doug has plans to marry her daughter. The mother acts obnoxiously toward everyone else, and finally she and her daughter meet privately and have a heart-to-heart conversation.

A third romance occurs between Jessi and Paul, but so far it hasn't been covered in detail.

Bridgette plots with her friends to have some private time with Aziz while hiding it from Rheesha, but it doesn't work. In fact, the situation turns nasty. Ultimately, though, it is not Rheesha who finds Aziz with Bridgette.

Then we abruptly have a new story arc which takes place in a diner and has all different characters, and no evident connection to the rest of the story. A new night manager is hired to work at the diner, but it is difficult to believe any establishment which has staff who behave like this would stay in business for one day. What does this have to do with Bridgette and company? Nothing I could determine.

Just as abruptly, we're back to the main story. It was indeed Aziz's father who has taken him away, but Aziz is unhappy about it. Meanwhile, some people have gotten injured as a result of the "private time" episode. As for Bridgette, what got injured was her pride. But she is left alone with Bea's mother, who starts a not at all tactful discussion.

Meanwhile, Bea has to pick up her fiancé, only to have an unexpected encounter. Who is this, and what's it all about? Evidently we're supposed to find out more later.

And we get right back to Bridgette. What point is Bea's mother trying to make? Well, the conversation continues in...

...the new webhosting site! Bea's mother compares the story of Bridgette and Aziz to a fairy tale...which turns out to be not entirely wrong. Bea's mother then decides to do something to cheer Bridgette up. I guess this is why Bridgette looks like a blimp.

div style="width: 250px; border: solid 1px image http://i.imgur.com/YJn8SZk.jpg width="250" ^^Picture from the original strip. The artwork shows no signs of improving as the strip continues.^^ /div

++ Art review

Before I describe the artwork, let me give you a quote from the WikiFur article on the author:

> "He graduated from Aquinas College in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Majoring in Sculpture and Minoring in Ceramics."

You read right, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, though admittedly not in drawing. Despite this, the pictures look like they were drawn by a toddler. No exaggeration. The characters are line drawings with black patches and only tinting for backgrounds, but there is no sense of depth-the characters look as flat as cardboard standees. There is only minor shading for the bodies, and the heads have none. Most of the character's heads look like billiard balls with features drawn on with a black marker, and hair and ears stuck on afterward. On top of that, proportions and limb lengths are inconsistent. Though the characters are funny animals, it is difficult to figure out their species. (I originally assumed Beatrice and her mother were giraffes!)

++ Writing review

One all-too-obvious fact about the writing is that it is chock full of spelling mistakes. Since English is presumably the author's native language, and he is a college graduate, one must assume he has some form of dyslexia or is just sloppy. You'd think he'd bother to have somebody proofread what he wrote!

There are jokes, but most of them are clichéd or childish.

Surprisingly, unlike most webcomics with a number of major characters, //Bridgette's Belly// lacks a cast listing. Which would be okay if we learned who the various characters were early in the story. But it is some time before we even learn the names of Bridgette's paramour, or of his sister, or of other major characters. This makes the story more confusing.

Worse than that, however, is the fact that the comic fails to give us crucial information. How old is Bridgette, and her friends for that matter? Are they supposed to be in high school or college? Don't the other characters besides Bea and Aziz have families?

++ Author biography

The creator of this comic is a 37 year old man named Andrew Fraser. Who was, at the time the first review of this comic was posted, being laughed at and harassed by Portal Of Evil who were making fun of his comic and calling him a racist (I don't actually know if he is. I just know that's what he claims they were saying).

After the review was posted (less than two weeks after to be precise) he emailed its author the most whiny letter we have ever had the privilege to receive. In it he tells us a long sob story about how hard it is to get bad criticism, learn to spell correctly or raise your child when you are preoccupied with trying to sell your awful comic. He ended his pathetic plea for pity by implying we must all be children and asking us to show him //our// comic, if we think we're so cool. So obviously we didn't exactly feel sorry for him.

I don't think I need to say any more. You get the idea of what kind of person this is.

++ Conclusion

The original //Bridgette's Belly//, I've been told, was a pregnancy fetish comic with even worse artwork than currently. So how is this new version?

Technically, it's better, but that's not saying a lot. The scenario and characters are poorly developed, the humor is lame, the story moves too slowly, and Christ, I **hate** those billiard ball heads on the characters!

++ Links

The author's DeviantArt page. Toc-Tic, another webcomic by the same author.