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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/the-luigiian The Luigiian]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://chugworth.com/index.php Chugsworth Academy]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/ Dave Cheung]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| June 23, 2003<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
| September 3, 2008<br />
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|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Softcore pornography/comedy<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Offensive sexuality dealing with underaged girls.<br />
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|'''Things that are fucking terrible about this webcomic:'''<br />
| The sex, the smugness, the "art", the story, the artist, the tastelessness of the whole damned thing.<br />
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|'''Things that aren't terrible but could use improvement:'''<br />
| Phew, that's a tough one. Basically, if you took the comic down…<br />
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|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Alice.PNG]][[File:Alice.PNG]][[File:Alice.PNG]]<br />
It's derivative of mediocre animes, and while it has its good points, it suffers from significant anatomy problems.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Alice.PNG]][[File:Alice.PNG]]<br />
Not good. What story there is isn't very good and revolves around perversion.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Alice.PNG]]<br />
Made up mostly of prepubescent girls that are very sexual and are, frankly, unlikeable. The men aren't any better.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Alice.PNG]]<br />
The artist can be pretentious and he's known for drawing things far worse than just what's in this comic.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Alice.PNG]][[File:Alice.PNG]]<br />
I was unsure when I started writing this if ''Chugworth Academy'' was as bad as it has been described. It is.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:CHUA1.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Well maybe if the female characters weren't shallow unloveable fanservice-dolls people would give more of a shit about their personalities, rather than their vaginas.]]<br />
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{{quote|'''I want a fucking John Solomon review! Of course, he'd hate the comic too but at least he'd write a review I could enjoy while simultaneously weeping into a massive pillow!'''}}<br><br />
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That sentence was written by one Mister Dave Cheung, "artist" of Chugworth Academy, grade A+ in the class of 'acting like a stuck up and smug asshole when ''clearly'' in no position to be one'.<br />
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Cheung seems to have some sort of illness that makes him forget who he is sometimes. He'll be happily drawing away, creating some new mockery of scum like [http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/art/Sally-BU-76721314 Buckley] or [http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/art/Chugworth-Number-Fur-Hundred-74616564 furries], and amazingly he'll completely forget that he ''himself'' is the creator of a shitty animu porn comic about ugly underage girls.<br />
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==Story==<br />
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Sadly, like most webcomics, lots of things have happened in this comic meaning it's useful to read the entire comic before doing a review. I will admit that I haven't actually read through all 423 or so of the archives of this piece of shit, but I have read through the first 120 or so. This was enough for me to realize that the story sucks. There was shit about being in a movie, there was shit about one of the fanservice girls being on a children's television show and getting felt up by the guy in the dinosaur suit. There was more shit about an Asian guy's dong, shit about politics, and the like. Because of all this evidence to the shittiness of the plot and story, I'm going to just say "story's shit" because everything I've seen in it to date is blatantly unfunny, tasteless and stupid and I'll leave it at that.<br />
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==Downfall== <br />
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[[File:CHUA4.jpg|center]]<br />
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There's not one fucking thing about ''Chugworth Academy'' that makes it worth reading. It's stupid, juvenile, poorly drawn, animu, and above all else bullshit. It's [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=6 juvenile], [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=7 disgusting], [http://chugworth.com/?strip_id=8 unfunny], [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=10 vulgar], and perverted. Not to mention the fact that its author [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=12 shamelessly exploits his own fucking characters] and seems completely oblivious to the fact that his horrid drawing style completely negates any kind of sexuality or eroticism they might convey. Somehow he still has legions of morons hitting up for drawing the main characters naked, but considering that comics like ''The Wotch'' have the same sorts of fans, it doesn't mean a damned thing. In short, this comic always sucked something powerful.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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There's one question I want answered with regards to the early (and by early I mean at least the first three-hundred strips) art in ''Chugworth Academy''. That question, of course, is "What is wrong with David Cheung?" Were you molested as a child by a man with no nose and animu eyes or what? Did your mother not have a nose, Cheung? Did she hate Asians? Were [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=11 you molested by a furry]?<br />
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[[File:CHUA2.jpg|170px|thumb|right|Such character depth.]]<br />
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What's really obnoxious about Dave Cheung's work is that it's actually not as bad in some places as most other anime-fetish comics, but Cheung ''still manages to fuck it up''. [http://chugworth.com/?strip_id=32 Here], we find one of Cheung's characters in profile, with no snoutface. He even has the outline of lips in his silhouette. Yet somehow he still winds up with his mouthhole on his cheek. Why? It doesn't even fucking make sense. It's absolutely abhorrent. It's ridiculous, it's bizarre, it's a whole ton of other adjectives that I can't even articulate because I'm so stunned at the pure shitheadedness of this abject failure of an artist.<br />
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Even though they have noses in their profiles, [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=33 they don't have noses at any other angle.] WHY? What the hell negates this simple detail from existing in your comic, Cheung?! <br />
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By [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=42 comic #43], the mouth has been placed in the front of the characters' mouths where God intended it to be, yet [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=43 the characters still have no noses when you look at them from the front.]<br />
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It isn't until much later in the comic that we begin to see [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=422 some half decent drawing]. The characters [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=419 develop noses]. Although it must be noted that even as late as [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=300 strip three hundred and one] they kind of disappear and reappear, like every character has a Cheshire Cat strapped to the middle of his or her face.<br />
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[http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=303 Comic three hundred and three] makes me laugh for all the wrong reasons. Here we have a young lass wearing little more than a tiny black strapless brassiere betwixt her upper areas and a few armbands and a necklace - criticising an emo for his "terrible" dress. Meanwhile the breasts - which are basically the focus of this entire comic - are drawn badly, as is the bra. What's between the cups? Does the little connecting strap between the bra cups just kind of work its way in between the woman's breasts or did she have to wedge it in there before she left the house? How does it stay there? Is the bra capable of defying gravity, or is there a reason why her breasts look so completely unnatural?<br />
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Basically, while I will admit that there are some good points to the art in ''Chugworth'' - and it's definitely not the worst I've seen writing for this site - the flub-dubs, like [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=421 truly bizarre looking breasts], temporary nasal invisibility, and let us not forget [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=417 the horror of the scenes the art is depicting] are so irritating that I just can't give this thing any better than a mediocre rating. <br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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[[File:2009-10-05-005.jpg|700px|thumb|center|Such witty humor.]]<br />
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[http://chugworth.com/?strip_id=41 Pacing] in this comic is terrible. As are [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=48 the jokes]. And [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=51 the material]. And [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=59 the story]. And the [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=52 obnoxious, holier-than thou] [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=53 political stances]. (Yes, I definitely take my liberal attitudes from some pervert that draws softcore porno shit! Thanks again for your [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=117 fantastic political discourse]!) And [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=49 the smug, condescending attitude of the creator.] Oh noes, Cheung doesn't want to do porn of his characters when his entire comic involves sex and perversion and repulsive tasteless themes that no normal human would ever want to pay lip service to? Oh, sir! Of course, you, like Tom Fischbach, are ''far too good to just give your fans fanservice.'' You repugnant shithead.<br />
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Oh, but wait, even Fischbach's beginning to recognize his inner pervert and just post the fucking drawings (and by that, I mean they're literally drawings of fucking). So again, you suck. Hard. There, giggle a little at that double entendre. After all, all I or any critics are here to do is entertain you, right Cheung?<br />
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Then there's the lead male character's massive horse cock. Working by [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=306 the racial stereotyping] [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=36 that Cheung sticks with] like piss to a toilet seat, not to mention his freckled character's [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=47 hatred of WHITE America] and all the other racial themes he includes in his comic, the lead character's Asian penis should be a half-inch, at largest. Somehow [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=35 he clocks in with a foot long]. It doesn't even make sense. If you're going for racism, why not be consistent? <br />
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==Author biography== <br />
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[[File:CHUA3.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Well-characterised writing from a man who has clearly never touched an actual woman.]]<br />
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Dave Cheung has a reputation of being an attention whore on the level of the King Attention Whore of them All, Electric Retard's "Eric". He's the kind of fucker that's so oblivious to how creepy the child porn he draws really is that he tells people who criticise him that they just aren't entertaining enough for his arrogant animu-loving ass.<br />
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"[http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=22 This used to be a Gay Flash animation, but I got rid of it because it was crap]." Smug words for a man whose art barely reaches above the level of an eight-year old. <br />
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I don't know much about Dave Cheung, but his comic tells me all I'll ever need to know. Just judging by what I've seen on ''Chugworth Academy'', and cartoon kiddy porn he draws you can't blame me for saying Mr. Cheung [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=24 might be a pedophile] and beyond all else his fanbase is a stain upon the record of humanity.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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When I first went to writing this review, I thought, "surely this guy can't be as bad as he's been made out to be." I figured that his reputation was overblown, that he weren't really that bad a guy, that his comic wasn't as bad as it's been made out to be. Then I started this review. <br />
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In my opinion you, Mr. Cheung, are not just a pompous, arrogant asshole, a terrible artist, a brainless writer, and a creepy pervert, but a coward. If I was in your position I would probably refuse to acknowledge just how shitty I really was, because if I was you and I did, I would likely be unable to take the full force of guilt and sadness without killing myself. You laugh off people like Lilith Esther, as if you're taste testing people's opinions and they're just not ''vitriolic'' and ''entertaining'' enough for you, as you stroke your ego and revel in how super-cool you are for looking at your critics and laughing at them until spittle covers their faces.<br />
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So I don't give a shit about you or your horrible comic, because I know that there's not a thing I could say that could ever get your head out of your own ass. However, for all those questioning whether Lilith Esther's review was enough, it really wasn't. No one review can cover how truly abhorrent this horrible comic is. It's perverted, it's arrogant, it's shit. It is a ''bad'' webcomic. It may well be the worst ever made.<br />
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==Other comics by this person that are reviewed on this site==<br />
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*[[Boss Noodle]] - Another short-lived and abandoned project.<br />
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*[[Chugworth!]] - The successor to this comic.<br />
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*[[U.S. Angel Corps]] - Second worst comic reviewed on BWW.<br />
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==Links== <br />
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010302013611/scribblekid.cenhost.com/main.html Hentai site] of Cheung's Scribblekid alter-ego.<br />
* [http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/scribblekid/1 More hentai from Scribblekid.] Check it out before the guy forces them to take it down.<br />
* [http://forums.comicgenesis.com/viewtopic.php?t=76099&highlight=&sid=7ac3f2e3ab86272f8ff6ab52be6d68c6 Dave Cheung's fans don't care if he's a pedophile]. Again, if a guy's repulsive, and his fans are equally so.<br />
* [http://badwebcomicsarchive.blogspot.com/2008/02/chugworth-academy.html The Solomon review he got butthurt about.]<br />
* [http://vanilla-cookies.com/ His Tumblr account]<br />
* [https://www.patreon.com/tehdave His Patreon.]<br />
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [[User:DrShaym|DrShaym]] and [[User:TheLuigiian|TheLuigiian]]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| ''U.S. Angel Corps''. I'm not linking to it.<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
|David Cheung<br />
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|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| July 5, 2010<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
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|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Necro porn<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| The entire point of this thing is to eroticize women getting beaten up, raped, and murdered. Oh, and also to make money off it.<br />
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|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Some might call the art good, but this thing doesn't deserve a single accolade.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The U. S. Angel Corps is a group of very young looking secret agents who go on missions to fight terrorists and consistently fail, resulting in them getting raped, murdered and having their corpses fucked afterwards.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
These aren't characters. They're objects designed specifically to be masturbated to while they die.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Cheung… why?<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
This is the worst comic I have ever seen.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:AcBeatingUpWomen.png|300px|right]]<br />
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''U. S. Angel Corps'' is easily the worst comic I have ever seen. It's disgusting, immoral, and misogynistic in the extreme. I mean, I reviewed a comic featuring [[God's Story|Jesus getting raped]], but I have never seen a more offensive comic. This is, by far, the most sickening thing to ever dishonor the already tarnished word "Webcomic".<br />
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Now, it's one thing if you're just trolling and your comic is ''meant'' to offend, as is the case with [http://rdk.deadbsd.org/electricretard/ Electric Retard] for example (don't click on that), but it's worse when you fail to realize or care about just how repugnant your comic is. The thing about this comic is that it was made to make money by capitalizing on the disgusting fetishes of a repulsive niche audience, and creator Dave Cheung doesn't seem to care as long as he makes a little money.<br />
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This comic is commission-based, which is to say that Cheung only draws it when people give him money, which, unfortunately, some people do. Now, there's nothing wrong with wanting to make a little money off your work, unless, of course, ''this'' is what you're selling.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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It's really hard for me to decide what the worst part of this comic is. It could be the grotesque imagery, it could be the abject misogyny, or it could be the fact that Cheung is trying to capitalize on such grotesque imagery and misogyny. See, this is a guro comic. For those of you who don't know, "guro" is basically Japanese necrophilia porn with a special focus on gruesome torture and mutilation. '''The entire point of this comic is to show the female characters getting tortured, raped, killed and/or dismembered, not necessarily in that order.''' It's disgusting in every sense of the word. Observe:<br><br />
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[[File:AcNecrophilia.png|thumb|350px|left|Exhibit A]]<br />
[[File:AcSlutSkeletons.png|thumb|425px|right|Exhibit C]]<br />
[[File:AcWhyWouldYouDrawThis2.png|thumb|200px|center|Exhibit B]]<br />
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If there remains any doubt in your mind about how bad this comic is after seeing those images, then I suggest you shoot yourself in the head because, clearly, your brain isn't working and is only wasting energy.<br />
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Really, I could go on and on about how anyone who gets off to this sort of thing should be ashamed of themselves, but there's so much more to talk about.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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[[File:CheungFaces.png|300px|left]]<br />
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There is a little question regarding this comic of whether it is the ''worst'' webcomic ever. At the moment, as far as I am concerned, it is in a three-way tie with [[Billy the Heretic]] and [[Sonichu]]. Some might say that, unlike those two, Cheung can at least draw well. But in my view all that does is add insult to injury.<br />
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Or maybe it is the fact that it is drawn well that makes it so much worse than any one in a string of other guro webcomics we have reviewed here that look like they were all drawn with crayons by cross-eyed paraplegics. Seeing the details put into the drawing of streams of cum ,slowly drizzling down into gaping bullet holes, really adds something to the experience.<br />
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So some might argue that Cheung is a competent artist. All right, fair enough, but there is one big problem:<br />
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While Cheung actually bothers to diversify the faces of his male characters, this comic, like all of his other comics, has completely identical female characters. Yeah, their skin tones and hair are different, but they all have the exact same face. Same nose, same eyes, same mouth, same face. Not to mention they all have virtually the same body type as well. The only thing that seems to vary is their breast sizes. So yeah, Cheung can't even be bothered to draw different faces for women, even if they're of different ethnicities, so I would normally assume that everything he knows about female anatomy comes from anime or manga, but since he draws in a semi-realistic art style, I have to assume that he has actually taken an art class or two (in the time since he drew [[Chugworth Academy]]) and simply doesn't care. He just came up with one face that he likes and decided that all of his female characters should have it, otherwise they wouldn't be pretty. That brings me to my next point…<br />
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==Writing and Story==<br />
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[[File:11.jpg|thumb|left|400px|She was supposed to kill this guy but instead she ended up fucking him without knowing his name.]]<br />
The over-arching story goes like this:<br><br />
There is a secret military organization (how original) that picks up unwanted, orphan children (always girls) and trains them to be super-assassins for the US government... This is all crap that you have all heard a million times. But wait until you hear the twist!<br />
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Every individual story goes like this:<br><br />
There is a military unit that sends out hot, barely legal, scantily clad women to singlehandedly infiltrate and neutralize multiple enemies in hostile territories without any backup, weapons or equipment. Then they get beat up, raped and tortured to death until they piss on themselves and die. And often times they then get mutilated, dismembered and have their disfigured corpses fucked in a warm puddle of their own piss. I mean… I don't what they're ''supposed'' to be doing, but they don't seem to be too good at their fucking job.<br />
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What kind of operation are they running over there anyway? These girls are alone, have no logistical support or backup of any kind and not even basic equipment. I'm not talking about a gun, either (although I would think that this is the first thing I would give someone I'm sending out to commit murder). I'm not even talking about a radio to call for rescue... These bitches ain't got no shoes on! I mean, I know this is nothing but a fetish comic, but the premise of it all is so goddamn ridiculous (not to mention nauseating) that it makes me laugh when i'm not already throwing up.<br />
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None of this makes sense, really. Who in social services allows these people to snatch up little girls? Why are they getting all girls instead of men? Why are they sending them out unarmed? Why are they sending them out wearing bathing suits?! Why?! And once they get there, the mission always goes tits-up, which is even more strange. How they get past the guards (or even to the location itself) naked isn't even the problem because once they get there, they usually fuck shit up beyond logic. How does the spy character get snuck up on and killed? How does the sniper get sniped and the hand-to-hand expert get her ass beat? I'll tell you how and why: To add to their humiliation. They are just girls, so obviously they will embarrassingly lose to people without even half their training. I can't think of any way this could have been made by anyone other than someone who seriously hates women. This is also why one character loses to a man armed with nothing but a towel and a toothbrush despite having a gun, and another ties up her opponent and decides to rape him, but he breaks free, kills her and fucks her corpse instead.<br />
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This is another recurring theme in the writing here. These girls just can't keep it in their pants. Missions are often compromised because because one of the girls decided on sucking off their target instead of killing them and ended up dead. But it isn't always like that. Sometimes they just get raped. But that doesn't mean they can't enjoy it! While some desperately try to fight off their attackers - as the attackers rip off what little clothes they have on - to save their dignity, others literally enjoy being raped! They grunt and moan even though they know they will soon be murdered by the person who is molesting them and cum an entire river onto their assailant (if you are getting a boner right now please reach over to the nearest sharp object you have and stab yourself in the dick and then leave this site).<br />
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Once this is over the real fun begins! After finishing raping the girls, the bad guys either beat, kill or torture them. For a while, the girls scream and cry and beg for mercy, but in the end they all die. Their limbs are torn off, they are beheaded or mangled in some way and, as they die, their urine escapes them in a final act of indignation... Did I say "final"? I must have forgotten that after they die, their bodies - entrails still hanging out - are gang-banged by their murderers/rapists in every hole they have on their body (including the ones just added) with their blood and piss and tears used for lubricant before having their violated bodies dumped in an unmarked grave like trash, still covered in globs of warm jizz.<br />
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Was I graphic enough? Did I go into enough detail here? I really want everyone reading this to get just how abhorrent it all is. The amazingly asinine plot and writing would make this all hilarious were it no already simply repulsive.<br />
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==The Objectification of Women==<br />
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Aside from the fact that this is a comic that tries to eroticize women getting raped and murdered, in this comic, every female character has the same baby-like face and pornstar body even though the male characters are all unique. I get the sense that Cheung has little respect for women if he doesn't even give them different faces. Not only that, but Cheung also decided to make all of the female characters orphans, which is to say, they don't have families. I guess this is meant to make their deaths seem more trivial so Cheung's audience will have an easier time jacking off to them when they die. That's called dehumanization.<br />
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[[File:AcDecapitatedBodies.png|300px|center]]<br />
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Furthermore, the women all have cutesy-sounding code names like Bubblegum and Princess, 'cause, you know, a woman should have a name reminiscent of ''The Powerpuff Girls'', right? Hell, one of them is named "Bikini", because, you know, she wears a bikini. That's great, just give a woman a code name based on what she wears. I'm surprised there isn't a character named "Jugs". Again, the cutesy names, combined with the identical faces and lack of known relatives, add to the dehumanizing effect and turn the girls more akin to objects so that you don't feel sad as they writhe in agony while having their limbs slowly cut off. All of this reminds me of the movie ''"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Punch_%282011_film%29 Sucker Punch]"'' which [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/6247-You-Are-Wrong-About-Sucker-Punch-Part-One used all these elements] [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/6266-You-Are-Wrong-About-Sucker-Punch-Part-Two to critique the desegregation of women] in a way that so closely resembles this comic I can't help but wonder if Zack Snyder came across it by some freakish coincidence. <br />
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Anyway, back to the point. The characters are only meant to die so that their dead bodies can be violated in a pool of their own, terrified urine (This literally happens multiple times). It's not even like Cheung plays it for laughs or tries to play it like it isn't meant to be taken seriously or sexually. You can see the characters crying in pain as they beg for their lives while being tortured. ''Dave Cheung is catering to an audience that gets off on seeing women get murdered'' and he's making money doing it.<br />
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[[File:AcStrangle.png|250px|center|thumb|See the tears? Is this sexy to you?]]<br />
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If it weren't for the fact that these characters are fictional and none of this is real, this would be a textbook example of exploitation. Dave Cheung saw a group of people whose sexual fantasies include raping and murdering women, and he decided to capitalize on it (or so he says. He's been drawing this sort of thing long before USAC).<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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[[File:AcWhyWouldYouDrawThis.png|140px|right]]<br />
I don't know Dave Cheung personally, but if his work is any indication, I suspect that he has little respect for women if not full-on contempt. Before he created U. S. Angel Corps, he worked on another comic, [[Chugworth Academy]], which was heavily reliant on fan service. Strangely, in those days, [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=49 he actually got angry when people asked to see his characters naked]. What the hell happened since then? Well, in our review of that comic the writer suggested Cheung just drop the false pretenses of being an artist and just make porn. So I dread to think this atrocity is somehow our fault.<br />
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What else is there to mention about Dave? Well, he got in trouble with UbiSoft for drawing a sexual parody about Jade Raymond, he has managed to get a negative review on virtually every self-respecting webcomic review site, attempted to remove a number of them (temporarily succeeded in our case), abruptly ended a number of his comics and earned himself a bad reputation for the way he handles criticism (although I can't blame him for not liking the criticism leveled at him. I can only blame him for what he does to earn this sort of criticism). Lastly, prior to drawing necrophilia, torture/rape porn he used to draw child porn and sometimes combine all of the above into necrophilia, rape and torture child porn. He doesn't even deny doing it (not that he could, the evidence is widely available), but simply claims it was all for money and not due to personal interest in the subject matter. Still, even if he isn't into this stuff, the fact that he's willing to draw it for money tells me enough.<br />
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As of the time of this review, Dave Cheung has almost nine thousand watchers on DeviantART. I would like to point out that DA is a website where the most popular artist is [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi|Bleedman]], and the most popular photo is a [http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-This-Is-Heaven-52682456 Death Note cosplay], so this isn't something to brag about.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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[[File:AcRape.png|150px|left|thumb|She was unconscious when he started having sex with her. That's called rape.]]<br />
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David Cheung's work appeals to the lowest common denominator: a niche fetish community of loathsome degenerates, and that is not something to be proud of. Especially when the fetish community in question is necrophiliacs and the type of people who get erections when they see a rape scene in a movie. I'm sure this isn't the only guro comic out there, but the fact he can actually draw and spent all this time and effort learning how to do it somehow only makes it worse.<br />
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I would say I wish he would put his art to better use and make a non-porn comic, but we already saw his plot comics and told him he should just make porn instead. Then he made USAC as if to punish his critics by making the worst thing on the face of the internet and now I honestly wish he'd just quit.<br />
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==Other comics by this person that are reviewed on this site==<br />
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*[[Boss Noodle]] - A short-lived and abandoned project.<br />
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*[[Chugworth Academy]] - His first comic we reviewed.<br />
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*[[Chugworth!]] - The successor to that one.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*<s>The TV Tropes article</s> Deleted due to their content policy. I have a feeling Dave is to blame.<br />
*[http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/ Dave Cheung's DeviantART account]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giRpX2bJxo Webcomic Relief on YouTube] also has a review of ''U. S. Angel Corps''<br />
* [http://vanilla-cookies.com/ Dave Cheung's Tumblr account]<br />
* [https://www.patreon.com/tehdave Dave Cheung's Patreon.] Don't support it.<br />
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[[Category:Webcomics]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Natsa/Mandatory_Fun_Day&diff=8507User talk:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day2014-06-25T20:54:05Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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* Any news on this? [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 19:37, 25 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
** Well, I read the whole thing a while ago and at the end of all of it, it was just incredibly boring. The first half has some really bad art and writing that's noteworthy to write about but the second half is just too boring to even care. I never finished the review and it's been months since I read the webcomic. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 20:54, 25 June 2014 (UTC)</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Billy_the_Heretic&diff=6957Billy the Heretic2014-01-29T05:59:06Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/the-luigiian The Luigiian]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.billytheheretic.com Billy the Heretic]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://www.billytheheretic.com/ "Billy... the Heretic"]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Uncertain<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Dead<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Neo-Nazi propaganda<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Note the genre.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[no stars given] This is not how to draw a comic of any kind.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[no stars given] For all the Jewish conspiracy ranting in this comic there is very little interesting about its story. Seriously, no tales of espionage or Billy getting interrogated in a secret Jewish holding compound? ''Nothing''? <br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[no stars given] One little Aryan asshole surrounded by walking stereotypes.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[no stars given] Worst comic ever.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|This is one of the few comics that is worse than ''[[Concession]]'' and ''[[Shredded Moose]]''.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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If you've been reading this site for awhile, you may have noticed that the length of a Bad Webcomics Wiki article is inversely proportional to how bad the comic is. The worst webcomics tend to have very short articles, while mediocre but not-so-bad comics tend to have very long articles because the author has to work harder to convince you, dear reader, of the particular (de)merits of the comic he or she is reviewing.<br />
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This comic review shall remain true to that general rule. I don't want to waste your time convincing you of something you already know. I mean, c'mon, when a comic's storyline literally boils down to the author intoning "JEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" like Dracula attempting to work a victim into a suitable state of horror, only in a more over-the-top and vaguely condescending way, the comic doesn't have a fuckin' chance.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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"JEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSCAAAAAAAAARYYYYYYYYYYYYY! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! OH NO, THE JEWS ARE OUT TO GET YOU!" -synopsis of the webcomic Billy the Heretic.<br />
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What, you want more review? Fine, here.<br />
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Let's pretend you're a young Jewish boy. Unless you're an actual Jewish boy, in which case just be what you are for a second. Now pretend you're out to uncover the secret evils in your Jewish family, which is assimilated into a kind of surreal Jew Mafia, like the Mafia Darci Robbins wrote of in ''[[La Cosa Nostra]]'' only far more Jewish and far less realistic. Unlike your brown-haired brown-eyed big-nosed Jew relatives, you are a small-nosed blond-headed blue-eyed vaguely athletic boy. What do you get?<br />
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If you said "neo-Nazi propaganda piece" then you are absolutely ''correct!'' Because that is what this comic is. That is ''all'' it is. In literally the second strip the boy refers to his sister as [http://www.billytheheretic.com/husband.php a rat with glasses] which is (one would suspect) a knowing reference to the Jewish mice in Spiegelman's ''Maus''. Only assuming that this is an reference to such a complex work of art would be assuming that the menacingly Aryan author of this pile of garbage could read, so I'm going to take Door Number Two and say he just picked the most disgusting animal he could think of and went with it.<br />
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I always wonder why these propaganda works are so fuckin' bland in terms of story. They have these messages of secret Jewish conspiracies that are helping out "the fags" and "the kikes" and "the lib'ruls" and then they have the blandest, most mundane storylines possible. Where are my secret holding pens? Where are my secret Jewish underground compounds surrounded by armed guards where they keep political prisoners? Where are the aliens? Where in the fuck is the entertainment value in watching an Aryan stereotype talk condescendingly to Jewish stereotypes for forty-something comics?<br />
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Unfortunately, aside from the anti-Semitic propaganda, the writing is peachy compared with what we're going to discuss in the<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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[[File:jet_zps86769cfa.jpg|thumb|400px|For a change, the comic isn't attacking Jews.]]<br />
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...Because where the storyline is bad in its so slavishly and blandly depicting various stereotypes, the art is terrible in exactly the same ways. Only it's ''worse'' because you have to look at it, where you can just skim over the word bubbles.<br />
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[http://www.billytheheretic.com/leaving.php Here] we see the husband holding on to a garbage pail lid, talking to a disembodied head, while a young child plays with Unknown Video Game Device Slash Bizarre Transformation Object in the backseat. I think it turns young children into mice, because by the third panel this child has developed a Mickey Mouse nose, where he's got a little circle where nostrils should be. The line underneath the eyes indicates a snout, the ears look as if they're attached to the <strike>child</strike> thing's cheeks The only other thing it could be is if between panels two and three the family had a great time at Disney World and bought young Billy a pretend nose so he could emulate his idols, however a man with the racial/ethnic beliefs of the creator of this comic [http://www.billytheheretic.com/kicked.php would not depict a Jewish family spending money so freely], therefore he must be playing with a transformation device. Either that or he's a furry. You pick.<br />
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It sort of reminds me of Pinocchio being sent to Pleasure Island and turning partway into a donkey. Which is apt, since Pinocchio was an obnoxious little miscreant prick, and he and "Billy the Heretic" are both bullshit-tellers and probably have noses that are at least twelve feet long apiece from all the ridiculous bullshit they've spewed. But Pinocchio's bullshit at least makes sense. I'm still trying to figure out what this "heretic" (apparently the writer's term for "neo-Nazi") is saying in half the strips.<br />
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But, oh yeah, the art. Speaking of which: Comic Numero Cuatro sets a new low in art. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Daddy's toes in Panel Three? Why are his arms connected to his pectoral muscles in Panel One? Why does the son's right leg become dislocated in Panel Three? Bah. The shrubs are nothing but squiggles in a zigzag line, there are clear pencil marks all over the place, it looks like something a third grader would draw, and it's still a pile of racist bullshit.<br />
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In Billyland, [http://www.billytheheretic.com/wwhd.php mirrors float], [http://www.billytheheretic.com/equality.php there are no clouds, trees, bushes, or recognizeable horizon lines], [http://www.billytheheretic.com/cows.php inner-city ghettos are within a conversation's distance of dairy farms], [http://www.billytheheretic.com/intermarriage.php Jew noses are bent literally all the way down to the mouth], and we see a welcome return to Aryan mouse nose territory because the creator of this abortion is incapable of drawing nostrils or even a recognizable nasal bridge. It's not that fucking hard, you anti-Semitic jackass douche. You draw a couple of nose holes, then a couple vertical parallel lines for the bridge, I mean come on, you have to have at least looked at ''somebody''. Even if you're going for the "racial stereotype look", surely you can draw the nose to look at least vaguely human. Right?<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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Some comics are very hard to read because they're complex and are espousing complex ideas. Other comics are very easy to read because they're extremely simple gag comics that are made to be read quickly before you go to work in the morning. Still other comics are divisive because they're extremely political and dealing with difficult issues.<br />
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So if I were to present you with a comic that was extremely hard to read and understand, yet was espousing simple, one-liner ideas and was political and yet still united almost everybody in hatred against both the author and the comic, it would be reasonable to say that this writing is so irredeemably terrible in every way that it was... well, irredeemable, am I right?<br />
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This comic presents a viewpoint that can literally be stated in one word: '''JEWS'''. That's it. That's all there is to state. Just put the word JEW in big 90 point letters in some suitably evil font, say Matisse ITC, with little bloodstains on it, maybe add a little Star of David. There's your entire comic. '''THAT'S ALL THERE FUCKING IS DAMMIT.'''<br />
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And yet this comic is almost completely unreadable. [http://www.billytheheretic.com/ Here] we have a Jew lighting a Menorah in front of the White House, saying he's doing it to remind people of how Jews are persecuted without cause. I do not understand this comic. At all. It is beyond understanding. Is he saying Jews control the White House and therefore they have no right to complain about being persecuted? Is the author seriously saying they have no reason to complain that 1.5 million of their people were gassed, burned alive, tortured, hung, beaten, and murdered simply for being Jews?<br />
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After reading this comic, I have learned that Jews are [http://www.billytheheretic.com/gaypride.php secretly gay and are furthering the cause of gay rights to better fit in with society]; [http://www.billytheheretic.com/poopbowl.php that Jews should have shared a soup bowl and a poop bowl during the Holocaust]; [http://www.billytheheretic.com/paint.php that Jews needlessly raise the salaries of minorities]; and [http://www.billytheheretic.com/wits.php I have no idea].<br />
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That's all I can say. I have no idea what is going on in this comic. It's not satire, it's not politics, it's not science, it's not socially-minded. It's completely nonsensical and pretty much completely insane.<br />
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==Author biography== <br />
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A white Nigerian kid adopted by a "rich international" Jewish family, Billy is apparently a twelve-year-old child who writes anti-Semitic webcomics to get back at his parents for making him go to sleep early without supper. I don't care to learn any more about it. If you have more information, feel free to add it.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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"Billy" is undeniable evidence that all anti-Semites are mentally retarded and incapable of basic qualities like speaking coherently and being able to string together a full sentence without including some kind of mention of the evil Jewish conspiracy. His comic is at the level of a third grader, his writing is lower, and his arguments are inane, empty, sophomoric, and detached from reality even by the standards of Holocaust deniers. I think many illiterate Klansmen could write more convincing and logical arguments than "Billy", if they could figure out how to actually operate a computer, and it is without question that this comic is the worst propaganda comic ever made. Worse than A.W. Mann, worse than Jack Chick. This is as terrible as it is possible for a webcomic to get.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://www.billytheheretic.com/ The comic.] ''If you hate Jews then boy do I have to webcomic for you...''<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics ''Billy The Heretic'' is on the TV Tropes list of horrible comics.]<br />
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_17607_the-5-circles-baffling-web-comic-hell.html Cracked.com article]''Chosen as the worst webcomic ever on this Cracked.com article.''<br />
* [http://encyclopediadramatica.es/Billy_the_Heretic "Encyclopedia Dramatica" Made an article.] ''<3''<br />
* [http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t508309/ A white supremacist forum] ''Loves this comic.''<br />
* [http://encyclopediadramatica.es/Wyatt_Mann "Wyatt Mann"] ''Another web cartoonist with the same style.''<br />
* [[Jack Chick Tracts|If you like this comic]] ''"Jack Chick Tracts" might be right up your ally as well.''<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BillyTheHeretic TV tropes article]<br />
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[[Category: Webcomics]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Mamabliss&diff=6270Mamabliss2014-01-03T05:14:44Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/phillipc Phillip Chanter]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://mamabliss.com/ Mamabliss] The comics have various names, but for the sake of the review, the webcomic is ''Mamabliss''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| November 28, 2004<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Fetish, furry, porn, wank material, giantess, guro, German Scheisse, and even more porn!<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Horrible art that makes human figures look like shape-shifting nightmares, poor facial anatomy, and did I mention the gallons of freaky deaky pr0n?<br />
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Very poorly drawn, rushed look overall topped with absurd and awkward anatomy. Most effort is put into the genitalia, but even that looks like a purple headed pink Gumby that's been dragged through from the bowels of hell wearing bondage gear and bleeding profusely out of every orifice!<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
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No... no nonononono NO! Not going to even grade this one, you'll see why soon.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
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Oh there's characters, but they only serve as wank material, so no grade for this one either.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
I'll give Mamabliss some credit for drawing so much, but there's just too much shit to slog through.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
It's wank material. I've got nothing against porn in general, but it shouldn't be just wanking material, comics will always be a visual art form and not a playboy you shamefully hide under your mattress! These comics further the stereotype of furries, show how little the artist knows about art, and shows the world that she's only drawing in order to jerk-off and/or have others jerk-off instead of treating the medium like a valid art form!<br />
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===Background & Downfall===<br />
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Before I begin, I'd like to tell you the reason for why I'm reviewing the website as a whole instead of just one comic at a time. Mamabliss.com has 9 separate websites that hold the artist's extensive archive of comics relating to various fetishes from [http://bellystuffed.com/ vore], [http://nikkisallnightdiner.com/ cooking], [http://mamabliss.com/niftyTF/Vicous_circles_1.html transformation], and [http://maximumgts.com/ giantess]. Believe me when I say that if you've read one, you've read them all. I will keep links to a minimum as this stuff is highly NSFW.<br />
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I'll admit that I look at porn, there's a lot I like, but there's also a lot that I do not like. I am only human after all. When it comes down to porn comics, I feel a bit hypocritical, for one thing: I love porn! On the other hand: I hate the idea of my artistic medium being used like wadded up tissue paper with traces of hand lotion and whatsit. Porn comics seem like a waste of time to review as you know what to expect, it's artist's fetish put onto paper and displayed to the masses. This comic here is however is pretty awful, in both art and subject matter.<br />
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Here's the sad thing about porn comics, it doesn't matter how bad your art is, all you need to do is appeal to a set audience and you've got near instant popularity and fans! It's especially easy when you [http://mamabliss.com/niftyTF/index.html half ass everything you draw], and [http://maximumgts.com/Big_Time_17.html stylize your anatomy so that your women look like Neanderthals]!<br />
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[[File:dickrippers.jpg|thumb|200px|right|They crave dick!]]<br />
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===Story, plot, and writing===<br />
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Lemme first start by introducing you to something I first read when [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/thematt TheMatt] posted this website up onto the forums... I'll give you a moment to prepare for it, trust me, you'll need it...<br />
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... you ready? OK... I give unto you [http://nikkisallnightdiner.com/elfdinner_92.html Elves kicking the shit out of a man's balls and eventually chopping his dick off]! This is what to expect on this website, it's gut wrenching (also I skipped a few pages to get to the dick ripping part there)! I couldn't read through all of this as it's all porn! There's a section dedicated to the whole blood and gore sex thing I just read there! Oh, and believe me, the dick getting cut off was just the tip of the iceberg as ... I'm not going to talk about it. What else can I really say about this anyway? "Hmmm, by Jove, I do believe that woman hath shrunken that man and placed him deep inside her rectum, quite the intriguing concept, I must read more into this. Perhaps I shall have a spot of tea as I read onward." Yeah, from this point on I've got nothing more to add unless you want me to tell you how much ass this sucks, but I'm dammed sure there's a comic where somebody literally sucks ass or gets sucked '''BY''' ass. @_@<br />
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===Art review===<br />
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Dear sweet Christ... this is bad, I mean really really bad! Warped anatomy, hastily scribbled everything, and crude subject matter! The artist can't even get the parts to fap to right! Here's a nice little image I made to explain this shit for ya.<br />
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|<center>Need I say anything more?</center><br />
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OK, let's say for sake of example that somebody says...<br><br />
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{{Quote|Hold on! So what if the anatomy is screwy! She can at least show that those things are people, it's all her style!}}<br><br />
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Unfortunately that's a very flawed argument as a lot of "Anime artists" use this excuse to justify that their art isn't exactly up to par with what we normally read in Manga. Style is nice and whatnot, but ''Mamabliss''' style looks rushed and it looks like she's drawing melting Barbie dolls. If she would take her time and actually focus on making things look the way they should, I'd pass over this thinking it was just another porn artist selling their wares. Until Bliss actually puts some effort into her work and reinforces basic drawing techniques, I consider her work to be abysmal.<br />
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===Author biography===<br />
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I looked around for any sort of dirt on ''Mamabliss'', browsed Encyclopedia Dramatica, browsed the forums on her website, and the only thing I got was from [http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/WikiFur_Furry_Central Wikifur]. No name, no drama, not even a sassy comment towards a critic (but here's hoping she does react ;3).<br><br />
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<font size="3"> '''MamaBliss is a furry fetish-erotica artist living in Vermont who has been around on the net for quite some time. Presumed to be American, she maintains a couple of websites with her own art (some paysites, some not). Her persona is of a catgirl.<br><br />
<br>'''''MamaBliss'' creates mostly comics and stories (though single illustrations are not unknown); their themes can range from transformation and unbirthing to vore and mutilation. She also created a Flash animation which was once popular on fChan, named furrycam.swf, which was intended to emulate a webcam for one of her sites, and thus be regularly updated with new still frames and user chatter. The furrycam project was dropped after a while, possibly due to a shift in ''MamaBliss''' attention, and thus has no "finished" ending. '''</font> </span><br />
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Basically, Mamabliss is a furry who peddles porn, and has the attention span of a toddler as that "Furrycam" thing seems to have been a big deal, at least for furries.<br />
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===Conclusion===<br />
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I didn't think I'd find a comic just as bad as [[Morning Squirtz]], but the internet proved me wrong.<br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://oglaf.com/ Oglaf] Alternative pornographic comic to this one. Actually has good art and a good story (as odd as that sounds for a porn comic)!<br />
* [http://furaffinity.net Furaffinity] It's the same thing as the comic here, only there's at least a few good artists spread out here and there that don't assault your eyes with porn.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Group&diff=6269Looking For Group2014-01-03T05:14:05Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/phillipc Phillip Chanter]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://lfgcomic.com/ Looking For Group]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://www.leasticoulddo.com/ Ryan Sohmer (writer) and Lar de Souza (artist)]<br />
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|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|November 26, 2006<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
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|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Fantasy, comedy, action adventure<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|Loads of exposition/dialog, poor character development, jokes that exceed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_%28writing%29 rule of threes] and quickly become unfunny (Richard more than often kills some fantasy character stereotype or pop culture icon), cramped panels, misogynistic depictions and treatment of female characters, and absurdly fast paced story.<br />
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Very appealing towards fantasy fans who enjoy Swords and Sorcery. DnD, WoW, and LotR fans can easily find appeal in the comic and art is on a professional level.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
A chore to read through, the pacing is erratic and very hard to get into.<br />
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|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Character development results in not one, but two Gary-Stu's running around in the story.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
This webcomic is part of [http://blindferret.com/ "Blind Ferret Entertainment."] Which he owns.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Endless dialog/exposition ruins what could potentially be a good comic and can result in the reader wanting to skip over important details. Let's not forget how cramped each page is with numbers of panels.<br />
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===Introduction===<br />
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Ryan Sohmer's ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' is easily one of the most recognized comics out there. That comic made me curious as to what other works the LICD group had done over the years. What I found was ''Looking for Group'', a comedy comic that's based in fantasy pop culture (Lord Of The Rings, Warcraft, etc.). I read over it for a while but quickly found that what was presented here was a very boring and overrated comic that quickly turned from comedy into [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CerebusSyndrome action adventure drama].<br />
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Let's be fair here: Ryan and Lar do make quite a capable team, but from the first page onward, I noticed this comic's biggest flaw: [http://lfgcomic.com/page/1 A great abundance of text/exposition/dialogue]. Immediately afterworlds, we're introduced to the character Richard, along with his wacky habit of [http://lfgcomic.com/page/2 needlessly killing people]. Of course, this is done for [http://lfgcomic.com/page/16 comedic effect]. As I continued to read, I noticed how erratic the pacing in this comic was. In the first 30 pages, there's three different battles with only a page or two between them to slow things down and pour in some story. Bring in some action scenes that are almost always shot from the hips up, have Cale cry about his innocence being lost while not giving an overall damn about what his group is doing (except for what Pella does) and you've got a clusterfuck of confusion, poor character development, and an overrated story!<br />
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===Story & Plot===<br />
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Let's start with the characters first. Now in the first story arc, nearly every character is introduced. Here's a list of them:<br />
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* '''Richard''' - Foil to the protagonist, Cale. Richard is the comedian of the group and a Gary-Stu. He can kill anybody without a problem, he can defeat entire armies while others struggle to survive, and everybody continues to hang out with him despite him bringing chaos where ever he goes. His joke, more often than not, is to either get dismembered, or kill a pop culture icon. This happens way too often!<br />
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* '''Cale''': Our protagonist. Despite his objections to killing, he's been able to kill quite a few different species of fantasy creatures. He's also amazingly [http://lfgcomic.com/page/289 hypocritical] as he barely bats an eye at Richard's antics but will lash out at others who step out of line. He is often the one to rally the troops with motivational speeches. As of now, there has been no revelation as to why Richard claimed his race to be evil and there is little to no background on Cale. He owns a black panther named Sooba.<br />
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* '''Benn'Joon''' - The <strike>Orc halfbreed</strike> UNKNOWN BREED (she's an orc) who happens to be the group's priestess/healer. She seems to [http://lfgcomic.com/page/290 form a relationship] with Cale towards the more current strips for no real reason. Originally, she was the one to bring up the plot involving the "Sword of Truth", but she shows no sign of interest in the current strips. She is the adopted daughter of Krunch.<br />
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* '''Krunch''' - The Taurin intellectual of the group who adopted Benn, he has some past issues with his [http://lfgcomic.com/page/142 father]. Half the time, he's used for exposition whenever a battle hasn't broken out.<br />
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* '''Pella''' - The dwarf, she is the rough female of the group that Richard likes. She has chosen the life of a bard and warrior in one strip, but not much else is known about her past. In the later strips, she fights a few of her own kind and kills them for the greater good. Cale gets pissed off at this and threatens her. Real classy, Cale. She happens to have also built Krunch's new metallic arm as well.<br />
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Unfortunately, most of the character development is forsaken in favor of moving the story along at a break-neck pace. The story here is they search for [http://lfgcomic.com/page/15 THE SWORD OF TRUTH]! However, that plot device is dropped while [http://lfgcomic.com/issue/2 a new plot emerges]. It is really hard to get into this story for a number of reasons: the characters were unrealistic (in terms of personality), the story is very poorly thought out, and too many cheap pop culture gags. However, if anything is to be truly blamed, it's the dialog. Shakespeare once said "brevity is the soul of wit," which means that if you can tell the story without dialog, DO IT! Nothing ruins a comic faster for me than when it's drowning in word balloons, especially when the pages are crammed full of panels to begin with. More dialogue doesn't always mean more story mind you, as it's quite possible to tell a story without anybody speaking a single word to one another. Better comics like [http://drmcninja.com Dr. McNinja] have been able to do this to great affect.<br />
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<center>Did I also happen to mention that Richard is the Mayor of a town of undead villagers and he has a huge army? Guess I forgot.</center><br />
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===Writing review===<br />
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Originally, ''Looking For Group'' was intended to be a comedy. From the first strip, the main character of Cale was comically burned to ashes. This, however, took a back seat when the writer decided to make the comics more dramatic. This is usually a very very bad idea, but I must admit that this was done so quickly that there were only a few comedic pages before the story took this turn into [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CerebusSyndrome Cerebus Syndrome] alley, so that can be overlooked to an extent. Unfortunately, the comic is still firmly rooted in it's comedic base as is the case with Richard and his [http://lfgcomic.com/page/188 wacky antics]. It's so off putting, however, as one minute there's a song and dance or some pop culture icon being the butt of a terrible joke, to Cale weeping over a dead ghost. The writing is so schizophrenic that one moment you enjoy the jokes and humor, then the next moment you get a slap in the face as we're plunged back down into depression.<br />
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What's worse is (yes I'm diving back into this) the characters. We know little to nothing about Cale except that he's a bleeding heart douchebag, and Richard ends up hoarding the spotlight and ruining the mood most pages try to make. The female characters seem to be properly developed, but old habits rear their ugly head (see picture below and links above). I gotta admit that the writer can sometimes hammer out a [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/291 decent joke], but again... bad habits are hard to break, and one liners are pretty fucking stupid when that's the only joke you got left. Overall, ''Looking For Group'' is much better than the writing in [[Least I Could Do]], but to me, that's because the ego wanking is kept to a minimum.<br />
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<center>Yeah, it's no surprise to me that Ryan put this in his comic. Nothing says funny like a sexy pillow fight!</center><br />
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'''EDIT:''' User [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/undeadite Undeadite] just recently pointed out a strange anatomy quirk, here's what he has to say:<br><br />
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{{Quote|The line work on Benny in the pillowfight panel on this wiki suggests that she has a sort of deflated abdomen. The last time I saw that was in a photo of a mummy, and that's because the mummy didn't have any organs and was, y'know, dead. Yeah, that's such a turn-on!}}<br><br />
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===Art review===<br />
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Lar De Souza isn't a bad artist. He can draw a person and make it look like a person. The art he provides is great, but... the first thing I noticed with this comic is that the guy crams an [http://lfgcomic.com/page/12 ungodly amount of panels] into a single page. This often limits the space you have with your art, and Lar here is forced to draw each character from the waist up. With a comic that focuses on action and storytelling through the images, you need that extra space! At times, he's allowed some [http://lfgcomic.com/page/138 room for more detailed panels], but he has no idea how to structure a page. The funny thing here is that there's no room for the dialog either, and at times he's forced to cover up his own art with a speech bubble.<br />
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Aside from that, there's only two things that bug me about his art: the coloring of the characters and their expressions. For the colors, they're too bright. Take a look [http://lfgcomic.com/page/15 here] for example. Everything is as bright as the morning fucking sun. He does [http://lfgcomic.com/page/290 get it right at one point] with this night-time shot, but that quickly changes in the same page as a red glow illuminates the characters while completely leaving the background the same. Admittedly, I don't know much about color theory as I hate coloring, but I do know that a red glow would make almost everything that it would illuminate at night look red, including the trees and background! For his expressions, well, whenever I look at some other comics and how they display emotions, they often show some teeth. Here we usually get that sorta expressionless look on every character (aside from the occasional smug, smart-ass look) and they always look like they are missing their dentures.<br />
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===Author review===<br />
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You kidding me here? Haven't you seen the review on [[Least I Could Do]]? Well, I suppose I could give you my two cents here. Ryan, to say the least, is an egomaniac. He will, all too often, be quick to rub in what success he's had in the face of those whom he deems to be lesser people as shown in his other comic when he happily mentions how he [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080509 updates regularly], [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080508 doesn't use MSpaint], and [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080510 how he's tired of how he's the only hard working guy in the comics industry and every one else is a drunken peon] (smug warning: don't click those links if you're prone to punching people in the face). On top of that, he's so misogynistic that it's the reason why one of his previous artists quit. [[Least_I_Could_Do#Art_review|That artist even sent us a message saying so]]. The guy's got the appeal of an angry rattlesnake and he's just as venomous to boot.<br />
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As for Lar, I don't think he has any dignity left in him as he continues to work for this guy. It's astounding that he has no objections to the type of shit Ryan pulls. I mean, for Christ's sake, he's lashing out at other comic artists for no fucking reason at all in those strips! Can you honestly draw those comics without thinking "Hey, do I really want to draw a comic that allows the writer to tear people down in order to fortify his already inflated ego?" The man pretty much said in those three strips "I'm the hardest working man on the planet and everybody who isn't '''me''' is shit!" which is ballsy of him because he doesn't make the comic by himself. In the end, however, Lar is just a doormat, and I can't respect that.<br />
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===Conclusion===<br />
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It'd be too easy for me to say that this is total crap as there's plenty of potential here for a good comic (which sounds like a stretch considering who made this comic). It's nice to see Ryan not spew his wish fulfillment into the open, but his bad habits are still here. The story has poorly developed characters aside from the warlock, Richard, who's a Gary-Stu. Combine that with an overabundance of dialog and exposition that makes the comic more of a novel with pictures, and a lack of a decent pace for the story, and you've got a comic that's hard to digest. The art is decent, but the expressions of the characters are often awkward, it's always always brightly colored even when the mood and setting calls for different tones, and cramped panels make understanding the action a difficult task. Highly overrated.<br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://www.boneville.com/ Jeff Smith's "Bone"] Alternative comic to ''Looking for Group''.<br />
* [https://us.battle.net/account/creation/wow/signup/ Warcraft] The main inspiration for this comic.<br />
* [http://blindferret.com/ Blind Ferret] The animators of both of Ryan's comics, along with some other shit there.<br />
* [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/ Least I Could Do] The dynamic duo's first webcomic, warning, assholishness ahoy!<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/reviews.php?target_group=Main&target_title=LookingForGroup TV Tropes review of "Looking for Group"] Just as harsh as this review, only shorter.<br />
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| {{oddguy}}<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://theoatmeal.com/ The Oatmeal]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
| Matthew Inman<br />
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|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| 2009<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
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|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Humor/money-making scheme<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| This is an ugly, unfunny, unoriginal paycheck masquerading as a comic. <br />
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|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The art is bad... but why wouldn't it be? This man obviously doesn't give a fuck.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The creator used to do work for a porn site; it was so stupid they refused to accept it. <br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
What do you say about a cash cow that provides no cash?<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The only reason this comic exists is to make its creator money. In a better world, its author would be paid more if he promised to stop.<br />
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== Background==<br />
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I came across this comic for the first time some years ago. I immediately wrote it off as boring and unfunny, and cast it aside. The second time I "discovered" this comic, I read it for a while, made the same judgment call, then tossed it away again. The third time, I began to feel suspicious midway into it that I had seen this somewhere before. I then realized that I had read this trash in the past and stopped again. This process repeated itself at least five times. Each time, the comic was so bland and uninteresting that I immediately forgot about it as soon as I clicked the back button, only to read it again a few months later. Mind you, that if I recall correctly, I wasn't even Googling "webcomics" or anything of the sort when I found it, and yet, the maker of this comic continues to claim his large traffic has nothing to do with him working as a search optimizer.<br />
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<s>Side note:</s> Most of the information in this article is from several very long interviews. Almost everything I say this comic's creator has admitted to has been repeated at least twice by him. Still, there is no point linking to the same five articles a million times just so people will look up/listen to long interviews to find a single line. I will post a few quotes, but if you feel the need to further corroborate what I'm saying, feel free to Google it yourselves.<br />
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== Downfall==<br />
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I wish I had something clever or witty to write in this section. This is another one of those comics that have sucked from the very first day. Usually, I am capable of mustering up something insulting to spice up this section, but this comic is so dull and flavorless that just thinking about it makes my mind draw a blank. I almost fell asleep while reading and researching this thing.<br />
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== Writing==<br />
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Reading this comic is [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally literally] torture. It is the most unoriginal thing I have ever seen. Every single comic is something I have seen somewhere else, but those people did it better. In the past, when asked about this comic, I would say it all reads like [http://www.cracked.com/ Cracked.com] articles written by bad [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Uncyclopedia] editors. I would say this jokingly, but as I was researching for this article, I found that almost every comic for the first few months had an old Cracked article that said almost the exact same thing, or at least part of it was copied of a ''Cracked'' article. Whatever wasn't was some random bullshit that made no sense. Again, I was going to say as a joke that these things look as if he just adds whatever random noun pops into his head whenever he can't think of a joke. But once again, as I was reading an interview, I found this quote by him:<br />
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{{Quote|The old formulas I used to use when I was building comics and quizzes for clients was I would take the specific word that I want to market, so if I’m trying to sell dishwashers or laundry machines, I would take that word and then basically just come up with a series of random nouns and try to attach them to it to try to create something whimsical or funny or draw connection that you didn’t see before. So from that you could connect, like, how long could I survive inside of my own washing machine.}}<br />
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So, in essence, his writing technique can be summed up by this image:<br />
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[[File:madlibs.jpg|thumb|center|800px|Why "The Oatmeal" is (adjective) and Matthew Inman can suck my (noun)]]<br />
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This is the first time I wrote something and found my article's subject willfully admitting to every accusation I was going to make about him. This is amazing! Why does this person think that this is an acceptable way to write a comic?! "And what about the lack of originality", you ask? Well, again, [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/slinky this comic] is [http://www.cracked.com/article_15697_10-classic-toys-and-why-they-suck.html the first part of this Cracked.com article], word for word. [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony This] is [http://www.cracked.com/funny-1085-irony/ this one]. [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling This] can be found on [http://encyclopediadramatica.es/You%27re/Your "Encyclopedia Dramatica"], as well as a more insightful version on [http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-words-internet-loves-to-confuse-with-other-words_p2/ cracked]. That did not stop him from making [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/senior_year the same joke again]. I have a feeling that [http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php this] was inspired by [http://www.cracked.com/article/226_6-adorable-cat-behaviors-with-shockingly-evil-explanations/ this]. Only the latter is interesting and insightful while the former is simply idiotic. [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers This comic] is this [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-technical-support meme]. [http://theoatmeal.com/blog/my_daily_lie This] is [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-lied this one]. And [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/brain this] is [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-brain this one]. Although, in both cases, anthropomorphizing your brain and having it verbalize your abstract thought related problems because you can't think of an actual punchline =/= humor. One of [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/aliens_avatar these] observations has already been made in this [http://www.cracked.com/video_18123_5-moments-from-avatar-that-are-suspiciously-familiar.html Cracked video]. All of [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/minor_differences these] have been said a [http://www.cracked.com/search/search.php?sa=search&q=caps+lock million times] by Cracked and a [http://www.google.co.il/search?q=caps+lock&hl=iw&client=firefox-a&hs=n2C&rls=org.mozilla:he:official&prmd=imvnsa&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Qj5ST82sLoenhAf265HxCw&ved=0CEMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=598 billion times] by everyone else. All of [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/minor_differences2 these] I have read somewhere else, but the last one in particular is either from an old "Seinfeld" routine or "Dr. Katz" episode I can't find right now. [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bobcats_monday This one] started off as [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/business-cat this meme], but soon descended into more incoherent nonsense. I realized the moment I saw [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website this one] that it was inspired by [http://xkcd.com/773/ this XKCD strip]. He admitted it, but he won't get any points for it from me.<br />
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I am simply exhausted from writing this part of the review because it's so easy to find better versions of these jokes. I was going to look up every single comic, but 40 minutes later, I already found all of these and was too tired to continue. I am sure you can find more yourself. I am not accusing him of plagiarizing (although he has been accused of that in the past and reacted to it in an [http://theoatmeal.com/blog/email_grade unmatched display of maturity]), but I am saying that everything he does has already been done by someone else, but better.<br />
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Furthermore, it's not only unoriginal; it's unoriginal and unfunny! All the jokes, even the ones I can't find on other sites, are things I have heard a million times before. It's all "blah blah people post stupid shit on social networking sites" "blah blah airplanes suck" and so on. Like [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers this joke about printers]. "lol, printers suck!" is the "how about that airplane food?" of the 21st century. It's all petty, tired, old complaints we've all heard before. Half of these don't even have a real punchline. The rest have a punchline that is some random nonsense. The "informational" ones are the worst. They do the opposite of entertaining me. They bore me to tears. I do not need to read a five-mile-long infograph about coffee with poorly researched information and sad attempts at making it funny by adding moronic non sequiturs to it. Matthew, if you didn't have a point, as in some kind of punchline or joke to make about coffee, then you shouldn't have made a comic about it. No one cares that you happened to read an article about coffee on some website last week and found it so interesting that you felt the need to repeat what it said as if you researched it yourself, but also added ugly pictures. If there's no joke to make, don't make a comic.<br />
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Lastly -- and I am not sure whether to place this under laziness or lack of originality -- he repeats everything twice. I mean, part of the quizzes on his site are ones that he made for other sites and then posted on "The Oatmeal" to save work. But half of those are slight variations of the same thing. Once you start copying your own worthless quizzes from each other, then what the hell are you even doing? What is the difference between the quiz [http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/ "How many five year olds could you take in a fight?"] and [http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/justin_bieber "How many Justin Biebers could you take in a fight?"] and [http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/baboon_dildo "How many baboons can you take in a fight armed with a giant dildo"] (other than the second one being an obvious attempt to draw more traffic by mentioning Justin Bieber)? What's the difference between the poll [http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/twitter_addict "How addicted to Twitter are you?"] and [http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/facebook_addict "How addicted to Facebook are you"]? Since none of these give you an actual result (not even a fake one that pretends to tell you something; all the quiz results on The Oatmeal are just more gibberish), and half the quizzes are for ridiculous premises. What is the point of making two? Not only does he repeat himself in these, but he even recycles questions. I also read and listened to his interviews and presentations he has given. Even in those, he seems to repeat the exact same thing he said in the last one. In summation: an original thought is like kryptonite to Matthew Inman.<br />
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== Art review==<br />
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The art is an atrocity, and Matthew will be the first to admit it. In fact, he already has! Twice! "Why is it so bad" you wonder? Well, he had training as a graphic designer, and it shows. Mostly because he still uses tools for graphic design on his comic and draws is as vector art despite saying it's a bad tool to draw comics with and advising other people not to do it when asked about it.<br />
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{{Quote|Matt: Adobe Fireworks actually used to be a Macromedia product. It’s a website designing package. It’s kind of old and I actually wouldn’t recommend that people draw comics with it. Illustrator is much better or just pen and paper mixed with a pad and Photoshop. But it’s what I know and it’s what I’m fast with, so I stick with it.}}<br />
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This reminds me of the ''[[Sarah Zero]]'' review. In both cases, the artist is a graphic designer with no real aptitude for art, and as a result, the whole comic looks like a bunch of ads. But whereas [[Sarah Zero|Ace plughead]] does it as a sort of accidental byproduct of his pretentiousness and lack of talent, Matthew Inman does it intentionally. I'm not sure which one is more infuriating.<br />
<br />
But there is more to it. When asked why all of his characters are fat, featureless blobs, he explained that he wants to make them as blank as possible so that anyone can insert themselves into the comic (I guessed he was doing it for a similar but different reason: I thought he was trying to make readers relate because his target audience is fat white people), he goes on to give advice about character design that can be summed up by saying "make your characters as bland and insipid as possible". <br />
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That sums up why the art is bad in the sense of what is the underlying reason, but what about why it's bad in the sense of what makes it bad? Well, it's just ugly. Other than the fact that he knows how to use the program he draws with, he is no better than any other hack. He makes the same mistakes as just about who's ever had a comic reviewed here: bad anatomy, bad color, bad everything. I am reluctant to even call them mistakes because it's obvious that he doesn't even try.<br />
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== Author biography==<br />
<br />
Here is the meat of the review. This is the reason why so many people hate this comic. The man who makes this comic worked as a graphic designer and a search optimizer. He worked with multiple companies, teaching them how to get more traffic from Google. In fact, he was so good at it that Google had to actively fight him to stop him from raping their search engine. Then, one day, he decided that he didn't feel like working anymore, so he used all of that experience in making something of zero content or quality that will draw in people who will pay him his salary. No, really, that was his motivation for making this thing! He just didn't feel like working anymore, so he gathered up a bunch of his old content he made for other sites and created that black hole of pageviews he calls "The Oatmeal".<br />
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As for the man himself? Well, in one of his interviews, he said that he was being badmouthed on Reddit and being called a jerk. But, when he confronted his detractors, they admitted to lying. I would hate to directly contradict the man's word and call him a jerk, but the evidence speaks for itself. Some of Matthew's antics, I must admit, were rather entertaining, including sending lewd drawings and photos of the money he got from donations that he refuses to use to play as a settlement to FunnyJunk.com's lawyer who were suing him, creating a poll named "How many Justin Bieber's could you take in a fight" and, if I understand correctly, having the poll results sent automatically to the Justin Bieber website or something (I didn't fully understand that one). He also Rickroll'd all of Reddit when they annoyed him, and after he found out that "P.E.T.A" posted a link to a comic he made titled [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pigs "Five reasons pigs are more awesome than you"], he had them redirect to an article he made called: [http://theoatmeal.com/story/eat_horses "Why we should be eating horses instead of riding them"]. All of these little antics are fairly amusing, and I would write them off as harmless pranks if it had only ended there. The problem is that it doesn't.<br />
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Matthew has a tendency to be as rude and disrespectful to his fans as he is to... well, everyone else. He [http://theoatmeal.com/blog/email_grade insultingly graded an angry email] that was sent to him (another thing that has already been [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/37-Mailbag-Showdown done better by Yahtzee]) and [http://theoatmeal.com/pages/retarded_emails makes insulting replies] to other mail he gets (again, [http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi?p=1 done first and better by MADDOX]). All of this is proudly presented on his website. He also brags about how he replies to negative commentary by telling the people who wrote it he slept with their mother.<br />
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{{Quote|Matt: When I used to work for people I had this sense of diplomacy. I had to respond like, “Well, I’m sorry you feel that way. I appreciate your criticism,” and blah, blah, blah. Now I work for myself and really no one can control what I say. So usually I tell them that I slept with their mom.}}<br />
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He also replied to a woman who accidentally thought he was still running a dating site by [http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/retarded_emails/pat.jpg calling her an idiot]. Some of you may think I am being hypocritical. I mean, why is it o.k when Yahtzee or MADDOX do it, but not Matthew Inman? Well, it's simple. Ben Croshaw and George Ouzounian are both acting out obviously exaggerated characters. Also, they are both talented and funny enough for me to let this slide. Matthew, on the other hand, fails at both counts. His work is utter trash, and his attitude is not an act. This behavior, by the way, preceded him becoming a webcomic artist. Don't be mistaken; the fake e-fame did not go to his head. No, he was always a douchebag by his own admission. Again, in an interview, he simply says he used to do bad work and not comply with his customers demands because he didn't feel like it. So his solution? Make a shitty webcomic with no goal other than to make money by any means necessary, so that he can sit home on his ass and rake in the dough. And it worked! "How much does he make" you ask? Well, the numbers are contradicting. About 1000$ on a regular day it says. Over 70k on Black Friday. Some reports claim around 400 thousand a year, while others estimate over half a million. Whichever one is correct, it is too much. The change I find in my car's back seat is too much in exchange for this trash, let alone half a mill.<br />
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For me, though, the peak of his childlike behavior was when he criticized MMORPGs with [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/online_gaming this comic], which is essentially him saying to whatever 15-year-old called him a "N00B" on ''World of Warcraft'', or whatever, "oh yeah?! Well, at least I have a wife that I have sex with! Haha!" ... real mature.<br />
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== Conclusion==<br />
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Webcomics do not need this.<br />
<br />
Reading some of the reviews on this site, and my own in particular, you might come to the mistaken conclusion that we here at BWW hate webcomics. However, I think I can speak for everyone when I say that's not true. It's more complicated than that. I love webcomics. I think they are an exciting new medium that has a chance to one day produce some real art (if it isn't already). But at the same time, I understand that the field of webcomics is flawed. It's a medium with no quality control, where mediocrity and no talent are often rewarded with fame and praise. There is something inherently wrong with webcomics when shitty, poorly drawn, covertly pornographic titles like ''[[The Wotch]]'' can sustain their creators. There is something wrong when people make these comics with no intention of creating something of value, but only as a means to gain e-fame.<br />
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Webcomics do not need more problems. We do not need people like [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi|Bleedman]] and [[So... You're a Cartoonist?|Preston]] making us all look bad with their insane behavior and disgusting perversions. We do not need [[Least I Could Do|Ryan Sohmer]], who makes a living by being a misogynistic prick, and does so well that he can afford to sponsor the trash of other, equally talentless people. We do not need shitty furry comics being payed to give their audience something to masturbate to. And we certainly don't need "The Oatmeal". While some webcomic artists pour all their efforts into their work and get no recognition, this guy got five million hits in a single year by using tricks from his old profession and writing about things like [http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight Twilight] and [http://theoatmeal.com/tag/cats fucking cats]. While some actually talented artists struggle to make ends meet, and spend their money trying to cover hosting costs for their websites so that they can continue to provide people with real art, this guy makes six figures by churning out something as trite, stale, banal, and vapid as he can. And then he brags about it and tells others to do the same. It's disgusting.<br />
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Some of you may think I am jealous, that this review is nothing more than my hissy fit because this man makes more than I ever could. For these people, I would like to quote the Chinese philosopher Confucius:<br />
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{{Quote|With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.}}<br />
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Much in the same way, although I would love to make that kind of money, it is not worth the sacrifice of my dignity and self-respect. If I woke up one morning with Matthew Inman's money in my pocket and found out that THIS is what I got it for, I would set it on fire and maybe jump into the flames myself. And I have a feeling that as soon as he finds this review, he will, once again, display his oh-so adult attitude and do something like redirect traffic from this site to goatse.cx, or posting parts of this review on his website and criticizing it for grammatical errors or some nonsense, while completely ignoring the point. So, in case he plans on doing that, I would just like to say that despite English being my third language and my dyslexia, I knew how to properly use a semi colon without having to Google it, and yet ''I'' didn't feel the need to celebrate this achievement by [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon making a comic about it].<br />
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Finally, I would just like to say that, in all of his interviews, I have heard him talk about how to make a '''successful''' webcomic, or how to make a '''profitable''' webcomic, but I don't think I have even once heard him talking about how to make a '''GOOD''' webcomic.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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* [http://theoatmeal.com/ "The Oatmeal"] - Come gaze upon its glory.<br />
* [http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/287/d/b/how_to_pander_like_the_oatmeal_by_taeshilh-d30s893.png A parody] - The guys over at [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]] have something to say about "The Oatmeal".<br />
* [http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/the-oatmeal/ Kris Straub makes the same criticism] - Only funny this time.<br />
* [http://www.myapokalips.com/show/125 A third parody by "Apokalisp Comic"] - I never said webcomic artists were original.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=LOLsketch&diff=6266LOLsketch2014-01-03T05:06:26Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/oddguy oddguy] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://lolsketch.net/ LOLsketch]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://travis.lolsketch.net/ Travis Duane and Kym Cork] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|May 3rd, 2010<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Since "shit" is not a genre, I'll go with "humor".<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|Least funny thing in existence.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The artist of this comic is the first man to ever fail at drawing stick figures. In a way, that in itself is amazing.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
It's a gag-a-day type of comic, so it has no story... sadly there are no jokes either.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
You would be forgiven to think that these are nameless characters whose sole purpose is to deliver a punchline and be forgotten, but a closer look at the "about" page will teach you that they are supposed to have [http://lolsketch.net/about/ names and personalities].<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
If anyone would have actually read this comic and left a comment, its writer might realize how bad it is. But so far, I seem to be the only person aware of this comic's existence.<br />
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== Background==<br />
<br />
I believe that in order to warrant a review on the BWW, a comic must be judged by two factors. The first is how bad it is, and the second is how notorious it is. That way, even a comic like [[Las Lindas]], that is by any standard at least drawn with some competence, will receive a review prior to something like [http://picklejuice.comicgenesis.com/ The Office Bitch], which is far worse but not notable enough. Comics with aggressively obnoxious authors or a fanbase that does not coincide with the comic's quality to an insulting degree are given priority over ones that are bad but no one could give a shit about.<br />
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Yet, once every hundred years, there comes something so incredibly bad that it needs to be pulled out of obscurity only so that it can be laughed at and ridiculed.<br />
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That thing is [http://lolsketch.net/ "LOLsketch"].<br />
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== Downfall== <br />
<br />
The downfall of most comics on this website began the moment their respective authors posted the first page on the Internet. But LOLsketch's failure predates the comic and begins the moment Travis Duane's mother became pregnant and decided to keep it.<br />
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== Art review==<br />
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The art fails in ways no artist has failed before. From the first glance, it should be evident to anyone with eyes where this comic gets its inspiration. Yes, it's [http://www.explosm.net/ Explosm], the home of [[Cyanide and Happiness]]. In a way, it's not even bad art; it's that there is no art. At least bad artists try to make something and fail. This man simply tried to copy something and failed.<br />
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Seriously, how do you pick the worst-drawn comic on the Internet as a model and then go down from there? Travis Duane is like a man who chooses the last place contestant in the Special Olympics as his role model but still manages to start the race by tripping over the very first hurdle and breaking his neck.<br />
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You know what else? At least the C&H guys have sort of an excuse: it's a comic where shock and aw is the punchline, so blob people make it a bit less gross and give a sort of juxtaposition between the dark tone of the humor and lighthearted character designing. Also they have proven in the past with their flash animations that they have some talent. Heck, one of them made the [http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/joezombie Joe Zombie] series on Newgounds, which as far as stick figure cartoons go, was not half bad. The same thing can be said about [http://xkcd.com/ XKCD]. Sure it's bad, but it's all just Internet humor, so in a way, stick figures are appropriate. What about [http://lol-comics.livejournal.com/ lol_comics]? Equally vulgar and badly drawn, but unlike this pile of trash, it's poorly drawn on purpose and actually funny. In this aspect LOLsketch is the lowest of the low even among stick figure comics. It starts its way on the bottom tier, and with a combination of zero effort and no talent, finds a way to burrow even deeper.<br />
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==Humor review==<br />
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[[File:166690 184378101594975 1314306 n.jpg|thumb|right|I will give money to anyone who can explain to me why this is supposed to be funny.]]<br />
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There is no bigger waste in this world than a comedy that isn't funny. When you read a story of any genre and if it's good you enjoy it, if it's bad you can at least understand the plot or laugh at its poor quality or become enraged by it. When you read a joke strip if it's funny you laugh, if it isn't you just pointlessly wasted a moment of your life. This is the problem with "LOLsketch" and indeed with any comic that goes out of its way to insure you of its hilarity right there in the title. Mostly this only serves as testimony to the author not knowing how unfunny he is.<br />
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This comic doesn't just fail at humor, no. It acts sort of like a compendium of every way you could possibly ruin a joke. Let me show you:<br />
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Thinking vulgarity is the same as humor: the punchline is always [http://lolsketch.net/comics/rear-ended/ AIDS!] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/nohair/ CANCER!] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/i-love-you/ DEATH!] ... hahaha hilarious.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/cake/ Old] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/get-to-da-choppa/ memes] are not the same as jokes.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/letter-to-puppet/ Unnecessary panel.] This one might have actually made me smile a bit if it was left as a single panel joke.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/in-love/ Needlessly drawn out jokes], but this would not have been funny anyway.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/new-shirts/ Trying to advertise his cheap crap in the comic.] Yes, this idiot has the nerve to try and [http://www.zazzle.com.au/lolsketch+gifts sell you shit].<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/snowball-fight/ Punchline is "there is no punchline"], but there is no joke either.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/new-xbox360/ Punchline is nudity], but there is still no joke.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/new-xbox360/ Making fun of the art being bad,] instead of actually fixing it.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/finger/ Making fun of the art being bad AND explaining the joke!] Also breaking the fourth wall.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/pull-my-finger/ THEN DOING THE SAME JOKE AGAIN!] THE ART IS BAD! HAHAHAHA!<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/dont-feed-bears/ Doing visual gags he does not have the art skills to pull off], although this one could have been drawn by John Kricfalusi himself and it still wouldn't be funny.<br />
[http://lolsketch.net/comics/warm-apple-pie/ The only time he puts any effort into his drawings, it's not funny, it's just gross.]<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/pedo-santa/ This joke has been] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/dino/ done a million times], also much better.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/backwards/ Thinking any visual trick constitutes a joke,] but no, it has to actually have a punchline, Travis.<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/mugged/ Thinking] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/tip-jar/ any] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/trojan-horse/ pun] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/i-love-you-2/ is] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/third-leg/ automatically] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/change/ a] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/pinch-that-ass/ joke.] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/watch-out-for-the-vampie/ Including some puns that aren't even puns.]<br />
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[http://lolsketch.net/comics/superman/ These] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/ice-cream-dog/ are] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/black-cats-revenge/ not] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/fridge/ even] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/cat-killer/ jokes,] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/binge-drink/ they] '''[http://lolsketch.net/comics/match/ make] [http://lolsketch.net/comics/the-walls/ NO]''' '''[http://lolsketch.net/comics/owls-are-cool/ SENSE!!!]'''<br />
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Do you see what I mean now? It's so incredibly unfunny. There are maybe five or six jokes that are honestly hilarious, and even then, it's just by some amazing coincidence. This is the first comic I have ever read where I felt like I wasn't laughing '''WITH''' the artist but rather '''AT''' him.<br />
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In a way, this comic reminded me of an old [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_A6K9rSko Eddie Murphy routine], where he told about how he used to look up to Richard Prior and his dirty jokes, so when he did his first stand up act at the age of fifteen, he did it all about shitting because that's the only dirty thing he knew about. This comic is sort of the same; it's like an eight-year-old who heard a naughty word and started repeating it constantly, believing himself to be some sort of comedy genius, until his mother catches him and whoops his ass. In a similar fashion, Travis read Cyanide & Happiness and is now repeating what he saw without any understanding of what (allegedly) makes it funny. Except Travis isn't eight, he's '''[http://lolsketch.net/comics/cake/ FUCKING NINETEEN!!!]'''<br />
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== Author biography ==<br />
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A comic so bad has to raise some questions in your mind like, "What kind of man could have made this?" "Is it even a man?" and "Is it possible to travel back in time to warn myself about reading this comic?" The answer to the third question is of course "No, retard", but the first two have a much more unexpected answer.<br />
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It's three people... it takes the combined effort of [http://lolsketch.net/about/ three people] to produce something I would have attributed to half of a man or possibly some kind of man/cow hybrid that has somehow acquired an Internet connection. The individuals in question are Travis Duane, his girlfriend Kym Cork, and Robert Smith with whom Travis shares a blog. The latter two, Travis claims, help him with the comic. Although, if I were his friend, the help I would offer would come in the form of a sledge hammer to his computer monitor.<br />
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Another thing that bothers me is that this man not only makes one comic but rather '''[http://lolsketch.net/about/ three]''' '''[http://shortmen.lolsketch.net/ of]''' '''[http://keith.lolsketch.net/ them!!!]''' Like in the story ''The Little Prince'', you see that a man can be both lazy and hardworking at the same time. So even though he puts literally no effort into his first comic, he feels the need to have two more that are just as shitty. [http://travis.lolsketch.net/ And his partner Robert Smith is apparently working on a fourth]. What is it with these people? Just like in my review of [[Jack (the other one)|"the other Jack"]], I find that the most untalented people are not satisfied with making ONE bad comic. No, they have to make FOUR!<br />
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Other than that, there isn't much to say about Travis. He does not reveal much about himself, not that anyone cares. All I can say is that I assume he is not a particularly intelligent individual if he is incapable of understanding how bad his comic really is.<br />
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== Conclusion==<br />
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I made this review out of pity. I'm still not sure what I was trying to achieve. I saw Travis and his [http://www.lolsketch.net/forum/ completely dead forum], his [http://www.make.lolsketch.net/ "make your own LOLsketch"] game that is meant to make it easy for his non-existent fans to make him fan art ([http://lolsketch.net/artists/ no one ever does]), I saw his [http://travis.lolsketch.net/ blog] that no one comments on, I saw the "project wonderful" ads at the top and edge of his website that no one is willing to pay for so he has to use them to advertise himself, and I just felt sorry for him. I only hope that with this review, the comic might get some attention. Enough for the comic's creator to understand what he's doing and stop. And if not, since it will never be successful, I hope it will be at least a little bit infamous.<br />
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In my mind, Travis and his comic are like the smelly kid playing alone in the playground, and if I push him off the swing he should be grateful that at least someone acknowledges his existence.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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* <strike>[http://lolsketch.net/about/ The comic's website.] There are no other links that I can add because I'm the first person to ever pay any attention to this.</strike> Deleted forever... Thank you Jesus.<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Fontes%27_Rants&diff=6265Fontes' Rants2014-01-03T05:05:04Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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[[File:bDymu.jpg|700px|center|thumb|<center>''Still waiting''<center>]]<br />
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{{WComic Infobox<br />
|review author = {{oddguy}}<br />
|webcomic name = [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1477524/hammer-time/ Fontes' Rants]<br />
|author = [http://fontes-makua.deviantart.com/ Fabio Fontes]<br />
|start date = December 4, 2009, but some of the strips are recycled works from much earlier<br />
|end date = Ongoing<br />
|genre = Humor and whining<br />
|flaw = Multiple levels of bad writing<br />
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|art = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>Second grade anime-inspired tripe. Nothing too awful, but still not something I would call "good".<br />
|storyline = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>This is an unfunny joke comic. There is one storyline that reads like a fifteen-year-old's attempt at writing a manga.<br />
|characters = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The man is like a diet version of Tom Preston, so I have to say the same thing I said about him: "since the only character in this comic is the author, I have to say that the cast is extremely unlikeable."<br />
|overall = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>If I wanted to listen to an unfunny man complain about boring shit, I would record myself.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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The internet's greatest strength, as well as its biggest weakness, is its lack of quality control. Since there's no entry bar, and anyone with minimal skill (or no skill at all) can set up his own little corner online, we end up getting an endless supply of material with mixed results. Because of this, we often get the kind of high quality works that could never have found a sponsor on any old media, or would not have been made if their talented yet lazy creators were required to put any more effort into them beyond setting up a website.<br />
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But on the flip side, we also have the utterly talentless and completely insane posting their own works online. These range from the easily ignorable, to the hilariously incompetent, to the stupid to the point of inducing rage. Although there is nowhere this problem is more apparent than webcomics, the field of self-appointed internet critics suffers from it too. I have never been one to blindly defend whatever it is that I am a part of, simply because it is I who is a part of it, and I will be the first to admit that not every review on this site is perfect. But I stand by it nonetheless, because I can still vouch for most of them. <br />
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So how are internet critics made? Well, when a person amasses (what he thinks) is a sufficient amount of knowledge on a certain subject (and enough unwarranted self importance) to call himself an "expert", and leads himself to believe that he is witty and insightful enough that people will and should listen to what he has to say, a web critic is born. Because some level of of nerdiness and pompousness is required to waste time on becoming an expert on something that is utterly meaningless, this art remains mostly untainted by the stupid and unqualified. But every rule has its exception, and today, we are here to discuss such an exception in the form of Fabio Fonte, a self-asserted web critic who's unwarranted complaints, advice and opinions are so trite and overused that reading his comics is a series of ''deja vu'''s, breaking up an otherwise uninterrupted bout with narcolepsy.<br />
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I would like to say that this review is giving him a taste of his own medicine, but it's more like force-feeding him an overdose of sleeping pills as punishment for his malpractice.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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I think the downfall of this comic began when the writer ran out of DeviantArt jokes, which end pretty early in the comic's run and are his only remotely original idea. That isn't to say such jokes were not also already as stale as a year old loaf of bread, but, despite seeing countless works on DeviantArt about criticizing DeviantArt, I have never seen an entire comic about it. Still, he runs out of those in about ten strips, and after that, you are left traveling the endless desert of no humor, desperately seeking the oasis of a single funny joke.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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I am going to keep this section short because I don't want to bag on the art just for the sake of complaining about everything. The art is competent, which is more than I can say for most webcomics. There are no glaringly obvious flaws, he has control over a few different styles, which he switches between depending on what is called on by the comic. And, despite starting off at a relatively good level, he still continues to polish his skills as he goes along. The art isn't perfect, but I see nothing too wrong with it. I am used to all webcomic art being laughably bad. The art that isn't is usually only like that because the artist honed his skills by drawing disproportionately large tits 24/7. So I give Fabio's art a pass. He still has a lot to learn, but he isn't drawing some kind of epic fantasy adventure, so I don't expect a visual masterpiece. My only real complaint is that, for someone who complains about Anime as much as he does, he is far too reliant on drawing in an anime-inspired style.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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The writing in this comic is a fucking joke. Given the opportunity, I could write a section about it that would span five miles long, but I'll try to contain myself and get to the point. <br />
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I couldn't do it. As I was writing this I realized there are so many things wrong with this comic's writing that I couldn't possibly write a coherent review of it without splitting it up into fucking sub sections.<br><br />
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So here we go:<br><br />
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<u>'''It's Not Original.'''</u><br><br />
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Out of the many problems with this comic, the first is the lack of originality. Almost every single joke in this comic I have heard before (and always done better).<br />
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In fact, go get your shot glasses and try to read the comic. Take one shot every time you read a joke you heard somewhere else. You will be hammered by page 15. Here, let me offer you some examples of the groundbreaking and innovative humor in "Fonte's Rants":<br />
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[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/755064/another-day-on-deviantart-sonic-fanart/ All Sonic fan characters are just recolors.]<br />
[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761573/pass-the-phoenix-down-please/ Why didn't Cloud use a phoenix down on Aerith?]<br />
[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761574/screw-turns-take-control/ Why do characters in JRPGs wait their turn?]<br />
[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761582/dry-joke/ Hand dryers in public bathrooms are hard to use.]<br />
[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761589/dual-stfu/ Navi from "Zelda" and Ashley from "Residant Evil 4" are annoying.]<br />
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...You're back? Awake? <br><br />
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So yes ,this is the humor of Fonte's Rants. Recycled old jokes that were already stale a week after Final Fantasy 7 came out over a decade ago. Lately it has gotten a bit better (after he forgot the main theme of the comic and started doing random jokes instead of rants). After he stole every old, overused joke ever, he had to start coming up with his own material. But even with the few jokes that somehow manage to get a smile out of me he still manages to fuck it up. Which brings us to my next <s>rant</s> complaint:<br><br />
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<u>'''Too Many Words...'''</u><br><br />
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The comic is waaaaaaay too verbose. The man has an almost [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Buckley-esqe]] love for text (if not more). He is the Hideo Kojima of webcomics. It's not enough that his jokes are old and unfunny. He had a nasty habit of adding a second "punchline" after the joke was already made. It got so annoying he [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1180714/out-with-the-punchlines/ had to stop after his readers started complaining about it]. But those useless little punchlines are only the tip of the iceberg. You see, at the bottom of each comic there is a long, boring wall of text that explains the joke. And don't think you can ignore those either. In one comic Fabio [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/894527/reading-is-good-for-you/ addresses his readers directly to tell them to read the authors comments section], and explains he is angry at them for asking him to explain the joke. <br />
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YES! '''You read that right!''' His comic is so bad that people can't understand the humor of it without reading an elongated explanation... '''<u>AND IT'S THE READER'S FAULT!</u>''' Let me tell you something: If you can't get the joke across to your audience without having them read a detailed explanation telling them why it's funny, you have failed as a cartoonist and maybe even as a human being. Imagine if every strip of "Garfield" ended with a clip note by Jim Davis explaining that: "This comic is funny because Garfield is fat and wants the lasagna, but his owner..." etc. Just to show I am not blowing this out of proportion, I want you to look at this:<br><br />
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[[File:OciIl.gif|center]]<br />
<center>''Brevity is the soul of wit.''</center><br><br />
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YES! That's right! The text is longer than the comic!<br><br />
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All of this would be forgivable if this comic would elicit as much as a chuckle out of me, but...<br><br />
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'''<u>It's Just Not Funny!</u>'''<br><br />
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He has no idea how to deliver a punch. All jokes are things that annoy him either being overblown into absurdity or being confronted with his author avatar and [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761561/idiocity-at-its-finest/ being yelled at]/[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761918/learn-how-to-sing/ beat up by it]. As this website has shown countless times, random violence is not funny, nor is pointing out that something gets on your nerves. Without some wit or subtlety you can use to display the absurdity of a situation in some other way than showing yourself being angry at it, your comic will not be funny. For all the reasons already mentioned, as well as several others, this comic is not funny. It isn't insightful either by the way. Maybe if his complaints had any merit, or were thought provoking in any way, the lack of humor would be acceptable and walls of text understandable. But it isn't.<br><br />
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'''<u>The Complaints Make No Sense.</u>'''<br><br />
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Forgetting for a moment that the "joy" derived from listening to people rant is the reason few people enjoy spending time with their racist grandfather. His rants are stupid to begin with. These come in many categories: [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1477524/hammer-time/ Petty complaints no one wants to hear about], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761630/buster-swiss-cheese/ video game logic not syncing up with real world logic], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761602/a-big-lump-of-duh/ things that can be explained or refuted with a single moment of though], and [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/930091/climbing-creed/ complaints that are just stupid]. Like this one where he is angry at [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761628/are-you-blind/ Naruto for not sleeping with Hinata]. Setting aside both of them being 13, the fact Naruto's love interest is and should be a part of the main cast like in any other reasonably written story, and his stupid ferret thing's willingness to engage in bestiality with her. He is angry at the characters for acting in character! Naruto's whole thing is him being a happy-go lucky, clueless dimwit. And Hinata is meant to be the shy and insecure girl. For what he is angry to be rectified would require the entire cast to magically change all their personalities and motivations.<br />
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So Fabio comes off to me as one of those people who sits at the movie theater and loudly ponders:<br />
"Why doesn't he just fuck her?" God, I hate those jackasses.<br><br />
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<u>'''Cliché To The Max.'''</u><br><br />
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There is also some irony in this comics abysmal writing. You see, Fonte's humor often relays on the tropes and clichés of certain television and video game genres. The hilarity of this is of course the fact that his own comic is so thickly laden with those same idioms he aims to mock. The first and most obvious one is the [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761559/new-character-unlocked/ unnecessary cute animal sidekick. ]A trope that has been airlifted out of 80% of all western media and 100% of all Anime ever. But more so than that is the fact he commits every flaw and mortal sin of a novice web cartoonist. With the scale of quality, starting with true humor and wit at one end, and tired old crap at the other, Fonte makes his bread and butter by pointing out all the flaws of the bottom tier, while committing all the mistakes of the one just above it. In the end, he is incapable of the slightest bit of introspection that would be enough for any other critic to see the glaringly obvious flaws in his own comic.<br><br />
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<u>'''The "Takeshi" Arc.'''</u><br><br />
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This is a sub sub-section of my complaint that this comic is cliché. (Yes, I have so much to say about how bad his writing is that I need a sub sub-section.)<br />
So at one point Fabio decided one useless sidekick is not enough and broke flow completely by veering off into a retarded Manga style story arc about his imaginary son. Yes. I am not kidding. Let me explain the plot for you:<br />
[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/779709/one-more-for-the-team-part-1/ Fonte finds a "Death Note" parody called a the "Life Note"], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/806598/one-more-for-the-team-part-11/ which he uses to create himself a son with the magical ability to create weapons out of thin air]. [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/810930/one-more-for-the-team-part-12/ Said son goes off on a rampage in the city] [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/815446/one-more-for-the-team-part-13/ and his creator is the only one who can stop him.] Why the police can't just shoot and kill him like they would any other lunatic blowing up buildings with a rocket launcher is never explained. It is also not explained why the police require the assistance of a fat, greasy Portuguese video game nerd to subdue a criminal, but they do. So Fonte [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/816305/one-more-for-the-team-part-14/ confronts his son and captures him in a pokeball] (...what?) which he then [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/822602/one-more-for-the-team-part-15/ throws in a trash can to starve to death]. But the prodigal son returns and they have a climactic[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/853738/one-more-for-the-team-part-22/ Anime sword fight] in Fabio's living room which he (obviously) wins and makes his abomination into a sidekick.<br />
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During this story you will witness such things as: [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/796859/one-more-for-the-team-part-8/ hilariously ham handed attempts at drama], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/786770/one-more-for-the-team-part-5/ horrible plot], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/794102/one-more-for-the-team-part-7/ unneeded information about the authors personal life that no one could care less about], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/801335/one-more-for-the-team-part-10/ stupid memes] ([http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761907/what-do-you-mean-we-cant-skip-it/ God] [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1053280/learning-from-the-expert/ he] [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1059198/learning-from-the-experts-part-2/ loves] [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1319582/that-is-a-man/ those]...) and the writer [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/832194/one-more-for-the-team-part-18/ giving himself retarded Mary Sue powers] like you see being done only by the [http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Christian_Weston_Chandler absolute worst webcomic artists out there]. The story ends with [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/862713/one-more-for-the-team-part-23/ Fabio agreeing not to kill his son] if he joins him in his rants and agrees to [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/868855/one-more-for-the-team-finale/ "keep the guns pointed at the haters"]. In those mere 25 page I found myself facepalming more then any,hundreds of paged long,Mary Sue wish fulfillment fanfiction,partially because this person is supposed to be my colleague. Do you understand the stupidity of all this!? He needs his imaginary, super power endowed son to protect him against his non existent haters. But the problem is...<br><br />
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'''<u>No One Fucking Cares, Fabio!</u>'''<br><br />
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In direct continuation of the last segment, I have made this diagram for Fabio to show him who his "haters" are:<br />
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<center>[[File:N0X7J.jpg]]</center><br />
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And this one to further explain the situation:<br />
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<center>[[File:2iOrw.jpg]]</center><br />
<center>''This is about right...''</center><br />
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This is the problem- His "targets" consist of: [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/930091/climbing-creed/ fictional characters], [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1120740/nintendoh-3ds/ major game companies] and [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/752261/another-day-on-deviantart/ ridiculous strawmen] whose real life counterparts would never recognize the criticism is directed at them. So at the end of the day, no one could care less. The only people I could imagine getting riled up by his comic (intentionally. We will talk about the people he might accidentally annoy a bit later.) are assorted video game company fanboys, who will rage at him for insulting their favorite gaming console (But I have yet to see any evidence of anyone actually doing that). In spite of all this, the comic has this air of self importance about it, as if its creator thinks that[http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/872000/forensic-fun/ drawing himself beating on his most hated video game characters] will somehow hurt them, or that [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/761634/just-a-lil-more-please/ making fun of Hideo Kojima] will make him burst into tears or something. He is not the first web reviewer to go that route. But most other people I have seen do this are clearly aware that their opinion means next to nothing. You never catch [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/ "The Guy With The Glasses"] going: "Next week I am going to review this bad movie...ooooooh! They are so gonna get it!" Like Fabio does every other comic.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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There isn't much to say about Fabio Fonte. He has a more respectable resume than some webcomic artists, and less than others. I am not sure if he has any formal art education. He mentions being an autodidact in one of his blog posts, but I remember him mentioning something about studying art in one of his authors comment section. He used to do cartoons for some kind of gaming magazine that went under when the economy in Portugal went bad, and later recycled those works in the comic. He also has a [http://ranterworks.com/markpto/ second comic] (didn't read this one because it costs money) and used to do the art for [http://legendarycomics.net/index.php "Legendary comics"] (No, obviously not [http://www.legendary.com/comics/ the real "Legendary Comics"]... As if.) where his rants were originally featured (he recycled those too.) and eventually parted ways with them. He says he was not kicked out, and as much as I would like to pretend otherwise, considering the comic has been dead since his departure, I have to believe him that he left of his own volition. But he does mention in his blog that he left that comic for the sake of more artistic freedom, so there might be more to this story.<br />
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My only real complaint about him is that he seems rather...stupid.<br />
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I know I shouldn't be making these kinds of ad hominems, but I can't help it. Every line he writes ends with either a ^^ or a XD like one of those same DeviantTARTlets he started off mocking, and erasing any illusion of pseudo professionalism. As well as him repeatedly stumbling over his own tongue and blurting out some not very politically correct statements. Like in [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1003884/aew-party/ this authors section] where he called Brazilians stupid and lazy, or this one where he takes some kind of [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/884435/feminism-fail/ bizarre stand against feminism], or this comic where he [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1198948/country-of-morons/ insulted his own homeland of Portugal] and was forced to apologize. There is also the problem that comes up every time mentions a religious subject. [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/1291896/annoyed-messiah/ In one comic's authors comments section] he tells anyone who is offended by him mentioning God to "grow up". But my problem is not with the mere mention of God, but with his constant insistence to refer to him by the explicit name. Something that most people know is considered extremely offensive.<br />
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So, really,what I have to say about this author is simply that, considering his attitude, he may have not done anything too horrible yet. But I'm still waiting. <br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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Fabio Fonte should not be making this comic. He should not be critiquing anything. He does not have the wit, experience, intelligence, or ability to self-criticize that is required of someone who wants to do what he does. The only thing that qualifies him to write that comic in any way is a mediocre ability to draw.<br />
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I hope he will either stop making this comic, or rants so much it induces an aneurysm.<br />
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Fingers crossed for option #2.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://fontesrants.smackjeeves.com/comics/752261/another-day-on-deviantart/ His crybaby comic.]<br />
* [http://ranterworks.com/ His crybaby blog]<br />
* [http://fontes-makua.deviantart.com/ His crybaby Deviantart account.]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Devilbear&diff=6264Devilbear2014-01-03T05:04:07Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{WComic Infobox<br />
|review author = {{oddguy}}<br />
|webcomic name = [http://www.thedevilbear.com Devilbear]<br />
|author = Ben Bourbon<br />
|start date = Hell if I know.<br />
|end date = Ongoing<br />
|genre = This comic has a bit of everything: drama, humor, suspense. Too bad they all suck. The most prominent "genre", though, is fap fodder.<br />
|flaw = Everything about this comic is wrong.<br />
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{{ratesum<br />
|art = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The art is the only tolerable aspect of this comic, if you can ignore the blatant plagiarism, objectification of women, and the eyesore that is this comic's choice of color.<br />
|storyline = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The story schizophrenically hops between unfunny humor and angsty drama while spectacularly failing at both.<br />
|characters = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The characters are one bearded, red plush bear without the ability to emote in any way, and his whorehouse of personality-devoid sex toys.<br />
|overall = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The pretty colors and gratuitous amounts of fan service fail to distract me from the fact this comic is shit, and I suspect the same holds true for anyone with an IQ level above room temperature.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:DBbearalzebub.gif|right|150px]]<br />
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Never has reading a mere one hundred and eighty pages been such a task for me. Usually, I breeze through comics of this length regardless of quality. And yet, this trip into the magical fantasy land called '''Devilbear''' I spent with my head out of the window, vomiting at the bad puns and rolling my eyes at the attempts at drama.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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I actually found the first chapter to be the most repulsive. Please don't misinterpret this comment as some sort of an allusion that this comic shows improvement later.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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[[File:DBbrains.gif|thumb|left]]<br />
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The story is awful. The basic plot is about some alternate version of hell reserved solely for plush animals (brilliant premise) that is ruled by a stuffed bear named Bearalzebub (fuck you) and his collection of prostitutes, each ''meant'' to represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins, but in reality, they each loosely represent some sexual fantasy or fetish. Bearalzebub spends the first chapter or two brutally torturing [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=3 unlicensed versions of lovable childrens' cartoon characters], then the next few chapters introducing and gathering more girls for his harem of red skinned whores (not racist; they actually have red skin), and from then on, the plot descends into a mind-numbingly boring story about the tragic and dramatic past of Bearalzebub. These are the only three flavors this comic's chapters come in, and each one of them is repulsive in their own way.<br />
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The first part is simply horrible. So "Whinnie the Pooh" has been changed into "Whinnie the Pimp" and Piglet is now his transvestite whore. How exactly is this supposed to be funny? I don't know. Anyway, Pooh then dies and goes to Hell and gets tortured. You would think that this being done to a teddy bear would make it less unpleasant to watch, but it doesn't! This recurring theme where cute animal things get ripped to shreds while screaming in agony and begging for mercy is completely revolting. The fact the comic's writer fails to see this makes me think that he must get off to it or something.<br />
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Then there are the chapters that revolve around introducing another shallow fetish target to Bearalzebub's brothel. These are nothing but reasons to add more cheesecake to the story, not that the rest of the comic doesn't have enough of ''that'' already. Barely-clothed women seem to be a staple of this comic. The plot either revolves around them or conveniently finds a way to redirect itself to whatever will lead to the most girls taking off the biggest amount of clothes in the shortest amount of time.<br />
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Finally, there are the story chapters. The comic has some ongoing plot about Bearalzebub leaving a group of unfunny "Care Bear" parodies for the sake of his love interest. Then she goes kill crazy, he freezes her in ice and goes on to seek justice by running Hell and punishing sinners. Yes, I am serious. Not for a moment is creator Ben Bourbon bothered by the thought that no one could possibly care or relate to this story, that the tragic character that is Bearalzebub is laughable due to the fact he is a fucking stuffed bear, or that this is made worse by the fact said bear has no personality.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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[[File:DBsameface.PNG|right|330px]]<br />
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There is one thing that pisses me off beyond anything when it comes to art. I call it "Same Face Syndrome". As the name would imply, it is characterized by all the characters having essentially the same face with only the hair and other minor details to set characters apart from one another. This phenomenon is as infuriating to me as it is common, and although it is more typically seen in web mangas, western style comics are often guilty of this as well. This webcomic disease, like diabetes, comes in two forms. The first is when ALL of the characters look the same. This shows laziness and no respect for your reading public. The second one is when only the FEMALE characters look the same. This on the other hand shows that the writer has no respect for women. Men are allowed to be ugly and imperfect, but every girl is an impossibly curvaceous babe with a perfect face and body. The only girls who are allowed to stray from the artists ideal of beauty are hideous fat girls who only appear in the comic to be demonized or made fun of for their looks. [http://leasticoulddo.com/ L.I.C.D] is most guilty of this, but this comic is a fine example as well.<br />
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As I was saying, all of the female characters look exactly the same. You would think that the one that represents the sin of gluttony would be obese, but no, she is slim and sexy. You might think the same about the personification of the sin of sloth, and it seems that Ben Bourbon would agree... sort of. There is a short bit in the comic where the sloth girl [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=143 has trouble squeezing into her pants because she has grown a bit of a beer belly]. A beer belly that magically disappears the moment that segment is over, because God forbid if consistency or appropriate character design should get in the way of her next [http://www.thedevilbear.com/wallpapers/belle/800x600.jpg pin up shot]. So the "divas", as they are called, are less representations of the Seven Deadly Sins (original idea there, buddy!) and more a collection of common themes in fap art. Just off the top of my head, I can recall the following examples from the comic: [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=2 naked apron], [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=11 S&M], [http://www.thedevilbear.com/wallpapers/belle/800x600.jpg cute girl in T-shirt and panties], [http://www.thedevilbear.com/bio4.html sexy business women], [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=170 gratuitous sauna scene], [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=170 twincest], and so on. But what does this have to do with bad art? Well, other than being morally deplorable, not much. The art is rather pleasing to the <strike>dick</strike> eye. It's a bit lacking in detail, but nothing too horrible, although it is funny the way that some characters are SO curvaceous that, in some panels, the artist just goes overboard and draws anatomically impossible big tits and asses. Sometimes, the ass just seems to almost detach itself from the body as the girl's hips virtually dislocate themselves in an attempt to be even more sexy.<br />
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[[File:comic0123.jpg|thumb|center|600px|''What the fuck is wrong with your ass, bitch?'']]<br />
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Other than that, there is not much to say about the art. It's bland and insipid. In an attempt to incorporate every popular genre into this comic, and fail at all of them, Ben Bourbon also treats his readers to some [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=91 insanely confusing fight scenes]. Furthermore, this comic is a classic example of "[[The Cute And Cuddly Cast]]" sin. Just like in [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5 "Jack"], the art does not fit the subject matter in the slightest. The plot often focuses on death, torture, and drama, and yet, any character that is not a super model is a child's toy. How in fuck's name am I supposed to take any of this seriously with an art style that makes it look as if the animators of ''Dora The Explorer'' were called upon to draw a porno?<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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[[File:DBnudity.gif|left|200px]]<br />
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This comic is to story writing what dipping your entire arm into a vat of boiling oil is to cooking. Let's ignore the numerous plot holes and get to the characters. Despite being the main character, Bearalzebub is by far the most lacking in personality. While the other girls at least provide you with something to jerk off to, Bearalzebub only exists as a sad excuse for this comic to have a plot in the first place. He never does anything but scowl at things. He has a tragic past that leads the plot along, but the only purpose of the plot is to give excuses for the already mostly naked girls to get even more naked, like in one part where the two incestuous twins are fighting a third sexy girl for their lives (she might as well be their twin as well since they all look so similar) and decide that the best fighting strategy would be to first [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=90 take off their pants]. Fucking brilliant! Sun Tzu should have dedicated a whole chapter to "take your pants off" in ''The Art of War''.<br />
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[[File:DBcarebearasslaser.gif|right]]<br />
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Then there's the humor. My ''God'' is it unfunny. The comic tries to mix some comedy into this mess, but the only jokes all [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=9 very bad puns]. That's it. Just puns. We are treated to pun after pun after pun with no humor in sight. For example, one of the girls names is "Lucy Fur". Ha ha, I guess? You see, this is in no way a joke. It doesn't even make sense. Lucifer was a man and "Lucy Fur" is a woman who doesn't even wear any fucking fur (or much of anything else for that matter). Ben Bourbon seems to be one of those people who do not understand that a pun is sometimes funny when it is the punchline of a joke. It can't just be the joke itself. Oh wait! there '''is''' one more kind of joke he is good at! Tacky, unfunny bullshit! Like the Care Bear replicas doing their "Care Bear Stare" by [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=99 farting], or [http://www.thedevilbear.com/bio2.html a dog with three asses]. Hi-larious.<br />
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More than anything, this comic suffers from obviously being written on the fly. The author starts off trying to write a comedy, then mid-way, decides that he wants a serious story instead, despite the fact the charters are all wrong for it. The plot slowly gets more convoluted as he comes up with more ideas as he is writing. Some parts that are supposed to be long and suspenseful instead feel rushed and dull because he forgets that while it took him and the people waiting for updates weeks to finish those segments, anyone reading the archives will click past them in a matter of seconds. In another part of the plot, some character is introduced and tries to kill Bearalzebub. <strike>Her tragic story is exposed and soon after, she is killed without having contributed anything substantial to the plot.</strike> I'M SORRY! MY MISTAKE! SHE WASN'T DEAD! She came back, tried to kill Bearalzebub again, AND WAS ONCE AGAIN KILLED AFTER HAVING CONTRIBUTED NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL TO THE PLOT! ON THE VERY SAME PAGE!<br />
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So, essentially, this comic is like a beginner's guide to hack writing.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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There isn't much for me to write in this section. Unlike other webcomic artists, Ben Bourbon doesn't reveal much about himself. These is no "author biography" page (I doubt he would have any credentials to site if there was one), no fan forum (again, if there was, I doubt it would be very active), or FAQ, or anything of that sort. Maybe that's for the best. Many webcomic authors embarrass themselves or reveal themselves to be complete morons as soon as they try to interact with their fans, and judging solely by the material that this man produces, I can make the educated guess that he is probably just as big of a sick fuck as any of them.<br />
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The only thing he does expose about himself are some minor details in an [http://calscomiccorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-devil-bear-grimoires-of.html interview] to which he posted a link on his [http://www.thedevilbear.com/buzz.html "buzz" page]. In it, he says that he puts a lot of effort into making the comic, even hanging storyboards on the wall and constantly writing and re-writing the comic as if he were working on a movie. It's a shame to see that this man puts in so much more effort than most webcomic artists, and yet THIS is the final result.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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There are a lot of things wrong with this comic. It's dull, it's cliché, it's unoriginal, it's perverted, it's poorly colored, it's tacky... I could go on and on like this... and I think I will!<br />
It's also sexist, poorly written, plagiaristic, offensive, repulsive, and stupid. The men have no personalities, the women all have the same face and no personalities, the drama isn't dramatic, the humor isn't funny, the suspense isn't suspenseful, the action isn't exciting... this comic only ventures out of the land of mind-numbing mediocrity to travel to the nearby town of utter shit.<br />
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Do yourself a favor and don't read it.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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[http://www.thedevilbear.com The comic]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Carlos_Latuff_Comics&diff=6263Carlos Latuff Comics2014-01-03T05:02:49Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{{WComic Infobox<br />
|review author = {{oddguy}}<br />
|webcomic name = Carlos Latuff Comics<br />
|author = Carlos Latuff<br />
|start date = Unknown<br />
|end date = Can't come soon enough.<br />
|genre = Shameless political propaganda.<br />
|flaw = Hypocrisy, double standards, offensiveness, encouragement of murder... you name it.<br />
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|art = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>'The art is pretty good by BWW standards. If only he could use his power for good instead of evil.<br />
|characters ={{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>In short the story is: '''AMERICA IS BAD AND TRYING TO KILL ALL THE ARABS! SO MAKE SURE TO KILL AS MANY AMERICANS AS YOU CAN!''' ... more or less.<br />
|humor = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The only characters are: Noble Arab, Evil American and Greedy Jew.<br />
|mdetails = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>Latuff gets very angry when people vandalize his wikipedia article. To which he reacts by vandalizing it himself.<br />
|overall = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>This is an insult to the professional cartoonist everywhere.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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I have learned from experience that if you have something to admit that might cause people to question your motives you should own up to it upfront, instead of hoping no one will find out. Because, when people ''do'' find out, your willful omission of that information will only seem more suspect.<br />
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For example: If you find out your wife's comic is being made fun of on [http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/forum/t-259596/bittersweet-candy-bowl some forum], and you decide to go over there to defend her honor, using the same nickname you do on her comic's site, you should start by telling people who you are, and not wait for people to realize on their own.<br />
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But I digress. What I have to admit is this: I am an Israeli. I found this comic by entering "Israel" into the Deviantart search bar to see if there are any political cartoons about my country, and stumbled upon this travesty. Just to get this out of the way and not be accused of writing this review due to some bias opinions I have, I.E my political opinions not coinciding with those of the comic's artist, I would just like to come out and say that I do not fully support the position of either side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I do not have any problems with people opposing the occupation or Israel's policy in general. Even if I don't always agree with them.<br />
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What I '''do''' have a problem with is people who choose to express their political opinion by drawing the opposition as monsters, Nazis and murderers, mocking the deaths of innocent people, and advocating the murder of more.<br />
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I will do my best not to let this review turn into a one sided debate, where I pick out Latuff's cartoons with obvious factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies. But excuse me if I still get up on a soapbox now and then.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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Been bad from day one.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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The writing and political commentary in this comic is an insult to anyone with actual political views, on either side. This is like [[Hal Lindsey Oracle Cartoons|"Hal Lindsey"]] if he was a muslim and was able to make sense.<br />
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You may not agree with America's foreign policy regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, but you have to agree that drawing a cartoon telling people to [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=144#/d1f8ye murder as many soldiers as you can] is not an acceptable way to bring that across. His other literary techniques include: Drawing former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon [http://fc09.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/48/e/b/Ariel_Sharon_secret_love.gif making out with Adolf Hitler], drawing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_dershowitz_by_Latuff.jpg Alan Dershowitz] jerking off to pictures of dead Lebanese war casualties, portraying people like [https://encyclopediadramatica.se/File:Virginia_Tech_rampage_by_Latuff2.jpg Seung-Hui Cho] of the Verginia-tech massacre and [http://twitpic.com/a9tz2d James Holmes] of the recent Aurora Theater shooting as more or less heroes for killing other americans, drawing a cartoon for the ten year anniversary of the assassination of [http://latuff2.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=792#/dervvc Yitzhak Rabin] and, finally annually commemorating 9/11 by drawing cartoons that [http://twitpic.com/6jgmhf pretty much celebrate the event]. <br />
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He is also a massive hypocrite. He is quick to criticize western nations for anything they do wrong, but completely ignores any wrongdoing on his own side. For example: he has a long tradition of standing up for gay rights (albeit in a rather [http://latuff2.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=984#/d4t267 bizarre way]), something I whole heartedly support. During the 2005 controversy about the Israeli gay pride parade being held in Jerusalem he made a cartoon ostracizing the orthodox Jewish communities homophobic response to the event. Still, never try to point out to him that the treatment of gay people in islamic countries is far worse. Seriously, don't bother, he will just block you. He also has no problem making cartoons about how [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=96#/d198uu he wants peace in the middle east] one moment, and cartoons about how [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=96#/d198ta everyone in the IDF is a war criminal] the very same day. He is in fact so hypocritical that he manages to even be a hypocrite about hypocrisy itself, [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d1boh4 blaming others for double standards] while clearly being guilty of them.<br />
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Another problem is his utter lack of research. He takes every opportunity he gets to call any countries he sees as "imperialistic" out on anything he can think of. Ham-handedly warping '''any''' news report into something having to do with his own political agenda. Like I have mentioned in the examples above, he twists mass murders into some kind of proof of the follies of western culture. Another notable example was when he made a cartoon calling a young man in Israel, who killed himself because he didn't want to join the army, a "hero". The fact that his suicide had nothing with politics, or the thought that someone killing himself is sad in any context and he should not be drawing cartoons about it, never crossed his mind. So he either didn't bother to do a single moment of research before beginning to draw that thing, or he thinks that a jew killing himself is a joyous occasion in any case, and he deserves to be praised for his willingness to rid the world of his presence.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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Carlos Latuff approaches political cartooning the way a Wall-Mart employee armed with a price labeler approaches an aisle stacked with groceries.<br />
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The only tool in his arsenal is an endless array of uninspired metaphors that he reinforces by either covering whatever he draws with the corresponding countries flags colors, or simply writing "Israel" or "Palestine" directly on it. Brilliant, right?<br />
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This is my favorite one:<br />
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[[File:Occupation_Feeds_Hate.gif|thumb|center|700px|<center>''Perfect english there, buddy.''</center>]]<br />
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You see, Carlos was trying to explain that the suicide bombings are a result of occupation. What better way to do it than drawing a suicide bomber blowing up a bus while yelling: "Suicide bombings are a result of occupation!" ? He also has a another one where you see an american soldier being shot, and yelling as he dies: "I am dying for Bush's oil profits!". This man needs to pick up a dictionary and look up "Subtlety". Other recurring themes in his comics include: [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d1a2nv dead bodies], [http://gaza.haimbresheeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/latuff15_88g1.gif evil soldiers and politicians enjoying murder], [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72#/d198qy people he doesn't like with blood on their hands], an endless supply of [http://latuff2.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=768#/djdnet swastikas] and anything and everything being recast as a [http://latuff2.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=744#/dlnu8d concentration camp].<br />
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Other than that there isn't much to say about his art. It's pretty good, with the exception of him never learning how to shade anything. Also, surprisingly, he resists the urge to draw all his opponents as a bunch of hideous monsters most of the time (not including the parts where he [http://latuff.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72#/d198fz draws or photoshops them into literal monsters]), which I am sad to say, still puts him ahead of [[Right Left Center|some]] "political cartoonists".<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
[[File:mvufA.gif|thumb|right|150px|Latuff's political views in a nutshell.]]<br />
I have had a run in with Carlos Latuff in the past. When I first saw his "art" I decided not to judge him right away, and give him the benefit of a doubt. I found a recent cartoon he had posted that I agreed with and sent him a personal note with additional information he may have not been aware of that supports his view. His response was something along the lines of "Thank you for your support". A bit short and impersonal, but okay. I figured he may be too busy to write a long response, or held back due to his limited control of the english language. But hey, he didn't automatically block me like he is known to do, so I figured I had opened a line of communication with him that I could use it to prove to myself that he is not the bad, ignorant person his cartoons make him seem to be, and restore some of my lost faith in humanity. The second time I contacted him was a few days later. He had posted another cartoon that I thought was incorrect about the facts (before you ask: No, I don't remember which cartoons exactly. It was long ago and I have already deleted my old conversation logs from those accounts). I sent him a polite note, informing him that what he was saying in that cartoon was inaccurate. I tried to be nice and inoffensive and awaited his reply.<br />
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He blocked me.<br />
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If you don't think that's bad, I have four words for you: "Automatic response deletion script"... Yes, Carlos wrote a script that auto deletes any comments left on his profile on DA. For someone who opposes censorship, he has a nasty habit of denying the ability to respond to his work, and deleting the comments when he can't prematurely disable them. <br />
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He also seems to think that either the C.I.A or the Israeli Mosad are after him. Yes, you read that right. He honestly believes that his inane political cartoons, that he self publishes online on free hosting sites, have earned him a spot on some international "Most Wanted" list. Yes Carlos, I am sure they have you penciled in right between Ahmed al-Jabari and Hassan Nasrallah.<br />
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I notice now that I am talking and talking, but I have yet to tell you anything biographical about Carlos. So, in short: He is 44, born in Brazil, spent some time in the middle east in the 90's and had some of his cartoons published in some magazines and newspapers that I would consider disreputable. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying the things he got published in were tabloids, I am saying that I don't think any kind of written press can allow itself to publish something like this, and still maintain their journalistic integrity.<br />
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Oh, and he also won second place in an Iranian contest for cartoons mocking the holocaust.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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To save you the time of reading this comics, here are it's central points it is trying to make:<br />
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Americans and Israelis are bad, Arabs are good, everything America does is bad, everything any Muslim country does is good, anything bad that happens to Israel or America is good, anything bad that happens in any Islamic country is part of a the judo-imperialistic conspiracy and anyone who does not agree with Carlos Latuff is a nazi.<br />
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I could go on and on explaining all the things that are wrong with these comics, but I think I have said enough. <br />
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In conclusion:<br />
This isn't a comic, this is propaganda. It's the literary equivalent of compost. Don't read it.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://latuff.deviantart.com/ His first Deviantart account.] - He shut this one down. <br />
* [http://latuff2.deviantart.com/ His other Deviantart account.] - He abandoned this one too. This probably had something to do with him ''still'' not having enough control over who or what is posted in the comments.<br />
* [http://twitpic.com/photos/CarlosLatuff This is where he posts his cartoons now.]<br />
* [https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Carlos_Latuff His Encyclopedia Dramatice article.]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Bittersweet_Candy_Bowl&diff=6262Bittersweet Candy Bowl2014-01-03T05:00:51Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/oddguy Oddguy]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/ Bittersweet Candy Bowl]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://taeshilh.deviantart.com/ Veronica “Taeshi” Vera]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| May 3, 2006<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Furry teen soap opera.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Sickening angsty drama.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Blobby cartoon cats in Technicolor.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Take a love triangle, multiply ad infinitum.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Angsty Mary-Sue couple and a supporting cast of one-dimensional characters.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Yawn...<br />
|}<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Before I start, I think a little reveal is in order: the truth is that I used to be (or maybe still am) one of this comic's biggest fans. I was a regular on the forum, talked to its creator on a regular basis, drew a fancomic, wrote a fanfic, voted for it on TWC daily. Hell, I even wrote the dialog for one of the pages. If you look around the artist's [http://taeshilh.deviantart.com/ Deviantart account] you will find a reply by me on every single page of the comic and my name in more then one of the sketches. And I won't lie, even after writing this review I will still probably buy the fucking book.<br />
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I would just like to say that I'm not writing this review out of anger, but out of disappointment. Disappointment for something I had high hopes for, but ended up being just another piece of mediocre trash.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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It's hard to pinpoint the downfall of this comic. I think it's different for everyone. It happens when, after reading several hundred pages of whiny cats, you realize you are bored with it - that the story is going nowhere and the plot-lines will never ever get resolved. It will just go on and on and on and you just don't care anymore.<br />
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At this point a lot of the comic's fans jump to the conclusion that the comic has lost its edge, but the truth is that it has always been boring. But just like watching a clown getting hit with a pie in the face, it's funny the first few times, then it starts getting dull, but only after having to watch it for hours does it become torture.<br />
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==Characters==<br />
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This part was supposed to be the plot summary, but there honestly is no plot. It's just back and forth romantic entanglements. Characters falling in and out of love with each other over and over and over. There is no need for going into details about it; you'll get all the information you need from a rundown of the characters and drawing your own conclusions.<br />
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* '''Lucy:''' The female protagonist Mary-sue. She is a white cat who is soooo beautiful that all the boys fall in love with her (literally, everyone!) but she is a tsundere who secretly has a heart of gold. Also, a beautiful singing voice that makes everyone cry, a classic Mary-Sue trait. Basically, she is the author's fantasy fulfillment self insert. She has the personality and beauty that Veronica wishes she had, her multiple suitors and drama is the kind of thing she wishes would happen in her own life. . . all in all it's a classic girl fantasy, the same kind of self-indulgent trash that was the inspiration for ''Twilight''.<br />
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* '''Mike:''' The oh-so-dreamy boy. All the girls want him, but he only loves <strike>Veronica</strike> Lucy! But wait - no he doesn't! He hates her now! Nope, false alarm, he loves her again... oops no, hates.<br />
In the review of ''[[Latex BLUE]]'' it's mentioned that two characters are both in a master/slave relationship, and at the same time, the writes author surrogates. This is kind of the same (save the creepy S&M, thank god.) Mike is both herself, her fantasy for a man, and her over-romanticized version of her husband in the fantasy she built up for herself in her head - he is everything.<br />
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* '''Sandy:''' She is a female cat who is '''EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL''' then Lucy. This is again, a stand in for Veronica. You think I'm exaggerating? OK, consider this: Mike and Sandy are in a long distance relationship that mirrors the one that Veronica herself had with her current husband when the comic started. You might say she is writing from experiences she had in her own life, but the line between writing what you know and writing what wish you had is thin, and she has crossed it.<br />
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* '''Yashy:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi is a giant copyright infringement.]<br />
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* '''Paulo:''' He is the cool but sensitive kid who is - you guessed it - in love with Lucy. It's hard to describe exactly what is wrong with this character. I'll just say this, in her [http://www.formspring.me/taeshi "formspring" account], where she answers literally '''every question''' she is asked '''no matter how disgusting''', Veronica replied to the question: "which one of your character would you sleep with ?" with "Paulo." (the correct answer would have been "no one, they are all cats and dogs") and when asked which one of the characters had the biggest cock it was once again Paulo who had the biggest dick out of all the cats. (7 inches! Woohoo!)... Why just cats? Well, there is this theory that dogs are the black people of the BCB world, but let's not get into that. At the moment Paulo is already sleeping around and has romantic feelings for 6 different girls.<br />
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Those are the main characters you should know about to get a general idea of what this comic is like. The rest are a bunch of paper thin stock characters, each having essentially one personality trait. There is the cute one, the nice one, the dumb one, the cool one... Teashi has taken on the age old practice of writing her characters like the line up of a 90's boy band. These uninteresting fucktards spend the next three years of story time (about five years in real world time) falling in and out of love with each other until an accurate relationship chart of the cast look roughly like a David's Cross through a kaleidoscope.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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The art is fucking atrocious. Like I mentioned earlier, I have been reading this comic from the day it started. When I did, I thought that this story had a lot of potential if only the artist could learn to draw better, or at all, and if some of the writing issues get resolved. I quit reading it when I realized none of these things will ever get fixed and Vera doesn't even care enough to pretend otherwise anymore. I know not all comics start off at the top of their game, they improve over time, but Veronica's improvement follows it's own curve: she started off drawing strange blob people, but gradually got better until around the [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c44/p18.html summer vacation arc.] Her pencil skills were ''almost'' acceptable. Then the art ground to a screeching halt. Since then she had moved on to digital drawing and coloring (why, Vera? drawing pencil crap is how ''real'' artists do it.) and has been trying to cover up her hideous mistakes with bright colors and special effects,while stubbornly refusing to learn any of the basics. Yes, after over five years of drawing cats she still manages to get the proportions wrong and draw some characters inconsistently. The anatomy is fucking terrible, and so are the proportions. Characters still have squares for feet, no elbows or knees, no muscle structure or bones so that their arms flail around like [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man#.Tqg257KJnt0 tube men.] You might try the classic defense "it's her style!", but no, surrealism is a style, expressionism is a style, lazy and ugly are no styles I've ever heard of.<br />
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_'''*[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/makarovjac MakarovJAC], as a student of Arts and practitioner of it for the last 7 years totally supports the statement above.*'''<br />
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You might say I'm being unfair; that I shouldn't judge her by her old works if she has improved. Then let's look at some of her recent works, shall we?<br />
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[[File:roflbot3g.jpg|thumb|center|500px|''Failing at perspective.'']]<br />
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[[File:roflbot2vb.jpg|thumb|center|500px|''And proportions.'']]<br />
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[[File:roflbotgw.jpg|thumb|center|700px|''Like a boss.'']]<br />
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These are the kind of mistakes that would be unforgivable from a tenth grader, let alone someone who has been drawing the same shit for five years and expects you to pay for her work.<br />
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There are only three explanations for these kinds of mistakes:<br />
1. She doesn't see anything wrong with these. (So her work is actually not bad for a blind person.)<br />
2. She saw there is something wrong but didn't know how to fix it. (Inexcusable at this point.)<br />
3. And, most likely, she saw it and after a half-assed attempt at fixing it went "eh, fuck it..."<br />
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Also, her recent transition to tablets and Photoshop did not treat her kindly. At least with the pencil she kind of got the hang of it by the end, but this seems to be too much effort for her because despite using Photoshop for some time she doesn't seem to be getting any better. I know another webcomic artist with the [http://syacartoonist.com/art/wacom.jpg same problem.]<br />
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Finally, her coloring is horrendous. It's an eyesore, everything is so bright it looks like the stuff of Tim Burton's nightmares. If you look at one of the pages and blink rapidly you get an epileptic fit.<br />
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Lately, Veronica has started going to art school (after failing out of teaching school if I'm not mistaken). Too little too late. After five plus years of drawing comics and asking people for money, ''only then'' has she bothered to start learning how to draw correctly.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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This is the only thing about this comic that makes it somewhat redeemable.<br />
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The plot moves in several interconnected storylines. It's pretty interesting if you can get emotionally involved with the characters (a task that does not get easier as the story progresses.) I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty good. It's actually what kept me reading all this time. Despite being a Mary-Sue, there are actually consequences for Lucy's actions, and the characters act in a semi-realistic way. There's even some character development. Every turd has a silver lining... unfortunately this turd's silver lining has another turd encrusted around it. The writing is definitely not perfect, despite being heaps better then what I have come to expect from your average webcomics. (Making this less of a compliment to the writing of BCB and more of a testimony to my own diminished standards.) However, it still falls flat in two major points:<br />
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The dialog. Veronica has a real problem writing believable conversations that are supposed to be being held by teenagers. Here, check this out:<br />
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[[File:3333.jpg|thumb|600px|center|''I can't do this forever Lucy, only until we finish grade school.'']]<br />
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Not that bad, you say? That's until you find out that this scene is a flashback and both of them are twelve. If you tried to talk to me when I was twelve you would have gotten nothing but detailed information about Pokemon. She has addressed this issue in the past, but her response looks more like a [http://taeshilh.deviantart.com/gallery/390238#/dz0vu8 childish excuse] than an actual answer.<br />
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The second problem I have with the writing is the subject matter. In essence, it's just plain angsty tween drama shit. At some point in the plot Lucy considers whoring herself out to Paulo to make Mike jealous, then she developed a dependency complex, and is now borderline insane. Paulo broke off his relationship with one girl, slept with two others who only wanted him out of spite for his previous girlfriend, and now he's dating a new girl while still having feelings for Lucy, everyone else already mentioned, and another childhood friend who is already taken. The aforementioned childhood friend's boyfriend is in therapy due to severe anxiety attacks from watching his dad murder his mom in front of him and...<br />
Are you still reading this? I hated this teen shit when I WAS a teen, let alone now, when I'm an adult.<br />
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The writing problem is compounded by the ridiculous art. I mean ''she thinks she can tell a deep, dramatic, violent, trauma-filled horror story with fucking cartoon animals. Look at their eyes! Look at their big, badly-drawn hands and their big squishy noses! They look like they should be swinging goddamn mallets at each other; not contemplating the meaning of life and death.'' '''Oops ! Sorry, that's not my review, I copied that directly off the review for [[Jack]].''' Still, I think it accurately explains the problem here. For lighthearted comedy, the art could be acceptable, but if you're trying to tell a story like this with cutesy, glaringly bright art, it feels mismatched.<br />
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Let's just hope none of the characters has a rape backstory. . . [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c40/p5.html Oh,wait.]<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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<u>'''Veronica "Teashilh" Vera:'''</u> This is the comic's writer and illustrator. She is not a bad person as far as I know. The main problem I have with her is that she is greedy for both love and money. I first began to have mixed feelings about the comic when I was randomly jumping from one webcomic to another and saw an ad for BCB on five consecutive websites. She has no shame about plugging herself on furry websites, webcomics she hates and essentially anything that will get her more readers in return for her dignity. And speaking of comics she hates, she also has no problem [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c63/p33.html trading] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=825 cameo art] with a comic she in the past called "total shit" in a private conversation. All this despite the fact she in the past [http://taeshilh.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d30s893 criticized another comic for attention whoring]. <br />
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The merchandising in this comic has gotten out of hand, too. Every news update has something to do with their online store. The site might not be shamelessly covered with Paypal "donate" buttons, but at the top there is a large banner advertising their goal to sell 600 books (at 49$ a pop no less!). But the true peak of shamelessness is the "BCB international club" (not a hint of irony, mind you). Let me tell you, I didn't like it when "achwood" pulled that shit, and "achwood" was "achwood", BCB on the other hand is nowhere near that level of quality or popularity. So what do you get when you join the club? Nothing really, just some cheap merchandise, your nickname on the forum gets colored gold, and you get a crayon drawing sent to you... oh, wait, no you don't, that was just for the 50 first subscribers who were willing to pay an extra $10. Also, you get exclusive excess to the dead "paid members only" forum and to the archive of her TWC vote initiative comics that she stopped updating as soon as she was done hustling her readers out of over $3000.<br />
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Don't see what's wrong with this blatant embezzling? How about selling a gold plated BCB necklace/key-chain ?... yes, '''GOLD FUCKING PLATED'''. If you are reading this Veronica I have a question for you: is it a necklace or a key-chain ? If it's a necklace,who would wear something so hideous around his/her neck ? And if it's a key-chain, why the fuck is it gold plated?!<br />
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Still don't think it's that bad ? OK, pop quiz:<br />
You are a failing webcomics artist who sells shitty candy on his online store. Suddenly some of it goes bad and melts, do you:<br />
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* '''A.''' ''Throw it away.''<br />
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* '''B.''' ''Eat it yourself.''<br />
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* '''C.''' ''Cry.''<br />
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* '''D.''' ''Lower the price and sell it anyway.''<br />
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If your answer was D (and maybe a little of C as well) then Veronica, please go and look in the mirror. ''Really look at yourself.'' How in the hell do you think that's okay?<br />
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And when she isn't whoring for money she is doing it for attention. A few months ago "Thunt" who writes [http://www.goblinscomic.com/ "Goblins"] [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/forum/topic/889-my-sons-love-your-comic/ showed up on her forum] and declared her comic is his children's favorite comic. Seeing as how at the time his was the #1 on TWC (wow, real achievement) she immediately jumped on his and his kids dicks like they were giving out candy, spitting out such gems as '''"wow! you should be proud! your kids are so talented!"''' (they wrote some shitty fanfics for her) and '''"we can be the king and queen of webcomics!"''' (modesty, thy name is Teashi). But this relationship did not last long and was soon broken off after she started making [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/forum/topic/1184-goblins-insulting-bcb/ immature passive aggressive jabs] at him on her webcomic description. Her other exploits include constantly shoveling [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c63.1/p1.html memes] into the comic to show that she is [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-aware-of-all-internet-traditions#.TqhBbbKJnt0 "aware of all internet traditions"], and having a "guest webcomic week" that no one but her forum members singed up for because not a single respectable webcomic artist (note: oxymoron) will ever take her seriously.<br />
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<u>'''Oliver "SuitCase" Bareham:'''</u> Her husband and site admin. He can be seen berating his wife's fanbase on the forum, begging readers for money and having elongated arguments with anyone on his forum who hold a republican point of view, arguments he hilariously still manages to lose despite going to law school. Yes, SuitCase will be glad to tell you his opinions on such diverse subjects as: why conservatives are dumb, why religion is evil and [http://stopsay.in/list how to properly use internet memes.] (Christ, how can someone be so pretentious about memes?)<br />
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But he is a man of honor, he doesn't ban republicans from his forums like some people. . . (B^U). No, he takes the high road, by arguing with them and adding [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/forum/index.php?app=members&module=list insulting little monikers] to the nickname of anyone that pisses him off implying they are retarded. And if anyone complains about the poor treatment on the forum he puts a sticky in his thread so that he can be laughed at by all.<br />
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[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/forum/t-259596/bittersweet-candy-bowl Some of you may already be familiar with him if you visit our forum] because he appeared as soon as a thread about the comics was opened and started arguing with everyone. Lately he made his triumphant return in less than a day from the moment the review was posted. So either he is constantly googling this comic or he has spent the last year watching that thread like a hawk, waiting for someone to write a review. As soon as someone did, he zoomed over to the forum to put on the classic "I'm not butthurt, look, I'll even help you make the review better" act. Although his act of aloofness crumbles to the ground when you ask yourself "If he doesn't care why was he here so fast ?" He can say it's a coincidence, but I refuse to believe it. In a way all he's really done is win the record for fastest person to warrant being added to the "authors response section", leaving a whiny reply for us to add '''a full year before his review was even up.''' (Not even really his comic.)<br />
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Once this review is revised, I expect him to make another rebuttal, twice as long as the review itself.<br />
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I dare him to prove me wrong.<br />
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<u>'''The fan community AKA "drama central":'''</u> I didn't know where to stick this, but seeing as how this is the part of the article that moves from professional insults to personal ones, I figured this is the place.<br />
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They are goddamn furries.<br />
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Seriously. Though the artist makes dubious claims of not being a furry, her comic is obviously furry bait, and its readers are so annoying I can almost justify her treating them the way she does. From threats due to her not coupling their favorite couple together, to using the P.M system on the forum to have cybersex, to going on raids of the [[TwoKinds]] chatroom in attempts to "troll" them. (These always fail hilariously.)<br />
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And what about the "furry" part? What proof do I have? Well, before Teashi started heavily policing the forum (for the sake of more ad revenue), there were "BCB NSFW" threads. Four of them in fact, each spanning for dozens of pages, all full of disgusting rule 34 drawings made by users. To this day I don't think there's been a single thread that drew this many responses. (Now deleted, but trust me, it was gross.)<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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This is not the worst comic online, but is certainly in need of some serious improvement.<br />
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It's long, it's boring, it's horribly drawn and full of teen angsty shit, and its makers have alienated their readers to the point that people who in the past made fan characters now request they be removed from the comic. (And hey, I'm writing this review, aren't I?)<br />
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Everything Veronica does just seems to scream "Please give me your love! Please give me your money!" but she never stops to ask "Do I deserve it ?" (No.)<br />
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I know this article seems awfully personal, but here's the thing - this is me being nice! I know some encyclopedia dramatica worthy shit I could add to this article, but choose not to out of what little respect I still hold for the artist. I'm not being mean, it's just that bad!<br />
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My advice to whoever's reading this? Don't give these people money, it's all they care about anyway.<br />
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And don't read this comic. Your time could be better spent reading a book, watching a movie or hammering nails into your own eyeballs.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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I am not going to make a link to the comic, because knowing the people who made it I think they will squeal with glee at the thought of this review giving them more traffic. I do not want to give them the satisfaction.<br />
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* [http://www.notenoughrings.com/ Instead, here is another unfunny comic by Vera about Sonic.] ''Teashi is what some would describe as a "raging sonic-fag".<br><br />
:::For the love of god woman, it's a video game from the 90's. Get over it.''<br />
* [http://unfunnythings.tumblr.com/ And here's SuitCase's bitchy Tumblr blog he thinks somebody actually cares about.]<br><br />
:::''In one post he makes a long rant about how Sonic themed webcomics don't have to suck, but his own wife's comic completely disproves this hypothesis.''</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=U.S._Angel_Corps&diff=6076U.S. Angel Corps2013-12-23T06:16:44Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [[User:DrShaym|DrShaym]] and [[User:Oddguy|Oddguy]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| ''U.S. Angel Corps''. I'm not linking to it.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|David Cheung<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| July 5, 2010<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Necro porn<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| The entire point of this thing is to eroticize women getting beaten up, raped, and murdered. Oh, and also to make money off it.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Some might call the art good, but this thing doesn't deserve a single accolade.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The U. S. Angel Corps is a group of very young looking secret agents who go on missions to fight terrorists and consistently fail, resulting in them getting raped, murdered and having their corpses fucked afterwards.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
These aren't characters. They're objects designed specifically to be masturbated to while they die.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Cheung… why?<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
This is the worst comic I have ever seen.<br />
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'''WARNING: IN CASE YOU MISSED THE NSFW BANNER ABOVE, THIS REVIEW CONTAINS DISTURBING IMAGES. DON'T SCROLL DOWN IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED.'''<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:AcBeatingUpWomen.png|300px|right]]<br />
''U. S. Angel Corps'' is easily the worst comic I have ever seen. It's disgusting, immoral, and misogynistic in the extreme. I mean, I reviewed a comic featuring [[God's Story|Jesus getting raped]], but I have never seen a more offensive comic. This is, by far, the most sickening thing to ever dishonor the already shameful word "Webcomics".<br />
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Now, it's one thing if you're just trolling and your comic is ''meant'' to offend, as is the case with [http://rdk.deadbsd.org/electricretard/ Electric Retard] for example (don't click on that), but it's worse when you fail to realize or care about just how repugnant your comic is. The thing about this comic is that it was made to make money by capitalizing on the disgusting fetishes of a repulsive niche audience, and creator Dave Cheung doesn't seem to care as long as he makes a little money.<br />
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This comic is commission-based, which is to say that Cheung only draws it when people give him money, which, unfortunately, some people do. Now, there's nothing wrong with wanting to make a little money off your work, unless, of course, ''this'' is what you're selling.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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It's really hard for me to decide what the worst part of this comic is. It could be the grotesque imagery, it could be the abject misogyny, or it could be the fact that Cheung is trying to capitalize on such grotesque imagery and misogyny. See, this is a guro comic. For those of you who don't know, "guro" is basically Japanese necrophilia porn with a special focus on gruesome torture and mutilation. '''The entire point of this comic is to show the female characters getting tortured, raped, killed and/or dismembered, not necessarily in that order.''' It's disgusting in every sense of the word. Observe:<br />
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[[File:AcNecrophilia.png|300px|center|Exhibit A]]<br />
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[[File:AcWhyWouldYouDrawThis2.png|150px|center|Exhibit B]]<br />
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[[File:AcSlutSkeletons.png|300px|center|Exhibit C]]<br />
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If there remains any doubt in your mind about how bad this comic is after seeing those images, then I suggest you shoot yourself in the head because, clearly, your brain isn't working and is only wasting energy.<br />
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Really, I could go on and on about how anyone who gets off to this sort of thing should be ashamed of themselves, but there's so much more to talk about.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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[[File:CheungFaces.png|250px|left]]<br />
Some might argue that Cheung is a competent artist. All right, fair enough, but there is one big problem:<br />
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While Cheung actually bothers to diversify the faces of his male characters, this comic, like all of his other comics, has completely identical female characters. Yeah, their skin tones and hair are different, but they all have the exact same face. Same nose, same eyes, same mouth, same face. Not to mention they all have virtually the same body type as well. The only thing that seems to vary is their breast sizes. So yeah, Cheung can't even be bothered to draw different faces for women, even if they're of different ethnicities, so I would normally assume that everything he knows about female anatomy comes from anime or manga, but since he draws in a semi-realistic art style, I have to assume that he has actually taken an art class or two (in the time since he drew [[Chugworth Academy]]) and simply doesn't care. He just came up with one face that he likes and decided that all of his female characters should have it, otherwise they wouldn't be pretty. That brings me to my next point…<br />
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==Writing and Story==<br />
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The over-arching story goes like this:<br><br />
There is a secret military organization (how original) that picks up unwanted, orphan children (always girls) and trains them to be super-assassins for the US government... This is all crap that you have all heard a million times. But wait until you hear the twist!<br />
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Every individual story goes like this:<br><br />
There is a military unit that sends out hot, barely legal, scantily clad women to singlehandedly infiltrate and neutralize multiple enemies in hostile territory's without any backup, weapons or equipment. Then they get beat up, raped and tortured to death until they piss on themselves and die. And often times they then get mutilated, dismembered and have their disfigured corpses fucked in a warm puddle of their own piss. I mean… I don't what their ''supposed'' to be doing, but they don't seem to be too good at their fucking job.<br />
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What kind of operation are they running over there anyway? These girls are alone, have no logistical support or backup of any kind and not even basic equipment. I'm not talking about a gun either (although I would think that this is the first thing I would give someone i'm sending out to commit murder). I'm not even talking about a radio to call for rescue... These bitches ain't got no shoes on! I mean, I know this is nothing but a fetish comic, but the premise of it all is so goddamn ridiculous (not to mention nauseating) that it makes me laugh when i'm not already throwing up.<br />
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None of this makes sense, really. Who in social services allows these people to snatch up little girls? Why are they getting all girls instead of men? Why are they sending them out unarmed? Why are they sending them out wearing bathing suites?! Why?! And once they get there the mission always goes tits-up, which is even more strange. How they get past the guards (or even to the location itself) naked isn't even the problem because once they get there they are usually fuck shit up beyond logic. How does the spy character get snuck-up on and killed? How does the sniper get sniped and the hand-to-hand expert get her ass beat? I'll tell you how and why: To add to their humiliation. They are just girls, so obviously they will embarrassingly lose to people without even half their training. I can't think of any way this could have been made by anyone other than someone who seriously hates women. This is also why one character loses to a man armed with nothing but a towel and a toothbrush despite having a gun, and another ties up her opponent and decides to rape him, but he breaks free, kills her and fucks her corps instead.<br />
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This is another recurring theme in the writing here. These girls just can't keep it in their pants. Missions are often compromised because because one of the girls decided on sucking-off their target instead of killing them and ended up dead. But it isn't always like that. Sometimes they just get raped. But that doesn't mean they can't enjoy it! While some desperately try to fight off their attackers, as they rip off what little clothes they have on, to save their dignity. Others literally enjoy being raped! They grunt and moan even though they know they will soon be murdered by the person who is molesting them and cum and entire river onto their assailant (if you are getting a boner right now please reach over to the nearest sharp object you have and stab yourself in the dick and then leave this site).<br />
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Once this is over the real fun begins! After finishing raping the girls they either beat, kill or torture them. For a while they scream and cry and beg for mercy, but in the end they all die. Their limbs are torn off, they are beheaded or mangled in some way and, as they die, their urine escaped them in a final act of indignation... Did I say "Final"? I must have forgotten that after they die their bodies, entrails still hanging out, are gang-banged by their murderers/rapists in every hole they have on their body (including the ones just added) with their blood and piss and tears used for lubricant before having their violated bodies dumped in an unmarked grave like trash, still covered in globs off warm jizz.<br />
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Was I graphic enough? Did I go into enough detail here? I really want everyone reading this to get just how abhorrent it all is. The amazingly asinine plot and writing would make this all hilarious were it no already simply repulsive.<br />
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==The Objectification of Women==<br />
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Aside from the fact that this is a comic that tries to eroticize women getting raped and murdered, in this comic, every female character has the same baby-like face and pornstar body even though the male characters are all unique. I get the sense that Cheung has little respect for women if he doesn't even give them different faces. Not only that, but Cheung also decided to make all of the female characters orphans, which is to say, they don't have families. I guess this is meant to make their deaths seem more trivial so Cheung's audience will have an easier time jacking off to them when they die. That's called dehumanization.<br />
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[[File:AcDecapitatedBodies.png|300px|center]]<br />
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Furthermore, the women all have cutesy-sounding code names like Bubblegum and Princess, 'cause, you know, a woman should have a name reminiscent of ''The Powerpuff Girls'', right? Hell, one of them is named "Bikini", because, you know, she wears a bikini. That's great, just give a woman a code name based on what she wears. I'm surprised there isn't a character named "Jugs". Again, the cutesy names, combined with the identical faces and lack of known relatives, add to the dehumanizing effect and turn the girls more akin to objects so that you don't feel sad as they writhe in agony while having their limbs slowly cut off. All of this reminds me of the movie ''"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Punch_%282011_film%29 Sucker Punch]"'' which [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/6247-You-Are-Wrong-About-Sucker-Punch-Part-One used all these elements] [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/6266-You-Are-Wrong-About-Sucker-Punch-Part-Two to critique the desegregation of women] in a way that so closely resembles this comic I can't help but wonder if Zack Snyder came across it by some freakish coincidence. <br />
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Anyway, back to the point. The characters are only meant to die so that their dead bodies can be violated in a pool of their own, terrified urine (This literally happens multiple times). It's not even like Cheung plays it for laughs or tries to play it like it isn't meant to be taken seriously or sexually. You can see the characters crying in pain as they beg for their lives while being tortured. ''Dave Cheung is catering to an audience that gets off on seeing women get murdered'' and he's making money doing it.<br />
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[[File:AcStrangle.png|250px|center|thumb|See the tears? Is this sexy to you?]]<br />
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If it weren't for the fact that these characters are fictional and none of this is real, this would be a textbook example of exploitation. Dave Cheung saw a group of people whose sexual fantasies include raping and murdering women, and he decided to capitalize on it (or so he says. He's been drawing this sort of thing long before USAC).<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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[[File:AcWhyWouldYouDrawThis.png|140px|right]]<br />
I don't know Dave Cheung personally, but if his work is any indication, I suspect that he has little respect for women if not full-on contempt. Before he created U. S. Angel Corps, he worked on another comic, [[Chugworth Academy]], which was heavily reliant on fan service. Strangely, in those days, [http://chugworth.com/archive/?strip_id=49 he actually got angry when people asked to see his characters naked]. What the hell happened since then? Well, in our review of that comic the writer suggested Cheung just drop the false pretenses of being an artist and just make porn. So I dread to think this atrocity is somehow our fault.<br />
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What else is there to mention about Dave? Well, he got in trouble with UbiSoft for drawing a sexual parody about Jade Raymond, he has managed to get a negative review on virtually every self-respecting webcomic review site, attempted to remove a number of them (temporarily succeeded in our case), abruptly ended a number of his comics and earned himself a bad reputation for the way he handles criticism (although I can't blame him for not liking the criticism leveled at him. I can only blame him for what he does to earn this sort of criticism). Lastly, prior to drawing necrophilia, torture/rape porn he used to draw child porn and sometimes combine all of the above into necrophilia, rape and torture child porn. He doesn't even deny doing it (not that he could, the evidence is widely available), but simply claims it was all for money and not due to personal interest in the subject matter. Still, even if he isn't into this stuff, the fact that he's willing to draw it for money tells me enough.<br />
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As of the time of this review, Dave Cheung has almost nine thousand watchers on DeviantART. I would like to point out that DA is a website where the most popular artist is [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi|Bleedman]], and the most popular photo is a [http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-This-Is-Heaven-52682456 Death Note cosplay], so this isn't something to brag about.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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[[File:AcRape.png|150px|left|thumb|She was unconscious when he started having sex with her. That's called rape.]]<br />
David Cheung's work appeals to the lowest common denominator: a niche fetish community of loathsome degenerates, and that is not something to be proud of. Especially when the fetish community in question is necrophiliacs and the type of people who get erections when they see a rape scene in a movie. I'm sure this isn't the only guro comic out there, but I would expect an artist of Cheung's caliber not to lower himself to such a level, but he does. He could be making real art, but instead, he draws porn for necrophiliacs.<br />
<br />
What a waste. What a shame.<br />
<br />
==Other comics by this person that are reviewed on this site==<br />
<br />
*[[Boss Noodle]] - A short-lived and abandoned project.<br />
<br />
*[[Chugworth Academy]] - His first comic we reviewed.<br />
<br />
*[[Chugworth!]] - The successor to that one.<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
*<s>The TV Tropes article</s> Deleted due to their content policy.<br />
*[http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/ Dave Cheung's DeviantART account]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Atomic Bomb]][[Category:Not Safe For Work]][[Category:Disgusting]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Harkovast&diff=6055Harkovast2013-12-22T07:30:21Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{react}}<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| (Uncertain)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.harkovast.com/ Harkovast]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| Daniel Stribley<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Sometime in 2007<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Furry Fantasy<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Does "it's horrible" count as a defining flaw?<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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------<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:900px"><br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Anyone who draws a webcomic with crayons gets an F by default, but in ''Harkovast'''s case, we will make an exception and give it an F-.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
An evil guy who's power comes from speaking called "The Speaker" organizes an army of nameless soldiers called "The Nameless" against the rest of the world and names it "The Enemy". The only person who can stop him is a shogun called "The Shogun" with his sword called <strike>"The Sword"</strike> "Hidden Fang"! Bet you didn't see that plot twist coming. This is obviously some top notch writing right here.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Miserable attempts to write badasses using a ten year old's definition of the word "cool".<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
This review might have been written by one of the comics fans to try and get hits. Also, the creator of this comic fancies himself a reviewer.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
It amazes me that the person who makes this takes such pride in his work. How can someone possibly think this is in any way good?<br />
|}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
==Disclaimer==<br />
<br />
This review was deleted and restored. The circumstances surrounding this are unclear and everyone involved can not be contacted at the moment. From what I can tell, after this review was made, it was contested on the grounds of not being good enough and being needlessly offensive. Then it was discovered that the creator of ''Harkovast'' [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/harkovast actually has an account on this site] with which he made the review for [[I Fell Down the Stairs]], which is made by some guy named "Kevin" with whom he [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Webcomic_Review_Comic_On_The_Web/ makes another comic] in which they both review other people's webcomics. When an attempt to revise the review was made, its original creator began reverting the edits repeatedly without explanation.<br />
<br />
It is unclear whether these reviews were written by these people, and if so, whether they wrote them about each other as a joke, a result of an actual dispute, or a ploy to get attention. It is also not clear if it was deleted for being bad, just lost when the site was hacked in 2011, or as an attempt not to buy into this lame scheme. All that is known is that the review, as well as information about who made it, is gone and the creator of this comic was banned.<br />
<br />
I recently found this incomplete copy of the review on the ''Harkovast'' forum, copied and pasted it, removed the parts of it that were deemed as bad by the people in the thread discussing it, rewrote whats missing and did my best to find links fitting for the places where it's obvious the text was supposed to be linked to something. Some of you may say that if we suspect that these reviews were made by the comic's creator and his friend, then we should just delete them. But, as I was looking up the comic to try and understand what happened here, I realized that it is already somewhat renowned for being bad. So if this is indeed an attempt by these people to get attention for their comics, they have done such a fine job of bashing each other that I have no qualms about keeping the reviews.<br />
<br />
Luckily, both comics are so irredeemably inept that even if, by some miracle, the reviews of them would somehow lead to thousands of additional pageviews, it would still not gain either one of them a single fan.<br />
<br />
'''UPDATE:''' The creator of this comic saw his review is back and confirmed our suspicions. Him and his friend just wrote the reviews about one another as a gag/attempt to get more hits.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
Have you ever played a bad RPG with shitty animation and thought "Oh man, I wish this was more boring, and also a webcomic!" Well count your lucky stars, because ''Harkovast'' is here to plug that hole. Complete with long, drawn out subplots, boring characters, and more races than any story could possibly need, including one called "The Nameless," which is... yes, I believe that's a name. Reading this comic is about as enriching as unclogging a toilet with your bare hands.<br />
<br />
==Downfall==<br />
<br />
To say that ''Harkovast'' has a downfall suggests that at some point, it was riding high - this is sadly not the case. Right away we are hurled into this over-dramatic story which throws too much at you too soon. On top of that, the art is awkwardly proportioned, the action looks wooden, and the dimensions are more often than not totally off. While the art gets slightly better as ''Harkovast'' progresses, the story just devolves more and more into the equivalent of an author jerking himself off with grandiose storylines that try way too hard to look cool.<br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
As told by the front page on the comic itself:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|All of the nations of the West have fallen to the Enemy. Soon He will put forth His strength again.}}<br />
<br />
Gotta love the random capitalization! It helps things to seem more important. Not the enemy, the Enemy. We're not Fucking Around here, this is Serious.<br />
<br />
{{Quote|He will strike next against the southern nations of Vellastrom. These noble peoples have battled the Enemy for generations, but now they squander their strength on petty squabbles over land and power. All the time they grow weaker while the Enemy gains strength with each passing day.}}<br />
<br />
Look buddy, I know that you just got fired from your job of writing descriptions on the back of Final Fantasy cases, but do you really need to start off so overly dramatic? Oh well, at least you didn't torture us with a cliche line like "The time has come."<br />
<br />
{{Quote|The time has come for a stand to be made.}}<br />
<br />
And now, the reader knows: "I am fucked."<br />
<br />
{{Quote|It has fallen to me, Quinn-Tain of the Wizards of Eldex, to lead the defense of this world.}}<br />
<br />
The defense of...<br />
<br />
Wait for it...<br />
<br />
{{Quote|'''HARKOVAST'''}}<br />
<br />
[[File:HarkovastImage2000-05-05Scaled.gif|thumb|center|250px]]<br />
<br />
Great. I can't wait. Could that have possibly been more bombastic and pompous? Dear Lord, is it okay if I read the comic now? Or maybe you have another novel you'd like me to read first?<br />
<br />
==Art review==<br />
<br />
[[File:gmiMnNw.jpg|thumb|center|600px|''Overcome by the hardships of war, the soldiers unwind by engaging in interpretive dance.'']]<br />
<br />
''Harkovast'' is hand drawn and colored, and by the looks of it, it is the work of an arthritic 96-year-old. I have never seen such a poor understanding of dimensions in my life. What kind of a hero has such awkward limbs on an equally wooden-looking body? The stupid kind, that's who. If I was some sort of mythical creature (or worse yet, a helpless character in the world of ''Harkovast''), I would rather be raped, tortured, and burnt at the stake than be saved by some limping, clunky freak who looks like he was drawn by a blind infant.<br />
<br />
Another big problem is the fact that with such rigid looking characters, the fight scenes are invariably going to look like shit. What the hell is [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=56 happening here?] is he trying to fly? And for that matter, [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=148 what the hell is this?] Is he running? Doing the Charleston, or some bizarre variation of a Riverdance? The dimensions often look odd too, [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=86 like here]. It's fortunate that the page is actually titled "Kick," because otherwise I would think that he was on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future Back to the Future] hover board!<br />
<br />
==Writing review==<br />
<br />
One thing the author is a bit too predisposed to is stopping everything so that we can listen to someone blab on and on about some aspect of the story's background that he couldn't think of a more imaginative way to introduce. Every time a new character shows up, they have a story that goes on forever. It isn't long before "hey, a new character" becomes "OH THANK GOD, THE NEW PERSON HAS SOMETHING TO SAY." And seriously, they do not shut up.<br />
<br />
[[File:2000-02-04-Chapter-3-The-Quest.jpg|thumb|center|600px|''Never say in a few words what you can say in a wall of text.'']]<br />
<br />
If you've ever played an RPG, you know the drill. Oh no, the world's going to end, we have to bind together and save it. Usually there's some interesting twist as to WHY the world is in peril, but here it's just a matter of stopping '''THE ENEMY''', with no clever twist in sight. It's fight scene, then "BLAH BLAH BLAH," then more fighting, and then more "oh shit, the reader should know what's going on! I'll just have one person say everything and have their dialog occupy the whole page."<br />
<br />
==Author biography==<br />
<br />
Mr. Daniel Stribley says very little about himself in his available biography, other than to talk about how "epic" and "elaborate" his comic is. He also proudly displays evidence of his [http://www.drunkduck.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2009/5169617/ winning Drunk Duck's Best Anthropomorphic Comic award] last year, which is about as prestigious as an award that comes with a card reading "World's Greatest Grandpa."<br />
<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
Unless you're into the idea of alternately trying to decipher poorly drawn action sequences and sitting through meaningless blabber, ''Harkovast'' is most definitely a comic you should avoid.<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.harkovast.com/ The comic]<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Harkovast TV Tropes page]<br />
* [http://harkovast.deviantart.com/ DA page]<br />
* [http://webcomicritic.blogspot.co.il/2009/09/newbie-rant-5-harkovast.html A bad review]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harkovast/286968799390 Facebook group] - Ten friends... wow.<br />
* [http://coyotecaliente.deviantart.com/art/Webcomic-Review-Harkovast-213525471 Another bad review]<br />
* [http://ingenre.com/2009/10/harkovast/ And another bad review]<br />
* [http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_Harkovast_Forum/index.php?showforum=3 The ''Harkovast'' forums "Hall Of Shame"] - An entire subforum for all the bad reviews and comments this comic gets. There aren't a lot of threads there right now, but I think there used to be more and then that subforum was removed and then restored again.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Harkovast&diff=6054Harkovast2013-12-22T07:27:07Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{react}}<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| (Uncertain)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.harkovast.com/ Harkovast]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| Daniel Stribley<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Sometime in 2007<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Furry Fantasy<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Does "it's horrible" count as a defining flaw?<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:900px"><br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Anyone who draws a webcomic with crayons gets an F by default, but in ''Harkovast'''s case, we will make an exception and give it an F-.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
An evil guy who's power comes from speaking called "The Speaker" organizes an army of nameless soldiers called "The Nameless" against the rest of the world and names it "The Enemy". The only person who can stop him is a shogun called "The Shogun" with his sword called <strike>"The Sword"</strike> "Hidden Fang"! Bet you didn't see that plot twist coming. This is obviously some top notch writing right here.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Miserable attempts to write badasses using a ten year old's definition of the word "cool".<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
This review might have been written by one of the comics fans to try and get hits. Also, the creator of this comic fancies himself a reviewer.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
It amazes me that the person who makes this takes such pride in his work. How can someone possibly think this is in any way good?<br />
|}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
===Disclaimer===<br />
<br />
This review was deleted and restored. The circumstances surrounding this are unclear and everyone involved can not be contacted at the moment. From what I can tell, after this review was made, it was contested on the grounds of not being good enough and being needlessly offensive. Then it was discovered that the creator of ''Harkovast'' [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/harkovast actually has an account on this site] with which he made the review for [[I Fell Down the Stairs]], which is made by some guy named "Kevin" with whom he [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Webcomic_Review_Comic_On_The_Web/ makes another comic] in which they both review other people's webcomics. When an attempt to revise the review was made, its original creator began reverting the edits repeatedly without explanation.<br />
<br />
It is unclear whether these reviews were written by these people, and if so, whether they wrote them about each other as a joke, a result of an actual dispute, or a ploy to get attention. It is also not clear if it was deleted for being bad, just lost when the site was hacked in 2011, or as an attempt not to buy into this lame scheme. All that is known is that the review, as well as information about who made it, is gone and the creator of this comic was banned.<br />
<br />
I recently found this incomplete copy of the review on the ''Harkovast'' forum, copied and pasted it, removed the parts of it that were deemed as bad by the people in the thread discussing it, rewrote whats missing and did my best to find links fitting for the places where it's obvious the text was supposed to be linked to something. Some of you may say that if we suspect that these reviews were made by the comic's creator and his friend, then we should just delete them. But, as I was looking up the comic to try and understand what happened here, I realized that it is already somewhat renowned for being bad. So if this is indeed an attempt by these people to get attention for their comics, they have done such a fine job of bashing each other that I have no qualms about keeping the reviews.<br />
<br />
Luckily, both comics are so irredeemably inept that even if, by some miracle, the reviews of them would somehow lead to thousands of additional pageviews, it would still not gain either one of them a single fan.<br />
<br />
'''UPDATE:''' The creator of this comic saw his review is back and confirmed our suspicions. Him and his friend just wrote the reviews about one another as a gag/attempt to get more hits.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Have you ever played a bad RPG with shitty animation and thought "Oh man, I wish this was more boring, and also a webcomic!" Well count your lucky stars, because ''Harkovast'' is here to plug that hole. Complete with long, drawn out subplots, boring characters, and more races than any story could possibly need, including one called "The Nameless," which is... yes, I believe that's a name. Reading this comic is about as enriching as unclogging a toilet with your bare hands.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Downfall===<br />
<br />
To say that ''Harkovast'' has a downfall suggests that at some point, it was riding high - this is sadly not the case. Right away we are hurled into this over-dramatic story which throws too much at you too soon. On top of that, the art is awkwardly proportioned, the action looks wooden, and the dimensions are more often than not totally off. While the art gets slightly better as ''Harkovast'' progresses, the story just devolves more and more into the equivalent of an author jerking himself off with grandiose storylines that try way too hard to look cool.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Story and Plot===<br />
<br />
As told by the front page on the comic itself:<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Quote|All of the nations of the West have fallen to the Enemy. Soon He will put forth His strength again.}}<br />
<br />
<br />
Gotta love the random capitalization! It helps things to seem more important. Not the enemy, the Enemy. We're not Fucking Around here, this is Serious.<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Quote|He will strike next against the southern nations of Vellastrom. These noble peoples have battled the Enemy for generations, but now they squander their strength on petty squabbles over land and power. All the time they grow weaker while the Enemy gains strength with each passing day.}}<br />
<br />
<br />
Look buddy, I know that you just got fired from your job of writing descriptions on the back of Final Fantasy cases, but do you really need to start off so overly dramatic? Oh well, at least you didn't torture us with a cliche line like "The time has come."<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Quote|The time has come for a stand to be made.}}<br />
<br />
<br />
And now, the reader knows: "I am fucked."<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Quote|It has fallen to me, Quinn-Tain of the Wizards of Eldex, to lead the defense of this world.}}<br />
<br />
<br />
The defense of...<br />
<br />
<br />
Wait for it...<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Quote|'''HARKOVAST'''}}<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:HarkovastImage2000-05-05Scaled.gif|thumb|center|250px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Great. I can't wait. Could that have possibly been more bombastic and pompous? Dear Lord, is it okay if I read the comic now? Or maybe you have another novel you'd like me to read first?<br />
<br />
<br />
===Art review===<br />
<br />
[[File:gmiMnNw.jpg|thumb|center|600px|''Overcome by the hardships of war, the soldiers unwind by engaging in interpretive dance.'']]<br />
<br />
<br />
''Harkovast'' is hand drawn and colored, and by the looks of it, it is the work of an arthritic 96-year-old. I have never seen such a poor understanding of dimensions in my life. What kind of a hero has such awkward limbs on an equally wooden-looking body? The stupid kind, that's who. If I was some sort of mythical creature (or worse yet, a helpless character in the world of ''Harkovast''), I would rather be raped, tortured, and burnt at the stake than be saved by some limping, clunky freak who looks like he was drawn by a blind infant.<br />
<br />
Another big problem is the fact that with such rigid looking characters, the fight scenes are invariably going to look like shit. What the hell is [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=56 happening here?] is he trying to fly? And for that matter, [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=148 what the hell is this?] Is he running? Doing the Charleston, or some bizarre variation of a Riverdance? The dimensions often look odd too, [http://www.harkovast.com/index.php?id=86 like here]. It's fortunate that the page is actually titled "Kick," because otherwise I would think that he was on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future Back to the Future] hover board!<br />
<br />
<br />
===Writing review===<br />
<br />
One thing the author is a bit too predisposed to is stopping everything so that we can listen to someone blab on and on about some aspect of the story's background that he couldn't think of a more imaginative way to introduce. Every time a new character shows up, they have a story that goes on forever. It isn't long before "hey, a new character" becomes "OH THANK GOD, THE NEW PERSON HAS SOMETHING TO SAY." And seriously, they do not shut up.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:2000-02-04-Chapter-3-The-Quest.jpg|thumb|center|600px|''Never say in a few words what you can say in a wall of text.'']]<br />
<br />
<br />
If you've ever played an RPG, you know the drill. Oh no, the world's going to end, we have to bind together and save it. Usually there's some interesting twist as to WHY the world is in peril, but here it's just a matter of stopping '''THE ENEMY''', with no clever twist in sight. It's fight scene, then "BLAH BLAH BLAH," then more fighting, and then more "oh shit, the reader should know what's going on! I'll just have one person say everything and have their dialog occupy the whole page."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Author biography===<br />
<br />
Mr. Daniel Stribley says very little about himself in his available biography, other than to talk about how "epic" and "elaborate" his comic is. He also proudly displays evidence of his [http://www.drunkduck.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2009/5169617/ winning Drunk Duck's Best Anthropomorphic Comic award] last year, which is about as prestigious as an award that comes with a card reading "World's Greatest Grandpa."<br />
<br />
<br />
===Conclusion===<br />
<br />
Unless you're into the idea of alternately trying to decipher poorly drawn action sequences and sitting through meaningless blabber, ''Harkovast'' is most definitely a comic you should avoid.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Links===<br />
<br />
* [http://www.harkovast.com/ The comic]<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Harkovast?from=Main.Harkovast TV Tropes page]<br />
* [http://harkovast.deviantart.com/ DA page]<br />
* [http://webcomicritic.blogspot.co.il/2009/09/newbie-rant-5-harkovast.html A bad review]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harkovast/286968799390 Facebook group] - Ten friends... wow.<br />
* [http://coyotecaliente.deviantart.com/art/Webcomic-Review-Harkovast-213525471 Another bad review]<br />
* [http://ingenre.com/2009/10/harkovast/ And another bad review]<br />
* [http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_Harkovast_Forum/index.php?showforum=3 The ''Harkovast'' forums "Hall Of Shame"] - An entire subforum for all the bad reviews and comments this comic gets. There aren't a lot of threads there right now, but I think there used to be more and then that subforum was removed and then restored again.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=I_Fell_Down_the_Stairs&diff=6053I Fell Down the Stairs2013-12-22T07:23:04Z<p>Natsa: </p>
<hr />
<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/harkovast Harkovast]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/ I Fell Down The Stairs]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://user.drunkduck.comifelldownthestairs Kevin]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|March 25, 2007<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|"Ongoing." It stops updating often, but somehow it won't stay dead.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy, though that's stretching the definition to breaking point.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|Tries to be shocking, ends up just sad.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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------ <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Dreadful MS Paint shit.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
No story line.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
No characters.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Not funny. At all.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Ignorant, offensive rubbish.<br />
|}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
Obi-Wan Kenobi once advised that there is no more a wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley on Tatooine. This goes to show that Jedi do not read web comics. If Obi-Wan had read any, he would have known that the most wretched den of filth on the internet is Drunk Duck. But even in a cesspool, there are always some especially large, stinking and putrid turds that stand out from the general slurry. Such is the case with [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/ I Fell Down The Stairs], a gag a day webcomic that aims to set new lows for just how far a webcomic can sink.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Downfall==<br />
<br />
[[File:ifdtsBirthday.JPG|thumb|300px|right]]<br />
<br />
Let's do a little test to see if IFDTS is the right comic for you. Read the following words:<br />
*Rape<br />
*Faggot<br />
*Nigger<br />
<br />
If after reading those words, you found yourself laughing hysterically or masturbating feverishly, then by all means, go and read IFDTS. It's the perfect comic for you.<br />
<br />
If, on the other hand, you thought "those are just offensive, so what?" then you are going to be shit out of luck reading IFDTS, as I just ruined the punchline to every joke it has to offer!<br />
<br />
The author is DESPERATE to shock, hurling whatever unfunny, poorly structured excuse to [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=537432 swear], [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=237751 depict rapes], [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=237688 draw penises], or [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=676808 gore] to try and get some attention.<br />
<br />
This is not so much a comic as a cry for attention from a sad, sad little man with a lot of anger issues who desperately wants to make the next [http://www.electricretard.com/ Electric Retard]. Yes, there really are people who aspire to that. Also, don't click that link. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
No story here--just a series of random jokes. I say random, but as we've already established, the punchlines are always the same lazy, [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=541740 pointless shock tactic]. <br />
<br />
Throwing in swear words at the end does not make a comic funny, nor does giving an ironic wink make [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=298777 racism] and [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=237742 violence against women] okay.<br />
<br />
[[File:ifdtsRape.JPG]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Art review==<br />
<br />
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I already mentioned that the art is done in MS paint, and it looks about as good as you would expect... terrible. It started out with stick men, which in a way was a mercy because at least the grotesque acts depicted were so badly drawn that they lost a lot of their sting. The art has actually improved over time, but in doing so has actually made the comic more unpleasant to read. The characters all look like rigid, poorly-proportioned shop dummies, but this makes them close enough to real people that it makes the action even more disgusting. <br />
<br />
If you were thinking of going to read this comic in the hope of seeing some boobies, please don't get your hopes up. The women all look exactly like the men but with [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=483885 round circles glued to their chests], and any depiction of [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/index.php?p=635723 sex] is just as ugly as the rest of the art. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Writing review==<br />
<br />
This comic updates every day... in theory. In practice, the author takes huge amounts of time off, often months at a time with no updates. Presumably, thinking of swear words to use after three panels of nothing interesting happening must take a lot of time and planning for Kevin. The writing itself is weak like the most stale of Sunday newspaper comics. <br />
<br />
Swearing is the crutch that keeps this leprosy-riddled, shambling corpse of a comic going. If Kevin ever had to author a week of strips with no swearing or gross out tactics, he would be producing something akin to family Circus.<br />
<br />
[[File:ifdtsFamilyCircus.JPG]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Author biography==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:ifdtsAuthor.JPG|thumb|80px|right|Kevin's self portrait.]]<br />
<br />
All you ''really'' need to know about Kevin is that he can't draw and he thinks that rape is the ultimate punchline, but on his Drunk Duck Profile, Kevin describes himself as follows (along with some additional commentary. The lack of capitalization is as it appears in the profile):<br> <br />
<br> <br />
{{Quote|My name's Kevin, and I'm a twenty-four (EDIT: twenty-six now... gettin' ooooold) year old waiter/foreign language major. or art history... i'm still torn between the two. i can't decide which lobe of my brain is dominant!!}}<br><br />
<br> <br />
A student, why am I not surprised? I note that he isn't a major in art or writing. Why am I not surprised?<br> <br />
<br> <br />
{{Quote|it's truly um... something.}}<br><br />
<br> <br />
Was that a joke? Who knows? With Kevin's humour, unless there is profanity to sign post when he thinks he is being funny or clever, it is impossible to tell.<br> <br />
<br> <br />
{{Quote|I absolutely adore drawing comics. I started making them with paint not too long ago (EDIT: it's been two years now) and posting them on a blog just to see how long I could go making one every day and I got hooked. I have a somewhat twisted sense of humor, and as a result I'm often the only one who thinks any of my stuff is funny. But I don't mind. It's fun.}}<br><br />
<br> <br />
Not ''often'' the only one. ALWAYS the only one.<br> <br />
<br> <br />
{{Quote|....that's good, right?}}<br><br />
<br> <br />
Was that another attempt at a joke?<br> <br />
<br> <br />
{{Quote|Seriously I have no idea what to write in this thing. (EDIT: i still don't.)}}<br> <br />
<br> <br />
Was that a comment about his profile or his comic? It is certainly a chillingly accurate portrayal of IFDTS.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
My only regret in posting a description of this dreadful comic here is that it will give the author exactly the kind of negative attention he seems to so desperately crave. This comic is ugly, unfunny, and tries way too hard to get laughs with the most low-brow of shock tactics. This is to webcomics what [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORLDIRIENXY American Pie: Band Camp] was for cinema. Horribly bad, but at least deservedly unpopular.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Fell_Down_The_Stairs/ Read this pile of shit here.] Prepare to lower your expectations...<br />
* [[Morning Squirtz]] - Another comic from Drunk Duck that basically uses the same jokes.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pictures_Of_Crying_Children&diff=6050Pictures Of Crying Children2013-12-22T07:20:27Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{Gone Forever}}<br />
<br><br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/frankenapple Frankenapple]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://picturesofcryingchildren.com Pictures of Crying Children]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com CheriAnn "Nixon" Stevens and Ian "Dash" Borgstrom]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|08/03/2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|<strike>Ongoing</strike> Dead<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy. Real life.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|They fail to be consistent or good at anything they do.<br />
|}<br />
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------<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]] [[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The art has gotten better, but it's still stiff. the evolution into a lineless aesthetic has made something that already looked kind of crappy look slightly less crappy.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The storyline, is... well, non-existent. I think their idea was to something of a Seinfeld of webcomics. Only, they're not really funny, and Seinfeld hasn't been relevant for over a decade. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The characters, as already briefly mentioned, consist of a woman named Nixon, and a man named Dash. Somewhere along the way, Dash's evil twin, Greg, appeared. They've already jumped the shark, if you can believe that. Apart from that they, shamelessly promote their friends' webcomics and have random characters that you see once, maybe twice, and never again. Kanye West appeared right around the time it was super trendy to be making fun of him, and I think he's the only recurring character they've ever had that wasn't either Dash, Greg, or Nixon.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|It's a comic done by two people, but the inconsistency feels like it's a comic done by thirty people. None of whom are funny, or good at drawing.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The comic DOES have its moments, and it's not the worst comic in the world, but it's certainly not the best.<br />
|}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
So far as I can tell, they have no background. They up and started a comic one day. In their "about" section, they do mention that the artist used to work for another webcomic which must have also not been very good, since it no longer exists. I can only assume their intention was to "get discovered" somehow. The comic doesn't have a back story or any background at all. I came across the comic from one of the comics they're apparently chummy with, after a guest art by the PicturesOfCryingChildren artist was posted. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Downfall ==<br />
<br />
Their downfall is mainly in their inability to be consistent, have visually impressive art, captivating writing, or any sembalance of a continuing story line. Don't get me wrong, they've improved some since their earlier days, but you can't polish a turd. <br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
Like I said, there is no real story or plot. The intention, one can only assume, was to have one punchline in each comic and move on. They reject any sense of character development, back story, or plot progression. I found their old blogspot account, which is the only place they make any attempt to tell you about their main characters' background at all... But apparently, when they bought their official domain name, they decided that wasn't important anymore.<br />
<br />
==Art review==<br />
<br />
[http://picturesofcryingchildren.com/comics/2008-08-03%20FirstDates%20Final.jpg bad art example] [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com/comics/2010-01-17%2061%20Sick%20Day.png other art example] The art... well, has gotten better since the comic's inception. There's worse art out there, sure. But there's better art out there too. When the comic started, it looked a lot like a kid in middle school got a hold of some anchient version of photoshop and started drawing for the first time in his life. After about a year and a half, the art has changed drasticlly. Which is both good and bad. For the first several months of the comic's "development," if the main characters weren't so much paler than the other characters, you probably wouldn't have any idea who was supposed to be who in the comic. It was inconsistent, at best. <br />
<br />
Clicking through the archives, you can see that at some point, they were thinking about changing the look of the main character, "Nixon," who, regardless of the perposterous name, is a female. So they had a comic which references Highlander (the long since culturally irrelevant movies/show), in which they brought in a brunette which was their proposed new look for Nixon. It ended with blonde Nixon shooting brunette Nixon. Why? What was the point in that? Then, months later, they just changed her hair color anyway... to brown. This time, without any story, any plot, any explaination. Just one comic, she's blonde, and the next time you see her, she's brunette. Luckily, by this point, the drawing abilities of this girl who is supposed to have graduated college with some sort of art degree, have finally progressed to something consistent enough for you to be able to identify the main characters.<br />
<br />
That's another thing: the characters are all stiff. Their stances are like when you had a cheap action figure or dollar-store-Barbie when you were a child and thier joints weren't fully articulated. They only moved on one axis. That's what these characters mostly look like. They look like somene replaced their skelletons with rods, and joints with door hinges so their range of motion is severely limited. They're lifeless. But, I don't know, maybe in another six months, little miss college degree will learn how to fix that too. <br />
<br />
==Writing review ==<br />
[[File:Binge Drinking 5 by CheriAnnCSW.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Dash's lack of dignity and greed celebrate PayPal donations as his conscience weeps and vomits.]]<br />
The writing is erratic and inconsistent, not at all unlike their art. Their jokes range from puns, to pop culture references, to dick and fart jokes. They also fall back on Captain Falcon jokes WAY too often. They have comics that are single frames with no dialoge at all. Then they have comics with several frames and no dialogue. Then they have comics with one frame and enough writing to fill a page in a standard book. Their format is also totally inconsistent, as you may have inferred, with comics varying in length, number of frames, size, layout (landscape/horizontal vs portrait layout/vertical)... <br />
<br />
Most of the jokes, I feel, were merely something funny said amongst friends and outside of said group, the punchlines are lost. For instance, there is one in which the main characters are talking to another man who is suddenly in his underpants for a frame. Was he actually naked for a frame? Did the main characters just imagine he was clothes-less for some reason? These questions were raised often enough that they had to post a comment underneath explaining that it was NOT, in fact, an inside joke and that it was based off of a real person who does this quite often (which actually makes it an inside joke) and that it's funny because it's "random." How about you try writing a good joke next time?<br />
<br />
Going back to the range of jokes, how can they expect to keep a reader base when they have some that are obnoxiously squeaky-clean, wholesome material and some that drop the F-bomb multiple times and tell someone to "die in a fire"? Nowhere on their page does it mention that some of their stuff might not be suitable for younger internet users. <br />
<br />
So far as I can tell, they haven't stolen any ideas or themes from anywhere else (so at least they've got that going for them), and over the the past year+, there DOES seem to be some semblance of character identity. You do get a sense of Nixon's borderline psychotic rage disorder, and Dash's constant abuse, neglect, and apathy toward her. Recently, Nixon and Dash have gotten engaged in the comic. Which, is more a narcissistic reflection of the actual artist and writer's situation than anything else. But, I guess most women like abusive/negligent men who are entirely apathetic to their problems, so I guess that's pretty realistic. Greg has next to no development or personality, so far as I can tell, apart from the desire to Rick Roll the masses and generally be a jackoff. But, as I said, these are their only characters. It's not too hard to give three characters some sense of personality when they're your only three characters in the course of almost two years. <br />
<br />
==Author biography ==<br />
<br />
The artist and writer, well, they're easily accessible and post links to both their uninteresting blogs in which they drone on about uninteresting things. The artist's various online accounts suggust she went to college for art, which I still find really laughable. The writer's blog indicates that he's at least a more interesting (as a human being) than the comic is (as a comic, as toilet paper, or as anything at all). They're both apparently from New Jersey, and recently engaged. Though, the writer's blog title would indicate that he's rather indignant about that fact. <br />
<br />
== Conclusion==<br />
<br />
It's no wonder they're always looking for guest submissions... But at least it's not a furry comic.<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com Pictures of Crying Children] to get a look of the comic yourself.<br />
* [http://todaytomorrowandtuesday.blogspot.com/ The Artist's Whiny Blog] I told you, they make themselves really accessible, though, I'm not sure who'd care.<br />
* [http://adventuresinnotdating.blogspot.com/ The Writer's Abstract Blog] Like I said, really accessible.<br />
* [http://picturesofcryingchildren.wordpress.com/ An old archive of some of the comic]<br />
* [http://cryingchildren.deviantart.com/gallery/ The artists DA]<br />
* [http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ Not to be confused with the far superior and actually funny "Pictures '''For Sad Children'''".]<br />
[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pictures_Of_Crying_Children&diff=6049Pictures Of Crying Children2013-12-22T07:19:55Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div><br />
<br><br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/frankenapple Frankenapple]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://picturesofcryingchildren.com Pictures of Crying Children]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com CheriAnn "Nixon" Stevens and Ian "Dash" Borgstrom]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|08/03/2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|<strike>Ongoing</strike> Dead<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy. Real life.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|They fail to be consistent or good at anything they do.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]] [[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The art has gotten better, but it's still stiff. the evolution into a lineless aesthetic has made something that already looked kind of crappy look slightly less crappy.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The storyline, is... well, non-existent. I think their idea was to something of a Seinfeld of webcomics. Only, they're not really funny, and Seinfeld hasn't been relevant for over a decade. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The characters, as already briefly mentioned, consist of a woman named Nixon, and a man named Dash. Somewhere along the way, Dash's evil twin, Greg, appeared. They've already jumped the shark, if you can believe that. Apart from that they, shamelessly promote their friends' webcomics and have random characters that you see once, maybe twice, and never again. Kanye West appeared right around the time it was super trendy to be making fun of him, and I think he's the only recurring character they've ever had that wasn't either Dash, Greg, or Nixon.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|It's a comic done by two people, but the inconsistency feels like it's a comic done by thirty people. None of whom are funny, or good at drawing.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The comic DOES have its moments, and it's not the worst comic in the world, but it's certainly not the best.<br />
|}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
------<br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
So far as I can tell, they have no background. They up and started a comic one day. In their "about" section, they do mention that the artist used to work for another webcomic which must have also not been very good, since it no longer exists. I can only assume their intention was to "get discovered" somehow. The comic doesn't have a back story or any background at all. I came across the comic from one of the comics they're apparently chummy with, after a guest art by the PicturesOfCryingChildren artist was posted. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Downfall ==<br />
<br />
Their downfall is mainly in their inability to be consistent, have visually impressive art, captivating writing, or any sembalance of a continuing story line. Don't get me wrong, they've improved some since their earlier days, but you can't polish a turd. <br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
Like I said, there is no real story or plot. The intention, one can only assume, was to have one punchline in each comic and move on. They reject any sense of character development, back story, or plot progression. I found their old blogspot account, which is the only place they make any attempt to tell you about their main characters' background at all... But apparently, when they bought their official domain name, they decided that wasn't important anymore.<br />
<br />
==Art review==<br />
<br />
[http://picturesofcryingchildren.com/comics/2008-08-03%20FirstDates%20Final.jpg bad art example] [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com/comics/2010-01-17%2061%20Sick%20Day.png other art example] The art... well, has gotten better since the comic's inception. There's worse art out there, sure. But there's better art out there too. When the comic started, it looked a lot like a kid in middle school got a hold of some anchient version of photoshop and started drawing for the first time in his life. After about a year and a half, the art has changed drasticlly. Which is both good and bad. For the first several months of the comic's "development," if the main characters weren't so much paler than the other characters, you probably wouldn't have any idea who was supposed to be who in the comic. It was inconsistent, at best. <br />
<br />
Clicking through the archives, you can see that at some point, they were thinking about changing the look of the main character, "Nixon," who, regardless of the perposterous name, is a female. So they had a comic which references Highlander (the long since culturally irrelevant movies/show), in which they brought in a brunette which was their proposed new look for Nixon. It ended with blonde Nixon shooting brunette Nixon. Why? What was the point in that? Then, months later, they just changed her hair color anyway... to brown. This time, without any story, any plot, any explaination. Just one comic, she's blonde, and the next time you see her, she's brunette. Luckily, by this point, the drawing abilities of this girl who is supposed to have graduated college with some sort of art degree, have finally progressed to something consistent enough for you to be able to identify the main characters.<br />
<br />
That's another thing: the characters are all stiff. Their stances are like when you had a cheap action figure or dollar-store-Barbie when you were a child and thier joints weren't fully articulated. They only moved on one axis. That's what these characters mostly look like. They look like somene replaced their skelletons with rods, and joints with door hinges so their range of motion is severely limited. They're lifeless. But, I don't know, maybe in another six months, little miss college degree will learn how to fix that too. <br />
<br />
==Writing review ==<br />
[[File:Binge Drinking 5 by CheriAnnCSW.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Dash's lack of dignity and greed celebrate PayPal donations as his conscience weeps and vomits.]]<br />
The writing is erratic and inconsistent, not at all unlike their art. Their jokes range from puns, to pop culture references, to dick and fart jokes. They also fall back on Captain Falcon jokes WAY too often. They have comics that are single frames with no dialoge at all. Then they have comics with several frames and no dialogue. Then they have comics with one frame and enough writing to fill a page in a standard book. Their format is also totally inconsistent, as you may have inferred, with comics varying in length, number of frames, size, layout (landscape/horizontal vs portrait layout/vertical)... <br />
<br />
Most of the jokes, I feel, were merely something funny said amongst friends and outside of said group, the punchlines are lost. For instance, there is one in which the main characters are talking to another man who is suddenly in his underpants for a frame. Was he actually naked for a frame? Did the main characters just imagine he was clothes-less for some reason? These questions were raised often enough that they had to post a comment underneath explaining that it was NOT, in fact, an inside joke and that it was based off of a real person who does this quite often (which actually makes it an inside joke) and that it's funny because it's "random." How about you try writing a good joke next time?<br />
<br />
Going back to the range of jokes, how can they expect to keep a reader base when they have some that are obnoxiously squeaky-clean, wholesome material and some that drop the F-bomb multiple times and tell someone to "die in a fire"? Nowhere on their page does it mention that some of their stuff might not be suitable for younger internet users. <br />
<br />
So far as I can tell, they haven't stolen any ideas or themes from anywhere else (so at least they've got that going for them), and over the the past year+, there DOES seem to be some semblance of character identity. You do get a sense of Nixon's borderline psychotic rage disorder, and Dash's constant abuse, neglect, and apathy toward her. Recently, Nixon and Dash have gotten engaged in the comic. Which, is more a narcissistic reflection of the actual artist and writer's situation than anything else. But, I guess most women like abusive/negligent men who are entirely apathetic to their problems, so I guess that's pretty realistic. Greg has next to no development or personality, so far as I can tell, apart from the desire to Rick Roll the masses and generally be a jackoff. But, as I said, these are their only characters. It's not too hard to give three characters some sense of personality when they're your only three characters in the course of almost two years. <br />
<br />
==Author biography ==<br />
<br />
The artist and writer, well, they're easily accessible and post links to both their uninteresting blogs in which they drone on about uninteresting things. The artist's various online accounts suggust she went to college for art, which I still find really laughable. The writer's blog indicates that he's at least a more interesting (as a human being) than the comic is (as a comic, as toilet paper, or as anything at all). They're both apparently from New Jersey, and recently engaged. Though, the writer's blog title would indicate that he's rather indignant about that fact. <br />
<br />
== Conclusion==<br />
<br />
It's no wonder they're always looking for guest submissions... But at least it's not a furry comic.<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://picturesofcryingchildren.com Pictures of Crying Children] to get a look of the comic yourself.<br />
* [http://todaytomorrowandtuesday.blogspot.com/ The Artist's Whiny Blog] I told you, they make themselves really accessible, though, I'm not sure who'd care.<br />
* [http://adventuresinnotdating.blogspot.com/ The Writer's Abstract Blog] Like I said, really accessible.<br />
* [http://picturesofcryingchildren.wordpress.com/ An old archive of some of the comic]<br />
* [http://cryingchildren.deviantart.com/gallery/ The artists DA]<br />
* [http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ Not to be confused with the far superior and actually funny "Pictures '''For Sad Children'''".]<br />
[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Turbosloth&diff=6048Turbosloth2013-12-22T07:06:23Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{Disgusting}}<br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/auttheum Auttheum] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.turbosloth.net/ Turbosloth]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[https://www.facebook.com/BenPernick Ben Pernick] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date'''<br />
|February 14, 2010 <br />
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|'''End Date'''<br />
|Hopefully within the near future.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre'''<br />
|In theory, this is comedy.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw'''<br />
|The cluttered eyesore that Ben Pernick refers to as "art."<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|Giving this sheer garbage even one star would be unfair to all the other one-star comics on the Wiki.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|Since this is a gag-a-day comic, this category does not apply.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|There are no recurring characters. This category does not apply either. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
This guy is in college and still thinks boogers are funny. I was more mature than that when I was six.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The only positive thing about this comic is the fact that its title represents Mr. Pernick’s attitude.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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I originally found this utter garbage while doing my first review of the comic [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Lemon_Inc. ''Lemon, Inc''], a comic in which Ben Pernick (creator of this filth) once did a guest comic for, as seen [http://laiguyscomics.com/lemoninc/2010/10/13/guest-comic-by-benjamin-pernick/ here.] If that one strip is to be any indication of ''Turbosloth'', the comic has the art skills of an intoxicated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder Stevie Wonder], the comedic skills of terminal cancer, and a use of Copy-And-Paste that rivals even [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Tim Buckley]] himself. That one strip, however, is not a perfect indication of ''Turbosloth''. That strip is extremely mature by ''Turbosloth'' standards.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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Right from the [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=609 very first comic], this was a monstrocity. And while virtually every other horrendous comic on this wiki got better throughout time, this one hasn't. Ben Pernick is still just as sloppy, immature, lazy, and unfunny today as the day he started this mess.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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In the webcomic world, artists who use MS Paint are considered the laziest, least adequate, and generally the worst (only second to ones who use crayons). However, ''Turbosloth'' sets a new record in suckitude by proving itself to be incompetent at such a simple tool.<br />
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<center>[[File:2009-04-17-Move.png]]</center><br />
<center>''Anyone else want to shoot themselves in the head with a nailgun right now?''</center><br />
Let’s list everything that’s wrong with this one strip that we could get a drunken hippie to do right.<br />
* The characters' borders are screwed up.<br />
* In the first panel, the guy in gray’s mouth is yellow (and presumably open since he’s talking) but in the second, it’s white.<br />
* Why did the pavement suddenly change colors?<br />
* Why are there two big white boxes in the second panel?<br />
* Why does the guy on the side look like one leg magically merged with one at the knees?<br />
* What angle are we viewing this in, anyway? It can’t be an aerial view, since they’d be lying down. It can’t be from a side view, because we can see the guy sitting on the curb (unless he’s magically levitating, which isn’t new for this comic.)<br />
* In the first panel, neither he nor the wheels are actually even touching the skateboard.<br />
* In the second panel, it’s physically impossible for the skateboard to come up at such an angle.<br />
* What is the guy in green holding? Honestly, I think it’s a tissue. Which prompts so many more questions.<br />
* How did the guy in green suddenly sprout a sleeve on his left arm?<br />
* Why are the sleeves two different colors?<br />
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And this isn’t a one-time occurrence. [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=627 Ben's] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=627 never] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=762 been] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1344 able] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=626 to] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=731 have] correct borders in the three year history of Turbosloth. Ben also likes to prove he [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=238 can] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=639 make] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=854 very] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=643 sloppy] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=216 messes,] which he does often. Notice in the last picture that everyone’s skin is completely white. Mr. Pernick has also proved to be a huge fan of Tim Buckley's famous ‘Copy & Paste’ style, in which [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=660 the] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=661 strip's] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1344 panels] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=730 have] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=641 the] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1065 exact] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=657 same] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=442 sloppy] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=631 mess!] Notice, in the last one, that the "defeated" <strike>house fly</strike> housafly is just an upside down version of the regular picture.<br />
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<center>[[File:9h4ahy.png]]</center><br />
<center>''You read that right. He wastes an hour and a half every day on drawing this mess.</center><br />
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The final rant about this guy's art is that this comic cannot even be trusted to [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1059 simply] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1137 make] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1194 an] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=629 effort.] Those last few panels prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, either how pathetic Ben Pernick is at making art, or how lazy this guy is at his own comic.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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<center>[[File:2011-05-25-Head-games.png]]</center><br />
<center>''It takes a real <s>disgusting</s> man to appreciate the humor in snorting your own dandruff.''</center><br />
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Anyone reading this who has even the most minuscule amount of respect for the comedic industry should be highly insulted that Ben Pernick considers himself to be a comedian. I've never seen someone try so many different types of puns and gags and fail so miserably at each one. For starters, Ben [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1216 has] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=266 never] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=254 done] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=251 a] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1199 remotely] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1208 entertainng] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1270 one] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1273 panel] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=760 gag]. He [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=689 also] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=158 can't] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=678 set] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=679 up] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=162 a] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=164 somewhat] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=163 decent] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=685 punchline.] Now, this is the point where most amateur comedians realize they’re bad, and move onto something else. Ben, however, wants to prove that not only he’s a horrible comedian, he’s also [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1072 a] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1057 complete] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=774 manchild] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=725 with] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1139 the] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=639 immaturity] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=252 level] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1272 of] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=628 a] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=643 three] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1312 year] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1346 old.] In summary, Ben Pernick knows about as much about comedy as he does acting like an adult. As in, not much. After all, it takes a very mentally disturbed man to find [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1334 presidential assassination] and [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=815 terrorism] funny. Sadly, that’s not even rock bottom for him! Sometimes, Ben Pernick is too lazy [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=714 to] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1176 even] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=1059 have] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=652 a] [http://www.turbosloth.net/?p=648 punchline!] Even by BWW standards, the writing is atrocious.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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<center>[[File:29ar1u1.png]]</center><br />
<center>''Ben's self-portrait (when responding to "Don't quit your day job.")''</center><br />
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Ben Pernick was originally from Nanuet, NY and currently lives in Boston, MA. As of right now, he is in his junior year at the Berklee College of music, trying to become a professional ska musician (if his music is as good as his art, he’ll be the next Rebecca Black). He is also obsessed with cartoons (specifically Spongebob).<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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This comic isn't just horrendous beyond words. This comic is a hideous fusion of the worst comics on the BWW all in one foul-smelling pile of elephant dung. Ben Pernick has the maturity of [[So... You're a Cartoonist?|Andrew Dobson]], the attitude and effort of [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Tim Buckley]], and a sense of humor as annoying as that of [[Least I Could Do|Ryan Sohmer]]. The art, however, is in a league all of it's own. I have never seen a comic with such a drastic absence of talent, entertainment value, or effort. The only redeeming quality to this thing is, as I have said before, the title represents Ben's attitude toward the comic.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://www.turbosloth.net/ The train wreck itself.]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/BenPernick?fref=ts Mr. Pernick's facebook.]<br />
* [http://benpernick.bandcamp.com/ His page at Bandcamp.com]<br />
* [http://www.comicbooked.com/onslaught-talks-with-ben-pernick-creator-of-turbo-sloth/ His interview with Onslaught.]<br />
* [https://plus.google.com/108054747094875691994/posts His Google+]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/TurboSlothComics?fref=ts Turbosloth's facebook page.] Somehow, this filth has 144 likes.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa&diff=6031User:Natsa2013-12-21T17:04:53Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>==Potential Comics To Review==<br />
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*[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics]<br />
*<s>[http://jenffersshow.thecomicseries.com/ Jenffer's Show]</s> - Troll webcomic.<br />
*<s>[http://lessonsindistraction.comicgenesis.com/ Lessons in Distraction]</s> - Briefly reviewed by [[User:oddguy|oddguy]].<br />
*[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day] - [[User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day]]<br />
*[http://www.thefreckledfinger.com/cartoon-archives-link/ THe FReCKLeD FINGeR]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Natsa&diff=6030User talk:Natsa2013-12-21T17:04:12Z<p>Natsa: /* Jenffer's Show */</p>
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<div>== Hello there. ==<br />
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*Listen, i'm gonna temporarily delete all the Dave Cheung related reviews you just made or maybe move them somewhere for now. Last time I believe it was Dave himself that complained to Wikidot about these to have them deleted, so before we make them again I wanted to inform this wiki farm's admins in advance to keep this from happening again. That's why I haven't recreated them again yet... Just been lazy to get around to it. Okay? [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 08:24, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
**That's ok as long as the images are still saved to the website. I'll have the source code of the reviews saved in the meantime. Try to make sure this is ok to the higher ups because I'm not sure if Cheung himself is still active. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 18:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::*Alright. Cheung still makes US Angle Corps so this will get back to him sooner or later. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 22:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::* Well, the official website hasn't been updated for ten months and the forums are basically dead. I'm not sure how you were able to find that out. I just hope ShoutWiki is more lax than Wikidot. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 05:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::::* I haven't deleted those reviews, but I haven't gotten mail back from shoutwiki about it yet either so at least don't add them to the listing for now. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 22:01, 14 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::::* Okay, got the green like from the admins. Gonna go over them one last time to cut down a bit on the personal attacks to give us a bit more plausible deniability and publish them. Also, there is one more review we had on the old site that was never actually added to the directory so it was never delted. It's <s>[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/chugworth over here] and imma put it on this site and add some pictures if you don't do it first.</s> [[Chugworth!]] DONE. Just needs pictures. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 18:39, 15 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::::::* It's pretty short for a TheLuigiian review, so it could use some expansion if pictures are ever going to be added to it. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 22:35, 15 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::::::* Well, the entire comic was about 4 pages long before Dave abandoned it. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 07:45, 16 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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* I think USAC is worse than Billy... Billy may have been an antisemite, but he wasn't a murdering, rapist who fucked corpses in pools of their own urin. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 18:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:* The reason I thought Billy The Heretic is worse because not only is the writing absolutely repetitive and atrocious, making it a terrible example of propaganda, but the art is just that awful. No matter what Cheung draws, child guro porn or not, it will still look less lazy than any of the Billy strips. Then again, you're the boss. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 02:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::* Aw, don't say that. I'm not "The Boss". I wanna discuss the issue! [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 13:14, 17 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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== Jenffer's Show ==<br />
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* Seriously, don't review this. It's a troll. The creator is a member of the old 789chan which was a chan for nothing but trolls. he/she (I think it's a tranny) has been making this comic intentionally bad and has tried to get us to review it at least once (I have reason to believe the real number might be 3+) and if we do it this person will just add the review to his/her already long list of bad reviews that is proudly featured on the comic's old site and gleefully giggle to themselves about how we were "trolled" into writing it. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 16:37, 21 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:* Thanks for telling me. I will edit my list accordingly. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 17:04, 21 December 2013 (UTC)</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Long_Tom&diff=6025User:Long Tom2013-12-21T04:15:23Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>Moderator of the current incarnation of the Bad Webcomics Wiki.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Sugar_Bits&diff=6020Sugar Bits2013-12-21T01:44:22Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{Douche}}<br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/akumyo Akumyo.]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/ Sugar Bits.]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://bleedman.deviantart.com/ Vinson "Bleedman" Ngo.]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| March 18th, 2007<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Ongoing.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Fairytale fantasy.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Despite all the action that Bleedman is trying to convey, the flat characterization and poor pacing make this comic, like [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi|Powerpuff Girls: D]], a complete chore to read.<br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Sadgoil.png]][[File:Sadgoil.png]][[File:Sadgoil.png]]<br>THREE SAD UNDERAGE GOILS. Like Bleedman's other comics, the art is the least of his issues, and is competent at least, bordering on professional at best. He has issues with poor character design choices, and his palette is typically very saturated though, even when it isn't appropriate in some cases.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Sadgoil.png]]<br>The main character "Ginger" disappears into Distopia, and Hansel has to retrieve her. That's it so far, and it ain't much.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Sadgoil.png]]<br>The characters are very one sided, and unlike previous efforts they don't even offer the entertainment of seeing how Bleedman has bastardized them from their previous iterations. Aside from "Little Red Riding Hood" who is from another webcomic, who is an EXTREME version of the fairy-tale, they are all original characters, and boring ones at that.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Bullshit Naming Conventions:'''<br />
| (NO UNDERAGE GIRLS) SERIOUSLY BLEEDMAN YOU ARE NOT EVEN TRYING. CONFECTIONARIA, DISTOPIA, VEGGIE HUT? AGUGHGH<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Sadgoil.png]]<br>It's Bleedman's first foray into an original story, and it does not impress. Really, Bleedman would be better off doing parts of a comic, rather than trying to carry one all by himself. He just doesn't have the writing ability.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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I had been following Bleedman's awful webcomics as a source of humor for quite some time, so I did not hesitate to start reading this one when he released it. Sadly, it lacks the punch the other two comics have as a source of hilarity. As one of my friends put it: "At least with the other two you can marvel at how bad the characterization is, or read the comic in Dexter's original voice; this is just boring." Also this comic doesn't include subjects like devastating terrorist attacks that make the author look like an insensitive oaf with no sense of scope or sensitivity for his readers. <br />
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==Downfall ==<br />
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Now, it's easy to say "Hey this comic has always sucked, let's just move on" but I like to go the extra mile when it comes to these things. Especially when it comes to Bleedman. Bleedman's comics are always mediocre, but at some point he takes his story and flings it off a cliff. With "Powerpuff Girls: D" it was Dexter attempting to transform his sister into an android after she was killed. In "Grim Tales" it was using the tragedy of 9-11 to further a romance subplot between Death and a little girl. Now what could be the downfall in "Sugar Bits?" <br />
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While the downfall of Sugar Bits isn't as bizarre as Powerpuff Girls: D or insulting as Grim Tales, it's one of the greatest mistakes he has made in regards to his writing. There hasn't even been one hundred pages, and through a series of poor choices he has made his story nearly incomprehensible. Where did this begin? Where was the downfall? Right here: [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=68 Page 68]. <br />
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At page sixty-eight Bleedman introduces "Evil Ginger". Where does "Evil Ginger" come from? Why does she [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=69 attack Gene and Hansel]. Why are they [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=70 attacked by rabbits]? What's the deal with this [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=77 dream catcher jackoff]? What the FUCK IS HAPPENING? Welp. From page sixty-eight and onward you, poor reader, will not get any answers, and that's why this comic suffers so direly. To add insult to injury, Bleedman introduces "Little Red Riding Hood" a cameo (Bleedman, putting a CAMEO in his comic? Nooooo) from another SNAFU comic [http://ea.snafu-comics.com/ Ever After]. Well, it's better than Cartoon Network...I guess. <br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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At less than one hundred pages there hasn't been much time to introduce much of a plot, and indeed, there is very little of it. Anyway, let me spare you the "joy" of reading this comic, and try to explain it to you to the best of my ability. There is a realm called "Harmonia" that contains several floating islands, that further contain kingdoms known such as [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=0 "Toytropolis", "Lovinia", and Courage Campus] (Stop me if I'm going too fast for you). This particular story begins in Confectionaria, the land of sweets, because truly things like candy are super important to the happiness of humanity and aren't the leading cause of diabetes, tooth decay, and obesity. I digress. <br />
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The story opens in Confectionaria where our characters are [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=1 extracting] a super important element known as "Zest". This element is so super duper important that it's never mentioned again. The zest machine overloads, a [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=6 monster is created], defeated, blah blah blah, let's move on. <br />
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Within a few pages both [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=8 Cupcake the Rabbit] and [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=9 Ginger the Princess] are introduced. Cupcake is completely unimportant and hardly shows up again, but Ginger actually means something to the "plot". Through some word vomit we find out that Ginger [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=12 created] [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=13 Hansel] with her mom's love. Until big bad <s>Bleedman</s> Bleedheart took her mom away. So Ginger is like a mom to Hansel, but there is this weird romantic subplot thing going on too? Let me just stop and say Bleedman what the FUCK is with you and incest? I guess they aren't technically related but hell, related enough. Is it better or worse that it's a cookie? Why do I even have to ask myself this? Why do bad writers always shoe horn in terrible romantic subplots as soon as two eligible characters make an appearance? <br />
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I'm sorry, I went on a tangent.<br />
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GOD DAMMIT NOW THE [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=20 LAMBCHOP AND THE COOKIE ARE AT IT]. <br />
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[[File:bleedromance2.jpg|thumb|center|500px|Bleedman romance in action.]]<br />
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Sorry. From now on I'll just sit back and imagine that the only reason that they are kissing him is because they like the taste of gingerbread. <br />
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Moving on. Bo and Hansel meet in the [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=22 Dream Palace] and soon it becomes a [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=27 shared nightmare] as they are attacked by EVIL GINGER. They escape, but the real Ginger [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=32 escapes into the night]. The Brave Hearts get together to discuss the disturbance in the dream world, and then it's off to Confectionaria where a portal is [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=36 discovered in the kitchen.]<br />
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Hansel finds himself in a dark world where everyone is big, evil, and wears [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=40 fancy business suits]. We are eventually introduced to a [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=47 Tails Prower ripoff] who tries to kill not [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=49 one] but [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=53 two] sets of characters with her giant fucking shark boat and really isn't useful or interesting aside from that. We also meet [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=21 "Mammon"] er [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=58 "Gene"] a disinterested devil who introduces us to the [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=59 worst naming conventions I have ever read.] <br />
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Directly after this point, the story [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=63 smacks] [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=64 face] [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?comic_id=68 first] into one of the worst plot fuckups I have ever seen. I will discuss it further in my writing portion of the review. Suffice it to say, Bleedman really dropped the ball with this one.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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There isn't much for me to say that I didn't say in my [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi|Powerpuff Girls: D]] review, with a few minor differences. This time I don't have to worry about Bleedman bastardizing copyrighted characters, no, this is a Bleedman original. Still, it suffers from most of the problems his other character designs have. His girls tend to look like they were built from a template, the same little stick bodies over and over again. The guys are also huge monstrosities, with the exception of "Gene" the devil, who I actually enjoy looking at, even if his personality is about as flat as everyone else in the story. (Oh and one more thing, Bleedman STOP pushing Gene's horns to the back of his head, it looks stupid and horns would NEVER go there.) <br />
<br />
Bleedman constantly tries to improve on his coloring, but I don't think he really knows which direction he wants to go. So it looks slapdash. He enjoys using bright, eye searing colors, but he is trying to work in a dark landscape. So it ends up with him mixing eye-searing colors in a dark landscape. It doesn't work. He needs to design a template, then stick with it. It would also help if he didn't fully render everything. Look how bright it is on the characters armor plates on [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/comics/081116_sugar.jpg panel one] when it's so dark outside. If it's that dark outside, there would never be any highlights like that on a character. Additionally, Bleedman shouldn't worry about rendering everything to that degree anyway, sequential art is about the big picture, not every individual panel. <br />
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Actually, I'll give Bleedman some credit with this work, I think he really did attempt to develop an original world for his story. There is [http://bleedman.deviantart.com/art/Sugarbits-comic-9733451 evidence] in his Deviantart gallery that he has been working on this idea for a while, and there are moments where the concepts shine, however brief, but in many cases the art and designs feel rushed, as if he was so desperate to get his ideas out there to the public it killed his pacing. <br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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Again, this is where Bleedman falls, and falls hard. I do believe that Bleedman really cares a lot for this project, but all the care in the world won't make up for shoddy writing. This whole thing feels like he wrote it as he went without writing a plot outline or script in advance. As a comic artist, if you intend to tell a large story, you ''have'' to write it out in advance first, I cannot over emphasize this. It's likely that Bleedman had it planned out in his mind, but envisioning something isn't enough, because that's like drawing something without sketching it first. Everything gets crammed into a corner, and that's exactly what happened to the story.<br />
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First and foremost, we are given brief introductions to the characters, and very little time to get to know them as people. Just as we start to get to know them BOOM, we are hit with some exposition and back story. Just as we are reeling from that, BAM, here comes some conflict. The pacing in this story is atrocious. While it holds up to itself for a little while, things completely tumble and fall when page sixty eight, evil Ginger is introduced. Why? Because after that, there is conflict, after conflict, after conflict, and zero motivation. As readers we are barely hanging onto these characters anyway, but then the story keeps asking reasons for us to care. <br />
<br />
It's not uncommon for a story to suspend our sense of disbelief, or to make us hang in for a mystery, but the reason these stories can be great is because they have great characters to back them up. We stay through the confusion because we want to witness what happens to these characters. In Sugar Bits, I can't honestly say I gave much of a shit to what happened to anyone, and the more confusing things got, the less I really wanted to see what happened. Bleedman is asking far too much, and giving too little.<br />
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==Author biography== <br />
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Because I'm low on space, I'm not going to put anything here this time. Just check out my previous review if you want to read about Bleedman and his exploits. Really, [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Powerpuff_Girls_Doujinshi it's a doozy.]<br />
<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
As much as I want to tell Bleedman to fuck off for expressing a desire to tell an original story, I can't. Anyone who is interested in becoming a sequential artist probably has a story or two in mind, the problem is, not everyone has the patience to sit down and create it. They want to spit it out and have the love flow in from their creation immediately. Let me tell you, from creating several near starts in comics, it's not about having the love flow in, and doing it right is much more important than doing it right now. If you love your idea, then you should give it the time it deserves to make it good. <br />
<br />
I could be in the wrong though, and it's very likely that while Bleedman has passion for his creation, he has never taken the time to learn how to tell a proper story. He is surrounded by fanboys and suckups. He's the most popular guy on DeviantART, so it's likely all this advice will fall on deaf ears. He's at the end of the rainbow, and at the end of it is a big pile of mediocrity. <br />
<br />
==Links== <br />
<br />
* [http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/ Sugar Bits]- Sugar Bits page, like you couldn't find it anywhere else here. <br />
* [http://bleedman.deviantart.com/ Bleedman's Deviantart]- The most popular man on DeviantArt. Sad. <br />
* [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Powerpuff_Girls_Doujinshi My Powerpuff Girls: Doujinshi review.]<br />
* [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Grim_Tales_From_Down_Below Review of Grim Tales from Down Below.]<br />
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{{SNAFU}}</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Spaghetti_Strap_Western&diff=6019Spaghetti Strap Western2013-12-21T01:40:22Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.sswestern.com Spaghetti Strap Western]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://www.showkati.com Ali Showkati]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|March 3, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|<strike>Ongoing</strike> Dead<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Sci-Fi Western <br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Flat, amateurish artwork that does the material no justice <br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
I've certainly seen worse, but between the rudimentary backgrounds, bland facial expressions, and absolutely wooden action sequences, there’s too much wrong with it.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Storyline is passable. Dialogue is okay. Some might see parallels between this and ''Firefly'', but I’m not sure if it’s enough to call it a rip off.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
I would've rated this higher, but the characterizations are a little on the flat side too.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
As can be expected of 95% of webcomics starring women written by men, there is a cheesecake factor here. Fortunately, it’s not that bad. I’m giving this a high score for Showkati’s restraint. This could have been worse.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Similar to [[Cheshire Crossing]], this is a webcomic with an ambitious premise and set up, but the art is so flat and amateurish that it kills any value this comic might’ve had. <br />
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== Background==<br />
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A while ago, I had come across the ads for [http://www.sswestern.com Spaghetti Strap Western,], starring two lovely looking women with guns. Now, I do have a soft spot in my heart for strong women and weaponry so I checked it out with enthusiasm, expecting a cool spin on old western-style gun-slinging. What I got, instead, was a let down. I wanted to like this piece, but there are too many shortcomings for me not to count this piece as part of this wiki. However, I write this review not out of mockery or schadenfreude, but out of frustration and disappointment. Lamentation, even. With there being so few webcomics out there about westerns and especially strong female roles (okay, hot chicks) in westerns, why, oh, why couldn't this have been good?<br />
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<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
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If I had to sum this plot up in ten words or less, I’d say it’s “Thelma and Louise meets Firefly. Sort of.” The story is set in a post apocalyptic world that, in the wake of a nuclear holocaust, rebuilt itself as a lawless, old west style civilization, and I use that term loosely. The story follows two women both named Cassandra, Cassandra Thomas and Cassandra Torrez. Thomas mysteriously has a massive bounty on her head, and, since the two women look alike and have the same name, Torrez begins to receive visits from troublesome bounty hunters after Thomas. Torrez quickly finds Thomas and fights off some bounty hunters after Thomas, and both women escape town in search of answers. <br />
<br />
Really, the premise isn't bad. As I've said, there’s definitely influences of Firefly at work here, including even [http://www.sswestern.com/page-31/ Asian elements], but instead of a spaceship with a motley crew, the cast is distilled to simply Cassandra and Cassandra. It sounded to me like a set up for some great gunslinger girl action, but getting into it, I found out that…<br />
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<br />
==Art Review==<br />
<br />
[[File:Spaghetti-Stp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<center>This shit looks like clip art.</center>]]<br />
<br />
…The art is bad. It’s not the most horrific thing I've ever seen, but it definitely gives [[Cheshire Crossing]] a run for its money in the flat, wooden everything department. The people, the backgrounds, the action sequences, everything looks dull and wooden. <br />
<br />
Unlike Cheshire Crossing, the women are a much closer approximation to actual human beings, but every last one of them looks dead. Or stoned. Or drunk. Whatever the case, they don’t look “alive.” Any emotional impact these characters might’ve had is killed by the constant cow-eyed look on their faces. In this page, Cassandra Thomas delivers the line "I just killed someone," with all the expression and emotional investment as someone who would say, "Damn, I forgot to pay the phone bill." The bodies are rendered a bit better, and thankfully, the women aren't portrayed as 100% cheesecake all the time. I get the impression that Showkati really wants to show these women as beautiful and sexy and not melon-chested freaks (like [[Chugworth Academy|some]] [[Boss Noodle|people]]), but his artistic abilities are limited at best. The men are all kinds of wonky with oddly feminine figures, complete with [http://www.sswestern.com/page-82/ man boobs]. There are flickers of goodness in some of the frames [http://www.sswestern.com/page-61/ here and there], but the moment is lost soon after. <br />
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The color rendering is also fairly flat. Sure, Showkati does some shading, but it’s fairly incompetently done with only one color for shading and nearly no highlighting (if he had bothered to put a shine in the eyes of these characters, they wouldn't look so dead. FYI, Showkati…). He sorta has a grip on atmosphere, but for the most part, the characters are rendered exactly the same in every angle of light, which is not the greatest idea when you’re trying to draw these girls at sunset. Just sayin'.<br />
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Another big failure of the art is the [http://www.sswestern.com/page-18/ backgrounds]. The backgrounds are pretty lazily done in the most basic shapes possible. Sure, Showkati’s got a vague understanding of perspective, but for the most part, he just throws around a few lines here and there and expects it to be a background. Well, it’s not, Showkati. Vague lines in space and copy-cut-paste elements do not a proper background make. If only he had taken the attention he gave to rendering these women’s bodies, to rendering backgrounds, we could see a big improvement here.<br />
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Furthermore, Showkati’s a fan of special effects tricks including Copy-Cut-Paste, solar flares, and blur effects. These can be done well in the right hands (yes, even Copy-Cut-Paste, if used sparingly), but Showkati shows he doesn't know his way around these techniques very well. Backgrounds are lazily repeated and re-sized for frames. Character faces are flat out copied and used again. Solar flares are misused, as are the blur effects. I understand Showkati was probably tickled pink when he first opened up his box of Photoshop, and that he couldn't wait to see fiddle with all the bells and whistles, but silly special effects like this are best used at a bare minimum. Showkati doesn't seem to get that.<br />
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Finally, the action sequences. Oh, Lord help me me, the action sequences. They are so very, very, bad. There’s next to no movement rendered in any of the action scenes. Not even when guns are fired. [http://www.sswestern.com/page-36/ Gunfire] is literally a white star with the word "BANG!" next to it. It’s embarrassing. Don’t get me wrong. I understand completely that action sequences are among the hardest things to draw as a comic artist, but Showkati had to know what he was getting into when conceiving the idea for this comic. He had to know that in a comic about gunslingers, he would have to draw action sequences, and he’s barely capable of drawing a person standing still. <br />
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I wish Showkati had taken 1-2 years before the drawing of this comic to just work on his skill, work on capturing figures in action, work on making his inks not look like they were done with a leaky sharpie, and get comfortable with his digital tools. Photoshop (also evidence of Illustrator or some vector program in work) is not something one can pick up overnight. In fact, I avoid Photoshop specifically because it has such a steep learning curve. If Showkati had dedicated time to making his art <s>the best it could be</s> GOOD, then there’s an excellent chance I might not even have written this article.<br />
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==Writing Review==<br />
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The writing isn't that bad. I’m glad to say I found a lot less to hate about the writing than the art. First, I'd like to address the obvious point of contention: the cheesecake factor. Unlike so many other creatards profiled on this wiki, Showkati ''doesn't'' turn this into a cheesecake piece, at least not all the way. Sure, there’s fairly rampant cleavage, and there’s even a sex scene (with nudity), but I honestly I'm not sure I'd count that I’d count against Showkati. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with rendering a sexy female character (surprise, guys, women have breasts). I don’t even think there’s a problem rendering a sexy female character having sex. I do have a problem when creators cross the line and turn their female characters into pure wank material, but thankfully, Showkati (arguably) never crosses that line. These women at least have some personality too. Cassandra Thomas is portrayed as a shrinking violet thrown into a battle she was never prepared for. Cassandra Torrez is shown as a fallen woman who has learned to toughen up after the world has ended and survive by any means necessary. For her character, Showkati does lean on the crutch of the “damaged woman” (or [http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/ woman in refrigerator]), but it’s not a step that would be unrealistic for this world. The only complaint I have about the other characters is that they don’t really have personalities. Or, if they do, the art is so bad I can’t tell by their facial expressions what the hell is going on in their heads. <br />
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Overall, I don’t think the writing merits a lambasting. Have we seen the material of women gunslingers before? Sure. Have we seen the post apocalyptic world due to corporate conspiracy before? Yep. But stitching together a bunch borrowed elements doesn't necessarily make a bad story. If nothing else, it makes ''Avatar''. <br />
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==Author Biography==<br />
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There doesn't appear to be too much information about Ali Showkati and possible tomfoolery on the web. He seems to be a regular Joe artist who just likes putting out comics about gun-slinging women, and if he could draw the comic worth its salt, I wouldn't fault him for that. <br />
<br />
He also co-founded a collective called [http://tnppress.com TNP Press]. Not much else is known about this guy. <br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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I wanted to like this comic. I really did, but the artwork here destroys the experience for me. Webcomics are both art and writing, and if you fail at one, the rest of the ship goes down with it. Fortunately, it’s a better flaw to have bad art than bad writing. Art can improve over time, but if you’re a no talent hack or an egomaniac crybaby, no amount of beautiful gunslinger women can save you. <br />
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I say this with the greatest affection. Ali Showkati, I want to love this comic, but your art is making that very difficult. Please stop with the crappy art. Thank you.<br />
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== Links==<br />
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* [http://www.sswestern.com Comic Site] – the comic itself.<br />
* [http://www.zudacomics.com/high_moon High Moon] - See this? Make your western look more like this; With set design and character expressions.<br />
* [http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials GFX Artist] – See this? These tutorials can help you make your western look prettier.<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pictures_of_You&diff=6018Pictures of You2013-12-21T01:38:17Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/ Pictures of You]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://www.smackjeeves.com/profile.php?id=6617 Gibson Twist]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|February 4, 2007<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Slice of Life<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|Pretentious, self-important dramedy that mistakes the partying misadventures of a bunch of douchebags for actual character development and depth.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:700px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]] Art is not that good. Suffers from the "everyone looks alike" syndrome. Also, characters are drawn skewed, a rookie mistake Twist makes over and over again. And let's not forget the unending walls of text. Still, not the worst stuff out there.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]] Even though the author promises us that some great cataclysm is coming, the archives don't reflect that. All we see are a bunch of whiny college kids who have nothing better to do than drink, smoke pot, and screw. Never mind that they're in college to, you know, learn shit. Fuck that learning shit.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Most of the characters are whiny and stupid, and the few exceptions who aren't are surrounded by so many of the narrator's walls of text, they might as well be as whiny as everyone else.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
CHRISTMAS IS FASCISM! Unintended hilarity ensues.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Though not completely repugnant, ''Pictures of You'' is still annoying because of its poorly planned story, whiny characters and unceasing walls of text. Seriously, Twist. Stop with the fucking walls of text.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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One of the most prominent genres of webcomics is the slice of life college kid story. The formula is pretty simple: you get a bunch of college kids who have wacky adventures, wacky relationships, one wacky ball-busting professor, add in a healthy dose of mediocrity and self-centered whining, and serve over ramen. That is how the vast majority of them are. <br />
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However, some college webcomics take things a little more seriously. They touch on the importance of relationships, politics, and the overall struggles of just trying to get by and find your own voice. ''Pictures of You'' is one such non-wacky college comic that does explore the darker, more soulful topics. Although, darker and more soulful do not necessarily mean ''good.'' Sometimes it means pretentious crap.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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The downfall of this thing is the very beginning of the story where we open on our melancholic Eminem look-alike, Peter, who has just gone through a box of photographs of old times with his friends. Peter is very sad those days are gone, and so he makes the rest of us suffer by assaulting us [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/112743/1-00-prologue-4/ with walls of text]. Peter then has to go to a party with some of his old cronies, where he hits us with some more walls of text of his [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/114479/1-00-prologue-6/ groaning] and [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/114479/1-00-prologue-8/ moaning]. Author, sorry ''Auteur'', Gibson Twist makes 10 pages feels like a fucking eternity as we sift through this stupid guy's unceasing bitching. And why is our boy Peter so very sad? Because he can't drink straight whisky and smoke pot with his old drinking buddies anymore. Because his little clique of alcoholism and debauchery broke up. Its members, in all likelihood, probably stopped drinking hard liquor and got ''real'' jobs.<br />
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[[File:poywah1.jpg]]<br />
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WAAAAAAAHHHHH!<br />
<br />
Life is so tragic.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
Here is the official summary blurb:<br />
<br />
"Inspired by real people and real events, ''Pictures of You'' is the epic memoire of Peter Morris and the best friends he ever lost. Comic and tragic, Pictures of You is a long road filled with sex, drugs and rock n roll."<br />
<br />
You know it's bad when they start throwing around words like "epic." Yes, this is the "epic" memoir based on ''Auteur'' Gibson Twist's college years, where I imagine he smoked so much pot all he could graduate with was a [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/125319/1-01-a-step-out-of-the-wilderness-11/ liberal arts degree]. <br />
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The set up isn't necessarily awful, if not a bit overdone. For what it's worth, it shows that the author has the ending of the story in hand, which is somewhat rare for webcomics. Where everything comes apart is the execution. Twist spends entirely too much time introducing the characters and situations. The entire first 100 pages are nothing but introductions. All the crap after that is either pointless drama that doesn't seem to lead to this inevitable collapse the reader is initially promised or otherwise pointless buffoonery. Seriously. Gibson Twist dedicates an entire mini chapter to [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/277473/2-02-why-i-hate-tatooine-1/ Peter's first time watching Star Wars] and another mini chapter to [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/342864/2-06-schadenfreude-1/ a character getting attacked by a cat]. That's it. Nothing really happens, which is frustrating given how much material Twist has actually put out.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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The art is not good, in that Twist makes a lot of rookie mistakes. Twist only knows how to draw one face. That's it. Well, more specifically, one face for men and one face for women. Everyone in this entire universe has this round, doughy face and pug nose, which is hilarious when you consider Twist is trying to portray different ethnicities.<br />
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<br />
[[File:poyrealguys.jpg]]<br />
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See, in real life, people of different ethnicities look different from each other. We can see distinctions in their noses, eyes, and facial structure. However, everyone in ''Pictures of You''…<br />
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<br />
[[File:poynotrealguys.jpg]]<br />
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<br />
…looks the same. This begs the question: what's the point in having a multiethnic cast if the artist won't do one whit of research on what the fuck they're supposed to look like? And don't give me that crap about "stylism." A comic about people is supposed to depict what people look like, and PEOPLE DON'T ALL LOOK THE FUCKING SAME. <br />
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Also, Twist has this terrible tendency to draw his characters<br />
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<br />
[[File:poyslanted.jpg]]<br />
''...slanted.''<br />
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<br />
This is another classic rookie mistake amongst budding comic artists. See, the human eye has a natural astigmatism which will cause most artists to draw a character somewhat skewed if they aren't careful. Even seasoned artists do this, but the difference between a noob and a power player is that the experienced artist anticipates this issue. They combat it by constantly flipping the page to make sure their character is straight, or some of the digital folks just correct the page after it's scanned. Either way, this CAN BE AVOIDED. Twist, for whatever reason, simply chooses otherwise. I can only guess he either ''likes'' his characters slanted, like [[La Cosa Nostra|some people]], or that he's just a lazy motherfucker [[Megatokyo|like some other people]]. Given that there appears to be SOME effort going into the art here, I believe the answer is the former.<br />
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The comic also oscillates between [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/373307/2-07-his-tongue-becomes-a-cannon-22/ ink rendering] and [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/263988/2-01-spice-up-your-life-4/ color]. From what I can gather, he creates an entire book's worth of pages in black and white inks and goes back to add the colors later. While color usually adds a whole new life to comic art, these colors are so boring and dull that he might as well have not. He barely does any shading and has no concept of atmosphere or color theory. This makes for a pretty droll color experience. Let's explore some, shall we?<br />
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<br />
[[File:poycolor1.jpg]]<br />
<br />
Yawn.<br />
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<br />
[[File:poycolor2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
Bore.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:poycolor3.jpg]]<br />
<br />
Wake me when it's over.<br />
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<br />
[[File:poycolor4.jpg]]<br />
<br />
…*snoooooore* mmmmwah? Huh? Oh, right, the review. Yeah, weak art. Moving on...<br />
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<br />
==Writing review==<br />
<br />
The writing, much like the art, has lofty aspirations but comes out flat and amateurish. Twist takes forever to get his characters established and even after he does, all he seems to do is show us how THEY HAVE SUPER AWESOME COOL PARTYING LOLZ! These characters have very little real depth and are only really defined by the tragedies in their lives.<br />
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<br />
[[file:poywah2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
WAAAAAAAAAHHHH!<br />
<br />
<br />
Peter, the main character, is defined by his constant internal whining, but also his "newness" to his environment. Apparently, growing up in a small town he was exposed to nearly nothing compared to his college friends, including [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/132039/1-02-the-learning-curve-3/ smoking cigarettes], [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/149992/1-03-the-cat-in-the-box-10/ pot], [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/123044/1-01-a-step-out-of-the-wilderness-8/ indy record shops] and [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/277476/2-02-why-i-hate-tatooine-2/ Star Wars]. His naivete is layed on so thick it's positively annoying. Not only that, but Twist later betrays this quality, after Peter unknowingly sleeps with a married woman. He's actually shocked and angry when everyone assumes he's a virgin (sexually speaking). Hell, I made that assumption too, but NOOOOO. Peter [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/381278/2-09-en-passant-3/ claims not to be a virgin], as having sex is one of the few social activities available in his small home town. This is obviously an attempt to take the reader by surprise and teach us not to assume things about characters, but it's just so far fetched. Gibson actually expects his readers to believe it's easier to get teenaged pussy in this small town than it is to get a copy of one of '''the most popular movies of all time.''' <br />
<br />
Yeah, no.<br />
<br />
That's not the only inconsistency with this character. In fact, Peter is riddled with inconsistencies that indicate Twist has no real idea who this fucking character is. He's [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/119649/1-01-a-step-out-of-the-wilderness-4/ rather sunny to some people], yet he's a [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/431631/2-13-finals-3/ brooding badass to his professor]. He [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/349380/2-07-his-tongue-becomes-a-cannon-2/ lets his roommate walk all over him], but then [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/515816/2-17-one-inch-punch-22/ leaps into fist fights with strangers] [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/127653/1-01-a-step-out-of-the-wilderness-14/ without hesitation]. This isn't three-dimensional characterization, this is Twist being indecisive about who his own fucking character is. Even Peter [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/309392/2-03-power-to-the-people-23/ questions his identity], but Twist cops out by calling him the "[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/309392/2-03-power-to-the-people-24/ unpredictable one]." Whatever.<br />
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The rest of the characters aren't plagued with these glaring discrepancies, but that doesn't make them much better. Most of them have fairly thin characterizations, despite all the bitching and drama surrounding them. Lauren is a girl who falls for Peter, but ultimately finds out what a raging moron he is. Then there's punk girl (no I'm not bothering to look up her name), who is a total non-conformist and a bitch. Andy is a man-whore. Drummer guy is a stoner. Sam is a nice guy nerd type. Kara is a snobby bitch. Wiley is a gay guy who says next to nothing. Patrick is a gay guy who won't shut the fuck up. While these characters have slight moments of deviation from type, such as punk rock girl's pregnancy scare and Lauren's fairly quick rebound from her crush on Peter, they're fleeting and they go back to being their merry little one-dimensional selves when the storm subsides. <br />
<br />
There is, however, a slight glimmer of hope in the characterizations. Man-whore Andy is the very rare example of a jerk/manslut type [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/191229/1-08-you-cant-be-a-spectator-all-your-life-5/ DONE] [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/308937/2-03-power-to-the-people-21/ RIGHT].<br />
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<br />
[[File:shock.jpg]]<br />
<br />
I know, I'm just as shocked as you are.<br />
<br />
<br />
Andy's character is seen in many other webcomics on this wiki such as [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]], [[Least I Could Do]], [[Shredded Moose]], and anything shat out by [[The Outer Circle|Steve]] [[Dueling Analogs|Napierski]]. Andy is supposed to be the Gary Stu douchebag, but strangely, he's actually the most ''likeable'' character in this whole mess. And why? Because he's given the one thing that makes the Gary Stu douchebag redeemable: '''ACCOUNTABILITY'''. If he wrongs someone or sleeps with the wrong woman, he pays for it. He gets yelled at. He gets punished. And from time to time he actually demonstrates he can be a good person and a much-needed voice of reason. Andy also wins points for being the least whiny twat in this whole piece. So, Tim Buckley, Ryan Sohmer, Steve Napierski, and whatever fucking mutant is responsible for Shredded Moose, take some fucking notes. This is how you make your stupid fucking Gary Stus somewhat decent characters. <br />
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That was the best quality of the writing. The worst quality about the writing in this "story" (I use that term loosely as nothing really happens here), is that it's so pretentious I want to throw up. Observe…<br />
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<br />
[[File:poyfascism.jpg]]<br />
<br />
AH HAH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Way to kick off your Christmas party champ!<br />
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<br />
For what it's worth, that frame made me laugh harder than anything in this story, because it's so incredibly douchey and snotty and it is literally the picture of everything WRONG with the comic. So is the pictured character, Patrick. His story is the most TRAAAAGIC so far and why? Because [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/485672/2-16-home-for-the-holidays-13/ his sister's dating an asshole] and his father is [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/476838/2-16-home-for-the-holidays-6/ SOOOO MEEEEEAN] to him for wasting his time on his band and NOT studying for all that college '''he's paying for'''. The dad. Pays for Patrick's apartment. And his tuition. And his lifestyle. And we're supposed to get mad at him for holding Patrick accountable for his bullshit lifestyle? I don't know how shit works in Canada, but here in the United States, if you want to keep your parents from bullying you, YOU GET A FUCKING JOB AND STOP DEPENDING ON THEM FOR MONEY. I don't feel sorry for this character, and any reader who does is a complete twat. <br />
<br />
Patrick is also preachy, especially about his homosexuality and how we should perceive it. Again, the reader is the bad guy for assuming things. Patrick is Gibson Twist's mouthpiece for his political agenda. He wants you to know that assuming things about gays is wrong. Raising tuition on poor, pitiful college students is wrong. And CHRISTMAS IS FUCKING FASCISM! But Twist shoots himself in the foot on all fronts. Patrick's pro-gay rant against Peter doesn't work when Peter genuinely wants to be his friend. Patrick's mooching off his dad anyway, so he shouldn't care how high tuition goes, and Christmas is only a crappy experience for him because he's an asshole to his sister and his dad is really only holding him responsible for all the shit he's financing. So, uh, yeah. Political agenda fail.<br />
<br />
On a final note, I'd like to touch upon the "rock and roll" briefly touched upon in the summary blurb. Comics are a medium with no sound. So why do creators insist on making comics about music I can't hear? And even worse, why does their artwork often end up looking like [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/358006/2-07-his-tongue-becomes-a-cannon-9/ those damn ipod commercials]? Not that it's a crucial flaw, I'm merely making the observation. <br />
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The writing, overall, is preachy, nonsensical, and stupid. There's so much emphasis placed on events that just don't matter that it kills whatever importance any of the truly dramatic material has.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
<br />
Like any true bad webcomicker, Gibson Twist is incredibly self congratulatory despite putting out a lackluster product. Also, like any good bad webcomicker, he makes friends with other crappy webcomickers. Check out the [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/547951/thanks-ackowledgements/ acknowledgment] at the end of his book 2, he sings the praises of Gisele Lagace, the whore monger responsible for [[Ménage à 3]]. I kinda doubt this relationship happened because if Lagace actually had given him advice, she would've told him to draw more bewbz rather than [http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/381274/2-08-the-other-man-6/ dongs]. (link NSFW!)<br />
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The bottom line is that Gibson Twist appears to be oblivious to this comic's flaws and surrounds himself with people who don't tell him the truth about his work. Otherwise, he'd quit sucking and I wouldn't be writing this article.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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Overall, ''Pictures of You'' is an overblown comic that takes pretentiousness and navel-gazing to a whole new level. I never thought I'd ever see a piece that would ever make any of the other hundreds of wacky college kid comics look good, but this is the one. Self-important college kids who take themselves entirely too seriously actually make shitty wacky college kid comics look bearable. That this is based on real life is even worse because it means (surprise!) Gibson Twist is one of those self-absorbed, pretentious bastards who needs to get over himself. However, there is hope for Twist. I do not believe that he should die in a fire, like [[Least I Could Do|some]] [[Shredded Moose|creat-ards]] [[Chugworth Academy|I]] [[Cru the Dwarf|know]], but I believe that to improve his work, he needs a perception shift…away from himself.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://comixtalk.com/madscottreview_gibson_twists_pictures_of_you Another Review of ''Pictures of You''] - I wonder if this would be as positive if he could see what the comic has turned into now?<br />
* [http://www.webcomicz.com/webcomics/839/pictures-of-you.html Ranking on Webcomic Z] - As of this writing, ranks number 7 out of all comics on that list. Seriously, guys are you actually paying attention when you vote for shit?<br />
* [http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2007/10/seven-deadly-sins-of-webcomics.html Seven Deadly Sins of Webcomics] - Guess which ones Twist is guilty of?</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lovefeast&diff=6017Lovefeast2013-12-21T01:33:53Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/index2.php Lovefeast]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://ai.senshuu.com/resume.php “Senshuu” aka Jessica Cantlope]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Approximately April 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Fantasy Manga<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Not well drawn, lots of anatomy problems, and the storytelling is confusing as all hell.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
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|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Like every other weeaboo who dared to pick up a micron, she can only mimic anime anatomy she’s seen, she doesn't actually KNOW how to draw people.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Whuh? Huh? I have no idea what the hell is going on here.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Hard to tell who’s who when I can’t even make up or down of the story.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Seriously, weeaboo girls. What’s with the yaoi creepiness?<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
While the comic is still in its nascent stages, it’s far enough along to determine that this thing is just going to be a shrine to Cantlope’s yaoi obsession, and therefore TEEEERRIBLE.<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
I love low hanging fruit. By low hanging fruit, I mean terrible webcomics that are in their beginning, nascent stages. This allows me to read the entire comic and crack out a review in record time. The best part about reviewing young and bad webcomics is that it’s soon enough to effect some meaningful change. If the author sees the review and wises up, then I might have saved them years of their lives reworking their old shit into less shitty shit. However, if the author chooses to flaunt my findings and continue on their shitty path of shittiness, then I get bragging rights as being the first one to point out what a piece of shit their work is and always has been. <br />
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It’s a win-win situation for me.<br />
<br />
A friend of mine had told me about the works of an internet artist named “Senshuu” aka Jessica Cantlope and that her works were very, very terrible. I took the challenge and began trolling for her works. My findings conclude that her webcomics and art are, indeed, awful and that, like any horrible webcomic artist, she’s gaining in popularity. Of course. <br />
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The work of hers most deserving of my bitch-slapping today is ''Lovefeast'', a wholly anime-derived work that features incredibly confusing storytelling, yaoi overtones, and some terrible anatomy. I’ve torn through the whole thing in short order and I can already see its redeeming qualities are dwindling at best. Cantlope, if you’re reading this, I hope you’ll learn something, because your comic is off to a bad start.<br />
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<br />
===Story and Plot===<br />
<br />
I…I don’t know. Again, I have to default to the author’s official blurb because I have no idea what’s going on. Let’s compare and contrast:<br />
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'''Official:'''<br />
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{{Quote|Picture this: you're in a strange, new place. Everyone, especially the guy you like, seems to think you're "odd". You're encountered by myths on a daily basis. Oh, and you're a death god now.<br />
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At [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-26/ the Institution for Training in the Arts of Death], people who have renounced their former lives struggle to maintain their humanity while training to become Gods of Death. The history of the Institute is interwoven with many successes but also with many complex relationships and personal hardships, so it becomes easy to lose sight of good, mercy, and the highest of loves—especially when one lives to deal with death and that beyond.}}<br />
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<br />
Oh, that clears everything right up, because these were my original thoughts:<br />
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'''Norad’s Impression:'''<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Some…[http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-08/ guy dies]. I think. And, uh, then [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-18/ some bee girl] shows up to take his soul or something. And then there’s [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-24/ fighting]. And then there’s some [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/001-05/ gay sex]. And then there’s [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/001-10/ some guy bullying the guy who does the butt sex]. Um…Yep. That’s about it.}}<br />
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It’s very plain to see that Cantlope’s intentions are not properly conveyed in this story. While one can argue that 24 pages isn't enough for a review and that the story simply needs more time to mature, I say NAY! If you can’t get a decent, engaging, even quasi-logical, story off the ground in 24 pages of comic, you FAIL. <br />
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Note that Cantlope does a better job of conveying the butt sex in her comic’s first 24 pages than she does anything about the God of Death system. Just saying.<br />
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===Art review===<br />
<br />
Pssst, Cantlope. Your [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/001-02n03/ weeaboo] is showing. <br />
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The art is not nearly as good as Cantlope would like to think. It’s riddled with [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-10n11/ anatomy] [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-12/ issues], and mostly [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/inside02/ devoid] of [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-02/ backgrounds]. Also, the art does not lend well to visual storytelling as I cannot tell what the fuck is going on based on the pictures alone (though the words don’t seem to help either). <br />
<br />
Oh, the anatomy. Cantlope has seemed to develop her own “style” which appears to be somewhat derivative of anime. I appreciate the departure, but she still doesn’t know how the fuck people are supposed to be proportioned. Or how not to [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-14/ draw a guy’s eyes too close together]. Or whatever. There is no point developing stylized characters if the artist still can’t draw normal humans. <br />
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Also, the comic is, for the most part, fairly devoid of backgrounds. Every so often, Cantlope does put out [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/cover00-2/ something] that shows she’s at least got a grasp of perspective, but for the most part, she does the terrible manga trick of just drawing a [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/001-11/ series of talking heads] and calling it a story. Or worse, uses [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/inside01/ textures] as a substitute. While this might be a stylistic preference and I may just be acting like a big ol’ ogre here, I believe that there’s an inherent amount of laziness that goes with not filling up a frame with the slightest hint of setting. Stop being lazy, Cantlope. Fill yer damn frames.<br />
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Finally, the visual storytelling is absolutely confusing. Cantlope has no grasp on how to move a story along by pictures alone. It’s been said that a sequential story should be understood without any lettering. Let’s test that, shall we? I’ll take a three sequential pages of ''Lovefeast'' that don’t even have words, and you see if you can’t figure out what’s going on.<br />
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[[File:lf1.jpg]]<br><br />
[[File:lf2.jpg]]<br><br />
[[File:lf3.jpg]]<br><br />
<br><br />
That’s three consecutive pages. In order. Still can’t figure out what’s happening? Good. That makes two of us.<br />
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===Writing review===<br />
<br />
I’m not sure what I can say about the writing that hasn’t already been said. It’s confusing. It makes no sense, and it doesn’t match Cantlope’s official description. I don’t know anything about the [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-01/ guy who dies in the beginning], what the [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-09/ wolf attack on some other guy] means, or anything that’s going on. Again, since the comic fails so miserably at the visual storytelling, how can the writing help? What little dialogue there is here makes no sense, that is, until you get to the bully going after our ''totally kewt ghei boi'' from the start of this whole mess. At which point, I have to chide Cantlope for getting into politics before even getting her damn story started. The world does not need another [[Pictures Of You|Gibson Twist.]]<br />
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Oh, and [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/000-06/ Shinigami]? REALLY? Goddamnit, I think you just ruined Death Note for me with your weeabooness. Thanks.<br />
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===Author biography===<br />
<br />
Again, the official blurb:<br />
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<div style="margin: .5em; auto; border: 3px #3e6d80 solid; padding: .5em;"><span style="color:white"><br />
<font size="3">'''Jessica Cantlope once professed to being a gay boy in a straight lady's body. A design graduate, she freelances and seeks long-term art-related work while being masochistic with drawing her two long-form webcomics.'''</font> </span><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
Wow, where do I even start with that one? I suppose the beginning is just as good a place as any. The “gay boy in a straight lady’s body” thing. I don’t disapprove of creators allowing their personal tastes to influence their comics. Far from it. But what is up with anime girls letting their yaoi love drizzle all over their creepy webcomics? If I call male artists out for drawing sphere tits ([[Boss Noodle|Dave]], [[Edge the Devilhunter|Sammy]], I’m looking at you!), I have no problem calling out these creepy women for centering their webcomics around their yaoi obsessions. Stop it. It’s off-putting and exploitative, and the only real readers you’ll get out of making your creepy yaoi comics are other yaoi fans. It’s okay to have a gay character and just let their relationships play out as normal or even as just a backdrop to the main story, but to show off [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/vdsd13/ male gonads] just because it tickles your fancy is just unnerving.<br />
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That said, I think Jessica Cantlope and [[Pastel Defender Heliotrope|Jennifer Diane Reitz]] would get along swimmingly. If JDR still had a penis, they could get married and go shoe shopping happily ever after. <br />
<br />
The height of awfulness in that bio is actually not the creepy yaoi stuff. Oh, no. She apparently graduated with a DEGREE IN DESIGN. And her webcomic looks like [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/chains-promo/ this]. And her website looks like [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/index2.php that]. And [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/pages/year01/ that]. Money well spent, Cantlope. Money well spent.<br />
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<br />
===Conclusion===<br />
<br />
''Lovefeast'' is Jessica Cantlope’s giant red flag to the world that she’s either bat shit crazy or really incompetent. Either way, her comic is off to a really hideous start, despite the fact that she has a 4-year degree in design. However, this situation is not without hope. If Cantlope can keep her creepiness away from her comic, draw anatomy better, draw some more backgrounds and fire herself as a writer, she could <s>salvage this piece</s> start this thing over and it would suck significantly less. However, as it stands, ''Lovefeast'' is a frightening acid trip and you should totally skip it if you value your sanity.<br />
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===Links===<br />
<br />
* [http://www.lovefeast-comic.com/index2.php The comic]<br />
* [http://wow.webcomicplanet.com/pinups/hibiku-tanja/ Cantlope’s Women of Webcomics Entry] – Apparently, some people think this is sexy.<br />
* [http://www.cafepress.com/lf_chains The Obligatory Cafe Press Store] – The staple of every terrible webcomic undeserving of your attention<br />
* [http://millennium.senshuu.com/ Milennium] – Cantlope’s other webcomic that still seems to have a pulse.<br />
* [http://www.encyclopediadramatica.es/Yaoi The Encyclopedia Dramatica’s Definition of Yaoi] – '''NSFW''' In case you didn't know what I was talking about throwing around the word “yaoi”</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Hearts_of_wildfire&diff=6016Hearts of wildfire2013-12-21T01:29:06Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/forcedjapanesename ForcedJapaneseName] and [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/ Hearts of wildfire] (lower case by him)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://www.smackjeeves.com/profile.php?id=7447 Shugo_kunisaki AKA Shinta_urashima AKA Charlie Alexander Luna AKA Retard McWeeaboo] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| April 17, 2009<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing? Are you fucking with me? <br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Weeaboo feces. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Being shitty on every conceivable level. <br />
|}<br />
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==Background==<br />
<br />
I strongly hope you can believe that this guy ''voluntarily'' linked to this abomination in his signature on the Twotard forums.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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Day one. The artwork is ungodly, complete with badly drawn and badly traced cat girls, sleeping sea urchins and a disembodied head.<br />
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==Story, Plot and Writing review==<br />
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I… I don’t know what to say. It’s like someone made the most contrived bullshit anime-derived story they could think of. The story begins with the [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/594457/comic-01/ floating head of Shinta in school being taught by a busty cat lady]. Then she hits him for sleeping in her class. Then he goes out to buy some pocky (spelled poky, but the writer can’t seem to spell worth a damn) when he happens upon an unnamed girl in danger. The girl is pursued by… some guy... and Shinta saves the girl by [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/620598/page-07/ blocking a knife with his chest], and then rising from his injuries and turning into [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/620660/page-09/ a treasure troll].,<br />
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Shinta then wakes up, damsel in distress nowhere to be found. In her place is some guy who talks in [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/631958/comic-14/ sideways manga] talk and seeks to awaken the lead’s memories because of course, Shinta is [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/595559/page-03/ an amnesiac]--a staple in 85% of shonen anime.<br />
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Overall, the story is contrived, taking as many if not more plot and dialogue cues from anime and manga than [[Key Quest]] (an astounding feat to be sure). Also, the letterer really didn’t give a shit if anything was lettered well, centered, or even fucking spelled correctly. Really, this comic reads like someone purposefully made a terrible web manga as badly as they could, and if that's the case, I must say mission fucking accomplished, guys. The joke’s on me. You tricked me into reading your God awful manga. <br />
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On the other hand, there is an outside chance that the author actually thinks he’s writing a ''good'' comic, in which case the joke is on the author. I could barely find the words to describe how bad the writing is here.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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The art is even worse than the writing. The art is unbelievably bad. Horrible. Deplorable. Most of the time, the frames aren’t even complete. The characters are literally floating heads or disembodied arms or some other random body part floating through space. There’s nearly no backgrounds and the anatomy is wretched. Even worse than that, the screen toning is just plain lazy. It’s patently awful. It’s just… I mean [http://heartsofwildfire.smackjeeves.com/comics/594737/page-02/ LOOK AT IT]!<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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Charlie Alexander Luna is either the most incompetent and most batshit crazy (topping almost [[Concession|Imsywimm]]) comic creator I’ve seen in a long time, or he's an ingenious [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremist], attempting to create the world's worst comic in order to scare off potential comic hacks... <br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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...nah, he's just crazy and I want to hurt him.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8355287.stm British Magazine discusses furries] – Because... ''because.''</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Edge_the_Devilhunter&diff=6015Edge the Devilhunter2013-12-21T01:28:05Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|review author = [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|webcomic name = [http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/edgethedevilhunter.php Edge the Devilhunter]<br />
|author = [http://edgy24.deviantart.com/ Sam Romero]<br />
|start date = January 1, 2004<br />
|end date = <strike>Ongoing</strike> Dead<br />
|genre = Action Manga-inspired<br />
|flaw = Some of the worst writing '''I HAVE EVER SEEN.'''<br />
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The art here is at a professional level. If only Romero would use his talents for good instead of drawing cock monsters.<br />
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Contrived. Heaven and earth, bad ass sent to earth to fight for the good of mankind. Nothing here you haven’t seen before (cock monsters excepted).<br />
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Jack is a miserable horndog who tries to come off as an edgy good guy, but ends up looking immature, stupid, and highly politically confused. Everyone else is a bunch of misfits from every “edgy” comic book that came out in the 90’s.<br />
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Two words. Cock monsters.<br />
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The artwork is great, but the writing is among some of the most atrocious crap in the cosmos.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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'''Before I begin, you should know that just about EVERY LINK IS NSFW!!'''<br />
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Back in the ‘90’s there was a surge of “edgy” comic books that hit the mainstream. This was the result of artists finally gaining the freedom from their publishers to stop writing cheesy superhero stories and start writing darker, more mature pieces. Creators took this freedom and ran with it, and the market responded quite well to this new influx of “edgy” products. Before long, however, the entire market was saturated with “edgy heroes” and their “edgy stories” and their “edgy problems” and books eventually got published based on how “edgy” they were, rather than on their raw quality. All this edginess eventually ruined mainstream comics for the 1990’s and while the industry is beginning to regrow their brain cells and produce less “edgy” garbage, the foul stench of “edginess” still prevails. <br />
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And people wonder why I took to the hills for webcomics.<br />
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In spite of how stupid the “edgy” movement was (or I should say still is because it’s not like it went away), there was an entire generation of creators that grew up on this stuff, so it goes without saying “edgy” comics became their prime source of inspiration. And, given all the new technologies and distribution options available to independent creators, where will all the creations of the new generations “edgy” inspired comics end up?<br />
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On the fucking web. Of course. <br />
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One such example of webcomic “edgy” is ''Edge the Devilhunter''. ''ETDH'' is the “edgy” story of an “edgy” hero, Jack, who’s an “edgeknight” for heaven on an “edgy” mission to fight “edgy” monsters with his “edgy” sword (with an edge!) and get into “edgy” misadventures. Have I beaten the word “edgy” into the ground enough for you? Is it starting to lose its meaning? Well, that’s pretty much how ''Edge the Devilhunter'' treats it, by beating the reader over the head with the material to the point where the edginess becomes ridiculous.<br />
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And overdoing edginess is the least of ''Edge the Devilhunter’s'' problems. <br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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Honestly, I found this comic and went into it thinking it was actually a GOOD webcomic. I mean, the pictures are so pretty, what could possibly go wrong?<br />
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How about [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/01022004 horribly racist cops, horribly tasteless dialogue, and walls of text]? Jesus, and that’s just the first page. It doesn't get better after that. Oh, no. The rest of the entire comic from there, Sam Romero persists to push his extreme political agenda, his love of violence, his misunderstanding of what breasts look like, and his horrid dialogue TO THE EDGE!<br />
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…Edge of reason that is. Suffice to say, this thing has always been awful.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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The story is cribbed from just about every “edgy” comic that has ever been. This is the official blurb. See if it doesn't sound familiar:<br />
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{{quote|Mysteriously resurrected and enslaved by divine forces, a crazy teenage thug named Jack prowls the night a reluctant assassin and slayer of demonkind. Jack is brought back to life into a world of ruin and drafted into waging a lone campaign against hell's earthbound minions! But will his overall disregard for the law and lust for treasure and girls get in the way of fulfilling the mission he was brought back to do?}}<br />
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Okay, so it’s ''Spawn'' meets the awkward sexy parts of ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', but I guess that isn't enough to call it bad. It’s all the other crap that follows that makes it so bad. <br />
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In the first chapter, we meet a lovely girl named Hana. We don’t see her for more than a scene and a half before she is brutally raped and murdered. (Cheerful.) As it turns out, she is murdered by her boyfriend, who has a detachable penis that he leaves at the scene of the crime. Jack goes on a quest to avenge her death, by retrieving the severed breast her killer kept of hers and returning it to her burial. But he can’t kill the killer. Oh, no. Only maim him horribly. <br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/02062004 Because that’s what Jesus would've wanted].<br />
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From there, it just turns into a series of disjointed misadventures ranging from barely legal cop girls kicking ass for no reason to giant cock monster fights. I don’t know. It’s ridiculous and the array of ludicrous plots gives me the idea Sam Romero is clinically insane or on the best drugs ever.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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The art is the best thing about this comic. The pen and ink renderings are beautifully done, the action sequences are incredibly dynamic (if not a bit confusing to follow), and the cast is diverse and pleasing to the eye…<br />
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Well, at least until you get to the melon tits and the underage girl panty shots. <br />
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Don’t get me wrong. I love the sight of the female form, but there’s a right and a wrong way to do everything. Sam Romero can’t resist the urge to draw [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/07162008 stripper tits] or [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/10102007 panty shots] on 90% of the female cast in this comic. With all the sphere-boobs, one would think that he’s never seen a woman outside of a strip club, but no, he’s actually [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/01132004 perfectly capable of drawing normal women]. He just won’t. It’s all pander, pander, pander to the lowest common denominator. To be fair, he also draws his protagonist, Jack, as [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/05302008 a muscle-bound freak despite being 100 lbs soaking wet], but in either case, that sort of thing is exploitative and stupid. Women don’t look like that. 16 year old boys don’t look like that either, for that matter. But it doesn't matter because Romero would rather stick to his hypersexualized scribbling and generate web hits than, you know, have some frickin’ artistic integrity.<br />
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Oh, yeah, and about that integrity thing: Romero spends an entire 2 chapters rendering…<br />
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Wait for it…<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/chapter-8-zajra Cock monsters]. <br />
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That’s right. Hell beasts with more than a passing resemblance to the male genitalia. Dear God I wish I was making this up. Herein lies Romero’s greatest weakness as an artist: the tendency to draw base, horrible, eye-scarring things. Again, don’t misunderstand me. I don’t believe the world is all lollipops and candy canes and that Romero should spend his time rendering ''Care Bears'' (though I’d be morbidly interested to see his take on that). I just think that everything requires balance. Yes, there are horrible demons in his world. No, they are not pretty. But did I really need the images of [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/01272004 dead body with severed boob], [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/02032004 exploded eyeballs], [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/05092007 Arab guy humping a nun], [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/12162005 a guy with cockroaches all over his junk], and a chapter and a half of [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/jack-offs-dick COCK] [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/wang-wilder-2-the-rise-of-zaj MONSTERS] burned into my retinas? <br />
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Oh, now my eyes are bleeding again. Along with every other hole in my head.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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The art has its shortcomings, but they’re really only symptomatic of this story’s abhorrent writing. Actually, abhorrent doesn't begin to describe it. Atrocious, contemptible, beastly, vile, vulgar, loathsome, all these $5 words I can use to describe Edge the Devilhunter’s writing still don’t capture the magnitude of its sheer awfulness. As I said earlier, the story execution is just bizarre and this comic contains some of the worst dialogue I have ever seen (and I've read [http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980 some horrible shit]). And while Jim Balent is still the king of mind-bendingly horrible dialog, Sam Romero’s Edge seeks to give him a run for his money. Here are a few of my favorite gems (with links so you know I’m not kidding):<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/01062004 “Any longer and these porkers might've busted out a plunger or sumthin'. Bro would've been shittin' stitches for months.”]<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/01152004 “I'm bored and {scanning your urine is} probably the most stimulating exercise I can perform at the current moment.”]<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/10032008 “You're the one who golden showered me on the willy!”]<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/ladies-and-germs “I'd do titty cracks but I'd need a better grasp of the material!”]<br />
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[http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/02182005 “Your Puerto Rican love cake is winking at me.”]<br />
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Oh, and that last one about the Puerto Rican love cake? That’s a reference to a vagina. <br />
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[[File:ruinedcake.jpg]]<br />
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Thanks, Sammy, in one line you simultaneously ruined Puerto Ricans, love and cakes for me forever. <br />
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Yes, the dialogue is unjustifiably bad, but the characterizations are worse. Case in point, ''Edge the Devil Hunter'''s main character, Jack. He's is pretty much a [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/The_Mary-Sue_Character Mary Sue]], or I should say an "Edgy" Sue (guffaw!) Every move this guy makes is dedicated to the absolute idealization of this character. He spouts out whatever REALLY IMPORTANT OPINIONS he wants, he insults girls, he swears, he smokes, he commits crimes as an act of TOTAL REBELLION, and he is [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/05112005 literally invulnerable]. *Sigh.* Sure, he gets punished when he [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/05132005 insults] [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/pissing-contest women], but Romero only does this for the purposes of comedic banter. It's not really meant to develop his character. <br />
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Speaking of the REALLY IMPORTANT OPINIONS THING, ''Edge the Devilhunter'' is riddled with this odd “Kill Whitey” [http://www.edgethedevilhunter.com/comics/02142004 left wing diatribe] (which is hilarious when you consider Jack, the protagonist is shown to be a pretty pale guy himself). I can only guess this stems from Sam Romero’s personal experiences growing up in New Jersey. While I cannot purport to know what he’s been through as a person or judge his life experiences, I can say that the ultra left-wing material is out of place in an action comic. If this were a comic about politics or if the storyline touched upon politics, that would be more appropriate. Even then, it helps to present the other side’s opinion to achieve a true balance. Using the police as an antagonist is a common bad writer’s weapon of choice, but it’s stilted and unresearched. Not every cop is a bad person. Not every cop is a good person. There is good and bad in everyone and for Romero to completely ignore that and simply use his protagonist as his personal mouthpiece without presenting a counter argument shows his immaturity and inexperience as a writer. <br />
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It’s like they say, “A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.”<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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Sam Romero is an artist who grew up in New Jersey, so he already has my pity. Also, he apparently doesn't have the highest opinion of authority figures. Interestingly, trolling his DA account shows me his affinity for [http://edgy24.deviantart.com/art/Evict-Cahill-03-91920587 editorial] [http://edgy24.deviantart.com/art/Evict-Cahill-06-91924608 cartoons], and he’s actually quite good at them. See, this is what I meant when I said political punditry works in a more appropriate setting. Editorial cartoons is where Sam Romero’s biting left wing commentary belongs, not in an action piece. This makes you wonder why Sam Romero bothers with this webcomic of his, at which he sucks so very much, when he’s so much better at editorial stuff.<br />
<br />
For the same reason [[Boss Noodle|Dave Cheung]] doesn't want to go into porn. Because he’s too classy.<br />
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Furthermore, Sam Romero has also co-written a book on how to publish webcomics called, pretentiously enough, [http://www.amazon.com/Webcomics-2-0-Insiders-Writing-Promoting/dp/1598634623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262684118&sr=8-1 Webcomics 2.0]. The other co-writer of the book is a guy named Steve Horton, whose comic is starting to look like my next victim if he keeps company with the likes of Sammy-boy here. According to user-created reviews on Amazon, the book is a raging piece of shit. For your entertainment...<br />
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'''The First one'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:80%"><br />
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{{quote|I really regret buying this book. What I thought I was getting when I purchased this book was an in depth guide to how to run the business side of a web comic. Of the book's 236 pages, only 25 pages cover promotion and only 24 pages cover online revenue generation. Of the information presented on these pages, there is almost nothing of value. It is either common sense like posting on forums to advertise your site or information that you can get off the start page of Google AdSense.<br />
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So what are you really buying with this book? Well, you get four chapters describing the different genres of web comics. If you're thinking of making a web comic, you probably already know about comic genres, so four chapters are wasted right there.<br />
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Also you get 32 pages of reprinted web comics. All of which are uninspiring. When I saw how many pages of this book were wasted on these comics that I had absolutely no interest in, steam was shooting out of my ears. What a waste of page space.<br />
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Next you get 20 pages of how to write a comic and 26 pages of how to draw them. This information is very basic. Again, if you're thinking about doing a web comic, most of this stuff you will already know. Every topic covered is breezed over with a few paragraphs. If you're looking for in depth information about how to use the computer itself to create comic art, look elsewhere. It's not in here.<br />
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Finally, you get 18 pages about how to find a web host for your web comic. Something that you can do with a quick Google search.<br />
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There are a few other sections, but I think you get the picture. I strongly recommend that you avoid this book. You can get the information here for free on the net, and there are other better books on creating web comics. Avoid like the plague. }}</div><br><br />
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'''The second one'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:80%"><br />
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{{quote|This book was a thorough disappointment. The title promises an "insider's guide", so I expected that we would get a book written not only by people who know what it's like on the inside, but also what people who wants to get to the inside needs to know. There are no signs of such knowledge in "Webcomics 2.0".<br />
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The title also gives the impression that the book will look at webcomics from a Web 2.0 perspective. That's not true. The book has nothing to do with Web 2.0 at all.<br />
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The book is very colored by Horton's and Romero's opinions on things, and it is very clearly biased. The example that stuck with me was in a paragraph about webcomic portals where you can upload your own comics -- veterans ComicGenesis and DrunkDuck are picked apart while the one truly recommended place to upload your comics is a MySpace clone which at the time of writing the book wasn't even open yet!<br />
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Some of the tips given are in my opinion pretty bad, for instance you're recommended to send out press releases almost every time you update your comic. Wow, what a great way of getting blacklisted by all the credible sources! If you disagree with me on this one: Check out one of the big news sources listed in the book -- [...] Go to the search field, type "Horton" or "Romero", and click "Go". Zero hits. And these guys are supposed to teach *me* how to get my press releases picked up by Fleen?<br />
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I know enough about comics to figure out when someone doesn't really know what they're talking about: Two examples from early in the book: Art Spiegelman's "Maus" is labeled as a soap opera (what?). The creator of webcomic ''XKCD'' has the name "X" (come one [sic], at least you could have proofread!).<br />
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And, as has been mentioned in earlier comments: Much of the actual information given is information that most of us already knows, and a LOT of the book is spent showcasing the creators' own work (32 pages of reprinted comics, all by Romero).}}<br />
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Finally, a friend of mine who just happens to own this book also had this to say at the request of this humble author:<br />
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{{quote|Well, those Amazon reviews give a pretty clear picture of the book (though what they and I both neglected to mention was that the ''Edge the Devil Hunter'' pages shown in the book were in glorious eyestrain-inducing Blur-O-Vision - I guess ''ETDH'' wasn't originally designed for print publication).<br />
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I personally could have sworn the part of the book going over promoting and making money was larger when I bookmarked the beginning and end of that section with my fingers, and now I go back and count, it's still 70 pages of the book. I never really did much more than a cursory read-through of that section - making money off a comic wasn't what I was primarily interested in, and IIRC, any useful stuff I did see was pretty much advice I'd already gotten from free sources. It's true that almost any "good" advice in there seems to be common sense stuff - their section at the end entitled "The Hardest Thing About Webcomics" basically just says, paraphrased, "The hardest thing about Webcomics is actually doing them, start with one a week, don't miss updates (this is possibly why they don't seem to have interviewed Fred Gallagher, despite dropping ''MegaTokyo'' URLs twice), everyone gets better with practice and most of the popular webcomics were crap when they first started (which is a hell of a thing for Romero to co-write)". They also say that "writing can count just as much as art" - which is true, but the way they phrase it gives it unfortunate implications - and they then assert that it's natural for creativity to be more emphasized than artistic skill in webcomics (when in my experience, the vast majority possess neither).<br />
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A lot of the promotion section reads like a how-to guide for very specific (and rapidly changing) online advertising systems - in fact, things like this are dotted throughout the book, including step-by-step barely-readable screencaps showing you how to use one particular FTP program (CoreFTP). Oh, and they (briefly) pimp Tangents, though thankfully I can't find an interview of Robert Howard. They spend ten pages (including screencaps) going over Project Wonderful, then two on Google AdWords. Note that these screencaps are of ever-changing web interfaces.<br />
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There are large sections with brief tips on how to lay out a comic page and design characters - generic stuff, really - which are broken up with numerous large step-by-step examples of Romero's art, including the aforementioned blurtastic excerpt from ''Edge''. There's a fair bit of an odd little comic called The Versus Verses included too - apparently it's a somewhat bizarre cooperative effort between T Campbell (hear the name everywhere, don't have a clue who they are) and Romero, which takes popular figures and characters who sound like each other (Vader and Nader, Calvin and Alvin, Osama and Obama) and, basically, puts them in a rhyme-off with each other. It seems like DMCA bait to me, but then, so did ''South Park'''s Imagination Land. There's also a rather dry section on webcomics hosts and collectives like DrunkDuck, Halfpixel and Keenspot (with a rating table for these services - it'd be interesting to check this for any bias), as well as stuff on hosting your own comic - including a very brief guide to using ''ComicPress'' which I know from personal experience to be outclassed by several articles available for free online.<br />
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The front of the book has a list of contributors; I'll just give you the webcomics people interviewed, in case you spot some familiar names:<br />
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T Campbell – ''Penny and Aggie'' (writer<br>)<br />
David Willis – ''Shortpacked!''<br><br />
Howard Tayler (Of the shitty-art, okay-to-good-plot, watch-out-for-the-tech-geek-rants ''Schlock Mercenary'')<br><br />
Jennie Breeden – ''The Devil’s Panties''<br><br />
Steve Napierski – ''Dueling Analogs'', The Outer Circle''<br><br />
Phil and Kaja Foglio – ''Girl Genius''<br><br />
Jeph Jaques – ''Questionable Content''<br><br />
Sarah Ellerton (I recognise this one too, she did ''Inverloch'')<br><br />
Chris Crosby – ''Sore Thumbs'' (writer)<br><br />
Steven Goldman – ''Styx Taxi''<br><br />
Vito Delsante – ''Stuck'', among others<br><br />
Dwight MacPherson - ''Sidewise''<br><br />
Chris Arrant – ''1 Way Ticket'', Tori Amos’ Comic Book ''Tattoo''<br><br />
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There are other people interviewed, I believe, but they run hosting services or handle the business side of things (like that Khoo fellow from ''Penny Arcade'').<br />
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I personally get the impression the book was written mostly by Steve Horton - might be a good idea to check out his comic ''Grounded Angel'' for… pffffft, I just went to the website halfway through typing that, and the most prominent thing on the comic page is a cat-person (anthro rather than Japanese-style) with a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/stevehorton/groundedangel/series.php faceful of uncanny valley].}}</div><br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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''Edge the Devilhunter'' is something that could have been good, but because Sam Romero didn't have the wherewithal to fire himself as writer back in 2004, we’re left with this maggot-covered pile to contemplate. Sure, the dialogue is abominable and the titties are spherical, but the most tragic part of this whole thing is that it reeks of wasted potential. If only Sam Romero had put down those fucking “edgy” comics of the 1990’s and read more thought-provoking material. If only he kept channeling his energies in a direction more fitting of his political beliefs. If only, if only, if only. At the end of the day, this comic that could’ve been about some awesome action ends up being about overblown politics, immaturity, and one man’s struggle with some serious Freudian issues. <br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=1955 ''Edge'' on Indy Planet] – Now you can have roach covered wangs in book form!<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Dueling_Analogs&diff=6014Dueling Analogs2013-12-21T01:26:18Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush] <br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.duelinganalogs.com/ Dueling Analogs]<br />
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|'''Authors:'''<br />
|[http://www.pierski.com Steve Napierski]<br />
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|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|November 2005 <br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Video game comedy (I use the term "comedy" loosely) <br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|Boring, tasteless, recycled humor that would barely elicit a chuckle from a drunken frat boy.<br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Could be worse. Starts off wonky, with Napierski demonstrating a complete inability to draw women, but he's gotten better. Too bad he's such a lazy bastard with copy-cut-paste tactics.<br />
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|'''Storyline'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
To be fair, there's no story, so I'm grading this on the one continuous element - the humor. Yeah, that's as flat and juvenile as a ten year old girl.<br />
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|'''Characters'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
They're either horrible and unlikable or ripped off wholesale from other sources.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Somebody has issues with women.<br />
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|'''Overall'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The art may be decent, but every last bit of textual material is unoriginal, boring, and worthless. This is the webcomic equivalent of shovelware.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:semen.png|thumb|right|500px|See all that white stuff they're cleaning off the screen? It's SEMEN! Way to keep it classy, Steve Napierski.]]<br />
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I typically don't read gaming webcomics because they are among the worst webcomics out there. <s>Most</s> All gaming webcomics are blatant rip offs of ''Penny Arcade'', and even when they try to deviate from the traditional "two guys on couch" formula, they are still derivative and painful. Every time I read a gaming comic, I feel like the character Alex from <u>A Clockwork Orange</u>, strapped to my chair receiving the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_technique Ludovico treatment], watching as the things I know and love get perverted and destroyed and I am helpless to change my situation. And even though I cry and beg the internet for mercy, to stop defiling the lovely characters of video games I've come to know and love, the internet callously keeps my eyes fixed on the screen and persists with its "treatment". <br />
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And that is why I don't read gaming webcomics. <br />
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However, I made an exception here because after reading [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/yaouhuntressearth Yaouhuntressearth's] recent review of [[The Outer Circle]], I felt the call to duty in ripping apart Steve Napierski's other piece of shit webcomic, [http://www.duelinganalogs.com Dueling Analogs]. To those unfamiliar with Napierski's work, he is an unwavering douchebag who Mary Sues harder than even the likes of [[Least I Could Do|Ryan Sohmer]] and [[Dominic Deegan|Mookie Terracciano]]. His work has been reviewed by at least Yaouhuntressearth and the Elders of Zion's Mike Saul, and in spite of that, his material is STILL deserving of yet another verbal ass whooping. <br />
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This is for my love of video games, you cocksucker.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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This comic was never good. Ever. From [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2005/11/17/luigis-anal-adventure/ the very first strip], we get up-the-ass jokes and rodent fetishism. I thought [[Least I Could Do]] had a horrid beginning, but this strip beats it by a mile with its inept tastelessness. Oh, and get nice and used to up-the-ass jokes in ''Dueling Analogs''. They don't go away. AT ALL. In fact, anal humor is so prevalent in this strip, it's a wonder Napierski never turned the word "Analog" in the strip's title into some anal reference. I'll bet that Napierski was too stupid to see the coincidence. It sure as shit wasn't because he was too classy.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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This comic, thankfully, has no plot. It's just a series of strips strung together as Napierski dared himself one time after another how stupid/tasteless/boring he could make each joke. I have to say this is one of the comic's few highlights. Being forced to read Napierski's material strip after strip just to keep up with a storyline would be a form of torture even the Ludovico treatment can't top. <br />
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==Art review==<br />
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The art isn't terrible. One of Napierski's initial flaws is that he [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2005/12/22/wakka-wakka-wakka/ can't] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/02/22/unevenly-matched/ draw] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/09/10/gamemaster-not-included/ women], which is ironic because his comic leads me to believe that he spends a lot of time masturbating to them. I guess he's not paying attention to the details as he's beating it to [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/05/08/the-big-l/ Joanna Dark], [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2005/11/29/nude-raider/ Lara Croft], or [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/07/07/guys-like-girls-who-bring-their-own-protection/ Samus Aran]. Okay, perhaps that last one isn't quite fair. He improved on that piece [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2008/07/23/one-year-later/ a year later], but let's not break out the ticker tape parade just yet. I said he improved, not that he magically transformed into the next Gabriel Bá. <br />
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In spite of Napierski's efforts to draw bigger, better titties, he never does seem to overcome his greatest problem: abject laziness. A recurring element in the comic is the "console wars" where gaming consoles [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2009/03/30/even-among-the-misinformed-youre-misinformed/ have conversations with each other]. These comics are simple copy-cut-paste pieces. He's drawn three or four total images here and slaps them together in Illustrator to put together his shitball comics. This process probably doesn't take him more than ten minutes a piece. He does this a lot, and while some copy-cut-paste can be fine in very small doses, the level at which Napierski practices this vile witchcraft is unacceptable (though to give credit where it's due, he's not quite as bad as [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Buckley]]).<br />
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== Writing review==<br />
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Jesus Christ and his broken Xbox 360, the writing here is fucking atrocious. There are only about three jokes that Napierski knows how to tell: misogynistic jokes, recycled jokes, and up-the-ass jokes. The rest is otherwise boring shit that isn't even remotely funny. All of them leave any reader beyond a fifth grade level with the same reaction:<br />
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"Really, Steve Napierski? ''Really?''"<br />
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[[File:daSexism.gif|thumb|left|400px|Let's celebrate with some good, old-fashioned misogyny.]]<br />
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Yeah, really. Let's start with the misogyny. Napierski has women issues as evidenced by comics like [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/02/09/my-girl-wants-to-mario-party-all-the-time/ these] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/01/12/strike-a-pose/ two]. Bonus points to that last one for looking like an ad for the [http://www.uroclub.org/ UroClub]! Lulz. Anyway, the man hates women. He sure as hell doesn't respect them, which is behavior only fitting for a sheltered gamer who probably never talks to girls outside World of Warcraft (and even then you never can be ''too'' sure if they really are women). I can see his repressed rage now: "she'll never talk to me IRL, so I'll just draw her with her boobies hanging out! And me--I mean Harvey, fucking her right up her stupid ass! Yeah, that'll show her! (insert repressed sobbing here)" Yeah, he sure shows her alright, and he shows the rest of us what a desperate loser he is. Only in later strips do we see him grow up ever so slightly, but I highly doubt that he could completely quit his He-Man Woman Hater ways. <br />
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Furthermore, Napierski seems to draw a lot of his inspiration for his "jokes" from other media. Directly. In that he straight up rips the shit off. Look at [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=114 this] strip from VG Cats in 2004. Now, look at [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2005/12/01/mr-toads-wild-ride/ this strip] from Napierski's early archives in 2005. It's essentially the same fucking joke. Napierski, if you're going to rip off anybody, did it have to be fucking [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/06/26/penny-arcade-by-any-other-name/ VG Cats]? Now let's investigate another one. Napierski offers readers his take on the [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/04/17/our-chucktatorship/ Chuck Norris] humor that's been floating around the interwebs for the better part of a decade. The sheer unoriginality is just painful. There's more examples than that, but I'm entirely too traumatized to troll the archives anymore than I already have.<br />
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Oh, but the recycling doesn't stop there. Napierski apparently thinks "going green" pertains to humor as well, repeatedly recycling his own stupid gimmicks like the "Games I'm Glad Were Never Made" bit, "Rejected Megaman Villains", and those fucking conversing consoles. Really, these gags are just vehicles for more raunchy, stupid, up-the-ass humor, so there's no reason for them to be a running theme if it's the same shit over and over again. A more capable writer would know that, but then a more capable writer would never bring him/herself to write out the phrase "[http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/01/05/games-that-i-am-glad-were-never-made/ Sonic the Felching Hedgehog]."<br />
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Really, Steve Napierski? ''Really?'' Fuck, I'm really fighting the urge to vomit all over my keyboard right now. Power, Norad. Power!<br />
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[[File:daDefendingBuckley.gif|thumb|right|200px|Dude, don't defend Tim Buckley. Just don't.]]<br />
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Let's come back to the up-the-ass humor I mentioned in the beginning. Gay humor too. There's a [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/01/10/stupid-dig-dug/ lot] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/02/13/curiousity-killed-the-monkey/ of] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/03/06/theres-always-a-morning-after/ it]. A [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/04/10/kneel-and-blob/ whole] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/08/08/mass-erect/ lot] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/10/16/stamp-of-approval/ of] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2008/09/17/parking-in-the-rear/ it]. A [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2009/02/11/rainbow-road-rash/ whole] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2007/07/17/literally-disappointed/ lotta] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/03/06/theres-always-a-morning-after/ lot] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/03/15/rumble-roses-xxx/ of] [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/01/26/rejected-mega-man-villains-ii/ it]. Apparently, Napierski treats the ass and gay humor as some kind of trump card. Wanting for a joke? No problem! Napierski just reaches into his arsenal of retarded comedy writing and pulls out the ass joke, or the gay joke, and fucking hilarity ensues, right? No. Not in the least. Ass humor as a trump card only works in two places: middle school and high school, and this is the most telling thing of all about Napierski. By constantly leaning on this material, he tells us how immature he is. He still has this idiotic frat boy mentality that all he has to say is "Dude ur gay!" or "up the butt!" and the laughs abound, in spite being well into his 20's, possibly 30's. I say nay. This is not acceptable. It shows no wit or thought on the writer's part and if a writer HAS to rely on crude humor this much, then he's actually not nearly as funny or witty as he thinks he is.<br />
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All that said, and I still haven't gotten to the Mary Sue-ing. <br />
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Napierski has a skinny blonde self-insert, Harvey, as the prime narrator of this comic. Harvey is a prime example of a Mary Sue. He always [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2008/07/24/worser-and-worser/ pwns his friends], he always [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2008/05/29/punching-hag/ gets away with murder], and he always [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2006/04/19/do-not-pass-go/ gets the bitches]. It's nothing more than wish fulfillment bullshit, and it's very, very sad. I understand that Napierski is trying his damndest to be edgy with his edgy self-insert, but it comes off as incredibly self serving and repulsive. He needs to stop this and just get back to focusing on making jokes. <br />
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Oh, wait, but I just got done telling you how he sucks so badly at humor. Well, Napierski, I guess it's time to kill yourself.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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In case the rest of this article did not get the point across, Steve Napierski is incredibly fucking full of himself. Here's an excerpt from his own website:<br><br />
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<div style="margin: .5em; auto; border: 3px #3e6d80 solid; padding: .5em;"><span style="color:white"><br />
<font size="3"> '''Based out of Chesapeake, Virginia, Steve Napierski is the creator of the popular webcomics ''Dueling Analogs'' and ''[[The Outer Circle]]''. In addition to his early work on former webcomic ''Life With Fishnets'' and the more recent ''[[Bored and Evil]]'', Steve is the founder of the webcomic group Gamers Pair of Dice. While not busy being a 'paragon' of the webcomic world, Steve has vast experience in web and flash design, having done work for many major automotive and boat OEM’s. He is skilled in JavaScript, actionscript and PHP.'''</font> </span><br />
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A "paragon". Let's look that up, shall we? From Merriam-Webster.com:<br><br />
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<div style="margin: .5em; auto; border: 3px #3e6d80 solid; padding: .5em;"><span style="color:white"><br />
<font size="3">'''par·a·gon'''<br><br />
''noun''<br><br />
a model of excellence or perfection<br />
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Yeah, no. I just got done writing 1600 fucking words how you're not, Napierski. Fuck you with a dildo made of habanero peppers.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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''Dueling Analogs'' is a vile, immature shitbomb excuse for a webcomic. It's a pestilence upon society that could never be cured with enough penicillin. If it fell off the face of the Earth today, it would still be too late. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch some violent movies with my eyes pried open while listening to Beethoven. It's a form of torture far less loathsome than ''Dueling Analogs''.<br />
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==Other Comics By This Author That Have Been Reviewed On Our Site==<br />
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*[[The Outer Circle]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100106185513/http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/dead-sea-scrolls:dueling-analogs Mike Saul's Review of Dueling Analogs] - On "Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad".</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Applegeeks&diff=6013Applegeeks2013-12-21T01:19:57Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://www.applegeeks.com Apple Geeks]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://www.applegeeks.com/creators/ Ananth Panagariya] and [http://www.hawkstudios.net/ Mohammed Haque]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Sometime in 2003<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
| No updates since 2010.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Weaboo culture<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| In spite of its shiny artwork, the story is a hopeless daisy chain of stupid with no real plot, planning, or character development.<br />
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|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]][[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Starts off kind of weak, wallows in animu land for a while, but eventually turns into something kind of interesting. I would've scored it higher if the styles weren't so fucking inconsistent.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Easily this comic's weak point. It starts off as a repetition of a horrible, one-dimensional joke and summarily morphs into a wandering, nonsensical storyline that's mostly about author's wish fulfillment complex.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Characterizations are fairly thin. Ironically, the character with the most personality is the robot girl. <br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
How many fucking Apple superiority jokes can one human being take???<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
While the artwork becomes fairly nice to look at, the story is so ridiculous and so utterly stupid, it nullifies any redeeming qualities this comic might have.<br />
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===Background===<br />
[[FiLE:ageeks.jpg|thumb|right|700px|This is totally what people in their 20's look like. For reals, yo.]]<br />
I had casually stumbled on this comic in my Internet travels and thought I'd give it a chance when I saw the pretty artwork (gets me every time! Bastards!) At first, I thought the artwork was pretty and that the characters were kind of endearing, but when I dug beneath the surface I saw this thing for the hideous malformation it was. <br />
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[http://www.applegeeks.com Applegeeks] is the story of two guys who are just so GAY for Apple computers, it's a miracle there are no comics of these guys having butt sex with their machines. In fact, a great deal of jokes are dedicated to crowing about how superior Apple products are to Microsoft products or other alternatives, but in the grand tradition of all Mac fan boys, it's offputting and pretentious and really works against their cause more than for it. Eventually, this comic tries to sprout a storyline in the middle of all its Apple superiority, but it's so poorly thought out and even more poorly executed that I almost kind of wished they'd stuck with their stupid ass one-dimensional "APPLE IS TH4 @w4s0m4" humor. Almost. <br />
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In short, Applegeeks does to Apple what [http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/questionable_highly_inappropri.php this ad]* does to Microsoft. <br />
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''(*Author's note: if you can't see the video I'll save you time. It's a fat guy shooting paint out of his ass onto a canvas. No, I'm not kidding. It's fucking horrible.)''<br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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While this comic was never terribly great out the gate, it hadn't quite sunk to its true depths . Sure, you had the main characters Hawk and Jayce being creepy as fuck around women and preaching the gospel according to Steve, but at least the comic was gag-a-day at that point. It was simply a comic for pretentious mac-tards to email to their friends and squawk about how Microsoft's OS was inferior (hurr hurr hurr!).<br />
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But then something terrible happened. Inept joke writer Ananth Panagariya got it in his head that his pretentious asshole/creepy bastard parade needed to become a full-fledged story with character development and plot points and shit! 'Cause, I guess the [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=543 Ramadan jokes] didn't exactly catch on. (Who knew?) So what does our curry-flavored friend do? <br />
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He introduces a fucking girl robot to the story. Of course.<br />
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From a marketing standpoint, it's a stroke of genius. Eve does add a much needed personality and "face" to Applegeeks. Plus, she's SO TOTALLY HAWT AND FAPTASTIC and made of spare G4 parts, so the fan boys will shell out copious dollars for her [http://www.megagear.com/product_p/ag%201001.htm posters] and [http://www.figureotaku.com/content/viewemail/10/Eve_applegeeks statuette dollies]. However, from a writing perspective, this is the beginning of the end. With the introduction of Eve, Applegeeks goes from awkward Mac nerd party to an abject clusterfuck of stupid ideas that just get stupider as time goes on. Really. I mean it. It's fucking stupid.<br />
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===Story and Plot===<br />
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I went over the plot a bit in the downfall section, but of course I must elaborate. After all, I slogged through nearly '''550 fucking strips''' of this stupid fucking comic. Why should I be the only one to suffer? <br />
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As I said before, the plot starts off as a series of situations outlining the self-insert and his personality void of a best friend and their awkward moments. They [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=26 act creepy towards girls]. They [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=9 go to college]. They encounter a series of [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=53 wacky] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=83 situations]. And whenever filler needs to be thrown in, the artist takes the liberty of throwing in [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=36 cheesecake] or [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=33 nonsensical] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=37 images] of these characters [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=51 LOOKING SO FUCKING BADASS YO]. [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=75 Really]. [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=95 I mean it]. [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=96 The] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=102 badass] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=144 imagery] is all over the place.<br />
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A little over 50 strips in, the Mac humor [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=56 really sets in]. Every other fucking joke is "Windows iz the stupid! Mac is the pwnage!" At first I was grateful to have something other than pathetic nerdery to look at here, but then the mac jokes get [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=98 real] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=100 old] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=112 real] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=126 fast]. This is mainly because the joke is so one-dimensional. Okay, let's give the mac fan boys the benefit of the doubt. Let's say that the Mac OS is the superior computing platform to Windows. Seriously. Who gives a shit? Anyone with half a brain will realize very quickly that there's more to life than a goddamn software pissing contest. Anyone but Ananth Panagariya and Mohammed Haque. <br />
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Oh, but the real "fun" (and by fun I mean torture) starts with the introduction of [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=150 Eve] to the cast. After Eve, the super hawt robot chick fanboy fantasy, joins the cast, the story takes a really retarded turn: It turns into an action story drama piece. Complete with [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=215 Marvel-style artwork]. Yes, Eve goes berserk and it's up to Hawk, a character who's only known for being a goofball and not a fighter AT ALL up to this point, to stop her. Never mind that we have [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=305 an actual female fighter] in this cast. Oh no. Since computer genius Hawk built himself a suit that allows him to [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=201 contend with the likes of his super-powered creation], it's up to him to go all [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=210 Mary] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=209 Sue-perhero] on his creation to get her under control. It's [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=208 fucking embarrassing]. <br />
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After that, these are the plot points as follows:<br />
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* Eve gets kidnapped. We later find out that her kidnappers are Jayce's father, a defense contractor tycoon, and Frost, a worthless fucking character from earlier in the strip brought back for the sole purpose of being a [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=281 stupid deus ex machina].<br />
* Hawk, Jayce, and martial-artist-who-almost-never-fights-for-story-purposes Gina take off to Japan to retrieve Eve. A giant battle ensues which results in Hawk beating up Frost, Gina beating up Jayce's inconsequential cousin, and Eve exploding everything.<br />
* Three stupid interludes ensue. First, following Gina and her adventures [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=307 talking to characters we don't know or care about]. Second, following Alice babysitting some an [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=312 evil little girl] not unlike Stewie Griffin. Third following Hawk and Eve [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=322 living the weeaboo life] in Japan.<br />
* Hawk and Eve finally return to America. Hawk then goes on an awkward date with some other girl who barely shows up in the story thereafter. <br />
* Alice has to babysit the little Stewie Griffin girl again. They then swap souls. Little girl now in Alice's body tries to kill Hawk. It's fucking stupid. <br />
* Hawk makes the decision to send Eve to school to learn shit. She's all fucking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang) Moe] through the whole thing. It's fucking stupid.<br />
* Gina resolves to apply herself to her studies and stop sucking at life.<br />
* Hawk makes friends with an old Macintosh with the voice of Morgan Freeman. It's fucking stupid.<br />
* Hawk and Eve take up fighting crime. No, I'm not kidding.<br />
* Gina gets a visit from an old Indian friend. Nobody cares.<br />
* More crime fighting shit, this time with Eve going solo.<br />
* Evil little girl spends the weekend at the geeks' residence where she assists the old Macintosh with becoming an evil robot who tries to kill everybody. Eve then [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=530 destroys the robot's outer shell], leaving the old Mac in his former state. It's fucking stupid. <br />
<br />
And that's pretty much it. I trolled over 500 strips and this is all I came up with. As you can see, the plot is one retarded concept after another. While each plotline has its own respective beginning, middle, and end, when it's all strung together, we see exactly how poorly thought out it all really is. <br />
<br />
I can see why the change in direction. Writing gag-a-day strips can get rather monotonous after a while, but the answer is not to turn one's gag-a-day strip into a big, overblown production meant to stroke your Mary Sue's ego. A better writer would have simply started over, possibly with a new cast, to implement the story ideas. It's entirely possible to write a proper action dramedy, but Panagariya and Haque would rather just cash in on their stupid robot girl repeatedly than actually plan a story and not pull plotline after plotline out of their asses.<br />
<br />
===Art review===<br />
<br />
The artwork is the only reason anyone should like this comic, especially if you [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=25 really] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=62 love] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=67 cheesecake]. [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=70 I] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=84 mean] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=114 really], [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=23 really] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=116 love] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=164 cheesecake]. [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=169 Really], [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=248 really], [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=329 really] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=331 love] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=506 cheesecake]. But it wasn't always this nice to look at. The artwork has gone through a number of drawing styles through the years ranging from stupid animu to shiny animu to not quite animu to everyone has white circles for eyes to [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=507 I'm pretty sure this is a ripoff of Scott Pilgrim somehow]. It's jarring to see this comic go through so many changes, like Haque was trying to find his "style" in the midst of creating this strip. He'd hardly be the first artist to develop his craft over the course of a webcomic, but that doesn't mean I like to see it in a webcomic. Of course, the alternative is to stagnate a la [[Dominic Deegan|Mookie Terracciano]], so I guess constant style changes is the lesser of the two evils. <br />
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[[File:drcriticalmass.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The doctor is reaching critical mass.]]<br />
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If there was a major shortcoming to Haque's art, I'd say that it took him too long to grow up. Seriously. Until the last 20 or so strips, all the fucking characters in this strip (freaky Marvel arc notwithstanding) looked like they were ten years old, which is rather frightening and creepy when you consider that they're in their mid-20's. Additionally, everything was rendered in super shiny animu vision for a long time, which is stupid when you consider that the world is not that fucking shiny. That's just a silly coloring trick even many seasoned colorists use to distract from the fact that they don't know a fucking thing about lighting. Sorry Haque, you didn't fool me.<br />
<br />
Now the art style has changed over pretty dramatically from animu to...[http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=533 whatever the hell this is]. It comes off as a colorful, more refined hybrid of [http://www.scottpilgrim.com/ Scott Pilgrim] and [http://www.preciousmoments.com/ Precious Moments], and while I can't say it's bad, it's still a freaky hybrid of Scott Pilgrim and Precious Moments.<br />
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Oh, yeah, and he's fucking lazy with backgrounds. Stop that, Haque. Draw the fucking backgrounds out like a big boy. You know you can do it.<br />
<br />
===Writing review===<br />
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If the ''Story and Plot'' section was any indication, the writing here is fucking horrible. Beyond the complete lack of plot planning, the characterizations are either paper thin or Mary Sues. <br />
<br />
The comic originally started with Hawk and Jayce. Hawk was the requisite wacky comic strip guy while Jayce was more the straight man. Then Alice joined the cast. And then Gina. And then some pink-haired girl who left shortly thereafter. Frost shows up somewhere in the middle of all that. And then of course Eve. <br />
<br />
Anybody in the story who's not named Hawk or Eve has all the personality to fill a thimble. Sure, Jayce plays the straight man to Hawk's zany motherfucker, but other than being into Macs and not being on the best terms with his father, we don't know much about Jayce's personality. He just follows Hawk around on his zany exploits, shaking his head all the way, but that's about all he does. Oh, and he grouses sternly whenever his father's around. That's pretty much it. He eventually gets a real girlfriend in the form of Alice, but neither of them magically develop any personalities as the result of their growing personal relationship. You'd figure the two of them would eventually move out of the house so they can be alone to explore their relationship or at least have lots of wild crazy sex without fucking Hawk doing something stupid to disturb them, but that never happens since I'm about 80% sure Panagriya and Haque are virgins who haven't the slightest clue how these things work*. <br />
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''*I was going to excuse their virginity on the basis that it may be cultural, but since Panagriya and Haque are not above writing their characters as [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=151 breast-grabbing cretins], all bets are off.''<br />
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Speaking of the virginity of Haque and Panagariya, that extends to most experiences with women outside superficial business transactions. Really, none of the female characters in this strip have any personality, and why should they? They were initially introduced for sheer [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=31 cheesecake] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=65 purposes]. Really. That's all they're good for. That and for acting shocked at Hawk's stupid antics or otherwise keeping the comic from being a total sausage fest. I suppose it's good to introduce female characters to diversify your cast, but if you haven't the slightest fucking clue how to write a solid character of any gender what's the point? None of the girls here have personalities fleshed out behind "she's a fighter" (Gina) or "she's the normal one" (Alice) or "she's in a band and a vegetarian" (Josie).<br />
<br />
Yes, everybody has the personality of oatmeal, everybody but Hawk and Eve. Hawk is a Mary Sue self-insert of artist Mohammed Haque. Initially, he starts off with the main purveyor of the Mac superiority humor. He's awkward around women and an all-around geek, but there's always this vein of machismo the artist has with rendering his little Hawky-Sue. The constant mac-badgering is not funny, his zaniness is utterly forced, and for some reason, we're supposed to buy that Hawk is, in fact, some kind of bad ass superhero, right down to the retarded costume. Except no, I don't buy it. Nobody's afraid of a doughy mac nerd. The only Apple nerd anyone has ever had cause to fear is Steve Jobs himself and that's because he's [http://www.encyclopediadramatica.se/Steve_Jobs a fucking psycho who will eat your face]. (Link NSFW)<br />
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But Haque and Panagriya insist that their boy is the bestest best evar and that he's so very smart in spite of being a complete social leper. So much so he was able to build his own robot girlfriend with emotions and feelings (mind you, the best computer scientists in the world are still tackling language, let alone emotions and personality). Hawk takes an initially immature, but otherwise "innocent" approach to Eve, but Beneath the layers of Hawk's wide-eyed childishness is a display of some disturbing machismo.<br />
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Eve is a very innocent, very "moe" girl who is very new to the world and acts like a child instead of, well, a machine. Hawk has to be the one to protect her and teach her the ways of the world. Emotionally, she's his delicate little flower to keep, and while he allows her to go off to school to learn subjects and socialization behaviors, she's still his little fantasy dollie. Isn't that all fucking convenient? This just puts the final nail in the coffin for me that Haque/Hawk is a macho posturing little shit. I'm not against the idea of building a robot woman to tear shit up, but when she ends up acting like a little girl who needs Hawk for every last little thing INSTEAD OF THE MACHINE THAT SHE IS, it just goes to show what insecure dicks the writers are (yes, Haque, I'm blaming you for this too even though you're only listed as an artist). Why should we make an all-powerful robot woman when we can gimp her and make her our dependent little girl! Because itty bitty widdle girls can't be alone in the world! Not even the badass, nuclear robot ones. We men must make ourselves feel important. Yes, we must.<br />
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Jesus. Or Mohammad. Somebody fucking save me.<br />
<br />
The Hawk character is a sad specimen of Mary Sueing and not worthy of anyone's time. As for Eve, she's just the net personification of these sorry nerds' anime fantasy woman. Puke.<br />
<br />
And seriously, if the fucking robot has more personality than any other character in the story, the writers are doing something VERY wrong.<br />
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===Author biography===<br />
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You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Trolling Applegeeks' archives shows an entire parade of bad webcomickers with whom the creators have formed friendships. In this case, this list reads like an all-star basketball team of shitty webcomickers:<br />
* [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=71 Fred] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=78 Gallagher] of [[Megatokyo]]<br />
* [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=97 Tim] [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=104 Buckley] of [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]<br />
* [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=122 Scott Ramsoomair] of [[VG Cats]] <br />
* [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=261 MOOKIE FUCKING TERRACIANO] of [[Dominic Deegan|DOMINIC DEEGAN: ORACLE FOR HIRE]]<br />
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Yeah. They're pals with Mookie. This shows that they either have horrible taste in webcomics (which explains the quality of their material) or that they're just little webcomicky social climbers. Either way, this is not good news. The only other thing I know conclusively about these two boneheads is that they've never seen a woman bare naked [http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=40 without paying first]. That's all I know. I'd research more, but cut me some fucking slack, guys. I've just trolled a 500 strip archive of this shit.<br />
<br />
===Conclusion===<br />
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I don't know how the fuck this absolute watermelon of a turd got missed by any of the other authors on this wiki, but boy this comic is an exercise in epic fail. Really, it's got all the checkmarks for a lousy webcomic: terrible Mary-Sue self insert with inexplicable powers he doesn't deserve, faptastic girls with no real personality, shiny animu artwork that makes everyone look like they're an Amber alert waiting to happen, and terrible, terrible writing. Applegeeks is truly a shit on the canvas that is the internet, except unlike that terrible Microsoft ad, this one doesn't cost you a mere two minutes of your life. It costs far, far more. <br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/01/25/the-webcomic-overlook-28-applegeeks/ Another Review of Applegeeks] - '''*SHOCK!*''' ''It's actually just has hard on this thing as I am!''<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa/Mandatory_Fun_Day&diff=6011User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day2013-12-20T16:49:38Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[[User:Natsa|Natsa]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| George E. McDougal (Season 1), Mark Bowytz (Season 2)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| February 11, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| September 23, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy, Slice of Routine<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Terrible artwork that harkens back to [[Sonichu]]. Bland and unsubtle writing.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
A lot of inconsistency in the horrible style and design in Season 1. Season 2 is better but not by much.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Season 1 is a crappy version of Offce Space. Season 2 doesn't really make any sense.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Take some of the characters from Office Space and make their roles even more obvious. Add in vampires and vikings for good measure.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Gotta love the modified strips in the comments.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
A very boring and bland comic that makes for some good meme fodder.<br />
|}<br />
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==Background==<br />
<br />
TV Tropes has a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics horrible comics section] full of nice examples, most of which have been reviewed on this website. Some of them haven't been reviewed yet, however. ''Mandatory Fun Day'' is one of those webcomics.<br />
<br />
It's hosted and created by the members of [http://thedailywtf.com/ The Daily WTF], a website where people point out the idiocy of buggy software, inept IT managers, and generally inefficient businesses, along with the usual nagging boss. This webcomic only covers the surface of what is blogged there on a regular basis and has shown to be a disappointment to it's visitors. Why?<br />
<br />
==Downfall==<br />
<br />
[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/13-It-Pays-Money.aspx The third comic] is where you can start seeing the stock geek characters you see in other media, but with less subtlety. It is also where the art begins to show how awful it is.<br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
Season 1 begins with Gilroy graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and immediately getting an offer for a job at Magenta Corp. that apparently pays money for what it's worth. He ends up in a dead-end job with horrible working environment and grossly incompetent bosses. Magenta Corp is run by the greedy Magenta, who's dressed like a supervillain for those who don't know that he's ''evil'' from the start. The rest of the season runs with Gilroy getting treated like trash at work and the bumbling tomfoolery of his bosses. There's also a subplot involving Microsoft, which apparently has headquarters at Mordor and the Death Star, [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/113-Bad-News.aspx being exposed as an ''evil'' corporation] by some basement dwelling geeks that edit Wikipedia all day. Season ends with Gilroy getting fired just days before his contract with the company expires after denying an offer from his boss.<br />
<br />
Season 2 is just a nonsensical mess that involves Gilroy getting a job in some low-tech company being run on a ship that eventually [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/215-A-Very-Hostile-Takeover.aspx gets taken over by vikings] and Magenta getting a vampire employee because he looks cool or something. It also has the usual hijinks like Magenta getting as much money as possible and vikings trying to improve the company they control with Gilroy looking no worse than before throughout the entire run. It ends with him leaving on hot air balloon that randomly appears out of nowhere, tired of the shit he went through after company he worked at collapses.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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==Writing review== <br />
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==Author biography== <br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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==Links==</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa&diff=5998User:Natsa2013-12-19T18:35:56Z<p>Natsa: /* Potential Comics To Review */</p>
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<div>==Potential Comics To Review==<br />
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*[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics]<br />
*[http://jenffersshow.thecomicseries.com/ Jenffer's Show]<br />
*<s>[http://lessonsindistraction.comicgenesis.com/ Lessons in Distraction]</s> Briefly reviewed by [[User:oddguy|oddguy]].<br />
*[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day] - [[User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day]]<br />
*[http://www.thefreckledfinger.com/cartoon-archives-link/ THe FReCKLeD FINGeR]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa/Mandatory_Fun_Day&diff=5996User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day2013-12-19T07:26:29Z<p>Natsa: /* Story and Plot */</p>
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<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[[User:Natsa|Natsa]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| George E. McDougal (Season 1), Mark Bowytz (Season 2)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| February 11, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| September 23, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy, Slice of Routine<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Terrible artwork that harkens back to [[Sonichu]]. Bland and unsubtle writing.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
A lot of inconsistency in the horrible style and design in Season 1. Season 2 is better but not by much.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Season 1 is a crappy version of Offce Space. Season 2 doesn't really make any sense.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Take some of the characters from Office Space and make their roles even more obvious. Add in vampires and vikings for good measure.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Gotta love the modified strips in the comments.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
A very boring and bland comic that makes for some good meme fodder.<br />
|}<br />
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==Background==<br />
<br />
TV Tropes has a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics horrible comics section] full of nice examples, most of which have been reviewed on this website. Some of them haven't been reviewed yet, however. ''Mandatory Fun Day'' is one of those webcomics.<br />
<br />
It's hosted and created by the members of [http://thedailywtf.com/ The Daily WTF], a website where people point out the idiocy of buggy software, inept IT managers, and generally inefficient businesses, along with the usual nagging boss. This webcomic only covers the surface of what is blogged there on a regular basis and has shown to be a disappointment to it's visitors. Why?<br />
<br />
==Downfall==<br />
<br />
[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/13-It-Pays-Money.aspx The third comic] is where you can start seeing the stock geek characters you see in other media, but with less subtlety. It is also where the art begins to show how awful it is.<br />
<br />
==Story and Plot==<br />
<br />
Season 1 begins with Gilroy graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and immediately getting an offer for a job at Magenta Corp. that apparently pays money for what it's worth. He ends up in a dead-end job with horrible working environment and grossly incompetent bosses. Magenta Corp is run by the greedy Magenta, who's dressed like a supervillain for those who don't know that he's ''evil'' from the start. The rest of the season runs with Gilroy getting treated like trash at work and the bumbling tomfoolery of his bosses. There's also a subplot involving Microsoft, which apparently has headquarters at Mordor and the Death Star, [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/113-Bad-News.aspx being exposed as an ''evil'' corporation] by some basement dwelling geeks that edit Wikipedia all day. Season ends with Gilroy getting fired just days before his contract with the company expires after denying an offer from his boss.<br />
<br />
Season 2 is just a nonsensical mess that involves Gilroy getting a job in some low-tech company being run on a ship that eventually [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/215-A-Very-Hostile-Takeover.aspx gets taken over by vikings] and Magenta getting a vampire employee because he looks cool or something. It also has the usual hijinks like Magenta getting as much money as possible and vikings trying to improve the company they control with Gilroy looking no worse than before throughout the entire run. It ends with him leaving on hot air balloon that randomly appears out of nowhere, tired of the shit he went through after company he worked at collapses.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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==Writing review== <br />
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==Author biography== <br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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==Links==</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa/Mandatory_Fun_Day&diff=5995User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day2013-12-19T07:14:53Z<p>Natsa: Created page with "{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable" |'''Original review author:''' |Natsa |- |'''Webcomic name:''' |[http://thedailywtf.com/se..."</p>
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<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[[User:Natsa|Natsa]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| George E. McDougal (Season 1), Mark Bowytz (Season 2)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| February 11, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| September 23, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Comedy, Slice of Routine<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Terrible artwork that harkens back to [[Sonichu]]. Bland and unsubtle writing.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
A lot of inconsistency in the horrible style and design in Season 1. Season 2 is better but not by much.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Season 1 is a crappy version of Offce Space. Season 2 doesn't really make any sense.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Take some of the characters from Office Space and make their roles even more obvious. Add in vampires and vikings for good measure.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
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==Background==<br />
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TV Tropes has a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics horrible comics section] full of nice examples, most of which have been reviewed on this website. Some of them haven't been reviewed yet, however. ''Mandatory Fun Day'' is one of those webcomics.<br />
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It's hosted and created by the members of [http://thedailywtf.com/ The Daily WTF], a website where people point out the idiocy of buggy software, inept IT managers, and generally inefficient businesses, along with the usual nagging boss. This webcomic only covers the surface of what is blogged there on a regular basis and has shown to be a disappointment to it's visitors. Why?<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/13-It-Pays-Money.aspx The third comic] is where you can start seeing the stock geek characters you see in other media, but with less subtlety. It is also where the art begins to show how awful it is.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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Season 1 begins with Gilroy graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and immediately getting an offer for a job at Magenta Corp. that apparently pays money for what it's worth. He ends up in a dead-end job with horrible working environment and grossly incompetent bosses. Magenta Corp is run by the greedy Magenta, who's dressed like a supervillain for those who don't know that he's ''evil'' from the start. The rest of the season runs with Gilroy getting treated like trash at work and the bumbling tomfoolery of his bosses. There's also strips that have nothing to do like Microsoft, which apparently has headquarters at Mordor and the Death Star, [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/113-Bad-News.aspx being exposed as an ''evil'' corporation] by some basement dwelling geeks that edit Wikipedia all day.<br />
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==Links==</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa&diff=5994User:Natsa2013-12-19T06:19:48Z<p>Natsa: /* Potential Comics To Review */</p>
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<div>==Potential Comics To Review==<br />
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*[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics]<br />
*[http://jenffersshow.thecomicseries.com/ Jenffer's Show]<br />
*[http://lessonsindistraction.comicgenesis.com/ Lessons in Distraction]<br />
*[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day] - [[User:Natsa/Mandatory Fun Day]]<br />
*[http://www.thefreckledfinger.com/cartoon-archives-link/ THe FReCKLeD FINGeR]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Natsa&diff=5992User:Natsa2013-12-17T22:36:23Z<p>Natsa: Created page with "==Potential Comics To Review== *[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics] *[http://jenffersshow.thecomicseries.com/ Jenffer's Show] *[http://lessonsi..."</p>
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*[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics]<br />
*[http://jenffersshow.thecomicseries.com/ Jenffer's Show]<br />
*[http://lessonsindistraction.comicgenesis.com/ Lessons in Distraction]<br />
*[http://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day]<br />
*[http://www.thefreckledfinger.com/cartoon-archives-link/ THe FReCKLeD FINGeR]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Las_Lindas_Bonus_Comics&diff=5985Las Lindas Bonus Comics2013-12-17T04:07:01Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/gryphoneer Gryphoneer] and [[User:MakarovJAC|MakarovJAC]]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus-comics/ Chalo-san's "Bonus" Comics]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/chalodillo/ Drawn by: Gonzalo Reyes AKA "Chalo" AKA "Chalosan" AKA "Chalo-sama" AKA "Chalodillo" AKA the Mesoamerican Masturbator], [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/curran/ Written by: Curran] (the link says it all)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| January 6, 2008<br />
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|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Furry, weeaboo junk, fantasy, more smut, college, adventure, and romance. All separated into different comics.<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Action devoid of action, confused story and writing.<br />
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The art is the only redeemable thing about these comics. Although it would do Chalosan well to learn some perspective and stop drawing tits like bowling balls.<br />
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Four active storylines, four discontinued, not a single one of them good.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
The worst thing about these comics is that they are meant to provide backstories and character depth to the cast of the main comic. The fact that they are just as flat and vacuous as they are in ''Las Lindas'' makes the failure all the more inexcusable.<br />
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125$ per page. That's all I have to say.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
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These bonus comics have transformed from a lazy attempt to provide backstory into a shameless naked money grab and borderline porn. They are meant to compensate for the flaws in the original comic, yet they are neither better nor worse than ''Las Lindas'', but rather, exactly the same. Which, in this case, is worse than being worse.<br />
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===Background===<br />
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For all of those unfamiliar with the ''Las Lindas'' extras, they are a set of Bonus Comics, each telling a "side-story" involving several of the characters from the main comic. Most of them are canon, while others are merely spin-offs with no relevance to the plot.<br />
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Over the course of 10 years, Chalo has been doing this OVER and OVER again. See [http://gallery.katbox.net/index.php?/category/1 here.] Most of the galleries in this list are actual comics which tell us the history of one or more characters in the series. In the beginning, most of them were available for free. Some got rebooted over the years. However, due to lack of popularity, most of them ended up in the waste basket.<br />
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Anyways, now all of the comics that are still updating are ''pay-per-view''. People are expected to <strike>donate</strike> pay money so a new page can be <strike>done</strike> uploaded (each comic already has between 20-40 pages waiting for fans to pay up).<br />
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What, exactly, are people supposed to pay money for? To learn the tragic past of the bland, lifeless characters of ''Las Lindas'' whom no one could possibly care about? Or for the god-awful cheesecake comics that fulfill the fan base's sad desire to finally see Mora's nips? Seriously? There is free porn on the internet, you guys.<br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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Okay, we'll go over them one by one:<br />
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'''Knighthood:''' A long time ago, Chalodillo tried to give his furries a background. This story is the remains of 2 already scrapped stories. This one doesn't suck from the beginning, because it's actually a reboot/continuation of another scrapped story.<br />
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'''Breasts are the Best:''' [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-4-2/ It fails the moment the entire female cast is stranded on an inescapable limbo of sexy hijinks, lesbian horniness, and a pointless contests to see who gives the slobbering fan boys more boners.]<br />
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'''Learning Curves:''' [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-2/ Right from the start.] The problem of inserting several arcs into a single, slowly updating comic like this one, is that as you try to develop one, the other will go on hiatus. The more arcs you have, the harder it is for you to develop them separately while keeping the comic from stagnating.<br />
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'''The Crest Diaries:''' Its downfall is when the storytelling ends [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-8-6/ here.] From that moment on, the only thing you get to see are pinups of its main character.<br />
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===Story and Plot===<br />
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'''Knighthood:''' A tomboyish (possibly transgender) girl embarks on a quest to discover her hidden powers. What for? Why her? Do I even care? Please deposit a generous donation and wait for the answer... (''Good Luck!'')<br />
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'''Breasts are the Best:''' I won't even bother trying to explain this one. THERE IS NO PLOT TO THIS THING!!! IT'S [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/breasts-are-the-best-42/ JUST BLATANT] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/breasts-are-the-best-41/ BADLY-DRAWN] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-1-2/ SMUT!!!]<br />
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'''Learning Curves:''' Well, this one actually tried developing another scrapped backstory for one of the most popular characters in the series (don't ask me why he's popular). ''Miles'' is a freshman during his college years. Yet, everything seems to be unfair ONLY to [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-6/ him.] Boo hoo.<br />
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'''The Crest Diaries:''' This one, alongside ''Knighthood'', is the final result that was spawned from some other scrapped background stories. Kate, a God-like being who is supposed to share this trait with another chosen eleven is faced with an unknown danger with God-like powers just like hers (what the danger was had actually been explained. However, Chalo deleted any traces of it). When will the plot actually start? Pay, and maybe someday in the future Chalo will remember to tell us what happens next, in between panty-shots and anime bullcrap.<br />
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===Art review===<br />
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The oldest comic of the bunch, ''Breasts are the Best'', is the only one which you can look at for improvement and progression. In the first pages, that were made about five years ago, the art looks really amateurish. Most of the characters' facial expressions give an uncanny valley effect. It looks really creepy: some characters look like they're lifeless dolls. <br />
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However, after 10 years of drawing this stuff OVER and MOTHERFUCKING OVER again, there are two things this guy still does wrong:<br />
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#1.-[http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-22/ Broken perspectives.]<br />
#2.-[http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-20/ Snout faces.]<br />
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As an artist, it sickens me to know I share the same gene pool with this guy. It drives me crazy that, at this point, he is probably a grown man, still draws like a high school kid, and has absolutely zero respect for the trade. <br />
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I've seen [http://chalodillo.deviantart.com/art/Let-s-Draw-Mora-192032052?q=gallery%3Achalodillo%2F418822&qo=52 his] [http://chalodillo.deviantart.com/art/Lets-Draw-Rachael-190173680?q=gallery%3Achalodillo%2F418822&qo=55 progress.] It's AWFUL. There are heart monitors connected to corpses that have lifelines less flat than this man's graph of improvement. <br />
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But why should he care about any of that? As long as he draws tits, people will give him money. And when the well runs dry? Just make the boobs bigger, the clothes smaller, and the prices higher. No need to learn proper perspective, right?<br />
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<center>The breasts are the best mainly because everything else is worse.</center><br />
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===Writing review===<br />
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As you might have noticed already, all these comics have stagnated over the years. None of them will progress unless some moron pours money into its bowels, making the prospect of storytelling completely impossible. From what we know already, most of these stories won't last more than 2 years before they get scrapped unless they show non-stop smut. <br />
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It's unknown whether ANY of these comics are meant to, or ever will, collect enough money to be finished. The ''pay-per-view'' model isn't working. At least not for the readers. But for Dillo, they are working just fine. As long as someone pays, as long as some people have still not given up and are willing to waste their money on horrible stories that will probably be junked without an ending once people stop paying, why should he care?<br />
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Though, the story about Miles in his college years seems interesting and there is hope it might show us character development. However, in a paradoxical turn of events, we notice the character is the same asshole he is in the '''main''' comic. And judging from the current course of events, <strike>all that is left is for him to drop out and join the main plot</strike> we will be given more side stories about characters that we don't really care about.<br />
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Did I forget to talk about how one dimensional the characters are? Yep, [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/comic-2/ stupid amazon] that is dumb as a rock. [http://laslindas.katbox.net/archive/learning-curves-34/ Shy, yet hot teacher] who is always hitting on her students. Miles <strike>is still a jerk</strike> seems to have always been a jerk. None of them have more than a single personality trait, which makes them boring and/or frustrating to read about. So, again, they are in no way different than their counterparts in the main comic.<br />
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Since it's updated every now and then, chances are that none of this stuff will ever be resolved, neither the quality issues nor the plotlines, leaving us with another bland and pointless set of useless crap. But who needs artistic integrity when you have money?<br />
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===Conclusion===<br />
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This is ''NOT'' the way to make a comic. Many of these stories were supposed to be canon, which implies we should not need to pay for them if they happen to be ''SO'' important. The ones made only for the sake of jerking off are the only ones that I see any reason to ask money for, at which point all false pretenses of being anything other than a smut peddler are dropped. Even though everyone knows that, even before he started making these, the fans were already reading ''Las Lindas'' for the sole purpose of wanking it.<br />
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I've never heard of this model of business where important stuff for the development of the story has to be paid and given completely outside of the actual thing.<br />
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This stuff should be available to the public (even if it's crap). Many of these stories are interesting because, for a second, they give the feeling that there might be more to this. They show us how these one dimensional characters came to be, and have a slim chance of redeeming ''Las Lindas''' most often criticized flaw - the utterly detestable cast.<br />
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But none of this happens.<br />
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The fans get a bland, horrible main story where all of the characters' history is missing. They get a collection of slow moving, poorly written side stories that end abruptly after people have already spent a small fortune on them and never get to the point because they were too busy focusing on side characters that no one wants to read about because they have no bearing on the main plot. And they get smut. Smut that is pretty much the author saying, "Look, I know what you're here for. You know what you're here for. Let's stop pretending you care about the plot, or that I care about anything besides your money, and instead, just rub one out". Which is a spit in the face of the few fans that actually like this comic for something other than balloon tits and are desperately trying to pretend this fandom has an ounce of dignity left.<br />
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All I really have to say is that anyone who is paying money for this is being scammed.<br />
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{{Katbox}}</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pages_of_Life&diff=5984Pages of Life2013-12-17T04:03:49Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/lesbot Lesbot], with a little help from [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/william-seagate William Seagate]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/ Pages of Life]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://lordluke.deviantart.com/ Luke Page]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| February 27, 2009<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Hasn't been updated since April 30, 2013.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Boring, plotless journal comic (Slice of Life)<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Terrible artwork with no improvement, bland writing, uncomfortable details about someone's life, egotistical creator.<br />
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Lazy black-and-white doodle art with no backgrounds and no attempt at improvement. The anatomy of the characters is hideous and the artist's grasp of human facial expressions is flimsy at best. He's not even trying.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
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Dull, awkward and intrusive; to enjoy this comic you'd have to be a stalker. This is the comic equivalent of Page setting up cameras in every room of his house and just photographing himself doing menial tasks once a day.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Characters are all caricatures of fellow university students, usually characterized as 'wacky' or 'weird'. Luke himself is egotistical and his attempts to pull snarky punch lines out of his ass are grating.<br />
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A genuinely uncomfortable read, particularly later on when the creator becomes involved in a relationship and deems it necessary to make the ''reader'' part of this relationship too.<br />
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''Pages of Life'' is a sad little cry for attention wrapped up in a wannabe-witty outer shell. There are no punchlines, there is no plot, no interesting highlight whatsoever.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Once upon a time there was a university student called Luke Page. Luke was very bored, and his recent breakup had him a bit depressed. He needed something to occupy his time so he decided to create a journal comic. He then updated said comic ''twice a day'', and didn't put a lot of thought or effort into the lazy artwork because it was no more than a little passtime.<br />
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Over time, people started paying attention to Mr. Page's quaint little scribbles (hey, it's Smackjeeves, anything that updates more than daily eventually catches on), and he became quite excited at the prospect of his very own fanbase. [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/stores/ Merchandise], [http://pagesoflife.11.forumer.com/index.php A Forum], [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=216466851356 Fanclubs]; Luke created all of these for a comic that is literally a monument to his own existence.<br />
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And thus, Luke began his attempt sell his boring, everyday student life off as a competently written story.<br />
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[[File:pages8.jpg|center]]<br />
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Luke's boring, everyday student life is not a competently written story, nor indeed is it a competently drawn comic. ''Pages of Life'' is what would happen if you asked an eight-year-old [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Tim Buckley]] to draw comics using only Facebook status updates as a point of reference. It is a dull, dreary little burrow of laziness and apathy. Enjoy your stay.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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A good plot has a beginning, a middle and an end, and preferably somewhere around the end there should be a climax.<br />
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Human lives are not structured in the same way as a good plot. The highest, most exciting point of your life may not come along right at the end, and God knows the middle has a tendency to drag itself out. Unlike a book or movie, a human life cannot just skip the boring scenes and get straight to the action. Stay with me, I'm going somewhere with this.<br />
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''Pages of Life'' does not have a story, a plot or any structure, because it is a journal comic. "So what?" you might think. "[http://www.johnnywander.com/ Some] [http://lucylou.livejournal.com/ artists] mainly draw comics of things that have happened to them, and they are funny and interesting!" Yes, well here is the kicker; good writers have the skill to pull highlights and sparks out of the dullest things, and good artists can can any image more attractive and compelling... But most importantly, those artists don't draw their comics '''every single motherfucking day'''.<br />
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[[File:pages2.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''The joke is that this comic is pointless did you get it huh''</center><br />
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Oh yeah; no matter how dull, depressing or bleak a day is, Page will make a half-assed attempt to sculpt it into a three-panel strip and push it out the door. It's like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(TV_series) Big Brother], but with only one housemate, a really [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/648948/blame/ whiny] housemate. And rather than filming himself, he has to draw the dullest thing he did that day and then sellotape the drawing to your TV. And ''he does the drawing in fucking Flash.''<br />
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''Pages of Life'' is a way for for you to receive [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/612869/stuff/ regular updates] as to the current living status of Luke Page as if he is some sort of shit [http://www.tamagotchi.com/ tamagotchi]. If you're lonely and allergic to animal hair and spend a lot of time at your pc, maybe you could read ''Pages of Life'' and symbolically adopt Luke as your apathetic, lazy little cyber-pet with no redeeming personality traits and incredibly bad graphics. But if - like most people with a life - you care very little for the [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/607631/a-boring-day-at-work/ day-to-day dredgery] of a dull British student then this comic may not be the thing for you.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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Luke uses his comic to tell us awkward truths about both himself and the people around him, which ends up giving us a somewhat uncomfortable insight into what a class act Mr. Page is. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/565305/mother-nature/ calls Nature a MILF] (and of course immediately sells [http://www.zazzle.com/mother_nature_is_a_milf_tshirt-235860964069792334 t-shirts] with that witty one-liner scrawled across the front). He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/566264/sickening/ starts dry heaving] if his ex-girlfriend says hello to him in the street. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/581903/dreaming-5/ dreams about kissing] his ex-girlfriend. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/588025/ha-penis/ urinates]. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/615016/common-conversation/ chats with friends]. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/618290/lovesick/ stares at tits]. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/625192/back-to-reality/ has more dirty dreams] about his ex-girlfriend. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/627382/you-rock/ loves his fans] a big huggy bunch. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/629730/the-carphone-artist/ advertises his comic] to store clerks. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/634100/womens-clothes/ tells girls how to dress]. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/665991/e-drama-girls-2/ flirts with girls on the internet] who already have boyfriends. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/647884/scenery/ obsesses over sex]. He [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/694952/insanity/ claims to have clinical depression] to try to get a student loan. He has [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/718913/bad-charity-planning/ uninformed opinions] about the state of the world.<br />
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These are things that a sane person should not be advertising about themselves.<br />
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[[File:pages4.jpg|center]]<br />
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Emma? Let's remind ourselves of how this character was [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/633431/no-strings-attached/ first introduced] into the comic.<br />
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[[File:pages5.jpg|center]]<br />
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Man, you must have really fucked up! What did you do, draw a comic where she is depicted [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/679548/the-beach-5/ throwing her bra to people while warning them not to sniff it]? Oh no wait.<br />
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Actually, Mr. Page made the conscious decision to not only ''draw'' his female friend on her knees, offering him a blowjob while one of their friends watched; he also decided it would be perfectly fine to UPLOAD IT TO THE INTERNET.<br />
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That's... wow. That's classy.<br />
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Eventually realising what a monumental ''twat'' he had been, Luke ripped the comic down and sank into a slump of self-pity for a little while. Though there is a happy ending; he did apologise to Emma, with a lovely big bunch of flowers.<br />
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How do I know he apologised?<br />
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HE DREW A FUCKING [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/688316/forgiveness/ COMIC] ABOUT IT OF COURSE.<br />
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<center>''Sorry for drawing that comic of you. Here, have these flowers. Also, uhh... mind if I make a comic outta this?''</center><br />
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The heartfelt <strike>internet attention</strike> apology definitely seemed to do the trick, though, since from that point on Mr. Page has been certainly unafraid to play the girlfriend card for some [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/693958/the-note/ truly] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/699580/penis/ uncomfortable], [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/705141/all-for-bust/ awkward] and [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/724032/see-you-soon/ downright] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/742316/missing-you/ sickening] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/682944/the-view-6/ insights] into what ''should'' be a private relationship. Yes, Mr. Page is not only willing to sell out his ''own existence'' as a badly drawn internet comic, he's willing to throw his ''relationship'' in too. What a deal!<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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There are only so many different ways of saying "shit" so I can't imagine this section of the article will be very long.<br />
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For a long time ''Pages of Life'' was updated twice a day, which is a schedule that does not really leave much time for putting in a lot of effort. About three-quarters of the way through the current archives the artist finally decides to update once a day instead and claims to be "spending more time on the art", but in Page's world good art = add some nonsensical shading and draw more lines on people's faces.<br />
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At the beginning the handwritten text was near-illegible and the art was so slapdash that it was often hard to tell what the hell was going on. Eventually Page created [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/568801/new-font/ his own font] for the comic from his own handwriting, though he unfortunately overlooked the fact that his handwriting is hideous.<br />
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Fortunately, though, Page has a following of low-self-esteem internet-girls that are fidgety with excitement to offer up [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/639499/caris-week-filling-in/ guest] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/669655/blitz-week-skinny-jeans/ comics] about how incredibly kawaii and baka they are desu~<br />
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In conclusion; despite claims of 'spending more time on the art' the anatomy remains terrible, the backgrounds non-existent and his half-assed attempts at foreshortening and angles are clearly done without reference. Just because it's a journal comic doesn't mean the art has an excuse to be shit; art can be ''simple'' without being ''terrible''. You just have to be good enough at drawing to know the difference.<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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Well I was gonna do a writing review but then I drank a bunch of vodka and can't be bothered to, sorry.<br />
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''Oh me!'' Anyway, I hope you're not the sort of person that likes reading comics regularly, because Page certainly doesn't enjoy ''updating'' them regularly. For someone who runs a daily comic he's not incredibly dedicated; often skipping updates or leaving one-panel scribbles in their place because he's 'too tired to bother'.<br />
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If you like your comics pre-planned with scripts and thoughts into the panel layout you'll be unhappy too, as Page's approach to comic creation seems to essentially be sitting down at his pc at the end of the day and thinking "did I kiss my girlfriend today? can I make a comic out of that again? am I awake and sober enough to bother drawing? maybe I'll just draw my keyboard."<br />
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Sometimes his comics are based on the [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/584686/dnd-today-make-it-so/ tabletop] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/725119/shadowrun-on-a-boat/ roleplay] games he has taken part in. The writing in these cannot really be applauded since he is essentially just doing his "repeat something that happened to day" routine, it just seems more creative because there is a vague plot there (that was written by somebody else). The tabletop comics come out of nowhere with no prior warning and disappear again afterwards, making their inclusion in the comic seem odd and out-of-place. (''Today I'm whining about my lack of sex. TODAY I'M FIGHTING A DRAGON. Today I want people to like me more.'')<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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So, we've covered that ''Pages of Life'' is boring, creepy and badly drawn, but so what? It's a small comic with an even smaller following, why should the BWW bother creating an article for this? The answer lies with its creator, Mr. Luke Page, and his enormous, monumental Buckley-esque ego.<br />
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Page began his comic as something to keep him occupied instead of constantly moping over his recent breakup. The art was shit and the strips were boring but it was sort of forgiveable because people felt sorry for him, and were a bit glad that he was doing something to cheer himself up. That seemed to fly completely over Luke's head, though, as nowadays he seems to consider himself quite the remarkable little artist.<br />
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In no particular order, Luke Page has been known to;<br />
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* Wear t-shirts from the store of his own comic, bearing the slogan of his comic, in public.<br />
* Attempt to flog a shirt of a [http://www.zazzle.com/mens_unimpressed_shirt-235623832158518300 badly drawn panel of he and his friends' faces]<br />
* Plan to charge for an mp3 of him and his friend 'jamming' on their instruments because "his ''fans'' would pay for it".<br />
* Create and moderate ''his own'' [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=216466851356 facebook fanclub]<br />
* [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/614494/ctrl-c-ctrl-v/ Make] [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com/comics/615780/ftd-filler-pol-sillies/ fun of] [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]], despite ''Pages of Life'' being one of the few things on the internet actually ''worse'' than CAD.<br />
* Draw and upload a comic of a girl ''offering on her knees to suck him off while their friend fucking watches''.<br />
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All these things show an unforgivable lack of self awareness. Either that, or shameless greed. Probably some combination of both.<br />
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He either honestly thinks his comic is good and worth paying for (which means his ego has gotten to the point he can literally be considered delusional), or he just doesn't give a fuck and offers to sell anyone anything on the off chance someone might be dumb enough to pay. He's like one of those chubby fourteen year old boys who try to sell their virginity on ebay.<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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<center>''We at the BWW are very proud of our terrible comic [[Furthia High|cross-breeding]] programme.''</center><br />
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Luke Page needs to turn on his filter. He needs to stop his Chris-chan like tendency of making private events into comics. He needs to learn that no everything should be made into a comic, not everything that ''is'' made into a comic is good enough to post and once you post something you are still a long way from being in a position to expect to be paid for it. He needs to learn the meaning of words like "dignity", "self-respect", "appropriateness" and most of all "talent".<br />
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He needs to set his computer on fire.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://pagesoflife.smackjeeves.com The comic.]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=216466851356 His self made fanclub.]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Las_Lindas&diff=5983Las Lindas2013-12-17T03:50:48Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/lesbot Lesbot]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://laslindas.katbox.net/ Las Lindas]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| "[http://chalosan.deviantart.com/ Chalo]", "SoulKat" and "ID_Fox"<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| September 6, 2004<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| FURRY FANSERVICE EXTRRRRRRAVAGANZA<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| tits tits tits jugs tits thighs tits big shiny tits racks tits boobs melons funbags bosoms BIG FURRY COW TITTIES<br />
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Poorly-depicted animu with unrealistic floating breasts and sameface syndrome.<br />
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Repetitive theme of a cow girl luring men to her farm and enslaving them to work, then throwing them away when she has no more use for them. Side stories are messy and confusing.<br />
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The protagonist and her minions are completely dislikable, and the supposed villain is the one who comes across as having redeeming features.<br />
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Even if you like ginormous furry breasts, you'd best seek them out elsewhere.<br />
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===Background===<br />
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By this point everyone in the internet has realized that making a furry porn comic gets you lots of attention with minimum effort. After all, nobody's going to care how likable your characters are or how interesting your story is as long as you've got a bunch of scantily-clad animal-ladies squeezing themselves into outfits so small their breasts actually begin to disobey gravity. Las Lindas could be considered one of the most perfect examples of this theory. With almost ''five years'' of comics under its belt, lots of boobs have come and gone, bounced and jiggled, hung and floated. Yet we're ''still'' waiting for at least one slightly interesting character to show up.<br />
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I know it's a harsh generalization to assume that all furries over-sexualize everything to a disturbing degree. That's like assuming that anyone who has ever watched a Japanese cartoon continuously stuffs pocky down their throat and wants to be like Naruto, whatever that entails. But shit like this ''really'' doesn't help defend the sane minority. "Oh boy, just what I always wanted! A comic about cartoon animals with big boobies, having sex and crying and wanting to get their own way all the time!"<br />
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===Story and Plot===<br />
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[[File:LL01.gif|thumb|right|500px|Notice how the speech is pulled out of the frame so that we don't miss any of the shiny and circular "action" and "plot". WOOOO!!!]]<br />
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Our story begins on a sunny little farm in the country, where main character and anthropomorphic cow-woman Mora is [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=9 struggling] to keep Mummy and Daddy's old farm business blooming. If you're worried about forgetting Mora's face amongst the crowd of ''other'' big-titted animal people that are soon to arrive, don't worry; Mora is always ''instantly recognizable'' by her scowling face. That and even by ''this'' comic's standards Mora must have a spine of fucking steel to lift those gargantuan funbags on her chest. Anyway, '''Moo'''ra doesn't have any money to actually hire help around the farm, so she gets the bright idea to [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=15 dress like a hooker] and [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=21 lure in] an unsuspecting male. Thinking Moora is nothing but a harmless prostitute a man agrees to some hot cow sex, but is [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=11 struck unconscious] with a frying pan and made to work on the farm the next day.<br />
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That's right. Moora pretends to be a prostitute to lure a stranger to her house, then physically assaults them. Yet for some reason the cat man actually thinks ''he'' would be in the most trouble if she called the police. So, being the absolute thicko that he has been characterized as ''already'', he [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=27 sticks around] to stop her getting <strike>them both</strike> him into trouble.<br />
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Unfortunately, would you believe it, her prostitution plan only brought about a man that has ''no experience of farm work''! Disgusted by her captive's inability to do her bidding properly, Moora ventures back out into town in her usual [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=31 tarty getup]. She's mistaken for a prostitute (fancy that!) and some humans (??) try to rape her. Because, you know, cows with tits are totally what every human would go for. Anyway a much more muscular and impressive cow-man leaps to her rescue and she drags him to her <strike>pit of hell</strike> farm too, though he actually goes by choice.<br />
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Predictably Moora is a sucker for big muscly men that do lots of work and have no personality, so she decides to adhere to her own gender stereotype too and cooks him a [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=57 lovely meal]. When that fails to lure the man straight into her oversize bovine panties, Moora is determined she's going to have ''some'' sex and does so by [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=29 throwing herself] at a man so short compared to her that it's a wonder she doesn't accidentally crush him during the deed. His usefulness outlived, Moora [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=63 throws out] the nameless catboy like an old snotty tissue, which accidentally proves to the other guy what a [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=65 bitch she is].<br />
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(The catboy does have a name, of course, like every other character; but buggered if I could recall it without checking the cast page by this point in the comic. I've always been bad with names, but this shit takes the cake; it's like the writer doesn't even ''want'' me to get attached to these guys. Fortunately it's a furry comic so if anyone asks I can just say "you know... the cat guy. The guy who's a cat. And has ''white'' hair.")<br />
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So she dresses up like a tart to lure men to her house, strikes them unconscious with kitchen implements, threatens them into working for her, uses people for sex then throws them away, and has a fucking temper-tantrum whenever people don't act how she wants them to. ''And this doesn't change.''<br />
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Some other characters are introduced (covered further in the writing review), and there's some plot about the farm being dangerously close to bankruptcy. We're meant to care when the big muscly cow man mysteriously leaves and Moora has [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=165 yet another tantrum]. There's some arguments, some [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=177 predictable back story], some [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=179 whatever] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=185 the fuck] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=189 this is], but it's all so rushed that it doesn't feel properly connected, more like a jumble of things happening that make no fucking sense. There's plot further on, but by this point you'll most likely be so bored of Moora's whiny self-important bullshit (no pun intended) that you'll have stopped your attempt to read it. You're not really missing out on much either, FYI, since after the farming competition and all that magical drivel, everyone basically just ''goes shopping'' and ''sits around whining about relationships'' forever. I ''had'' to read it all so I could form a fair opinion, but you're okay. You can make a run for it.<br />
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Of course, making even less sense than the main plot are the [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus/ bonus comics], a bunch of bouncing titfests where everyone [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_boobs/index.php?strip_id=16 loses their already very basic personality traits] and just [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_boobs/index.php?strip_id=7 rubs their breasts together]. Their enormous, shiny, rubbery breasts. Yeah, sure, there are some bonus comics that act as "backstories" for various characters, but don't worry; the titties (and ass) are [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_empire/index.php?strip_id=10 still] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_curve/index.php?strip_id=11 around]. Hooray! Apparently [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_curve/ "Learning Curves"] is a particular favorite amongst fans, because everyone is in COLLEGE and has lots of SEX.<br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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First of all, I have nothing against porn comics, even though they're not really my cup of tea. I can respect porn comics for being straightforward about what they are. They don't try to hide the fact that they're wank material; they just thrive on it. Some of them even have a great sense of humor. But fan-service comics are like the cock tease sister of porn comics, strutting around in short-shorts and a beer-soaked baby doll tee while saying "teehee, don't hit on me boys! I have so much plot and character depth!" Las Lindas is exactly this, and for that, it suffers greatly.<br />
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I consider the beginning of the downfall of the comic to be right [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=13 here], in strip five. Now, I'm going to be nice and ignore all that sultry swanning around naked in a steamy room (even cows gotta bathe I suppose), but those last three panels are just. Fucking. ''Creepy''. Really, Moora? That's how your mind works? You're in a tough situation, so better just pull out the udders and get a big slobbering boy to do the work for you?<br />
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I actually quite like the first four comics. It's a character working hard to try to keep the farm that her parents loved so much. It's practically ''heartwarming'', her doing all the work herself. Maybe it could've been like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_Moon_(series) Harvest Moon]; clawing her way up from the bottom of the farm ladder, gradually gaining the trust and affection of the local villagers and eventually even finding love! Awww.<br />
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Oops, no wait, this is Moora, and this is a fan-service comic. "Hey, ''I've got breasts!'' I bet some guy'll do all my work if I show 'em to him!" Right.<br />
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===Art review===<br />
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[[File:LL04.jpg|thumb|right|195px|This is how breasts work ok anime told me so]]<br />
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For a comic that centers almost entirely around a certain part of the female physique, the artist of ''Las Lindas'' really doesn't seem to know the first fucking thing about ''breasts''. From day one of this abomination [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_empire/ not] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=243 a] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/bonus_curve/index.php?strip_id=9 single] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=269 character] seems to think to wear a fucking bra, their enormous melons somehow staying afloat with ''sexy magic''. Even if they were wearing support, it'd have to be made of fucking ''steel'' to keep these breasts in the [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=375 positions] that they find themselves in. Even the tiny fairy creatures constantly have their [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=487 nipples sticking out] in ridiculous positions.<br />
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I mean, I'm not a prude or anything. I love a big pair o' tits as much as the next person. But seriously, if you're gonna focus on them that much, at least make them look ''attached''. Everyone looks like they've stapled helium balloons to their chest!<br />
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All of the characters, no matter what species, have the same lumpy anime face that far too many furry artists lazily resort to. Add this to their jiggly jelly anatomy (GOOD HEAVENS WHAT SHINY THIGHS) and really, there's no point at all to this comic being drawn with animals. Remove the little bits of face fluff and the enormous ears (''Moora = cow = bunny ears?'') and tails and they're basically people anyway. Not to mention the whole [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=103 cows-milking-cows] thing going on is just plain weird and awkward. ''Las Lindas'' seems like yet another case of "I would have drawn people but furry porn really rakes in the internet dollars".<br />
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The coloring isn't perfect either. It's bright, which is nice, and it has genuinely improved since the comic's beginning, but none of the cast - despite all being covered in fur - ever actually look ''furry''. They're shaded so smoothly that they all seem to be made out of... well, ''skin''. Moora's fur-color in particular is a good example. There's also the fact that, sometimes, characters' breasts are given ''blushes'' or ''shine'' despite the fur. I guess the tits wouldn't look as ''squeezable'' if you actually shaded the fur though, huh? Guess it turned out pretty inconvenient, your characters being ''covered in fur''.<br />
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===Writing review===<br />
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I'm gonna get straight to it; Moora is a terrible main character. An unlikable, horrible, bratty, tarty bitch from start to finish, she throws at least one tantrum in every plot line and never learns a single fucking thing without quickly forgetting it afterward. I don't know if we're meant to be immediately attached to her for her enormous thighs or warm to her gradually as she bullies every other character, but either way this is god awful. Moora is Mary-Sue levels of likability. She's an [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=234 insufferable bitch] living on a farm full of people she bullied and tantrumed into staying with her; characters who are constantly either terrified of her smacking them with her big meaty cow hands or [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=175 hating her]. Despite this we're apparently meant to consider this group of enemies '''~super friends~''' <br />
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Every single male character that is introduced is either fucked by Moora, or has fucked her in the past. Really. [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=29 Every] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=175 single] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=238 one]. I'm not sure whether this is meant to make the guys look easy or make Moora look like the village cumbucket; it succeeds at both, really. (The only exception to this rule I've seen is the sheepdog character, who is so [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=210 stereotypically] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=189 camp] that if you even said the word ''"vagina"'' around him he'd probably wring his hands and scream.) It's often pointed out that Moora goes through men like dinners (judging by her enormous thighs, that's quite a fucking rate) and even when she claims to ''WUV'' someone, still [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=207 belittles] them on a regular basis.<br />
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Moora's happy band of <strike>morons</strike> misfits are a pretty dull bunch generally-speaking, each conforming to a nice comfortable stereotype; <br />
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* Minos, the muscly cow-man, is on the same sort of mary-sue wavelength as Moora, though thankfully he doesn't talk as much. He's constantly wise, calm, sensitive, serene, and all those other things that a man SHOULD be when he is TENDING A GARDEN OF THAT DELICATE FLORAL BLOOM KNOWN AS.. ''WOMEN''. The guy has all the personality of a brick wall but he has a big chest, so that makes him interesting or something.<br />
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* Miles, the cat-boy, is perverted and perverted and also he'd quite like to have some sex some time because can you believe it he is ''perverted''. He also thinks the world should bow down to him because he's just SO AWESOME. And he's lead writer SoulKat's fursona, but SK adamantly denies this. That pretty much sums up the entire character.<br />
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* Taffy, the rabbit with pink hair, is described by the cast page as ''"young motherly maiden who takes great enjoyment in caring for others"''. That's bullshit-speak for "she's boring and prude but I bet if you convince her to shag you she's really kinky actually! Ohohoho!" She's there to appeal to the crowd who like their girls shy, compliant and ''in the kitchen''. She broke up with her boyfriend because he insisted on having sex with her before she was ready and now she does the dishes and not much else.<br />
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* A couple of wandering catgirls also drop by at some point, one of which, namely Sarah, is introduced as an [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=56 exciteable] [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=57 child]; as per tradition with furry comics (see: [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Concession Concession]), it's only a couple of strips until the little girl is [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=58 baring some ass] and [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=63 writhing around in panties] for the audience's <s>paedophilic</s> amusement. No, I don't care if she's got tits, reader. She has clearly been introduced as a character with the mind of a simple child; wanting to fuck her is dirty and wrong. That counts for [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=69 dressing her in the tart outfit] too.<br />
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* I did warm a little to Rachael, the black cat girl, later in the story; like the villain-cow, she actually shows some character traits that aren't directly stereotypical. I wouldn't say she's developed enough for me to actually ''like'' her but there's potential there. Of course, she may just be pandering to the guys who like their women ''OOO FEISTY'' and I haven't noticed. That's very likely.<br />
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We are eventually introduced to the 'villain' of the story, Alejandra, who I ''think'' we're meant to hate when she [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=52 points out] to Moora that she's an obnoxious slag. Personally my first impression is to think she's quite refreshing. Someone pointing out that Moora ''shouldn't'' be getting her ginormous tits out in front of strangers? ''Preposterous!'' Moora's farm is [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=96 saved] at one point by some mysterious stranger and I assume this is meant to be a happy event, but really I feel kinda sorry for the villain chick. I mean, she's put actual fucking ''effort'' into her business, yet Moora gets away with riding along on the shoulders of under-age workers and men she lured in with her booty.<br />
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[[File:LL03.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Ha! Ha! Child prostitution is hilarious!]]<br />
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The villain is meant to be unlikable, but really all that's 'villainous' about her is her personal vendetta against Moora; something you can't really fault her for, considering Moora's ability to be a complete bitch and have everyone [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=174 love her anyway]. The 'bad guy' is the only character I've seen who seems to talk [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=170 any fucking sense], and she's even a genuinely hard worker who has [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=164 devoted her life] to her business; but of course, she has a ''brain'' and ''doesn't dress like a whore'' so she's boring and we hate her! BOOO!!<br />
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Overall I find the writing in ''Las Lindas'' to be incredibly patronizing, shallow and ''boring''. Can you imagine [http://laslindas.katbox.net/index.php?strip_id=30 this comic] if Moora was a guy and the cat was a girl? It's classic [[Sabrina Online|Zig-Zag]] syndrome; the furry bitch gets away with it because she is in possession of two gravity-defying monster-breasts. Male characters are only there to obsess over the females, and god forbid any female character cover her fucking midriff at any point in time. Sweet Jesus.<br />
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The villain, Alejandra, could possibly be considered an exception to the rule since she seems to have at least ''some'' personality and doesn't spend ten hours a day giggling and watching her breasts defy physics, but we're meant to dislike her so I'm guessing this isn't what the 'writer' intended for at all. In all honesty I may be bigging her up a little more than she deserves because it's nice to see someone that actually ''realizes'' that they're in Moora's little world of Mary-Sue.<br />
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===Author biography===<br />
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'''A temporary biography by The Luigiian.'''<br />
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It writes itself. The man's a furry artist that's put his work on every place you'd expect to find furry art, including DeviantArt, VCL, FurAffinity and the like. Born March 27, 1976, Gonzalo Reyes, the El Salvadoran Salivator, the Mesoamerican Masturbator, and the Pan-American Armadillo, has (get this) an armadillo fursona. He goes by many aliases, including Chalodillo (duh), Gonzreye, and Chalosan (also duh). The Internet is coming up blank on his art and writing qualifications, so I'm going to take a wild guess and say self-taught. (I personally cannot stand the way he draws his see-through cellophane hair and completely absent noses, but I guess since it's ZOMG an art style u guyz I can't go after him on it. But I will when I get the chance.)<br />
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This mysterious Mesoamerican (my last nickname for the man, I swear) has a lot we don't know about him, but we can guess he isn't the most accomplished artist.<br />
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Other than his porno.<br />
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===Conclusion===<br />
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'''(Also by The Luigiian)'''<br />
<br />
I skimmed through ''Las Lindas'' today to see what it was about. When you're skimming, all you're really seeing is the art, mixed up with a few phrases here and there.<br />
<br />
What many people don't realize about comics is that their art can tell a reader a great deal of what he or she needs to know about a story. ''Peanuts'' was simple and silly, and so had a simple, silly art style. ''Little Nemo'' was fantastical, and its drawings were beautiful, weird, wild things. ''Batman'' was dark, sinister; and so its drawing was dark, sinister, ominous stuff.<br />
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What we see in ''Las Lindas'' is simple, smutty, oppressive sex. Every panel has cleavage. Every page has breasts. I saw nothing of interest, save for breasts, pantyshots, and clothing that appeared to stay on by magic alone (or in this case the small nanorobots developed by character Ambar, the "High Prime of Neo Earth.")<br />
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I wish I knew more about Neo Earth. What is its geography? What makes it different from our Earth? Why was there a need for a "New Earth"? Why are cow furries the primary characters of this planet, with humans few and far between?<br />
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Alas, I will never know the answers to these questions. From Page 5 onward - a page that Reyes acknowledges himself was where the comic became an unrealized homage to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_the_Cat_Dancer Omaha the Cat Dancer] - Chalosan threw away all the fascinating parts of the world he'd created, the possibilities of a strange and alien new version of our own Earth, and replaced them with balloon breasts and impossible curves.<br />
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How can we tell? Because that's all the art shows. There is nothing of interest to see here, besides those curves. And that's a damn shame.<br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://laslindas.katbox.net Las Lindas] - Link for the comic, if you still dare...<br />
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/lesbot Lesbot]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://bella-ciao.net/ La Cosa Nostra]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://eiko-chan.deviantart.com/ Darci Robbins, AKA "Eiko-chan"]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| Uncertain<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Dead<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Anime-drama-possibly-romance-angstfest<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| If you're going to base your comic on the Mafia, it would probably be a good idea to ''actually research the motherfucking Mafia''.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
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|'''Art'''<br />
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Art shows potential but is lazy and riddled with flaws that the artist refuses to acknowledge.<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Storyline completely shoves the Mafia setting aside to instead focus on whining teenagers.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Characters feel fake and stereotypical, making it difficult to feel attached to them at all.<br />
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|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Lack of research into the setting makes the writing even more painful.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|65px]]<br />
Reading this comic is a disappointing and irritating experience.<br />
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===Background===<br />
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The book ''Twilight'' by Stephenie Meyer, is the story of a young girl who moves to a new town and finds herself surrounded by vampires. Fortunately for her unlike ''usual'' vampires - who are undead that burn in sunlight and like to drink blood - the vampires of Twilight are emotional and literally sparkly people. The most notable of these is an angsty young male vampire who feels that his life is utterly tragic.<br />
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The comic ''La Cosa Nostra'', by Darci Robbins, is the story of a young girl who moves to a new town and finds herself surrounded by Mafiosi. Fortunately for her unlike the ''actual'' Mafia - who are criminals that consider murder and intimidation of others a hard day's work - the Mafiosi of La Cosa Nostra are emotional and literally sparkly people. The most notable of these is an angsty young male Mafiosi who feels that his life is utterly WAIT A MINUTE<br />
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On the "About" page of the website itself, ''La Cosa Nostra'' is described by its creator;<br><br />
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{{Quote|''La Cosa Nostra'' is the story of good and evil, of love and hate, of family and loyalty. In a blend of retro and modern New York, five families fight for power and respect in the underground criminal world. In this corrupt society, there is no way to tell who is friend or foe. Crooked cops and seasoned gangsters haunt the streets. Can Saoirse, and innocent girl from a foreign country, find who is truly good and who is truly evil? In a world where there is a fine line between right and wrong, who draws that line?}}<br><br />
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With a description like that, you just know this is going to be some ''deep and emotional shit''.<br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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In an [http://eiko-chan.deviantart.com/journal/16555975/ F.A.Q.] about the comic, the artist tells us;<br><br />
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{{Quote|LCN has no set time period. It has aspects of the 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, modern day, and a bit of the late 1800's with the way immigrants are treated. I would say most of it is a 1940's or modern feel, but certain characters have different decades feel to them.}}<br><br />
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Remember, if you don't care enough about setting to do some goddamn research, just say it has aspects of ''everything!'' This effectively gives Miss Eiko-chan the freedom to mix anything with anything and nobody can call her out on any sort of inconsistency. Clever move, miss. Too bad it makes your approach to writing look half-arsed at best. In fact, reluctance to do research is quite a theme in this comic.<br />
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[[File:LCN-16.jpg|center]]<br />
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Let's please not forget that the Mafia is a thing that ''actually exists'', even to this day. There are countless books about the many varied systems in each country, so there is no shortage of reference material available. And as someone (that is, me, Lesbot) who actively reads said Mafia books because I find the facts within them ''fascinating'', I feel personally insulted by this author's apparent allergy to doing a bit of goddamn research. So, let's see how this comic holds up to actual facts.<br />
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Firstly, Miss Robbins' Mafia exists in New York. Now, let's examine the name of her comic:<br />
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'''La Cosa Nostra'''<br />
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and a conversation with the author, taken from [http://comments.deviantart.com/5/16555975/707206400 here];<br><br />
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{{Quote|'''AnneMoody:''' Where did you find the name for your comic book?}}<br><br />
{{Quote|''Eiko-chan:'' Its just the "mafia term" for the mafia : )}}<br><br />
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BEEP, ''WRONG!'' THANKS FOR PLAYING! YOU WON A CAR! "Cosa Nostra", as a term, actually means "Our Thing" - as in, a thing that all the mafiosi share. It is a name used ''only'' and ''specifically'' by the Mafia on the island of Sicily.<br />
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[[File:LCN-10.jpg|center]]<br />
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ONLY THERE, MOTHERFUCKER. Even mainland Italy has a different name for its system! So naming your New York mafia comic "La Cosa Nostra" is a bit like creating a comic about lions on the African savannah and calling it ''The Tale Of The Endangered Indian Tigers''. <br />
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'''I'm told by one source that the USA Mafia might actually call itself "La Cosa Nostra", but that's an American mafia and Robbins has said herself that these characters are 100% Italian, so I'm gonna be cruel and say it's not relevant. Besides, even if they do, they must be fantastically shit at Italian because that actually translates to "The Our Thing". How embarrassing...'''<br />
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'''"But Lesbot," I'm sure somebody would probably whine, "a Mafia's a Mafia, right? I'm sure they're all the same really!" Well, you're wrong. You're very wrong. Punch yourself. Let's consider a quote from the book "Cosa Nostra", by John Dickie. (Yes I just happened to have it on hand.)'''<br><br />
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{{Quote|Geovanni Brusca relates that, when he visited an American Mafiosi in New Jersey, he was appalled by how talkative his hosts were by comparison. A dinner was held to welcome him, yet on entering the restaurant Brusca was astonished to see that the Mafiosi had all brought their mistresses, and that they chatted openly about which Families various mobsters belonged to. 'In Sicily, none of us would dream of talking that way in public. Or even in private. Everyone knows what needs to be known.' Brusca claims he was so embarrassed that he made his excuses and left. 'It's a different mentality,' he concluded about his American experience. 'They live out in the light of day. They only commit murders in exceptional circumstances. They never carry out massacres like we have in Sicily.'}}<br><br />
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It's not just gang mentality that differs between systems; the Cosa Nostra are all about intimidation and land-ownership, whereas the Camorra (the Mafia system on mainland Italy) are much bigger and have more layers, and concern themselves a lot more with the drug trade. Unfortunately Eiko-chan's idea of research seems to be "I WATCHED ''THE GODFATHER'' ONE TIME, MAN IT WAS SO AWESOME".<br />
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===Story and Plot===<br />
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So, plot. Our story begins, fittingly, with '''Chapter One'''; wherein miss Saoirse (who is ''IRISH'') is staring at a folded photograph of her family with a haunting, dead-eyed gaze. It's quite big for a photo actually, it might be a printout or photocopy. Come to think of it photographs are quite difficult things to fold right. Anyway, Saoirse continues to tell us about herself; how she is IRISH and an awfully sassy girl, and her family are moving away from Ireland because of the famine.<br />
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Wait, what famine? ''When'' is this set again? I've seen it assumed that Saoirse's family left Ireland in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) Great Famine] (also known as Potato Famine) of the mid-1800's. This "we left because of famine" plot point is so incredibly un-explained and never-referenced-again that it seems like a bit of a reach. <br />
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Nonetheless the boat journey to escape the famine continues, as Saoirse marvels at the Statue of Liberty because that is what all immigrants do when they arrive in America. She's interrupted in her brooding by a Japanese man from Japan with a Japanese name. You can tell he is Japanese because he has spiky anime hair, though for the record I have no idea why [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American a Japanese person from Japan would be on the same boat as all the IRISH peasants]. Maybe Japan and Ireland have always been right next to each other and I just never noticed.<br />
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[[File:LCN-02.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''"I'm going to New York to find Sepiroth! How about you?"''</center><br />
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Watashi Japanman gives her a generic couple of lines about America being "the land of freedom" and then never appears again ever, thank God. The next page even hammers in the fact that he was just a boring cameo with the line ''"I knew I'd never see Yukio again"''. No real explanation why, as we're rushed into an introduction to her family. Her mother seems to have developed a head-cold during the trip.<br />
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[[File:LCN-03.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''No questions dear, mummy's drunk.''</center><br />
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Saoirse spends the night angsting about how she's scared about her new life, which is fair enough really, considering what a shithole their apartment is. Fortunately the night passes in a couple of panels and soon she's having a horrible morning riding crowded subways ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway What year ''is'' this, anyway?]) to get to her new school, which is quite a grand building that appears to be suspended in the white void of nowhere. Unfortunately the school she is meant to be attending didn't think to tell her that she needs a uniform to go to class (THEY ARE MANDATORY YOU ARE NOT WELCOME WITHOUT ONE) so the angry-looking nun teacher sends her away. She's given a sympathetic ear by a girl who tilts her head a lot called "Chastity Vittorio" (ooh an Italian name, can't you feel the Mafia vibes just ''ooze'' off her) and Saoirse makes a friendship that some ominous foreshadowing tells us that she will soon regret. DUN DUN DUUUUN.<br />
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[[File:LCN-04.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''Those are some fuckin' big apples''</center><br />
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After such a long first chapter with so very little happening, I bet you can't wait to get to all the gunfights, car chases and other illegal blood-pounding manly Mafia shit like that, right?! Well tough, because the first thing '''Chapter Two''' does is introduce us more to what a charmingly brain-dead brat Chastity is.<br />
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'''Chastity:''' Hey Saoirse, what's IRELAND like?<br />
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'''Saoirse:''' It's the countryside.<br />
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'''Chastity:''' Boo, I hate the countryside.<br />
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Chastity shows common little Saoirse how a girl ''should'' live, sweeping her up in a whirlwind of shopping all at the expense of dear daddy's credit card. So I guess either this ''isn't'' set during the Great Famine or Saoirse took so long to get to her first day of school that by the time she graduates she'll be fully qualified to drive a spaceship. Since they're now ''BFFS 4 LYFE'', Chastity wisely decides to take Saoirse to a <strike>gangster</strike> family party and introduce her to a bunch of <strike>gangsters</strike> family members. It's here that we're first introduced to ''La Cosa Nostra'''s very own answer to Edward Cullen; ''Vincent Carmine Valentino''.<br />
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[[File:LCN-05.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''Saoirse loves judging people's character by their hotness.''</center><br />
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Despite them being cousins Chastity is ''all over'' Vinny like a particularly talkative rash, which is a level of incest I'm not really that comfortable with. I dunno, I hear in [[Better Days|some places]] cousin-loving is acceptable but I'm just gonna go ahead and say I think this is kinda weird. Most of the pretty-boy Mafiosi descend on Saoirse like fucking hawks and start trying out their pick-up lines, but Vinny spends the rest of the chapter sending Saoirse accusing glares as if she just kicked his dog. I'm not sure if we're meant to be curious as to why he's so unfriendly, he just comes across as whiny and ever-so-angsty, as many close-ups of his ''gorgeous eyelashes'' will show you.<br />
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[[File:LCN-06.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''Saorise has 'victim' tattooed all over her forehead in block capitals.''</center><br />
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So it's '''Chapter Three''', and Saorise has hardly finished telling us how very much she loves her new buddies before some leering stranger squeezes her precious little behind. She cries to Chastity, who tells her Mafia boys, who unleash their psychotic pet emo Vinny on Mister Buttgrabber. Saoirse sees him break the guy's nose with a single punch (BECAUSE HE IS A BABY-FACED BADASS, YOU DO REALISE) and is pretty uncomfortable about it. Oh well, I'm sure Vinny is still a nice guy-<br />
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[[File:LCN-07.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''And if I were '''you''' I'd do this somewhere a little more private than in the goddamn street, junior.''</center><br />
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Oh, except that time he murders that one guy in an alleyway, yeah. 'Cause that's how you kill someone professionally; you drag them to a public place where anyone can see you and talk to them for half an hour before getting it over with. SECRET PRO MAFIA TECHNIQUE.<br />
So Saoirse witnesses her very first murder, in all it's painfully-bad-dialogue glory. She's understandably upset that Vinny is ''clearly fucking psychotic'' and she freaks out, so Vinny turns on her with an amazing speech about how he don't get no respect just because he's a murdering criminal. Those intolerant twats! He compares the treatment he gets for being part of a criminal organisation to ''bigotry'', particularly the bigotry Saoirse has been on the receiving end of because she is IRISH.<br />
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What do you mean there's been no mention of hatred against Saoirse's IRISHness so far in the comic? Oh, wait..<br />
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Vinny finishes his speech anyway, ending on the ''beautifully tragic'' line, "We are all God's forgotten children."<br />
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[[File:LCN-08.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''BEAUTY TRAGEDY ANGELS LOVE DOVES TRUMPETS PIANO ANGST''</center><br />
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So Saoirse vows to keep her mouth shut about the whole "murdering people" thing because these guys are her ''buddies'' and they ''accept her'' and they're totally the city's ''downtrodden heroes''. Vinny is a baby-faced angel boy who is cursed to kill people for money because that is his curse, and it makes him ever so dangerous and interesting.<br />
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[[File:LCN-09.jpg|center]]<br />
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===Art review===<br />
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First point: look at the art in '''Chapter 1''', and in '''Chapter 8'''. Do you notice the difference? Yeah, she's worked on her style a little more, but here's what I'm getting at: She stops putting in '''effort'''.<br />
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In the first half of the first chapter - the 'epilogue', if you will - she may not be as good at drawing as she'll later be, but there's so much honest effort there. There's shading, lighting, ''backgrounds''... you actually get the feeling that the character is ''there'', existing in an actual environment. By the end of the first chapter Eiko lets her laziness run rampant and the shading stops, the lighting stops, and backgrounds are only added when necessary. The characters spend most of their time floating in undefined white space, which detaches the reader from the setting in which the characters reside.<br />
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[[File:LCN-18.jpg|center]]<br />
<center>''At least the gangsters in GTA aren't kawaii bishies.''</center><br />
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I mean ''really think about it'' for a second. Here we have a story about a powerful, merciless criminal organisation, set in the iconic city of New York. ''How can you not want to put scenery in this?'' Some shots of the city would really hammer home the sort of scummy, morally-bankrupt existence these people live, yet instead we are limited to the goings-on of a couple of melodramatic school-kids in a boring white void. In fact when it comes to action scenes you'll be lucky if she even draws the ''characters''.<br />
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Second point: Speaking of characters, let's take a look at a couple of the trends that are visible in the character art of Miss Eiko-chan. First of all, there's the brown-nose syndrome.<br />
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[[File:LCN-17.jpg|center]]<br />
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You know you've seen it. Despite not bothering to add shading to her characters, Eiko will cake their noses in so much shadow that they begin to look like they've been digging through soil with their faces, or have a head cold, or are all drunk. It looks unnatural and Eiko is fully aware that she does it, but unwilling to change. Observe this piece, where fans actually point out the ridiculousness of the bright red noses:<br><br />
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{{Quote|OK I UNDERSTAND YOU THINK THEIR NOSES ARE TOO RED. I understand constructive critisism but sheesh I don't need to hear it over and over}}<br><br />
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{{Quote|So comments disabled cus I don't care if you think their noses are too red. haha.))<br><br />
{{Quote|I like them that way}}<br><br />
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= ''"Fuck you guys and your critique it's not a mistake I WANT THEM TO LOOK STUPID OK GEEZ GET OFF MY BACK"''<br />
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Eiko also has a bit of a problem with the rest of the face; clearly not a fan of flipping her canvas to find hidden ''easily overlooked'' mistakes (Take ''time'' on a drawing? What a crazy idea!) she has a habit of not putting enough thought into the placement of facial features and making her characters look lopsided. This becomes especially apparent the few times she dares to stray from her beautiful-bishie-with-pouting-lips template and actually attempt to draw less aesthetically pleasing people.<br />
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[[File:LCN-15.jpg|center]]<br />
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I'm not saying that miss Robbins lacks talent; there's definite potential there, but she's very much held back by her own laziness and bad attitude toward criticism.<br><br />
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{{Quote|That being said, I DO NOT need your critique about lack of detail. Seriously, people, this is something I do in my spare time. If I was getting paid, then yes, I would agree that there could be more backgrounds. But the simple fact is that I do this all on my own and I have a life outside of art, and I do art outside of the comic. I don't have superpowers or a time machine, I can't make the details that pros can. I am sorry if you don't think it meets your expectations or you don't agree with me, but that is the fact and that is NOT going to change.}}<br><br />
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= Taken from a F.A.Q. Remember kids; only bother putting effort into your art if you're getting ''paid'' for it!<br />
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===Writing review===<br />
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While the art may be lopsided and lazy, the real killer of this comic is the writing. The story, setting and characters are so poorly put together and generic that the melodramatic zooms and speeches just become laughable; as if the author is a child acting out a soap-opera-esque story with Barbie dolls, stopping for a dramatic silence every five minutes. <br />
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Our first honorable mention goes to the comic's official 'tagline': '''Love is a movement'''. One of those lovely little phrases that could mean, gosh, ''absolutely anything!'' Whatever it is, I'm sure it's very tragic and beautiful. Well, here's an explanation taken from [http://lcn-fanclub.deviantart.com/journal/22682473/ this interview];<br><br />
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{{Quote|'''Ashleigh London:''' What does, 'Love is a movement' mean to you? How did it become the LCN motto/catch phrase?<br />
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'''Darci Robbins:''' Love is the movement is meant as a statement to imply the movement away from worldly issues and onto love. The reason it was used for LCN is because there are so many things that the characters in LCN concentrate on, like money, cars, dwelling on things they can't control, and the implication that love is the only important thing.}}<br><br />
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It might just be because I'm not a giggling teenage girl, but I don't really see what on earth ''love'' has to do with a system ''professional criminals'' like the Mafia, particularly when your characters are young, spoilt and melodramatic. Money? Yes. Cars? Yes. Dwelling on things they can't control? ''Emo.'' It's as if Miss Robbins can't quite decide whether she wants her characters to be superficial or ''ttly deep'' so she tries to have it both ways, and they become confusing, sobbing messes.<br />
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Let's look at these characters. Now Eiko-chan herself has said that while the comic tends to follow Saoirse around, she is actually ''not'' the main character; she is just there to be the reader, to be new and ignorant to the whole mafia situation and lead us through it. So let's just hop straight to the obvious main character, ''Vinny''.<br />
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[[File:LCN-11.jpg|center]]<br />
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<br />
<strike>Simba</strike> Vinny's backstory is quite interesting in the fact that if the author knew shit about the actual Mafia, this character would be long dead. Vinny is some sort of "Mafia prince", promised the clan throne by his father and untouchable to lowly peons. In reality being blood-related to someone does pretty much absolutely nothing for your likelihood of being accepted into the system; how you progress through the ranks is all down to your own merits, and even if someone is THE SON OF THE MIGHTY DON, they'll start right at the bottom of the ladder like anyone else. <br />
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This particular part of the story - where his father is being hunted by soldiers from a rival clan, but they find baby Vinny instead - sings of 'don't you know anything'. The Mafia are not above the kidnapping and murdering of children if it will get the message across, finding your enemy's baby son should be the goddamn ''ransom jackpot''. Unfortunately all of the BAD MAFIOSI (as opposed to the lovely, pretty ones) in this comic are as clueless as the author and they leave. They... they just leave.<br />
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Fucking hell.<br />
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Being faced with a gun when he was a tiny baby is used to explain away all of Vinny's many and varied psychological problems, ranging from insomnia to murdering. It's also used to shoehorn in some awkward homosexual subtext between Vinny and his ''other'' cousin, Jimmy.<br />
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[[File:LCN-12.jpg|center]]<br />
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Okay, really, all this cousin love is weird, I mean it. Cut it out. They're ''family'' for fuck's sake! <br />
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So Jimmy actually goes out, as a thirteen year old boy, and shoots a trained Mafiosi. To avenge his cousin. ''who isn't actually dead'', or even harmed, so I guess it's just kinda... fuck I dunno why he thinks it's worth killing someone over. It's not like Jimmy is even given a personality in this comic; he just sorta shows up whenever Vinny is around and looms over him like a creepy old vulture.<br />
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WHY ARE ALL THE "BAD GUYS" IN THIS COMIC SO FUCKING USELESS. They're like Bond villain henchmen, for fuck's sake. Who the hell hires a gangster that can't even overpower a ''trembling child''?<br />
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A lot of this comic's terrible writing stems from the fact that it basically ''glorifies'' the Mafia. Let's not forget that just after shooting someone right through the brain, Vinny goes off into a speech about how tragic the life of a criminal is; how people ''look down'' on him just because he's a murderer. Jimmy goes out and kills someone just because they gave his little cousin ''nightmares''; yet this is presented to us as something ''touching''. "Oh just look at sweet little Jimmy, looking out for his cousin like that. What a trooper!"<br />
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'''Chapter Seven''' is a particularly good example of this mentality. Let's look at the chapter's description;<br><br />
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{{Quote|Jimmy's sudden run in with the law is unexpected and horrifying. What is it that he did?}}<br><br />
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HE WORKS FOR THE FUCKING MAFIA, GENIUS. WHAT DO ''YOU'' THINK HE DID?!<br />
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And just take a look at this goddamn policeman.<br />
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[[File:LCN-14.jpg|center]]<br />
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He wants to put ''criminals'' in ''prison!'' BOOOO! Pretty boys should be free to murder whoever the hell they feel like! I'd better draw him to look ''nasty'' because he is a ''nasty man'' that wants to take away the bishies!! ;m;<br />
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Oh good GOD. <br />
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''Twilight'' comparisons become even more relevant when you take a look at the mewling, squeeing fangirls of ''La Cosa Nostra''.<br />
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It's kind of ironic that this guy is meant to be one of the 'crooked cops' we were promised in the comic's description. The guy is trying to arrest criminals. He has arrested a criminal. I see no foul play here! If the author really wanted to make an ''actual crooked cop'' the most sensible thing would be to have him actually work ''with'' the main Mafiosi characters. (Y'know, because they're '''criminals''', remember? Please stop trying to make us forget that, Eiko.) Unfortunately she is so desperate for her murdering gangsters to come across as ''deep, tortured victims of society'' that she seems to have forgotten that the Mafia is a bad thing at all.<br />
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Strangely I find myself drawn to Chastity as a character because although she is a money-leeching little daddy's-girl, the author doesn't make any attempt to convince us otherwise; this is the sort of character that ''actually fits the setting''. Women who get involved with the Camorra are usually just this sort of person; shallow, cunning and devious girls who delight in the fact that landing a Mafioso boyfriend pretty much assures them the money to buy whatever they fancy, as long as they keep him all to themselves. Unfortunately Chastity is a bit too much of a bimbo to really explore the full potential of a diamond-hording Mafia-bitch, but she's nowhere near as annoying as '''November'''.<br />
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November's situation is incredibly similar to that of Vinny; if Eiko knew shit about the Mafia, November wouldn't exist. Or she'd at least stop pouting and trying so desperately hard to be ''one of the big boys''. For those not in the know, I'll give it to you straight; ''women don't get to be soldiers in the Mafia''.<br />
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The Sicilian ''Cosa Nostra'' are a system literally ''obsessed'' with tradition; women have no part of that buisness. If a Mafiosi in the Cosa Nostra wants to get married he is actually required to ask permission of his Capo (Mafia wives need the right qualities, like the ability to keep their yap shut about how their husband brings home the bacon). Interestingly though, there have been some powerful women in the mainland Camorra. Here are a few quotes from the book ''Gomorrah'' by Roberto Saviano (I have a lot of books ok shut up):<br />
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{{Quote|One such historic figure is Anna Mazza. Widow of the godfather of Afragola, she headed one of the most powerful criminal and business organisations and was one of the first women in Italy to be found guilty of Mafia-related crimes. At first Anna Mazza capitalized on the aura of her husband, Gennaro Moccia, who was killed in the 1970s. The "black widow of the Camorra," as she came to be known, was the brain behind the Moccia clan for more than twenty years.}}<br><br />
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{{Quote|The women became the clan managers, entrepreneurs, and body-guards. They were better at buisness, less obsessed with ostentatious shows of power, and less eager for conflict. Immacolata Capone, one of the clan's "ladies in waiting" and the godmother of Anna Mazza's daughter Teresa, made a career for herself over the years.}}<br />
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{{Quote|After the death of Gennaro the monkey, his brothers Pietro and Vincenzo took over the militant side of the clan, but it was Maria, known as '''a piccerella - la piccoletta'' or "the little one" - who wielded the economic power.}}<br />
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Women only became a real part of the business much later on, in the 90's and 2000's. They have never been accepted as soldiers, and as such November's "I'm such a little badass, lookit me shoot things" act is something that I can't quite figure out. Does Eiko ''know'' that there aren't female soldiers, but threw her in anyway? Or is it just yet another lack of research? The world may never know, but it's baffling and, yet again, hideously inaccurate.<br />
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===Author biography===<br />
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{{Quote|My name is Darci.}}<br />
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{{Quote|I love the Yankees. And boys. C:}}<br />
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{{Quote|I don’t love a lot of things~}} <br />
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Darci Robbins comes across as having a few attitude issues. In her [http://eiko-chan.deviantart.com/gallery/ Deviantart gallery] she's known to hide everyone's comments if they point out flaws in a picture, rather than worshipping her work unconditionally. She demands that it is nobody's buisness to critique her comic because it is something she does for fun, implying that she's perfectly content to become well-known for artwork that looks half-arsed and lackluster (much like [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|some others we know]]). Overall she manages to turn what could have been an exciting and touching story into boring children with boring relationships and melodramatic teenage angst.<br />
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===Conclusion===<br />
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What can be said that hasn't been already? I am a huge fan of stories about organised crime, particularly the Italian Mafia; and this comic is almost ''offensively'' unimaginative with the subject. There's no moral struggle, no hunger for riches, no murder of innocents, and absolutely no mention of all the buisness aspects of the system. Darci's vision of the Mafia is one of beautiful men in suits, sitting around in coffee shops all day and then paying the cashier by threatening to shoot him; she seems completely detached from the reality.<br />
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You might argue that bending and distorting the truth isn't a flaw in a comic. Why ''shouldn't'' Miss Robins create her own Mafia, manned by pouting pretty-boys that conduct their buisness in public alleyways? And in some situations, I might agree. But let's not forget:<br />
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<center>'''Mafiosi are criminals, and they kill people.'''</center><br />
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They do, they kill people. Not just each other, either; women, children, whoever they need to. They're not made-up monsters like vampires, they're real people that exist, just as those they bully and kill exist too. Eiko's comic advertises the Mafia as a collection of frowning porcelain men with troubled pasts, much like how emo poetry is known to describe death as something lovely like a rose or a frilly dress. ''La Cosa Nostra'' is thick with the heavy scent of ignorant teenage angst, a perfume that we at this wiki have [[Concession|smelt]] [[Suicide for Hire|before]].<br />
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Miss Robbins, you may be able to draw some quite precious dollies, but this material is ''too much for you''. I'd suggest this author go for a lighter subject, use critique to better herself artistically (instead of sticking her fingers in her ears and ignoring it) and grow from the experience.<br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://lcn-fanclub.deviantart.com/ Fanclub] for the comic on Deviantart<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48056989518 Fanclub] for the comic on Facebook<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Truth_for_Youth&diff=5981The Truth for Youth2013-12-17T03:48:47Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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{{WComic Infobox<br />
|review author = [http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/norad-bush Norad Bush]<br />
|webcomic name = [http://www.truthforyouth.com/standard/main.htm The Truth for Youth]<br />
|author = Tim Todd and an unknown artist.<br />
|start date = 2002-ish, I think.<br />
|end date = Last copyright dates on most comics are 2004.<br />
|genre = Religious propaganda manga (yes, you just read that).<br />
|flaw = Fierce bible-beating, fear tactics, and misinformation all in the name of the Lord.<br />
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|art = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The comic is capably drawn. Backgrounds are illustrated well. Colors are a bit too pastel for my taste. Major drawback is more slavish adherence to anime style.<br />
|storyline = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>Some of the set ups for these stories are outright ridiculous or show the characters have much bigger problems than the topic of the story. But, hey, it's cool. The Bible fixes EVERYTHING.<br />
|characters = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>Like there's any characterization here. All characters are either a mouthpiece for Tim Todd's fear-mongering, self-righteous bible thumping or a straw man to be knocked down by THE BODY OF CHRIST.<br />
|mdetails = {{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>Scientific fuck-ups so amazing, you'd think this was written in the Dark Ages.<br />
|overall = {{MiniBBW_seal}}{{MiniBBW_seal}}<br>The only reason I'm not giving this a flat 1 is because the drugs/peer pressure story had some good intentions to it. Everything else is abject propaganda with little regard for science, reason, or even storylines that make any sense.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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I came across this comic in the forums section, like a ripe apple begging to be plucked (that’s a sexual innuendo for you. Ladies?). The comic was described as your standard-issue Christian propaganda vehicle and that’s exactly what I found. As far as I can tell, these comics were commissioned by Tim Todd to promote the good word and give helpful advice in dealing with real world issues. These books were to be distributed at churches and (as he put it) "legally smuggled" into schools (in spite of the fact that regular Bibles are already allowed in schools). Normally, this could be considered a perfectly noble project except for the fact that it spreads outright fucking lies in the name of pushing an agenda.<br />
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As you may have guessed, I have a problem with that.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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It was always really, really preachy with no basis in logic and reason whatsoever.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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The comic isn't one continuous story so much as it is a collection of short stories. Each story bears a really obvious, ham-handed moral lesson THAT YOU MUST FOLLOW OR GO TO HELL! The moral is taught by having the characters spout some incredulous bullshit just to get the author's message across or by sending the characters into ludicrous fucking situations just to vilify the opposition. Some of the characters are recurring, like the hideously self-righteous mouthpiece, Rasheed. I suppose having the black kid as the preacher is a welcome change from the usual blonde-haired, blue-eyed heroes we're used to seeing in religious tales, but it seems more like a ploy to appeal to children in disadvantaged neighborhoods (Todd's likely target for this material). Plus, it's not like the [http://www.truthforyouth.com/special/hpcomic/pages/HP-page4.htm Nordic angels] are completely absent from the piece.<br />
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Ah, Right Wing Bible-thumpers. Go ahead and try to hide your racism. I see right through yooooooou!<br />
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==Art review==<br />
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''The Truth for Youth'' suffers from a serious case of [[The_Wall_of_Text|WALLS OF TEXT]] syndrome. Nearly every single page in this piece is covered in word vomit. This is a bit of a shame because it covers up the art which is otherwise passable. The characters are (mostly) drawn okay enough and the backgrounds are pretty solid. The coloring has a nice water colored look to it. The anime style of the characters is quite a bit overdone, with really [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/pc/pages/PC_3.htm exaggerated expressions] and wonky anatomy here and there. The problems with the character rendering here seem to be associated with the usual slavish adherence to anime style. I’ve complained about this sort of thing before. Just because anime artists constantly repeat these mistakes, that doesn't mean every wannabe-mangaka has to.<br />
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That said, I don't think the anime thing is particularly the fault of the artist. Neither are the WALLS OF TEXT. I have a feeling that the hard-driven anime style is more the fault of the commissioner of the piece: Tim Todd and his ministries. This is, again, another ploy at trying to be hip and cool to the youth. Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the Todd ministries development meeting.<br />
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"I need the kids in these comics to look like something kids like. Hey, what’s that Chinese show the kids are watching these days? The Poh-kee-man? Draw me a bunch of characters like that Poh-kee-man stuff! It's for the children."<br />
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==Writing review==<br />
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Wow, the writing. The writing is easily the turd in this water colored punch bowl. The storylines often make no sense. The dialogue is wretched at best. At worst, it is the source of the blatant misinformation and scare tactics used by Tim Todd ministries to get you hip with God! It’s… it’s just incredibly horrible.<br />
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[[File:cQJ0q.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Buggin'. Did we just take a time machine back to 1995?]]<br />
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Some of the dialogue makes it obvious that the TTM is trying way too hard to appeal to kids. Phrases such as "[http://www.truthforyouth.com/special/hpcomic/pages/HP-page1.htm wack]", "[http://www.truthforyouth.com/special/hpcomic/pages/HP-page5.htm no diggity", and "buggin']" make their way in. These comics were published in 2004. Not only does it hurt to see shit like this shoved in kids' faces just to appeal to them, but it's downright insulting. Tim Todd Ministries, even if it was totally okay (it's not) to use urban vernacular to appeal to kids and teenagers, would it have killed you to look up more recent stuff? This shit reads like a transcript from an episode of "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(TV_series) Martin]".<br />
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Each story runs pretty much the same way: some character proposes some belief that's bound to get shot down. The shooting down happens either through Rasheed and his friend's constant brow-beating or some incredibly bizarre circumstance taking place as a result of the characters' bad (i.e. non-Christian) choices. The most hilarious ending takes place in the Harry Potter parody where the characters follow their interest in Harry Potter, sorry, Hairy Polarity (guffaw) to a Satanic worship chamber. Literally. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/special/hpcomic/pages/HP-page7.htm Holy fuck I’m not making this up.]<br />
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Wow. Really, Christians? Do you really believe readers of ''Harry Potter'' end up in fucking Satanic worship chambers? The worst thing HP fans end up doing is writing slash fiction of Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy (creepy fan girls, looking at you), but that's hardly what I'd call blasphemy. If writing creepy stories about under-age characters could be considered heretical, the majority of authors criticized on this wiki would be utterly Hell-bound.<br />
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Man, now I wish that WAS the case. Damn you, Christian extremists for giving me false hope!<br />
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[[File:xGUHQ.jpg|thumb|center|800px|''Get ready for a nice helping of complete and utter lies.'']]<br />
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Spreading complete untruths about things like ''Harry Potter'' is pretty much the weapon of choice of the Tim Todd ministries propaganda machine. Facts are either twisted or downright forged all in the name of spreading the word of the Lord. According to TTM, the following facts are the fucking gospel:<br />
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1. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/pp/pages/PAP_5.htm Condoms are not an effective means of preventing HIV.]<br />
2. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/ww/pages/WW_4.htm Rock music seeks to replace the word of God with heretical teachings.]<br />
3. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/bw/pages/BTW_6.htm Homosexuality is something that can be "cured".]<br />
4. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/SM/pages/SM_1.htm Belief in evolution makes you a RACIST] (pot, meet kettle, then both of you meet agenda).<br />
5. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/SM/pages/SM_2.htm Neanderthals were an ancestor of modern humans.]<br />
6. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/SM/pages/SM_3.htm Carbon dating doesn’t work.]<br />
7. [http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/cd/pages/CDj.htm The Bible alone can help you recover from that pesky cocaine addiction.]<br />
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However, a little bit of applied common sense and a bit of tap dancing on my keyboard reveal that all of this is utter bullshit. Let's explore!<br />
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# Condoms are not an effective means of preventing HIV – According to the [http://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/latex.htm Center for Disease Control], condoms are actually very effective at preventing the spread of HIV and other STDs when used properly every time during vaginal intercourse. Furthermore, the page mentions that condoms are only a million of an inch thick. That translates to about 0.000025 mm. However, condoms are engineered to meet government specifications for thickness, permeability, and other qualities. According to the Standards and Specifications of Latex Condoms D-3492, a condom can be no thinner than 0.03 mm. That's 1200 times thicker than is claimed in the comic.<br />
# Rock music is the Devil's music – The comic doesn't explicitly define what is "rock music", which means it could be referring to any music that incorporates an electric guitar and a driving beat. If that's the case, how the fuck do you guys explain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_(band) Creed] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payable_on_death P.O.D.]?<br />
# Homosexuality can be "cured" – While there are faith-based programs out there that advertise the ability to "cure" someone of homosexuality, these programs often are run by unlicensed therapists who often expose their patients to electroshock therapy and other physical and emotional harm. Oh yeah, and they [http://www.wowowow.com/relationships/american-psychological-association-apa-gay-straight-therapy-mental-disorder-dont-work-celibacy-religion-353119 don’t work].<br />
# Belief in evolution makes you racist – Can anyone show me one fucking academic book published as of 1980 that even mentions the word "negro" in the context of Evolution?<br />
# Neanderthals were ancestors of modern humans – There are still rumblings of debate about this, but most scientists agree that neanderthals are classified as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Classification Homo neanderthalensis], not Homo sapiens.<br />
# Carbon dating doesn't work – What the fuck? Carbon dating is a science [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating based on the half life of radioactive Carbon-14]. It may not be exact, but the margin of error is nowhere near as bad as described in the comic. Besides that, carbon dating is only one out of several hundred dating methods used by scientists today, and all of these methods produce concordant results.<br />
# The Bible alone can help you recuperate from your cocaine addiction – Unlikely. Even after 12-step programs, relapse rates among cocaine users are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_dependence#Therapy extremely high]. The comic doesn't even make mention of the character entering a drug treatment program, so this seems like a big ol' pile of bullshit to me. Love of the Bible cannot compensate for a physical dependency on a drug. It just doesn't work that way.<br />
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So there you have it, kiddies. Research is your friend. For many of ''The Truth for Youth'' comics, no real source is provided for the obviously doctored scientific data, but instead, we get Bible quotes that loosely tie into the characters' dialogue. Without citing one's sources (like I did with all that research up there), the opportunity to debate the facts is completely nil, and much of this information that merely sounds factual can easily be accepted as factual by those who are ignorant.<br />
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I never thought I’d find myself using ''XKCD'' to illustrate a point, but…<br />
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[[File:D9OVi.png|center]]<br />
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Yeah. Randall Munroe may be a piss poor cartoonist, but he's a man of science and I respect that.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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There is absolutely no mention of who the artist is in any of these mini books. It's possible they are some third-world art grunt who had no idea to ask for things like "royalties" or "credit for work performed", or they're an artist who knew full well what a raging turd pile this comic would be and asked to left off the book credits lest it mar their career. That's the best I can assume anyway.<br />
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Tim Todd appears to be a minister working to improve the lives of youth through the power of religion. It sounds like a noble cause, but he's clearly not above spreading pure misinformation to get it done. He's also not a fan of this whole separation of church and state thing:<br><br />
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{{Quote|Thank God, thousands of people across America are concerned and outraged that Bible reading and prayer in our public schools is prohibited. And yet, Bibles are being distributed freely in public schools of Russia and even required reading in some of their classes! Now, our public schools have become a breeding ground for sin and lawlessness. Young people are being given condoms, but Bibles are forbidden! We have had to create drug free zones today as a result of creating Bible free zones in the sixties.<br><br />
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— as seen on ''The Truth for Youth'''s [http://www.truthforyouth.com/standard/purpose.htm Purpose page.]}}<br><br />
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By the way, it's a complete myth that Bibles and prayer are banned from public schools. The law states that schools can't ''make'' kids read the Bible or pray. It's just an imaginary grievance people like Todd use to stir up outrage among their followers.<br />
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If the story "[http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/cd/index.htm Case Dismissed]" is any indication, he struggled with drug abuse before finally seeing the light of God. Although, given all the other lies seen in this comic, I’m skeptical of this. What I don’t understand about the likes of Tim Todd is why they have no problem lying when it says in the Ninth Commandment of Christianity's basic fundamental moral code, "thou shalt not bear false witness." Unless Christians want to play dumb and say "Oh, we didn’t know that condoms had to meet government specifications".<br />
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In which case, Moses should have included an eleventh commandment, "thou shalt do thine fucking homework before thoust claimest shit."<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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''The Truth for Youth'' is anything but. Compared to ''[[Law for Kids]]'', which really only sought to educate children on the laws of the state of Arizona, this thing is an absolute propaganda machine that insults readers' intelligence with its outright lies and uses fear tactics to instill compliance. These comics are more about control than they are about saving anyone's soul. Otherwise, they'd give readers all the facts (real ones!) and let them make up their own minds. It's not the gospel according to the Lord. It's the gospel according to Big Brother, and his name is Tim Todd.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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* [http://www.truthforyouth.com/standard/main.htm The comic itself] - Get saved by Jesus. It's not a request. It's a fucking demand.<br />
* [http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForPatientAdvocates/HIVandAIDSActivities/UCM126378.pdf Yes, there are government-mandated engineering specifications for condoms] - God bless America<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWi7xy-d3g TheAmazingAtheist's review of ''The Truth for Youth''], focusing on comics about the supposed dangers of pornography, rock music, homosexuality, not praying in school, and how Darwin's theory of evolution via common descent is responsible for racism today.<br />
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[[Category:Abandoned]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Doodle_Diaries&diff=5980Doodle Diaries2013-12-17T03:26:18Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/lesbot Lesbot]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/ Doodle Diaries]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/zeldacast.html Zelda], [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/orphcast.html Orpheus] and [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/natecast.html Nate]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| June 1, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''Things that are fucking terrible about this webcomic:'''<br />
|Poor page layout, terrible art, and oh yes, ''no one gives a shit about your board games.''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Things that aren't terrible but could use some improvement:'''<br />
|It's lighthearted and clearly not meant to be taken seriously, so it's not like it's as big a tragedy as something like, say, Ctrl-Alt-Del.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Who actually cares what three people do with their day? Just get a LiveJournal seriously.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Summary:'''<br />
| Zelda: "I have an idea, guys! Let's combine our crappy writing, drawing and web design skills and make something ''mediocre!''" Orpheus & Nate: "OKAYYYY!!! :D :D :D" <br />
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One would think that three toddlers drew this strip!<br />
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|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The real life diaries of three uninteresting people.<br />
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|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
What did these three people have in mind when they started this?<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
They could have done just as well with a LiveJournal or something similar. <br />
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==Background==<br />
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Gather around children, and I shall tell you an ''exciting'' tale.<br />
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[[File:DD3.jpg|thumb|250px|right|With a face like that how could she ''not'' be.]]<br />
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Once upon a time, a particularly unimaginative young lady on the internet called herself 'Zelda' and decided the rest of the internet needed to know what she was doing, all the time. Of course, a live 24-hour video from her bedroom would have been ''dirty'', so she decided the next best option was to just draw what she was doing in mspaint. That way people all over the world could admire her ''all the time'', and she didn't need to feel like a whore.<br />
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However, making and maintaining a comic all by yourself can be ever so [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080616.html tiring], and Zelda knew that a comic just wasn't a comic without some hot mano-a-mano ''action''. So using her feminine wiles she swiftly recruited two boys who could not draw quite as pretty as she could and demanded they contribute, so as to make her own art appear more dazzling in comparison. You know, like putting a dead spider plant next to a glittering rose that has been grown in unicorn soil and watered with elf tears. <br />
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Yup, it's the return of that old ''"the internet needs to know what me and my wacky friends are doing today, oh us nutty guys"'' comic format! OH BOY I WONDER WHEN THEY WILL TELL US THEIR FAVOURITE [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080704.html VIDEOGAMES].<br />
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<br />
==Story and plot==<br />
<br />
To be honest, the plot was basically summed up entirely in the introduction. This is a comic about ''people'' doing ''stuff''. Now I know <s>all</s> most webcomics follow that particular look-at-us-be-interesting route, but at least the other ones try to fit in some goddamn jokes.<br />
<br />
I guess it would be difficult to keep a constant story going, since the comic is run by three ''wacky'' individuals that clearly have different ideas about what could be considered entertainment. Zelda knows her drawings are the prettiest so she gets to sit around and [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080721.html angst] about a lack of <s>focus on herself</s> plot. Zelda is the ''girl'', see, so she needs to have [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081201.html girl] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081208.html angst]. Nate's art is so bad it almost does a full-circle and ends up being so hideous it becomes [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081107.html entertaining]. Orpheus describes his relationship to the viewer with an almost [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081017.html endearing] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081008.html innocence] that I can't quite bring myself to mock; maybe it's just nice to see a gay character that isn't strutting around in leather straps and demanding to rub up against all the other boys. <br />
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[[File:DD1.png|thumb|300px|right|And that's why Zelda hates kids.]]<br />
<br />
The grouping together of an affectionate couple and some girl they know sometimes gives the comic a kind of [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080630.html awkward] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20090214.html atmosphere]; like Zelda considers Nate and Orpheus her cuddly pets, to giggle and coo at while they cuddle and groom each other, but if they forget to acknowledge she is there with them she will give them a sharp poke in the ribs until they remember and worship her accordingly. When our loveable trio are not doing ''crazy things'' like playing ''board games'' and ''sleeping'', they will take a break from 'plot' to cry (be it in [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081117.html misery] or joy) about how [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20090504.html insignificant] and/or [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080929.html loved] their comic is.<br />
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==Art review==<br />
<br />
As there are three artists contributing to this comic, there are three different art styles contained therein. Notice that I did not say that any of them were very ''good'', I just said they were different.<br />
<br />
Zelda is probably the better artist of the three; her proportions are okay, but her style reeks of [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081215.html animu]. She can only draw from three angles: [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080714.html straight-on], [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080707.html 45 degree angle and side]. Detail is lacking and all of her characters wear mascara when she draws them.<br />
<br />
Nate's doodles are the ''cornerstone'' of the comic. His "smiley face" ''thing'' is on every single fucking piece of merchandise available in the store. (No really, a [http://www.cafepress.com/doodlediary store].)<br />
<br />
Orpheus... can only be described by looking at. Words cannot capture the amount of heroin required to make [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080716.html his shit look sane]. I guess you could always consider it in that kind of ironic way that some people do, ignoring the words and just chuckling at the sheer MSpaint ''mastery'' on show.<br />
<br />
It almost seems unfair to poke fun at the art in this comic, since it's pretty clear that Zelda is making a genuine effort. I've seen webcomic artists capable of more do shit art just out of pure laziness. If she actually put in some practice and stopped drawing herself as a stroppy gawth she might actually get somewhere, maybe. I think Nate and Orpheus would be content to leave the comic for a ham sandwich.<br />
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<br />
==Writing review== <br />
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It would not really be considered unfair to say that the writing in 'Doodle Diaries' is [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080702.html pretty] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080819.html fucking] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20081024.html abysmal]. What do you ''expect?'' It's basically a Mary-sue comic without the fun of making yourself into an all-knowing all-powerful Mary-sue. It is a blog with pictures. ''It is nothing but those who create it, in MSpaint form''.<br />
<br />
I am going to admit right now, I laughed at some of them. I am not ashamed, because I genuinely find some of them funny for [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20090225.html all] the [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20090306.html wrong] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20090410.html reasons], like watching a frustrated friend try to work machinery. The humor lies in the ineptitude of the creators.<br />
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Asking a lot from the writing of this comic is like asking someone's LiveJournal to be a dramatic novel. Don't be so silly.<br />
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==Downfall==<br />
<br />
[[File:DD2.png|center|600px]]<br><br />
<br><br />
The quality of this comic never really fluctuated. It [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080608.html started off dull] and [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080611.html just] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080618.html stayed] [http://doodlediaries.comicgenesis.com/d/20080623.html dull]. With no structure or plot to speak of it basically just lies on the internet, taking up space like a comatose bear.<br />
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==Author biography==<br />
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It is difficult to think that there is anything to these people beyond what is shown in the comic. They talk about school. They talk about boys. They play board games. If you were looking for [[Concession|emo furries]] or [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|self-righteous gamers]] you're ''oh so very much'' in the wrong article because I genuinely doubt these people have any internet presence outside of Myspace and possibly Facebook. This is because they are busy talking about boys and playing board games. <br />
<br />
Zelda pretty much threw ''Doodle Diaries'' together one lazy afternoon, and the three of them will probably continue to get a giggle out of it until they all leave high school and all move away to different locations and live full lives.<br />
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<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
Here is a quote from the FAQ page of the site:<br />
<br />
'''''So...you make a comic...about... what exactly?'''''<br />
<br />
''Pretty much anything interesting that happened to us that day. No matter how trivial and boring it is,<br />
We always just sort of assume that someone on the internet will think it's the most hilarious thing ever.''<br />
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==Links== <br />
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* [http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/Comic:Doodle_Diaries Doodle Diaries on the ComicGen Wiki]. Heartily described as ''"a yaoi/man-sex related stub."''</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Sh%C3%A4dbase&diff=5979Shädbase2013-12-17T03:24:08Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{A Bomb}}<br />
{{NSFW}}<br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[[User:DrShaym|DrShaym]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://shadbase.com/ Shädbase]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaddai-Prejean-Fully-Fucking-Legal/172575032787382 Shaddai Prejean] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date'''<br />
|August 28, 2011 <br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre'''<br />
|"Dark" comedy<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw'''<br />
|Tries to be offensive but comes across as sophomoric.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
I'm going to be lenient about the art because I'm under the assumption that it's supposed to be ugly.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Premise:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Videogame and cartoon characters rape each other.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Copyrighted characters from videogames and cartoons behave out-of-character in half-assed "parodies" in a fashion similar to [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/VG_Cats VG Cats], only worse.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Shaddai strikes me as the kind of guy who uses "gay" as a synonym for anything he doesn't like.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Surprisingly boring.<br />
|}<br />
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==Background==<br />
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If Shaddai Prejean ever reads this review, he'll probably expect me to go on about how this comic is [http://shadbase.com/metroid-other-mission/ misogynistic], [http://shadbase.com/spooky-doo/ racist], and [http://shadbase.com/sanity-not-included-comic-baby/ tasteless]. While that's all true, it's also fairly obvious that '''Shädbase''' is ''meant'' to be offensive. For that reason, we considered not bothering to review it as we felt it would only give Shaddai the negative attention he apparently craves. <br />
<br />
Of course, we're only assuming that this is meant to be offensive because Shaddai would have to be some kind of moron if he fails to see what's wrong with his comic. If it ''isn't'' meant to offend, then [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/God%27s_Story to think that this is a sincere attempt at making a genuinely entertaining comic is both incredibly laughable and sad]. <br />
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<center>[[File:ShadbaseKlan.jpg|500px]]</center><br />
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BWW admin TheLuigiian gave a pretty compelling argument in support of a review. His contention was that if this comic is meant to offend, then it doesn't even do a very good job. It doesn't even inspire shock-laughs because it's too unoriginal to be shocking, and it uses rape and violence as a punchline so often that it just inspires eye-rolling. <br />
<br />
Here's what he had to say about it: <br />
<br />
{{Quote|...even people who are into dark stuff will hate this comic, because it sucks at being dark. It sucks at being edgy. The constant tits in our faces aren't creepy, they're just there because the author felt like drawing tits. That's like a movie maker like, say, George Lucas, adding a character made solely in CGI just to create a character in CGI because he felt like it would be a great idea. Which George Lucas did, and the character was Jar Jar Binks, and he was the worst character ever made. Because adding something just because is the stupidest way to construct a webcomic in the history of ever.<br><br>Showing Samus getting beaten to bleeding out by her commanding officer has been done, it's not creepy, it's just shallow, bland, and misogynistic, and furthermore the author doesn't even make it funny! Surely if Carlin could make a great joke about Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd this dolt can figure out how to make an abuse joke funny!<br><br>And the creepiness is lame, too. I was genuinely creeped out when Cheung unveiled his "US Angel Corps"; this constant unending stream of just beating women is just bland shallow-ass misogyny. Further, every single "edgy" thing this comic does has been done edgier and creepier. The whole Banjo-Kazooie Deliverance angle is shallow and poorly done, unfunny to the core, and Deliverance is so well-known and so overused as a synonym for "rednecks" that it's practically cliche to do it.<br><br>This comic would be funny if it weren't for the fact that the author is mediocre and unoriginal. If he wants to gloat about being the most mediocre unoriginal webcomic artist on the whole fucking Internet, more power to him, but we should trumpet how mediocre and unoriginal he is, and how uncreepy, uninteresting, shallow, and moronic he is across the entire Internet. We owe it to those who actually like funny ghoulish shit to point out when "ghoulish" shit is just shit.}}<br />
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<br />
Basically, the comic is bad at what it's trying to do, and we need to explain why. <br />
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==Art==<br />
<br />
The art in this comic isn't bad. While it's sketchy and the linework is often wonky, Shaddai seems to understand color theory and composition. I'm guessing the ugliness is intentional. The only serious problem I see with it is that every female character looks the same, while the male characters do not. <br />
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<br />
'''''Addition by MakarovJAC:<br>Makarov here, riding a flying chupacabra, doing a ninja add-on: this same-face syndrome might be due to the author having found a single and/or likable female face easy to draw over and over again. This also might be due to the author's lack of willingness to self-improve. Some might argue this is a proof of misogyny. Personally, I think this is just plain laziness rather than a hidden, subconscious action from a person aware or not of a female phobia.<br><br>With more complicated poses, this artist loses focus and characters often end up with overextended snake-like spines. Although fronts are fully functional in this guy's drawings, it's clear he can't project any other pose properly. Mostly, it all ends in notably bad poses and proportions. Practicing hands and feet would also benefit this guy a lot!'''''<br />
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<br />
Aside from that, it's evident that considerable effort is put into the art, but this leads me to wonder if Shaddai is genuinely trying to make this comic good. If that's the case, then I feel sorry for him. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Humor==<br />
<br />
[[File:ShadbaseRape.png|thumb|250px|right|This is pretty much every strip.]]<br />
<br />
The only thing funny about this comic is the thought that Shaddai went to art school and will probably be paying off student loans for the next ten or twenty years, and this is what he has to show for it. <br />
<br />
The humor in Shädbase comes across like it was written by a little kid who just saw ''South Park'' for the first time, failed to understand the social satire and just laughed at all of the poop jokes on the same day that he discovered guro and masturbation. The comic is banking entirely on the gross-out factor and shock value, and it doesn't even do a particularly good job at that. It's like [[Elftor]], only drawn better. <br />
<br />
Aside from most of the attempted humor being derived from [http://shadbase.com/action-hero/ violence against women just for the sake of violence against women], many of the strips end with [http://shadbase.com/gamer360/ somebody getting raped]. There's no wit or misdirection. It's just "lol, they got raped". TheLuigiian mentioned the [http://shadbase.com/rare-deliverance/ Banjo-Kazooie Deliverance "parody"] and explained how "squeal like a piggy" is such an overused reference that it fails to shock, and really, that's all it is. It's not a parody by any stretch of the imagination. It's a reference, like the kind one might expect to see in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799949/ Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer movies]. <br />
<br />
Sure, one can argue that Banjo and Kazooie are hillbillies, and ''Deliverance'' is a movie about hillbillies, but by that logic, you could make a strip about Leon Kennedy from ''Resident Evil'' getting bludgeoned with a cricket bat by Simon Pegg. That's not funny. It's stupid. But that's exactly the kind of humor one sees in this comic. [http://shadbase.com/propane-of-war/ Here's a strip where Marcus Fenix from ''Gears of War'' gets punched in the face by Hank Hill because he blew up a propane tank.] Get it? It's because Hank loves propane, and Marcus disrespected it. That's the joke. Don't worry, it becomes funny once you consider the fact that he spent several hours drawing that strip just for that punchline. <br />
<br />
Then there's [http://shadbase.com/dr-claw/ pedophilia jokes]. While this one does actually come closer to being a parody by addressing the fact that Dr. Claw—the villain from Inspector Gadget—has invisible cameras all over the world, the punchline is basically "masturbation, lol". <br />
<br />
Then there's "parodies" like [http://shadbase.com/planet-piss/ this one] where the Sniper from ''Team Fortress 2'' yells about piss a lot. It's funny, 'cause, you know, the Sniper says piss a lot in the game, right? I don't know what this strip is driving at. The only thing I can guess is it's a reference to Murderface from ''Metalacalypse'' who also said piss a lot and tried to start something called "Planet Piss". That's not a parody though. That's just another reference. <br />
<br />
How about [http://shadbase.com/arkham-kity/ this one] where Catwoman tells Batman he's full of surprises, then it reveals Batman changed himself to "Catman". How is that funny? Yeah, I guess it's surprising that he would do that, but how is it funny? <br />
<br />
If you want a good Batman joke, here's one I came up with myself: <br />
{{Quote|Q: How did Batman's parents really die?<br><br>A: They killed themselves after they found out he was a furry.}}<br />
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You see? It's not difficult to come up with a short, simple, offensive joke that makes sense. That is as long as you don't have the mind of a child. <br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[File:ShadbaseOtaku.png|550px]]</center><br />
<center>''HA HA HA! Anime fans are fags! Right guys?''</center><br />
<br />
<br />
[http://shadbase.com/otaku-translator/ Here's a strip where he makes fun of anime fans.] I don't particularly like anime myself, and I think weeaboos are some of the most obnoxious people on Earth, but I do think Shaddai could have done better than just insinuate that they're all gay or wanted to be raped. These insults are on the level of a high school bully, which is to say they fail to impress or amuse anyone above the age of 18, or with an IQ above 81. I mean, weeaboos lend themselves to so much ridicule, and that's the funniest thing you could come up with? That's like the people who hate Justin Bieber not because he's the product of a corporation and his lyrics are vapid and everything about him is sterile and designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and his popularity is entirely undeserved, but because he's "gay". If you're going to make fun of someone, could you at least put some effort into it? <br />
<br />
The humor in this thing is sophomoric, which I'm willing to bet Shaddai would take as a compliment. Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing inherently wrong with crude humor, but I talked about this sort of thing in my review of [[Femmegasm]], which I also compared to Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer movies. The problem is there's no wit or cleverness to any of these gags. It's always just [http://shadbase.com/the-rage/ "lol, violence"] or [http://shadbase.com/girl-problems/ "lol, misogyny"] or [http://shadbase.com/the-battlefield-3-experience/ "lol, gay"]. When the only thing happening in your comic is stuff like that, then it becomes obvious that you're going out of your way to make it offensive and relying entirely on shock value, and at that point, it fails to be shocking or offensive for the simple reason that it becomes expected. <br />
<br />
Basically, the comic is boring, and '''''when the entire point of your comic is to be shocking but it ends up being boring, then you have failed.'''''<br />
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<br />
==Immaturity==<br />
<br />
[[File:ShadbaseMisogyny.png|thumb|250px|right|"HA HA HA! I'm so shocking and offensive!"]]<br />
<br />
I was thinking about writing a section devoted to the misogyny in this comic, but to say that this comic is sexist would be like saying Muammar Qaddafi was an asshole. I already mentioned how misogynistic this comic is, and there's really no point in going on about it, particularly since I'm operating under the assumption that this is all intentional. But I would like to point out that it's not even very creative when it comes to misogyny. Like TheLuigiian said, it's shallow. Almost every strip that features a woman has them getting raped, murdered, or objectified in some way, but it never really gets any more creative than that. I'm surprised there's [http://shadbase.com/drakes-menstruation/ only one menstruation joke] so far, and it's not even a particularly good one. <br />
<br />
Just like the weeaboo example I talked about earlier, if he's really trying to offend these people, he's not doing a very good job. If I were a woman and I stumbled upon this comic, I would just say, "wow, what a jackass" and move on. I mean, you can't make a joke about feminism or something? It's always just, "lol, women are stupid, let's rape them!" <br />
<br />
To summarize, just about every gag in this comic ends with one of two punchlines: "lol rape" and "lol gay". It's the kind of humor I expect would appeal to 14-year-old boys. Specifically, the kind of 14-year-old boys who listen to Insane Clown Posse and Slipknot. I would also like to point out that the website's [http://shadbase.com/about/ about page] suggests that Shaddai went to art school. I take that to mean he's an adult, but the comic's humor makes it come across like he's still in high school. In a few years, he'll probably realize how embarrassing this is and try to remove all traces of it from the internet. <br />
<br />
Also, the about page has a lot of grammatical errors. <br />
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<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
This review is short because a comic this unoriginal and surprisingly bland doesn't inspire a lot of thought. I probably could have gone into more detail about the art, but like I said, I don't have many serious problems with it. As ugly as his art may be, I assume it's intentional, so I will say that Shaddai can draw, but he doesn't know how to structure a joke. <br />
<br />
My advice to Shaddai is to get somebody else to write his comic for him. <br />
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<br />
'''UPDATE: August 28, 2012'''<br />
<br />
Well, it's been about seven months since I wrote this review, and I decided to go see if Shädbase has gotten any better in the mean time. I see it's still trying just oh-so hard to be shocking, having done strips about [http://www.shadbase.com/let-me-be-frank/ Anne Frank] and [http://www.shadbase.com/the-dark-knight-rises/ the recent movie theater shooting in Colorado], and relying on [http://www.shadbase.com/i-totally-see-spies/ random violence against women] and [http://www.shadbase.com/amon-korrath/ rape]. However, it's also been making increasingly frequent porno "spoofs" of various children's cartoons, including ''Teen Titans'', ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', ''Ben 10'', and especially ''Kim Possible'', having started an entire arc about it that's been running for over a month now. I also noticed that he now has an entire section of his website dedicated to showcasing his hentai drawings which consist largely of various cartoon characters. <br />
<br />
So yeah, the only thing that's changed is Shaddai is spending more time drawing porn of children's cartoons. <br />
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==Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://shadbase.com/ The comic]<br />
* [http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/26/6718316-the-science-of-the-gross-out-comedy Here's an article on the science behind why people laugh at gross-out humor.] The article explains that when taken too far, something disgusting or offensive ceases to be funny and it just becomes stupid.<br />
* [http://webcomicoverlook.com/2012/05/20/one-punch-reviews-66-shadbase/ Webcomic Overlook' review of Shädbase.] Their review is a lot nicer than mine, but they still gave it a 1 out of 5.<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0dH4P0jHJA Shaddai shows the world how he makes art.]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Strawberry_Death_Cake&diff=5978Strawberry Death Cake2013-12-17T03:21:00Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div><center><s>'''''UPDATE: NOVEMBER 30, 2011'''''<br><br />
''Some pages of the comic are missing from the website. As a result, some of the links in this review no longer work. I've left them in just in case the missing pages are ever restored in the future.''</s></center><br />
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<center>'''''UPDATE: AUGUST 28, 2012'''''<br><br />
''The comic rebooted earlier this month so this review is no longer relevant or accurate. This review may be rewritten or removed in the future.''</center><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Original review author:'''<br />
| [[User:DrShaym|DrShaym]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
| [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/ Strawberry Death Cake]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
| [http://dreamwatcher7.deviantart.com/ Elliot Dombo]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
| September 1, 2008<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
| Original comic ended on September 20, 2011. The comic was rebooted on August 6, 2012.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
| Manga; action; "comedy"; misogynistic bullshit<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
| Unfunny mall goth humor combined with animu and gratuitous ass and cleavage.<br />
|}<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
The art is semi-competent, but it's all animu bullshit and a lot of the characters look the same; poses are often stiff; I can't tell what the fuck's going on during action sequences.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Fuck it.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Every character is completely unlikable. Most of them have zero personality, and the ones who do are annoying and unfunny, and some of them are even outright offensive.<br />
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Misogynistic "cheesecake" humor; annoying "lol random" humor; terrible, ''terrible'' grammar; Godawful writing.<br />
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I fucking hate this comic.<br />
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===Background===<br />
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I was told that we already had a review of this thing on here but it was lost after a trolling incident, so I'm making a new one. <br />
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This comic was apparently inspired by a [http://images.cryhavok.org/d/1969-1/Penny+Arcade+Strawberry+Shortcake.jpg one-panel parody of the Strawberry Shortcake] that appeared on Penny Arcade. From what I've seen, [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|any comic]] [[Dueling Analogs|that draws]] [[God Mode|inspiration]] from Penny Arcade is never good. However, this ''isn't''<br />
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[[File:sdcWinston300x300.gif|center]]<br />
<center>''Yeah, no.''</center> <br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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The downfall came when Elliot Dombo decided to make a comic combining Invader Zim style "lol random" mall goth humor with misogynistic animu bullshit. I mean, where do I even start? I guess the easiest thing to do would be to list a few of the biggest flaws: <br />
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* There's an incredibly annoying anthropomorphic moose who's obsessed with waffles. HOW FUCKING WACKY! <br />
* Gratuitous ass and panty shots. <br />
* Reliance on "cheesecake" humor. <br />
* There's a one-dimensional lesbian character who acts like a total sex fiend. WOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE A MAN WROTE THIS. <br />
* The writing is riddled with grammatical errors. Sentences are clumsily phrased, questions end with periods, he fails to use apostrophes in contractions, etc. <br />
* Constantly misspells the words "so" like "soo" and "no one" as "noone". YOU EVER HEARD OF SPELL CHECK, DOMBO? <br />
* Almost every human character looks the same, which is something I have no fucking tolerance for. <br />
* Facial expressions don't accurately reflect the mood of the characters. Often, when they should be screaming in terror, they instead look mildly confused. <br />
* It's impossible to tell what's going on in any of the fight scenes. <br />
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Overall, the comic comes across like something a corporation would churn out if they tried too hard to appeal to the mall goth crowd, which, by the way, is one of the lowest audiences one can aspire for. If I were to list every possible audience one can hope to appeal too, I would put them just above Sonic fanfiction readers and Justin Bieber fans. <br />
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===Characters===<br />
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[[file:StrawberryDeathCakeFacesCompressed.PNG|thumb|left|250px]]<br />
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These are some of the most ill-conceived characters I have ever seen. All of them are one-dimensional, not a single one is likable, and most of them look the same. It's obvious that no thought was put into any of them. <br />
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First, we have the four main human characters: Jason, Jessica, Steph, and Marylin. I think Jessica is supposed to be Jason's girlfriend, and I'm pretty sure Marylin is supposed to be the protagonist. Marylin carries a pair of giant scissors and works for the Black Ministry as an "exorcist", which is basically a demon-slayer in the context of this comic. You ever seen a slasher movie where all of the characters are completely devoid of personality or likability? That's what these characters remind me of, only ''they don't fucking die'', which makes them worse. <br />
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Then there's Winston, who may be one of the most unlikable characters in any comic ever made. He's an anthropomorphic moose, which is bad enough on it's own and was obviously inspired by the Invader Zim episode "Room With a Moose". He also has humanoid eyes which are creepy as Hell in an obviously unintentional way. He has no personality beyond being zany and constantly makes references to waffles and even uses it as an expletive. I can only think of two possible explanations for this: one is that "waffles" may sound like a funny word to people with child-like minds, and the other is that Invader Zim made occasional references to them. <br />
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Then there's Kendall, who's arguably worse than Winston. She's the granddaughter of the guy who founded Black Ministry. She's also a lesbian and a sex fiend. She sexually harasses the other female characters, and of course, they're all inexplicably tolerant of it, even though it can be ''pretty fucking extreme''. In fact, in her very first scene with Marylin, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=737 she tries to pull her underwear down]. Molestation is all played for laughs, of course. By the way, I know I said most of the characters look the same, but holy shit, Kendall looks exactly like Marylin, so much so that I actually thought she was Marylin wearing a different outfit when I first saw her. I guess Dombo also realized this because he changes her hair from black to white in later chapters. <br />
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There's also a talking hat that belonged to Jack the Ripper, a demon chick with cat ears named Blanca, and a talking rabbit in a Nazi uniform, 'cause, you know, Nazis are funny, right? I don't even want to talk about him.<br><br />
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[[File:sdcKendall300x300.gif|center]]<br />
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===Story and Plot===<br />
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[[File:sdcRapeUndertones400x200.gif|center|400px]]<br />
<center>''Undertones of rape.''</center><br><br />
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The thing starts with Jason walking though a park when he's suddenly [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=24 attacked by a demon]. [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=178 Marylin shows up to fight the demon], but then it swallows Jason alive. She uses her giant scissors to save him, then she turns on him, and right as she's about to kill him, he wakes up. [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=70 Yeah, it was all a dream.] <br />
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Jason's asshole friend Steph sends him a text message saying he and a girl named Jessica are coming to pick him up to go to the music store. On the way, Steph hits a moose with his car. However, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=106 it survives, stands up on its hind legs and runs away]. They then make their way to the music store and jizz themselves over the [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=115 world's thickest guitar]. The clerk tells them it's $700, which they can't afford, then Steph tells him that they're trying to start a band and he tells Jason to go to the car to get their demo CD. While outside, he sees Marylin charging at him, and [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=183 she pushes him out of the way of a bus thrown by a demon]. Marylin fights the demon until he reveals his [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=320 true form] and knocks her out. He then sets his sights on Jessica and constricts her with his tongue, being sure to [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=459 lick her tits while he's at it]. Jason tries to save her, but the demon knocks him out too. But then Jason gets back up, this time with sharp teeth, black eyes, and horns, and it's apparent that he's no longer himself. The demon swallows Jessica, then Jason kills him and [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=525 eats his soul], freeing Jessica from inside him. Marylin then wakes up and kicks Jason in the face, returning him to normal, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=538 then starts stomping on him] because he tried to pick her up while she was unconscious and said she was heavier than she looked. It's never explained how she knew that considering she was, you know, unconscious at the time. <br />
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Oh, and there was some cat girl there, but she didn't do anything. <br />
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Marylin leaves them with a business card saying "Black Ministry, district 7". Of course, Dombo can't show it, so instead, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=547 this is all explained through exposition] while Jessica and Steph drive back to Jason's house with Jason unconscious in the back seat. Jason has another dream, this time about [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=559 the fucking moose], then he stares at [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=567 Jessica's cleavage], then right as they're about to have a romantic moment, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=612 it cuts to them playing Resident Evil 5, complete with a zombie that screams "MAYONNAISE!"] 'Cause, you know, it's ''wacky'' and ''random''! <br />
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In the next chapter, we're introduced to [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=681 Heidler the Nazi bunny], and [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=717 Kendall, the worst character so far]. It's also revealed that [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=897 Marylin works for the moose, who's name is Winston], and he's obsessed with waffles. They talk about how Jason is possessed by a devil, then [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=923 Winston makes them agree to work for him] so they can get rid of the devil without killing him. Also, demons and devils are two different things in this comic. As part of their initiation or whatever, he makes them fight [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=970 a giant shit monster], which opens its mouth to release a bunch of little monsters that [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1008 promptly snap off Jessica's bra]. Yeah, she just decided not to wear a shirt that day, I don't know. [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1040 Winston and Kendall then start ogling her through the surveillance monitors], and you know what? Fuck it. <br />
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===Art===<br />
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[[File:sdcGiantHead.gif|thumb|right|160px|"What a horrible nightmare! I dreamed my head was normal size."]]<br />
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The art creates the illusion of being good by being highly stylized, but there are numerous glaring flaws. The most obvious is that it's black-white-and-red (blue and yellow also appear in later chapters), which you might think looks cool, but it starts to wear on the mind as you read it. The thing about the color red is that it really stands out to the human eye. When everything in a picture is red, it looks garish and can quickly start to get annoying. It's the visual equivalent of listening to a baby cry. It makes me feel like I just popped a blood vessel in my eye. <br />
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The next thing that bothers me is that in the earlier chapters, everything is so heavily anti-aliased. It makes everything look like it's out of focus and it bothers my eyes. Fortunately, he stops doing it pretty early. <br />
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[[File:sdcExpression.gif|thumb|left|180px|"Shit! I'm having a stroke!"]]<br />
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The biggest problem is that most of the human characters look the same. They all have the same big-eyed, pointy-chinned anime face. The only way to tell any of them apart is by their hair and clothes. Well, I guess you can tell the girls apart from the guys because they all have D-cup tits. That's another thing: all of the girls were designed from the same "female" template and all of the guys were designed from a "male" template. Elliot Dombo employs the classic animu technique of "take one of the only two human figures that I know how to draw and slap different hair and clothes on them" to make a new character. It's made even worse when we see bit characters in later chapters that actually do look different, so it's like Dombo ''knows'' how to draw different people, but just doesn't because he's ''fucking lazy''. Also, the character's proportions constantly change, so it's like Dombo is only willing to draw two figures but can't even do it consistently. <br />
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Something else that really bugs the hell out of me is that the character's facial expressions often don't accurately reflect the emotions they should be experiencing. Often, in situations where they should be screaming in terror, they instead have looks of mild confusion. <br />
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Also, for some reason, Dombo always draws people with a shadow to the side of their nose. He almost always puts it on the side of the nose that's facing the viewer, regardless of light source. <br />
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===Writing===<br />
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[[File:sdcGrammar.gif|thumb|right|200px|Mr. Dombo seems to think that apostrophes are for decoration.]]<br />
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You know, I knew this comic was going to be bad before I read it just from the imagery, but I never would have imagined that the writing could be this bad. It's fucking terrible. Dombo ''constantly'' misspells "so" as "soo" and "no one" as "noone". Punctuation marks often appear on the next line in speech balloons, contractions often don't have apostrophes, questions end with periods, shit like that. [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=218 Dombo even fails to conjugate verbs from time to time.] It makes me wonder if he's ever passed a fourth-grade English class. Also, the dialog is stilted. ''Incredibly'' stilted. Nobody in the comic talks like a real person and nothing flows naturally. It comes across like it was written by a robot. <br />
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Even worse than the grammar, however, is the humor. It's insufferable. Remember when Invader Zim was at the height of its popularity and all of the humor-challenged mall goths were constantly quoting Gir and screaming random phrases like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S28LQYiJq0#t=06m52s RADIOACTIVE RUBBER PANTS]"? Combine that with the kind of cheesecake humor that only people who have absolutely no respect for women could possibly laugh at and you've got a sense of what reading this comic is like. <br />
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Oh yeah, and let's not forget the objectification of women. Just about every female character gets ogled at by every male character at some point, including [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=943 Winston] and the Nazi bunny, and just about all of them get [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1185 groped by Kendall] at some point. Every monster they encounter also either tries to [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1663 grope them] or rip their clothes off. In chapter three, for no reason, Jessica wears nothing but a bikini top. It's never explained or addressed. Not only that, but she's wearing it to a ''job interview'', which makes no sense. Later, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1008 it gets ripped off by little monsters]. Oh, I'm sorry, I guess ''that'' was the reason. Jason gives her his sweater to wear, and for some reason, it's so tight on her that it exposes the curvature of her breasts, even though it was loose when Jason was wearing it, which also doesn't make sense. Also, she doesn't zip it up all the way, 'cause, you know, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1050 you gotta have cleavage], right? <br />
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The thing is also ''riddled'' with ass and crotch shots. In fact, when we first see Marylin, [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=25 the very second panel of her is a panty shot].<br><br />
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By the way, the last image up there, in the bottom right, the one with the orange tint, that's Kendall's ass during a flashback to when she was a little kid. Make of that what you will. <br />
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Not only that, but every chapter cover and most of the filler are [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=1202 pin-ups of the girls]. <br />
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===Author Biography===<br />
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If his DA page is to be believed, Dombo lives in Ohio and his favorite cartoon character is Spike from Cowboy Beebop. Other than that, the only thing I know about him is that he's a horrible writer and evidently has no fucking shame. Below is the donate button on his website. <br />
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===Links===<br />
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* [http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/ The fucking comic.]<br />
* [http://dreamwatcher7.deviantart.com/ Elliot Dombo's DeviantART page.]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification A Wikipedia article about sexual objectification.]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Zombie_Nation&diff=5977The Zombie Nation2013-12-17T03:17:58Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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|'''Original review author:'''<br />
|[[User:DrShaym|DrShaym]]<br />
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|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.thezombienation.com/ The Zombie Nation]<br />
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|'''Author:'''<br />
|Carter Reid <br />
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|'''Start Date'''<br />
|December 30, 2009<br />
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|'''End Date'''<br />
|Ongoing<br />
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|'''Genre'''<br />
|Comedy<br />
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|'''Defining Flaw'''<br />
| A one-joke premise and constant interruptions.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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|'''Art'''<br />
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The stupid one-panel gags tend to be fairly well-drawn, but the comic itself has lazy art and bad facial expressions.<br />
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A rambling mess that just jumps from place to place with no direction.<br />
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|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]]<br />
Two stupid frat-boy types who not only look the same, but also have interchangeable personalities.<br />
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STOP WITH THE FUCKING ONE-PANEL GAGS.<br />
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|'''Overall:'''<br />
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Reading this comic is a chore.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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[[File:ZN Romey and Lovecraft.jpg|right]]<br />
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Zombies aren't funny. They may have been back in the early 2000's, but they aren't now. Zombies are hackneyed and passé. Basing an entire comic around the concept of "zombies, lol" is not a good idea, but '''''The Zombie Nation''''' does just that. That's why it's here. It's a comic with a one-joke premise, and it's not even a good joke. It's a joke that's been old since before this comic got started in 2009, and it's the joke that this comic has been running into the ground ever since. <br />
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==Downfall==<br />
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The comic starts with an overly-long series of single-panel gags, most of them consisting of ''Left 4 Dead'' references or "some celebrity as a zombie" gags. See [[The Common Mistakes of Comedy|this article]] I wrote for an explanation of why references should not be considered a form of comedy. After literally 37 pages of this, [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/02/07/night-of-the-living-dead-furries/ the actual comic finally starts], and [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/02/08/dont-open-that-door/ this] is the first strip: <br />
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* Panel one: two guys are sitting on the couch. One guy asks the other if he has any Coke. The other guy tells him he has one in the fridge and also tells him to answer the door. <br />
* Panel two: '''''RANDOM ZOMBIE ATTACK OMGWTFBBQ!!!!1!1!!! SO FUCKING RANDOM ROFLMAO!!!1!11!!ONE''''<br />
* Panel three: the two guys sit on the couch again as they were. One of them asks the other if he has any Coke as if nothing happened, but they're zombies now. <br />
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So that's it, the very first strip is when the comic started to get bad. Please see [[The Common Mistakes of Comedy|my article]] again for an explanation of why random humor should not be considered a form of comedy. <br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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It's about two drunken, [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/06/09/awkward-questions-and-unpleasant-answers/ lecherous], [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/05/10/brains-or-cleavage-a-hard-decision-for-a-zombie/ homophobic] brothers named Romey and Lovecraft. They look like children, but this is largely due to their boring, generic cartoon designs, and they're actually grown adults. They get turned into zombies, then they have ''WACKY AND RANDOM'' misadventures. There's also a guy named Richard Moon, [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/03/17/grayson-joins-the-zombie-nation/ who gets turned into a zombie by Lovecraft], [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/03/24/moon-moves-in-noooooooo/ then moves in with Lovecraft and Romey after his girlfriend kicks him out]. <br />
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As I've described them, Romey and Lovecraft are obnoxious, [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/04/cleavage-the-ultimate-peace-negotiator/ womanizing], fratboy types. Moon, on the other hand, is their [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/06/14/how-do-you-repair-a-zombie/ whiney, nerdy punching bag]. His gimmick is that he's a [http://www.thezombienation.com/2012/12/28/a-disturbing-amount-of-enthusiasm/ total sexual deviant]. How original. All three of these characters are completely unlikable. <br />
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The comic attempts to have some semblance of a story when [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/04/07/the-zombie-i-r-s/ Lovecraft learns that he has to pay taxes to the "Zombie IRS"], prompting him to go get his old job back. Suddenly, his klingy, abusive ex wife [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/06/16/restraining-orders-dont-work-on-zombies/ Sheila] shows up for about three strips, then she just leaves for no reason. The story then stops almost completely for the next two months to give us a fucking maelstrom of unfunny, single-panel gags before finally picking back up with the gang getting menaced by a group of [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/09/06/badass-zombie-hunters/ zombie hunters], and we're occasionally menaced by more one-panel gags. The next thing we know, Lovecraft has been [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/27/the-precious-rectum/ kidnapped by Sheila], and then we get [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/29/plants-vs-zombies-2-electric-boogaloo/ more fucking one-panel gags], and this is the point where I gave up trying to read this thing. <br />
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==Writing Review==<br />
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We're informed of the main characters' names in the clunky fashion preferred by hack writers everywhere, wherein [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/03/01/the-nerd-shack/ the two characters simply say each others names while talking to each other], 'cause, you know, ''people talk like that in real life all the time, right? I don't know about you, but whenever I'm talking to somebody, I always say their name to them so they will know I'm talking to them, even though it's obvious that I'm talking to them since they're the only one around, and they always say my name to me when they're talking to me, even though I was just talking to them and I obviously already know that they're talking to me. All of my conversations are like that because, you know, my life was written by a talentless hack.'' I'm sorry, but that shit really bothers me. I mean, if you really can't think of a less lazy way to drop the characters' names, then you shouldn't be writing. <br />
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But that's not the worst of it. The writing in this comic is horrible. I can point out the [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/02/22/grandma-will-get-you-killed-shoot-her-before-the-zombies/ obvious grammatical errors] and [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/22/i-cant-swallow-that/ gags stolen from Futurama], but there's so much more wrong with it. <br />
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Here's the thing: in order for me to criticize the writing in this comic, I have to read the comic. The problem there is that the comic takes breaks every few strips to distract us with a series of [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/06/lolzombies-not-nearly-as-cute-as-lolcats/ unfunny, single panel gags]. Most of them are just references to celebrities and ''Left 4 Dead''. A lot of them don't even make sense. [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/02/11/that-zombie-is-too-sexy-for-his-shirt/ Here's an example featuring Right Said Fred as a zombie.] What's the joke? Is it because he's a zombie, and that makes it ironic that he would call himself sexy? Is that it? Is ''that'' what makes it allegedly funny? How about [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/06/lolzombies-not-nearly-as-cute-as-lolcats/ this one]? ''"I can has brains?"'' How about ''I can has FUCK OFF AND LET ME READ THE FUCKING COMIC''. <br />
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Now if I can ''please'' stick with the main fucking comic without being interrupted every two or three strips, I can start pointing out how it fails to tell a story. First of all, if you've read the "Writing Review" section, you may have noticed another one of this comic's problems: a tendency to abruptly introduce new plot elements before casually dropping them to move onto something else. It's like Reid gets bored while he's writing and will just give up on one story arc to jump into another, then he gets bored of that and moves onto another. It's like the rambling, go-nowhere stories of Abe Simpson in comic form, starring two unlikable douchebags who just happen to be zombies. <br />
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I think the best word to describe the act of reading this comic would be ''tedious''. You get a few strips of the main story, then a few one-panel gags, then a few more strips of the story, then more one-panel gags, and even though each story arc abruptly ends after only five or six strips, these one-panel gags make it take two or three times as long to get through them than it should, and that makes the simple act of reading the comic feel like a chore. <br />
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Then there's the humor. The entire comic is centered around the zombie gimmick. Any time the punchline doesn't have something to do with eating brains or body parts falling off, it's "everyday life but with zombies" bullshit (see the "Zombie IRS" thing I was talking about above). This shit gets really old, really fast. ''The Zombie Nation'' is a textbook example of why you shouldn't base an entire comic around a single gimmick. <br />
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==Art Review==<br />
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[[File:ZN Expression.jpg|thumb|right|^^Then why are you smiling, asshole?^^]]<br />
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The two main characters look the same. They act the same, too. The only way to tell them apart is by their clothes. Seriously, if Romey didn't wear a hat, I would not be able to distinguish him from Lovecraft. <br />
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Another thing is the expressions. They're terrible, and they rarely reflect the emotions the characters are supposed to be feeling. Part of the problem is [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/03/15/im-going-to-eat-him/ the way Reid draws mouths]. It's like he doesn't know how to draw anything other than smiles, so whenever he tries to draw a grimace or a scowl, it just comes out looking like some kind of trapezoid. It gets worse later when he starts drawing them [http://www.thezombienation.com/2013/01/09/walk-like-an-egyptian/ going off the edge of their heads]. <br />
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The thing is [http://www.thezombienation.com/2012/04/25/daily-zombie-drawing-2/ Reid can draw], but when he does the comic, he decides to half-ass it. It's like he just throws out all of his knowledge of anatomy and perspective and gets lazy, [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/09/08/undead-firepower/ resorting to copy/pasting]. <br />
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Another thing I've noticed is that [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/10/13/shes-concerned-about-things/ most of the female zombies don't lose their noses], even though [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/03/29/the-sad-process-of-becoming-a-zombie/ all the male ones do]. Does letting the women keep their noses have something to do with [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/09/20/a-zombie-girlfriend-id-do-it/ making them more attractive]? [http://www.thezombienation.com/2010/04/23/zombie-cleavage-really-screws-up-your-fight-or-flight-response/ That's fucking disgusting.] <br />
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<br />
==Author Biography==<br />
<br />
I don't know anything about Carter Reid and I don't care enough to look it up. Here's an [http://comicscoasttocoast.com/episode-143-the-carter-reid-interview hour-long interview] if you're interested. I didn't sit and listen to it, but I skipped through it and found out that he shits out his sketches in ten minutes (around 21:30). <br />
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<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
Imagine that you're watching a really bad TV show, like a sitcom featuring two unlikable characters and a plot that feels like it was thought up while they were shooting and had no script. Now imagine the show taking a commercial break every thirty seconds, and even though every commercial is different, they're all advertising the same thing. It wouldn't take long for you to start to wonder, "why the fuck am I watching this?" That's what reading this comic is like. If it weren't for the one-panel gags, I might actually be able to sit and read it, and I would simply call the comic boring and move on. <br />
<br />
The only reason I even decided to review this comic is because it was on our to-do list and it looked like an easy target. I thought it would be as simple as "it's stupid fratboy humor with shitty art. Next." But it's frustrating. Normally, I don't get mad at a comic unless it's outwardly offensive like [[Greg]] or [[God's Story]], but reading this comic is like getting repeatedly punched in the face with the same joke over and over again. I couldn't even get through the first year's worth of strips. <br />
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I hope I never see this comic again. <br />
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<br />
==Links==<br />
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* [http://www.thezombienation.com/ The comic]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Ad_Hominem&diff=5976Ad Hominem2013-12-17T03:13:27Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>Argumentation fallacies are widely known -- and wildly misused -- in the internet, and the "ad hominem" is a huge favorite. It comes from Latin and means "to the man". It means "attacking the arguer instead of the argument", and it means more than just not insulting your opponent: it's about not taking a tangent and talking about what a horrible person an author is when the subject under the spotlights is his work. Assholes produce good art, and saints also create shit. The key point is that both parts are ''independent''.<br />
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The thing is this: You are not separate from your work. And, more than anywhere, this holds most true with webcomics. Webcomic artists interact with their readers directly. They don't have anyone monitoring their actions and this often leads to a lot of them making asses of themselves. Why does this matter? Because when you ''do'' interact with your fans that interaction becomes important. This isn't about personal attacks, it's about people who make webcomics understanding the importance of properly maintaining their public persona.<br />
<br />
We have on this site racist, homophobes, pedophiles, lunatics and just plain assholes. So, if you are planning to make a webcomic, read this and learn how not to behave.<br />
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All that said... let the turd-flinging begin!<br />
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==The Hall Of Shame==<br />
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<br />
===Ryan Sohmer===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Least I Could Do]]''; ''[[Looking For Group]]''; ''The Gutters''<br />
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Ryan Sohmer is in this section for nothing more than sexism. But he takes to the mission of denigrating women with such devotion that it's almost admirable. Over the course of a decade of insulting every woman on the planet by his very existence, he has built himself up a small empire. This allowed him to do such great things as: Sponsor other bad webcomics, make more bad webcomics, getting in trouble with REAL comic companies for sending them Christmas cards and even financially support the making of Tim Buckley's awful "CAD: Animated" series. Proving once and for all that the saying "Birds of a feather flock together" holds true for scavengers as well. He also constantly criticizes other webcomic artists as a whole for being "unprofessional", citing the fact that his own comic has never missed a single update. Although, considering he has never drawn his own comic, this leads to the conclusion that his workday for the past ten years has consisted of making one bad joke a day.<br><br />
'''In this section for:''' His comic being an insult to women and maybe all of mankind, and for whoring out the entire medium of webcomics to make a profit.<br />
<br />
===Tim Buckley===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]''<br />
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With this #1 star of webcomic assholes it's is simpler to just list his discretions rather than actually go into detail about each one, a task that might last until the end of time. So, instead, here is the incomplete list of things Tim Buckley is guilty of:<br><br />
'''In this section for:''' Shoplifting, romantically pressuring a minor, cheating on his girlfriend, showing his dick to people online, banning republicans from his forum, racist jokes, no talent, feuding with other webcomic artists, defacing his own wikipidia article and pretending someone else did it, defacing other webcomics wikipidia articles and pretending someone else did it, setting up a fraudulent charity, keeping the donation money made by his fraudulent charity, threatening high school kids with lawsuits for using his characters in a school project, stealing someones character design he found on Google, stealing another webcomics art style, stealing jokes from TV shows, stealing jokes from other webcomics and much MUCH more (and that even without mentioning the comic itself).<br />
<br />
===Bleedman===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]''; ''[[Grim Tales From Down Below]]''; ''[[Sugar Bits]]''<br />
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With his insatiable love for plagiarism, Vinson "Bleedman" Ngo has manged to create some of the most insulting misuses of intellectual property known to man. Thickly laden with pedophilic undertones, overtone and any other tone you can imagine. Couple that with a compete an total inability to understand what is considered appropriate, something that has led him to include both Hitler and 9/11 in the comic and refuse to apologize, and you have one of the most hated webcomic artist at work today.<br><br />
'''In this section for:''' Plagiarism, Copyright infringement and pedophilia.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Tom Preston===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[So... You're a Cartoonist?]]''; ''Alex Ze Pirate''; ''Formera''; ''Danny And Spot''; ''Patty'' <br />
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Mr. Andrew Dobson's, a.k.a. "Tom Preston", or "CattyN", story begin with a fetishist female artist who showed up around the net during the early 2000's. This wet dream come true for many fetishists resulted in a fat guy being afraid his fetish would cost him jobs. After a really, really odd incident where someone saved his inflation illustration forced him to go back into fetish drawings, he decided it was time to show himself to the world as a whiny, arrogant victim of internet trolls looking forward to making him their personal free fetish artist. Now he gives conferences all over the net how, despite his wide education in arts, he's unable to make as much money as he would have hoped to, and has resolved to blaming trolls and anime for his lack of skill and money.<br><br />
'''In this section for:''' Being an untalented pervert who constantly criticizes other, yet rejects all critique that is directed at him. <br />
<br />
===Jennifer Diane Reitz===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Pastel Defender Heliotrope]]''; ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]''; ''[[To Save Her]]'' and about 50 other comics no one wants to read. <br />
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The once proud owner of "HappyPuppy" who has long ago gone off the deep end. Since selling his (now her) website for reportedly 1.2 million dollars, Jennifer has managed to blow all that money on an assorted collection of Anime paraphernalia. Later she continued on to having a sex change operation and setting up a website with the intent of helping gender confused individuals. In reality, the website will attempt to convince everyone that they are a man trapped in a women's body (or vice versa), and should immediately have the same operation JDR once had and now regrets. His insane behavior was so bad that at one point P.O.E had an entire forum for the sake of keeping up with his craziness, with the icing on the cake being a hilarious death threat against webcomic critic John Solomon.<br><br />
'''In this section for:''' Multiple and diverse levels of insanity.<br />
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===Dave Cheung===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Chugworth!]]'' (remade twice); ''[[Chugworth Academy]]''; ''[[Boss Noodle]]''; ''[[U.S. Angel Corps]]''<br />
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After his success in posting <s>some of the most revolting pornography ever seen</s> standard smut on Gurochan, making three webcomics everyone mocked and he had since deleted or end, and almost getting sued by Ubisoft for moralfagging them on the grounds of over-sexualization with (what else?) cartoon porno, Dave Cheung finally decided to drop all false pretenses of being a serious artist, and began work on his final masterpiece: ''U.S. Angel Corps''. A disgusting, misogynistic porn comic that includes such themes like: rape, incontinence, torture, murder and necrophilia, all presented in a sexual tone. After finding out that he was reviewed on this site, he complained to the Wikidot administration to have the articles removed... <s>We could rewrite them without the personal attacks, but Cheung being a a menace to society is pretty much the main point of them all</s> The reviews are back.<br><br />
'''In this section for''': Being a the favorite artist of a community of potential rapists.<br />
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===Jay Naylor===<br />
* '''Known Work(s):''' ''[[Better Days]]''; ''[[Original Life]]''; ''New World'' (deleted); Tons of furry porn.<br />
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Our friend Jay loves to openly express his somewhat twisted political views anytime he feels like it via his webcomics. Also, he loves to exaggerate, deny, or lie about whatever he talks about. This alone is what makes people feel uncomfortable when around him. Most of the time, this ends up in a fight between Jay and whichever unlucky bastard dared to cross paths with him. <br />
Also, he takes criticism in the most politically correct way he knows: Deletes any trace of it, block the critic (or person who doesn't agree with him), and then libels the person who criticized him.<br><br />
'''In this section for''': Stealing other people's characters, being an abusive boyfriend, being a massive douchebag.</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Chugworth!&diff=5974Chugworth!2013-12-17T03:01:24Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>{{react}}<br />
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|'''Original review author:''' <br />
|[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/system:members The Luigiian] <br />
|-<br />
|'''Webcomic name:'''<br />
|[http://www.chugworth.com Chugworth!]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Author:'''<br />
|[http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/ Dave Cheung]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Start Date:'''<br />
|September 7, 2009<br />
|-<br />
|'''End Date:'''<br />
|Currently in limbo, might come back if Dave-Man finally finds something to make an actual profit with and has enough spare time<br />
|-<br />
|'''Genre:'''<br />
|Anime/Comedy<br />
|-<br />
|'''Defining Flaw:'''<br />
|From the outset, it looks as if this comic will be similar to Boss Noodle and the original Chugworth Academy. That means breasts and smack talk.<br />
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'''Rating Summary'''<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="width:600px"><br />
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{| style="color: White; background-color: #003366;" class="wikitable"<br />
|'''Art:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] Expect average, nothing-special art. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Storyline:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]] Since this is a continuation of ''Chugworth Academy'', you can expect typical schoolgirl silliness mixed with some chauvinistically shallow cheesecake sexuality.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Characters:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] ''Chugworth Academy's'' bland characterization is carried over another year or two.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Miscellaneous Details:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] The girls look less creepy this time around. At least they don't look like they're twelve-year-olds with oversized tits.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Overall:'''<br />
|[[File:Wiki.png|70px]][[File:Wiki.png|70px]] Basically Chugworth Academy with a few barely-perceptible improvements.<br />
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==Disclaimer==<br />
''Updated on 12-15-2013 by [[User:oddguy|oddguy]]''<br />
<br />
This review was made when the comic in question just started. At the time it was only about 4 pages long and the person reviewing it expected it to continue to update. Thankfully, it never did. Unfortunately, Dave ended it so that he could move on to something far, '''FAR''' worse.<br />
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For this reason this review was never added to the directory and was mostly forgotten about until now. This is also why it is exceptionally short and mostly deals with speculating about this comic's future that eventually never came.<br />
<br />
== Background==<br />
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Whuddap, peeplets? Yo yo yo, I just got finished slappin' mah bitchez' roun' and now I's gon' go back to the mean ass streets of Glasgow, United Kingdom, where I's can join mah peeplets again and start drawing som' mah guro and girls getting raped and ripped apart by pedophilic men. Ah, you know how it iz, bro, theyz all bitchez n' hos! Fuck m' all. Hey, if you 'specially good peeplets, I'll give y' some sexy pictyahs of my art bitchez wearin' nothin' but skin, n' maybe a katana or swimmin' gear, because fuck yeah!<br />
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Picture this from the mouth of a skinny pasty-ass Scottish-Asian 27-year-old and you have Dave Cheung. I'm not basing that on his current ''Chugworth!'', I'm figuring that based on what he's said on DeviantArt, the original Chugworth, and of course Boss Noodle, which is a silly sort of fusion of ninja and American-style urban style. Now, I'm not here to criticize him for being yet another poor, pathetic person who believes he is the next Snoop Dogg; rather, I'm here to laugh at him. But seriously, this is his comic, in a nutshell.<br />
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<br />
==Downfall ==<br />
[[File:2009-09-07-001.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Everyone in every Dave Cheung comic talks like this]]<br />
Chugworth Academy. 'Nuff said.<br />
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==Story and Plot==<br />
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Since it's the continuation of ''Chugworth Academy'', expect not only the girls to behave and dress like 3-Dollar-Hookers as well as stumbling into LOLwacky situations with the other cardboard cut-outs, but also a fair share of racism and female degradation disguised as satire.<br />
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In case it should eventually come back, that is.<br />
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== Art review==<br />
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Even compared to later ''CA'' articles, the new ''Chugworth!'' is improved. Artistically, this comic is amateur-average. There are mistakes in the design and the style is typical anime.<br />
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==Writing review ==<br />
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Will probably be typical Chugworth writing, with similar style, although it has probably matured a bit beyond the original, if only the same amount that the art has.<br />
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== Author biography ==<br />
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Guro, porno, lolicon, doujinshi.<br />
<br />
Connect the dots.<br />
<br />
But seriously, Dave used to draw cartoon child porn. He doesn't even deny is, just says he only did it for money. Then he moved on to making comics, but all of those included young girls in sexual situations. Now he draws murder/rape/necrophilia porn (check his other reviews) for a living where all the girls are supposed to be adults but still look young.<br />
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Other than that, he reacts to criticism like a cat to water. When criticized he either has a verbal slap-fight with the critic (did so with Solomon and Webcomic Overlook and verbally assaulted Deviantart administration for removing porn he put up), complains to the site where the criticism is housed to have it removed (TV Tropes), or tried to vandalize it somehow (His mention of the Solomon article on ED). In our case, he sent a complaint to our previous site's host and demanded all his reviews taken down. Now that we moved, we have already reached an agreement with out current host that should keep that from happening.<br />
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== Conclusion==<br />
<br />
If you know Chugworth, you already know how its update will turn out. Don't expect miracles from ''Chugworth!''<br />
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==Other comics by this person that are reviewed on this site==<br />
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*[[Boss Noodle]] - Another short-lived and abandoned project.<br />
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*[[Chugworth Academy]] - The predecessor to this comic.<br />
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*[[U.S. Angel Corps]] - Second worst comic reviewed on BWW.<br />
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==Links==<br />
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*[http://chugworth.com/ The comic itself] - Dead.<br />
*[https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Dave_Cheung Encyclopedia Dramatica article]<br />
*[http://teh-dave.deviantart.com/ his Deviantart account]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ILP0TlsNo A video about how not to draw webcomics] - Dave is one of the examples.<br />
*[http://webcomicoverlook.com/2009/06/30/the-webcomic-overlook-86-boss-noodle/ Webcomic Overlook review of his other comic]<br />
*[http://www.projectafter.com/cr_usangels.html Project A.F.T.E.R Review of his other comic]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Author_Review_Index&diff=5973Author Review Index2013-12-17T02:58:45Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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<div>The following list is a list of Bad Webcomics Wiki's reviewers and the reviews they have written.<br />
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=== BBW Authors and Their Reviews ===<br />
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'''Akumyo'''<br><br />
*[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]<br><br />
*[[Sugar Bits]]<br />
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'''Angry Lesbian'''<br><br />
*[[Addanac City]] (along with William Seagate)<br><br />
*[[Pastel Defender Heliotrope]]<br />
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'''Aristocles'''<br><br />
*[[The Chronicles of Loth]]<br />
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'''Auttheum'''<br><br />
*[[Lemon Inc.]]<br><br />
*[[Turbosloth]]<br />
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'''BlueDude11'''<br><br />
*[[Motherfuckin' Mario]] (with one point from Phlaor)<br />
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'''BTIsaac'''<br><br />
*[[No Need for Bushido]] (remade from original review by Yaoi Huntress Earth)<br><br />
*[[Zap!]] (remade from original review by Yaoi Huntress Earth)<br />
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'''Clever Manka'''<br><br />
*[[Wapsi Square]]<br />
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'''Crack Lobster'''<br><br />
*[[Stubble Trouble]]<br />
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'''crookedglasses'''<br><br />
*[[Contradiction]]<br />
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'''CyQFaunce'''<br><br />
*[[Day by Day]] (with help from oddguy)<br />
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'''Daisenseiben'''<br><br />
*[[Between Failures]]<br />
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'''doctorsquid'''<br><br />
*[[Zack and Spike]]<br />
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'''Dr Hendra'''<br><br />
*[[Fafnir the Dragon]]<br><br />
*[[Heartcore]]<br><br />
*[[Wayward Sons: Legends]]<br />
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'''DrShaym'''<br><br />
*[[Devil's Shine]]<br><br />
*[[Elftor]]<br><br />
*[[Femmegasm]]<br><br />
*[[God's Story]]<br><br />
*[[Greg]]<br><br />
*[[Gyno-Star]]<br><br />
*[[Shädbase]]<br><br />
*[[Strawberry Death Cake]]<br><br />
*[[U.S. Angel Corps]]<br />
*[[The Zombie Nation]]<br />
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'''EvilKritter'''<br><br />
*[[Soul Eye]]<br />
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'''Fear Loan Man'''<br><br />
*[[Nivlek]]<br />
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'''ForcedJapaneseName'''<br><br />
*[[Hearts of wildfire]] (along with Norad Bush)<br><br />
*[[House Of LSD]]<br><br />
*[[Panty Brigade]] (along with Lesbot)<br />
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'''Frakenapple'''<br><br />
*[[Pictures of Crying Children]]<br />
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'''Genkigami'''<br><br />
*[[Cherri Blossoms]]<br><br />
*[[Mahou Oh No!]]<br />
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'''GJon'''<br><br />
*[[Sunnyville Stories]]<br />
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'''Griffbits'''<br><br />
*[[God Hates Bambi]]<br><br />
*[[Everyday Grind]]<br />
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'''Groggarioth'''<br><br />
*[[21st Century Fox]]<br><br />
*[[A game of Fools]]<br><br />
*[[Panthera]]<br />
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'''Gryphoneer'''<br><br />
*[[Escape From Terra]] (along with Izzus)<br><br />
*[[Las Lindas Bonus Comics]] (along with MakarovJAC)<br><br />
*[[My life with Fel]] (along with MakarovJAC)<br><br />
*[[Original Life]] (along with Truthfulpietro)<br />
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'''HackerOnHacker'''<br><br />
*[[Faithful Hearts]]<br />
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'''Harkovast'''<br><br />
*[[I Fell Down the Stairs]]<br />
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'''IamOptimusPrime'''<br><br />
*[[Quacker and Bowen]]<br />
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'''Izzus'''<br><br />
*[[Bravoman]]<br><br />
*[[Escape From Terra]] (along with Gryphoneer)<br><br />
*[[Snafu]]<br><br />
*[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]<br />
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'''JJW Mezun'''<br><br />
*[[Bowser's Plan B]]<br><br />
*[[Kirby's Fan Mail]]<br />
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'''JuJu98'''<br><br />
*[[Head Wound]]<br />
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'''justanotherguy'''<br><br />
*[[Latex BLUE]]<br />
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'''Lesbot'''<br><br />
*[[Concession]] (along with TheLuigiian)<br><br />
*[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]] (along with TheLuigiian)<br><br />
*[[Doodle Diaries]]<br><br />
*[[Kit n Kay Boodle]]<br><br />
*[[La Cosa Nostra]]<br><br />
*[[Las Lindas]]<br><br />
*[[Pages of Life]] (conclusion by oddguy)<br><br />
*[[Panty Brigade]] (along with Forcejapanesename)<br />
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'''Long Tom'''<br><br />
*[[Ansem Retort]]<br><br />
*[[Ask Altair]]<br><br />
*[[Bridgette's Belly]]<br><br />
*[[ClosetCoon]]<br><br />
*[[Eerie cuties]]<br><br />
*[[The End Of Things]]<br><br />
*[[Furthia High]] (Along with William Seagate)<br><br />
*[[I Drew This]]<br><br />
*[[Namir Deiter]]<br><br />
*[[Nikki Sprite]]<br><br />
*[[Ozy and Millie]]<br><br />
*[[Perki Goth/Candi Raver]]<br><br />
*[[Raine Dog]]<br><br />
*[[Sandra and Woo]]<br><br />
*[[Stalag '99]]<br><br />
*[[Vicki Fox]]<br><br />
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'''MakarovJAC'''<br><br />
*[[Las Lindas Bonus Comics]] (along with Gryphoneer)<br><br />
*[[Magick Chicks]]<br><br />
*[[My life with Fel]] (along with Gryphoneer)<br><br />
*[[Paradox]]<br><br />
*[[Romantically Apocalyptic]] <br />
<br />
'''Makrond'''<br><br />
*[[Warmage]]<br />
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'''Mapdark'''<br><br />
*[[Golden week]]<br />
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'''Mediocrity'''<br><br />
*[[Geek Blather]]<br><br />
*[[Skull Boy]]<br />
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'''MegaRose'''<br><br />
*[[Legendary]]<br><br />
*[[PikaSemeChu]]<br />
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'''Murphace'''<br><br />
*[[The Antillian Chronicles]]<br />
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'''N106'''<br><br />
*[[Look What I Brought Home!]]<br />
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'''neallyriceguy'''<br><br />
*[[Dare Sensei]]<br />
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'''NightGoat'''<br><br />
*[[The Continentals]]<br><br />
*[[The Invisible Skein]]<br><br />
*[[Lethal: Death Squad Rising]]<br />
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'''Norad Bush'''<br><br />
*[[Applegeeks]]<br><br />
*[[Boss Noodle]]<br><br />
*[[Boston and Shaun]]<br><br />
*[[Cheshire Crossing]]<br><br />
*[[Cru the Dwarf]]<br><br />
*[[Dueling Analogs]]<br><br />
*[[Earthsong]]<br><br />
*[[Edge the Devilhunter]]<br><br />
*[[Hearts of wildfire]] (along with Forcedjapanesename)<br><br />
*[[Key Quest]]<br><br />
*[[Least I Could Do]]<br><br />
*[[Lovefeast]]<br><br />
*[[Pictures Of You]]<br><br />
*[[Sore Thumbs]]<br><br />
*[[Spaghetti Strap Western]]<br><br />
*[[Star Cross'd Destiny]]<br><br />
*[[Tsubomi Blue Dreams]]<br><br />
*[[The Truth for Youth]]<br><br />
*[[World Break]]<br />
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'''oddguy'''<br><br />
*[[The Adventures of Kanira Baxter]]<br><br />
*[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]<br><br />
*[[Carlos Latuff Political Cartoons]]<br><br />
*[[Devilbear]]<br><br />
*[[Firework Comic]]<br><br />
*[[Fontes' Rants]]<br><br />
*[[Foreskin Man]]<br><br />
*[[Gamer Chicks]]<br><br />
*[[Harvest]]<br><br />
*[[Jack (the other one)]]<br><br />
*[[LOLsketch]]<br><br />
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* [[The Bad Webcomics Wiki:Review Index|Back to the review index]]</div>Natsahttps://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Natsa&diff=5972User talk:Natsa2013-12-17T02:37:21Z<p>Natsa: </p>
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*Listen, i'm gonna temporarily delete all the Dave Cheung related reviews you just made or maybe move them somewhere for now. Last time I believe it was Dave himself that complained to Wikidot about these to have them deleted, so before we make them again I wanted to inform this wiki farm's admins in advance to keep this from happening again. That's why I haven't recreated them again yet... Just been lazy to get around to it. Okay? [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 08:24, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
**That's ok as long as the images are still saved to the website. I'll have the source code of the reviews saved in the meantime. Try to make sure this is ok to the higher ups because I'm not sure if Cheung himself is still active. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 18:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::*Alright. Cheung still makes US Angle Corps so this will get back to him sooner or later. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 22:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::* Well, the official website hasn't been updated for ten months and the forums are basically dead. I'm not sure how you were able to find that out. I just hope ShoutWiki is more lax than Wikidot. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 05:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::::* I haven't deleted those reviews, but I haven't gotten mail back from shoutwiki about it yet either so at least don't add them to the listing for now. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 22:01, 14 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::::* Okay, got the green like from the admins. Gonna go over them one last time to cut down a bit on the personal attacks to give us a bit more plausible deniability and publish them. Also, there is one more review we had on the old site that was never actually added to the directory so it was never delted. It's <s>[http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/chugworth over here] and imma put it on this site and add some pictures if you don't do it first.</s> [[Chugworth!]] DONE. Just needs pictures. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 18:39, 15 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::::::* It's pretty short for a TheLuigiian review, so it could use some expansion if pictures are ever going to be added to it. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 22:35, 15 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:::::::* Well, the entire comic was about 4 pages long before Dave abandoned it. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 07:45, 16 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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* I think USAC is worse than Billy... Billy may have been an antisemite, but he wasn't a murdering, rapist who fucked corpses in pools of their own urin. [[File:Busey.png]][[User:Oddguy|<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold">'''oddguy'''</span>]][[File:Busey.png]] 18:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:* The reason I thought Billy The Heretic is worse because not only is the writing absolutely repetitive and atrocious, making it a terrible example of propaganda, but the art is just that awful. No matter what Cheung draws, child guro porn or not, it will still look less lazy than any of the Billy strips. Then again, you're the boss. [[User:Natsa|Natsa]] ([[User talk:Natsa|talk]]) 02:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC)</div>Natsa