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|Obnoxiously childish and simplistic writing and art techniques that would make Tom Tomorrow look like a realist by comparison.
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== Background ==
[[File:StatistAnarchistHowTheAuthorWants.png|thumb|right|280px|''Deviantart politics, always searching for creative new echo chambers.'']]
DeviantartDeviantArt, the Internet's largest art hosting site., Overover the years has grown quite into the farm field of problems. There's the overabundance of disconcerting fetish artworks, the bases, the just plain juvenile artists, the increase in social media-like elements, such as status updates, the diminishing, increasingly negligent staff, and of course, a certain the mess known as Core Membership.
 
But in my time on the site, I've seen another problem creeping along the sidelines, of members who are just there to recruit others to their political views. These people either do nothing but talk and never submit anything, submit nothing but memes, or will submit propaganda art, more often than not with the least skill as possible, as this webcomic will demonstrate.
 
 
 
== Downfall ==
 
Naturally, this comic was always bad, beginning simply as Anarchist just standing around while beating Statist in debates. It looked like it might get slightly better as more props and characters got introduced. But then the comic's art reached a downfall of sorts when it began introducing heavy amounts of copypasta alongside its stick figures.
 
 
Naturally, this comicwebcomic was always bad, beginning simply as Anarchist just standing around while beating Statist in debates. It looked like it might get slightly better as more props and characters got introduced. But then the comicwebcomic's art reached a downfall of sorts when it began introducing heavy amounts of copypasta alongside its stick figures.
 
== Story and Plot ==
 
At first glance, this would appear to be a gag a day strip, as the rock bottom art style and political agenda would lend itself to. Indeed it does start out as a gag a day strip, but then surprising amounts of ongoing story and continuity start to creep in. [http://blamethe1st.deviantart.com/art/Statist-And-Anarchist-035-Economics-101-555701028 The first ongoing arc] starts with Anarchist trying to explain the evils of minimum wage to Statist. Anarchist decides his time is too precious and walks off to let a character from Rick and Morty to fight his battle, only for Statist to inadvertedly get killed. [http://blamethe1st.deviantart.com/art/Statist-And-Anarchist-037-Depression-558639363 This leaves the now saddened Anarchist to lament not having a dimwit sidekick to feel superior over.]
 
 
 
Long story short, there is an off -and -on plot, but it can all be accurately summed up as random childish idiocy and boring rants to prop up the author's petty little political crusade against the cold cruel world.
 
 
== Art Review ==
 
It would be simplicity itself to just completely dismiss this comicwebcomic as a no -effort hunk of junk. But to give credit where credit is due, the author does care enough to improve the strip's art very slightly. For instance, he could've just left all his characters as bald stick men differentiated only by their shirts. But he later on adds hair, hats or accessories to the characters, and let’s face it, that's the best anyone can do with stick figures. Even Order of the Stick, universally regarded as the very best stick figure comic in all the Internet, just uses the same bland face, varied only by hair, clothes and props. So the stick figures themselves pass, even with those big solid black lines of theirs....There's even a few times where the author bothered to draw simple yet effective backgrounds, [http://blamethe1st.deviantart.com/art/Statist-And-Anarchist-047-Dark-Magic-Part-1-568853988 like with the graveyard scene.] In that way, ''Statist and Anarchist'' even surpasses [[Cyanide and Happiness]], the strip BlameThe1st takes inspiration from.
 
It would be simplicity itself to just completely dismiss this comic as a no effort hunk of junk. But to give credit where credit is due, the author does care enough to improve the strip's art very slightly. For instance, he could've just left all his characters as bald stick men differentiated only by their shirts. But he later on adds hair, hats or accessories to the characters, and let’s face it, that's the best anyone can do with stick figures. Even Order of the Stick, universally regarded as the very best stick figure comic in all the Internet, just uses the same bland face, varied only by hair, clothes and props. So the stick figures themselves pass, even with those big solid black lines of theirs....There's even a few times where the author bothered to draw simple yet effective backgrounds, [http://blamethe1st.deviantart.com/art/Statist-And-Anarchist-047-Dark-Magic-Part-1-568853988 like with the graveyard scene.] In that way, Statist and Anarchist even surpasses Cyanide and Happiness, the strip BlameThe1st takes inspiration from.
 
 
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