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2163
Man, this one has everything:
Man, this one has everything:
- drawings of two people talking about a cool event instead of the event
- Randall's weird fetish for being sneered at by educated women
- inspired by whatever is on HBO this week
- "we" commies
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
2162
Achewood used to have comics full of character banter all the time. It works because Achewood had 1) art and 2) an incredibly rich cast of characters built up over many years by tremendous effort on the part of Chris Onstad. Here it falls completely flat. We have a vaguely womanish-looking stick figure barging in talking like the killer robot from a BioWare game*, and then a bunch of what Randall thinks dazzlingly witty repartee sounds like. But because we don't have any idea who these people are or how they think about things-- are they the same stick figures we have seen before? if so, which ones?-- we can't tell what the joke is supposed to be. Does Megan believe these ridiculous things? Is the other guy stupid for not believing them? Or are we just supposed to be impressed that Randall knows who E.B. White is?
*As written, the comic says that her opinion is that she firmly believes these authors to be the same person. My opinion is that Randall thinks proofreading is something you do to liquor bottles.
Achewood used to have comics full of character banter all the time. It works because Achewood had 1) art and 2) an incredibly rich cast of characters built up over many years by tremendous effort on the part of Chris Onstad. Here it falls completely flat. We have a vaguely womanish-looking stick figure barging in talking like the killer robot from a BioWare game*, and then a bunch of what Randall thinks dazzlingly witty repartee sounds like. But because we don't have any idea who these people are or how they think about things-- are they the same stick figures we have seen before? if so, which ones?-- we can't tell what the joke is supposed to be. Does Megan believe these ridiculous things? Is the other guy stupid for not believing them? Or are we just supposed to be impressed that Randall knows who E.B. White is?
*As written, the comic says that her opinion is that she firmly believes these authors to be the same person. My opinion is that Randall thinks proofreading is something you do to liquor bottles.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
2159
These are really the same as those vox-pop man-on-the-street soundbites that in almost every local news story since the beginning of TV. The only difference is that these upset other journalists ("journalists").
And anyway, what's more pitiful: getting your news from lists of random Twitter posts, or expecting others to get their news from your low-effort drawings?
These are really the same as those vox-pop man-on-the-street soundbites that in almost every local news story since the beginning of TV. The only difference is that these upset other journalists ("journalists").
And anyway, what's more pitiful: getting your news from lists of random Twitter posts, or expecting others to get their news from your low-effort drawings?
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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