💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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I honestly don't think Dobson reads comics. Nothing he ever posts about them has anything to do with plot lines, he never discusses new issues, and usually when he draws a comic with a super hero/villain, he only seems to have wikipedia level understanding of the characters and their motivations. He probably only reads the anthologies they sell at Barnes and Noble, if even that much.

His stereotyping of comic book stores only strengthens my opinion of that. No one who owns a store gives a shit what you're buying, they're just happy they've made a sale. I've been to several comic book stores (as a girl) and have never been leered at or harassed. I also never encountered anyone who smelled badly enough that it would be memorable. People who identify themselves as being part of"geek culture" are kind of silly, but they're hardly the snobby elitists he's trying to make them out to be.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Picture Dobson wiggling.

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OK That's it..

Dobson.. You can take a motherfucking screenshot with the WiiU. It's one of the cool features, it has! You can do it in a few easy steps.
Get the point of the game you want to capture
Hit home button
Go to Miiverse
Save Screenshot
Go to your PC, and login to Miiverse via a web browser
Go to your screenshots and right click to save as, saving it somewhere you remember
Go to twitter, upload the saved screen shot.

The fact you're so lazy to get a decent screenshot, of something that has that function built in, speaks volumes about your work.

This level had more effort put into it than you screenshotting yours.

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This is a level I actually came across
 
Rabbit Bones said:
I honestly don't think Dobson reads comics. Nothing he ever posts about them has anything to do with plot lines, he never discusses new issues, and usually when he draws a comic with a super hero/villain, he only seems to have wikipedia level understanding of the characters and their motivations. He probably only reads the anthologies they sell at Barnes and Noble, if even that much.

His stereotyping of comic book stores only strengthens my opinion of that. No one who owns a store gives a shit what you're buying, they're just happy they've made a sale. I've been to several comic book stores (as a girl) and have never been leered at or harassed. I also never encountered anyone who smelled badly enough that it would be memorable. People who identify themselves as being part of"geek culture" are kind of silly, but they're hardly the snobby elitists he's trying to make them out to be.
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That's what I suspect as well. Whenever Dobson talks about comics, it feels more like he's parroting what other people have said than him actually forming his own opinion after reading the comic. It's the same vibe I get whenever he bitches about Quiet: he never played the game, so he's just copying the opinions of Wu or whoever else he's trying to suck up to.

And yeah, I'm on the same boat as everyone else regarding how comic book stores treat customers. I've never seen nor experienced employees harassing or making fun of someone for buying certain comics. That's unprofessional behavior and I don't think anyone will keep their job for very long if they acted like that. What probably happened is that Dobson once encountered a slightly rude worker and then blew it out of proportion for pity points.
 
I don't know if Barns and Noble counts as I don't have any comic books stores around my town, but I was never treated differently for buying manga. In fact, I was well received for actually buying books instead of being like everyone else sitting around the store reading them and not buying. Plus, they offered me a lot of great deals for manga as well.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
You want to know why he's laughing, Dobson? You went in looking for new manga and asked for a manga that's not only pretty damn old, but one that's super damn hard to find copies of at a random store.

Dumbass.
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When you put it like that it almost makes him sound like a hipster. "Darn neogeeks just don't understand my tastes"

His style is like Jim Davis' and Rumiko Takahashi's deformed bastard child. I remember him saying Jim Davis was an inspiration and he's made it clear he's a fan of Takahashi.
 
Dobby said:
The rise of online shopping, digital distribution, ipads, webcomics, and soap have all help contribute to removing this toxic geek space.
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Soap has been around since Babylonian times. The problem is that some people don't use it so they smell like piss when sprayed.

Dobby said:
I can't emphasize enough how important soap can be for male geek culture.
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It is important for female geek culture too, but I doubt he has the guts to approach a female geek in real life.
 
Regarding the entire "Dobson is just parroting things others say" thing: Why has no one by this point drawn Dobson as an actual parrot? I would do it myself, but you have seen how bad my attempts are, so...
 
Mitch Watterson said:
I wonder how well read Dobson is on Tintin, because it doesn't look like something he would support if he had read it all. Early Tintin was fucking insane.
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5 Bucks say he's just vaguely aware that Tintin is some non-mainstream comic titan with a good reputation and thus drops the name for fake-geek-cred.
It's almost like when he brings up his totally favorite comics/cartoons/games of all time and then misspells names of important characters or gets other things wrong.
"Can you imagine the gall of these people? I asked for Tintin and these uneducated barbarians mocked me for my refined tastes! I always enjoyed the adventures of Tintin and his faithful dog Haddock!"

Also, does Tintin have female characters where Dobson can gush over the idea of them kissing with their lower mouths? Kinda doubt it, so there goes any credibility of his claim of reading it.
UglyOldJafar said:
... I want to shove a bar of soap down his throat till he chokes and then gut him open.
This storify sincerely pisses me off, because I myself actually worked for some time at a comic store and made some of the best friends in life there. Sure, organization was a deal but we had a lot of things. Who the fuck does this guy think he is, if he insults pretty much all comic readers and shop owners, because the one shitty store in his neighborhood did not pander to him. Fuck you, Andrew Dobson. It is a good thing that you will never have a career as a comic artist, because any book store that has your work in the window should call disease control as they have goten toxic waste on their hands.
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That's the thing though, he insults pretty much all owners and employees of comic stores everywhere as well as any of their customers and wonders why people in general don't like him. And why? Just so he can play his "... but I'm different!"-card in hopes of getting pity asspats and sjw-tranny-points.
"White cis males are such assholes, but I'm different!", "Geeks are such assholes, but I'm different!", we get it Dobson, you're the only decent person to ever grace this planet. That's why you can get away with being an insensitive, racist, xenophobic, vain, vindictive, self-righteous, smug shitstain. Cause you might be all of the aforementioned things, but you tweet "All cis white males are scum!" to some bigotted tranny once a day.
Tailypo said:
That's what I suspect as well. Whenever Dobson talks about comics, it feels more like he's parroting what other people have said than him actually forming his own opinion after reading the comic. It's the same vibe I get whenever he bitches about Quiet: he never played the game, so he's just copying the opinions of Wu or whoever else he's trying to suck up to.

And yeah, I'm on the same boat as everyone else regarding how comic book stores treat customers. I've never seen nor experienced employees harassing or making fun of someone for buying certain comics. That's unprofessional behavior and I don't think anyone will keep their job for very long if they acted like that. What probably happened is that Dobson once encountered a slightly rude worker and then blew it out of proportion for pity points.
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1) Dobs tastes in any media are really shallow. Even when he tries to come up with something "obscure" and "non-mainstream" that he enjoyed, he mentiones works of Rumiko Takahashi or Detective Conan. Seriously.
2) Which of the two things is more likely:
The store actively tries to piss off customers since they simply don't want to sell things and going out of business is part of their great scheme.
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Dobs was an exceptional indivdual as always, sperged about some shit and the people in the stores don't usually dig that shit.

He possibly just stood in some corner, reading comics all day until he was told "this is a store, not a library, buy it or put it back on the shelve!" and now Dobs has a neverending grudge with comic book store owners.
 
Is there a source where he said the water mixed with his sweat smelled like piss?
 
I dunno about where Dobbers lives, but here all of our comic stores are accepting of anyone interested in buying something. Hell, there are a bunch of girl employees, as well, and I've never seen anyone treat them differently at the stores just because they have a vagina.

Also, since when does Dobbers leave his house to go to comic stores? Pretty sure his views on them are just how they're perceived in various shows and movies, and not how they generally are IRL. Once again, it's a case of him parroting what he's told instead of, y'know, doing research.
 
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