Bad webcomics

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Chromeo said:
That christmas comic gets posted so much, we need to just make a Captain Prolactin thread and pin that to the OP.
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I’m gonna be honest, I’ve been wanting to make a thread on her for a while, even if just for containment purposes. But the problem is she’s “smart”. Doesn’t engage in some of the violent/attention seeking behavior a lot of cows do, has only gotten snippy with people who’ve criticized her a handful of times, doesn’t make a public fool of herself like, say, Ellen Woodbury (doesn’t help that she only posts on Instagram, one of the least based social media platforms out there), and overall I’m kind of worried about there not being enough to differentiate her from any other radfem/social justice artist.
 
Grand Duke Snowfall said:
I’m gonna be honest, I’ve been wanting to make a thread on her for a while, even if just for containment purposes. But the problem is she’s “smart”. Doesn’t engage in some of the violent/attention seeking behavior a lot of cows do, has only gotten snippy with people who’ve criticized her a handful of times, doesn’t make a public fool of herself like, say, Ellen Woodbury (doesn’t help that she only posts on Instagram, one of the least based social media platforms out there), and overall I’m kind of worried about there not being enough to differentiate her from any other radfem/social justice artist.
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At the very least it makes a space to criticize her in long-form and keep it all together
 
CaptProlactin has been contained.

And going back to Kevin Bolk, there actually is a comic he could be remembered for!
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Because it is a format that is never…
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Ever…
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Going to die.
 
Ghostse said:
Its really gay female power fantasy as they ignore the men in salem who were killed as witches. So instead of trying to write female leads who are smart, or clever (because that would make the female viewers jealous and feel lesser compared to them) the female leads are instead clueless but they have some sort of magical power so that - much like media for teenaged boys- they can feel "Well, if I had those powers I'd do ever better than her.". This is because just relying on the Fairy Godmother to save them is othering and oppressive via the patriatchy or some dumb shit.

Cue a bunch of copycats and now its a subgenre and just stupidly common.

To round out the gender wars:
If I see a in a book's summary about "Former FBI agent" or "Former Special Forces" I immediately go look at another book. This filters out a depressing amount of CURRENT YEAR fiction.
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Yeah, the current ClitLit nonsense always reminds me of the old pulp adventure stories but for girls: absolute bargain-basement quality, barebones plots, we all know the score. Nobody actually *likes* this shit, but they like it enough for it to be suitably disposable entertainment, enjoyed once and then forgotten. These things survive entirely because the production costs are so low you're almost guaranteed a profit. And if you don't turn a profit, oh well, a billion fly-by-night publishing companies out there.
 
RazorBackBacon said:
Yeah, the current ClitLit nonsense always reminds me of the old pulp adventure stories but for girls: absolute bargain-basement quality, barebones plots, we all know the score. Nobody actually *likes* this shit, but they like it enough for it to be suitably disposable entertainment, enjoyed once and then forgotten. These things survive entirely because the production costs are so low you're almost guaranteed a profit. And if you don't turn a profit, oh well, a billion fly-by-night publishing companies out there.
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Yup. There were some really good stories and characters that came out of the old pulp adventures, but less than 1% of the output that through a combination of skill and luck were actually good ignores the 40% that were just forgetably mediocre and the majority that was really bad.

ClitLit doesn't even manage to generate that fractional percentage that is actually enjoyable.
 
RazorBackBacon said:
Yeah, the current ClitLit nonsense always reminds me of the old pulp adventure stories but for girls: absolute bargain-basement quality, barebones plots, we all know the score. Nobody actually *likes* this shit, but they like it enough for it to be suitably disposable entertainment, enjoyed once and then forgotten. These things survive entirely because the production costs are so low you're almost guaranteed a profit. And if you don't turn a profit, oh well, a billion fly-by-night publishing companies out there.
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Except ClitLit tries too hard to be hot and sexy, only to come off as violently unsexy and libido crushing. At least with Pulp Lit, not all of it is about sex and socially unacceptable kinks. ClitLit ate the type of books that make porn addicts into voluntary celibate wizards.
 
Crybaby Xianghua said:
Except ClitLit tries too hard to be hot and sexy, only to come off as violently unsexy and libido crushing. At least with Pulp Lit, not all of it is about sex and socially unacceptable kinks. ClitLit ate the type of books that make porn addicts into voluntary celibate wizards.
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Pulp was trying to sell an escapist fantasy of men raised by apes, detectives who could outwit anyone, or who gained super strength because of the low gravity of a different world. Clit lit is trying to sell a fantasy of sex as written by women who either hate men or don't actually understand romance because they're completely unlovable.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
Clit lit is trying to sell a fantasy of sex as written by women who [...] don't actually understand romance because they're completely unlovable.
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Add in the fact they are narcissists who don't love anyone except themselves and you've got it nailed.
"Romance written by women who don't understand romance because they only love themselves, because they are too unloveable for anyone else to"

Crybaby Xianghua said:
Except ClitLit tries too hard to be hot and sexy, only to come off as violently unsexy and libido crushing. At least with Pulp Lit, not all of it is about sex and socially unacceptable kinks. ClitLit ate the type of books that make porn addicts into voluntary celibate wizards.
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There are two issues, which is really one issue, with your comparison.

First, the real genderflip of ClitLit isn't Pulp, its "LitRPG". God how I fucking loathe LitRPG. Right down the formulatic story, the weird fetishes as a primary plot point, and terrible self-insert main characters wearing the author's politics.

Second, the other issue is when you are looking at Pulps you are looking at the 1910's through I'd even go to the 1980s, even if the peak was the 20s through 50s.
I commented on previously how much like "classic film", Pulp gets a rosier reputation because all the utter slop has exited public consciousness (and in some cases is lost media completely) but even then the output still exceeds its modern counterpart.
The issue with this comparison is even the worst "I take no joy or pride in my output, I'm only doing this to keep from starving" pen-for-hire during that time is able to write circles around any English Major in the past 40 years.
Because they were trained on the classics and proper writing not "finding your authentic read: retarded voice", and that's before we get into how utterly ass modern editors are.

You run into the same issue with LitRPG when comparing it to Pulp Adventure despite them being targeted at the same demographic just at different times.

In conclusion, for the good of current and future generations, we need to get Stephen King back on cocaine.
Ain't no shitlib coke addicts.
 
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I really miss when "bad webcomic" either meant "yet another shitty Penny Arcade clone" or "basically just porn". I know You Are The Soyjak is millennia old, but there was a brief, wonderful period where that particular form of sophistry hadn't yet hit the webcomic scene.
 
DocAwe said:
I had to look up "litRPG" just to confirm what I suspected it meant.
How awful.
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Yeah sorry I should have specified "Western Isekai".

The only upside to this horrible... I guess it is its own genre at this point, is that works that fall into now advertise as "LitRPG" which makes it easier to avoid.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
Pulp was trying to sell an escapist fantasy of men raised by apes, detectives who could outwit anyone, or who gained super strength because of the low gravity of a different world. Clit lit is trying to sell a fantasy of sex as written by women who either hate men or don't actually understand romance because they're completely unlovable.
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Vanity is one hell of a sin indeed. No wonder Clit Lit is the way it is. For vain fat women femcels, by vain fat women femcels.
 
That pizza cake woman showed up on my IG suggestions with like 25 reshares on the post. I would suspect that means she is paying to boost visibility on IG also. Her bio has a link to her Patreon so i guess the metrics work out. I don't begrudge her whatever commercial success she has but fuck there are so many actual artists out there who could use the money. So depressing that there are so many shutin hicklib autists that are paying to have a parasocial relationship with an abrasive unfunny middle aged woman in flyover. So sad that just because she is skinny and everyone is so fat that she codes as desirable enough to do the webcomic equivalent of selling used panties.
 
Not so much a comic itself, I just wanted to share these Halo Head fans having a normal one that made me lol:
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It's not going to make much sense without context, but FWIW here's the strip they're reacting to:

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Edit: Image isn't attaching for some reason. No idea.
 
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Dr. Butt said:
a pedophile makes that comic.
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Ever since you said this the first time, I wondered what you meant. I never really got pedo vibes from the creator. She always seems more like someone who's stuck in the 2000s "Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m" era of the internet.

Surfin Terf said:
You put the first attach tag inside the spoiler tag
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I was just Ctrl-Ving inside the spoilers at first, then I tried saving it and uploading it and using "Insert thumbnail". It seems to have been fixed now.
 
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