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Holy hell. Read some of that Clarissa comic, and that is some dark shit. Not even being subtle about what's going on, it's straight up in your face about how the father is a monster to his daughter, and the family knows and just ignores it out of fear.
 
TopTierHealer said:
*lights cigarette* Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. I read some of the comics but the punchline being "10 year old gets raped by her dad" never sat right with me even in my edgelord phase.
I remember a claymation short that made the whole story even darker but I can't find it anywhere. Also the guy has TDS (of fucking course)

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This is basically the reverse of "My favorite character agrees with my political views".

"Look guys, my EVIL PEDOPHILE OC likes the big bad orange man! OMFG guys, that means the orange man is just as evil as my fictional cartoon chomo!". Lame and gay.

I actually did read some of Clarissa back in around 2020/2021, I first heard about it while reading stuff on TV Tropes and checked it out due to morbid curiosity. After that, I basically just forgot about it entirely up until today. A testament as to how utterly vapid and forgettable the comic is as a whole.

The only thing that Clarissa has going for it as a comic is the shocking premise, which has nothing worthwhile to back it up. There's no real "story" to speak of. No conflict, no stakes, no goals, just the punchline of "child gets violated by father". That's it.

I looked at Yungbluth's website again to see what he's been doing with Clarissa lately, and it's apparent that the author has done nothing to age up or develop the characters after over 25 years. Yungbluth is stuck in the backwards mindset of a Sunday paper cartoonist - Clarissa is just another dime-a-dozen comic where nothing changes and nobody ever ages.

It's a missed opportunity. It would have been far more interesting to see Clarissa grow up, while showing how her fucked-up family life affects her in the long run.

Think of the storytelling avenues this could lead to. What actions could she take when she gets older? Could she run away? Report her father's crimes? SUE her father? Anything at all? If she were to make any attempts, how would her father react? Would he become paranoid about the possibility of retribution against him? What would he do to try and stop her? Stuff like that would give the comic some legitimate conflict, which would make the story worth giving a shit.

Unfortunately, Yungbluth would never even consider that possibility, because he lacks creativity.

Several of the guys here have discussed the possibility that Yungbluth might be a closeted chomo himself, due to how long he's drawn out the pedo punchline. I agree with this sentiment, as the way that he depicts Clarissa [as a character] is extremely tasteless and exploitative. It's an excuse for him to display his perversions while under the defense that "It's social commentary! It's just dark humor!".


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Ew...just fucking EW.

With this in mind, it's clear that Yungbluth doesn't actually give a shit about child abuse victims. He just shat out Clarissa as a cheap shock value comic, and uses the character as a prop to virtue signal about political shit. "Look guys, look at how miserable and abused Clarissa is! The bad people whose politics I don't like are just like the evil dad that diddles little Clarissa!" Shut your stupid fucking mouth Jason, you manipulative shit-eating cunt. Do the world a favor and actually kill yourself you FAGGOT.
 
I didn't get much past the first few chapters, but I will say he hit the nail on the head about how the worst of these situations happen. You have the victim who is seemingly lost with no idea how to safely cope with what is happening, as the feeling of shame is overwhelming so they retreat inward and close themselves off. You have a mother who obviously knows what is happening, but does nothing to stop it (and it's implied she places blame on Clarissa for it) while still feeling a massive amount of guilt for not stepping in. Two brothers, one of which is obviously afraid of the father likely due to previous abuse, and another who seems to be ignorant or just ignoring it outright. If I am being honest, it feels almost like the rest of the family is afraid of him and uses her as a lightning rod to save themselves. And what signs she IS able to put out as a call for help are ignored by everyone who can't connect the dots.

I never had to go through anything like that myself thank fuck, but I know someone that did and it messed them up for decades after. Clarissa isn't a complete mirror of the situation, but enough of it is that it's genuinely disturbing to see it used as the basis of a comic. I've seen comics dive into some deep things before ranging from divorce to combat PTSD, but this... this is just grotesque. To keep it up for this many years, to me, is a sign the author has some awful experiences with the subject matter. Be it them, or someone close to them, or (god forbid) their own twisted fantasy, you have to have a pretty damn depraved mind to keep doing it for decades.
 
Canis Mechanicus said:
I looked at Yungbluth's website again to see what he's been doing with Clarissa lately, and it's apparent that the author has done nothing to age up or develop the characters after over 25 years.
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A quarter fucking century of this shit, and the punchline is "lmao child gets molested." He's been doing this 25 fucking years.

It's like Garfield, except by a total failure who has made no money from it and instead of the joke being "cat eats lasagna" it's "child gets molested." Also Orange Man Bad. But a child needs to get molested first.

He should really neck at this point.
 
AnOminous said:
A quarter fucking century of this shit, and the punchline is "lmao child gets molested." He's been doing this 25 fucking years.
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A quote I like from the sauce of my username is "Even a dumb animal can dance."

For those who ain't read Blood Meridian the TLDR is that after a book full of witnessing and partaking in ultra edgy shit, the viewpoint character meets up with my hairless albino namesake who is kinda/sorta/maybe the avatar of ultra edgy shit, who gives yet another sermon on how ultra edgy shit is the sacred pinnacle of human existence because will to power and stuff and...yeah I am heavily TLDR'ing it here, but the viewpoint character retorts by pointing out that by this logic animals are at the same sacred pinnacle of humanity because they freely partake in ultra edgy shit in the wild, to which my hairless albino namesake has little response but to rape him to death in the nearest outhouse....kinda...sorta...maybe....there are like fifty different interpretations of the ending and everything I just TLDR'd.

My mangling of literary classics aside, I always find this quote worth remembering whenever I see work getting fawned over solely because it has edgy subject matter even if the actual quality of the work is shit that would be ignored or derided were it not for crowbarring in said edgy subject matter (i.e. the entire literary canon of Garth Ennis).

Any talentless hack or autist can depict shit that provokes an involuntary surge of shock or revulsion or even distress like rape or child rape in their work, but this doesn't make said hack or autist some worthy writer or creator for doing so. Sure there are writers and creators who can and do depict shit like this in a way that stands on its own merits, but thats because of their own talent and not because the subject matter automatically confers some magical boon on the shit they do.

Heck, one can step away from edgy shit in particular and apply this to other cheap gimmicks used by shitty creators to get attention and praise from retards, like jump scares/gore in horror, shock/cringe content in comedy, or politics/references/nostalgia in....fucking everything. The notion that specific subject matter is automatically entitled to uncritical praise and attention solely because of some inherent importance or value is one of the main reasons why the past decade of cawntent has been so fucking shit.

With this specimen in particular, remove the child rape element and you remove the one thing of note about his quarter century of work. Hence why he clings to it like a fucking lifebelt.
 
Judge Holden said:
For those who ain't read Blood Meridian the TLDR is that after a book full of witnessing and partaking in ultra edgy shit, the viewpoint character meets up with my hairless albino namesake who is kinda/sorta/maybe the avatar of ultra edgy shit, who gives yet another sermon on how ultra edgy shit is the sacred pinnacle of human existence because will to power and stuff and...yeah I am heavily TLDR'ing it here, but the viewpoint character retorts by pointing out that by this logic animals are at the same sacred pinnacle of humanity because they freely partake in ultra edgy shit in the wild, to which my hairless albino namesake has little response but to rape him to death in the nearest outhouse....kinda...sorta...maybe....there are like fifty different interpretations of the ending and everything I just TLDR'd.
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i already told you, the whole thing makes perfect sense if you admit that holden is god, not the devil!
 
Neuropol said:
Parts of me liked parts of Weapon Brown--mostly through playing "spot the reference". Breakfast of the Gods was better at twisting beloved icons into something dark because it also gave us likeable characters we could root for.
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A Peanut Scorned was much better than Blockhead's War, and I'm presuming the 3rd which I never bothered with given it was made post-current year and I knew it'd be whatever pages of TDS.

A Peanut Scorned kept to the "Peanuts-verse" so was able to keep the satire & trope subversion much more on point.

Blockhead's War was, as you said, a lot of "Spot the Reference". Somewhat ironically I think trying to make it Funny Pages satire held it back; there was some good world building and a pretty good story in there and in a lot of cases the need to cram in a reference to some comic or make a character fit role that didn't really apply was a detraction.

Canis Mechanicus said:
it's clear that Yungbluth doesn't actually give a shit about child abuse victims. He just shat out Clarissa as a cheap shock value comic, and uses the character as a prop to virtue signal about political shit.
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This is my issue with not so much Clarissa but the ... volume of Clarissa that he continuously puts out.

Its cheap shock value. Its not funny, its just shocking. It doesn't say anything, the character is just literally heaped with abuse, cue rimshot.

Judge Holden said:
Any talentless hack or autist can depict shit that provokes an involuntary surge of shock or revulsion or even distress like rape or child rape in their work, but this doesn't make said hack or autist some worthy writer or creator for doing so. Sure there are writers and creators who can and do depict shit like this in a way that stands on its own merits, but thats because of their own talent and not because the subject matter automatically confers some magical boon on the shit they do.
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Yeah this. Its less the subject matter and more the lazy edgelord way its presented. "I made a comic where a girl is molested by her father and no one does anything. I'm just so clever and above morality"
 
RIP Common Filth, one of his last episodes before he got nuked off youtube was "remembering all at once" and Yungbluth's approach to the topic of molestation reminds of the Gawker vs Hulk Hogan trial.

You know that Clarissa really is, at best, edgelordism and when called out the nonce will just go, "of course you're not educated enough to discuss a sensitive topic like this" with the smug aura of pseud. The nail on the coffin of the Gawker trial was the testimony of the chief editor that went on the stand championing free speech and freedom of the press (of a fucking sex tape).
Then topic was steered by Hogan's lawyer asking when is a sex tape not newsworthy? reply: "when it's a minor"
And when asked at which age would he not publish CSAM because it's not "newsworthy" ? the kool-aid drunk editor went, "under 4 years old".
Same smug attitude that burried any chance Gawker had of winning that lawsuit. He forgot he was not in his inner circle of beautiful ones and just showed the world that he was a midwit with delusions of grandeur.

For some reason I remember that trial when reading the previous posts.
 
It's sad when an edgelord artist realizes that, now the shock value has worn off, he has no idea what to do with his characters (see also: popopoka).
 
Ultraman Orb Dark said:
Yep. That's totally how it works. Everyone would live together in perfect harmony if not for the evil rich people.
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It's always an appeal to 'Why don't we just get along and don't have conflicts?' spoken in the same breath of 'Assholes, idiots and people with different interests exist' without realizing they're connected.
 
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