Bad webcomics

[TopTierHealer]

I kind of hate calling Tats's comics "bad" webcomics. They're absolutely deranged at this point, but he's actually a skilled cartoonist with a distinctive and compelling style, and sometimes makes good points. If I see a Tats cartoon (and they are immediately identifiable), I will at least look to see what he's saying, even if it's absolutely insane.

He's kind of like Wormwood and Stonetoss in that I think at least part of their political ideology is utterly insane, but they have a great grasp of the panel comics and often have actual points.

He's also not a cow because he's been drawing a comic since 1991, online since 1999 and he's still a ghost. Not a single sighting nor a hint of a personal life. He could be an AI, a made up persona or John Titor for all we know.

 

[Cnidarian]

New Existential Webcomic.

Spoiler: Author Rant

There was a split in followers of Hegel between the "young Hegelians" who thought the Hegelian dialectic meant we had to radically transform society, Marx being the most famous. And then there was the "old Hegelians" who thought that 18th century Germany was the peak of human achievement and absolutely nothing could be improved. Constituional monarchy was the final form of government and that's that.
It turns out that much like everyone ever who has had that idea, they were wrong.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I kind of hate calling Tats's comics "bad" webcomics. They're absolutely deranged at this point, but he's actually a skilled cartoonist with a distinctive and compelling style, and sometimes makes good points. If I see a Tats cartoon (and they are immediately identifiable), I will at least look to see what he's saying, even if it's absolutely insane.

He's kind of like Wormwood and Stonetoss in that I think at least part of their political ideology is utterly insane, but they have a great grasp of the panel comics and often have actual points.

Stonetoss, I think a lot of it is trolling, the dude shit posts and has no problem taking shots at Trump or anyone else he thinks is dumb.

With Tats, I agree, there's still a lot of talent there. I mean, some of those shirt designs are well done and I wish he'd done something I'd actually want to wear. And in his comics, he hasn't slacked off on the artwork unlike a lot of his contemporaries. And there were a couple of moments in the last couple of years where I could see the storyteller who had a nerdy bookworm brave hell just to make sure a girl he liked was okay.

I wish he'd go back to telling stories with real characters instead of crying about whatever political bullshit he's locked onto this year. But if he was going to do that, we wouldn't have gotten seven years of that sisterhood bullshit or however long it lasted.

 

[RSU 1741]

He's kind of like Wormwood and Stonetoss in that I think at least part of their political ideology is utterly insane, but they have a great grasp of the panel comics and often have actual points.

I kind of disagree. Stonetoss and Wormwood are in the same political area, but they mostly remember that they need to be funny. Tats makes me chuckle at him not with him. He's essentially a lolcow, saved by his own utter devotion to opsec. Plus, there's a difference between skirting the extreme right-wing talking points like Stonetoss does and flat-out HITLER DID NOTHING BAD GAS THE KIKES NOW NOW NOW that Tats has been reduced to. Tats is a fanatic, he embraced his new "religion" and repeats almost mindlessly cheap propaganda like he did when he embraced feminist drivel a decade ago. Or when Obama was the saviour TWO decades ago.

His art has somewhat declined with the need of painting ugly characters and ugly situations. Thankfully he stopped drawing horrible troons and now he's drawing horrible jews and the Aryanest Aryans, but it's not the charm of classic romcom Sinfest.

I wish he'd go back to telling stories with real characters instead of crying about whatever political bullshit he's locked onto this year. But if he was going to do that, we wouldn't have gotten seven years of that sisterhood bullshit or however long it lasted.

Can he, though? He tried several iterations of marrying his plotlines and characters with his ideologies (the infamous Sisterhood, the Devil being behind teh Patriarchy), then tried "story arcs" of random schizo derivation (like the last fairytale inspired whatevers) and now he's down to random antisemitic drivel. The Message is more important than the Characters, I guess.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Or when Obama was the saviour TWO decades ago.

...when you come across a new phrase that hits you with the passage of time.

Spoiler: ...

T-T-T-TWO DECADES ME BOI?!?

 

[AnOminous]

He has the character design issues characteristic of many older-generation north american artists and to me, even a small amount of that is so jarring I would hesitate to refer to many guys like him as "some of the best".

It isn't even just his characters, though, but the backgrounds Gerhard did that worked so well with them.

I still view him and most of the run of Cerebus (before he went Tats-level batshit) as some of the best.

New Existential Webcomic.

Actually got a sensible chuckle or two out of this.

I mean it requires a trifle of Esoteric Hegelian Dialectics, but it's still kind of funny, in that xkcd way of "isn't it funny we both know thing" way.

 

[Big Nasty]

This is bad. Really bad.



http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5750

 

[All Your Bases...]

He's also not a cow because he's been drawing a comic since 1991, online since 1999 and he's still a ghost. Not a single sighting nor a hint of a personal life. He could be an AI, a made up persona or John Titor for all we know.

If remember digging though any community (tragically only r/sinfest) that discussed him because of how his comics have nosedived, and I think I could be up for the shot of making a thread if I made a dedicated doc or something, however I do not think I am this autistic, and again, the only reason he does not have one by this point is because of his worship of ospec.

Edit: Goddamn it, I've jinxed myself.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

This is bad. Really bad.

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He actually had Faye use the word 'valid' when talking about Hannelore, who has historically been a horny bitch she just can't bring herself to act on it because of her OCD, being retconned as asexual.

I remember when he introduced Hannelore's intern, his first character with they/them pronouns. The funny thing was that the way he wrote her (Clearly female character using nonbinary pronouns to be more special) just highlighted how dumb using they/them as a pronoun really was. These people need to accept they're just too old for this shit and to stop acting like they're still hip and young.

 

[Dendyy]

I'm not convinced asexuals even exist. Maybe there are some rare genetic mutants or groin disease victims that have zero sex drive, but not some faggot-ass Tumblrite who wants attention.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

This is bad. Really bad.

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Man. It's been so long that I forgot his original premise was recommending and critiquing indie bands alongside the comic and doing annual round-ups of albums; an aspect which he appears to have gone back and erased entirely from existence. The only residue I can find of it is some of the older strips having real band names on the shirts. Which is a shame. QC was my 'Pitchfork' as a teen, so I could say 'Pitchfork? Nah I get my music recs from a webcomic.' Like a very cool guy. (Now I get it from livestreamers, like an even cooler guy.)

I can understand not innovating on the art once you've achieved a stable product with a consistent audience. No one ever threw shade at Scott Adams for drawing Dilbert the same way for a thousand years. But usually when an artist turns one product into an assembly line they branch out into other projects to keep scratching the itch. Jeph has not felt that itch in over a decade.

 

[Two Frogs]

Which is a shame. QC was my 'Pitchfork' as a teen, so I could say 'Pitchfork? Nah I get my music recs from a webcomic.' Like a very cool guy.

I literally only ever heard of Deerhoof from QC. I went to one of their live shows and got Satomi's autograph when I was a teenager because of that. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen, small intimate venue. The drummer's absolutely shredded cymbal by the end was amazing to me.

He's lost his way and it disgusts me. His interests have changed from indie music, to fat lactation-fetish Vtuber and barely legal "gremlins" and "queer comfort food" pandering slop. He draws Liz more childishly than he drew the actual children characters. At this point, I'm thinking he needs a hard drive check.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

fat lactation-fetish Vtuber and barely legal "gremlins" and "queer comfort food" pandering slop

? Does he have a Bluesky or something? 'cause his twitter is suspended.
Or is this uh, all in the comic? I dropped it a lifetime ago and haven't looked until today.

Edit: I dropped Sam and Fuzzy around the same time. I was just getting older I think. I recently revisited S&F though - another old horse still pulling the cart. Logan finally moved on to a new comic but it's clear from the archives that his two leads just became stand-ins for whatever story he felt like writing at the time and became empty of their own personalities.

 

[Two Frogs]

Or is this uh, all in the comic?

Every thing I listed is literally what QC has been about for the past like 3 years and counting and there has been strips about these things over and over again, and no I did not exaggerate or make anything up.

 

[Big Nasty]

Liz more childishly than he drew the actual children characters.

Underage-looking chick is also constantly drunk.

 

[Chromeo]

I'm not convinced asexuals even exist. Maybe there are some rare genetic mutants or groin disease victims that have zero sex drive, but not some faggot-ass Tumblrite who wants attention.

I've maintained for years that most "asexuals" aren't really, and it could be better explained in one of a few ways:

• Low libido due to disorder/medication
• Unaddressed sexual trauma
• Cope for being repulsive to potential partners
• Gay/lesbian person pretending to be straight
• Teenager in an oversexed environment
• Hangups around sex/relationships

There are some people, like Nikola Tesla, who never have sex and don't have any interest in it, but I think those people are very rare and AREN'T the overwhelming majority of "asexuals" online who read shipfic, masturbate, have kinks and fetishes, or have sex sometimes.

 

[TopTierHealer]

If I wasn't a filthy newfag I would have given you a Semper Fi. But still, that's a bang up job finding a picture.

I've maintained for years that most "asexuals" aren't really, and it could be better explained in one of a few ways:

I think I've said it before in this very thread but, at the risk of repeating myself, asexuals means, "I'm asexual for you, not Chad Thundercock".

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I've maintained for years that most "asexuals" aren't really, and it could be better explained in one of a few ways:

• Low libido due to disorder/medication
• Unaddressed sexual trauma
• Cope for being repulsive to potential partners
• Gay/lesbian person pretending to be straight
• Teenager in an oversexed environment
• Hangups around sex/relationships

There are some people, like Nikola Tesla, who never have sex and don't have any interest in it, but I think those people are very rare and AREN'T the overwhelming majority of "asexuals" online who read shipfic, masturbate, have kinks and fetishes, or have sex sometimes.

I used to hang out on their local forums for a certain reason.
It's mostly an autistic trait, in men in particular. In people, who will mostly strongly deny, that they might be spergs, but in hindsight, it all made perfect sense, because they all were showing the same patterns of writing and behaviour (apart from not being into sex)
I stopped going there, since I had realized that all I can get from there, would only be more obnoxious spergs in my life and that it had shown me an ugly mirror.

And yeah, as for the cockslop readers and writers, I don't believe them the slightest.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I stopped going there, since I had realized that all I can get from there, would only be more obnoxious spergs in my life and that it had shown me an ugly mirror.

and then you came here! Ha! Bazinga.

Spoiler: ...

fr though, while I'd never call myself asexual, it did take me a long time to realize that everyone else has the pursuit of sex in mind at all times and in all interactions. It's up there with 'I am hungry, and need to eat something.' Never understood how guys go for slampigs until then.

Complaining about the weather with the cashier girl? She thinks you want to fuck her. Office politics? Sex is on the agenda. Talking with your buddy at the gym? He's wary you're too close to his gf. That woman who's nice to you all the time then goes cold one day? She realized you're not interested.

And man, if you're not playing the game at least a little it sure weirds people out.

Edit: AND relationships! Holy shit. Everyone has a goddamn rolodex they can instantly access in their brain of who is fucking who, who is glancing at who, who has said a nice or dismissive thing about so-and-so in the past. Who putters around an extra five minutes at the end of a shift to catch sight of Mr. Whoever. On and on and on.

 

[JeanRob1]

fr though, while I'd never call myself asexual, it did take me a long time to realize that everyone else has the pursuit of sex in mind at all times and in all interactions. It's up there with 'I am hungry, and need to eat something.' Never understood how guys go for slampigs until then.

Complaining about the weather with the cashier girl? She thinks you want to fuck her. Office politics? Sex is on the agenda. Talking with your buddy at the gym? He's wary you're too close to his gf. That woman who's nice to you all the time then goes cold one day? She realized you're not interested.

And man, if you're not playing the game at least a little it sure weirds people out.

Guess I'm a sperg. I never understood it that way, but it makes sense about so many things I never understood about socializing