🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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His aversion to learning about/upgrading technology is really weird considering that he practically lives on the internet.
 
Ruin said:
aversion to learning about/upgrading technology
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That is odd that Sweet spends so much time online - the internet was a big change to technology as well as society in the 90s. Although I'm guessing that Sweet may not have got online until considerably later.

Also, his complaining about Net neutrality reminds me of the school lunch thing - it seems like he's against the left's position just by virtue of being the left. And as I said earlier, he really likes watching TV.

Sweet's talk of the leftisit machine reminds me, as Holdek pointed out, of Chris' crazy theories of vast troll conspiracies. As someone pointed out already, ASU is to Sweet what the GAMe PLACe was to CWC - not only is he banned from what was paradise to him, but if he were to go back, it's not the same place anymore. The old dorms were torn down. Computers with CD burners and floppy drives were probably replaced already (never mind that those computer labs are probably supposed to be for students and staff only). Hell, even the old buffet dining might've been phased out, like it was at my alma mater.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
he's against the left's position just by virtue of being the left
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I've heard it said that Obama or Democrats in general could offer the right wing everything they ever wanted on a silver platter and they'd suddenly be against it just because of who it was that was making the offer.
 
Belch in 2008 said:
If you mean I'm attacking liberals who aren't here to defend themselves....yes. I've offered them every chance. They are too craven and cowardly to come before me like men. I invite them to sit down at a bargaining table, or at least answer an e-mail, but they refuse. So I go on message boards, I blog, I publicly mock them in print and draw rude cartoons of them. I do this hoping maybe that'll finally provoke them to sprout a pair, step forth, and face me in the arena of ideas. This silly dispute could have been settled years ago if I'd found the right venue and mediator.
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Belch in 2015 said:
-Huh-uh. I'm not even talking to you. I don't need this abuse anymore. :-X

-Besides not letting me edit posts, you've done nothing but attack, insult, and misrepresent me there for over 100 pages, then you come here and poison our waters.

-Just as in my newspaperman days, I underestimated the strength of the left and its followers. I thought you'd crumble in the face of my attacks. You didn't. Fine.

-I talked about them here to show my brother AJM'es what it is we're fighting against-- the encroachment of the progressive ideology on our joys and freedoms. I figured I'd see the last of them when I left their boards. I didn't realize the enemy would follow me to this little oasis.
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Careful what you wish for.

Of course, Jon was talking about the Herald people in the first quote, I believe, but it nonetheless demonstrates how he'll back down from a challenge when it is actually accepted.
 
The hypocrisy being that he came over here to antagonize us first and when he realized he was outmatched he retreats to his hugbox and expects us to respect him and his privacy.
 
Ruin said:
The hypocrisy being that he came over here to antagonize us first and when he realized he was outmatched he retreats to his hugbox and expects us to respect him and his privacy.
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Doubly funny because his "privacy" is a bunch of posts on a public message board.
 
Double post because I'm looking at the newest comic pages he posted at his hugbox. I can't say "reading" because even at with he pages at their full size, the text is so crammed together as to be illegible in places.
- Jon's sidekick/brother/lover/whoever at one point comments, "Great fagots afire!" Because that is how real people who aren't just trying to be edgelords talk.
- They're yammering about some bomb Jon's Naitsirhc has stuck on top of a building called the Ashley Bank. Hurr hurr hurr.
- There's a store in the background of one of the panels called Walledinbooks. Aw, remember Waldenbooks?
- Despite the fact that I can make out this background detail, I cannot for the life of me figure out what the scorching hell is going on in the panels around it.
- It looks like Sweet literally cut and pasted the panels of his comic from a pencil-smudged sheet of paper onto a clean one. Even if this was done digitally, it still looks very ineptly done.
- Jon in the second panel from the right at the bottom of the second page looks like he has a huge beer gut.
 
I think those pages were the most painful to read yet. Also, Jon's grasp of chemistry seems decidedly shaky. His Mary-Sue at one point talks about a radioactive isotope that reacts on exposure to air to make a toxic gas, and another which "oxidises" to lead. That's two fundamentally wrong assumptions about how radioactive materials behave in the space of a sentence.

I also love the hero's pleasure at noting the villain will be subdued until the police arrive by harmless old...acute lead poisoning.
 
Iconoclast said:
But I suppose you've never gotten lost, huh? Either of you? Plus I spent some of that time sitting in the waiting room, and no one showed up to assist me. But no, not one bad word against the staff for their uncaring or incompetence-- it's all on me and some magic phantom brain illness.
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Sweet blames the hospital staff for not approaching him while he was sitting in the waiting room and volunteering to him instructions for leaving.
 
Shadow Fox said:
Double post because I'm looking at the newest comic pages he posted at his hugbox. I can't say "reading" because even at with he pages at their full size, the text is so crammed together as to be illegible in places.
- Jon's sidekick/brother/lover/whoever at one point comments, "Great fagots afire!" Because that is how real people who aren't just trying to be edgelords talk.
- They're yammering about some bomb Jon's Naitsirhc has stuck on top of a building called the Ashley Bank. Hurr hurr hurr.
- There's a store in the background of one of the panels called Walledinbooks. Aw, remember Waldenbooks?
- Despite the fact that I can make out this background detail, I cannot for the life of me figure out what the scorching hell is going on in the panels around it.
- It looks like Sweet literally cut and pasted the panels of his comic from a pencil-smudged sheet of paper onto a clean one. Even if this was done digitally, it still looks very ineptly done.
- Jon in the second panel from the right at the bottom of the second page looks like he has a huge beer gut.
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I can't even fucking read this. It's an absolute mess. Not only is the resolution low enough that I have to squint and lean forward to even read it, but put that on top of Jon's overly-crowded drawings and his even more chaotic panel layout, I can't for the life of me understand any of this bullshit.

Somebody send Sweets a copy of Understanding Comics. Or maybe just tell him to quit.
 
I'm not sure if this got posted yet here, but I did a cursory search and found nothing. Mr. Sweet was the subject of one of Clyde Cash's "This Troper" videos (a series covering bizarre sections and posters on TVTrope's defunct section of the same name) on Youtube back in 2011. I don't think it's anything we don't already know, but it's still fun to see a "Voices of Spergatory: Iconoclast Edition." type thing.

 
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Golly said:
I'm not sure if this got posted yet here, but I did a cursory search and found nothing. Mr. Sweet was the subject of one of Clyde Cash's "This Troper" (covering bizarre sections and posters on TVTrope's now defunct section of the same name) series on Youtube back in 2011. I don't think it's anything we don't already know, but it's still fun to see a "Voices of Spergatory: Iconoclast Edition." type thing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iOVa5UvSC_A
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I didn't know that was the work of Clyde Cash.
 
Absinthe said:
Also, Jon's grasp of chemistry seems decidedly shaky.
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You can actually read enough of those comics to tell what's going on? Like Meowthkip, I can barely read the text in the first place. There's far too much stuff crammed into a single page.

On the plus side, at least he seems to have abandoned using stick figures in the comics.
 
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Is this a webcomic or does he sell it on a website somewhere?
 
I was just wondering if he actually thinks he's going to make money off his crap or if he just spent 20 years making a shitty comic for fun.

I honestly don't know which of those two options is sadder.
 
Adamska said:
He did try and foist his shit off on the Beau at his second "job". Basically, he was trying to use his "job" as an outlet, but it closed before then.
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That would have been the only time he would've made a semi-good decision. Question: if he really does have product, why not sell it on Amazon or some shit? He might have been able to move a handful of units.
 
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