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

[AJMLurker]

The way they treated Treenbeen was awful. The way they treated Treenbeen in order to protect Sweet is simply baffling.

Agreed 100%. I didn't know Treenbeen well before this whole Sweetness incident, but I have to say she is the boss of AJM STUDIOS. Got mad respect for her after all this crap.

 

[The I Scream Man]

Yeah honestly if the only thing we get from this whole mess is you and the good @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe and based @Treenbeen then it'll have been well worth it, you guys are fucking dope and I'm really glad y'all stuck around, especially since you're making great contributions to other threads as well. The Doc in particular has made several insightful remarks recently, and I love both his and your posting styles.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Totally agree with TICM. You guys have contributed a lot.

Spoiler: Oh, in addition:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Remember the very first page of this thread when Sweet said the differences between CWC and himself were vast?

 

[sonichuis44]

I told you guys. Babby's first politics.

Johnny, please post your articles about:
-people buying steak with food stamps
-gays always pushing their gayness in your face
-immigrants who can't speak english
-women wearing tight shirts then getting mad when you stare at their boobs

 

[Le Bateleur]

I wonder if this was the poster of Pammaay that Sweet Bro's TRUE AND HONEST fans bought him?

Spoiler

Because, if so, there's at least two people selling copies on Amazon, plus sellers on eBay and Craigslist. Prices are between $15 and $20 including shipping.

There ya go, Sweet Bro - somebody told you about it.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Actually, Abs, I think it was a "Barb Wire" poster. Somehow somebody cut the nipples off, I believe.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Somehow somebody cut the nipples off, I believe.

NOT HIS PAMELA ANDERSON POSTER!

That happened right after Sweet was kicked off the paper. Sweet believed that he was once regarded as a "god," and he thought he realized he "fell from grace," and then he broke down crying - after seeing the defaced poster.

That post by Meowthkip has more of that story in it.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Actually, Abs, I think it was a "Barb Wire" poster. Somehow somebody cut the nipples off, I believe.

Now you mention it, I think that Sweet Bro has previously described it as a Barb Wire poster, but in his most recent journal he says "I was given a full-color poster of the film's star Pamela Lee, dressed as a cowgirl."

Sweet has never been the most reliable narrator - I suspect that the actual poster he had on his door may have been something like this:

Sweet has also edited his post. Most current version is saved here. He's made this addition

I joined a prestigious honor society@, still have my PGM pin.

Once again, the lack of self-awareness is clanging. Being in a prestigious honor society just makes Jon's subsequent zero years' paid employment even more incredible.

Regarding the onanistic self-portrait (hecameforJMS.jpg?), the description of the Belch Dimension episode it was taken from is another example of how Sweet has flashes of self-awareness.

The story opens in a small, shabby Cape Cod where Anna Hollings lives with her son Clinton. Clint, an unemployed college dropout in his mid-thirties, dreams of nothing but going back to school. So much so, in fact, that he's constructed a temporal portal generator that will whisk him back and let him relive his glory days. He especially wants to correct one decades-old mistake that he sees as the turning point for him--the very reason, he feels, his whole life has gone to hell since leaving Fulkes University.
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It seems he hurt a lot of people in the past, and isn't particularly well-liked at FU. His former "friends" each recall incidences that, when pieced together, show a not-too-pretty puzzle. Meantime, Clint spends more and more time visiting and revisiting his own personal highlight reel, and is slowly losing his already tenebrous touch with reality.

Taking out the completely original time-travel schtick, and the "my mother lives with me" obliviousness, the conclusion is exactly what the sterling newspapermanship of Dr M and others has concluded.
Of course, if we write here that Sweet is an unemployed college dropout who nobody liked when he was at college, he'll respond that nuh-nuh-nuh-yoo-is-not-has-that-yoo-is-da-pessimistic-libruhls...

You'd think someone who first discovered the internet in 1996 would have learned what necroposting is by now...

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

(hecameforJMS.jpg?)

HA! YES!

Also, looking at that second link, I found this:

"Clinton Hollings' m.o. and even his name are likely a reference to David Clinton, a.k.a. Chronos, a DC Comics villain who shares a similar obsession with time-travel and correcting past mistakes."

"Likely?" What do you mean "likely"? It's your comic, Thumbskull! Aren't you aware of which concept you ripped off?

Edit: What tha-?!?

I ... I think I might have to make an affidavit swearing that I didn't draw this ....

Edit 2:

Spoiler

Jon avatar edit for accuracy.

Edit 3: Ah heck, why not? It is Christmas, after all.

Spoiler: The whole thing

 

[Le Bateleur]

HA! YES!

Also, looking at that second link, I found this:

"Clinton Hollings' m.o. and even his name are likely a reference to David Clinton, a.k.a. Chronos, a DC Comics villain who shares a similar obsession with time-travel and correcting past mistakes."

"Likely?" What do you mean "likely"? It's your comic, Thumbskull! Aren't you aware of which concept you ripped off?

Edit: What tha-?!?

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I ... I think I might have to make an affidavit swearing that I didn't draw this ....

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That is absolutely amazing. Given Jon's track record with originality, I'd wager that the dialogue is drawn from real-life discussions with SweetMom.

Jon - just listen to yourself. Not to us, to yourself. You're never going back to AS(S)U. Get a job and get on with your life.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

I couldn't agree more. Oh, and, in case you missed it, I did a little more editing on the original comic.

But yeah, that argument didn't come out of nowhere. His mom seems rather put-upon, from my perspective. So, that's how he portrays her, huh? A harpy Aunt May? Nice.

 

[sonichuis44]

I wonder if he even realizes that the mom's dialogue comes off as perfectly reasonable to any outside observer.

Also I'm reading through "A Confederacy of Dunces" and it is so, so hard not to imagine every line coming from this

 

[RepQuest]

One of the more interesting things for me about CWC is how his conception of pop culture is shaped by his only real social interaction having been with his aged parents, which means that Sonichu will have references to Monty Python and Gilligan's Island next to Pokemon and the Power Rangers.

Don't plenty of contemporary mainstream TV shows and movies do that quite a bit, though?

If only someone told Sweet Bro about satellite radio, he could have found his route to nationwide exposure of the AS(S)U Conspiracy!

He could've just gone on BTR.

Spoiler

 

[ToroidalBoat]

perfectly reasonable to any outside observer

It kind of reminds me of that one comic about one Dr. Greer.

"Ma, y'aint listening! I wanna live at FU! They have things there I can't get on the outside! Like beautiful random girls who call your room every night to meet'cha for sex!"

I wonder how often Sweet talks to his mom about his ambitions wishes to go back to "AS(S)U" and get some of that chinaphone lovin'?

 

[Shadow Fox]

Wow, I was going to do up a comic making fun of Sweetie's pathetic, delusional existence, but he did it for me. Thanks, Jonathan M. Sweet!

 

[autism420]

Best lolcow by far. Love the new avatar, thanks Sweets!

 

[Le Bateleur]

Don't plenty of contemporary mainstream TV shows and movies do that quite a bit, though?

I think that, like Sonichu, Belch Dimension is notable for the frequency with which its pop-cultural references feel dated to a modern audience. Also, given the degree to which Belch Dimension relies on pop culture references rather than characterisation, this is more of a serious flaw than it might otherwise be.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Yeah, Sweet doesn't parody, he copies wholesale and draws a fart coming out of it.

 

[melty]

"Clinton Hollings' m.o. and even his name are likely a reference to David Clinton, a.k.a. Chronos, a DC Comics villain who shares a similar obsession with time-travel and correcting past mistakes."

"Likely?" What do you mean "likely"? It's your comic, Thumbskull! Aren't you aware of which concept you ripped off?

Yes! I've been wondering this for awhile. Sweet's wiki is absolutely littered with phrases like "it's likely that his name was based off of" and "it's possible that she was designed after.." at first I thought he was just doing it to give the impression he has fans who chronicle his work, but he did practically the same thing in one of the recent Tin Boo Tee posts

It's possible her name was corrupted through this blending or judicious Anglicization at some point

I guess it's his way of dodging around tricky questions or otherwise basically the equivalent of CWC's "it's a parody" excuse to dodge the fact he's blatantly ripping off stuff.

Also, LOL he's bragging about being in an honor society? Wow that sounds pretty familiar.. who else was it that was bragging about honor.. wait, what was it.. honor something.. honor roll? Oh yeah, Christian Weston Chandler!

Also Sweet I'm pretty sure most people in this thread did not drop out of college first semester. I got my degree juuust fine. Also I am certain no one here got kicked out like YOU did, lmao. How would you know that anyway? It's not like people are like "man I really hate Jonathan Sweet. Look at how much his comic sucks. By the way, who else got kicked out of college first semester?" so basically you're just pulling shit out of thin air.

But you know what? I know more about your life than I ever could have wished to. I also know Kiwis far better than you do from reading this forum, and in fact I've even met someone here IRL, so I can say this for a fact. In the immortal words of the wise philosopher, hood MONEY:

We're better looking, smarter, and more successful than you.