Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

Get your umbrellas out, lads, cuz it's raining men.

Seriously, I was looking in on what's been going on in the comic Jack, and saw this link. Since I like giraffes, I clicked, since it's not often you see an anthro giraffe. Turns out it's a comic where, like many, many, many, furry comics, the characters seem to be living in a gaytopia.

The artist is at least competent in rendering characters, and the colors are nice.. not to drab, not too garish. But, the page layouts overall seem to be a lot of talking heads and voice balloons. The layout of the page and frames is flat and uninteresting. I'm not sure what's with this inverse pyramid layout, either, where less and less of the page is used as you go down it.

I didn't actually bother to read each page word-for-word, but clicking through it to get a general sense of it, I noticed the distinct lack of women. Women appear in the comic about 3 times, and then as little more than background scenery.... except for the one woman that's allowed to appear on a page long enough to say "Excuse me." She, of course, has a very subservient pose as she has the audacity to address to one of TEH BUFF CHARS. We also have the focus on the chubby character, which one of the creators seems to use as an avatar (extension of self?) that, of course, seems to dish out most of the sage lines, is living proof fat leopards can always get the better of anyone silly enough to stay in shape, and catches the eye of a beefy construction worker.

We also have this plug for the infinite merits of furry cyber dating. Scrolling through it to see what's commentworthy, the tiger fellow in seems to be lusting after one of the 3 women that dare to show up in the comic... so I guess he's the token straight. Shall we start a pool on how long it is before he turns gay, though? Also, what's with the last frame on that page? Did the artist decide the tiger needed to be crammed to the side far enough that he didn't have to draw the female again? Or maybe he's pulling a Solid Snake, back to the wall for a stealth kill.

Oddly enough, it also seems that for the character with the longest neck, the giraffe is the only one that doesn't seem to have trouble holding his head upright. The rest of the characters seem to have to crane their head sideways or stoop down, like they're trying to stay on-camera with a unit operated by a cameraman with Parkinson's Disease.

Good drawing and coloring skills, semi-competent layout ability, but overall standard furry gaytopian fodder that seems destined for ASB-ness.

Rankin · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 488

Indeed, this comic is fabulouth. I gave it a few click attempts, but the storyline is crap, the drawing, while nice, is still meh, and the whole 'hey-hey, no-no, this bagina has got to go' underpining is fairly transparent.

Computolio · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 349

this thing is beyond ridicule

ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

I'm not sure what the significance of the title is, either. I figure either "Carpe Peena" would be better or "Buff Guys with Broken Necks Pumping Iron and Engaging in Pseudo-Manly Banter While Hiding Slightly Off-Camera."

Paul · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 138

I came across this one some months back, and gave up reading after a few pages. This is the kind of comic that isn't horrible enough to be entertaining in the WTF? way, but doesn't have enough positive qualities to make it worth reading either.

There is an incredible number of webcomics like that. :(

Shmeckopolis · Coadjutor Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 103

this thing is beyond ridicule

S'all I could say about it as well.

The New Meat · Coadjutor Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 327

Meh. I notice that he is apparently listed on that "The Nice" dropdown that I see on a lot of web comics these days. Originally, I figured that was some sort of listing where THE BIG SHOT web cartoonists all get together and pick TEH BESTEST WEB COMICS EVAR. But then I actually clicked on it and realized, oh wait, they all sucks. So I can only assume that it's some sort of circle jerk thing. Much too lazy to do anymore beyond asking here, though, if anyone has any clue what that's supposed to be.

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mouse · Coadjutor Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 662

But then I actually clicked on it and realized, oh wait, they all sucks. So I can only assume that it's some sort of circle jerk thing. Much too lazy to do anymore beyond asking here, though, if anyone has any clue what that's supposed to be.

Yeah, I think thats basically correct. Its mostly furries, but I dont think its all furries. Its run through purrsia (which for a long time I was confusing with another purrsia around furry fandom). Purrsia just offers hosting it seems, and the nice is just a club for select cartoonists. Some of them do seem good, but I just don't really have much time to read through webcomics.

Kadius · Coadjutor Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 147

Why someone would waste their skills and time on doing something like this is beyond me.