Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

Check out yesterday's and today's Sinfest. More confirmation that furries do not have a good reputation, nope nope nope.

Stay tuned.

GoManVanGogh · Vociferator Joined: 18 Nov 2003 Posts: 659

So, what, that's it? Slick puts on a bunny suit and suddenly he's a 'freaky furry'. Where's the exposition? Where's the drama?

I'm sorry, but this is completely uncreative and lame.

Sinfest can do SO much better.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

I think I missed the punchline. It's far too generic to be very funny (which is my complaint about the comic in general, really). You could pretty much substitute a clown suit or a Klan uniform for the bunny costume without changing anything about the strips. It amounts to little more than an "OMG you're wearing something outrageous, I will overreact now!" gag. He could do better with the material.

creature · Vociferator Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 520

Considering how many other furry related jokes that has been done in that strip, that is nothing.

RailFoxen · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 625

Ishida's been teasing the furries for a while now. Here and here, f'rinstance. I'd swear the guy is a manifestation of the Internet. Check out the subtitle above his name, you'll see things popping up like 'Tatsuya Ishida Is Love'.

And I'd point out exposition and drama don't fit into two strips, but we all know GMVG has... biased tastes. (But she's too gothy-cute to hold a grudge against.) Yah, wait until this arc finishes and get back to us. It's a niche comic and the humor is weird.

Foxid · Venter Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 298

But of course, no matter how lame or non-inflamitory something like this is, AT LEAST a dozen furries will scream OMG FURSECUTION and spam whatever message boards or forums Sinfest has. Just like they did to Penny Arcade.

(There's a post somewhere in the bowels of Chit Chat discussing the overreactions from the PA comic, as well as some other comics that poked fun at furries, but I can't be arsed to find it right now.)

GoManVanGogh · Vociferator Joined: 18 Nov 2003 Posts: 659

And I'd point out exposition and drama don't fit into two strips, but we all know GMVG has... biased tastes. (But she's too gothy-cute to hold a grudge against.) Yah, wait until this arc finishes and get back to us. It's a niche comic and the humor is weird.

Why don't you STFU and let me have my own opinion?

Beauty of Nature · Prattler Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 178

Not entertaining.
On the other hand.
Since when is this forum about art... I mean media critique ?

RailFoxen · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 625

My opinion is that people should see something before they make an opinion of it. That's the serious one, anyway.

I had a funny one, but this thread is going stupid and I don't want to help.

So back on the goddamn topic. Sinfest's forums have been hit by the furries before, mostly furry fans of Sinfest, and the consensus is - furries suck. At best they'll be tolerated, in general they'll be told to go the hell home. So let's hope this gets around. Could make for entertaiiiiinment.

EDIT: AHAHAHAHAHAHAFUCKINGHA.

Kadius · Needs to get out more Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 911

And I'd point out exposition and drama don't fit into two strips, but we all know GMVG has... biased tastes. (But she's too gothy-cute to hold a grudge against.) Yah, wait until this arc finishes and get back to us. It's a niche comic and the humor is weird.

Why don't you STFU and let me have my own opinion?

AM I GONNA HAVE TO STOP THIS CAR?!

Beauty of Nature · Prattler Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 178

So back on the goddamn topic. Sinfest's forums have been hit by the furries before, mostly furry fans of Sinfest, and the consensus is - furries suck. At best they'll be tolerated, in general they'll be told to go the hell home. So let's hope this gets around. Could make for entertaiiiiinment.

Amusing.
That should happen every time a furry says something on the internet.

Dr. Mojo · Vociferator Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 399

wait, GMVG is a girl?

Goofy · Vociferator Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 311

I think the punchline is that the pig character is calling Slick a furry. Since the pig character is an anthromorphic pig, it makes the situation ironic.

It's still not a good punchline.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

wait, GMVG is a girl?

Well of COURSE GMVG is a girl. She's got that hot goth chick as her avatar, and only girls use female avatars. People wouldn't lie to you in the internet!

The New Meat · Needs to get out more Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 933

Sinfest can do SO much better.

Actually, no, it can't.

Guido · Rasophore Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 68

Wow, every webcomic is jumping on the furry bandwagon, even once original ones like Achewood. (read today's alt-text)

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

Wow, every webcomic is jumping on the furry bandwagon

I can think of quite a few that don't...

baserock love · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 685

Sinfest can do SO much better.

Actually, no, it can't.

Yeah i just read a bunch of em, it's terrible and unfunny. Plus the image of the main guy is an obvious rip off of Calvin. And making fun of furries on a site not entirely devoted to making fun of furries(i.e. CYD), is like picking on Stephen Hawking, it's just so easy it's shameful.

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

And making fun of furries on a site not entirely devoted to making fun of furries(i.e. CYD), is like picking on Stephen Hawking, it's just so easy it's shameful.

You have got to be fucking kidding. Since when do you need an entire webside devoted to something stupid before you're allowed to make fun of it? Satirists can make fun of everything they damn well like, as much or as little as they please.

baserock love · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 685

And making fun of furries on a site not entirely devoted to making fun of furries(i.e. CYD), is like picking on Stephen Hawking, it's just so easy it's shameful.

You have got to be fucking kidding. Since when do you need an entire webside devoted to something stupid before you're allowed to make fun of it? Satirists can make fun of everything they damn well like, as much or as little as they please.

Wtf? Obviously they CAN do anything they want. What i was trying to say is that a site solely or largely devoted to punking furry has intimate knowledge of the fandom whose humor can be insightful because they've either been there or have heard about it enough to have something relevent to say. Otherwise it usually ends up lame and juvenile like the in that webcomic.

Making fun of furry is like making fun of Courtney Love. Some random could say "Lol, drugged out rehab skipping bitch!". But if you personally knew Courtney love you could say something a lot more relevent like "I remember when she OD'd, and shit herself in the bathtub after shooting up junk into her eyeball."(may or may not have acctually happened.)

Paul · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1092

Wtf? Obviously they CAN do anything they want. What i was trying to say is that a site solely or largely devoted to punking furry has intimate knowledge of the fandom whose humor can be insightful because they've either been there or have heard about it enough to have something relevent to say. Otherwise it usually ends up lame and juvenile like the in that webcomic.

Yeah, but Ishida wasn't poking fun at furries in the strip I linked to. He used their reputation to make an "overreaction" joke. And, no matter what you think of the joke or Sinfest in general, that's yet more evidence that no one thinks furries are just funny animal fans.