💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[TheLateGreatBate]

Interesting alternative style attempt, but it doesn't stop the mediocrity from flowing.

• Copy-pasted pirate ship silhouette.
• Her giant hoops hang from lobe piercings, which just look off to me.
• No evidence of a left arm.
  
• That's a weak-ass way to hold a sword, with a tiny hilt at that.
• Her belt looks like it's going to fall off.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

Dobson confirmed for furry.

Those poor furries....

The weird thing is: Both wanted to make cartoons, but ended up doing comics since they didn't have the capability to create animation on their own.

The thing is, Chris is... well Chris. Chris was never meant to make it far or even have success, except you count 'being popular for the train wreck he is' as 'success'. I cannot imagine a single scenario in which Chris becomes a 'well adjusted human being', it is like he was born to fail spectacularly. Chris has this spectacular and misguided drive to do 'something', that turns his life into a super slow motion car crash, you can't look away from.

But Dobson, Dobson never changes.
While Chris' car is going up in the slowest explosion ever, Dobson's is slowly sinking into a tar pit and rusting. Actually it is not sinking, Dobson is pushing the gas pedal so he dosen't sink completely into the pit, but not further. And around the pit there are people, standing and shouting things like "Get out of the car!", "I can throw you a rope!" or "Step on it!" and Dobson's only reaction is to roll up the side window.

Chris tries, although he will most likely ever succeed in anything, completely oblivious to the fact that everything he touches goes up in flames. Dobson does not try, he never did. And the sad thing is that I just know that he could be a good, perhaps even a spectacular artist, if he would just try and listen to critics and try.

Geez, Dobson irritates me so much, I think I am slowly turning into Curmudgeonly....*blinks slowly*

Spoiler

....Carl.

...nah, maybe another time.

 

[Bugaboo]

Do you guys remember he literally made a fan club for his character "Persistant Pam" on DA after she appeared like, 3 comics.
Her only personality trait was that she asked for revisions to be done on a commission a couple times. That's it.

 

[CephalopodEnthusiast]

I'm looking at the fan club and

Jesus, how many self-inserts does he have?

 

[Stud2Stud]

Just stumbled upon this sequence of comics. It features a castle on a cliff that's protected by -get this- 'High Voltage Laser Beams'. Consistency in world building? Who needs that?!
But what really got me was this page. Check it out:

Spoiler

I'm getting severe Chris-Chan flashbacks with these speech bubbles being labeled. How much do you have to fail as an artist in order to fall back on labeling speech bubbles in your comics? Seriously, this is simply amazing. Dobs is unable to compose his panel in a way that makes it clear who is saying what and in what order.

Edit:
My god, I should have waited for the nextpage.

Spoiler: What the shit am I even looking at?

How in the fuck is this even supposed to work? Mind you, according to the Dob himself, this comic is meant for teenagers.

 

[JU 199]

He sounds so torn up about it.

 

[chimcat]

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He sounds so torn up about it.

It's like when you're friends with all your coworkers and need to call in sick to do something else and post a status on Facebook to keep up appearances.

Except no one cares and Dobson has no friends.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Fun fact: Aluinde is hyped up as some kind of villain, Alex's rival, or someone bad from her past.

Most of her appearances consist of signs with messages for Alex. Even though Alex is shown to hate or fear her, she never does anything of note. I think you see her in person once or twice but she's never doing anything. I'm not sure she even has spoken dialogue.

Compare Aluinde to the villains in Sonichu. Chris truly is a better writer than Dobson. In fact, Alex ze Pirate would be vastly improved if Dobson hired Chris to write it.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

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He sounds so torn up about it.

He'll probably asspat himself later for doing some scribbles while having a headache.

 

[MayMay]

Funny you'd point out Azumanga Daioh, the "Cat Underwear" joke from one of the first strips is taken from there.

Spoiler: things

Granted, in Azumanga Daioh, it was a bit different, but still, it's a lot like it.

If one was willing to put forth the effort, you'd most likely be able to track down almost all jokes in AzP to either Slayers, Ranma 1/2 or AzumangaDaioh.

That one COULD be funny if it was just the two panels there. Asking for something totally mundane and ends up walking into a wacky situation is a bit simple but could work.

Also... credit where it's due, despite the flying multibrows Dobson does a better job of pulling off expressions that don't involve adding three million wrinkles.

 

[CrimsonKnight]

Just stumbled upon this sequence of comics. It features a castle on a cliff that's protected by -get this- 'High Voltage Laser Beams'. Consistency in world building? Who needs that?!
But what really got me was this page. Check it out:

Spoiler

I'm getting severe Chris-Chan flashbacks with these speech bubbles being labeled. How much do you have to fail as an artist in order to fall back on labeling speech bubbles in your comics? Seriously, this is simply amazing. Dobs is unable to compose his panel in a way that makes it clear who is saying what and in what order.

Edit:
My god, I should have waited for the nextpage.

Spoiler: What the shit am I even looking at?

How in the fuck is this even supposed to work? Mind you, according to the Dob himself, this comic is meant for teenagers.

Judging from Sam's position in one of the panels, they look like they're going to land beside the jagged rocks. Uncle Peggy brings up so many unfortunate things. Also, eyebrows.

 

[Ruin]

That one COULD be funny if it was just the two panels there. Asking for something totally mundane and ends up walking into a wacky situation is a bit simple but could work.

Also... credit where it's due, despite the flying multibrows Dobson does a better job of pulling off expressions that don't involve adding three million wrinkles.

This shit is like sexual harassment the comic.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Why are uncle creepy's eyebrows floating so high above his head? I couldn't focus on anything but the eyebrows.

Yeah Dobby got "sick" as soon as he was "motivated" to "work."

This is not at all an attempt to garner asspats from people to tell him they want more AzP and get well soon tweets.

 

[Stud2Stud]

This shit is like sexual harassment the comic.

When one reads the comic and keeps in mind that Lesbiankick, Gypsy and Doormat are supposed to be a love-triangle it really begs the question: Does Dobbers know what romantic affection is supposed to be?

Lesbiankicks relationship with CaptainGypsy seems to boil down to her being a horny stupid creep while either getting assaulted verbally or physically.
Similar with Doormat, who's only the target of abuse and ridicule (pretty much from everyone).

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I can't believe he's trying to draw attention to this again.

 

[Foltest]

This is just nitpick, but why ain't Alex sword a cutlass? You know, the sword that pirates in the caribbean were known to use? If she ain't gonna use a cutlass, can't she use a sword that don't look so.... expansive like that one. It got ruby and shit. If I was a pirate, I would sell that shit and get a cheaper sword. like this:
https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e3/47/5d/e3475d56cf5688e2b994c78eefe49f44.jpg

 

[Whalymin]

I can't believe he's trying to draw attention to this again.

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Yes Dobson, your ugly as sin basic colored characters are better then all anime, all of it, ever, objectively!

 

[Bugaboo]

Yes Dobson, your ugly as sin basic colored characters are better then all anime, all of it, ever, objectively!

It would have been less egotistical as fuck if the anime characters where fighting actually popular western cartoon character like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny etc. and if there was no clear advantage to either side so it's not bias as fuck

 

[MMX]

I can't believe he's trying to draw attention to this again.

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Its frustrating that Dobson hates all anime but keeps ripping it off.
Dobson hated attack on titan so much he did a duck tales inspired tribute.
Dobson is why we cant have nice things.

 

[PeteyCoffee]

I think the biggest problem with Alex Ze Pirate is that there's no clear and enduring backstory - in other words, a frame for the conflict/plot. If characters are at odds, the audience needs to know why, or the characters all just come across as malicious assholes. On the other hand, characters not being at odds means a boring, pointless comic.

Even Garfield annoys Jon BECAUSE he likes eating and fucking around; hates Mondays BECAUSE bad things always happen then; hates Nermal BECAUSE Nermal is a smug douche who deliberately makes him feel inadequate, etc.

If Dobson drops the whole lesbian obsession and makes it a plot point that Alex and Lesbian Kick pine over and accost the boy, they won't come across as malicious bullies anymore, because they finally have a clear reason to mess around with him. It makes absolute sense, them being ravenous pirates who are far away from civilization - and in a hierarchical sorority-esque group. I think it would also create a lot of potential for interesting and relatable storylines. (Which a lot of tumblr users [who aren't SJWs] would like.)

Example backstory: the pirates ransacked a town and inadvertently kidnapped the boy by stealing a chest he hid inside. Now they're far away from his home, so he's stuck with them: totally out of his element, he tries to learn the ways of being a pirate. Maybe he's the only male on the ship, so initially he's harassed and treated like an outsider/indentured servant. He gradually proves his worth, and the lesser crew members start to look up to him. Although Alex and Lesbian Kick still don't give him any respect.