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Been hanging around the ComicFury community and I would like to say this first before I make an in depth post, or even make a Community Watch thread about it, but DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY especially if you have politically incorrect tendencies. One of the mods there thinks bitch and cunt are gendered slurs. Many LGBT or ally-minded people here. The comics that are deemed mature censor their own language. (the least important aspect of a piece of media to ascertain whether or not something is mature) The forum overall is a progressive hivemind. Host a comic there all you like but it is not worth interacting with that shit community.

Screenshots incoming.
 
Been hanging around the ComicFury community and I would like to say this first before I make an in depth post, or even make a Community Watch thread about it, but DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY especially if you have politically incorrect tendencies. One of the mods there thinks bitch and cunt are gendered slurs. Many LGBT or ally-minded people here. The comics that are deemed mature censor their own language. (the least important aspect of a piece of media to ascertain whether or not something is mature) The forum overall is a progressive hivemind. Host a comic there all you like but it is not worth interacting with that shit community.

Screenshots incoming.
I certainly did not expect this, but the mods must be constantly scrubbing for negative mentions of Comicfury anywhere especially here, because I have just been banned on Comicfury for these criticisms I have made of their forum. My webcomic site was removed as well...
 
I certainly did not expect this, but the mods must be constantly scrubbing for negative mentions of Comicfury anywhere especially here, because I have just been banned on Comicfury for these criticisms I have made of their forum. My webcomic site was removed as well...
I can’t say I’m surprised to hear webcomics people get the vapors at the mention of KF. That’s pretty thorough background checking though. Are you sure you didn’t catch a ban for a slow-rolling reaction to a previous use of the dreaded gendered slurs?
 
I can’t say I’m surprised to hear webcomics people get the vapors at the mention of KF. That’s pretty thorough background checking though. Are you sure you didn’t catch a ban for a slow-rolling reaction to a previous use of the dreaded gendered slurs?
No, I never used a single cuss word in there. The only reason they gave for my ban was that I was in KiwiFarms criticising the nature of their forum
 
I don't really know where to go with this one.

So! I got my hands on the 8-Bit Theater 20th Anniversary Complete Script Book Do Not Sue Edition. It's tangentially related to webcomics, since it's an attempt to make a text compendium of a visual medium with author commentary. For the most part, I don't really think I would have anything to bring up, except I only really knew the original 8BT comics and haven't paid any attention to the author because, well, why should I?

...turns out he's not just a leftist, but he's a weirdo. And this is Kiwi Farms. So I figure I should bring up some of the strangest points he makes in his commentary, and all I have to decide right now is whether to do it in image format [direct screenshots] or copy the text directly. [and whether to post it here or not]

For now, a sample. I skipped to the relevant parts for each.

EPISODE 0034: “Introductions Are In Order.”

Panel 10:
Fighter being problematic again. Actually, this is a good time to talk about what’s really happening here. He’s not saying anything, he’s not real. The character only exists as a fiction constructed by me and shared with the rest of you. It is not Fighter who is problematic! Fighter is merely the lens through which my problematic dialog was cast. It was 2001! And while even then I knew it was a dumb angle to take, I hadn’t fully internalized/understood the myriad vectors through which misogyny can operate. Were I writing this today I would simply skip the second line entirely. The first is strong enough for the punchline.
FIGHTER: Yeah, well. Your intelligence...is the one with uh score... You got beat up by a girl!

EPISODE 0038: “Survivor 8-bit Style Part 3”

Panel 4:
Uh-oh. Forgot about this.
WHITE MAGE: Oh, I see. So, you’re saying because I’m a White Mage, I can’t understand the experiences of a Black Mage.
BLACK MAGE: You don’t know the kinds of persecution my people have had to endure for centuries! And all because of the color of our spells!

Panel 5: So, what’s happening here is supposed to be something about using the stereotypical fantasy dichotomy between white magic and black mage as a parallel of the relations between white and black folks. And what’s supposed to be funny is the sheer absurdity of drawing this parallel in the first place. Ultimately, I don’t think it works! This exchange is meant to be pointing out the difference between being judged for things we cannot control (the color of our eyes or, if you will, skin) vs. being judged for things we can control (our opinions, our actions) to highlight that racism is not only capricious and cruel, but also just plain stupid. Instead it feels like it’s making fun of anyone who experiences systemic racism??? This is a bad joke.
WHITE MAGE: Well, maybe if your spells didn’t only have purely evil purposes, you wouldn’t have had that problem!
BLACK MAGE: Are you saying that Black Magic and its practitioners are inherently evil?
WHITE MAGE: Name one positive non-destructive use for your magic.
BLACK MAGE: Ha! That’s easy. Give me a scenario.
 
I won't pretend it wasn't a waste in the end, no. But that's why I want to post some of the more garbage takes he has, but I don't know if I should continue posting here or somewhere else.
 
Been hanging around the ComicFury community and I would like to say this first before I make an in depth post, or even make a Community Watch thread about it, but DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY especially if you have politically incorrect tendencies. One of the mods there thinks bitch and cunt are gendered slurs. Many LGBT or ally-minded people here. The comics that are deemed mature censor their own language. (the least important aspect of a piece of media to ascertain whether or not something is mature) The forum overall is a progressive hivemind. Host a comic there all you like but it is not worth interacting with that shit community.

Screenshots incoming.

My bro was a member on SmackJeeves when it was still active. He'll tell you how many of the comic authors there migrated to ComicFury after both SmackJeeve's redesign and final closing. Several of them either had hints or already were embracing the leftist degeneracy. In fact, he even remembers how many of the popular comics on SJ were Yaoi. If ComicFury wasn't already tainted, then it's not hard to guess how the SJ crowd contributed to even the mod's shift on which rules they enforce.

I won't pretend it wasn't a waste in the end, no. But that's why I want to post some of the more garbage takes he has, but I don't know if I should continue posting here or somewhere else.


My homie read what you posted and finally got confirmation of a hunch he had. He noticed this with the authors of *Zelda Comic* and *GameCheetz*, but seeing how even the author of one of the most famous sprite comics is unhinged is the last straw. There is something about webcomic authors, especially one makings sprite comics, embracing leftism. In one worse case, at least one of those authors apparently supports "consensual cannibalism". Bro never wished he was even inspired by those comics in the first place as he says he wouldn't have the desire to work on his own comics. Then, he would have avoided several problems in his life, including meeting Crazy Koopa.

Speaking of which, as enough time has passed, he wants to show more of *Crazy Comics*. He was meaning to show this earlier, but we both got sidetracked.

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Even if it seems like his character would lose, he still wins anyway. The "Bad News" doesn't even affect his character, so you could expect this "Randomize" ability to act like an "Instant Win" button with literally no drawbacks. Anyway, the next page has this comment attached to it. You can expect Crazy to keep applying these arbitrary rules throughout his comic.

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Also, if you look at this page, not even Crazy likes working on this comic. If he did, then why else would he force himself to follow a plot he hated instead of cutting it? I guess he's not called "Crazy" for nothing...

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On an unrelated note, you could easily take this panel out of context.

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We'll post more later! If you are interested, we could even post all this in its own thread. There's a lot to cover regarding this comic and the lunatic who wrote it.

By the way, I noticed some of the images from my previous posts got wrecked. Has that problem been fixed where the embed images are back yet? Because I could repost them if they are not there.
 
Space Vixen-Apologies for it using webtoon link. Cute, and have a little fun time. Though it's upsetting that there hasn't been an update in three years.
Orbit: Encounter-Admittedly, I haven't read all of it, but from what I read, enjoyable as a sci-fi comic with survival horror elements.
 
Awkward phrasing in the latest XKCD's title text:
My favorite awkward xkcd comic is still this one here: https://xkcd.com/1756/

Two more webcomic dumps:
Grimm's Edge by Andy Grail is a really good looking and berserk-like webcomic.
Hans Rickheit is another comic artists who has multiple weird and strange webcomics, like Squirrel Machine and Cochlea&Eustachia, although with a lot of weird nudity and fetish stuff in it. Especially for Cochlea & Eustachia, there's some strange shit in that one.
 
My favorite awkward xkcd comic is still this one here: https://xkcd.com/1756/
That one was such a tell. I like most of his comics but you can tell that he's a big technocratic "Trust The Science" American centre-leftist that tries to stay unpolitical but occasionally can't keep it in his pants anymore.

I wonder if he still feels the same way about his "private companies censoring you isn't anti-free speech" comic years later.
 
Has anyone here read Scoob and Shag? Started as a shitpost comic about copyright free Scooby and Shaggy being crass and then spiraled into what can be described as 'Tumblr makes Tails Gets Trolled' since is a never ending crossover of western animated characters, except it has lore about how all the cartoon shows we watched as kids are actually transmissions from an alien planet (where animated characters come from) and there's a conflict between the survivors of a massive purge.

The art is better than TGT (ok, maybe just better than Lazerbot's, which isn't saying much), but the author, Dingo, has a good sense of battle rhythm and composition like Lazerbot and the battle system is akin to JJBA/HxH, in that every character has a specific ability and signature move. This thing just turned 10 years old and the author takes consistent hiatuses.

Why do I call it Tumblr makes TGT? Because whereas TGT has massive weeb energy, tries to be a bigger story than it needs to be and has a very liberal use of gamer words and gore, S&S reeks of Tumblr. Characters that can be interpreted as enbies will be referred by they/them pronouns, there's extensive use of lol random humour driving the plot unless shit has to get serious, the story is very reminiscent of shonen and the artstyle downright looks like Kohei Horikoshi's when you see human characters. One of the examples that makes abundantly clear is that Bugs Bunny (who is one of the most OP characters in the whole story) gets hit on by a dude while in drag, the guy proceeds to say he thinks he deserves everything because he is a white guy and then gets oblitarated by someone else. That's his only line and only appearance. Bugs is refered as they/them when in drag btw, and does consistently since that incident.

Outside of that my biggets problem is the characterisation. Yes, is a war torn cartoon crossover but Scoob, Shag, Bugs and even Yogi Bear feel like they would do canonically. Even Garfield, Courage, Swipper and Fred feel lifted from their source materials despite how little they showed up. Most of the other characters barely resemble themselves and instead act like anime tropes.
Shaggy is the generic shonen protag that makes Deku and Tanjiro looks measured and has a dark side.
Dee Dee is an inferiority complex afflicted recruit that lives under the shadow of her brother and gives emotional support to Shaggy, just not romantically because this is a Tumblr story and they aren't both dudes.
You got Numbuh 5 and Gerald from Hey Arnold acting like smug anime villains.
And the worst offender is that Inspector Gadget is the tortured, OP cynical loner that gets to reconnect with his humanity. He even uses his gadgets competently.

All in all is not a bad read but I suggest you don't get to attached to it. The last update was back in April and before that the comic was in a year long hiatus.
 
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