The Sweet-Tits strips with the party going increasingly awry are hilarious, and some of his low-key science fiction concepts and oddball side characters are really amusing and engaging, but he really did begin to slide into a mire of complacency around the point that Crystal dropped the comic from which I don't think he has really recovered. He's not bad, but he could be so much better, and I get finding that frustrating.
And, yeah, that's more or less my sentiments. I really want to like the comic, and the fact that he at least tries to handle minorities in a - if memory serves - inoffensive way is good. I just can't dig it, though.
Ohh. Didn't register that as a name; thought it was some sort of hosting platform.
I've had my complaints about his take on minorities before -- there's a post somewhere in the Webcomics thread that I can't be arsed to dig up right now -- but he does seem to mean well. He's really, really, really bad at minorities, to the point that I'd recommend that he never, ever tries writing about them again, but he means well.
If you mean the robot thing, that's... well, I already told you what I think. But he's had non-white and/or non-cishet characters in the strip since the beginning and none of their portrayals have struck me as really stereotypical or offensive.
But see, I feel like disregarding the fact that his human characters are multiracial and of all shades of gender and sexuality and that this is generally not a big deal but also not completely ignored while focusing on the clumsiness of the anthro-PC plotline's handling of things is sort of... silly.
It's like, the issue is not "Jeph Jacques is bad at minorities," because that implies that he's insensitive or tone-deaf across the board, but, "Jeph Jacques is bad at overt social commentary, particularly with respect to the struggles of being a minority."
But see, I feel like disregarding the fact that his human characters are multiracial and of all shades of gender and sexuality and that this is generally not a big deal but also not completely ignored while focusing on the clumsiness of the anthro-PC plotline's handling of things is sort of... silly.
It's like, the issue is not "Jeph Jacques is bad at minorities," because that implies that he's insensitive or tone-deaf across the board, but, "Jeph Jacques is bad at overt social commentary, particularly with respect to the struggles of being a minority."
...well, yeah. That's what I meant to say. You just said it more explicitly than I did.
The thing I took away from the Bad Webcomics Wiki is: Any site that compares works of fiction to war crimes or toxic waste probably shouldn't be taken seriously. And they take themselves very seriously.
Which is to say, their analysis was biased and flawed in a lot of areas, but it identified some problem spots that, when analyzed on their own, can be criticized more effectively
I was reading that mirror of his piece about VGCats, and the thing I noticed is that he can't seem to decide which he hates more—the comic, or the person writing it. :P It's rather meandering.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's like, the issue is not "Jeph Jacques is bad at minorities," because that implies that he's insensitive or tone-deaf across the board, but, "Jeph Jacques is bad at overt social commentary, particularly with respect to the struggles of being a minority."
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
On one end, he was a real twat. On the other end, he was pretty right in retrospect about most of the things he talked about.
The Bad Webcomics Wiki can fuck right off, though.
I just don't get why people saw the need to continue his work well after the point where it could've been useful, though.