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i disagree with this take considering there's quite a number of very great female Japanese mangakas out there that write great stuff, even some very based stuff. Which begs the question. Why is there a lack of good female comic writers in the West? (media.kotakuinaction2.win)
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– Adamrises 6 points 4 months ago +6 / -0

What's really funny is that "webcomics" have basically picked up all the slack of regular Western Comics and were more popular than them for a very long time.

And then they fell to the same trap, becoming shitty vehicles for political takes or shipping drama. Leaving very little of value to prevent the cringe factor from becoming their entire reputation.

Like, look at how relevant XKCD was and now how completely forgotten he is.

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– Grant_us_eyes 6 points 4 months ago +6 / -0

And good fucking riddance. There are few web comic writers I hate more than the guy who does XKCD.

Yes, I'm still fucking salty about his 'free speech' comic. Talk about a masks off moment, and probably one of the first instance I had shoved in my face about how alien leftists could be about things.

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– MargarineMongoose 5 points 4 months ago +5 / -0

I actually knew him briefly through a mutual friend back before he blew up and became a big internet sensation. Dude was a little weird back then but I wouldn't have guessed just how far far off the deep end he would go. Said friend later told me that fame changed him. His younger brother was way more chill.

But yeah, "alien" is definitely an apt term for him.

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– Adamrises 3 points 4 months ago +3 / -0

What's funny is that he made a comic with only a single line in it that is anathemic to almost every Leftist belief.

It turns out you can't be responsible for someone else's happiness.

He literally dismantled their entire political party's foundation and didn't even recognize it because he is too big brained for such simplicity.

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 4 months ago +2 / -0

xkcd 383

I don't get it.

What's supposed to be the take home message?

It kind of makes me think of the medical themed one (from Samuel Shem's House of God I believe).

The patient is the one with the disease.

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– Adamrises 5 points 4 months ago +5 / -0

I think the intended meaning is that you can't "fix" someone. In context I'd wager that its going for a depressed girl can't be fixed by just loving her hard enough and other dumb ideas that guys at the time fell for a lot. Its a pretty good message imo, because we were all that kind of retarded 22 year old falling for a BPD nutcase. Or even the more direct message of "you aren't responsible if they kill themselves" might be what he wanted to say.

But it also undermines Leftism in general, because that's 120% about taking responsibility for everyone's happiness even at the cost of your own. Whether its uplifting niggers, immigration, infinite gibs to every other nation, etc.

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– MargarineMongoose 3 points 4 months ago +3 / -0

Webcomics are the example I hold up as evidence that western comics have been held back. There is absolutely and appetite for western comics that aren't just Marvel/DC slop. There's a ton of stuff you can explore with the medium that just straight up isn't getting a chance to shine. I have read probably in the realm of hundreds of webcomics over the years and the shear number of gems I've come across that should have been seminal works in the broader culture but languished in obscurity before vanishing off the face of the internet is absolutely staggering. Even the capeshit genre had stronger showings in the realm of webcomics than what you can find at your local comic shop.

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– Adamrises 5 points 4 months ago +5 / -0

There is a reason why literal garbage like Crossed has half a dozen spinoffs, its because its a rare non-cape, non-kiddy Western Comic.

Shit its half the reason why Scott Pilgrim was remotely successful. It was something of serviceable quality. Which is also why anything of value calls itself a "graphic novel" now, because the label of comic itself stifles them.

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