WARNING: This rant may become higly offensive to some people. This goes doubly for noobs lurking about the forums that will automatically praise any comic they hear good about. So go hide under a brick AFTER reading this, but pay attention for a minute.
[RANT]You all knew this had to happen at some point. With all the rants going around lately, it was inevitable that this would pop up, but this has to get through your thick skulls right now:
BOB AND GEORGE IS NOT THE HOLY GRAIL OF SPRITE COMICS.
No, I didn't screw up. Some of you who know me sort of well know that I like Bob and George. The comic is really quite funny. However, that doesn't mean that it's not flawed. In fact, that's why I'm here: To, for the first time, employ 100% of my criticising powers (or darn near it) to prove, once and for all, that Bob and George: the Comic Strip isn't perfect, or even the absolute best webcomic. And I'll put it all under my reasons today.
Rant key: R = reason, E = Explanation of subreason.
R1: The author's rather self-absorbed.
E1: At the beginning of the story, as a starting author with naught but the ability to recolor and maybe put a mouth onto another sprite, who even mistook his poofing with burping, gave himself the power of reserection. Also, he wrongfully claimed that he was creator of the first sprite comic, a title which rightfully belongs to "Neglected Mario Characters." Besides that, he was the one that spurred all the
R2: The author insults the readers often.
E2: Here. By clicking on that last, underlined word, you get one of many examples of him making fun of readers. He continually thinks that readers don't care, or are idiots, or won't notice. Fact is, Dave, we do notice. And insulting readers generally loses readers. That is, unless they're clinging to the comic like it's 24-karat gold.
R3: Very little efort is put into sprites.
E3: Every last one of his characters is either fan-made by someone else, ripped from a Megaman game, or a recolor, with one or two improvements. Some of the villains have origional sprites, but even then they only show up for a while. In fact, one of the only times that he puts in effort to spriting is during Halloween or other rare occasions. For the most part, though, he uses premade sprites.
R4: The plot stinks.
E4: Let's face it: the plot is full of holes. The whole punchline of one comic was the noise made by closing plotholes. Besides that, he tries to explain every gap in physics within the comic infrastructure with the phrase "I hate time travel," which doesn't really close any plotholes. Besides that, the plots are sometimes completely random things that have to do with nothing. Also, the author tries to patch it up with more convulted plot devices than you can shake a stick at. It just doesn't cut it.
R5: Half the jokes are either convulted of explicit.
E5: This is my main problem with society in general. Nobody can make a joke anymore without making fun of a person or group of people or making reference to drugs or violence. The violence thing I can stand, but I don't enjoy alcoholism. Especially not in comic form. If you're going to have a joke, do it while keeping it so that my ten-year-old brother can read this over my shoulder and keep his innosence.
So, those are my reasons. Remember, no comic is almighty and flawless. Until next time...
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[RANT]You all knew this had to happen at some point. With all the rants going around lately, it was inevitable that this would pop up, but this has to get through your thick skulls right now:
BOB AND GEORGE IS NOT THE HOLY GRAIL OF SPRITE COMICS.
No, I didn't screw up. Some of you who know me sort of well know that I like Bob and George. The comic is really quite funny. However, that doesn't mean that it's not flawed. In fact, that's why I'm here: To, for the first time, employ 100% of my criticising powers (or darn near it) to prove, once and for all, that Bob and George: the Comic Strip isn't perfect, or even the absolute best webcomic. And I'll put it all under my reasons today.
Rant key: R = reason, E = Explanation of subreason.
R1: The author's rather self-absorbed.
E1: At the beginning of the story, as a starting author with naught but the ability to recolor and maybe put a mouth onto another sprite, who even mistook his poofing with burping, gave himself the power of reserection. Also, he wrongfully claimed that he was creator of the first sprite comic, a title which rightfully belongs to "Neglected Mario Characters." Besides that, he was the one that spurred all the
R2: The author insults the readers often.
E2: Here. By clicking on that last, underlined word, you get one of many examples of him making fun of readers. He continually thinks that readers don't care, or are idiots, or won't notice. Fact is, Dave, we do notice. And insulting readers generally loses readers. That is, unless they're clinging to the comic like it's 24-karat gold.
R3: Very little efort is put into sprites.
E3: Every last one of his characters is either fan-made by someone else, ripped from a Megaman game, or a recolor, with one or two improvements. Some of the villains have origional sprites, but even then they only show up for a while. In fact, one of the only times that he puts in effort to spriting is during Halloween or other rare occasions. For the most part, though, he uses premade sprites.
R4: The plot stinks.
E4: Let's face it: the plot is full of holes. The whole punchline of one comic was the noise made by closing plotholes. Besides that, he tries to explain every gap in physics within the comic infrastructure with the phrase "I hate time travel," which doesn't really close any plotholes. Besides that, the plots are sometimes completely random things that have to do with nothing. Also, the author tries to patch it up with more convulted plot devices than you can shake a stick at. It just doesn't cut it.
R5: Half the jokes are either convulted of explicit.
E5: This is my main problem with society in general. Nobody can make a joke anymore without making fun of a person or group of people or making reference to drugs or violence. The violence thing I can stand, but I don't enjoy alcoholism. Especially not in comic form. If you're going to have a joke, do it while keeping it so that my ten-year-old brother can read this over my shoulder and keep his innosence.
So, those are my reasons. Remember, no comic is almighty and flawless. Until next time...