XKCD: It's more than a comic

The very name of this thread is a good example of why there's a serious case of Hype Backlash building against xkcd. "More than a comic"? Not really. If you want it to be more than a comic, you're going to be disappointed.

Aww man, I only got into it a couple months ago, it can't be undergoing Hype Backlash already! I always get into everything when everyone starts complaining it sucks.

Not that it diminishes my enjoyment of the strip. The symphony one made me crack up cause I can picture my brother dragging me to the symphony by force (unless they're playing Gershwin), though when I showed this to him he remarked that indeed, he is one of the rare under-60 folks.

Papyrus

Before that comic, I never knew that the font Papyrus had a hatedom.

Now all I can think about is what category in the Hatedom page would we put the Papyrus haters in. Real Life? Web Original?

edited 29th May '09 12:10:00 PM by Eriksson

Ummm...Real Life? And why?

1. I thought the shark one was charming and sweet.
2. I like techno and classical. It's heavy metal and high-class-swingy-Sinatra-type-stuff that I don't seem to yet have a taste for, interestingly.
3. I thought of the material Papyrus first. And I proudly stand behind my thinking of that first.

I thought of the material first too. I think it's a phrasing problem.

Yeah, the only way I made the connection to fonts was because of the previous day's chainsawsuit.

*Reads the comic again*

I think I got it by being confused about the grammar, seeing the word papyrus surrounded by quotation marks, and the Alt Text.

I got it immediately, after being previously frustrated by having to read one of my sister's essays written in that font.

Well, I didn't get it when reading the comic, but the mention of Helvetica in the alt-text made it obvious.

I actually thought it was some sort of "faux-parchment" thing at first.

edited 30th May '09 1:29:54 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

This week's is made of win.

Haha, you just beat me to it.

... *chortle*

Now THAT's internet warfare.

That would do it, wouldn't it?

...was Meyer just Rescued from the Scrappy Heap?

I call Character Derailment!

If Meyer actually writes that passage about 4chan into a book, Pass the Popcorn.

edited 1st Jun '09 5:04:06 PM by Eriksson

If she does, then is it Rescued from the Scrappy Heap?

YES.

Yeah, if Stephanie Meyer actually did that I'd actually respect. I can't help but kinda already, even if she had nothing to do with the comic whatsoever. I guess I just want to believe she did. Kinda like how I want to believe Martha Stewart really did make a scrapbook saying "Screw you, G men!" in Arrested Development.

I lol'd. Though I don't think this would stop anything—most of the "internet hate machine" has moved on from 4chan to places like, say, 711chan. ...Or So I Heard.

Though this does make me wonder if a bunch of Muse fans trolled Meyer and that's why she wrote Twilight.

I didn't really like the 4chan one, because its insulting to all the non-/i/nfidel 4chan users.

@Jethro:

...you don't like Oekaki?

I assume he means the /i/nvasion boards that show up on some other Image Boards.

It was maybe a bit dated, but I don't see how it was insulting, since it was clearly a jab at trolls rather than 4chan users in general. Also, points for managing to poke fun at Stephenie Meyer, Twilight fans and Anonymous all in one comic, and managing to make Meyer seem sympathetic, of all people.

edited 3rd Jun '09 7:54:39 PM by BobbyG