Sinfest

So is this thread still about getting angry over a webcomic and wishing author's death and in general being jerks while not seeing the irony?

What? No one has called for the Author's death Spooky. Hell we have had some praise for a few Sinfest stories recently.

I don't think anybody said they wanted him to die.

Someone did say that option that he would starve to death sounded good in that comic about author avatar considering starving being valid option to leaving outside of the house Note that I tend to check this comic in like... Once a month or two, so that was quite while ago I think xD

edited 23rd Nov '15 10:30:30 AM by SpookyMask

Well if that happened. That's awful.

I think that was sarcastic more than anything, although I can only vaguely remember the post.

Sarcasm or no, doesn't really change that, at least couple of months ago, this thread can get rather toxic(even if everyone pretty much agrees).

Yeah, but recent Sinfest comics have actually had some level of quality and provided a few laughs. It only gets toxic when he starts really getting on his soapbox and preaching, and even then we're only calling him out on bad storytelling and faulty logic.

Eh, I'm reading topic backlog up to the current day so if you guys have in meanwhile started separating author and work when criticizing the work then I have no problems xD (would be nice bonus too if people have stopped saying offensive stuff as swj protest :P)

edited 23rd Nov '15 10:47:41 AM by SpookyMask

.... swj? Social Warrior Justice?

Anyways, we have noted a quality increase, with only disappointment that Tats is in his 40s and has been writing comics for a long time.

Eh, personal attacks on the author are one thing, but when a work is so heavily driven and influenced by the creator's own views, some form of judgment on the author will inevitably occur. Western comics, for example, have a basic premise or character, then different writers are brought in to work within that premise. So in that case, there is (or should be) a clear divide between creator and creation. However, if the author ends up using the premise to preach whatever sociopolitical views they espouse, some tension and fan derision against the creator is to be expected.

In the case of Sinfest, which has been Tats' personal work that has been ongoing for however many years now, was at first clearly separated from his own views (nobody actually believes that he takes his old Blaxploitation strips seriously. Except apparently himself), but ever since the beginning of the Sisterhood arc, the comic has gone down such a radically different and often objectively wrong path that one cannot help but make observations on what's going through his head to have caused it.

The Sinfest forums are a different matter entirely. Not even gonna go there.

edited 23rd Nov '15 11:19:14 AM by danime91

^^Eh, a typo

Anyway, wait, he is in his 40s nowadays? .-.

edited 23rd Nov '15 11:19:33 AM by SpookyMask

Been in his 40s the past few years. He is not a youmg man.

Well, the webcomic started in 2000. It was based off a strip he did for UCLA's newspaper. So assuming he was around his mid-20s in 2000, that would mean he's in his late-30s/earl-40s now.

edited 23rd Nov '15 11:27:52 AM by danime91

Huh

Forgot that comic was that old

Should probably binge read it one day xD

New page:

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-11-24

Anyone looking for some Brain Bleach?

Screw the Bleach. Burn the brains and salt where they grew.

I vote for Exterminatus on the brain's planet.

Create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe!

...im kind of in awe of how dense slick is in that previous strip

"how did jesus thwart a demon??"

it will forever be a mystery.

:I

Wow, I was too distracted by the bishie Squig to notice that. That's actually hilarious!

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-11-25

I already know what's gonna happen. Either Sam is gonna go through with it and cross the MEH in Rad Fem eyes, or he'll rise above the temptation. This is so cookie cutter it should be hung up in a bakery.

Those are really the only two ways this can go, and both are completely played out cliches already. Really, though, the message Tats is pushing here is really misogynistic if you think about it. Prostitution and soliciting prostitutes is bad, so don't hire prostitutes. By doing so, however, the prostitutes will make no money and thus be unable to afford basic living expenses. By extension, Tats is saying that prostitutes should leave their line of work and get a respectable, feminist job, nevermind the fact that prostitution is one of the world's oldest professions and he's denying the choice of women who actually want to work as prostitutes (there aren't many, but they definitely exist).

Fitting then that he picked one of the most overplayed songs ever for the title and the first panel of this comic.

Heck, I actually know of one porn star who qualified as a legit astrophysicist before she went into porn.