Sinfest

Again. Same person who knows he's possessed and does jackshit to help him. Hell I am half expecting her and Absinthe to regularly be having a big old laugh over watching him scramble around not knowing what's wrong at this point.

edited 29th Jun '16 11:45:31 PM by yamiblade

Next development: Trans-Slick! (I think I'm kidding. I hope I'm kidding.)

But what does it profit a man if he gain the approval of the Sisterhood but lose his own ...

Hmm. If Slick went trans, he'd still be the strip's butt-monkey, because the Trans-Exclusionary Rad Fems of the Sisterhood will reject you if you're not an "authentic" female.

Sorry, Slick — you're screwed either way.

edited 30th Jun '16 12:56:56 AM by Hexapodia

You know, this comic already has a "Trans State" zone or something like that. Tats should explore how the Sisterhood treat men-turned-women in that zone, or how the Sisterhood women react to being in the zone themselves and becoming men.

Hey, today's comic is explaining yesterday's comic, in case it was too subtle a point to make!

It would be funny to see Tats stumble over the issue of transsexuals, but if Tats has any brains left he's not going to touch that issue with a 50 foot pole. If there's anything that's divisive in the line of feminism he chooses to adhere to it's the status of transsexuals. Are they gender traitors? Fake women? A logical thing to do in the case of men? Despicable in the case of women?

Writing about women turning into lesbians and running away from men is easy brownie points. Women into men though? Men into women? I think he's never going to try.

Are we reading the same comic today? Where are you getting that Slick is going to turn transgender?

I think this comic may actually show some progress. Tats seems to be commenting on the state of his comic. Perhaps he is wondering if he should change things around.

I think you guys are a bit quick to draw conclusions here. Tats is not showing Nique and the Sisterhood for some nefarious purpose, but to emphasize that they have stolen the spotlight from him.

I know it is hard not to be paranoid these days about the comic, but I'd rather encourage Tats to move in the right direction and make his comic great again.

Women into men though? Men into women? I think he's never going to try.

He briefly touched on the issue when he had the Illuminati Drones cross-dress and attempt to infiltrate the Sisterhood's woman-only space ... and he played it in such as way as to strongly imply that he sides with the TER Fs.

Tats also had a short sequence in which Slick and Monique stumbled into the Trans Zone. The change freaked out Slick, but (if I recall correctly) Monique looked into her underwear and grinned, apparently because she was better-endowed than Slick.

Where are you getting that Slick is going to turn transgender?

It was a joke, based on my perception that with the rise of the Sisterhood, Monique's complete shunning of him, the introduction of new characters, and the enforced lack of change in Slick's personality, there's not much left for him to do.

Really, what can he do at this point? Evolve?

Tats seems to be commenting on the state of his comic. Perhaps he is wondering if he should change things around.

Or it may be the setup for putting him on a bus, or for a large foot to descend from the sky and squash him like a bug. Hard to tell.

... I'd rather encourage Tats to move in the right direction and make his comic great again.

I doubt that Tats cares what we think.

edited 30th Jun '16 3:30:12 AM by Hexapodia

It's not even a forced lack of change. He's actively being PUNISHED for trying to change.

While at the same time, also being punished for not changing, right?

yup. Basically he can't win no matter what he does.

It's not paranoia here. It's cynicism.

As noted, Ishida's teased this kind of progress before, only to completely derail it to a different direction. I don't think people here actually don't want this issue addressed. I think people here are both doubtful that Ishida will actually do it and nervous as to whether or not he'll do it right.

Hmm. Where could Slick go from here?

Xanthe and the Sisterhood have been telling us over and over that there's no such thing as a "male ally." Conceivably Tats might turn Slick into a feminist and prove them wrong. But I think it's more likely that Slick would backslide or turn out to be a faux ally, and thereby "prove" (in strawman fashion) that the Sisterhood was right.

More likely Slick will just fade away, occasionally appearing as the target of a joke.

edited 30th Jun '16 10:26:19 AM by Hexapodia

The other alternative is having Slick as a example of what happens when they push too far. Where he decides why should he change to suit someone else if he's just going to get punished for it. Instead of being portrayed as a strawman he's just someone who decided it wasn't worth trying to impress a bunch of people who have already passed judgement on him, Monique included. And make it a case of both sides have a point.

But we all know Tats can't and won't do that. He's not smart or creative enough to even attempt it.

edited 30th Jun '16 10:47:50 AM by yamiblade

He could do a reboot. Ctrl Alt Del has done one, and pretty sucessfully even. Marvel and DC do it all the frigging time when they screw it up. And its not like no superhero ever had to come back from some pretty awful story. Just see One More Day.

edited 30th Jun '16 1:05:13 PM by Redmess

It would be one of the times where I'd be perfectly fine with a reboot. So long as it doesn't screw things up even more.

He could do a reboot. Ctrl+Alt+Del has done one, and pretty successfully even.

What, consigning Ethan to oblivion in a time paradox is a successful reboot? I didn't find that very satisfying.

Want a reboot? Forget the current cast. Sinfest is now set in an entire frakkin' city — pick some different characters! There must be thousands to choose from.

Put Slick and Squig and Monique and Absinthe on a bus and send it off into the sunset to some kind of happy ending. Either get rid of the crew of pre-pubescent omnipotent gender fascists worrying about the sanctity of their uteri, or else grow them the hell up and let them deal with some of the problems that actual adult humans face. And resolve one way or the other whether fembots are sentient, sapient women before the miracle of the Reality Zone or Clio's Magical Programming Skillz alters them.

But before they all go, let the self-righteous twits realize the enormity of their crime when they turned a relatively innocent man into a frog who by strong implication was captured and eaten. (Tee-hee, so funny! Yes, and innocent little Fuchsia was the ringleader for it. Hey, that's what reading the S.C.U.M. Manifesto will do for you.)

Yeah that killed Fuchsia and Tange for me.

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-07-01

No off switch on this one. And now I am of the belief that Nana is enabling the little hellion by not taking her seriously. "Oh, she just wants to destroy the entire male population; such a rambunctious child, wouldn't you say?"

For the sake of all Nana, put a little more effort in reigning her in.

For the love of Aphrodite kid, give it a goddamned rest. The Patriarchy isn't gonna force you into a skirt just because you took a bit to enjoy the morning and have some fun.

Honestly amazed you even bother with sleeping at this point. That's like, 8 hours more you could be using to fight the Patriarchy.

Oh go to hell Xanthe. And Nana too for being a freaking enabler.

edited 30th Jun '16 11:40:15 PM by Tzitzimine

I kinda like this kind of Nana-Xanthe interaction. It feels like Xanthe is the butt of the joke, and we're supposed to sympathize with Nana, and that the moral of the story is "Xanthe needs to chill out and lighten up", which is true. She also needs to change in other ways, but that would be a good start and I applaud the comic for delivering that message.

I envision the third panel as the study for a bronze, fifty-meter-tall Socialist Realism statue: "Strong for the Defense of the Motherland" ...

I think Tats is actually making a joke here at Xanthe's expense.

By the way, the word "woken" seems to have a special meaning in Radical Feminism. It means that a person has been converted to Goodthink by a Feminist and has abandoned her (or rarely, his) previous, politically incorrect life experiences and understanding of how the world works.

Yes, Tats is laying it on thick. I hope it's a joke. Perhaps Poe's Law applies here.

edited 1st Jul '16 12:46:09 AM by Hexapodia

...you know, people, there's a newspaper article I once read - it was called "the ogre wears pink": a whole page of sexual abuses and rampant deviant behavior by apparently normal women. Stuff like nice ladies going to Thailand to get their jollies with underage kids, having the pimp inject drugs in said boys' junk to get a powerful reaction, with the end result that either the kid dies or his privates actually FALL OFF (gangrene is a bitch).

I'd like to give a copy to Tats. Show him that the perfect-and-holy females can be as rotten as us sinful, flawed males. Probably he wouldn't give a flip or call me an "enabler" and the author of the article a "pawn of the patriarchy", (if I remember well it was written by a woman, but it's not as if he's gonna care...)

Seriously, can he pipe down for a moment? I get it, Xanthe is the savior and she'll lead the holy females away from malekind (probably dooming humanity to extinction because without that pesky XY genome reproduction is moot anyway) with all the awesome powers of a full Mary Sue. You need to get laid, Tats. And if (as some people suspect) you're doing this Crapfest(tm) to get some from a SJW, I hope she is a goddess in bed, because that's seriously FU Hed up.

I get it, Xanthe is the savior and she'll lead the holy females away from malekind ...

I think it would be hilarious to see how Xanthe handles puberty and hormonal mood swings.

Is it any wonder that I think some of you guys have developed into (closet or not) misogynists due to hating this comic so much

Like, besides that you are getting angry over a niche and pretty bad comic, you are getting angry about author's presumed opinions that we know nothing about because he is fricking hermit. Its impossible to tell how much of the comic is just comic and how much is his direct opinion, if you take comic strips as his 100% true to life opinion, then its contradictionary as hell.

And then you want to prove him wrong by focusing in negative things :D

(also, pretty sure this strip was making fun of her.)

edited 1st Jul '16 1:41:00 AM by SpookyMask