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Yay! Its back again! I stagger my reading of it to Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday cause there aren't enough good webcomics on those days, so I am not the best person to lead a real time discussion, but it really needs a thread. So in Monday's we see the mysterious return of the dark figure. (linky)

Who is starting to sound really, really desperate.

Also, is it just the art upgrade, or does Ellen's green ray seem more... jeeze, what is a same word to use? Powerful? More powerful then usual?

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Oct 10th 2025 at 12:46:21 PM

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#6326: Oct 21st 2011 at 10:25:21 AM

Shive apparently believes in Death of the Author.

AHR, want to help demonstrate that?

MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#6327: Oct 21st 2011 at 11:09:33 AM

And on this day we send forth out prayers to Daniel Shive, artist, student, and avid transformation fetishist with a heart of gold. This poor naive man was taken before his time t the hands of a manic fangirl. Though his end was gruesome, the point was made and proven, if not just. As we gather here to lay his remains to rest we can only say "You should've gotten an editor."

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#6329: Oct 21st 2011 at 11:48:19 AM

Demonstrate what? Why Death of the Author is bullshit, why it's true, or the concept?

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#6332: Oct 21st 2011 at 12:55:57 PM

Oh, c'mon, AHR, do you really hate Shive enough to...

I'm not even going to finish that sentence because I already know the answer. >XP

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#6333: Oct 21st 2011 at 1:00:51 PM

I WILL KILL HIM BECAUSE I LOVE HIM.

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Firebert That One Guy from Somewhere in Illinois Since: Jan, 2001
Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#6336: Oct 21st 2011 at 2:25:19 PM

The Ambiguous Gender page says that Sheik is clearly a she in Super Smash Bros: Brawl.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#6337: Oct 21st 2011 at 2:25:44 PM

Eh, Brawl isn't exactly uber canon.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#6338: Oct 21st 2011 at 2:26:36 PM

No.

We will not have this debate.

NO.

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#6340: Oct 21st 2011 at 2:50:38 PM

Why the hell did Shive open up that argument? Did he really felt it necessary to take time away from his comic to open up this can of worms?

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#6341: Oct 21st 2011 at 3:07:27 PM

I think it was a big setup for a Death of the Author schpiel.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#6342: Oct 21st 2011 at 5:57:41 PM

[up][up]

Apparently...

Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#6343: Oct 21st 2011 at 6:14:16 PM

Have we not established that Shive is an insensitive ass who doesn't know he is an insensitive ass?

Smilingcloud Since: Jul, 2011
#6344: Oct 21st 2011 at 8:28:41 PM

[up]That must be why he makes AHR wet...

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#6345: Oct 21st 2011 at 8:55:26 PM

[up][up]

I haven't seem him pull off any dickish moves that I should know about.

Zennistrad from The Multiverse Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
#6346: Oct 21st 2011 at 8:57:37 PM

I do get the feeling that this whole arc is really just Filler, and Shive is using it to explain his own philosophy on things, but rather than doing it directly, he's doing it through his characters.

I don't mind filler being made so you can sort out your own ideas for the next part of the story, but I think it would be better if he didn't have it done with characters and stated his opinions as himself.

MrMallard Since: Oct, 2010
#6347: Oct 21st 2011 at 9:16:05 PM

Jeez, guys, read the commentary.

Smilingcloud Since: Jul, 2011
#6348: Oct 22nd 2011 at 12:10:41 AM

Yes, I read comics for the commentary /still a shit arc.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6349: Oct 22nd 2011 at 8:11:41 AM

Good thing it was short.

Seriously, why did he have to fixate on the Sheik gender issue the whole time? Could he not think of anything else in Zelda worth parodying?

edited 22nd Oct '11 8:12:03 AM by Gilphon

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#6350: Oct 22nd 2011 at 9:31:10 AM

Well, every OTHER comic has always done the "Link is a furry" joke from Twilight Princess, so I'm not sure what's left~


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