Sinfest

Given Tats trying to put focus on police brutality, it really feels like a Broken Aesop.

"True Dick 1" was fifteen months ago, and was actually relevant at the time. But this?

As near as I can tell, the joke is that being a hipster with a man bun is far more heinous than being a serial-kiling pedophile cannibal. The strip isn't awful, just stupid.

Man buns? Hardly a hot topic. From what I've seen around campus, they're pretty much on the way out.

My guess is that Tats is stuck — for one reason or another — and he's desperate for filler. I think he created this strip back in 2017, but he decided it wasn't up to his standard and didn't use it. But he needed something' to run today, so he pulled it from his "REJECTED" file and slapped "SEASON 2" on the image to explain why it was posted so much time after "True Dick 1."

Edited by Hexapodia on Feb 19th 2019 at 10:17:51 AM

Are...are we NOT supposed to be cheering for curbstomping the hipster? Seriously, unless you're a samurai, NO ONE has any business having a man bun.

My sentiments exactly!

How is hating man buns tied to the Patriarchy?

Did we just learn Tats's own hairstyle?

It's an Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking joke, guys. There is a trope for that. It's not that weird.

Also, I don't think this comic is commenting on police brutality so much as on the tendency of movie villains to be almost cartoonishly vile and evil, just so the heroes can murder them in cold blood without losing their hero license.

Did you miss the "The Patriarchy presents" part?

Tats has always used that to introduce his latest straw complaint against men. Like this. Or this. Or like with "The Sisterhood presents" Or look through this archive search and see for yourself.

There's being too negative, but there's also ignoring established patterns. You can't take every new comic like every comic before that never happened.

Tats himself established the patterns, not the audience.

I did miss that part, yes.

Well, some cops in the US really do behave like they are above the law, and act with excessive force towards any and all crime.

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2019-02-21

Man, we are just jumping around plot lines, aren't we?

Squig has finally discovered the only way to live in the horrible nightmare Tats has made his world into. Stoned out of his goddamned gourd.

And Slick continues to be broest tier.

Squig at least is keeping his weed habit.

If I had to guess, and this is just me, the whole "man bun" thing was supposed to be about how, in Tats' worldview, members of the patriarchy will cry foul and demand due process (which is likely perceived as a way for a corrupt system to protect criminals; see how quickly certain individuals will demand someone's head and/or reproductive organs at the mere suggestion they've committed some form of sexual misconduct, and the hostility they likewise direct at anyone audacious enough to so much as think the words "presumption of innocence" in their presence) for those who commit serious offenses, but will lash out violently against small things like some hipster with a stupid haircut, and use these smaller, meaningless infractions as a smokescreen to sweep larger systemic problems under the rug.

If I had to guess.

Edited by Dragon573 on Feb 20th 2019 at 10:36:34 AM

Nah. Redmess has the right of it. It's just that manbuns are a fashion crime worthy of a good thrashing.

Let's see how Tats is going to torture these characters this time.

Squig seems to have been shell-shocked into blowing his brains out with weed, but I'm sure Tats can make it worse!

I think Tats might be on vacation, and he's using old strips that he never got around to posting as filler.

Tats, there's an easier way to handle the situation, and it's been used successfully with other webcomics: have a guest artist take over for the duration.

I recommend Frank Cho.

Edited by Hexapodia on Feb 20th 2019 at 11:23:53 AM

@Metalix: that comment would work if Squig started being high out of his mind today. But the thing is, being high off his rocker has been pretty much his thing in this comic since he appeared, so I don't see how this would be any different.

I think Metalix's comment does work here

We've never seen Squig hit the herb this bad before

Since last we saw him, he was trying to light up to blow away his feelings of self loathing after being confronted by one of his "fap girls", and failing, I'm thinking that he went for more and more before he could zone out

Got to admit, jumping storylines so often makes us reader people lost and puzzled!

I mean, usually he's so high he can fly his couch around. I'm not sure how you'd top that.

I think your definitions of being high are a touch arbitrary here.

He was also in a pretty good mood when he was high to fly the couch.

After the wringer Tats put him through he's gone from "doing it because it's fun", to "oh dear god, just let me forget."

More concerned with the song lyrics. There's escapism and then there's abandoning everything.

I should point out that you can listen to songs like that without being depressed.

Yes, yes you can. Does anyone actually think that's the case here? Especially given what Squig went through recently.

Oh, right, the porn bonfire plot. That makes a bit more sense, then. I had almost forgotten.

Easy to forget. It did happen quite a bit ago. And we did have that strip where he failed to get his armchair flying too. Leads me to think Squig is not in a good place right now. Maybe Slick can help him out.

As a semi-related aside/PSA: Never do drugs or drink when you're in a not so good state of mind. It puts you on a bad trip, and you'll do really stupid shit.

Trust me, had more than one friend who did that, and it's pretty sad. Really scary, too, when you have to try and keep them calm and talk them through it.