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Suffice to say, the results weren\'t pretty, but I take no ill towards the 4chan userbase, seeing that I respect them greatly and admire their subculture\'s contributions to the world(John Solomon, Project Chanology, Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan itself and all those funny Gamestop Calls, etc.) Again, their reaction was a testament to this comic\'s infamy. I also heard some disparaging comments towards a transgendered person named \
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Suffice to say, the results weren\\\'t pretty, but I take no ill towards the 4chan userbase, seeing that I respect them greatly and admire their subculture\\\'s contributions to the world(John Solomon, Project Chanology, Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan itself and all those funny Gamestop Calls, etc.) Again, their reaction was a testament to this comic\\\'s infamy. I also heard some disparaging comments towards a transgendered person named \\\"Liz\\\". From what I heard \\\"Liz\\\" was user from another Chan site who caused some drama over Shredded Moose on a board called \\\"How\\\'s Your Webcomic?\\\" or \\\"/hyw/\\\". Aparrently this \\\"Liz\\\" made a Shredded Moose like comic, only transgender oriented, and then, according to some random anon, the drama climaxed when Shredded Moose author, Chris Hall, came over to the boards himself, told everybody that his comic was an old shame, and then created a new Shredded Moose comic satirizing Liz whom he felt was an obsessive fan and overtly so.

Once again, as with the missing Shredded Moose comics, I don\\\'t have verification or evidence, but such evidence does exist and I desperately need it so this website can fulfill its purpose in documenting the truth within and without works of fiction.


Was BlunTime this \\\"Liz\\\" person? If so, tell \\\"Liz\\\" I meant no harm and still don\\\'t. I won\\\'t hold anything against him/her and that I am still thankful for the information he/she imparted. Do tell him/her though to try to keep level head and not blow up over details, and make suicide threats, for those cause drama, and Ol Scratch Anon doesn\\\'t like that. If he/she gets an ED page, tell him/her to just do as the AVGN and TGWTG crew do, by keeping calm and carrying on.

Finally I wonder if it is possible to contact Chris Hall himself, because if there is anyone who can greatly help us clear up all the inconsistencies and mysteries surrounding this webcomic, it is the supposed Brewmeister himself. You see after all this conversation, I was left with these conflicting theories about what Shredded Moose was now having a better idea of the latter half of the comic.

At first I thought that:

*Shredded Moose was misogynistic, wish fulfillment Penny Arcade clone comic that whose authors were righteously scared off the internet.

But now having gone through the archives that theory is now discarded, and like some hydra, four have popped up in it\\\'s place:

*Shredded Moose was misogynistic wish fulfillment Penny Arcade comic, whose authors through constant trolling and criticism, tried to redeem the comic through better writing and a complete deconstruction of itself, only to face further unending scrutiny, forcing them to abandon the project alltogether

*Shredded Moose was a metaphysical parody of Ctrl Alt Delete and many other comics in Two Gamers on a Couch Genre.

*Shredded Moose was a mere trolling comic simply made get everyone into a ruse. John Solomon, 4chan, TvTropes, and myself and BlunTime included. We are all getting trolled(If this theory is true, then I must say, it is a pretty good trolling ruse, right down the strategic move of removing the site, thus having us argue over what is real and not real about the comic).

*Shredded Moose was more than a mere troll comic, it was a trap, a conspiracy, albeit a botched, failed, but admirable conspiracy to correct and change the worst people in video gaming culture. Shredded Moose was designed as a ultraviolent, hypersexualized, politically incorrect Penny Arcade clone, in order to try and attract the lowest common denominator, the worst people in video gaming. The trash talkers, the lecherous perverts, the intolerant bigots, the non empathetic, the X-treme edgy attitudes, the misogynists, and the so called \\\"Nice Guys\\\". The plan was to give them a comic that would give them what they wanted, for the first half, and then pull the rug under them and deconstruct everything about them. All so something like this would never happen again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLDgPbjp0M ...But the problem was, Shredded Moose didn\\\'t attract the audience it was going for, for John Solomon, feminists, and some other trolls got to it first, and thus the webcomic was lambasted before it could attract such an audience, and correct them. Since the comic failed in its covert operation, the only sane and rational thing to do was take it off the internet and pretend it never happened.


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And those are my theories that I have about Shredded Moose, now again I could even be wrong about all those theories too, so I could really use some help from the Word of God here.


Chris Hall, if you\\\'re reading this, please, help us. We need a complete archive especially including the infamous Dating 101 comic as well as the infamous comic where Brew gets raped by Monique with a green dildo. We need to hear your thoughts on this webcomic and know what your intention was so that we can scratch off some theories and give this comic an accurate description.


As of now, I am going to cut and paste the entry text here so I can do a little editing on the entry. The overwhelming majority of hatred this comic got says \\\"horrible\\\", but the scraps that BluntTime save as well as the evidence he/she gathered says \\\"a tad misunderstood\\\".

*Shredded Moose is... Was, along with being irredeemably offensive, devoid of humor or any point behind its misogyny. The artwork is somewhat competent, though an obvious rip-off of Penny Arcade\\\'s style and often glaringly unrealistic where female anatomy is concerned. This comic was a Two Gamers on a Couch comic about two fratboy gamers. A backwards hat wearing Totally Radical \\\"Alpha Male\\\" named Brew, who represented the writer, and, representing the artist, Trip, a youngster fratboy who looked up to Brew. Together they were Mary Sue protagonists to the extreme. The average comic strip was always about either Brew one upping their strawman targets with a talking point followed by violence, or having sex with multiple women, and all the women in the series were either bimbos, Orcs(if feminists), or Lesbians(if they did not want to have sex with Brew). This made Brew an aggressively unlikable Jerkass character who epitomizes the worst of the Fratire genre without any of its redeeming qualities. The comic made a poorly executed attempt at Cerebus Syndrome by dealing with a character\\\'s past, witnessing her mother being raped. This was intended as serious and gave Shredded Moose some well needed character development but perhaps it was too late. This, combined with every other comic seeming to be a Filler strip of a nude girl (even in the middle of storylines!), made the comic even less readable toward the end. Mercifully, it seems to have finally died. The domain name expired, and the creators have made no effort to find a new site. Still the memory of such a comic scars the minds of many a critic forevermore. While we in some ways regret having almost no evidence of such a comic existing, save for few scraps on the internet, and the words of critics left in it\\\'s wake, we inform you that the internet, however, takes solace that such a comic is finally gone...
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Suffice to say, the results weren\'t pretty, but I take no ill towards the 4chan userbase, seeing that I respect them greatly and admire their subculture\'s contributions to the world(John Solomon, Project Chanology, Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan itself and all those funny Gamestop Calls, etc.) Again, their reaction was a testament to this comic\'s infamy. I also heard some disparaging comments towards a transgendered person named \
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Suffice to say, the results weren\\\'t pretty, but I take no ill towards the 4chan userbase, seeing that I respect them greatly and admire their subculture\\\'s contributions to the world(John Solomon, Project Chanology, Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan itself and all those funny Gamestop Calls, etc.) Again, their reaction was a testament to this comic\\\'s infamy. I also heard some disparaging comments towards a transgendered person named \\\"Liz\\\". From what I heard \\\"Liz\\\" was user from another Chan site who caused some drama over Shredded Moose on a board called \\\"How\\\'s Your Webcomic?\\\" or \\\"/hyw/\\\". Aparrently this \\\"Liz\\\" made a Shredded Moose like comic, only transgender oriented, and then, according to some random anon, the drama climaxed when Shredded Moose author, Chris Hall, came over to the boards himself, told everybody that his comic was an old shame, and then created a new Shredded Moose comic satirizing Liz whom he felt was an obsessive fan and overtly so.

Once again, as with the missing Shredded Moose comics, I don\\\'t have verification or evidence, but such evidence does exist and I desperately need it so this website can fulfill its purpose in documenting the truth within and without works of fiction.


Was BlunTime this \\\"Liz\\\" person? If so, tell \\\"Liz\\\" I meant no harm and still don\\\'t. I won\\\'t hold anything against him/her and that I am still thankful for the information he/she imparted. Do tell him/her though to try to keep level head and not blow up over details, and make suicide threats, for those cause drama, and Ol Scratch Anon doesn\\\'t like that. If he/she gets an ED page, tell him/her to just do as the AVGN and TGWTG crew do, by keeping calm and carrying on.

Finally I wonder if it is possible to contact Chris Hall himself, because if there is anyone who can greatly help us clear up all the inconsistencies and mysteries surrounding this webcomic, it is the supposed Brewmeister himself. You see after all this conversation, I was left with these conflicting theories about what Shredded Moose was now having a better idea of the latter half of the comic.

At first I thought that:

*Shredded Moose was misogynistic, wish fulfillment Penny Arcade clone comic that whose authors were righteously scared off the internet.

But now having gone through the archives that theory is now discarded, and like some hydra, four have popped up in it\\\'s place:

*Shredded Moose was misogynistic wish fulfillment Penny Arcade comic, whose authors through constant trolling and criticism, tried to redeem the comic through better writing and a complete deconstruction of itself, only to face further unending scrutiny, forcing them to abandon the project alltogether

*Shredded Moose was a metaphysical parody of Ctrl Alt Delete and many other comics in Two Gamers on a Couch Genre.

*Shredded Moose was a mere trolling comic simply made get everyone into a ruse. John Solomon, 4chan, TvTropes, and myself and BlunTime included. We are all getting trolled(If this theory is true, then I must say, it is a pretty good trolling ruse, right down the strategic move of removing the site, thus having us argue over what is real and not real about the comic).

*Shredded Moose was more than a mere troll comic, it was a trap, a conspiracy, albeit a botched, failed, but admirable conspiracy to correct and change the worst people in video gaming culture. Shredded Moose was designed as a ultraviolent, hypersexualized, politically incorrect Penny Arcade clone, in order to try and attract the lowest common denominator, the worst people in video gaming. The trash talkers, the lecherous perverts, the intolerant bigots, the non empathetic, the X-treme edgy attitudes, the misogynists, and the so called \\\"Nice Guys\\\". The plan was to give them a comic that would give them what they wanted, for the first half, and then pull the rug under them and deconstruct everything about them. All so something like this would never happen again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLDgPbjp0M ...But the problem was, Shredded Moose didn\\\'t attract the audience it was going for, for John Solomon, feminists, and some other trolls got to it first, and thus the webcomic was lambasted before it could attract such an audience, and correct them. Since the comic failed in its covert operation, the only sane and rational thing to do was take it off the internet and pretend it never happened.


---

And those are my theories that I have about Shredded Moose, now again I could even be wrong about all those theories too, so I could really use some help from the Word of God here.


Chris Hall, if you\\\'re reading this, please, help us. We need a complete archive especially including the infamous Dating 101 comic as well as the infamous comic where Brew gets raped by Monique with a green dildo. We need to hear your thoughts on this webcomic and know what your intention was so that we can scratch off some theories and give this comic an accurate description.
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