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| Alt-text: My normal approach is useless here, too. |
I can't bring myself to hate this one, so I guess I haven't spent enough time on the 'net. Sure, there is a hint of playing for sympathy from someone else's illness, but if this whole deal is happening to a close friend relative, then fair enough, he's allowed sympathy. True, he doesn't have the grit, heart or eloquence of Terry Pratchett or Christopher Hitchens, but then again they are dealing with their own illnesses, not someone else's.
I don't like this comic. I wouldn't share it with people who have or have had cancer. I don't relate to it as someone who has had friends and family diagnosed with cancer. But if a carer drew this and showed it to me, I wouldn't hate it. I would just see it as a little bit of self-expression. I just wish he hadn't made it public, is all.
Anyway, if you want hate you'll probably have to wait and see what Rob pulls together. I doubt he'll pass up such a glorious opportunity to troll.
BINGO TIME!
Not as good a showing, despite two threads and over two hundred comments.
I'm surprised there was no 'Why do you read xkcd?' or 'I am leaving FOREVER'. Oh well.
This comic made me laugh. Out loud, no less. This was my favourite XKCD this year. I mean, that was a quality delivery, and NOT what I expected at all. Does that make me a terrible person?
ReplyDeleteThis comic would have been a lot better without the final panel. The art in the last panel's pretty bad and it goes from having a kind of dark, though still sincere, sense of humor to being really saccharine through stick figure hugs.
ReplyDeleteLast panel doesn't add anything to the joke, and since we don't care about the characters seeing their emotional reaction doesn't do anything.
Also the alt-text is a reference to one of my absolute least favorite xkcd's-- the "my normal approach is useless here" comic was when I made the realization that xkcd wasn't just a comic I didn't get, but something flat-out bad.
The man-child is facing mortality. How quaint. You get old and you die. Can't play in your ball pit forever you know.
ReplyDeleteYes Rinnon, that does make you a terrible person. Capn is also a terrible person, but for a large list of other reasons.
ReplyDeleteJasper - I don't think there is a joke in this comic...
There's a joke, it's just pretty black humor. The line "because of the real-life applications" is the "punchline" of the comic-- the same thing that made statistics reassuring is now making it scary.
ReplyDeleteIt's not laugh-out-loud funny, but it's still what the comic was building to. Continuing after that point goes from "dark, slightly comic point" to "I AM BEING SERIOUS NOW CRY AT THESE STICK FIGURES HUGGING." If it weren't for that panel the comic would just be really, really dark and one of Randy's cleverest pieces, instead of being awkward, sentimental glurge.
Really? That last panel is what made me laugh. The slightest thought, that he was being serious, hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
ReplyDeleteOh god, I can't wait for Rob's post on this one tbh.
ReplyDeleteThis is the XKCD version of CAD's "Loss"
NO!
ReplyDeleteYou just stop right fucking there with that shit, you uneducated cuddlefuck.
Nothing will ever be shittier than that. I had already stopped reading CAD for a long while when that hit, and even then, with my supposed apathy, it elicited my biggest what the fuck moment in my webcomic readerdom.
Nothing will ever come close to topping what was quite literally an abortion of a webcomic.
CADbortion is my 9/11.
"Loss" was pretty good, I thought.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention "Loss." I refer to it in the review I sent Rob this morning.
ReplyDeleteDilemma! What's Rob going to do?
ReplyDelete1) Post Gamer's review, which is presumably an actual critique?
2) Post his own rant designed to troll the xkcd-loving cuddlefish, who are becoming increasingly absent?
3) Post some Megdall fanfic, completely ignore the salient points and troll the xkcdsuckers?
@Jasper - okay, I sort of see the joke, but I really don't think that's what he was going for. I think the irony is meant to be tragic, not comic.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it appears Rinnon has been narmed.
@Kitten
ReplyDeleteI would expect Rob to choose #1, simply because it's less work for him. And, as with my last review, my guest post is less raging and more mourning for what xkcd has become. I think you'll all be surprised.
...And I was wrong. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteRob wrote something resembling a real review. I was wrong too. Guess he felt he had something to say.
ReplyDeleteRob posted an actual critique filled with pointed hate. He was just 3 days off schedule AMIRITE??!
ReplyDeletei just want to note that this is basically the first time i've ever not posted a guest review (actually I think it's the second or third), and the people were clamoring for proper hate.
ReplyDeleteclamoring!
maybe i'll post gamer's review tomorrow
Rob works for the people.
ReplyDelete"maybe i'll post gamer's review tomorrow"
ReplyDeleteGood deal. We're nothing if not "fair and balanced," right?
I'm pretty sure Christopher Hitchens is just an asshole who gets away with half the shit he says because he has a British Accent
ReplyDeleteAre you saying Americans let you get away with things if you have a British accent?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, good to know...
British accent?
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is a British accent?
Geordie?
Scouser?
Oxbridge?
Cockney?
Various Northern dialects?
Various Scottish dialects?
I did not mention Welsh as we both know they're not real.
Americans are quite magnanimous and accepting of differences my Externally Surmised Kitten - doncha know?
ReplyDeleteFor instance when I walk down a street in England I often hear: "Hey nine-iron zipper-head come over here and suck my dick". In America I hear instead: "Hey sexy girl come over here and suck my dick".
Makes for a world of difference.
Don't be ridiculous, ALT-F. All British people sound like Peter Cushing.
ReplyDeleteAnd look like him too!
ReplyDeleteExcept Keith Richards and Amy Winehouse. But then again, they are one and the same person.
ReplyDeleteThink about it. When one is off doing Pirates the other is in Rehab - or so they would have us believe - so we never see them at the same time.
They both look like Peter Cushing too.
ReplyDeleteInternally Irrigated Kitten?
ReplyDeleteWhy does the London 2012 Olympic Logo look like a drawing of Lisa Simpsom giving a robot a blowjob?
Citius, Altius, Fortius indeed!
It's a secret message readable only by Londoners.
ReplyDeleteIt is about blowjobs though.
Perhaps it is a visual representation of Cockney Rhyming Slang?
ReplyDeleteDick-licks = Olympics?