Seriously. Can we please find another style to rip off repeatedly?
Every new webcomic in the goddamn world is nothing but feminine men and big breasted me-too women running around with triangle mouths, super powers, and angst. Throw in some half-ass wish-it-was-but-it-sorely-isn't lines and darkness. Oh, and don't forget the strange title, where you pick, say, a color (99% of the time it is blue, or some variation thereof, so cobalt or cerulean or something), a weapon name (as long as it isn't gun or sword), and then throw in an actual name. So, Blue Zweihander Gene. If you want, you can tack on a subtitle that is meant to be mysterious, like "Only the edges know."
Is it THAT hard to think up your own style? With your own shading, a different way to draw the eyes, and where every panel ISN'T some overly used pose? There's NOTHING intense about, say, talking about video games. Nothing. You do it all the time and guess what - dragons aren't flying around outside your window at night, the government doesn't have super secret humaniod battallions, and not every adventure you have has to be magnified to an apex of tension.
I won't mention that every cartoon these days is pushing some anime influences, and it is tiresome. Tiresome. Tiresome. Look, we know the sweatdrop. It is and has integrated into American culture. WE DON'T ING NEED IT ANYMORE.
We don't need adolescent kids running around with their friends in some sort of fantasy world where there is an evil force hellbent on destroying everything, but for SOME reason they just CAN'T get away from this one kid and his friends.
The fascination with names needs to stop. Konseka Ganseikai. Look, I can make them up too. Jingai Goujinsetazuo. Holy shit! I did it again!
If someone can please explain to me why seemingly everyone has a hardon for anime these days - in their stories, in their art, in cartoons, in webcomics, in every last goddamn scifi or fantasy novel at Barnes and Nobles - I'd really appreciate it.
I like anime. I always have. I knew about before it was really in the mainstream, but right now it's just sad. It would be one thing if it wasn't so transparently copied that EVERYTHING that employees it wasn't just a palette change, but that's not the case. It's all a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, when the original fascimile wasn't all that great to begin with. In other words, if we had Cowboy Bebop calibur stuff running around all over the place, I could forgive it. But it's like Pokemon copying Pokemon copying DBZ.
Just ing stop it.
Give me some goddamn originality these days. It's possible, I know it is.
//yes, a poor attempt at a rant, but meh, I'm not looking for approval
Every new webcomic in the goddamn world is nothing but feminine men and big breasted me-too women running around with triangle mouths, super powers, and angst. Throw in some half-ass wish-it-was-but-it-sorely-isn't lines and darkness. Oh, and don't forget the strange title, where you pick, say, a color (99% of the time it is blue, or some variation thereof, so cobalt or cerulean or something), a weapon name (as long as it isn't gun or sword), and then throw in an actual name. So, Blue Zweihander Gene. If you want, you can tack on a subtitle that is meant to be mysterious, like "Only the edges know."
Is it THAT hard to think up your own style? With your own shading, a different way to draw the eyes, and where every panel ISN'T some overly used pose? There's NOTHING intense about, say, talking about video games. Nothing. You do it all the time and guess what - dragons aren't flying around outside your window at night, the government doesn't have super secret humaniod battallions, and not every adventure you have has to be magnified to an apex of tension.
I won't mention that every cartoon these days is pushing some anime influences, and it is tiresome. Tiresome. Tiresome. Look, we know the sweatdrop. It is and has integrated into American culture. WE DON'T ING NEED IT ANYMORE.
We don't need adolescent kids running around with their friends in some sort of fantasy world where there is an evil force hellbent on destroying everything, but for SOME reason they just CAN'T get away from this one kid and his friends.
The fascination with names needs to stop. Konseka Ganseikai. Look, I can make them up too. Jingai Goujinsetazuo. Holy shit! I did it again!
If someone can please explain to me why seemingly everyone has a hardon for anime these days - in their stories, in their art, in cartoons, in webcomics, in every last goddamn scifi or fantasy novel at Barnes and Nobles - I'd really appreciate it.
I like anime. I always have. I knew about before it was really in the mainstream, but right now it's just sad. It would be one thing if it wasn't so transparently copied that EVERYTHING that employees it wasn't just a palette change, but that's not the case. It's all a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, when the original fascimile wasn't all that great to begin with. In other words, if we had Cowboy Bebop calibur stuff running around all over the place, I could forgive it. But it's like Pokemon copying Pokemon copying DBZ.
Just ing stop it.
Give me some goddamn originality these days. It's possible, I know it is.
//yes, a poor attempt at a rant, but meh, I'm not looking for approval