well, I must admit this week's video just sounded bitter to me
and thus even though I agread with most of it.
Then I guess you "enjoyad" is almost as much as I did.
@joshofalltrades get over it
someone who enjoys it itsn't "wrong" there's a big difference between liking something and saying it's good/the best thing arround.
Hello there, Tim.
See what I did there? If you defend CAD you must be Tim Buckley! Ha! Ha! Ha!Forthcoming corrections in bold:
I guess I just see web comics as a pastime rather than a business, so I'll excuse most of the obscure senaristic (what the hell?) mistakes about punch lines being delivered at the wrong time (which I believe the punchline was the guy giving up on the jewel battle and stabbing the other for faster results and not them staring down at the table itself) and even graphic quality. I won't harass someone telling them what they did wrong, actually, I usually don't critique unless invited to, because it's always nice to know what the author is actually aiming at first, and because there's no sense in trying to "help" someone who doesn't want any help.... that way you help someone reach HIS goal...and not your own...
Your argument is like your spelling, immature and flawed. If I told you, a professional tennis coach, that I aspired to be the most mediocre tennis player that ever existed, you would tell me that the goal was worthy of contempt, probably with a few confused expletives mixed in. In this case, a professional webcomic author is aspiring to make his comic only as good as it takes to get tons of people to pay him money for it. The goal is worthless and I am not going to help him get there. I've seen the man's artwork and I know he can do better, but he doesn't want to. All he gets from me are -- you guessed it -- snarky comments and derision for those who consider it the pinnacle of the medium.
Subjectivity is a great thing; taste varies. However, a critic's place is objectivity, and in that regard CAD falls on its face. There are various objective arguments for its stale mediocrity and the common foils to those arguments are nearly exclusively subjective: "You're just too picky", "It makes me laugh sometimes", "I like Tim Buckley in bed", etc. While those arguments apply well to matters of taste, they don't apply to factual statements. When I tell you that he draws the same faces over and over based on templates, his backgrounds are just googled and blurred images, and he bloats his comic by adding two useless frames that don't add anything to the joke being told, you look like a moron when you try to render that criticism invalid with, "But it makes me laugh!"
This post has been edited by joshofalltrades: 03 July 2008 - 01:36 PM