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Tollymain posted:i hope furnace is going to kill somebody Me too.
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May 29, 2015 14:44
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:He's either on his way to kill someone who has made a rape accusation or Moonshadow is going to slit his idiot throat. This is clearly going to end with Allison confronting him in the air and giving him a stern lecture. Because if there is anything the authors love is having Allison one-up every character she can.
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May 29, 2015 14:48
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One-upping Furnace is setting the bar pretty low
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May 29, 2015 15:08
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It's basically Something Positive with super powers and a lot less attempted humour at this point
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May 29, 2015 16:05
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Brought To You By posted:This is clearly going to end with Allison confronting him in the air and giving him a stern lecture. Because if there is anything the authors love is having Allison one-up every character she can. Probably, since Furnace has been basically just an example of a badwrong "hero" from the start whose been established as weaker than Allison, and now she's able to do one of the few things he could do that she couldn't. I can't see him being anything but a really easy target to put Allison on a clear moral high ground for more lecturing.
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Jackard posted:One-upping Furnace is setting the bar pretty low SFP could win any limbo competition with it's current quality of writing.
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May 29, 2015 16:22
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Seriously just handing Allison these barrels full o' fish.
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May 29, 2015 16:40
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The comic has never been about whether Allison could beat someone in a fight. It's established pretty much from the first chapter that there are maybe a handful of people in the entire world who'd stand a chance against her, and she doesn't really seem worried about fighting any of them. And beating Furnace verbally is basically like winning an argument with a monkey, so I'm hoping something else is going on here.
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May 29, 2015 16:56
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idonotlikepeas posted:And beating Furnace verbally is basically like winning an argument with a monkey, so I'm hoping something else is going on here. You're right, they're probably just going to hurl handfuls of poo poo at each other.
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May 29, 2015 19:15
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Rei_ posted:It's basically Something Positive with super powers and a lot less attempted humour at this point Something loving Positive
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May 29, 2015 19:26
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I don't know enough about Something Positive to get the comparison here.
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May 29, 2015 19:57
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Cat Mattress posted:Me too. Beaten.
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May 29, 2015 21:39
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Zerilan posted:I don't know enough about Something Positive to get the comparison here. 4-panel comic with lovely art written by a dude who has a compulsion to have every single strip end with a sardonic punchline, no matter whose mouth it's coming out of. Like, you would have a character who was characterized as some ~super vapid ditzy slut who fucks everything up~ until the narrative suddenly decided "wait, she's actually kind of sympathetic" and had her reply to some strawman's insult with 3 of the 4 panels filled with paragraphs of uncharacteristically well-spoken Sick Burns with no word in edgewise. Or maybe the author decided he wanted to talk about something he hated, so he'd pick some random character and have them mouthpiece about it. I did genuinely like some of the characterization in the comic, but it was so full of predictable monologues, pretentious bullshit and sarcastic "nobody would actually talk like this in real life though" comments that I quit reading it years ago. It didn't help that around that time the author teased a relationship between the protagonist and another character for years with tons of scenes devoted to genuine emotional development between the two, only to turn around and say "gotcha! that was all a joke, I was trolling my fans lol" and abruptly shoehorn in a self-insert for his IRL girlfriend for the protagonist to date instead. tl;dr: Something Positive is a bad comic with a lot of unrealistic mic-drop monologues at every opportunity. Irukandji Syndrome fucked around with this message at 01:22 on May 30, 2015 |
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May 30, 2015 01:18
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Irukandji Syndrome posted:tl;dr: is a bad comic with a lot of unrealistic mic-drop monologues at every opportunity.
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May 30, 2015 01:33
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If I were going to criticize Something Positive, I'd probably go with "it's 90% incredibly mean-spirited humor spoken by awful, awful people, and 10% those awful people gradually dragging themselves out of the much to grow as human beings over the past ten years."
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Rand Brittain posted:If I were going to criticize Something Positive, I'd probably go with "it's 90% incredibly mean-spirited humor spoken by awful, awful people, and 10% those awful people gradually dragging themselves out of the much to grow as human beings over the past ten years." Yeah, that too. It's been so long that I've forgotten how bad some of it was, but I do remember some particularly vile 'ironic' racism with them theming a porno around Native Americans.
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May 30, 2015 01:41
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Irukandji Syndrome posted:Yeah, that too. It's been so long that I've forgotten how bad some of it was, but I do remember some particularly vile 'ironic' racism with them theming a porno around Native Americans. Also Hillbilly D&D tree monsters, with 'hilarious' rape joke.
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May 30, 2015 02:05
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Basically Something Positive is Questionable Content, but with character growth
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Fried Chicken posted:Basically Something Positive is Questionable Content, but with character growth Questionably Positive
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May 30, 2015 02:13
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Allison probably won't be ending up in a physical fight with Furnace, because she doesn't have fireproof clothes and it's not that sort of webcomic.
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Fried Chicken posted:Basically Something Positive is Questionable Content, but with character growth
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Say Nothing posted:Allison probably won't be ending up in a physical fight with Furnace, because she doesn't have fireproof clothes and it's not that sort of webcomic. Tasteful use of smoke and flames.
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May 30, 2015 05:10
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Given there weird sphere of telekinesis she exhibited with Patrick, it's possible that he wouldn't even be able to get his flames to touch her now.
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May 30, 2015 05:20
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Say Nothing posted:Allison probably won't be ending up in a physical fight with Furnace So then, you think she'd end up in a firefight with him? 
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May 30, 2015 06:26
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It wouldn't even be a fight. poo poo, the bat guy would have a better chance. But obviously, any conflict between them will come in the form of competing bizarre monologues.
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May 30, 2015 06:31
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May 30, 2015 07:17
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I hope Moonshadow comes up behind Furnace to slit his throat and he just FLAMES ON and burns the area around his body to 5000 degrees and she turns to ashes
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May 30, 2015 11:16
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The actual punchline of this arc is the main girl having to learn this total rear end in a top hat is untouchable by the law and she can't do poo poo about it
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Harime Nui posted:The actual punchline of this arc is the main girl having to learn this total rear end in a top hat is untouchable by the law and she can't do poo poo about it Furnace is C-list trying to make B, he ain't poo poo.
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Harime Nui posted:The actual punchline of this arc is the main girl having to learn this total rear end in a top hat is untouchable by the law and she can't do poo poo about it What crime has he committed?
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May 30, 2015 16:42
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Harime Nui posted:The actual punchline of this arc is the main girl having to learn this total rear end in a top hat is untouchable by the law and she can't do poo poo about it I'm guessing you mean Patrick? Because yeah, that's the only thing that really happened in this chapter - she's realised that bad boys are also massive jerks. Especially the ones who spent their adolescence as a mass murdering, mind reading Kid Hitler. I would at least like to know if he was telling the truth when he said he had everyone murdered at the hospital where the female Wolverine was donating her organs every day. Because that's a hell of a thing to throw out there and never reference ever again. It's even more of a hell of a thing for Allison to just casually ignore like that.
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He murdered the protesters who she had also considered murdering. She doesn't give a gently caress about that, but is obsessed with Moonshadow killing rapists. Alison is kind of an rear end in a top hat that way.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'm guessing you mean Patrick? Because yeah, that's the only thing that really happened in this chapter - she's realised that bad boys are also massive jerks. Especially the ones who spent their adolescence as a mass murdering, mind reading Kid Hitler. No I mean, if the Flame Dude killed the serial killer and got a tickertape parade, and Allison knows he actually killed a troubled young woman but the public loves him and she has to eat that. It's where I'd take the story but I'm not writing it. Harime Nui fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 30, 2015 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'm guessing you mean Patrick? Because yeah, that's the only thing that really happened in this chapter - she's realised that bad boys are also massive jerks. Especially the ones who spent their adolescence as a mass murdering, mind reading Kid Hitler. Pretty sure that was just part of him doing the "saying poo poo to make you hate me so I don't have to deal with emotions" bit.
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Zerilan posted:Pretty sure that was just part of him doing the "saying poo poo to make you hate me so I don't have to deal with emotions" bit. A big part of the problem is it's completely unclear. Patrick had a characterization, and most of it was thrown out the window in this chapter so that he could be something to react against.
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Well, the most popular and strongest superhuman in the world is a woman who quit the superhero biz. That's gotta rankle for such an obvious attention whore who talks like a hilarious men's rights stereotype.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Well, the most popular and strongest superhuman in the world is a woman who quit the superhero biz. That's gotta rankle for such an obvious attention whore who talks like a hilarious men's rights stereotype. Furnace was really just a character who should have never appeared again after that opening scene
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In retrospect yeah I was thinking I want to see what Alisson does when the world sides with an rear end in a top hat instead of her but they actually already sorta did that with the Feral arc so nvm. Might be interesting if she has to put down Moonshadow only to see her become sorta a folk hero though.
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Gorilla Salad posted:
I think he was lying, because it was clear he was just trying to say whatever at that point (without thinking things through) to just get a reaction from Allison. He said that after he just spent so much time telling Allison he won't give her Moonshadow's address because solving these problems by taking out one person at a time was a crappy way to deal with societal issues. Since that characterization is more consistent with his character( up to that point I guess), I'm inclined to think that part was the actually honest part. Otherwise why wouldn't he have just given her the info at the start. With the whole, people are chattel and I kill them indiscriminately part being the lie cause he was panicking due to not knowing how to deal with Allison having positive feelings towards him.
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