|
Ah yes, the old "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it." Thanks Professor Voldemort!
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:24
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 19:10 |
|
|
Flesh Forge posted:Somebody pointed out to me that one of the earliest pages of the comic showed Allison's catchphrase to be "Might Makes Right!" I read it at the time and forgot about it.  Other way around. I remembered it because Freedom Force did the same thing with Minuteman.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:26
|
|
|
The art was nicer back then.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:27
|
|
|
Did he get all those scars from being too smug at people?
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:33
|
|
|
Skellybones posted:The art was nicer back then. And it had an ultimately false sense of hope that it might go somewhere.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:35
|
|
|
KaosMachina posted:
https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:40
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/dril/status/824061259511427074
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 10:43
|
|
|
KaosMachina posted:
Oops yeah you're right, I meant to type it that way but I'm pretty sleepy and wrote it backwards. Skellybones posted:The art was nicer back then. It really was, maybe it's more polished now but it's a lot less interesting to look at.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 11:06
|
|
|
KaosMachina posted:
You gotta might for your right - Descarte(-y)
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 11:54
|
|
|
Clearly she is a Sovereign Citizen and simultaneously a government and military in her own person.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 15:31
|
|
|
I know webcomic update schedules can make pacing feel like a drag even when it's not but this scene is on its 12th page with no sign of stopping.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 17:17
|
|
Typical Pubbie posted:I know webcomic update schedules can make pacing feel like a drag even when it's not but this scene is on its 12th page with no sign of stopping. The conversation started before december 30th. It's been going on for over a month.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2017 23:51
|
|
|
Looking forward to the hitball arc.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2017 05:27
|
|
|
Cool he literally went there. Very timely.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 10:57
|
|
|
Allstone posted:You gotta might Seriously they must be reading this thread 
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 11:13
|
|
|
I guess I feel this is a little meandering, although I kinda like the professor character. Inalienable rights literally do not exist outside of your brain unless people make them exist by their interactions. They're ideas, not, like, molecules or gasses, which may exist even though the naked eye can't see them. History and the world is full of segments were people had to fight pretty hard until their respective society agreed to make real additional rights through laws and consequences. Well, we already established it's pretty hard to stick any consequences on our protagonist outside of regretful nausea, so I guess in the professor's place I couldn't tell her anything else either. Yeah, you forced this douche to do stuff against his will because no one can protect his right to decide what to do with his life from you, Allison. The mechanisms of civilized society can do nothing to you. http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-3/page-74/ Remember this? "Every day I don't kill a thousand loving people, they should throw me a ticker-tape parade." http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-3/page-75/ "I just threatened to kill several hundred people on national TV and nothing bad happened to me." Allison is beholden only to herself and she is profoundly uncomfortable with the responsibility. She's a shark that most people cannot stop. She is beyond the jurisdiction of most establishments that work to secure rights as basic as life and 'not getting abducted in the night.' I guess I kind of assumed she'd gotten to that realization through her meetings with Cleaver. And her weird super doctor literally joked that they'd try to get people off-planet if Allison went supervillain. I don't know, some of her lines here don't sit well with me. I appreciate that she's done something she's grappling with, but I expected a different sort of introspection, maybe? Weird. Psykmoe fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jan 31, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 15:29
|
|
|
Psykmoe posted:And her weird super doctor literally joked that they'd try to get people off-planet if Allison went supervillain. I doubt that was a joke.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 15:44
|
|
|
He actually quoted the Beastie Boys. This reads like a high school book report. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 16:03
|
|
|
You can loving see the seams between the original script and where they changed it after Trump was elected, Jesus Christ. Like a loving quilt.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 18:33
|
|
|
Still hoping Professor Jerkshoes is some amazing twist evil mastermind but it doesn't look like it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2017 22:06
|
|
Typical Pubbie posted:He actually quoted the Beastie Boys. This reads like a high school book report. Or like they're trying to channel Dr. House and doing a bad job of it.
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2017 00:23
|
|
|
guest story arc by kazerad
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2017 23:31
|
|
DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:guest story arc by kazerad Has anyone started drowning themselves in alcohol yet?
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 2, 2017 05:02
|
|
|
Typical Pubbie posted:He actually quoted the Beastie Boys. This reads like a high school book report. I mean it's not totally unreasonable. The Beastie Boys have been around since 1980 and got some pretty big pop acclaim. It's not unreasonable someone who's around young people for years would hear of them even if they aren't into them.
|
|
#
?
Feb 2, 2017 05:09
|
|
|
Trast posted:I mean it's not totally unreasonable. The Beastie Boys have been around since 1980 and got some pretty big pop acclaim. It's not unreasonable someone who's around young people for years would hear of them even if they aren't into them. Seriously, my philosophy prof loved pop culture references. A dramatic jackass like professor scarface quoting Beastie Boys is perfectly in character.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 03:08
|
|
|
I think this comic is still redeemable. Drop Clevin and the women's shelter thing ASAP, circle back to Patrick and the Illuminati and make something out of it this time.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 07:08
|
|
|
Maha posted:I think this comic is still redeemable. Drop Clevin and the women's shelter thing ASAP, circle back to Patrick and the Illuminati and make something out of it this time. I hate to break it to you, but I just don't think that there is any desire to take that plot arc anywhere. The author has very consciously divorced the current comic from the first few chapters, I doubt they'd even know what they wanted to do with the conspiracy angle anymore.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 11:06
|
|
|
clevin isn't going anywhere
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 11:57
|
|
|
akulanization posted:I hate to break it to you, but I just don't think that there is any desire to take that plot arc anywhere. The author has very consciously divorced the current comic from the first few chapters, I doubt they'd even know what they wanted to do with the conspiracy angle anymore. I think it's pretty clear he had the Might Makes Right/Embrace Fascism theme built in at the start but yeah much of the rest has just been sitting on the floor since the beginning.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 12:53
|
|
akulanization posted:I hate to break it to you, but I just don't think that there is any desire to take that plot arc anywhere. The author has very consciously divorced the current comic from the first few chapters, I doubt they'd even know what they wanted to do with the conspiracy angle anymore. The worst part about it all, is that the comment section just jerks off every new page about how it's literally the best writing and art on the internet. These people are so, so dumb and I hate them.
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 13:55
|
|
|
Personally, I'm frustrated because this whole conversation could have been so, so much better than it is - and the point it's arrived at is a decent one. Allison is trying to get external sanction - absolution, as the prof says. He's trying to make her see that no such sanction exists, that morality is constructed and the world cruel. So, Allison needs to decide how comfortable she is with forcing morality on the world, because it won't be moral on its own. Of course, this is poorly written because it's being used to give her sanction, actually, which is gross. If you're going to say 'human rights exist inasmuch as we fight for them, not in any other way' then turning around to say 'also, anything goes! Beat up that strawman some more for his special talents' is pretty weird. That entire argument could have taken two pages. One to say 'I'm not going to give you sanction' and one to say 'also there is no sanction' aaaaand we're done, and can move on to the interesting part (Allison's response to that). Because by the bones of the sainted Alan Moore, was that ever the most obnoxious example of the most facile argument in moral philosophy - an argument between a freshman-year philosopher's conception of consequentialism and deontology. You don't need the performance! Plus, like, no ground is broken, the entirety of Watchmen is about those two moral philosophies and how moral philosophy is degraded/transcended by power. Also, if this comic had been pitched as 'an incredibly powerful jerk goes through Moral Philosophy 101' I would have never started it. The only reason I'm reading this bit is because I've been engrossed in the trainwreck for too long, please, save me from myself
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 20:04
|
|
|
Joe Slowboat posted:Personally, I'm frustrated because this whole conversation could have been so, so much better than it is - and the point it's arrived at is a decent one. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 23:17
|
|
|
Good point.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2017 23:27
|
|
|
good dog
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 00:20
|
|
|
Joe Slowboat posted:
Go do literally anything else. I recommend breaking rocks into other, smaller rocks. That way, you get gravel, a substance that is extremely useful and, I think, underappreciated.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 07:35
|
|
|
The next time you think "I am going to read Strong Female Protagonist, a webcomic that I dislike in every facet, and whose perusal yields me no pleasure whatsoever.", you should avoid doing that. Go outside instead. Or remain indoors to enjoy one of the near infinite other options available to someone with internet access! Or do your taxes! This is my plea to you, fellow forums readers who keep reading or watching things they no longer enjoy at all, not even in a "wow this is really bad. how will they continue to gently caress up!?" sense.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 07:39
|
|
|
I actually like parts of the comic, and I haven't been reluctant to praise it when it's good  But I'm not going to be reluctant to poo poo on it when it's bad either.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 08:08
|
|
|
i like the bits with clevin
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 20:21
|
|
|
Cravin' for Clevin.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2017 21:22
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 19, 2024 19:10 |
|
|
Flesh Forge posted:I actually like parts of the comic, and I haven't been reluctant to praise it when it's good Then my advice does not apply to you. Congrats.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2017 02:46
|
|