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I just binged through the archives. Jesus Christ, what the gently caress? I usually don't drop comics shortly after actually following them, but this one...okay, we have some child slavers and some other gory stuff, no biggie. But then it just keeps getting gorier and gorier. On the other hand, I kind of like the whole idea behind the khert and how "magic" works. I just... I don't know what to think. I'll follow for a while, but I'd like it to stop sinking deeper and deeper into a hole of depravity.
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Crisco Kid posted:I'm a bit surprised the latest foray into disturbing territory has turned so many readers off, readers who presumably were okay with the child sacrifice/molestation/fever dream segment from earlier in the comic. For me, it's the difference between showing us that these are very bad people who do bad things and lingering at great depth on the things they're doing. At a certain point, if an author keeps going into great depth on the terrible things people are doing, I start to think that the author doesn't actually think those things are bad. And I know moral relativism blah blah blah, but it still ends up bothering me. Kind of like how I think Psycho would be a much worse movie if we actually saw the shower scene in more gory detail. Part of art is knowing what not to show, as well.
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Feb 21, 2013 03:09
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SlothfulCobra posted:Of course, before that, my biggest problem was that given how Sette managed to pass herself off as a fiance and run into a Brothel with Duane with no trouble, the world of Unsounded doesn't appear to have the same issues with pedophilia that the real one does At a certain point, also, money is money. If it means you're going to get paid, you might just end up looking the other way at a morally grey (or even straight-out wrong) situation. The expanse of child prostitution in our own world speaks to that. The fact that Starfish being a pedophile is being played as a villainous trait gives me some hope that it won't sink too much into random depravity and gory torture porn pedophilia, though.
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Feb 23, 2013 02:19
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idonotlikepeas posted:The only real question is whether his family was killed horribly or mercifully quickly. Given the tone of much of the comic, I'm going to go with "killed horribly, probably in a gruesome, torturous manner that we will see".
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Mar 1, 2013 01:44
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Oxxidation posted:Look at the windows at the very top of the most recent page. Jeeze that's subtle.
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Oct 8, 2013 04:17
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Benagain posted:Well. So've you gotten past the
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Nov 19, 2013 02:18
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Neither Cresce nor Alderode are very nice places to be. Is there a country that is, here? It seems to me that Cope has painted a very crapsack world.
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Apr 24, 2014 05:39
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Fabricated posted:Literally no boobs either. Ashley has mentioned this was intentional when Sette used her clothes to trick that lizard a zillion pages back, rather than a lack of artistic detail or pseudo-censorship to keep things more PG-13. Can anyone point me to the pages where this detail happened? I think I missed it...
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Rime posted:Kh being pronounced as a guttural "ch" sound in the back of the throat (ejective, think the ch in "bach") is a really alien concept for english speakers, but it's common in Armenian and Georgian. Sounds like Ashley has been mining some obscure resources for her cultures, which is great. I'm pretty sure that /x/ is not ejective. Are you thinking of /kʼ/? With the amount of thought she's given into name pronunciation, I'm more than a little disappointed she didn't actually work on real conlangs for the universe—even just a naming language for phonetic/morphemic consistency would be nice.
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