More disappointment

[zustifer]

I want to like this webcomic, which is reasonably well-drawn, amusingly-conceived, and very clever, but... the protagonist. I am made irrationally angry by heterosexual male creators who insist on mary-suing (Okay, not quite mary-sue; what's a term for this? Galatea-ing?) up their female pinups characters with all the positive attributes they can possibly think of, but oh noes she is too smart and therefore socially awkward in an adorable way! That is not cute at all, sincerely! It is also totally irrelevant that she is half-asian and has big tits for some reason!
False character flaws. What a burden. It troubles me that this kind of shit mars up the potentially really pleasant surface of an otherwise fun work.
I mean, for serious, check out the too-small button-down halfway down, as well as the obnoxious sleep-splay-boobs on the shot immediately to the left. COME ON.

Comments

[ex-agentcoo.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think the sleep-splay boobs are aimed at you (I find them adorable). And, the basket of little monsters almost makes up for ALL of it.

WHERE CAN I BUY BASKET OF LITTLE MONSTERS??

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

seems a me he's just a kid, a young 'un not aware of the choices he's making.

I was thinking how nice it would be to draw like that... but if I only put a comic up once every two months I'd probably be able to.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I had a similar reaction when I first saw that comic, but whenever I have this reaction I come up short and ask myself if it is feminism or just prudery, so it's good to have outside confirmation.

The one webcomic I really like that has a lot of cheesecake in it is John Allison's Scary-Go-Round, which generally seems to dance this side of the pissing-me-off line; his pretty females are for the most part real characters.

Sorry

[dresdencodak.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm the guy who does Dresden Codak. A friend of mine was reading this and she made me reply because she doesn't like my comic either. Originally the only reason the Kimiko character was attractive was because since I spent so much time drawing each comic, I figured I'd make her pretty because I had to look at her for such long intervals, and I didn't feel like looking at someone deliberately homely. Also, I'm not very good at drawing people and it's a lot easier to do either idealized forms or really cartoonish ones, but I'm trying to get away from that now.

As far as character goes, Kimiko's major "flaw" is that she overanalyzes things to such a degree that she never achieves anything, which I think is the foundational vice of the Intellectual archetype. In every comic she "loses" at whatever she's trying to accomplish. Most of the earlier stories are little thought experiments with no continuity, and I haven't done enough comics to really flesh out any of the characters yet, so we'll see where it goes.

Again, sorry you don't like the comic. I'm trying to make it better, though.

[dragonspring.livejournal.com]

Oh hey. Happy you-know-what-day!