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??

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not a question of being aimed at me or not; it's the 'she's a genius and also terribly hot, but no one admits this because of a pretend character flaw' thing. Dishonesty, perhaps?
At first I thought (as in one of the role-playing strips) that her RP self was the one with the tits (which would have been fun), but then I realised that no, that was just her.

Oh, the little movie-monsters? Fun, indeed. I do like a lot of things about the strip.

[graydon.livejournal.com]

So email the author and educate him about how female chatacters don't need to be underwear models with purple anime hair to be sympathetic. Maybe also throw in a suggestion that he practice drawing adult males who are neither boys nor old men.

There are things to like in the art and storytelling, but ... yeah. Also: transhumanism? For real?

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I never feel comfortable critting people on the net; I think often crits are such delicate things that even in person you can easily come off as assy (instead of legitimately constructively critical), and really with just text it's even more of a dicey thing.
And honestly half my problem would be summed up by 'STOP OBJECTIFYING SMART LADIES PLZ THX'.

It is amusing that Zappa's 'Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt' is playing right now.