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

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The overarching sass is still there, but he's gotten better at it, yes.

In appearance, too--his archives are an interesting journey from total artistic incompetence to a considerable degree of skill. Back when the strip was called "Bobbins" the characters gradually went from hideous to cute, but they still all looked pretty much the same, in part because he was using heavy computer assistance and I think he was assembling them from similar pieces. Then in the "Scary-Go-Round" era he very gradually learned how to make them look like individuals, which has been interesting to see.

(The thing that bothers me about "Questionable Content" is that every single character looks the same to me. Even the men and women look the same except that the women have breasts attached.)

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Questionable Content has variable breast size! How can you say that they're all the same?!

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

man talk about a good example of poor understanding of how to come up with a character, too. HA HA OCD LADY LIKES TO PLAY DRUMS why do i still read that strip

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I think "hideous to cute" was Allison's own description.