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| Spoon 265th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):get your war on"
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Although I happen to agree with the politics, I just can't get behind the old "Let's use a bunch of curse words to sound more extreme" and "Let's call anyone with an opinion different than mine a dumbass" philosophies. Let's not sink to that level, shall we?
This is profanity used to excellent effect in my opinion. I find it to be really sharp, intelligent writing. Calling someone else's opinion into question isn't necessarily calling them a dumbass.
Sure, the comic is a vehicle for the author's opinions, but keep in mind this is a cartoon character. A fictional, middle-aged businessman with a white streak in his hair insulting [insert region or group of people here] in a bizarrely profane heat-of-the-moment tirade.
These insults to random sections of the populous aren't the messages 'get your war on' tries to put across. It's through the absurd dialogue that the strip labors (and does a good job in my opinion) to draw some attention to what's going on in the world. Sink to what level, now?
I dunno, he runs the same patterns through his stuff, and that gets tired after a bit. It's ok, but I wouldn't pay money for it.
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| Radish 2417th Post
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| "Re(4):get your war on" , posted Tue 20 Apr 04:04:
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Although I happen to agree with the politics, I just can't get behind the old "Let's use a bunch of curse words to sound more extreme" and "Let's call anyone with an opinion different than mine a dumbass" philosophies. Let's not sink to that level, shall we?
This is profanity used to excellent effect in my opinion. I find it to be really sharp, intelligent writing. Calling someone else's opinion into question isn't necessarily calling them a dumbass.
Sure, the comic is a vehicle for the author's opinions, but keep in mind this is a cartoon character. A fictional, middle-aged businessman with a white streak in his hair insulting [insert region or group of people here] in a bizarrely profane heat-of-the-moment tirade.
These insults to random sections of the populous aren't the messages 'get your war on' tries to put across. It's through the absurd dialogue that the strip labors (and does a good job in my opinion) to draw some attention to what's going on in the world. Sink to what level, now?
I dunno, he runs the same patterns through his stuff, and that gets tired after a bit. It's ok, but I wouldn't pay money for it.
Personally I like Non Sequiter much better. That does political humor but doesn't seem quite as confrontational. This guy kind of seems like the idealogical opposite of Ann Coulter who also calls people's beliefs into question, but does it in such an insulting in your face way that it put people on the immediate defensive so that no one is going to change their mind.
Also the extreme language doesn't seem very clever to me. I've read some of his stuff before and it seems very similar to this, only with a different thing he's railing against.
[this message was edited by Radish on Tue 20 Apr 04:11] |
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