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Cookie wrote:

Mercury Hat wrote:His backgrounds ARE good, but his people are all ping-pong ball heads.

You know, if you put it that way, it explains why I want to bat them all over the head!

And we haven't even started talking about the story/writing...

The story, I agreee, is kind of... I dunno, silly. But that kind of makes sense when you look at MT's history. The thing stared as a humorous gamer comic, written by Gallagher's friend. After his friend stopped writing, however, Gallagher took over. While his friend may have been gamer, Fred's idea of a good time is reading shoujo m4nga and playing japanese dating sims. Plus, before MT started, he was working on a shoujo project called "Warmth."

Unfortunately for Fred, MT had become relly popular, so he couldn't drop it without a general uproar. He wanted to write serious stuff, so he tried to build on the basic plot with his own stuff.

But that didn't work out the best. In fact, the only person I can think of who's managed to turn a humor strip into a dramatic comic well is David Willis of "It's walky!" fame.

NOTE: I am not an obsessive MT fan. the only reason I know this stuff is because my browser used to run MT's site really slowly. The only thing I had to do when the comic loaded was read the rants.

Some girl-mangas are actually good, yo.

But I think most of his stuff comes from books like AI Love You and Love Hina (Which are totally shounenish, IMO). Wish fulfillment, mebe?

EvilChihuahua wrote:The story, I agreee, is kind of... I dunno, silly. But that kind of makes sense when you look at MT's history. The thing stared as a humorous gamer comic, written by Gallagher's friend. After his friend stopped writing, however, Gallagher took over. While his friend may have been gamer, Fred's idea of a good time is reading shoujo m4nga and playing japanese dating sims. Plus, before MT started, he was working on a shoujo project called "Warmth."

Unfortunately for Fred, MT had become relly popular, so he couldn't drop it without a general uproar. He wanted to write serious stuff, so he tried to build on the basic plot with his own stuff.

But that didn't work out the best. In fact, the only person I can think of who's managed to turn a humor strip into a dramatic comic well is David Willis of "It's walky!" fame.

NOTE: I am not an obsessive MT fan. the only reason I know this stuff is because my browser used to run MT's site really slowly. The only thing I had to do when the comic loaded was read the rants.

Actually, I knew all that. I think that everyone does, except Dutch of course.

This is quite the pointless thread, isn't it?

Derenge is quite the comic-maker.

mcDuffies wrote:

EvilChihuahua wrote:I believe that Neko in particular s MT, though I'm not too sure about his feelings about Penny Arcade.

Though, as much as we'd want to, Neko's opinion doesn't represent forum's.

Dear god, someone would WANT that?!

As for PA and MT

MT went downhill because it clumsily tried to change from comedy to drama without the foundation to support the change, and his grasp of human anatomy is laughable at best; many of his characters look like they have Down's.

I used to dislike PA, but became a fan when the art and the writing improved about 3 years ago.

Col wrote:This is quite the pointless thread, isn't it?

tis an abomination in the eyes of the claude.

Cookie wrote:

mcDuffies wrote:I have a creeping suspicion that this guy is Mooman.

My money was on someone else, but yours might make more sense... or maybe not... I don't know!

I WANT TO KNOW.

Yeah, hate it to say it, but it's not Moo, cause...well...

Perhaps he is Zombie Mooman? Zomooman?

MixedMyth wrote:Perhaps he is Zombie Mooman? Zomooman?

Impossible. Zombies do not rawk.

- Joel Fagin

Zooman, perhaps.

Levi-chan wrote:Derenge is quite the comic-maker.

lets not drag me into this strange, strange thread.

But thanks.

best way to survive the forums is to sit back, relax, and go with the flow.

Joel Fagin wrote:

MixedMyth wrote:Perhaps he is Zombie Mooman? Zomooman?

Impossible. Zombies do not rawk.

You can do anything if you're Zomboman. Anything at all.

Jim North wrote:

Joel Fagin wrote:

MixedMyth wrote:Perhaps he is Zombie Mooman? Zomooman?

Impossible. Zombies do not rawk.

You can do anything if you're Zomboman. Anything at all.

The unattainable is unknown at Zomboman.com

That site made me crack open.

I wish this was the 90s and that was my idea because you know people would have given money to Zombo.

Hell they probably did.

Sortelli wrote:

Jim North wrote:You can do anything if you're Zomboman. Anything at all.

The unattainable is unknown at Zomboman.com

Oh, good, I was actually wondering if anyone else was going to get that reference.

I all thought I was being clever by linking it until I realized that your exact words are in the script over there and you were likely one step ahead of me.