First the panty shot, now this!

The Rookie · Post by **The Rookie** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:49 pm

I THOUGHT KRAKOW WAS NEVER GOING TO SUCCUMB TO FAN SERVICE!!!!!!!

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:51 pm

It's not fan service, it's SATIRE!

See, I'm actually making fun of the guys who like this stuff. Really.

Centurion · Post by **Centurion** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 10:36 pm

bah, I don't understand why he's so upset. 2X the nipples= 2X the fun

The Rookie · Post by **The Rookie** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 9:58 pm

I don't mind it, i just don't like it when krow tells me one thing and does the exact opposite.

it's fan service thinly veiled as satire!!

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 10:04 pm

Krakow features a succubus dressed in a leather bustier. Krakow 2.0 features an assassin dressed in a leather catsuit. The whole goddam comic is fanservice. But I draw the line at trying to pass off fanservice as a joke in itself.

Centurion · Post by **Centurion** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:59 pm

And, as your sigline says "egad, no bondage?" Are you trying to walk the line like EN and have a pusedo-plot amid the fanservice or what?

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 8:09 pm

Heh, you make it sound like I put more thought into the comic than I actually do. No, the sig is a a palindrome, you know, things that are read the same forwards as backwards?

There's been sex, pseudo plot, whatever in Krakow, but the most important thing to me is for it to be funny. I try to make every strip funny by itself, even without it being necessary to read the previous strips.

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 11:45 am

OK, I'm feeling more erudite today than I was last night. What I meant to say is that the sex appeal isn't just thrown in for the sake of fan service, it's used for the jokes.

The Rookie · Post by **The Rookie** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 1:47 pm

erudite?

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 3:57 pm

Ged · Post by **Ged** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 5:45 pm

mmm, definitions that use the word they're defineing in the definition. nice.

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 8:12 pm

Don't blame me, blame Dictionary.com.

Rann · Post by **Rann** » Fri May 24, 2002 12:01 am

What the hell is wrong with fanservice, anyway, that all these artists feel they have to defend themselves? Poe gets his self-hate on for drawing EN, and constantly makes himself out as some horrible person because he draws sex. Piro always has to have Seraphim in the comics to assure that any possible minor hint of hentai in his own comic is damn sure contrasted.
So what the hell is wrong with fanservice, anyway? The artist likes to draw pretty girls, people like looking at pretty girls, so what's the big deal if there are pretty girls baring bits of themselves?

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Fri May 24, 2002 12:11 pm

Actually, Rookie is responding to me censuring Poe for fan service. It's not that I'm totally against fan service, I just feel that the whole, "Look at me, I'm doing fan service!" joke as a punchline in itself is really tired.

Although I'm personally kinda embarassed about the 1,000,000 hits pic I did, the pose came out looking a bit more, um, "spread eagled" than I intended it to.

Rann · Post by **Rann** » Fri May 24, 2002 12:19 pm

Hm. I do agree, the "Look! Tits! It's a joke! HA!" thing has been done to death. But then again, so has ""Look, I'm mocking fanservice by giving it! HA!" ^^;
Which, I dunno, I never saw you as doing, so you'd have to tell me if that was it. But I see fanservice as sort of the steak sauce. The steak (anime, manga, webcomic, whatever) is good without it, but with it, it's just that much better.
I've been watching the fansubbed CLAMP anime Chobits. And while there's plenty of fanservice, a lot of it very nice, Chobits doesn't even leave me with an overall sexual imprint. The thing I think of most when I'm watching is how cute it is, how funny it is, and the hints at where things are going. Fanservice just makes it that much nicer to watch.

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