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McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:04 pm

About profanity in your comic:
Maybe you consider swears unneccesary and aim to drop them out? Or you intentionally make clean comic, suitable for children? Or maybe you try to be realistic and put as much swears as it is in life? Or you input as many as you can think of, attempting to be offensive?

Personally I think that swears are powerfull way of expressing, but they wore out with using. So I save them for special ocations. That's why mcDuffies contain few swears here and there. Besides, since I'm not used to swear, I'm kinda not used to put them in my char's mouths either.

ZOMBIE USER 9264 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 9264** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:16 pm

I try to let my characters swear only in times when I would see a person in that situation doing it in real life.

Booger · Post by **Booger** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:28 pm

My characters swear about as often as I do... though, I DO swear quite often.

Nd · Post by Nd » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:36 pm

I'm honestly not sure if there's any profanity at all in Hotel Grim. There probably is... I guess I just don't think about it. I'm pretty sure that there's no F-bombs though...

Odd considering that I've quite literally embarrassed a sailor with my cussing.

Kevin Wolf · Post by **Kevin Wolf** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:39 pm

Some people curse a lot, and some don't.

In this woefully underappreciated little comic I used to do called "Mythocorp, Intl", a couple of my characters were fairly foul-mouthed, but the rest were not. In fact, I'm fairly certain that just about every instance of profanity in the comic was uttered by either Briefcase or MacCreagle (with two exceptions I can think of).

Karlie · Post by **Karlie** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:46 pm

swearing can be a powerfull too for charcater development as well as developing a situation.
of rthe most part, we try to keep it clean. but swearing does happen. sometimes there aren't too many other ways to expsess such feelings

ZOMBIE USER 10963 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 10963** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:11 pm

I don't know/remember of any PFers saying "bad words," but I don't mind them cussing. Fuck it.

Krazy Krow · Post by **Krazy Krow** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:15 pm

Who do you think you are, Taiwanimation?

Yeah, I use bad words in my comic. Most the time I could just as easily substitute a lesser profanity for f***, but I figure it's a web comic. Might as well write down my first impulse.

Of course, for the Keenspace book coming out I have to censor it. No big deal for me, there are only a few strips where I feel profanity is essential.

Ajcg51 · Post by **Ajcg51** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:19 pm

well, I like to keep the language down... very PG-rating type stuff....

Saganaki · Post by **Saganaki** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:23 pm

I honestly can't remember if I've ever used profanity in my comic, but it wouldn't be horribly out of place. Freedom of the medium and all that

Jamie! · Post by **Jamie!** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 8:50 pm

I dont like to use strong profanity. I mean, the odd 'basted' or 'bitch' will pop up, but I mainly use 'feck' or 'shet' as substitutes.
I mean, c'mon, my little cousins look at the thing!

ZOMBIE USER 10963 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 10963** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 9:02 pm

Jamie! wrote:I dont like to use strong profanity. I mean, the odd 'basted' or 'bitch' will pop up, but I mainly use 'feck' or 'shet' as substitutes.
I mean, c'mon, my little cousins look at the thing!

It's good to start them young.

"3rd grade teacher: And where's your homework?

Jaime's cousin: Up your ass, dumbfuck."

Ahh... memories.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 9:34 pm

Cursing has been scientifically proven to increase the overall goodness of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

Chascraw4d · Post by **Chascraw4d** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:04 pm

My characters swear more than I do ... which really isn't saying much considering I don't swear at all. Their vocabularly is tweaked somewhat, since they're on a fantasy world and a lot of our terms don't quite fit.

My general opinion of swearing is that it performs the same role as an exclamation mark in a sentence, only with a negative connotation. To maximize effect it should be used about as much as you use exclamation marks, i.e. almost never.

ZOMBIE USER 8124 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8124** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:20 pm

It is in my comic, but only where appropriate. (So sometimes a lot, sometimes a little.) ^^

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:25 pm

Weirdism is going to have about as much profanity as Paperbug did. In other words:

Not enough profanity to be offensive to any of you (I should hope!) but enough profanity that I won't let my (grand)parents read it. Here's another place where Norna comes into the picture. She'll read through the comic scripts, not change any of the (stupid) jokes and end up going "'Bitches'? can't we just say... 'mean people'?"

KedaDibandion · Post by **KedaDibandion** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:47 pm

There is some swearing in TPR, but as I remember there was only one instance of the F-word, and it was recently, but it was in a very small font. ^_^ Heh.

I think swearing is okay when the emotion warrants it, and in a comic, you're your own censor, so you get to choose how you want to present yourself. That's really part of the fun, isn't it? :D

Huh. But I did just realize that I NEVER swear in real life...only in writing... Hm. I'm such a quiet person anyway, my friends would probably die of heart attacks if I swore. XD Plus I have a quiet voice...it would just sound weird. XP

Wiebe · Post by **Wiebe** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 11:14 pm

Uh... do you really care? Are you still reading?

KedaDibandion · Post by **KedaDibandion** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 11:22 pm

Uh... do you really care? Are you still reading?

Don't make me slap you, foo'.

Wiebe · Post by **Wiebe** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 11:28 pm

KedaDibandion wrote:
Uh... do you really care? Are you still reading?
Don't make me slap you, foo'.

That's just how I feel sometimes... if I don't come here for one freakin' day, it's like, "forget about it." I can't keep up with you crazy people...

At any rate, my comic has no swears and probably never will. I care a lot less about this issue than I used to, yet I remain sensetive to those who are like the person I used to be. (?) I am so grate! garate! gurrate! gr8! what is that word...?