Thirith on 19/11/2007 at 16:20
Quote Posted by Stitch
I do think that the writers were semi-aware that something else was stirring just under the hood of their game-to-comic adaptation, but they didn't entirely know what to do with it other than let it bubble up for a couple self-aware moments (such as the heart-eyed BFG scene).
Besides, the comic is really only successful if taken as failed sincerity. It's spectacularly entertaining as an awkward, misguided attempt at ultraviolent cool. If taken as intentional satire with humor as the primary goal, it's underwritten and not particularly clever.
I guess it's a question of what you consider to be the main tone of the comic. As far as I'm concerned, the BFG scene is quite representative of the rest of the comic; you see it as an exception. And I agree with you on the comic's success (or lack thereof) as satire. As I said, it does strike me as a one-note joke. With less than talented writers, perhaps you tend to end up in the no man's land between sincere failure and half-assed satire, where it's difficult if not impossible to successfully tell the one from the other.
Jason Moyer on 19/11/2007 at 22:08
Quote Posted by Stitch
I've read it twice now, and I just don't see it. Just because it's bad doesn't make it parody.
Shamelessly ripping off dialogue from Evil Dead 2 might be a sign of its intentions, however awful they may be.
Angel Dust on 21/11/2007 at 03:20
I agree that this is a pretty poor attempt at something in the Evil Dead vein. Look at the dialog in the panel with the 'enviromental message' with the little seperate bubble for 'oh the humanity' and then the punchline that makes it obvious that the whole 'message' was just a set-up. However they do seem to have also been aiming for the 'cool' factor that Evil Dead had and fail miserably at it.
Anyway thanks for the various links in the thread. That Doom fanfiction is hilarious.
'And then John was a zombie' :laff:
Koki on 21/11/2007 at 08:19
Is every joke on TTLG being dissasembled atom by atom by cold, unfeeling nanomachines of posters without sense of humor?
catbarf on 21/11/2007 at 20:22
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Is every joke on TTLG being dissasembled atom by atom by cold, unfeeling nanomachines of posters without sense of humor?
We prefer the term 'Artificial People'.
