Transformers Issue #4 Sneak Peek

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  1. Rodimus Prime

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    No matter how much you stalk me, I am never going to be interested in you. ;) 
     
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  2. Focksbot

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    Rodimus Prime: *hangs around the same aisle of the supermarket all day, loudly commenting on how awful all the products are*
    Rodimus Prime: *sees people looking at him skeptically*
    Rodimus Prime: WHY MUST THESE GRIM SPECTRES HAUNT ME WHERE'ER I STEP
     
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  3. Rodimus Prime

    Rodimus Prime Sola Gratia, Sola Fide TFW2005 Supporter

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    You're the one that follows me from thread to thread, trying your best to get my attention. Heck, earlier today you started trying to defend a comic you admit that you've never read, because I said I didn't like it. Here's the thing that you defended, BTW:

    Squirrel-Girl-is-not-a-mutant-615x463.jpg

    How awful of me, not liking this masterpiece!

    As for this thread, if my single, small paragraph comparing a boring comic to a novel I found boring got you this twitterpated, I can't imagine how you're going to react to the fact that Tolstoy himself wrote a hundred page booklet detailing why he hated Shakespeare. I can only assume that you are going to become apocalyptic.
     
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  4. pluto

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    Wait that comic is the unbeatable squirrel girl and i can vouch that you are a monster for not liking it.
     
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    Prime time 101 Well-Known Member

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    Great comic hideous art
     
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  6. misfire19d

    misfire19d Not a writer. Not an illustrator. Just a fan.

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    GAAAAHHH!!!!! MY EYES!

    This looks like an ocelot fingerpainted with vomit while on crystal meth! Why would you show us this!?
     
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  7. pluto

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    Disagree, henderson and follow ups do a bang up job of bringing out the goofball charm North’s writing. But we shall let bygones be bygones on this i suppose!
     
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    I know you've not got a particularly active imagination, but do you think that just maybe, from my point of view, what happens is I look at multiple threads in the same forum, or on pretty much the same topic, and very often find the last post (and therefore the stage that the conversation has reached) is you jumping in to declare something with a solid reputation is actually a load of crap? Except, of course, where it's slagging off IDW or Marvel in general, which you do at every opportunity, no matter what the topic is.

    It wouldn't be so bad if you ever attempted anything approaching a convincing critique or reasoning, but instead it's just "Ugggh it's so terrible, so bad". You do realise that hating a lot of stuff doesn't make you a smart or discerning person? A smart or discerning person would be able to recognise that most things have both merits and deficiencies, and acknowledge that disliking something as strongly as you seem to dislike every book and comic under the sun is almost certainly more to do with them than the thing in question.

    As for Squirrel Girl, based on what you've posted above, yes, you're overreacting, to put it mildly. There's nothing strikingly bad about it - it's just a particular style that probably isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea. I don't know if you've noticed, but most comic art isn't everyone's cup of tea. Jack fucking Kirby never produced anything close to what most people would term a 'masterpiece' or think worth they're time.

    And the thing about Tolstoy publishing a pamphlet about not liking Shakespeare? If he'd made a trip to the Globe theatre every night to read extracts from it to an audience going to see Shakespeare, that would have made him a bit of a prat.
     
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    By the way, for anyone interested, George Orwell's response to Tolstoy's attack on Shakespeare is amusingly relevant:

    His reaction is that of an irritable old man who is being pestered by a noisy child. ‘Why do you keep jumping up and down like that? Why can't you sit still like I do?’ In a way the old man is in the right, but the trouble is that the child, has a feeling in its limbs which the old man has lost. And if the old man knows of the existence of this feeling, the effect is merely to increase his irritation: he would make children senile, if he could.

    ... Therefore nobody must be allowed to enjoy Shakespeare, just as nobody must be allowed to drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. True, Tolstoy would not prevent them by force. He is not demanding that the police shall impound every copy of Shakespeare's works. But he will do dirt on Shakespeare, if he can. He will try to get inside the mind of every lover of Shakespeare and kill his enjoyment by every trick he can think of, including — as I have shown in my summary of his pamphlet — arguments which are self-contradictory or even doubtfully honest.


    In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is 'good' ... no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. Artistic theories such as Tolstoy's are quite worthless, because they not only start out with arbitrary assumptions, but depend on vague terms ('sincere', 'important' and so forth) which can be interpreted in any way one chooses.
     
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    This is an utterly delightful burn.
     
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    I'm enjoying IDW2 so far. Not even remotely MTMTE/LL enjoying it, very little can compare on that front, but it's a solid if utterly uninspired start.
     
  12. Rodimus Prime

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    *sigh* The stalking comment was a joke.

    I was originally going to go through line by line and correct your post, but honestly it isn't worth the time and effort to do so. I have chores around the house and two conlangs to get back to. Besides, I have a sneaking suspicion that any attempt to change the strawman you've created for yourself will be futile. If you really hate me so much, feel free to put me on ignore, rather than derailing threads with your inane personal attacks that no one else here gives a crap about.

    To the rest of you guys and gals, I apologize for responding to the obsessive weirdo, and the resulting derailing of the thread. Let's go back to the topic at hand.
     
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  13. Focksbot

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    It both was and wasn't. You obviously don't like the fact that I keep picking you up on the same character fault. The simplest way to remedy that would be to accept the criticism and to try to temper your instinct to keep dumping on everything in the comics forums.

    It's true that I don't like you and would physically throw you out of my house if you behaved there the way you do here. But I also consider it, to some extent, a public service to call you out on your behaviour. The Ignore move is incoming, but you can't blame a chap for first trying to get you to clean up your act.

    Very glad you didn't waste time with your "line by line" response though - if only because nobody, anywhere, at any point in time, would benefit in any way from your further thoughts on the art in Squirrel Girl.
     
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  14. misfire19d

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    Some people just don’t see the hypocrisy in stalking others with different opinions in order to harass and persecute them. The amount of self-righteous bile spewing from their overdeveloped ego is staggering. In truth, they have no power other than passive-aggressive name calling. Just ignore them and continue criticizing garbage comics. That takes away all their power.
     
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    Please, please do make use of the 'ignore' option, so that I can go on gently taking the piss out of both of your obnoxious attitudes without incurring the above kind of hyperbolic jibber-jabber.
     
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  16. Hadlen_Weltall

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    I read the sample pages... "I guess I don't have many good Brainstorm stories.." "Not many of us do..."

    Excuse me?... .... I knew I was ready to quit this series because of the boring pace, but now I have a real good reason to.
     
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    I guess he's a pretty mysterious figure in this continuity! Maybe he'll turn out to have had a lot of secrets.
     
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  18. Honorbound

    Honorbound Taking a break.

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    So you want him to put you on ignore so that you can continue this nonsense without him knowing what you're doing. For somebody who's claiming to be so righteous, you're coming across as rather cowardly.
     
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  19. Hadlen_Weltall

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    So long as one of these secrets is a Briefcase...
     
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    I don't want to argue with either of them, but I did want to hold onto the option of making occasional jokes out of their shitty posts, yes.

    However, your point isn't entirely unreasonable. I'll get on that Ignore switch myself - probably find the site much more enjoyable if I can ignore the pricks.
     
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