#comics rambles

Like where is the fellow sonic odditylings/exelings from systems?… ples.. HOW DOES EVERYONE ELSE FIND THEM??? This doesn’t even go for just the exe group this has been a thing for like FOREVER ((

We have too many alters from like NICHE sources (mostly Roblox related ones)

(Ig this is KINDA a source call idk we need more sourcemoots please 😭)

Small life update I guess: I got ANOTHER new phone cause my previous one broke, the doctor told me I was more mentally ill than originally thought (ADHD, OSDD, Autism, Bipolar II..), AND MY INTERESTS HAVE YET AGAIN CIRCLED BACK TO THE PAST AS I AM NOW BACK IN THE SONIC AND SONIC.EXE FANDOM.

So uhh yeah. Might be a little rebranding of the blog, hopefully more actual posts (not guaranteed), MORE changes to the intro, and there will now be special appearances sometimes from the other ppl in the system which will be signed off with names in the post and emojis in the tag!

Feel free to ask questions about ANYTHING (within reason ofc I’m watching you..) and make sure to stay tuned for updates!

he needs his red hair back. he is mixed irish-latino, and that is rad.

I think at the end of the day, I probably do ride theologically speaking more with a Grant Morrison bumper sticker on my car, than a Chris Ware one.  I can relate to his frustration with Ware, that Ware has all of this artistic ability to formalistically blow minds, and yet his stories are mired in a whole lot of uninteresting bleak nothingness.  And don't get me wrong.  I enjoy good bleak nothingness.  I've been enjoying the hell out of Inio Asano the last year, and half of his work is complete "the world is pointless, we should all just kill ourselves"--but there's a real entity lurking behind those feelings.  I can feel the bleakness.  As someone who has definitely dealt with that bleak never ending blackness on a daily level--I can appreciate when the demon is summoned forth to do it's dance--I can feel that.

With Ware, I have never felt it.  It's like you're talking talking talking, and I hear the words that you're saying, I get what you're trying to say--but I don't BELIEVE you.  There's no demon behind your words.  You're a charlatan putting on a dazzling puppet show of fake ghosts.  And for me, I'm a junkie for the extremes.  It's my capitlistic american upbringing that I vampire most works for that thistle of what I can use and spin it into my fancy little basket hat I wear.  So I get Morrison's frustration that someone with all of this talent, and all of this access to minds, is essentially pulling an empty pastiche of much better, more meaningful work that came before.  And is getting enough success and accolades from doing just that, to get by and be a success.

I feel like Chris Ware in Morrison's comment is a symbol for the "literary" segment of modern comics that sneer at everything else, and would say it's okay to say all comics suck, just so long as you realize that they are the exception in what they view as an embarrassing medium.  And that symbology IS a privileged one.  

Chris Ware in Morrison's comments definitely represents a strain of comics for people who don't like comics because they think they are stupid.  Which in that respect I can kind of see how I may not be the target audience for the average Chris Ware work, since I love the medium, and will read any kind of junk to get my fix in.

As for Morrison, I've always loved his wild ideas shoot from the hip chaos magic optimism.  His work definitely helped flip my brain over a few times growing up, and he and Bill Watterson are probably the two people most responsible for growing my brain and shaping how I think about the world.  And I feel like if you are going to write superhero comics, that his approach is definitely WHY you would do it.

But I do feel at this point that he is being used by large corporate snake entities that are puppeting him for their own ends.  Also I don't know why he's become an apologist for bad gender politics the last few months, but I suppose the snake entities have something to do with that.  And while I can enjoy the cheery picture he paints of Superman being the creation of humans--and I get where he's coming from on that.  But glancing over that he's making money for two companies that even by his own comments were screwing over creators left and right, and who built empires on the shattered bones of the true giants of our medium--that stuff is actually probably the most aggrivating things he's said in any of his interviews.

But even so, I get where he's coming from on it.  And I do feel like it's fundamentally a place from which good things will grow.

Actually, now having written all of that--I feel like I should have just written: