Johanan- I agree I shouldn’t have assumed so much about his objectives or motivations. I’m guessing to be sure. You say he “never aimed for anything of the kind” but don’t offer any explanation about what you think he was aiming for unless you’re saying it’s “brute force stupidity”.
A strip about brute force stupidity is fine, there are many, like the Far Side and Rubes or Ballard Street but however stupid it is there has to be a punchline. Or I guess a funny punchline is what I mean. I have no reaction at all to these strips, “meh” at best. Maybe I’m just dead inside because I think Garfield has sucked forever and Peanuts was rarely ever funny but then there’s Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County which were genius. PVP is a well written web comic that’s kinda similar to Liberty Meadows with it’s eclectic cast and reference to pop culture. But it does it better. And the storyline actually progresses.
I stand by my statement that Frank just wanted to draw a pic of Jen holding up her huge boobs and wrote a strip around that. :)
Still guessing yeah, but I fall into the same pitfall as an artist that tries to tell stories so I’m projecting my difficulties onto Frank and his stories.
Johanan- I agree I shouldn’t have assumed so much about his objectives or motivations. I’m guessing to be sure. You say he “never aimed for anything of the kind” but don’t offer any explanation about what you think he was aiming for unless you’re saying it’s “brute force stupidity”.
A strip about brute force stupidity is fine, there are many, like the Far Side and Rubes or Ballard Street but however stupid it is there has to be a punchline. Or I guess a funny punchline is what I mean. I have no reaction at all to these strips, “meh” at best. Maybe I’m just dead inside because I think Garfield has sucked forever and Peanuts was rarely ever funny but then there’s Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County which were genius. PVP is a well written web comic that’s kinda similar to Liberty Meadows with it’s eclectic cast and reference to pop culture. But it does it better. And the storyline actually progresses.
I stand by my statement that Frank just wanted to draw a pic of Jen holding up her huge boobs and wrote a strip around that. :)
Still guessing yeah, but I fall into the same pitfall as an artist that tries to tell stories so I’m projecting my difficulties onto Frank and his stories.