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Just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in!
I swore I wouldn't post on this in Tangents. I told myself "Rob, you don't want to get involved in this quagmire. You'll only end up smearing mud all over yourself, and this ain't mud from a salon. It stinks." After all, I don't know all of the pertinent facts. It's been talked to death already. Who needs yet another take on this?
But then... this happened. So technically, I'm not reporting on the whole Tycho/Gabe and PvP vs. The Artistic Embodiment of the Internet as Seen by Scott McCloud.
The blog takes little snippets from each piece of this "drama" including a website where people make fun of Tycho and Gabe by redrawing them, Tycho and Gabe's initial posts, and stuff from Cat Garza (a chap I never even heard about before this whole thing exploded onto the web - no doubt he's laughing himself to sleep each night for the increased number of hits to his site) and Scott McCloud (no relation to Duncan McCloud, though he did lose his head over this whole debate for a little bit).
To quote from the Tabloid site: Webcartoonist vs. Webcartoonist does not guarantee the accuracy of any of the information contained within this site. Don't be silly. That would actually be like, you know, good reporting, which we're not (no shit!). So if you believe everything written or even take anything here seriously then you're an idiot.
-WvW
It's delightful to see the internet community calling bullshit on this whole thing. Though we need a few more tabloid articles talking about the Websnark and Goats pieces on the docudrama we've got here.
You know. Just to put all our biscuits on the same platter.
Robert A. Howard
------------------------- Fatality!
 (From Errant Story. Click on image to see full-sized image.)
I dislike fight scenes in comics. I'm not just talking about webcomics; one of the problems I had with superhero comic books was that fight scenes would go on forever and ever. I mean, who wants to see four or five (or more) pages of two (or more) people pounding in each other's faces?
And of course half the time the hero would be gabbing away (leaving me to wonder just how the hell do they manage to breathe while fighting), a nod at Spiderman comics which realized the problem with overly-long fights - they are boring. So they started Spidey chatting away to keep audiences entertained (and with the excuse of "he's doing it to upset and unbalance the enemy").
Errant Story has just finished one of those fights. Fortunately for us, Sarine isn't the gabby type, and her opponent didn't feel like telling her just why she had to die. Still, we've been in the midst of this fight for three weeks now.
I'll give this to Poe, however. While this fight went on entirely too long for my tastes, it was still one of the most artistically done fights in greyscale I've seen. And I was able to realize the one true purpose of this fight: the remaining elves of this region do not want this site disturbed. Undoubtedly we'll have more such encounters in the future. Just... hopefully not as long.
Further, Poe's realized that people may have gotten bored with the entire fight sequence; the final panel returns to Meji and Jon in the tavern, blithely unaware of the fight going on outside (I suppose the explosive magic used by Sarine was drowned out by the festivity around them), and Meji once again poking fun at (and showing her dislike of) Sarine.
It is a welcome respite from the drama (and boredom) of three weeks of non-stop fighting. And maybe, just maybe, we can return to our three heroes (and annoying cute talking animal) as they track down ancient elvish Gods and a mystery that spans all three species.
Oh, and naked female elven (and half-elven) bathing. Hey, this is Poe we're talking about. Of course we'll have more of that!
Robert A. Howard
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