This is a couple weeks late...but honestly, I just wasn't sure how to respond. I don't care what kind of pretentious mental gymnastics you have to do to consider them "important" or "artistic," I'm just going to say they kind of suck. Basically, just the taste of them I got from skimming gave the impression that their makers had missed some major fundamental development along the way. Obviously, huge amounts of political unrest ("totally reflects the time!") and extreme sexism, racism, and other isms ("totally raw, dude!"). All in all, most of these comics seemed to make people feel okay with their darkest, lowest interests in some cases and, on the other end of the spectrum, to simply "offend." Offending doesn't make for much of a purpose. Like trying to please everyone around you, living off of their offense leaves one with very little personality of his or her own.
Subject matter aside, I had trouble reading just because of the art styles used. These "artists" would obviously be rather useless drawing anything else. I know what you're going to say: "They didn't need to draw anything else. Just drawing their characters in their style was all they needed to get whatever message across." Yeah, but...ya know, that's not too interesting from an artistic viewpoint. Basically, these comics leave a lot to be desired. I've seen some of these same types of things reflected in webcomics today, but usually not quite as offensive material-wise. I guess they're the awkward teenage phase of the development of comics, the one where you look back and either shake your head while smiling that it happened or else try your best to suppress it's existence and your knowledge of it. Oy, can we not do that again?
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