Wow...
...Normally with comics and stuff like this, I have a light, satisfactory luagh at, even if the tone is kinda stoic like this one. "Hah, hah, so true!" I'd say. "Ha, hah, you tell 'em Grey and Cory!". But this one, I couldn't. Maybe it's the sudden change in artstyle, maybe it's because I actually know an artist friend whose subject matter most would call "disreputable" or maybe it's because I've just been growing more and more bitter and jaded at general populous of the internet over the years... but this one was a real bummer.
Very blunt, very true, but a bummer. That's not a bad thing, I just wanted to state how I felt about the comic is all. According to it, we don't do that as often as we should.
Drops a Sweet Katana said:
Fair enough. The whole fiasco started with people taking offence with a backer-written epitaph in a location of the game which read:
'Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed.
He once was alive but now he's dead.
The last woman he bedded turned out a man
and crying with shame, off a cliff he ran.'
Certain parties took this as transmisogynistic/transphobic and kicked up a fuss about it on social media. Obsidian contacted the guy who wrote it and he agreed to rewrite it to save the guys at Obsidian the headache. The limerick now reads:
'Here lies Firedorn, a bard, a poet.
He was also a card, but most did not know it.
A poem he wrote in jest was misread.
They asked for blood and now he is dead.'
That's the long and short of it. Hope that helps.
Well, at least this put me in better spirits.
Not sure what it says about me that the "revision" put a huge smile on my face, but either way, clever stuff.
EDIT*
Even if this isn't why the comic was made, out of pure curiosity I read up on the PoE thing. People boycotted the game for caving to pressure?? THAT'S what "caving" looks like?!
But it-- I mean it clearly takes sho-- I-if you would just re-- I don't underst--.... WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT?! My bad mood is back!
