Blue Rose of Illium

[praetor_alpha]

Wow. Just goes to show that it's the little things (stories, messages, missions, even life's little conveniences) that count.

Also good enough that I put my monitor into portrait mode.

 

[aceman67]

An awesome comic, and I have but one request:

Could we get an enlarged panel of the last scene of the children playing the grass as a wallpaper? You'd make this ME fan very happy.

 

[Irridium]

Blue Rose of Illium

The writer of Critical Miss brings you an unofficial tale from the Mass Effect universe.

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*sigh*

Well, someone has to be the Devil's Advocate.

Let's start off by saying this: After this insulting display [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9541-Mass-Effect-3-Retake-This], I'm astonished that Carter thinks that he can bring up ME3's ending as though he's been in the 'disappointed' camp the whole time. Remember the exact quote he gave? Let me refresh your memory:

If you support Retake Mass Effect, you are an entitled, crybaby wuss.

There isn't much room for subtlety there.

The devil should get a new advocate.

In order.

1: Yes there is room for subtlety, since you apparently missed the point of the strip entirely. It was pointing out how easily media outlets can monetize the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense. Case in point: You were so angry about that strip, you just advertised it for me.

2: It's perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement and dislike the endings at the same time. This strip [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9476-Mass-Effect-3-The-Process] predates the one you linked by several weeks, and it pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.

Does this strip [http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/90/90522.jpg] count as well?

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Cracking cheese Gromit!

By which I mean nice comic, would be fantastic to see more like it.

 

[Valiard]

The Rachni Queen was not evil the rachni communicate kinda like a conductor and a orchestra (if the orchestra had no real will of their own). All the reapers did was overwhelm her instructions with their own. Considering their ability for indoctrination and exploitation its actually not that difficult to come to that conclusion.

 

[commasplice]

I absolutely love this. Fantastic work, you guys. Fantastic art, fantastic writing, fantastic space love fantasy. I eagerly await future installments.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Very good comic,I salute you guys for your hard work on making this.

 

[Kapol]

I didn't even realize who Charr was, or that he'd been one of the KIA on that mission. Now I have all of the sads.

 

[paketep]

Loved it. More of this, please.

The ME3 ending is still a POS and destroys most of what Bioware did before. Damn Casey Hudson.

 

[Garfy]

It's stuff like this that reminds me there are parts of the Internet that still have intelligence and soul.

Damn good work, damn good. (Poor Charr *sniff*)

 

[Terminal Blue]

Those don't deserve things like 'dignified responses.' They get a chibi drawing of a weeping gamer with "Entitled, crybaby wuss" in block capitals printed over it.

Read that comic again. This time, connect eyes to brain.

Also..

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9476-Mass-Effect-3-The-Process

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9611-Wise-Counsel

The rest can basically be said to come down to "Waaaaaah! In the absence of any concrete information I filled in a bunch of stuff which was really sad and now I'm really depressed because it's ruined the series for me!"

Dude.. I am sympathetic. I agree that the endings sucked and left a really bad taste in the mouth, but your argument here is exactly why everyone takes the piss out of Retake Mass Effect. Especially when you say things like.

But then there's that same problem: none of it matters. ME3's ending took my ability to care.

Sorry, but writing a side of A4 on a completely unrelated thread 3 months down the line, after the person responsible specifically took the time to deal with the ending just so this thread wouldn't turn into yet another episode of group therapy for you people. What about that is meant to illustrate that you no longer care?

If you don't care, then move on and let those of us who still care enjoy an awesome webcomic without having to hear about how sad you are about stuff you made up.

And for the record, Charr always dies. He always dies in the tunnels fighting Ravagers. There is no possibility for him to even survive to the end of the game. There doesn't always have to be the possibility for a happy ending for a story to be meaningful.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

If this is the reason why Critical Miss has been a bit suspect in quality lately...

Totally worth it.

 

[RJ 17]

Great comic, I like how mild humor was used - rather than out-right parody - to tell the story of Charr's last moments.

:3 though I hate to be a Color Nazi, Grey, but Green is not a primary color.

 

[Someonetookmyname]

I pocking loved it!

 

[Karnesdorff]

* applause* an excellent piece of work, sirs. I take my hat off to you.

This actually illustrates why so many people were unhappy with the ending, a game full of awesome, that fell off a cliff into the valley of suck in the last ten minutes.

K.

 

[Kelethor]

Man, you guys did a really great job on this! top notch stuff! well done.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

The devil should get a new advocate.

The adage "Beggars can't be choosers" comes to mind, but that's getting into nitpicky territory. Moving on.

In order.

1: Yes there is room for subtlety, since you apparently missed the point of the strip entirely. It was pointing out how easily media outlets can monetize the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense.

...sorry, what now? I realize that the 'perfect' ideal of satire renders it all but indistinguishable from the real thing, but I'm just not seeing it. How has anyone "monetize[d] the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense"? I also realize that the pageviews from people who are there out of anger are the same as those who are there for other reasons (the 'All attention is good attention' school of thinking), but those people aren't giving them money.

Case in point: You were so angry about that strip, you just advertised it for me.

...what? I 'advertised' a comic...on this site...by the poster of this comic.

Yeah, if he was hoping for additional advertising, I think he's looking for something better than that.

2: It's perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement and dislike the endings at the same time.

It's also perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement in a way that doesn't involve baseless insults. If anything, it's a hell of a lot more difficult to genuinely believe the "entitled, crybaby wuss" thing if you yourself hated the ME3 ending.

This strip [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9476-Mass-Effect-3-The-Process] predates the one you linked by several weeks, and it pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.

Here's the thing: in the process of making judgment calls, it's usually better to refer to more recent events than older ones, especially when the more recent ones are the negative ones. For example, if someone you used to know was a dick, but after seeing them again years later, they're a whole lot better, you would have a much better opinion of them than if they used to be a reasonably friendly person and became a dick later down the line.

 

[MetroidNut]

The comic was beautiful and honestly touching. And yes, I wholly agree with your thoughts on the game, especially on how irritating it is when people declare the game an abysmal failure because of the last five minutes. Yes, the ending sucked. No, that does not mean the rest of the game is not among the greatest ever made.

 

[Irridium]

The devil should get a new advocate.

The adage "Beggars can't be choosers" comes to mind, but that's getting into nitpicky territory. Moving on.

In order.

1: Yes there is room for subtlety, since you apparently missed the point of the strip entirely. It was pointing out how easily media outlets can monetize the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense.

...sorry, what now? I realize that the 'perfect' ideal of satire renders it all but indistinguishable from the real thing, but I'm just not seeing it. How has anyone "monetize[d] the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense"? I also realize that the pageviews from people who are there out of anger are the same as those who are there for other reasons (the 'All attention is good attention' school of thinking), but those people aren't giving them money.

Case in point: You were so angry about that strip, you just advertised it for me.

...what? I 'advertised' a comic...on this site...by the poster of this comic.

Yeah, if he was hoping for additional advertising, I think he's looking for something better than that.

2: It's perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement and dislike the endings at the same time.

It's also perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement in a way that doesn't involve baseless insults. If anything, it's a hell of a lot more difficult to genuinely believe the "entitled, crybaby wuss" thing if you yourself hated the ME3 ending.

This strip [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9476-Mass-Effect-3-The-Process] predates the one you linked by several weeks, and it pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.

Here's the thing: in the process of making judgment calls, it's usually better to refer to more recent events than older ones, especially when the more recent ones are the negative ones. For example, if someone you used to know was a dick, but after seeing them again years later, they're a whole lot better, you would have a much better opinion of them than if they used to be a reasonably friendly person and became a dick later down the line.

Uh... I think you want Grey, not me.

All I did was link to another comic relating to the ending.

The devil should get a new advocate.

In order.

1: Yes there is room for subtlety, since you apparently missed the point of the strip entirely. It was pointing out how easily media outlets can monetize the anger of the gaming public by posting contrarian nonsense. Case in point: You were so angry about that strip, you just advertised it for me.

2: It's perfectly possible to disagree with the Retake movement and dislike the endings at the same time. This strip [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9476-Mass-Effect-3-The-Process] predates the one you linked by several weeks, and it pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.

Yo, I think he meant to direct this at you.