Those familiar with the bowels of webcomic hell will be all to acquainted with an odd little website called Snafu. Opinion on Snafu is typically divvided; you either think that its userbase are a bunch of shounen-fueled idiots, with half of its webcomics not only style over substance, but have been on hiatus for several years, or you think it's a good quality website with worthwhile entertainment and a userbase that is at the least tameable.
The only concrete thing about the website, is that one of its better artists, a man from the Phillipines, has an unsettling obsession with panty shots on little girls. Not even bloomers, which are funny, or fat girl panties; bikini bottoms that happen to be white. Whatever. Moving on.
Sarah Zero was on Snafu for quite a while. Sarah Zero is a pretty long-running webcomic about a Mary Sue walking Deux Ex Machina Sarah Zeroinsky, a Waycist[footnote]"Waycist: A person with a prejudiced belief that their way of doing things is superior to all others. Sarah Zierinski, this means YOU."
A Trevipedia article[/footnote] or whatever the hell who happens to be hated on the Contranet, which is totally not just a future-y Internet and Outernet combined. The plot makes very little sense, as it's constantly interrupted with pretentious but-well-intended metaphors and one-panel gags that are about as funny as having a lobotomy performed by The Thing.
What's really weird, though, is that the Tv Tropes page [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SarahZero] shows examples from pretty mid to late of the comic's run, showing that there's very little substance to the comic. Not using a lot of tropes is not a bad thing, but replacing the entire story with a big message about the Internet that nobody can fucking figure out is just really really really really really stupid. She's also in a band, I think. Full of magical girls... I think. Who represents pretty bugs... I think? I have no damn idea.
So, what's the reason you should read Sarah Zero? Well, there are many kinds of bad webcomics. There are bad webcomics like Bleedman's stuff, which is forgiveable because of his decent to good art, and he's improved a lot since his first few pages... oh, but he can't write for bananas (swearing costs money, you know). Or any of the horrible Penny Arcade clones, one in particular being Shredded Moose. Good art done by an inexperienced art student, who happens to have been hired by a misogynist, porn-addicted monkey masquerading as a frat boy who also owns a type writer. Not that a frat-boy could out write him.
It's hard to say where Sarah Zero is. But, there's one thing you can say: Its art is nothing short of great. There's the anime-inspired drivel like Dominic Deegan or whatever, and then there are cartoon-inspired drivel, like Concession (raping little girls isn't funny, doesn't make for a good plotline, and isn't sexy... and it's the first arc) but I'm going on a tangent. The art is... let's say unique, but also pretty good by its own merit.
But that doesn't stop it from being pretentious and annoying.
I do like this one, though.
Oh, and he also draws his male characters (Remember, Grrrrrl-power!) as bland, outright uncanny... things. His art style constantly shifts being well done and stylistic, and... urgh... You can't give him a face.. or a smile.. or make his face blank? Nope, I think he scarred my facial recognise-y bits. I can't remember my mother's face. I think she was white.
It also updates slowly. I'd preffer one strip of maybe 2-3 layers than one strip of two or three huge fucking panels. If Lackadaisy has taught us anything, other than how anthropomorphic cats are both badass and sexy(?), it's that having a big strip that experiments with panel layout is better than clicking "next... next... next" because most people who are into this sort of thing not only need to stop eating their own flesh for nutrients, but are also probably fast readers.
So, that's... whatever Sarah Zero is. It's shallow, pretentious, irritating, and niche, but it looks really pretty (well... 80% of the time).
capcha: wishy-washy. Perfect.
edit: Fixed a typo (Drivel... drivel?) and changed the links to pages in image form into actual images. Silly idiot, computing skills are for computer-ers.
The only concrete thing about the website, is that one of its better artists, a man from the Phillipines, has an unsettling obsession with panty shots on little girls. Not even bloomers, which are funny, or fat girl panties; bikini bottoms that happen to be white. Whatever. Moving on.
Sarah Zero was on Snafu for quite a while. Sarah Zero is a pretty long-running webcomic about a Mary Sue walking Deux Ex Machina Sarah Zeroinsky, a Waycist[footnote]"Waycist: A person with a prejudiced belief that their way of doing things is superior to all others. Sarah Zierinski, this means YOU."
A Trevipedia article[/footnote] or whatever the hell who happens to be hated on the Contranet, which is totally not just a future-y Internet and Outernet combined. The plot makes very little sense, as it's constantly interrupted with pretentious but-well-intended metaphors and one-panel gags that are about as funny as having a lobotomy performed by The Thing.
What's really weird, though, is that the Tv Tropes page [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SarahZero] shows examples from pretty mid to late of the comic's run, showing that there's very little substance to the comic. Not using a lot of tropes is not a bad thing, but replacing the entire story with a big message about the Internet that nobody can fucking figure out is just really really really really really stupid. She's also in a band, I think. Full of magical girls... I think. Who represents pretty bugs... I think? I have no damn idea.
So, what's the reason you should read Sarah Zero? Well, there are many kinds of bad webcomics. There are bad webcomics like Bleedman's stuff, which is forgiveable because of his decent to good art, and he's improved a lot since his first few pages... oh, but he can't write for bananas (swearing costs money, you know). Or any of the horrible Penny Arcade clones, one in particular being Shredded Moose. Good art done by an inexperienced art student, who happens to have been hired by a misogynist, porn-addicted monkey masquerading as a frat boy who also owns a type writer. Not that a frat-boy could out write him.
It's hard to say where Sarah Zero is. But, there's one thing you can say: Its art is nothing short of great. There's the anime-inspired drivel like Dominic Deegan or whatever, and then there are cartoon-inspired drivel, like Concession (raping little girls isn't funny, doesn't make for a good plotline, and isn't sexy... and it's the first arc) but I'm going on a tangent. The art is... let's say unique, but also pretty good by its own merit.
But that doesn't stop it from being pretentious and annoying.
I do like this one, though.
Oh, and he also draws his male characters (Remember, Grrrrrl-power!) as bland, outright uncanny... things. His art style constantly shifts being well done and stylistic, and... urgh... You can't give him a face.. or a smile.. or make his face blank? Nope, I think he scarred my facial recognise-y bits. I can't remember my mother's face. I think she was white.
It also updates slowly. I'd preffer one strip of maybe 2-3 layers than one strip of two or three huge fucking panels. If Lackadaisy has taught us anything, other than how anthropomorphic cats are both badass and sexy(?), it's that having a big strip that experiments with panel layout is better than clicking "next... next... next" because most people who are into this sort of thing not only need to stop eating their own flesh for nutrients, but are also probably fast readers.
So, that's... whatever Sarah Zero is. It's shallow, pretentious, irritating, and niche, but it looks really pretty (well... 80% of the time).
capcha: wishy-washy. Perfect.
edit: Fixed a typo (Drivel... drivel?) and changed the links to pages in image form into actual images. Silly idiot, computing skills are for computer-ers.