The Critical Miss Experience

[47_Ronin]

Well, the show has giant robots fighting monsters and boobies.

I don't recall the giant robots fighting the boobies... but that paints a pretty funny picture.

heh.

Hahaha, English grammar for beginners^^. I'll just leave it like that for general amusement.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

While I do love it when someone like Grey takes a poke at Eva, I do hope he doesn't rely too much on it.

The satire works because it's in small bursts. I think it'd lose its magic if he kept doing one every month or so.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Is this seriously what you're going to do EVERY SINGLE TIME you can't think of what to make? Are you NEVER gonna stop beating this dead horse? Seriously, if you can't find any new material to use, then go back and make comics about old games, or political issues, or whatever. The constant piling of Evangelion comics isn't even funny more, it's just boring and predictable.

Welcome to metahumour, where the joke is you.

Everyone knows that the endless ragging on Evangelion is not in and of itself funny any more. What's actually funny is that the comic is preempting your reaction to ragging on evangelion without actually needing to do it. So congratulations, thanks for unwittingly bringing joy into the lives of many.

Shinji, to me, seems to exhibit symptoms of manic depression, or bipolar disorder.

I always find it funny when people do this, because mental illness in Japan operates on a completely different (anti-Freudian) understanding and does not generally share our diagnostic criteria. The emphasis is far more on correcting flaws in social functioning rather than attempting to alter or treat underlying personality problems.

Bipolar disorder doesn't go away once a person realizes that they don't need to worry what others think about them. That kind of "oh, you're just worrying too much" response is a very Japanese way of thinking about mental illness.

 

[Ryan Hughes]

Question: Am I the only person who liked "Nadia and the Secret Blue Water" more than "Evangelion"?

 

[Xisin]

So flaming for the sake of flaming for the sake of flaming, eh.

This is getting deep.

I'm sorry, but seeing you name among the first comments set me off laughing again.

 

[Samantha Burt]

Come on, guys, isn't this kind of...

Eat it, Dobbin.

Oh... Oh, I see what you did there.

[sub][sub]still a good comic [/sub][/sub]

 

[Ishal]

I love it, I love it so much.

"Fetch me my satirizin' stick" I laughed a good while there.

poke poke. Now lets scroll through the thread and see whose jimmies got rustled.

 

[Bevvie]

Poor Corey. Is he just stuck living in Grey's basement of his lavish mansion?
But while we're talking about Eva, as funny as the last panel was, it tells me you're not even trying with Eva anymore. there must be another anime with a heavy fandom/hatedom you can make jokes out of?

Cory is not living in our basement, and if he is, I certainly did not know about it. Maybe Grey has him chained down there and that must be the reason he has a spider in his panel, because we have some serious black widows down there...

 

[Charli]

I think if ran my own webcomic about games I'd resort to this alot too. I mean Christ I can barely think up material for an ask-X doodle blog on tumblr. I need people to think for me and send shit in.

And yes making fun of Eva is never unfunny unless you're not in on the Eva fandom and seen the set of comics poking it as such...so I guess the divide is gonna show up here.

ITS FUNNY GUYS. FORCE A LAUGH. GIFS ARE HARD.

 

[Ishal]

What's next, poking bronies?

There's satire and there's jock humor, rubbing elbows and laughing at the nerds.

I'm a brony and I enjoy poking fun at other bronies quite a bit, honestly. It's never mean spirited and most everyone can have a laugh at it afterward. That said the best part about this is how I, someone who isn't a big anime fan, much less and EVA fan, can still laugh at this stuff. Cory and Grey love it too, and that is the cool imo. Plus I just love how Grey is in his classy apartment with that rug and robe. Such an English gentlemen, pretty sure he's poking fun at himself there. British humor perplexes me sometimes, but I'm getting better at understanding it. Baby steps

 

[wooty]

Woah woah woah.....you're supposed to understand Evangelion?!

I just watch it to see giant robots in battle with monsters and to oggle Asuka.

 

[Omnicrom]

Question: Am I the only person who liked "Nadia and the Secret Blue Water" more than "Evangelion"?

No you aren't because Evangelion is a rather weird animal. All those people are totally correct when they talk about it being really important to mecha anime and actually pretty revolutionary, and it isn't a bad show. However it's not a show I'd like to go back and rewatch. You see it once, read about what's really supposed to go on, maybe watch a couple parts of it again,and then you're done. I think it's worth watching, but I don't think it's necessarily worth rewatching.

 

[Something Amyss]

You're missing the point!

Unless you're a NGE fan, in which case you're being hit by the point and completely oblivious to it.

>.>

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

The Critical Miss Experience

Eat it, Dobbin.

I hate to break it to you and your stick, Mr. Carter, but you are very clearly using a parody stick and calling it a satire stick. There is a subtle but important literary difference between parody (which is what you do to Evangelion) and satire.

A parody is written about something the author likes. The author pokes fun at flaws, but at the end of the day it is all in good humor and done for laughs.

A satire is written about something the author dislikes. The author lambasts the flaws in an attempt to create change. Satire is not done in good humor or just for laughs, but to create a shift in feelings, attitude, or public response. "A Modest Proposal" is an excellent example of satire.

Your parodies of Evangelion are wonderfully fun because you clearly know Evangelion so well. You can make subtle in-jokes in your parodies. And, while making fun of it, you show your reader how much you truly love it.

That is all.

...

Oh, and wrong thread, but I loved your rant about Art last week. I've book marked it for future quotation.

 

[Grach]

Woah woah woah.....you're supposed to understand Evangelion?!

I just watch it to see giant robots in battle with monsters and to oggle Asuka.

Watch the rebuilds then. They're a lot more action heavy.

 

[Something Amyss]

What's next, poking bronies?

There's satire and there's jock humor, rubbing elbows and laughing at the nerds.

Yes, because jocks totally take the time to understand the source material before mocking the base (you know, what they've done previously). This comic in itself is mocking the overreaction the NGE fanbase tends to have. I'm going out on a limb and guessing you're one of the fans and kind of falling into that exact pattern.

And while we're at it, I have a question. And be honest: did you work backwards from "I don't like this comic" to try and engineer a "problem" with it?

 

[Something Amyss]

A parody is written about something the author likes. The author pokes fun at flaws, but at the end of the day it is all in good humor and done for laughs.

A satire is written about something the author dislikes. The author lambasts the flaws in an attempt to create change. Satire is not done in good humor or just for laughs, but to create a shift in feelings, attitude, or public response. "A Modest Proposal" is an excellent example of satire.

Well, that was outright false. Satire can be readily used for something one likes, since one can acknowledge flaws within the concept or material. It also doesn't actually have to be for social change--it just frequently is.

But that aside, it's also clearly a "poke the base" stick, which is neither satire or parody.

 

[wooty]

Woah woah woah.....you're supposed to understand Evangelion?!

I just watch it to see giant robots in battle with monsters and to oggle Asuka.

Watch the rebuilds then. They're a lot more action heavy.

I've watched all three so far.....they left me feeling more scared, alone and confused than the full series and "end of" additions. A little too light on the Asuka front as well.

 

[Saltyk]

It only riles up people who care enough about someone making fun of something they like.

Jokes are always about exaggeration and misinterpretation, if someone can't recognise that then they probably never laughed at anything.

Ever.

That's kind of a convenient excuse to disregard any criticism. "It's your own fault for getting riled up about us constantly being up in your face about how ridiculous you are."

I'm not against making jokes at someone's expense, but when you pick the same target again and again it starts to resemble, as someone already mentioned, jock behaviour.

I just want to say this.

As a Dragon Ball Z fan, some of my favorite comics, videos, and pictures openly mock the show. DBZ Abridged is Gold. I've seen several parodies that mocked it and enjoyed them thoroughly.

More often than not, I like things that mock things I like. Because, I am never so blind as not to see the flaws. Nor do I take them too seriously. As long as the parody is good, and the jokes hit a mark, I will enjoy it.

And like Daystar was saying, they are obviously making fun of themselves as much as anything else.

 

[NiPah]

Was it really the comic strip that had the fans up in arms? I think you guys might be taking too much credit, for the most part it's the little nuggets of wisdom shit out from follow up comments that Eva fans get up in arms over.