The Critical Miss Experience

[Omnicrom]

You know what my problem with that comic as a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion was? It was BAD satire because you missed the perfect punchline. You have panel after panel of the viewer yelling at the characters to just have sex already, and your punchline wasn't a reference to End of Evangelion? For those who aren't in the know that has a scene where Asuka (red-haired girl) is comatose in a hospital, Shinji (wuss) shakes her, tears off her clothing, and masturbates. The scene is simultaneously disgusting and pathetic, and it would have been a perfect ending to that comic. Show that and cut back to "Goddamn it I give up". Scene. You have yourself actual funny satire, and more importantly a punchline which the original comic lacked.

The comic offended me not because I'm an Evangelion fan but because I'm a humor fan, and this is the third comic on the same subject and none of them have been funny.

 

[Ammutseba]

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.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

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.

Nope.

Still funny

And I like the series.

 

[mailh20]

i liked the panel and all but relay no material with dark and ride to hell coming out that's gold

 

[Casual Shinji]

Hell, I'm not that fond of the original Eva series (I do like End of a great deal, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually any good) and even I find the joke unfunny at this point. Yes, passionate fans get passionate about their favourite things, and it's easy to sit at a middle distance and chuckle at that, but frankly holier than thou cynicism is more boring than an overenthusiastic defence of a property any day. A healthy debate about the merits of a show or book or film or game is so much more valuable and interesting than 'Nah, you're only just fanboys lololol.' Why can it never be 'Well, what DO you guys see in it?'

These particular Critical Miss strips only encourage boring repetition in the comments, with people mocking fans and fans getting angry. I get it - it's a small webcomic and not the smartest small webcomic, but could we have some more notes from the scale please?

It's just become a rather obvious target at this point. It's starting the scrap the bottom of the barrel for the sake of rattling a cage of already rattled chickens.

You could pull the same stunt with Star Trek or Dark Souls fans, hold a magnifying glass over them, and go "ha ha, look at them" over, and over, and over, and over again. After a certain point it just gets a bit petty.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Hell, I'm not that fond of the original Eva series (I do like End of a great deal, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually any good) and even I find the joke unfunny at this point. Yes, passionate fans get passionate about their favourite things, and it's easy to sit at a middle distance and chuckle at that, but frankly holier than thou cynicism is more boring than an overenthusiastic defence of a property any day. A healthy debate about the merits of a show or book or film or game is so much more valuable and interesting than 'Nah, you're only just fanboys lololol.' Why can it never be 'Well, what DO you guys see in it?'

These particular Critical Miss strips only encourage boring repetition in the comments, with people mocking fans and fans getting angry. I get it - it's a small webcomic and not the smartest small webcomic, but could we have some more notes from the scale please?

It's just become a rather obvious target at this point. It's starting the scrap the bottom of the barrel for the sake of rattling a cage of already rattled chickens.

You could pull the same stunt with Star Trek or Dark Souls fans, hold a magnifying glass over them, and go "ha ha, look at them" over, and over, and over, and over again. After a certain point it just gets a bit petty.

The comic is more a dig at themselves than it is at Evangelion.

If you look at it that way, it's still funny

Dat British humour at play.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The comic is more a dig at themselves than it is at Evangelion.

If you look at it that way, it's still funny

Dat British humour at play.

It's obviously meant to rile up both likers and dislikers... alike. As can be seen by the first page of comments, which oddly enough is filled with more posts ironically stating "It's deep/You don't understand it", than the genuine ones meant to be made fun of.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The comic is more a dig at themselves than it is at Evangelion.

If you look at it that way, it's still funny

Dat British humour at play.

It's obviously meant to rile up both likers and dislikers... alike. As can be seen by the first page of comments, which oddly enough is filled with more posts ironically stating "It's deep/You don't understand it", than the genuine ones meant to be made fun of.

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.

 

[Omnicrom]

The comic is more a dig at themselves than it is at Evangelion.

If you look at it that way, it's still funny

Dat British humour at play.

It's obviously meant to rile up both likers and dislikers... alike. As can be seen by the first page of comments, which oddly enough is filled with more posts ironically stating "It's deep/You don't understand it", than the genuine ones meant to be made fun of.

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.

I recognize that this strip is supposed to be funny, that's not a problem. The problem is that the joke here is "Those Evangelion fans are always good for a laugh, let's poke them and hope they explode". That isn't funny to me, it's mean. Even worse it's tired. It's been months since the last Evangelion strip, why bring it up again except in the hope of making people angry so you can feel superior to them for not sharing your ironic detachment?

 

[QUINTIX]

I'm surprised none of these NGE comics made their way over to 2Chan or any of the blogs by Studio Khara production staff, or at least not that I know of. if they have link/translations plox

You know what my problem with that comic as a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion was? It was BAD satire because you missed the perfect punchline. You have panel after panel of the viewer yelling at the characters to just have sex already, and your punchline wasn't a reference to End of Evangelion?

Spoiler

For those who aren't in the know that has a scene where Asuka (red-haired girl) is comatose in a hospital, Shinji (wuss) shakes her, tears off her clothing, and masturbates.

The scene is simultaneously disgusting and pathetic, and it would have been a perfect ending to that comic. Show that and cut back to "Goddamn it I give up". Scene.

the way it's cut it looks like the shirt breaking open was unintentional
a realization I had a while back:

At last Anno asked me "Miyamura, just imagine you are sleeping in your
bed and a stranger sneaks into your room. He can rape you anytime as you are
asleep but he doesn't. Instead, he masturbates looking at you, when you wake
up and know what he did to you. What do you think you would say?"

http://animaniajapan.livedoor.biz/archives/17687653.html (cited by Wikipedia; spoilers ahoy)
(Warning: comment section was taken over by spambots)

I do not believe Anno is describing some stranger;

Spoiler

rather Shinji's false dichotomy in his messed up head upon his... failure to wake Auska.

edit: obligatory if-you're-so-much-better-at-comedy-why-haven't-you-applied-to-the-escapist comment
you may have not found them funny, but plenty of others did; I think you're trolling as I have not seen any other "this sucks" comments

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The comic is more a dig at themselves than it is at Evangelion.

If you look at it that way, it's still funny

Dat British humour at play.

It's obviously meant to rile up both likers and dislikers... alike. As can be seen by the first page of comments, which oddly enough is filled with more posts ironically stating "It's deep/You don't understand it", than the genuine ones meant to be made fun of.

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.

I recognize that this strip is supposed to be funny, that's not a problem. The problem is that the joke here is "Those Evangelion fans are always good for a laugh, let's poke them and hope they explode". That isn't funny to me, it's mean. Even worse it's tired. It's been months since the last Evangelion strip, why bring it up again except in the hope of making people angry so you can feel superior to them for not sharing your ironic detachment?

Except that isn't the joke.

The joke is 'we can't think of anything funny, so let's use a joke we've used a hundred times before because of reasons.'

They're making fun of themselves.

 

[MPerce]

Ha! Making fun of yourselves for always making fun of the NGE fans. Nice.

But please don't actually do this if you run out of material. The NGE jokes are getting a little old.

 

[QUINTIX]

The constant piling of Evangelion comics isn't even funny more, it's just boring and predictable.

@Omnicrom
I stand corrected

Somewhat unrelated edit: I hope, by some odd coincidence, the marketing build for Eva:Final starts up very soon; Eva 3.0 and 4.0 where supposedly made in parallel, so it could come out at any time

Making for some ripe new material

 

[Casual Shinji]

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.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

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.

Again, the joke was never about Evangelion.

They're taking the piss out of themselves for not being able to come up with anything.

There's not liking a joke, and then there's missing the joke entirely.

 

[QUINTIX]

Ha! Making fun of yourselves for always making fun of the NGE fans. Nice.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they only made fun of the actual (obsessive otaku) fans (that even Anno mocks) only once

 

[odolwa99]

Shinji, to me, seems to exhibit symptoms of manic depression, or bipolar disorder. The thing about mental illness is that the scars are all internal. So, while some will see a twat who needs to grow up, many people who have lived with someone, or are themselves a sufferer, of the condition would think he needs to be given constant psychological counselling, rather than pilot a f**kin' mech.

Either way, mental illness is still viewed as a joke in the 21st century, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Again, the joke was never about Evangelion.

They're taking the piss out of themselves for not being able to come up with anything.

There's not liking a joke, and then there's missing the joke entirely.

And yet that penny drops only now, with the first page filled with "*yuck yuck* So deep. Missing the point."

Yes, I get it's a dig at themselves, but it's completely covered in yet more obvious flaming.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Again, the joke was never about Evangelion.

They're taking the piss out of themselves for not being able to come up with anything.

There's not liking a joke, and then there's missing the joke entirely.

And yet that penny drops only now, with the first page filled with "*yuck yuck* So deep. Missing the point."

Yes, I get it's a dig at themselves, but it's completely covered in yet more obvious flaming.

Some of it is bound to be flaming sure, but I'd wager that a lot of that 'flaming' is self parody as well.


Mine is.

 

[Darth_Payn]

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?