Epic Wizard said:
I like the serious discussion but the people who keep posting "Tim Buckley shows his penis to minors" should either realize that IT PROBABLY NEVER HAPPENED or DEMONSTRATE PROOF.
Since Tim Buckley hasn't been arrested as a child molester then I doubt that the latter will happen which leaves us with the former.
Anyways...
CAD has had serious or semi-serious bits in the past. For example the bit where Lucas' girlfriend tried to kill him with her real boyfriend. Not exactly serious because it was so far fetched but still.
As for Dominic Deegan: I have been reading the comic for a year or two now and I really like it. The author is fleshing out a very deep and involved fantasy universe. So he dealt with ONE unsavory topic. It was done in a way that is MUCH better than the way most Manga deal with anything to do with a serious topic that isn't death. (to clarify I am referring to the way in which 90% of Manga seems to devolve into shots of women's (breasts/underwear/back's while their in the shower) whenever the topic of sexuality comes up)
Do I like to talk about rape or miscarriage? Honestly no. But that doesn't mean I am going to condemn CAD or Dominic Deegan because it dealt with them. If you feel that CAD has gone in a direction that you can't stomach then go do something else besides post venomous opinions all over the internet.
Oh yeah one last thing. I honestly have no idea about the size of Tim Buckley's ego but from his news posts I wouldn't say it's that big. In general I would like hard proof (I can believe the Wikipedia edits bit without everyone linking me to a bunch of page histories) but if I had to guess Mr. Buckley has over reacted because he was afraid of what the internet would do to a bit of hearsay. If I could change one thing about the internet it would be the way in which it can take a totally unsupported statement which is not in any way true and cook up two dozen supports for it in a few days/hours.
First CAD, now someone mentions Deegan here again? This is too awesome.
CAD has always had serious storylines in the past...Sure, I guess you could call them "serious" but as you pointed out, they're so far fetched that they become unbelievable. Not to mention B^Uckleys ham hands don't help at all in that regard. They smother what little potential there was to be found, no matter how small that potential was. That, and the outright misogyny in a couple of those "serious" storylines that make them further laughable.
As for Terracino, his "deep and involved" fantasy universe is in no way "deep and involved" He has yet to describe anything beyond the surface level. Even there, it's a mishmash of half completed ideas.
Okay, see, there's orcs, and they're like tribal and shit with nature magic. They're pretty cool, and they're nomads for some reason, 'cause that's awesome as well. Oh, and these four armed things that live in a watery area, for some reason. They're magic, I don't have to explain it. Calaan is totally like an empire, sort of, and it's got knights and shit that do things. They've got magic too, but who cares, the only humans INTERESTING and DEEP enough to go into are the main characters, Mary-Sue and his cheerleaders, annoying talking animal that's required in every faux manga ever produced, hackneyed love interest, "random" character who's a golem but despite being fueled by evil necromantic energy is NOT in fact evil...Oh, and did I mention how super special awesome the world is yet? Yeah, it's totally bitchin'.
There's no depth to anything. In fact, I dare you to find an iota of depth in any storyline. Hell, the only interesting concept dim bulb up there has pulled out was the "elemecca" or whatever, and even then it wasn't an original idea. That's not the point though. The point is that he describes a vast amount of things on the surface and never bothers to flesh them out. Here's some nice questions, what shape does this world take/what size is it/where's a damn map so we can at least see how all these random ass geographical features fit together? How did the humans propagate so thoroughly throughout the land when everything, EVERYTHING, can punk them out physically, mentally, and magically? Assuming the races are just benevolent like that, why haven't the humans overrun the hippies, what with us being greedy, power hungry, land grabbing, assholes like we're depicted? Why is the fat necromancer "characterized" as a decent person? Regardless of intent, he's still subverting the laws of nature. He even speaks about this with the CHAMPION OF BALANCE! Does this not strike you as odd, perhaps even somewhat out of what little character they have?
That ranting done, we don't care that it went in a "different direction" we care that it was horribly handled despite being planned out well in advance. Things done far in advance shouldn't be this bad, if for no other reason than the writer had plenty of time to polish his ideas. Unfortunately Buckley writes, as stated earlier, with ham hands. He's ham handed. What little saving grace there could have been was washed away by his own ineptitude as a "writer".
Yes, because we all should be judged by the place in which we act in the most professional manner possible, not how we act EVERYWHERE! Here, look at his ED page. Despite ED being 'tard central, the information they gather on "web personalities" or what have you is impeccable. So much better it is to lynch a man with a cord he himself has wrought. Yes, nothing satisfies like watching a person hang themselves with their own actions and the "people" at ED know this. Take a look, and behold your proof, also included is info on his webcomic...just for shits and giggles.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tim_Buckley
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/CTRL_ALT_Delete
As for the internet's ability to support unsupported information...Buh? If it's supported, it's not unsupported. Perhaps you mean the "support" lacks credence, but you may want to state that. Either way, look at the ED pages again. Long story short, if this doesn't convince you nothing short of Buckley spitting in your face will.
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