Weekend Fun: Questionable Sycophants
OK. I woke up to an inbox of insults and attacks from Questionable Content loyalists. Before anyone e-mails again with totally awesome words like “fucktard” and “superfag”, I want you to know that last creator, and your fearless leader, Jeph Jacques, e-mailed me about the forearm thing.
He took it as constructive criticism— told me he’d think about it the next time he sat down to draw and to check back in a couple weeks because he’s always trying to improve, sort of thing. And I must say, the response was totally unexpected, I’m use to being yelled at, but I’m glad he could peek through the jadedness in my statements a little.
Was I a bit harsh? Yeah. Aren’t I always though with everyone? Yeah. Again, I wasn’t calling QC bad overall, I was saying that I was trying to read it, but the art was keeping me down. It wasn’t jiving with me. Maybe it never will. It doesn’t even matter– I’m not going to insult the people who read it or call them moronic jagoffs. Everyone has different tastes, right? I mean, you’re here in this HOLE of a webcomic reading what I have to say…..
and let me reitterate that this IS the “blog” section of the site. Where I just ramble on and talk about something that might be on my mind that instant. It’s not the spot for carefully crafted PR as to not insult ANYONE…..
With ALL that said, and for your weekend enjoyment, I bring you….
HATE MAIL FROM QC FANS!
First, let me just mention, this is probably the sort of stuff Yirmumah fans send to someone who criticizes Yirmumah publicly. I’m not insulted by any of this stuff, so please, Yirmumah sycophants, don’t go starting a crazy flamewar with QC sycophant. In fact, there is no need for division here. You can totally love Yirmumah AND QC at the same time. But still, this is merely for your enjoyment:
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From Josh Burton:
Mr. Drew Fuckbag
Yeah, I got a fuckin’ bone to pick with you numbnuts. Why did you go and dis Jeph Jacques like that? That isn’t cool. If you’ve seen his past art, like, from the beginning and compared to his style now, there has been quite a change, and for the good. And so what if he draw his arms a little big, that’s his style and it works. So how about you plug that artist bashing mouth with your wifes fat cock you fucking asswipe?!
~Necrucifer
PS: YOU SUCK!
Wait… does my wife have a cock? I’ve been down there quite a bit, and I’ve never bumped into one down there. She must be hiding it well. That, OR, you might have meant, MY big fat cock. Which would then mean you meant me to stuff my own mouth with my own big fat cock…. and let me tell you, brother…. if I could put my own cock in my mouth, I don’t think I would’ve gotten into drawing comics, if you know what I’m saying.
OH! A quick follow up from our new friend Josh:
Dear Drew,
I know I’m awesome. But do you know that I went all psycho-explodey just cause I knew, I KNEW you would post it somewhere to publically humilate me? Dude, to be humiliated by the great Drew is like, an honor for some of us. Well, I gots to go play more SNES now. Later!
No hard feelings,
Josh
Dear Josh,
It’s cool. I love you Josh. I hope you like this article.
DJ
PS: I AM NOT DREW PRICE.
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From “Thomas” subject line: “Questionable Motivations”
Wow, it must really suck to have people all over the place discussing some
other webcomic creator’s actual content, when all you can manage is a sort
of watery notoriety as a loudmouth. Nice valid problem you came up with
too, if you’re overly concerned about forearms.Well done, sir!
Ok. What is a “watery notoriety” and why is it the only thing that I can manage? Can you got to business school for that? If so, can I teach that?? “Get your degree in WATERY NOTORIETY MANAGEMENT today!”… Someone call Sally Struthers.
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From “Jane Doe” subject line “WTF?”
Wow, you have a giant ego. Where do you get off critiquing another guys forearms. Is your anatomy perfect? I guess not but I won’t be going through your horribly drawn webcomic to find out. Why do you feel the need to tear other people down who are successful? Grow up.
Jane, that’s a lot of questions all at once for me. Slow down. Is my anatomy perfect? No. I could totally benefit by losing a few pounds and doing more pushups. I’m working on it. At least Josh thinks I have a Big Fat Cock. That’s enough anatomy for me. Thanks for not reading my “horribly drawn webcomic” because we have a rule about that here. Am I REALLY tearing Jeph Jacques down?? I mean, C’MON. He doesn’t give a crap what I say, and I bet he’s not crying himself to sleep because he can’t draw forearms. — Are my drawings perfect? Heck no! But that wasn’t why I wrote what I wrote. Absorb!!!
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One last one, because I need my beauty rest.
From: Marky Mark , Subject line “Questionable Critique”
Hey, I was gonna give your comic a try, but I came in for the first time and the first thing I read is you bashing QC, a comic I’ve been reading since the beginning and I love. I don’t appreciate it. I thought I’d let you know it’s a good way to lose readers, and I hope you fail. I wasn’t even going to send this, but I felt I needed to let you know you’re a complete tool.
Ok… first…. MARKY MARK!? Dude, chalk up another celebrity visitor! Right on! Loved you in the funky bunch. Two, that is a pretty short and thoughtful e-mail, but HOLY crap, what’s with all the “I”s in there?????? Wow. Seriously, thanks for letting me know your opinion, because who doesn’t want to know Marky Mark’s opinion on such matters? You rocked in “FEAR”. That’s all that matters.
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And on the LAST note and thought on this… I got a few nice e-mails from people who read both QC and Yirmumah, some were sort of begging me not to critique other webcomics. I just want to say again, it really wasn’t my intention to do so. I mean, if you’ve been reading Yirmumah, I RARELY mention other webcomic or rip on them at all. I RARELY read other webcomics. — I think I found myself just checking out the “BEST OF” lists, and seeing the links to QC on Websnark, and I was HONESTLY trying to read it, and I just wrote what was stopping me from doing so. I was making a sarcastic plea to the world to not link me to something that’s bugging me and why.
So, yeah, please…. if you like QC, keep on loving it! I’ll sure say this, the creator is professional and has a great attitude, and his fans that DID e-mail me seem like….uhm…. Yirmumah fans when they are mad. Actually, I LOVE to see people passionate about things they like, and defending it.
And ask yourself, you just read ALL of this…. if you’re a Yirmumah fan at all, would you REALLY want me to stop writing the blogs or telling you how I really feel? Because, if enough people want that, I’ll totally just craft politically correct PR every day…………………………….Ok, no I won’t. But you get my point. I just want to make known again, it’s not my habit to actually critique other webcomics, and I’m usually not even constructive in ANY way. I usually just tell them they suck. Like the majority of comics in the GRIND.
I’ll leave all the snarking to THIS GUY.
December 10th, 2005 at 11:07 am
I never shoulda fucked with you. I bow to your superiority…for now!!
December 10th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
deer dj —
d00d, u r a totle fukwaad!!!1!!1! y r u so mene 2 my favrit comk??!?????
i tink u r a totl gheywad, and ur wyf haz a peniz……..u shuld suk on it!!!!!
WTFLOLBBQROFLMAODUVHELFOEMBEOLLOOLOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
ps: u r a compleet tool, d00d. n ur anatumee sux!
—-nekrucifugebiggle, lord of drkness n stryfe n hot topikk lolololololol
December 10th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
I found the problem. QC sucks. Aren’t comics supposed to be funny, aka “comical”. It’s a teen journal with drawings. Ohhhh sad sad world. Woe is sadness, woe is me, me is sadness. ‘I’m on medication and it’s not the funny kind.’ It’s depressing to read it.
Yirmumah, the Last Vestige of Freedom.
December 10th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
I’ve read QC for as long as the art has been tolerable. Seriously, when it was getting started a friend tried to get me to read it. Impossible. After a year or so of drastic improvement, I could look directly at it long enough to enjoy the story. There is still a lot of room for improvement and I’m glad that Jeph knows it.
Also, Yirmumah is great. My only problem with it is that for the longest time I had no idea that the title meant anything. It just seemed like some sort of nonsense word. My first language is not English, so that might explain it. Keep up the good work everyone!
December 10th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
Man, if people can’t take a little criticism about an online comic then they are way to devoted. I’ve read QC since right after he started it and Yirmumah for a few months now and I think both are incredible in their own ways. When I need a laugh it’s time for Yirmumah and when I want to laugh at a small talking robot with destructive tendencies I read QC.
That being said, if I ever regain the ability to draw more than severely disfigured stick people I would want someone who can be a complete dick to critique my work and point out what could be improved and how without sugar coating it for me.
December 10th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
I disagree with Orlandu… I think if people can’t take criticism about their webcomic, they’re not devoted enough. The true web warriors know that for every thoughtful, sincere reader out there there are hundreds of weiners who get off on putitng people down. I received one comment that my artistic skills were those of a five-year-old. I mean, come on… I draw like a ten-year-old at least! One can only imagine what people would say if I said something like “Yirmumah is a big festering diseased turd of a strip, swarming with retarded maggots and smelling like the syphillitic crotch of your ten-years-dead grandmother!”
I do kind of wish my strip had fans that rabid, although I do tend to prefer them a little more articulate. I read both Yirmumah and QC and don’t really see what the problem with either is, although QC does tend to get a little wordy and the dialogue font doesn’t seem to have been chosen with easy readability of large passages in mind.
December 10th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
Aw, shaddup, tube-head.
Seriously, if anyone gets truly offended over anything random anonymous people say over the ‘net, they need to take a reality check. It’s been said before, but it deserves saying again. The trouble is that when someone with a large audience says that something sucks, some of that audience is going to blindly go along with that. People are just stupid like that. Look at the Penny Arcade effect, for instance.
December 10th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
I don’t really have a large audience. Do I? — I thought it was like 16 fans?
Brien, the word Yirmumah DOES in fact mean something, and observant club members will know what it is, as well as anyone who read the old minicomics….. but to the public, it remains a retarded made up word…. this is not the case.
Yirmumah, is actually…. EGYPTIAN!
December 10th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Hah! I was about to say that I used to think “Yirmumah” looked like it was from some African language.
Then I thought I finally figured it out…It’s not just some alternative phonetic spelling of “Your Mama”? English is hard enough without Egyptian mixed in!
December 10th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Holy crap!
You guys need to click on Brien’s name up there…or just click here:
http://web.umr.edu/~bmsgg6/tank/
Download and play that tank game of his.
I was just going to look it over for about five minutes, to see what it was like. I had to tear myself away from it after an hour and a half.
Brien: nice job, man. Very nice job.
December 10th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Completely unrelated news.. Coffman, I think you might need one of these USB drives..
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-usb-drives-ever/
#6 is the
Big Tiki Drive
Standing almost 4″ tall, the Big Tiki Drive is a really weird product. What’s the connection between Hawaii and storage? Once again, a product that is so weird that it becomes cool.
Big Tiki Drive [Thinkgeek] [http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/usb/744f/]
Though I looked at the thinkgeek site and no tiki appeared, but hte original links has an image..
As a brother in the hawaiian shirt arts, I figured you might need one for your ‘tiki room’
peace out..
- jeremy
ps: yeah, that QC comic’s forearms are huge.. I couldn’t create a colony of pikmans to life those..
December 10th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
*lift..
December 10th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
I’ve been reading QC for a while now… think I started somewhere around about strip 90. I’m a tirmumah newbie, but I read through the archives earlier today, and have added it to my bookmarks due to having a good time.
QC has always had a pretty unique art style, and the best part of it all is that Jeph really does seem to try his hardest to improve it however he can. If you compare the first version of Marten with the version we see today… sure, you can kind of tell it’s the same character, but the modern one’s just so much more realistic.
The thing is, all of this improvement is a result of a lot of pretty hard work on Jeph’s part… and of people giving him feedback and telling him what looks great and what sort of needs working on. A few months back, he hit a patch where the lips on his characters didn’t look so hot. A lot of people mentioned this. Within a week, they looked great.
The forearms comment was pretty fair: they *were* a bit too meaty. Now that he’s received some feedback on it (from another webcomic artist, no less) it’s a small-gains bet that they’ll look different for this Monday’s comic. In fact, it’s a truism about QC that, if you don’t like something about the art, then you just need to come back a week later and Jeph will have refined his style even further.
Although I’ve not seen many, or really any of the messages that flew D.J.’s way recently, I can guess what most of them look like. And if they really are anything like what I think they’re like, I have this to say to the people who wrote them: QC would be a lot better off without your “defense” guys. Let’s just let Jeph get on with his thing in his own superhumanly mellow way, and trust that he’s able to respond to criticism far more maturely and sensibly than any one of us mere mortals.
g’night all.
December 11th, 2005 at 2:58 am
here’s what i say. IT’S THE FUCKING INTERNET. this is like bashing someone’s favourite band, and them getting all up in your face about it.
this is what i also say: The Internet: Where Sarcasm Goes To Die.
December 11th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Yeah, I know, Jeph took it well, but it doesn’t mean the rest of us have to. Jeph has the patience of a saint already, to put up with us crazy wack-jobs at his forum, so I’m sure handling this situation with aplomb was a cakewalk for him. that said, your comments were still fucking rude. Just because Jeph tookthe high road and chose to accept your comments as constructive criticism, that doesn’t mean your words were originally meant as such. Dick.
I give you credit for linking to QC. that is all. Other than that, your comment was way out of line. Yeah, it’s a blog, blah blah blah - i’m not saying you should censor yourself - what’s said is said. Regardless, it was still extremely rude and an asinine statement to make.
Jerk.
December 11th, 2005 at 9:08 am
OMG! I am “way out of line”!
Oh, calm down you. Don’t be a pansy faglord.
Thanks for visiting!
December 11th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
Before all the QC fans get in an uproar look at what good has come from this. I never read QC before but after DJ’s post I decided to check it out. While I agree with DJ’s assesment of the forearms the overall look of the strip is great. After reading a few strips I’m bookmarking it (right behind Yirmumah). So QC will pick up a few Yirmumah fans. Not a bad trade off for some constructive criticism from DJ.
December 12th, 2005 at 4:58 am
I know you’re a marketing expert… so I guess you are just doing tricky advertising of your friend’s comics…
Feel free to coment my crappy artwork whenever you feel like!
kisses from spain, and keep on rocking
December 12th, 2005 at 11:44 am
I don’t trust anyone who likes QC’s opinion. It’s terrible.
December 16th, 2005 at 1:11 am
Jeph: Want another beer, man?
Drew: Yeah, sure. I’ve been thinking…
J: Don’t strain anything.
D: about getting more attention for our web comics.
J: There is a surprise. I take it you’ve come up with some kind of nefarious plan.
D: Controversy. You remember when that strip and that other strip had a fight?
J: Checkerboard Nightmare and… everyone?
D: No. Not like that. That other strip.
J: Oh, yeah! Pass the beer nuts.
D: So, I could, like, rag on your art. Then you could be all big about it. The fans will spaz out and we will have a whole lot of …
J: Attention?
D: Yeah. And I can cement my reputation as a trouble maker.
J: You just love being a bad boy, don’t you Drew.
D: God yes.
December 16th, 2005 at 6:19 am
Oh man, Dan’s got you all figured out, Drew.
Also: Thanks for your kind words about my work, Adam!
December 23rd, 2005 at 11:47 am
Oh, you think?
I’m pretty sure some of your fanbase have laser sights. And I’m generally complimentary to you.
December 23rd, 2005 at 12:24 pm
I’m genuinely sorry if they attacked you Eric! We all love Websnark.