Sk'thloq wrote:SilentChaos87 wrote:Honest to god, here I thought you guys would have learned by now, but apparently I'm giving you all too much credit. This is the Game of Thrones of webcomics when I think about it: the people you think deserve their comeuppance never get it. But you keep watching because you want to be there when it happens. And it never does. And as you get angrier and angrier the people who know better by that point just get more and more entertainment out of it. It's a vicious cycle. I'm not the kind of person who typically thrives on this sort of thing and feel really really bad for being on the side that enjoys it, but honestly. You guys get really riled up.
Could not agree more. Honestly, the comments are at times funnier than the comic itself, and I find the comic pretty f**king funny. (I've always loved me some sociopathic humor.
) I can almost see the red faces screaming at their monitors...
Richard from
Looking for Group, Bun-bun of
Sluggy Freelance, Lobo of DC comics, Belkar Bitterleaf of
The Order of the Stick, Bangladesh Dupree of
Girl Genious and almost all the cast of
8-bits theater are funny because of how crazy, surreal and and over-the-top they are. They are so psychopatic that they "cross the line twice" and become funny. They are evil characters that are presented as being evil and are funny because they are so evil.
Heather, on the other hand, 1.-is not surreal/ridiculous/over-the-top enough to be funny and 2.-I always get the impression that the writers are expecting me to empathize with her and side with her, to see her as "the good one", that her deeds are presented as rightful or at least not so bad. And it provokes a sense of cognitive disonance that shakes me.
gman wrote:It kind of makes you wonder what type of personality Heather had before she got turned. The fact she wanted to kill people and turned her parents into cattle makes you think that she had some screws loose way before the storyline even started. That is possibly because her parents were so controlling that she had virtually no freedom to be herself and when she was turned, it brought all these repressed feelings to the surface. But that is just a theory.
Yeah, Lori probably picked girls that weren't very sharp (so she could control them), who were quite amoral to start with (so they would do as she said, assault people for blood, enslave their parents...etc, without hesitation), and who were really shallow (so they would share her cheerleading obsession) because, lets be honest, who else would help her with her plan? Any person with half a brain would think that she was crazy for obsessing about living her "perfect year".
gman wrote:Also, while I agree that Suki wasn't the brightest bulb and is a nympho, at least she has some empathy for others( example those two aliens, simon and garfunkale). Plus, she and Leonard have some kind of spark between them, deep down. Between Heather , Katie ( who seems pissed off all the time over almost anything) and Suki, Leonard is better off with Suki, perhaps not for some long term relationship ( I do not know if comment meant is a possibility for Suki ) , then at least for as long as Leonard will have her.
Couldn't agree more. Suki has grown to become the most likeable character in the strip save Charlotte.
EDIT: I'm aware that Suki has been attributed some nasty things too, but we haven't
seen those. We have seen Suki being just foolish, crazy, pervy, nice and funny, not sociopathic.