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salad_barbarian (salad_barbarian) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-04 03:14:00

Current location:	beside the power of grayskull
Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	The futurama theme
Entry tags:	creator: greg dean, in-joke: context is for the weak, in-joke: wtf, medium: webcomic, title: menage a 3, title: real life comics

Greetings I bring you novelty and entertainment!
I come bearing two webcomics. The first is presented without context for we are so strong that we don't need it. Right?

The recent news of Disney buying Marvel reminded me of this:

Remember people keep writing those Spike Spiegel, Spike (from BTVS), Spike Lee, and Spike Jonze (with or without his city slickers) slash fics. They may earn you a lot of money some day!

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	kingrockwell 2009-09-04 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	Menage a 3 skeeves me out because I hate the viewpoint character, and the way it progresses makes me inclined to believe the writer's a lot like him. It's like Loserz all over again, only the faces aren't as ugly and there are also gay people. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-04 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, the writer is a girl and the self insert is the lesbian, Zii. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	salad_barbarian 2009-09-04 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Zii isn't a lesbian, she's bisexual. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-05 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Right, sorry. I haven't read too much of it. Most of what I know is from a review. They didn't mention she was bisexual. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-09-05 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Co-writer! And I meant the impression it made more than the reality of it. Either way, Gary ruins the enjoyment for me. Even if it weren't all the second-hand embarrassment he puts one through, I can't stand him and think he's a real creep. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stig
2009-09-05 08:39 am UTC (link)

They're ALL creepy. I mean, I'm not some kind of prude or anything - I'll give a sexually charged character as much of a chance as any other, so long as there's more to their character than that - but not when it's the ENTIRE CAST, and there isn't more to the characters than that. There's about three characters who don't immediately want to screw every other character they meet, and no-one talks about anything else. You get the feeling that Zii would get busy with an armadillo if it guaranteed her a stack of gay-manga as a reward.

Plus, Didi isn't even a real character, and that makes her incredibly obnoxious. She has no redeeming traits. She's basically a moving realdoll.

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	kingrockwell 2009-09-05 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it's all caricature over character. The writing's no better than your average porno, and it takes two people to make it! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stig 2009-09-05 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	In fact - and it comes to me in this split second - it's almost like Torchwood without the sci-fi or the Welsh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-09-11 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	I am years late, but you hated Loserz?! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kingrockwell
2009-09-11 11:26 pm UTC (link)

Not hated so much as didn't like. It read like a introverted teenage boy's look at high school life, complete with fistfuls of cheesecake, weirdly drawn faces, and strawman depictions of people outside an introverted teenage boy's social circle. I dislike Menage a 3 for a lot of the same reasons, only it's more about late-twenty-somethings that are drawn better but behave as more shallow caricatures, and somehow is supposedly co-written by a woman.

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