Short Tails #1 – pg 4 of 4

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1. eric says:

   January 14, 2010 at 12:58 pm

   hmm… that last panel made me laugh… the rest of that comic however, did not. it was just thinly masked existentialist philosophy that ive heard plenty of times before. also, that guy in the beginning is sort of unrealistically rude; ive heard stories that start like that, but they usually end with a fight, not just walking away and quietly thinking about the way the world works. love the art though, you have a great style (i love the mix of simplistic faces with detailed backgrounds)

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   • anonymous says:

     January 14, 2010 at 1:06 pm

     yeah, also something I have sorta noticed: why bother thinking about how empty and pointless society is unless you can think of and act upon a better alternative. it pisses me the fuck off when people whine about how how ignorant, stupid, or misused life is when they make no effort to change or the what they think is change is actually the same thing just with different colors and sounds.

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   • Ethan Young says:

     January 14, 2010 at 2:20 pm

     Unrealistically rude? Have you ever been in NYC on a crowded afternoon?

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2. ophelein says:

   January 14, 2010 at 4:08 pm

   I really do like the art, there are really brilliant subtleties in it and the philosophical commentary is intriguing. My primary complaint is the lack of harmony between the words and the illustration. They don’t share the burden of telling the story very well. I think it would be really quite nice if the story kept going. Just to take the story so far and apply it to something bigger, make it into an allegory for the rest of the story. It would be interesting to see where it might lead.

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3. the.bould says:

   January 15, 2010 at 10:46 pm

   The art is great. I didn’t see the guy as overly rude but the philosophy was lame and blatant. But I didn’t get the last panel at all so maybe I missed something stellar.

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4. waldosan says:

   January 17, 2010 at 4:08 am

   but you see we come to a problem, in order for someone who criticizes the way the world is being to think of an alternative would actually require work. if it’s one thing i’ve learned people don’t like to work for stuff their not being paid for. and the only alternatives are to either shut their mouths or keep complaining about how the world is plummeting into a desocialized wasteland that would care for a baby sitting on the sidewalk. also people hate more than anything else than to be told to shut up so i believe that leaves most other people with one viable option.

   either way that last panel is f#%^ing creepy.

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5. Carapace says:

   January 23, 2010 at 5:03 pm

   Oookay, I don’t think I understand this properly, because to me it looks like a little vignette about somebody being jolted out of the mundane half-conscious reflections by the start of the zombie apocalypse. “Why did I back down? Was that the right thing to do? Why are soda cans so thi-Wait, did that little girl just eat her mom’s head?!?”
   And then the screaming starts.
   So, you know. I like it. I just don’t think I get it.

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