so, my questions for you lot is generally, what are your veiws on this subject? which 'group' do you think of as most pretentious towards other comics (by the way, you can say all of them- i think so xD)? why do you think that is? and what/who do you think it is that doesn't come under these groups who is it that rises above prentiousness (if anyone) - who is able to make a comic suitable for everyone's tastes- is that even possible?
To the latter question, I don't think it is, or if there was a comic everyone liked, it would not be a comic that everyone loved. To the others - no idea, sorry, you're asking the wrong person. I read stuff I like, and I don't know about anything or anyone else ^^;;
also, where does the matter of opinion end and prentiousness begin? - where do you draw the line at speaking your mind, and just looking down on someone without looking at their stuff? (although maybe that question answers itself :S)
I don't really know what makes pretentiousness, I'm afraid. Like I say, I'm really the wrong person to answer any of your questions, sorry! But it's always possible to comment on something honestly without being rude, and I don't usually offer constructive crit unless asked (I find un-asked for crit slightly rude, in fact, although I know it's meant kindly in most cases).
I have to admit, though - you ask why people diss those who make "deep arty-farty comics". I don't diss them, but I'm afraid that I don't get the vast majority of those comics. I can't understand them and they don't appeal to me. If that's true for a lot of people - well, that might explain why they do get dissed.
I think the reason some people like to attack stuff they don't like is a sort of affirmation of their own choice. It might be that they have a preference, and they want to be secure in that preference, so rather than saying 'Oh, I don't really get the X style' (where 'X' is any style), they say 'X is so rubbish!', trying to make it a mark of their own good taste that they don't like X, rather than perhaps admitting that they don't get it. It might almost be a defensive thing. But maybe not, I don't know ^^
Psychology is always interesting, and I'm sure the reaction you describe happens in other situations too. And stop being silly; it's not that people aren't interested in this sort of stuff, it's that personally I feel profoundly ignorant in it, and thus not able to say much ^^;;
To the latter question, I don't think it is, or if there was a comic everyone liked, it would not be a comic that everyone loved. To the others - no idea, sorry, you're asking the wrong person. I read stuff I like, and I don't know about anything or anyone else ^^;;
also, where does the matter of opinion end and prentiousness begin? - where do you draw the line at speaking your mind, and just looking down on someone without looking at their stuff? (although maybe that question answers itself :S)
I don't really know what makes pretentiousness, I'm afraid. Like I say, I'm really the wrong person to answer any of your questions, sorry! But it's always possible to comment on something honestly without being rude, and I don't usually offer constructive crit unless asked (I find un-asked for crit slightly rude, in fact, although I know it's meant kindly in most cases).
I have to admit, though - you ask why people diss those who make "deep arty-farty comics". I don't diss them, but I'm afraid that I don't get the vast majority of those comics. I can't understand them and they don't appeal to me. If that's true for a lot of people - well, that might explain why they do get dissed.
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Psychology is always interesting, and I'm sure the reaction you describe happens in other situations too. And stop being silly; it's not that people aren't interested in this sort of stuff, it's that personally I feel profoundly ignorant in it, and thus not able to say much ^^;;
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