Downtown Toronto: The End of The World (12)

man, these (this whole series, not  just this one) are some the least funny comics I have ever seen.  surely there's someone in toronto that can be funny, insightful, and able to draw all at the same time??

The end of the world is coming?  I know what we can do--draw really bad comics.

<p>I don&#39;t see any point in commenting here saying how much you dislike this comic.&nbsp; I can be cliche and say that no one&#39;s forcing anyone to read these. They&#39;re not badly drawn at all, unless you think comics should be photorealistic using the same crosshatching techniques as they do on paper money. This strip has recognizable characters, thick yet loose lines, and intresting/bizarre subjects/situations that could strike up light conversation through comments here. Lighten up, people. </p>

Jay, a great end to this series.&nbsp; Only... &#39;That Guy&#39; in the last pannel should be giving you the thumbs up.. i swear to god, it would be awesome-o.&;nbsp; Edit it into your print version or i&#39;ll buy a fucking Hummer.

<p>is it finally over?</p><p>What&#39;s interesting. The people who think that they are somehow loftier in their thinking because they like this cartoon, and that the people who don&#39;t like it just don&#39;t get it, or have no taste and shouldn&#39;t have an opinion at all and stick to &quot;Hi and Lois&quot;. How dare someone actually say they don&#39;t like this comic.&nbsp;</p><p>What?! You don&#39;t like this comic, why, I must say sir, I am quite perplexed, you obviously have no taste and are quite mad.&nbsp;How dare you! A pox on you!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>F.U. .</p>

Steve = penis

<p>the lines aren't loose because theyre from the hand of a knowledgeable cartoonist. a cartoonist who has a good eye, and confidence to use quick brush strokes where need be. they&#39;re loose because they&#39;re sloppy and untrained, the artists eyes have yet to pick up a lot of subtle nuances.&nbsp;<br /> </p><p>bold thick lines aren&#39;t actually a good thing it just means you don&#39;t have depth&nbsp; in the picture, it makes it a little disorienting, of course thick lines have their positive side it&#39;s more dynamic to use them they capture your attention but you have to use them sparingly, some cartoonists and artists alike use them in really wonderful ways that work out really well.</p><p>&nbsp;but here it juse looks like you use the same friggin tool&nbsp; to draw over and over. </p><p>the author is obviously attempting to be funny, and isn&#39;t doing too well at that., everything is so&nbsp; hackneyed, simplistic and one dimensional all the jokes and outrage fall flat. it&#39;s like maybe something joe matt would have done in the early years of art school.&nbsp; Which is an obvious influence of the artist.&nbsp; keep trying though jay.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>You&#39;re right, Dan..why take &quot;Shut up, Steve&quot; and &quot;Steve=penis&quot; personally from some idiot I don&#39;t even know?</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>I&#39;ll be BlogTO&#39;s surrogate zanta and increae the peace</p><p>You&#39;re both idiots. &lt;FLEX&gt; YES!</p><p> Both of you shut up. YES!<br /> </p><p>&lt;FLEX&gt;&nbsp; yes yes yes&nbsp; &lt;1000 push ups&gt;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Rek, it has been said in&nbsp; previous posts of&nbsp; this &quot;comic&quot; that, I believe, Geoff stated&nbsp; that those who dislike this cartoon have &quot;crap taste&quot;.&nbsp;From what I&#39;ve &nbsp;seen, the only way people seem to defend this cartoon is by attacking the people who&nbsp;don&#39;t like it.&nbsp;I&#39;ve tried to like this cartoon, I just don&#39;t (and it&#39;s not because I don&#39;t get it). All I&#39;ve said from the beginning is&nbsp;that I&#39;d like to see some&nbsp;work by other people besides this one. I&#39;m sure the artist is a nice guy and I wish him luck. I just don&#39;t like it. I don&#39;t like the drawing and I don&#39;t think it&#39;s funny. That&#39;s just my opinion.&nbsp; </p>

<p>None taken -- I started reading it about half way through and once it ended (I didn&#39;t notice the &#39;end&#39; until someone here mentioned it) I went back and reread it. The story structure needs some work -- the pay off doesn&#39;t even make sense -- and I can understand whoever said the lines were too thick; some contrast between fore/background and characters would be appreciated. Over all though I wouldn&#39;t say it&#39;s a bad comic, it&#39;s just missing a few panels here and there...</p><p>I too aspire to eventually get a comic off the ground, so I respect the time and effort he&#39;s put into this. </p>