Artcow Aaron/Senna Diaz - Creator of Dresden Codak

[Gagamaru]

somebody's spine got issues.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

Kimiko was cute pre-Dark Science, that is, before she got that ripped masculine look and still looked sweet and tender and feminine and cuddly.

Spoiler

 

[FatNero]

On those reboots:

Not revealing my powerlevel but fuck me if anyone did that spergy of a pitch for anything, it'd get set down within two paragraphs and the writer would be written a "thanks for your interest" note while the pitch was snickered over in the offices.

There's a way you handle this stuff, and its by not focusing on the powers and minutia, but on the story and what it's actually about. Sometimes people are way too in love with their own bullshit that they don't realize no one fucking cares about how Cyclop's eye beams work.


EDIT:
Ok just read some of his comics... arts okay, things look like what they're supposed to be. There's even a decent style to it, though he'd do himself a huge favor letting the steampunky shit die in his designs, it stopped being 2006 years ago.

But fuck me if you can understand more than two sentences any characters speak, and even if you could you can't follow a page. I spent more time trying to figure out which panel I'm supposed to look at next than I did actually reading.

I don't like shitting on people with some legit talent, but you can feel the ego behind it, and that's just annoying.

 

[Melancholic_Cowboy]

It's such an interesting illustration of unconscious bias and I am in no way looking way too hard into something seemingly innocuous to find anecdotal evidence confirming my personal agenda. This is in no way happening.

Also, I have magical psychic powers that automatically allow me to see the gender of everyone who is on the internet.

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

Kimiko was cute pre-Dark Science, that is, before she got that ripped masculine look and still looked sweet and tender and feminine and cuddly.

Spoiler

She looks more likable and not smug. Is this from the same comic?

 

[DykesDykesChina]

She looks more likable and not smug. Is this from the same comic?

Yes, Diaz changed his art style a lot!

Kimiko's first appearance

Hob Kimiko

Ripped Robotic Randroid Kimiko from Dark Science

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

Yes, Diaz changed his art style a lot!

Kimiko's first appearance

Hob Kimiko

Ripped Robotic Randroid Kimiko from Dark Science

What happened to this guy? This could've been a better comic.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

What happened to this guy? This could've been a better comic.

My theory is that at first he was just a Transhumanism sperg who felt the urge to create a comic about a cute cyberneticist girl. Later he caught the SJW virus plus the Randroid virus and it was downhill from there.

 

[Bungleboy]

My theory is that at first he was just a Transhumanism sperg who felt the urge to create a comic about a cute cyberneticist girl. Later he caught the SJW virus plus the Randroid virus and it was downhill from there.

That and he bought into his own hype and nobody around him was doing anything but enable his worse traits. Now, he's so far up his own ass that he will never return from the event horizon of his own bloated ego

 

[DangerousGas]

Later he caught the SJW virus plus the Randroid virus and it was downhill from there.

Agreed, Father Abaddon. 'Tis a shame, because I rather enjoyed the Hob comic, and keep hoping that Dark Science will improve. I have yet to have my hope rewarded in even the smallest of ways.

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

Fetishizing buff women is okay because it makes men* uncomfortable
*men=icky dudebros

http://thornheartcat.tumblr.com/post/124795246482/wooooooooooooooooooooow-so-aaron-diaz-creator-of

Silencing another woman!! I thought he would've learned after that incident with cubewatermelon

 

[Bungleboy]

I hope none of his fans expected him to do any work this month.

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

I hope none of his fans expected him to do any work this month.

Nah, he needs more time to develop Kimiko.

Spoiler: Kimiko's character development

Some important twitter activism.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Nah, he needs more time to develop Kimiko.

Spoiler: Kimiko's character development

That pretty much sums it up.

Also, is it just me, or has his art gotten even uglier than before?

 

[John Titor]

In order to come up with good characters who have depth and to tell interesting stories, one should look at *real* literature for inspiration - Shakespeare, Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, etc. (No, Aaron, Randcrap doesn't count, neither does Tolkien).

Aaron Diaz seems to think that you can create something noteworthy by regurgitating existing popular entertainment and sticking some semi-intellectual stuff you read about on Wikipedia on top. Unsurprisingly, the result is horribly trite.

I don't remember who it was but there was a hentai artist that would agree with you who said people should open their minds by reading books other than comic books. What a world.

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

That pretty much sums it up.

Also, is it just me, or has his art gotten even uglier than before?

It's not just you.

If you go back a page or so, the comic had more color, coherent paneling and Kimiko looked more likable.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

"Not having any queer characters in a piece of fiction is a big red flag."

He should read "Dya-na-Sore" by Friedrich Wilhelm von Meyern or the novels by Ernst Jünger. Both works are as homosexual as you can get without actually stating that you find young muscular dudes doing military gymnastics together in the buff smokin hawt.

Considering that Aaron loves "Atlas Shrugged" by Mafia Winsome, he shouldn't have a problem with both von Meyern and Jünger being blatant fascists.

Spoiler: cuz homoeroticism is necessarily totally progressive mkayyyy

 

[AnOminous]

"Not having any queer characters in a piece of fiction is a big red flag."

Suppose there are novels and short stories and such where people are actually doing things that don't involve ramming their cocks into each other every couple pages. How would you know whether they were queer or not?

I swear, with these fuckers. I want to write some SF thing with no gay people in it at all.

And when some tumblard bitches about it. . .and asks why no queers.

I'll just smile and say to them. . .because it's in the FUTURE.

 

[Accel_Rider]

So if a story has a queer character, then it's automatically okay even though it's a piece of shit?

 

[Big Nasty]

So, Aaron has gone from amputee fetishist to musclegirl fetishist?