Goblins - Bad Webcomic wants to be a cartoon feat. Billy West, Jim Cummings, Steve Blum. Creator trooned out

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Too bad. Goblins was a shit webcomic but I would have been interested to see that nightmare menagerie given fluid motion if only for the novelty of how fucked up some of it was. Thunt has serious issues and it looks like they've caught up with him.
 
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So, no lie, my bestie and I were huge Goblins fans back in the day, but when the updates slowed to a crawl we lost some interest. Every so often I would go back and do a binge, amazed at how little he'd accomplished. He was good at some stuff. Some of the characters were written very sympathetically, and even though a lot of people find the style hideous, he was eventually able to convey a lot of emotion with it. Not gonna lie, you strip out some of the torture porn and insane exposition dumps, and problematic content, and you'd have something better than decent.

After the Rapey plantman fallout though, and some really really creepy prose posts where his self-insert tortures rapey plantman to death, more of his own personality started showing through, I'm convinced the guy is a dangerous combination of crazy and lazy.

Didn't know he trooned out though. I'm guessing he's either a 'lesbian' tranny of claiming some kind of bi-pan-ambi-sexual nonsense?
 
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Bojack Horsekin said:
I forgot about this dude and his gore-porn comic, but I am not surprised he trooned out in the least. "Ellipsis" is a really dumb name choice.

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I am both disgusted and not at all surprised to see he trooned out, and trooned out with the faggiest fake name I've seen. And I've seen Fire's fake name.

I guess since after the implosion of Kickstarter this turned into Goblins Anonymous, so:
I've never read all of Goblins. I eventually checked it out well after the rapey part of the story (I think they were in the maze? Snake girl was with them), and didn't see any gore that was over the top, just sort of lots of 1993 mortal kombat blood. I still check on it like every year just to see what crazy shit he's gotten up to in the 4 updates he's posted since I last visited.

I never got a "creepy" vibe from Thunt like he was rubbing one out to the MurderTortureMutilation - more of an immature, autistic lack of awareness combined with hack writing. or maybe its just the art was so bad he didn't seem to be trying to make it 'sexy'. It just felt like he didn't seem to grasp the difference between writing an evil character and posting a word-for-word transcript of a witness at an African warlord's war-crimes tribunal.

But he seemed to have some quite interesting ideas and concepts, just the fucker needs an editor.
 
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Ghostse said:
But he seemed to have some quite interesting ideas and concepts, just the fucker needs an editor.
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It's actually a really old and overdone idea that has almost never been done well, and Thunt's no exception. "Let's see the villain race's side of the story! Oop turns out that they don't seem so evil now!" stuff has been around for decades at the very least, without trying to dig up some classical literature examples of it or some shit. Virtually every example is just shallow bullshit where instead of actually presenting the typical, say, orc's viewpoint, they turn the orcs into a race of thoughtful, honorable noble savages while turning humans and elves into slather-faced bloodthirsty monsters, so it's less "Seeing things from a different perspective" and more "everything's flipped, turned upside-down as the Fresh Prince of Orshank". You see it in stuff like Overlord, where they supposedly presented you with the opportunity to play the evil overlord... except the first "hero" you fight is a cannibal tyrant so hey there you go.

Thunt is definitely not a good enough writer to succeed where all those other attempts failed, and really hasn't. There's never any nuance in his shit... he'll occasionally develop a character but that's really not the same thing, that's basically saying "I gave this character enough screentime that they developed a personality" as opposed to setting out to write a character with a personality from the start.
 
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Jigglyjogglers said:
It's actually a really old and overdone idea that has almost never been done well, and Thunt's no exception. "Let's see the villain race's side of the story! Oop turns out that they don't seem so evil now!" stuff has been around for decades at the very least, without trying to dig up some classical literature examples of it or some shit. Virtually every example is just shallow bullshit where instead of actually presenting the typical, say, orc's viewpoint, they turn the orcs into a race of thoughtful, honorable noble savages while turning humans and elves into slather-faced bloodthirsty monsters, so it's less "Seeing things from a different perspective" and more "everything's flipped, turned upside-down as the Fresh Prince of Orshank". You see it in stuff like Overlord, where they supposedly presented you with the opportunity to play the evil overlord... except the first "hero" you fight is a cannibal tyrant so hey there you go.

Thunt is definitely not a good enough writer to succeed where all those other attempts failed, and really hasn't. There's never any nuance in his shit... he'll occasionally develop a character but that's really not the same thing, that's basically saying "I gave this character enough screentime that they developed a personality" as opposed to setting out to write a character with a personality from the start.
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Oh I don't men that the "Telling the story from the 'baddies' perspective" is anything new. Its was old edgelord hat when Clerks was talking about contractors on the Death Star. His "game rules" insert shit (talking about levels and player classes, etc) is also really dumb.

I'm more talking about his stuff with traps/rooms, etc.
 
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Jigglyjogglers said:
It's actually a really old and overdone idea that has almost never been done well, and Thunt's no exception. "Let's see the villain race's side of the story! Oop turns out that they don't seem so evil now!" stuff has been around for decades at the very least, without trying to dig up some classical literature examples of it or some shit.
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"Let's see the villain [nation]'s side of the story! Oop turns out that they don't seem so evil now!" is literally the Iliad, 2.5 millennia old. The most honorable characters in it are Priam (the king of Troy), his based son Hector, and Hector's based wife Andromache. I 100% believe Homer is the one author you can't overdo stealing from.

And I'd argue Thunt's version is in the top half. Sure he's an insane pervert who should be kept away from children (doesn't he have like three? :cryblood:), but it's a disgusting implementation of "there are good and bad people on both sides" rather than "PLOT TWIST: those pretty people in primary colors are actually evil" or the absolutely execrable "too much good is bad, you know *bong hit*".
 
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"Let's see the villain [nation]'s side of the story! Oop turns out that they don't seem so evil now!" is literally the Iliad, 2.5 millennia old. The most honorable characters in it are Priam (the king of Troy), his based son Hector, and Hector's based wife Andromache. I 100% believe Homer is the one author you can't overdo stealing from.

And I'd argue Thunt's version is in the top half. Sure he's an insane pervert who should be kept away from children (doesn't he have like three? :cryblood:), but it's a disgusting implementation of "there are good and bad people on both sides" rather than "PLOT TWIST: those pretty people in primary colors are actually evil" or the absolutely execrable "too much good is bad, you know *bong hit*".
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Yeah. He doesn't 'flip' the narrative. He's got good and bad people from either 'side'. There's a goblin chick who is basically hitler. And some neutral/conflicted ones to boot. He did well with characters and their dynamics. He did crap with pacing. I just can't believe how long it's taken him to tell the story. My friend and I joke about how the early Brassmoon city stuff was 13 years ago.
 
Unnecroing this thread, because I missed that Thunt was asking for 15-20k for facial feminization surgery.

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One more log on the e-begging pile. Also posted was a drawing of and a selfie.

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I peeked at the forum for a second. It's like Pripyat in there. A handful of curmudgeons squatting in a vast ghost town. Creepy.

In the comics news. Over the last several months and few pages, we've learned that the Chief character has been tortured in a hell dimension for what seems to him years, the meathead character collapsed crying because everyone he loves dies, and the gay character cut off his own ears to wear a hat before also collapsing into wangsty tears about his manpain.

It's just, so bad now. So so bad.
 
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Unnecroing this thread, because I missed that Thunt was asking for 15-20k for facial feminization surgery.
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Is that... a thing?

Like I know that nose jobs are a thing, but other than that and some work around the eyes, aren't those really all you can do about the face? To do anything about manjaw or manchin you're basically grinding away bone, which are they actually doing that now?

Sounds like yet another scam.
 
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Is that... a thing?

Like I know that nose jobs are a thing, but other than that and some work around the eyes, aren't those really all you can do about the face? To do anything about manjaw or manchin you're basically grinding away bone, which are they actually doing that now?

Sounds like yet another scam.
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It is but most of the time it never works.
 
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