Containment Random Chris Updates

It occurs to me sometimes that were I to attempt to draw a comic in a short timeline, it would be differently bad or perhaps even objectively worse than Ricardo's.
Then I try and imagine doing something like that for 17+ years, and not even really thinking about what I could do better.
I don't know if I'm getting carried away with my empathy or some less charitable feeling, but Chris sucks. Sonichu should be better. I feel cheated in some way I can't quantify.

Greg Dean is a guy who actually strikes me a lot as the kind of guy Chris might have been had he been "less mainstreamed." :wow: much :autism: (meme, at least) but has made it work, and even has an appropriately strange wife (and kids, maybe, I haven't followed in years.) I've picked some strips that I think subtly indicate what I mean but I stumbled across them somewhat arbitrarily and realized it was working... all that said, I might be injecting a broader reading into them, the art example (from someone who didn't grow up aspiring to be an artist, stands.) At its heart, his comic is still mostly four frames for him to insert dialogue about his autistic interests, but he has noticeably gotten much better, and clearly has increased the effort and investment in his work as time has gone on. I wouldn't want Sonichu to not be Chris' weird interpretations of his life and fantasies, just better.
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(as Dana is not as good at clearly stamping his work, credit next strips to Dana Simpson who appears to have trooned out remarkably since I last came across him and is a now TRUE and HONEST transwoman with a husbando in some liberal shithole, indicating again that being remarkably exceptional is no excuse. Sidenote, it makes me sad that I used to be able to enjoy work from people with way different, even radical, politics from my own. Dana is now drawing a comic about an exceptional trans unicorn as far as I can tell from its site, literally. :story: Last century, the wacky left felt less wacky, even the ones drawing furry-esque comics which often (but not constantly) ree'd about GWB /old man has nostalgic feels)
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I'm not actually going to do MacHall justice because they were really creative and used varying art styles of "higher" and "lower" form really effectively, but they were the most normal of the webcomic weirdos that leapt to mind and you can see a progression, as one would expect:
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Wew, that comment got away from me. Stay Safe and have a Wonderful Day.
 

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I like how Chris decided to get around the fact he was using Amy Rose without permission by using a character from Pokemon without permission.
I like how he has to give us the unnecessary history of his Ditto. That Ditto has more background development than some of the more recent characters in his comics like the Hispanic lesbian.
 
I like how Chris decided to get around the fact he was using Amy Rose without permission by using a character from Pokemon without permission.
That's always confused me too. Like Nintendo and the Pokemon Co. are way more likely to sue someone over IP than SEGA. Nintendo has a pretty good track record of doing just that. But for some reason Chris is hung up on retconning and wiggling he way around using SEGAs characters. I wonder if this goes back somehow to when he first created Sonichu or something Bob told him.
 
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