The American Rabbit

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It gets worse. Evidently, part of the problems I ragged on it for considering its setting included being cobbled together from public domain comic images with the American Rabbit just drawn in there in places.

www.theamericanrabbit.com/database I'm not shitting you.
 
I have yet to see it, mostly because I can barely tolerate shitty cartoons.... but, from what I have seen here.... it's bad.
 
Cure Quanta said:
It gets worse. Evidently, part of the problems I ragged on it for considering its setting included being cobbled together from public domain comic images
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I actually thought that aspect of it was pretty cool, personally. Too bad the story itself was nonsensical. It's like the "Sonichen and Rosechen" treatment of American Rabbit.
 
Kosher Dill said:
I actually thought that aspect of it was pretty cool, personally. Too bad the story itself was nonsensical. It's like the "Sonichen and Rosechen" treatment of American Rabbit.
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The concept seemed good in the summary of it, satirization of modern america using classic comic art, but the execution is just, WAT.
 
Yeah, exactly, it's the execution that kills the whole "using public domain art" idea. It totally needed something like the treatment Seanbaby gives comics sometimes, like his Man Comics/Punchmaster bits.
 
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Could anyone explain to me why he is now living among humans and not among his fellow furry critters anymore?
 
Other than authorial fiat and the whole "repurposed stock images" thing? I dunno, they needed a big slab of America, Captain America was busy and Superman never returned their calls?

Seriously, though, there is absolutely no explanation. Page 8 just shows that the Rabbit was asleep...uh...somewhere...and they just kinda found him.

Worse yet, I don't get the whole idea behind him: there are icons all over the place who are miles more recognizable and hallowed than the Rabbit, and the time skip he experiences, if we assume he "fell asleep" in the mid-80s after his last movie was supposed to have taken place, he'd only have been away 20 or so years, which isn't long enough for everybody else to have cheesed off or died or whatever. I talked about this with a friend-the most he'd be shocked by logically would be things like "what happened to Russia?!" and "all the technology's TINY now!"

Here's my bigger question: why is the blurb even suggesting the story is mostly about him when it's actually about Stock Brunette trying to figure out what's up WITH the American Rabbit?
 
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The_Hissing_Vigilant said:
My mother is a firm believer in Classics but sometimes money is tight, and a younger aspie-er version of me needed to shut up for a while. Under five you will not know the difference. If a 99 cent tape will shit the kid up in a pinch.
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I certainly was shitted up by crap movies as a kid. Those moments where your mum would tape some shitty throwaway cartoon tripe for you, thinking you'll love it, sitting you in front of the telly with it time after time after fucking time when she's fed up of you acting like a little arsehole and she needs you to shut the hell up for an hour or so.

I still have acid flashbacks of the Carebears in Wonderland.
 
From page 12:

The American Rabbit is dead, sugar. Everyone over five knows it.
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The only thing missing was a handful of thrown pennies.

And judging from what I've read, the creators probably had no idea where they were going with the comic, aside from having access to a ton of public domain art and thirteen chapter names that probably wouldn't have anything to do with the story. They probably went on until they realized that there was no way this could logically continue.
 
Ok so I watched the entire god damn thing. (Thanks beer and boredom, you guys REALLY have my back.) I have no conclusions or clever commentary, no TL;DR post explaining my thoughts. I'm just so glad Sonic came along because 'American Rabichu' sounds a whole lot worse.
 
I actually skimmed through the comic. Didn't actually read it... the American Rabbit is there in only three pages and doesn't do anything. Like I said, I didn't bother to read the story so I have no idea what going on. But the quality of the artwork is actually fine in this webcomic, it very strongly resembles the Silver and Golden age of comics quite well. That being said, I can't comment on the story because... well, like I said, I didn't read it.
 
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