Laurie Penny on hanging out with Milo Yiannopoulos and the gay trolls of the RNC

Although his renderings of the human form are usually ridiculously disproportionate, I still wouldn’t deign to say that Rob Liefeld “can’t draw.”

There’s a huge difference between having (major) flaws in one’s creations and not being able to render images that are recognizable and/or aesthetically pleasing.

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Actually, it’s
Mike Dringenberg–Penciler
Malcolm Jones III-- Inker

Blame either one, your choice. Or Neil Gaiman, but that wouldn’t be smart.

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I wouldn’t deign to say that they “cannot draw” either.

“Blame” is irrelevant, and nonproductive.

And I love Neil Gaiman, so my criticisms of him and his works are few.

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Speaking sir Gaiman… did you see the trailer for American Gods yet? OMG so good.

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Fuller4lyff

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Came here to appreciate my mutants’ wit, and the very first comment shames me…

… I hadn’t noticed the pun :disappointed:

The danger of a sociopath completely detached from caring, and whose words are leading an angry legion that care deeply?

I’m very tired of Trump, but I marvel at his ability to bullshit - it’s truly epic!

He believes he’s infallible, and that’s apparently good enough for far too many Americans :frowning:

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But the “camera” might be at a dutch angle…

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Lack of empathy is definitely aided by ignorance, but there might be some kind of critical period in development when children really benefit from examples and reinforcement of empathy.

Republican style conservatism draws such tight borders (walls?) around potentially sympathetic humanity, that even being American isn’t enough.

Can’t be:

Black, brown, yellow, anything except white or orange

Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, anything we haven’t heard of

Atheist

Liberal (progressive is bad too because we hate both liberty and progress)

Feminist (Being female is bad enough, you don’t have to go and respect yourself)

Well-educated (or hide it well)

Foreign (Brits are acceptable if they yell on fox news)

  • Sorry for going on and on, wrapping up

  • TL;DR

They give impression they want to reduce legitimate humanity to a tiny circle.

Their policies promise to reduce us all.

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Okay now, let’s not judge a book by its…

Gaaahhh!!!

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Agreed. As someone who always wishes he could draw, but could never invest the time to get decent at it, I have a hard time construing Sandman as bad art.

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Not yet, but now that you mention it…[quote=“GulliverFoyle, post:70, topic:81967”]
Okay now, let’s not judge a book by its…

Gaaahhh!!!
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Oh, I’m not; I think he’s a walking shit sandwich, inside and out.

Indeed; I say that as someone who’s been drawing almost my whole life, and in that time I’ve met many people who truly can’t even doodle.

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I looks fucking awesome.

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raises hand
Fortunately my wife is an excellent artist and loves my cooking, so I just prepare something special anytime I need art done, and I have no moral qualms against bribery :cake: = :writing_hand:

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Thats not bribery thats a fair exchange of talents!

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Agreed; ya gotta love a man who can cook well.

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You’re right to suspect, especially since at any time you can open a web inspector and change something trivially to say something else. For instance:

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A buddy and I got to briefly compare notes on our convention experiences last week. I was riding around town handing out books, he ended up at a podium talking about cybersecurity at the Twinks for Trump party. He mentioned sitting on a couch with Milo and told me “He’s not so bad when there aren’t cameras around.” We’d talked before about him getting me into parties, I’m not sure yet if I feel like I missed out. It really was a banner week for charming sociopaths.

The article does exhibit that tendency that you see everywhere nowadays, painting people of a different political stripe as a disingenuous attention troll. I get it often applies-- Trump, Milo-- but it’s a really wide brush to see so consistently applied and I don’t think its continued use is going to help improve anything.

I just had to go watch it, as I hadn’t seen it yet… It looks like they HAVEN’T RUINED IT!!! ZOMG!!!

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