normalphil wrote:
drunk wrote:
I will be very sad if I have to chose between an ink and paper copy and an uncensored copy. I know that from a purist standpoint I can't take censored, but I also like printed a lot...
I've found that I just plain
liked the 'censored' comics. '@#$%' works well enough (for Jon's reaction to finding out he'd just dry-gulched some elves, it worked perfectly), and ubiquitous cursing has gotten
boring. Dreary. No longer gets a rise out of me merely due to its presense. Like free online porn. I've gotten jaded here.
If this is holding back a potential audience for the comic, it just ain't worth it.
Agreed. A string of expletives is great relief when you've nailed a board on backwords--bad carpenters like myself understand that---but it is a bad substitute for good writing. If you've got more than one @#$% in a sentence, you've removed the camaflouge: you notice how little is actually being
said. The original expletives tend to obscure that.
Of course, my only recent flare of anger came when Sarine referred to someone as a "guy." Three thousand years old and she talks Tim Allen vernacular? That's Jon's job.