Subject: Was I that obvious?
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Posted on: 2010-05-17 20:48:00 UTC
Heh. I guess I was...
Has it been killed yet?
Subject: Was I that obvious?
Author:
Posted on: 2010-05-17 20:48:00 UTC
Heh. I guess I was...
Has it been killed yet?
I've had my eye on a particularly atrocious fancomic for some time now. It follows the same basic lines as bad fanfic: contrived romances, disturbing acts of violence, using a miscarriage for cheap drama, Did Not Do The Research, and a mind-boggling amount of spelling errors. Does it count as bad fanfic, or does the PPC stay away from fancomics?
I think it's best not to have anything to do with Sonichu at all. Between itself and its swarm of trolls, it has an unholy life of its own, and I think it's best not to get involved with that lot. They're not nice people.
Also, I thought we purged all mention of it from the wiki recently due to incessant nastiness about it. I'll have to double-check.
~Neshomeh
I don't think the question has ever come up before. Is it a fancomic of an existing, 'published' story, or is it essentially original, no matter how bad? If the former, you could probably PPC it, though the 'how' might be tricky, but if the latter, and it's just a rubbish story, no.
I would advise against it, though, unless you plan to write your PPC mission as a comic itself; changing medium is rather difficult for such a complex parody as this.
How I Became Yours, is it?
Heh. I guess I was...
Has it been killed yet?
My guess is that the PPC probably handles badfic in any format, but because most fics are written in prose story form, most missions are to normal fanfic. In addition, written stories are (obviously) not the only media the PPC protects; there are also TV shows, movies, musicals/plays, and anime/manga.
(In case you've never had the pleasure, Sonichu is a very, very bad fan comic. That it's listed means it's probably up for PPCing if someone is brave or stupid enough. Or maybe someone's already claimed it, I don't know; point being, though, it's up there and it's a fan comic.)
Might be an interesting challenge to PPC a comic; a lot of the usual missions deal with messed-up wording and how it expresses itself, but with a fancomic, you'd have bad art to worry about too. Disguising the agents might be interesting; with particularly bad art you might end up seriously deformed or even outright two-dimensional. Ever read "Flatland"?
Anyway, sounds interesting. I don't have too much experience to tell, but I think it'd be possible.
I don't plan on asking for permission 'til June (that's when my exams end) but I would totally love to do sonichu some day. That would be awesome for me.
I wonder if the PPC'ing for a bad fancomic would be drawn as a comic itself?
I have no artistic skills and thus cannot go through with this, but think it would be an awesome idea.
PPC mission reports don't have to be in the form of text; they just traditionally are. I think you might run into some issues if you used the original art, though; you'd probably just have to link to it and/or re-draw events in a similar style.
Personally, I've toyed with the idea of PPCing a horribly-written Sims 2 story by creating Sim versions of agents to use as disguises. The game has a built-in "camera", and quite a lot of people use it to write very good stories; but there's some pretty horrible writing/picture-taking out there. Plus... Cowplants. Just cowplants. If you've never wanted to feed a Sue to one of 'em, you've never played Sims.
...don't you just love Cowplants? I think I actually created a Sue!Sim once just to feed it to them.