Tales of the Questor: Note

[packbat]

A few months ago there was a post on snarkoleptics where a guy announced he was not going to read Tales of the Questor any more because of the heavy-handed Hard Onions comics being run on the same site. I didn't see it as a big deal – yeah, HO was kinda over the top in Christian/Republicanist propagandizing, but so were several of his other strips. Whereas TotQ, perhaps because it was explicitly set in a fantasy world, escaped the problems of R. H. Junior's biases.

Yeah, yeah, I'll admit intellectually that I'm likely biased as well, but still.

In any case, while I found the HO strips running on the TotQ site annoying, I still stuck around. (And, as you may have noticed, the comics are all separated out now. I heartily approve.) And I'm still sticking around now.

But for the record, if TotQ spirals into a pit of strawman-flaying stupidity, I bet this will be the starting point.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Are those Hard Onions strips meant to be taken seriously, or not? That crack about the French Revolution shows a startling lack of knowledge about history.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, he's exactly the person you'd think of four years ago if I said "Bushie". Nip & Tuck (http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/), Goblin Hollow (http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/), and Camp Calomine (http://www.rhjunior.com/CC/) have all three included what I would call heavy-handed, negative, and stereotypical portrayals of (a) liberals, (b) ... actually, mostly liberals, now that I think on it. His forum (at least, when I went on it) probably included more instances of "Dumbocrat" than "Democrat". Last time I checked his Livejournal, he had some argument against evolution based on a linear extrapolation of the current rate of lengthening of the day into the past.

He's smart, and he's a good cartoonist. I wouldn't read Tales of the Questor otherwise. But yes, Hard Onions is meant to be taken seriously.

Mostly unrelated

[nanakikun.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't know if you're interested or not, but i'm thinking about placing an order for I have no mouth and I must scream, the computer game.

Shipping is small per order ($4-ish) but if you'd like to get a copy of the game too (it's $32... for Macintosh or PC), I finally got to try it out, it's a pretty cool horror adventure game.

(The reason I'd mention it, they only accept orders via paper mail and such, which makes it more interesting to twitch buy the software.)

(That drawing style is pretty cool [in the other comic]. I think I liked the panel with the little icons the best. I'm not sure I follow your Republicanicist reference; it was my understanding that the core purpose of that party was to be cautious about revising things, right? Of course, I'm not really political at the moment outside of my involvement in the student government.

If it isn't rude or anything, and the topic comes up during your conversation, could you let your friends know to ask their TAs to vote on Testudo during the Graduate Student Government elections? They go from the 10th to the 17th, and last year not so many people voted, so it wasn't as good as it might have been... : / Hopefully this year is a little better, but I think every little bit helps.)

Open Thread, perhaps?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I don't really have money for videogames at present, I'm afraid – thanks for the offer.

And you're right – "Republicanist" is the wrong word. 'Anti-liberal' is probably the more accurate term.

I'll tell people about the GSG elections if I don't forget, but don't expect much....