Freezer: Readers Digest Version: The main characters of Better Days were once the particulars of Jay Naylor's porn work. In this case, twin sibs that fuck each other. That crept into the comic - though Naylor insists that BD isn't a comic about incest. Never mind that Fisk (Naylor's Stu-ish avatar, BTW) and Lucy's "forbidden love" is a recurring theme. He also has some... different, ideas on race (he uses hyenas as stand-ins for blacks. All of them), politics (he's unabashedly right-wing), and guns (guns come up almost as much as incest).
Don't get the Jewish rat thing. The only Jew I can recall in BD is Beth, who's a mouse (and a fappable one).
BTW, does anyone know the real reason for the Naylor/Mat Scherer split? (If I had to guess, I'd say the final straw was Scherer's continual use of Fisk and Lucy's "relationship" as a punchline in "Badly Drawn Kitties".)
Krawczyk: It's more accurate than monkeys at any rate. Hyenas have some redeemable qualities after all.
...Of course the way he WRITES them, for all intents and purposes they should be monkeys anyway.
Anonymous1: Actually, if you notice, each species represents a certain group of people that you may or may not find stereotypical. One could just as easily argue that canines represent the more popular set (A walking blond joke and a jock respectively) and the rabbits seem to be Christian. Cats represent the majority only because the main characters are already feline. It's likely that the differences you see amongst the races in Naylor's work have more to do with the racial perceptions you already have than anything else.
Cyrzil: Pshaw. Amy is portrayed as super-Christian and she's a cat. I think ghetto folx are hyenas, not "blacks"-- considering he's had both dogs and horses that I'm pretty sure were supposed to be "black". Agree with anon1 on the preconceptions point.
Anonymous2: my first reaction was lol wut, but that soon moved on to "yay, raping a retarded sibling while drinking a mojito, sound like a way to spend the day!"
And then I pulled out my dick tracey decoder ring... "DRINK MORE OVALTINE"
I feel so wronged.
Krawczyk: yanno after coming upon this pic in an unrelated forum, I agree with Cyrzil. I think he's going for Hollywood Group Stereotypes. And flailing badly.
Anonymous5: i have 2 things 2 say to those people that hate jay naylor's comic is.1 if you dont like it dont watch it. 2 keep the bad word's for yourself.
Anonymous6: I have two things to say to Anon 5:
1) Practice what you preach, fuckhead. If you don't like our criticism of the comic, don't read it.
2) Fuck you, it is our duty to criticize as the audience and I will say whatever I damn well please.
KILL YOURSELF
Anonymous7: An addition to the description of the joke: Guns are one of the only two things Naylor draws with anything even RESEMBLING loving detail. He even includes close ups and page focuses whenever they show up.
That other thing? Penis. I've never seen anyone claim to put that much detail and focus on another man's junk, and claim to be straight. Honestly, any time he does one of his "pornfolios" he always has at least one internal shot that takes up a page's focus.
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Don't get the Jewish rat thing. The only Jew I can recall in BD is Beth, who's a mouse (and a fappable one).
BTW, does anyone know the real reason for the Naylor/Mat Scherer split? (If I had to guess, I'd say the final straw was Scherer's continual use of Fisk and Lucy's "relationship" as a punchline in "Badly Drawn Kitties".)
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The best you can say about that is that at least he didn't use monkeys.
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Required reading.
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...Of course the way he WRITES them, for all intents and purposes they should be monkeys anyway.
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And then I pulled out my dick tracey decoder ring... "DRINK MORE OVALTINE"
I feel so wronged.
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anon 2 = me
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1) Practice what you preach, fuckhead. If you don't like our criticism of the comic, don't read it.
2) Fuck you, it is our duty to criticize as the audience and I will say whatever I damn well please.
KILL YOURSELF
That other thing? Penis. I've never seen anyone claim to put that much detail and focus on another man's junk, and claim to be straight. Honestly, any time he does one of his "pornfolios" he always has at least one internal shot that takes up a page's focus.
And he honestly claims to be cured of being bi.
Anon7: Perhaps the only other thing he draws with TLC are his female characters' asses. I remember a demotivational pic that mentions this.
...Freezer, are you retarded? or did ya just not read the comic?
beth... is a cat... its ELIZABETH you're thinking of who is the mouse... she marries fisk...
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