When Shitty
Webcomics decided to do its fake “revival” of Shredded Moose, they probably
just wanted to piss off Sinfest fans and feminists. Little did they know what
they were unleashing upon the world.
In early
2014, several individual posters, in several different forums, suddenly began calling
for a reappraisal of the original Shredded Moose. Did SM, after
all, have a large group of die-hard fans who missed it and just couldn’t stand
by while it was being hijacked?
Probably
not.
A poster at
Giantitp began to argue that Shredded Moose was intentionally bad. Somehow, she at the same time thought it was a failure “so
bad it’s entertaining”.
In her
first post, she felt the need to clarify up front that she “is not Brew. He
moved onto a different career out of shame.”
After a
while, she began to talk about how some shady leftist conspiracy had orchestrated
the series’ downfall.
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Gee, how could you ever have anticipated that someone
would think
you’re the author of Shredded Moose? |
Oh, look,
here’s the same poster on TvTropes, writing a new and totally unbiased entry about Shredded Moose, and complaining that people didn’t notice how the comic
shifted into a “progressive direction” in 2008.
At this
point, we need a reminder of what the ”progressive direction” looked like.
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| Again, I’m sorry. We just have to suffer through this together. |
These posts
are eerily similar to what was happening at Something Awful at the same time [1, 2]:
A poster started off ripping on Shredded Moose…
…but then
slooowly her tone changed over to praise. By the end, she was sending out a
call for artists to illustrate her planned Shredded Moose-inspired webcomic
about transgender people.
At this
point I’m wondering: How can a comic be both pro-transgender and a tribute to
Shredded Moose? I won’t even begin to speculate what Brew would have had to say
about transsexuals. From what I’ve seen, the series mercifully did not address
that subject during its run.
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| Cross-dressing gets a pass as long as it’s done to harass women. |
At one point, possibly by using black magic, she actually managed to
get an artist involved in her project. She then went straight on to ask that
artist to contact Brian Krümm on her behalf in order to get his permission to
revive Shredded Moose.
The artist, being sane, declined and told her to seek professional mental help.
Over at the Bad Webcomics Wiiki forum yet another
poster appeared, and she was downright infuriated by how they had covered
Shredded Moose [1, 2].
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| Wow, female fan of Shredded Moose, you really know a lot about this Chris Hall guy. |
Around the same time, the blog Shredded Moose Memorial came up. Its owner would implore others for tips on how to successfully create her own Shredded Moose-inspired webcomic, but not before she had spent a long time ranting to other bloggers about how “SJWs” (god damn it, I’m starting to hate that word!) spread “anti SM-propaganda” as part of a nefarious plot to destroy not just that specific comic, but the entire “webcomic community” and eventually Freedom itself.
Huh,
another transsexual! Come to think of it, that first poster on Giantitp also said
something about having “struggled with gender identity” in her past…
Ok.
There are plenty
more threads like these to be found out there, but by now you probably see a
pattern. We are left with two options:
- Shredded Moose somehow managed to absolutely corner the market on gender-transcending shock “humor” aficionados.
- All of these posters are just one person who is *really* into Shredded Moose.
If it’s the
latter alternative, well… Good for her I guess. Really. Everybody needs a
hobby.
Just, you
know... maybe you should take a little break from Shredded Moose. It may not be the
healthiest comic to spend too much time thinking about.
Anyway, I
stand corrected: When I found the first of these threads, I thought Chris Hall
had hit the forums again to defend his comic, this time posing as female. But
in fact, Shredded Moose does appear to have acquired at least one genuine fan.
