This blog
doesn’t have much of a purpose anymore, since there really isn’t much more to
say about Shredded Moose. I thought I’d cap it all up by reviewing some of the
emails I’ve gotten over the last weeks.
I’ve gotten
a few emails from people who share my morbid fascination with “the world’s
worst webcomic”, but since I’m a pretty negative person I’m going to focus on
the critical responses.
A guy calling himself “Frank” wrote a lengthy email about how I'm just not getting that SM was written as "tongue in cheek", it's "ironic" and well - you've heard it all before by now.
Listen, “Frank”:
I respect your opinion but I can’t agree with it. Shredded Moose is not a piece
of world-changing art that should be endlessly analyzed and debated. It was
just notable for being staggeringly vile and stupid and slipping into pure crazy
after a while. You’re overthinking it. Let it go.
Next, there's this thankfully much shorter email from "Josie":
You kinda
have a point, but I think there are some important differences. Firstly, I’m
ending this now. I’m not going to keep up the blog for several years just to
rip on Shredded Moose. Secondly, unlike SW, I don’t encourage people to draw
Brew getting raped by Mr. Hat.
Actually,
I’d like to emphasize this: Please do not draw Brew getting raped by Mr. Hat.
And if you do, I don’t want to know about it. And I’m definitely not making you
a mod for it.
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| Really. Please don't. |
The third,
and weirdest, email came from a guy who claimed to be Brian Krümm. He asked me
to stop writing about this old embarrassment of his, or at least stop
mentioning him by name in the blog, since he doesn’t want to be associated with
Shredded Moose.
I can see this guy’s point: it can’t help your career as a
children’s book illustrator when people google your name and stuff like this
comes up:
I mailed “Brian
Krümm” back, telling him I won’t be writing about Shredded Moose anymore. Just
out of curiosity I also asked him which of the two Chris Hall photos is the real-life “Brew”. He answered both.
According
to this guy, Chris Hall started undergoing liposuction and other cosmetic
surgery in 2008. Hall spent pretty much all his money on that, and by 2009 he
was several months behind on payments to Krümm, who finally lost his patience
and refused to draw the comic anymore.
That story
was way too good to be true, so I sent an email to Brian Krümm’s official email
account, asking him to confirm that I was really talking to him and not just some
random impostor. I never got a reply.
So… Shitty
Webcomics, is that you? Pretending to be Brian Krümm? “Genius troll”, indeed.
What did you hope to accomplish with this?
Well,
anyway: that’s it and that’s that. Thanks for following the blog, folks. It’s been
fun.
