Post by Rygar on Jun 8, 2004 17:12:02 GMT -5
I got an e-mail from Arevin today. He does not want to sign up for the new board, but he requested that I post this message:
[This] is something else about a green rabbit and the most moving thing I have ever seen online.
The green rabbit I was talking about is the titular character of Jack (by Dave Hopkins) (http://www.pholph.com/). True, it is rated Web-MA (equivalent of an R rating in a movie), but unlike other Web MA or higher webcomics the content leading to that rating is not placed into the webcomic simply for its own sake, but in a way that better tells this story which takes place from the lowest pit of hell to the highest throne of heaven.
For those unfamiliar with Jack I would advise starting with the "Trixi and Tet" arc, because that arc in a nutshell shows just how deep the character of Jack actually is despite his initial appearance, and also happens to be the arc at which Hopkins' readership exploded to 5,000 hits per day.
As a side note, although it is the second arc, Hopkins actually drew the "Angry Brian" arc first out of all of Jack -- which I suspect was his trying to understand the event that obviously was the inspiration for it, which should be implicit to anyone aware of the history in the 1990s -- and then started the whole webcomic as a series with the "Fnar the Unborn" arc after being encouraged to do so by Candy and Ryan, who are the real life people who were the inspiration for Trixi and Tet.
Another note is that given the where of where most of this webcomic takes place, sometimes it can become utterly horrible. The "Games We Play In Hell" was so horrible that I almost was not able to read it, but by the end of it where Jack shows up I was glad I had, because it illustrated so well what I said above: the content that had come before was not simply for the sake of having it there, but it was in fact connected to what was happening to the central character of that arc, for a particular set of good reasons ...
[This] is something else about a green rabbit and the most moving thing I have ever seen online.
The green rabbit I was talking about is the titular character of Jack (by Dave Hopkins) (http://www.pholph.com/). True, it is rated Web-MA (equivalent of an R rating in a movie), but unlike other Web MA or higher webcomics the content leading to that rating is not placed into the webcomic simply for its own sake, but in a way that better tells this story which takes place from the lowest pit of hell to the highest throne of heaven.
For those unfamiliar with Jack I would advise starting with the "Trixi and Tet" arc, because that arc in a nutshell shows just how deep the character of Jack actually is despite his initial appearance, and also happens to be the arc at which Hopkins' readership exploded to 5,000 hits per day.
As a side note, although it is the second arc, Hopkins actually drew the "Angry Brian" arc first out of all of Jack -- which I suspect was his trying to understand the event that obviously was the inspiration for it, which should be implicit to anyone aware of the history in the 1990s -- and then started the whole webcomic as a series with the "Fnar the Unborn" arc after being encouraged to do so by Candy and Ryan, who are the real life people who were the inspiration for Trixi and Tet.
Another note is that given the where of where most of this webcomic takes place, sometimes it can become utterly horrible. The "Games We Play In Hell" was so horrible that I almost was not able to read it, but by the end of it where Jack shows up I was glad I had, because it illustrated so well what I said above: the content that had come before was not simply for the sake of having it there, but it was in fact connected to what was happening to the central character of that arc, for a particular set of good reasons ...
