Date: 2012-02-19 12:28 pm (UTC)
golden_orange: trust me, i'm wearing a vegetable. (Default)
From: [personal profile] golden_orange
... Okay then.

Date: 2012-02-19 12:44 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Robin oh THIS is going to end well)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
I try to keep an open mind, I try to see the other person's POV where I can, and I am aware that there are many things which due to my upbringing and age I will probably never "get"...

Even allowing for all this, I have to ask the following in all sincerity;

What the fucketty fuck was THAT?

Date: 2012-02-19 03:23 pm (UTC)
kamino_neko: Kamino Neko's shocked icon (Shock)
From: [personal profile] kamino_neko
That...was a whole lotta Dave Sim. That's what that was. It's unlikely you'll ever get a better answer than that, least of all from Sim, himself...

Date: 2012-02-19 03:31 pm (UTC)
whitesycamore: (Terra)
From: [personal profile] whitesycamore
Wasn't Dave Sim diagnosed with schizophrenia? (he mentioned it once in passing, in a "pffft, that psychiatrist was a moron!" way).

In which case it may not be possible for you to really "get" this.

Date: 2012-02-19 03:49 pm (UTC)
kamino_neko: Kamino Neko's default icon... (Default)
From: [personal profile] kamino_neko
That would certainly make sense. I knew he was in serious need of therapy or medication, though not being a psych type (except as a casual interest) I couldn't really think what his diagnosis would be, but what I've seen of him certainly fits comfortably within the symptoms of schizophrenia...

Date: 2012-02-19 04:03 pm (UTC)
whitesycamore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] whitesycamore
"Schizophrenia" is becoming a controversial label, because it's a carry-over from the very early days of psychiatry, and in practice it's used as an umbrella term for all sorts of quite disparate people who live with long-term psychosis.

But yeah, his writing definitely suggests the hallmark signs of thought disorder, paranoid ideation, and delusions of both thought insertion and thought broadcasting. To me he comes across like a very typical person with a diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia.

Date: 2012-02-19 05:17 pm (UTC)
qalchemist: (Default)
From: [personal profile] qalchemist
A friend of mine knows Dave Sim personally -- well, knew him, she hasn't talked to him in years.

He is, yes, on antipsychotic medication. When he's /on/ the medication he's crazy enough, although apparently not -that- bad a guy. When he's off it? He gets pretty bad. :/

Date: 2012-02-19 04:07 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Whilst offering due sympathy to a person who may well be suffering in ways I can't conceive of, I think I'm slightly relieved by that.

Date: 2012-02-19 01:32 pm (UTC)
filkertom: (jawdrop)
From: [personal profile] filkertom
As someone who discovered Cerebus when Issue #3 was on the racks -- and was therefore able to get #s 1 and 2 as well, so I was there for Dave Sim's entire ascent, decline, and plummet -- I have no idea what the hell he's smoking these days, nor do I want any of it within two city blocks of me.

There's edgy, and then there's unsharpened, and then there's broken.

Date: 2012-02-19 01:40 pm (UTC)
sailorlibra: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sailorlibra
Isn't it fun picking on women suffering from anorexia and heroin addiction? God forbid we show any sympathy to people with serious problems.

The high fashion world has a lot of problems, but that is the fault of the industry, not the models. This comic is crap.

Date: 2012-02-19 02:17 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Robin oh THIS is going to end well)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
And given the complete anatomy fail of the Zatanna analoig on the cover, she's in no position to critique... Seriously, the proportions of head to body to.. you'll excuse the term, boobs... are worse than Liefeld's infamous Captain America.

Date: 2012-02-19 03:36 pm (UTC)
katzedecimal: Is me, by me. I drawed it. (Default)
From: [personal profile] katzedecimal
Given Mr. Sim's legendary misogyny, I figured it was deliberate :-P

Date: 2012-02-19 03:34 pm (UTC)
whitesycamore: (Terra)
From: [personal profile] whitesycamore
Some guy on the street once mockingly held out his sandwhich to me as I passed.

So I grabbed it with both hands and ate it in two bites. The look of shock on his face was one of the most gratifying things I've ever seen.

Date: 2012-02-19 03:42 pm (UTC)
glprime: (Default)
From: [personal profile] glprime
Your anecdote has redeemed this entire thread. Thank you.

Date: 2012-02-19 04:05 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: Sad Nightwing (Sad Nightwing)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
People really do shit like that? Suddenly I DO feel out of touch... Never mind my gender, I'm embarrassed for my sodding species.

Kudo for your response BTW, it gives me some small sense of hope.

Date: 2012-02-19 04:10 pm (UTC)
whitesycamore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] whitesycamore
To be fair, this only ever happened the once.

Also, I probably was in need of a sandwhich or two at the time - I was right in the middle of writing my dissertation, and academic stress does tend to have the effect of making me forget to eat (eating wastes valuable time that you could spend researching, or repeatedly deleting and re-writing the same two sentences you've been working on for the last hour, or rocking back and forwards in the corner, etc..)

Date: 2012-02-19 05:34 pm (UTC)
dancesontrains: (Catwoman is happy)
From: [personal profile] dancesontrains
>:D

Date: 2012-02-20 05:14 pm (UTC)
janegray: (Default)
From: [personal profile] janegray
You are awesome :)

Date: 2012-02-20 08:46 pm (UTC)
whitesycamore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] whitesycamore
Coming from you that means quite a lot!

*brofist*

Date: 2012-02-21 09:19 pm (UTC)
janegray: (Default)
From: [personal profile] janegray
Aww, I'm flattered! ♥

*brofist*

Date: 2012-02-19 03:45 pm (UTC)
thanekos: Kouhei " Principal Garren " Hayami, the Libra Zodiarts, is bugged. (Default)
From: [personal profile] thanekos
I like how the High Fashion Models and Zootanapuss are neck-and-neck in the scoring of their strange little magician's-duel-esque wordplay.

Date: 2012-02-19 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daningram.insanejournal.com
This was printed...why?

Date: 2012-02-20 03:55 am (UTC)
lissa_quon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lissa_quon
I think he self publishes. So there's no one to stop him.

Date: 2012-02-19 04:11 pm (UTC)
halloweenjack: (Default)
From: [personal profile] halloweenjack
There are worse things that he could be doing to pass the time, I suppose.

Date: 2012-02-19 05:10 pm (UTC)
his_spiffynesss: (Default)
From: [personal profile] his_spiffynesss
Yes, it is keeping Dave Sim off the streets, so there is one benefit.

Date: 2012-02-19 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] darkknightjrk
Well...the art is striking, and the idea of this "hero" running around and just yelling at people with her furry rabbit sidekick tickles me. So...there's that, I suppose.

Date: 2012-02-20 05:26 pm (UTC)
leoboiko: (Default)
From: [personal profile] leoboiko
It's like the superhero of verbal abuse.

Date: 2012-02-19 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] arilou_skiff
RABBITS AREN'T RODENTS!

Date: 2012-02-21 05:48 am (UTC)
liara_shadowsong: (Default)
From: [personal profile] liara_shadowsong
...I am so confused. The scant amount I can sort of understand is more than enough to make me grateful to not be able to make sense of more.

Date: 2012-02-23 09:11 am (UTC)
geoffsebesta: (Default)
From: [personal profile] geoffsebesta
this is really quite bad.

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