Justifur and Terrabolt Charge! The League of Extraordinary Furries!

[Ganymede Zero]

Alrighty guys before I post links and stuff let me tell you a little story...

Several months back my brothers friend Elmer AKA Wynther Knight talked to both of us on an upcoming superhero webcomic featuring anthropormorphic characters with most of them based on his friends. Well he offered to feature both my bro and me in the comic, so after a month of really hard thinking on what our superhero fursonas were gonna be we finally decided to use a hero each of us made for COH and worked from there. So anyways folks it looks like me, my brother, and several of Elmer's friends are being immortalized in an ongoing superhero webcomic!!

The reason why I haven't posted this earlier was I wanted to get Elmers full consent in both promoting his comic and telling others about me and my bro being put into comic form. So with full permission and with great joy I wanna show you all the mighty LXF and my brother and me's superhero characters!

You can check the main page here
http://lxfurries.comicgenesis.com/

The flash intro by elmer himself
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/985840/

The heroes!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/847053/

The Villains!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/847053/

Myself as Justifur on the left, and my brother Terrabolt on the right!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/731507/

[Spitfire]

Ok, I'll be first to say this: "Furry" is a sexual fetish. It's a very bizarre fetish, at that. You will not find many people who'll call you friend on the internet for that reason.

Second of all, if you took the animal heads and tails out of the equation for your comic, is it anything anyone hasn't seen before? From what I could force myself to read, no, it isn't.

Third: Comic Genesis? It's famous for legendarily awful web comics.

Although, despite the furry-genre, the vaguely bland story and poor choice of hosting, the art is better than most Comic Genesis/Furry comics I've seen.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Ok, I'll be first to say this: "Furry" is a sexual fetish. It's a very bizarre fetish, at that. You will not find many people who'll call you friend on the internet for that reason.

Actually, I believe that isn't quite the case.  The term furry can also be used to apply to anthropormorphic characters in general.  It doesn't by itself imply anything sexual at all.  See this article for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

[Midnight]

Ok, I'll be first to say this: "Furry" is a sexual fetish. It's a very bizarre fetish, at that. You will not find many people who'll call you friend on the internet for that reason.

Lemme guess, CSI?

[Zippo]

Ok, I'll be first to say this: "Furry" is a sexual fetish. It's a very bizarre fetish, at that. You will not find many people who'll call you friend on the internet for that reason.

Actually, I believe that isn't quite the case.  The term furry can also be used to apply to anthropormorphic characters in general.  It doesn't by itself imply anything sexual at all.  See this article for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

Yep. Furries are as much of a sexual fetish as feet. Some people find them attractive to a very high degree, but in general they're pretty innocent.

[Protomorph]

I have noticed there are several different versions of a "Furry" fetish, with some of them Anthropomorphized animals, while some of them are merely very hairy men.

Just because you are using animated animals, doesn't mean it will be a sexual fetish necessarily.


I think Rob Leifield could use a healthy foot fetish. If only to make him pay more attention to how he draws them

[Spitfire]

Lemme guess, CSI?

No, 4Chan, but I get your point. Furry, as I can see, has its root in sexual fetish works. Yes, you can use it in an innocent manner, but you're most likely going to get readers who are already in on the fetish rather than people into Super Hero comics.

I have noticed there are several different versions of a "Furry" fetish, with some of them Anthropomorphized animals, while some of them are merely very hairy men.

Anthropomorphized (Man, am I glad for reading Terry Pratchett's works right now) animals are fine, like the Penguins in Happy Feet and all those other CGI Movies featuring similar characters (I swear, they release thirty of them every damn year.) but the "very hairy men" is what will put some people off and, well, turn some overs on.

Despite that, I've really got to stress this, I'd swear the drawing is better than more popular ones.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

With all due respect, Spitfire, who cares?  In the case of the comic in question, there appears to be nothing of an overtly sexual nature occurring (and only public nuisances, such as myself, would go to any great length to explicate the subtle streams of desire that might inform this comic).  Consequently, your initial post seems not only largely irrelevant but also potentially offensive.  In fact, it strikes me as little more than an attempt to air your disapprobation with respect to furry fetishism by calling it "bizarre" and ostracising.  No offense, but if you want to ascend a soapbox to criticise that which you find perverse, kindly do it in a more appropriate forum.

To recap:
1. Ganymede Zero posts a link to a webcomic that he would like to share with others (perhaps) to solicit their feedback.  He expresses his excitement about being featured in the comic and sounds optimistic.

2. The first reply that he receives mildly rails against furry fetishism (which seems largely irrelevant) and then baldly insults the comic and its host.

3. We get off topic, despite cat's efforts to refute your claims.

4. We get further off topic when you start talking about corollary effects of the webcomic's title just to tie it into the largely discredited talk of furry fetishism in this thread.

Please, if you have nothing good or relevant to say, why not show a bit more respect by passing over the thread in silence?  I have nothing against you, personally, but this is getting to be a bit ridiculous and, due to the subject matter you have introduced into the thread, risks getting the thread locked/deleted.  Thanks.

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning

[Kommando]

Lemme guess, CSI?

No, 4Chan

Since 4Chan is known as being such a paragon of reputable and accurate information.  I took a glance and it seems everything is some form of sexual fetish.  Epic Fail.

[Spitfire]

Please, if you have nothing good or relevant to say, why not show a bit more respect by passing over the thread in silence?

Why not? Because, frankly, this is a forum for discussion. Mindless "Oh, it's great!" doesn't get anyone anywhere. I merely pointed out the poor choice of presentation of the characters, the rather bland setting and storyline and the predetermined viewpoints people will have when they see that the comic is hosted on Comic Genesis, the Geocities of the webcomic society. I then complimented on the drawing skills. Now people can have something to post and comment about, they can give their own opinions on the setting and developing storyline, the artistic style and choice of publishing and Ganymede Zero could either take my comments into consideration or tell me to stuff myself because I don't understand his artist masterpiece.

Also, I commented on the contents of the webcomic. How, I ask, is that not "relevant"? I'm posting about the webcomic! If I weren't being relevant, I'd comment on the shade of the blue bells growing outside today or the fact that you shanked my jengaship.

Frankly, this post probably would of sunk below all the other ones since it seems the only reason people have posted was because of what I said. In short, I apologise or causing discussion on a discussion board, what is perhaps the greatest crime in all human history. Perhaps I should take upon a new, villainous identity? For no longer shall I be Spitfire, I shall be THE DISCUSSER!

Also, the 4Chan comment was sarcastic, replying one display of arrogant misinformation with another. (Perhaps I should have replied "Fox News"?)

You see? Now the thread has been derailed. Now, back to the comic in question.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

Good grief!  :rolleyes:  I don't want to do further damage to this thread, which has already been derailed.  Suffice it to say, if you want to offer criticism that not only takes the thread in a dangerously inappropriate direction for this forum AND is almost entirely non-constructive, you should be prepared for the possibility that others may call you on it.  No one is asking you not to participate in discussions on these forums.  No one is asking you to be a fawning Yes-man.  You are, however, asked to

A. Avoid non-family-friendly topics.

B. Stay on topic, unless posting in Randy's Abattoir.  (Why bring in furry fetishism if it isn't germane to the comic in question?)

C. Share less spit, less fire and more cool headedness, more (n)etiquette.

That's all I have to say, except that I apologise to Ganymede Zero for causing an even greater distraction from the original topic.

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning

P.S. If you still feel hurt because my requests have impinged upon your right to free speech, PM works.  I can take the abuse, but this thread doesn't deserve it.

[Previsionary]

technically, the first part of your first post was irrelevant as you went on about a sexual meaning of a word (bias vs. objectivity) which the comic probably wasn't promoting in the first place. You chose to expand on that for no reason at all other than you felt like relaying that information to us. Thus, it was not relevant.

Now, people chose to focus on that and not your other comments which were a smidge negative, but that's not really your fault. It is your fault that you brought it up in the first place thus sparking a discussion about something the Original Poster didn't bring up...but you shouldn't be wholly blamed for it. However, the last post (and few posts in general) probably were not necessary because you all didn't discuss the comic or the OP's original intent...you're still focused on the sexual meaning of furry.

Comic:

It's probably not something I would get into. It's nice to know that it's all colored considering most web comics don't do that every issue and the art is ok for the most part, but I just can't get invested in any of the characters. *shrugs*

Atleast they used "furries" which seems to spark some type of conversation. I guess that's a good thing...or maybe not...I'm unsure now.   :mellow:

[Ganymede Zero]

Wow...I never wanted this thread to be about this...I just wanted to express my excitement on being in a webcomic and to help promote it for my friend, not making this a heated debate. Elmer and the others may be considered furry fans yes, but there also fans of superheroes and comic books, and I wanted to let others know outside his community and livejournal about his project, get there insights and ideas, and maybe even pass them to Elmer to help better and improve his comic along the way. I'm not going to let all this upset me, but I do ask for no more flaming on the subject of furries as it has been done to death elsewhere, and it really is out of topic to this thread.

[Midnight]

It's a very nice little webcomic. The art is visibly improving from strip to strip, as are the colors.