Sinfest

[Miss Magenta]

I had noticed. But I was about to go to bed, so I didn't really have time to point it out.
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[Dogen]

[mouse]

[mouse]

also i really hate it when people mention a change in the comic, because then i'm all "what? what did i miss?" and then i think what bastards you all are because you are in on it and i'm not and you all are just rubbing it in.

bastards.
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[Heretical Rants]

[Adyon]

I'm pretty sure the 3rd panel was exactly the same. I think Fuchsia asked something like "Am I wrong?" with Nique responding the "Not entirely."

I think this more clearly gets his point across.
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Have a Nice Day

[Miss Magenta]

The last panel was Fuchsia saying "Maybe that's just the way I am," with Nique responding with "Not entirely."

But close enough.
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[Ronald]

[AngelLilly]

Before:



After:

[Gibson22]

First thing I thought of when I read this: "Fake it until you make it." In a sense, we truly are animals. We have animalistic needs, desires, and tempers. However, we are animals gifted with reason, consciousness, and awareness.

Have you ever known somebody who tried to turn over a new leaf, but it seemed like an act? It's not entirely our own perceptions. It is a change in attitude and making yourself WANT to desire to do the right thing. Doing something so contrary to your nature is always going to feel different until it becomes a part of what you are.

Changing who you are is not just a choice; it is a habit that you build.

At least, those are my two cents, anyway.

[Gibson22]

Oh, and by the way. I had just realized this yesterday. It was a masterful stroke how gradual Monique's change was. She didn't suddenly take on her new persona; she felt guilt and wrong-doing about the things she had done before.

His name escapes me, but "The pig" had his change but it was only so long. His change came out of a necessity, not from a sincere desire to change, which is why he reverted back to who he is.

Deep comic is deep.

[SA_Penguin]

[bitflipper]

Huh, I think I prefer the first version, actually. I mean, yes, it does repeat a point that has been made many times before regarding the patriarchy, but it also opens the dialog for some follow-up wherein Fyoosh could begin learning something about what it means to have self-esteem and whence cometh self-worth--some lessons the dear girl really needs to have had pointed out to her a couple millenia back, it seems.

The second version is more succinct, and comes to a firm close in the four panels which, if Tat wishes to pursue the line of thought, can then be taken up anew in yet another four panels. I suppose this makes the second version better technique and story-telling, and I'd doff me topper to Tat, except that I'm not in the habit of wearing hats indoors.

Still, though, even if the first version is of poorer form for the medium, I adhere to my view that I like it more for the conventions it disregards and for the rules that it breaks, opening up possibilities and holding them out to the audience as tempting routes which may yet to be taken.
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[ktern]

[Heretical Rants]

Someone mentions that the strip was changed -- Check

Discussion of what the original strip said, in which the changes made are complimented -- Check

Someone posts the original strip alongside the old -- Check

Some readers say they liked the original better, and give reasons why -- Check

IT'S ALMOST LIKE I'VE SEEN THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE
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