[Dilbert] Jake Tapper
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This weeks comics, thus far...
Background
Adams is on holiday this week. He's got a (single) guest artist in, covering.
Comments to the comics suggest people are not overly enamoured of the new style...
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Title of first comic: "Would It Look The Same"
Isn't it coincidental, dontcha think?
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Speaking of Dilbert by other artists:
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It kind of looks like the same style as.... shudders I can't say it.
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It's still better than Mandatory Fun Day.
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This art style is hideous, even disturbing.
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Dilbert looks like the result of a transporter accident involving Scott Adams and Bart Simpson.
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@Zerosquare said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
It's still better than Mandatory Fun Day.
The fun in that was the comments.
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@error said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@Zerosquare said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
It's still better than Mandatory Fun Day.
The fun in that was the comments.
User generated art. The best kind of outsourcing.
I actually enjoyed it, partly because of the mandatory bitching about MFD.
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@Adynathos said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Speaking of Dilbert by other artists:
The red button bonus comic is the best part of that one
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It's not even that hard to do it nicely
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@bjolling said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
It's not even that hard to do it nicely
Now do it free-hand.
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is anyone else constantly misreading this topic title as "[Dilbert] Jake Topper" and thinking "Wait, Topper's first name is Jake?!"
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I really liked the first comic, but now that I've seen all the ones since (which are garbage) and Googled a bit, I realise I was reading something into the first one that wasn't meant to be there. In particular, I guess I got some dejavu or something when I saw the first one, because I thought that I'd seen a Dilbert strip with the same dialog before but drawn in the old style (I hadn't; there isn't one), and that made me see a layer of meaning that can't really have been intended.
The comic is easy to imagine in the normal style (like @bjolling drew it and in that way, I'd perceive Dilbert the same way I usually perceive him in Dilbert comics: intelligent, restrained, drily sarcastic, making a sport of explaining things in ways that the PHB is too stupid to understand. But in Tapper's style, Dilbert looks like an annoying retard, and PHB looks sharp and professional and competent and mildly irritated to have to deal with the dumb and irritating questions. My instinct is not to root for Dilbert, but to feel sorry for PHB for having to deal with the philosophising imbecile.
And so back when I thought that this was a redrawing of an existing comic with just the character appearances changes, I thought we might be in for a series of the same trick: take existing comics and change just the appearances of the characters in a way that totally changes how we perceive the scene, as a way of illustrating how our reading of the same interaction with the same words can be totally dependent upon the appearance and mannerisms of the people involved. That, I thought, would be a super-interesting experiment to do with the guest artist.
But, uh, nah, all of that was me reading stuff into the strip that wasn't there. Oh well.
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@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
But in Tapper's style, Dilbert looks like an annoying retard, and PHB looks sharp and professional and competent and mildly irritated to have to deal with the dumb and irritating questions. My instinct is not to root for Dilbert, but to feel sorry for PHB for having to deal with the philosophising imbecile.
Agree completely.
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@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Dilbert looks like an annoying retard
He went all-out in that direction in the newest one.
In each of guest artist's pages where Dilbert is present, he calls someone an idiot, or implies it.We can imagine the normal comics are Dilbert's perception of him as the innocent protagonist tortured by others' incompetence.
The guest comics could be the others seeing Dilbert as aloof and condescending.
Maybe he became jaded after decades in this dysfunctional organization, maybe he was like this from the start and contributed to the culture.
Anyway, some literary speculation...
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@jinpa Like this?
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@Adynathos That is probably the unfunniest Dilbert strip I've ever read. I'm glad Scott is back from his vacation.
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Looks like Jim Davis got advance copies of his substitute's art:
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@boomzilla said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Looks like Jim Davis
Wait, the Garfield author? What does he have to do with Dilbert?
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@boomzilla I'm kind of tempted to make a thing that transplants dilbert dialogue onto garfields and vice versa.
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Which character would you map to which?
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@Zerosquare said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Which character would you map to which?
Garfield has only two characters, so it's straightforward. All Dilberts have an 'asshole' and a 'non-asshole'. Asshole maps to garfield, which is dilbert when he's talking to Alice or PHB(sometimes), but Phil or Dogbert when it's dilbert and Dogbert. I don't feel like doing sentiment analysis automagically.
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@AyGeePlus If you mapped by IQ points, the Pointy-Haired Boss would be the pan of lasagna.
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@mott555 said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@AyGeePlus If you mapped by IQ points, the Pointy-Haired Boss would be the pan of lasagna.
Hey, don't insult lasagna like that.
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@AyGeePlus said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Garfield has only two characters
They both have girlfriends appearing on-screen semi-regularly.
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@PleegWat And Odie
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@hungrier Odie doesn't have lines.
I checked my assumptions on the last two weeks of strips and the girlfriends and the television have more lines than I thought they did.
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@Luhmann And the occasional incomprehensible thought bubble, apparently. Treated in-canon as dialogue but that's comics for you.
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@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
My instinct is not to root for Dilbert, but to feel sorry for PHB for having to deal with the philosophising imbecile.A deeply shallow person can only be annoyed by someone asking the sorts of questions everyone should ask. I am annoyed by everyone who does not.
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@jinpa said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
My instinct is not to root for Dilbert, but to feel sorry for PHB for having to deal with the philosophising imbecile.A deeply shallow person can only be annoyed by someone asking the sorts of questions everyone should ask. I am annoyed by everyone who does not.
What is...DAW?
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@jinpa said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
My instinct is not to root for Dilbert, but to feel sorry for PHB for having to deal with the philosophising imbecile.A deeply shallow person
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@JBert said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@boomzilla said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Looks like Jim Davis
Wait, the Garfield author? What does he have to do with Dilbert?
Garfield has the best subreddit.
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