Oh, those wacky, adorable aliens. They think they’re people! They like Jennifer Aniston! They want to order hamburgers! They’re casually misogynistic!
If I could alter any old strip, it’d be this one. Instead, let’s enter it into the Webcomic Museum of Awful Mistakes.
Loading ...
Sal Kick!
….how does Head Alien survive a kick to the head from Sal?
Perhaps it’s just that I recently read that SP strip, but I can’t stop wondering why that one alien keeps quoting Whazzat Kangaroo.
magic and wonder are waiting for you
I swear to god, when I saw that video connected to that SP strip, I thought “oh, this isn’t so bad. It’s not that catchy.”
And now it’s been in my ears for WEEKS ARGH
Same here.
Did the Teletubbies talk like that? I really remember nothing from that show, other than their underground base where vacuum tubing spits out giant cookies.
The sun was a baby. The SUN was a BABY! That was one of the few things that made sense on the show. Also, once an episode, a windmill started turning which they somehow always saw, and it was bad or some weird reason.
It was a weird show. I watched it a lot.
Try reading This: http://imgur.com/a/EGP8R#0
I want to do a dramatic reading of that.
They’re just spewing random pop culture references.
I don’t see what’s wrong with making your villains casually misogynistic. That’s the great thing about villains, they can make the mean jokes, and smoke cigarettes and be both cruel and funny at the same time.
But this joke isn’t funny. And it’s not a “mean joke,” either. There’s no “truth to power” being spoken here. It’s just a dumb, insulting cliche masquerading as a punchline. It’s like playing canned laughter after using a racial epithet. It’s not a mean joke or any kind of joke. There’s no justification for it.
Villains can only be cruel-funny if they’re not turning to the audience and going “amirite?”
Making the villains casually misogynistic does make it feel less morally dissonant when the heros casually murder them.
I honestly thought that the joke was that due to some botched reconnaissance (either because of the prevalence of pop culture, or because they’re idiots), the aliens thought that “P.M.S.” literally means “an angry woman”.
Same here. It’s clearly misogynistic on a joketelling level, but I always ssumed the aliens just said it because they were idiots, and they didn’t understand PMS.
Young Willis’ dumbness worked to make the aliens seem dumb. It’s only once you connect it back to Young Willis that he seems dumb too.
I’m mentioned the casual depersonification of the Aliens before, right? And yet the personality-less Martians are the ones where all the angst about genocide comes from?
Nothing the heroes can do to the Aliens is worse then what they’ve already done to themselves.
The Aliens are actively attempting to take over the world. The Martians (as a race) did nothing wrong.
It’s really weird but it’s just one of those things that you don’t think about while you’re reading the story – at least, I never really do. They’re just the bad guys. Somehow making them dispensers of funny one-liners seems to make me care less for them, not more. I’m not sure what’s up with that, honestly.
Ah, so Jason and most of the humans In the general vicinity are just really stupid and they re seeing this.
Just wanted to be sure.
Look, I AM a female, and I don’t find this….offensive. The girls aren’t the only ones getting ragged on. Besides which, along with Joe’s horndogness, I find to be generally true.
P.M.S., that is.
Originally posted:
November 11, 1998