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Originally posted by The Wanderer:
Also, rather like the theory you talked about in another thread about Discworld being an enormous shaggy dog story, I have the feeling that Burlew is doing an enormous deconstruction of a lot of fantasy and role-playing tropes and cliches. (He's already hit the notions of entire races or families having the same alignment or point of view, the smite happy, lawful zealous paladin type, and the behavoir and mentality of PCs among others, and an increasing number of strips seem to exist solely to refute fan attempts to rationalize things according to those conventions and cliches).

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I'm also a big fan of Pictures for Sad Children, but it's probably not as appealing to most people as any other comic I read. It's sort of a bizarre, disjointed series of interconnected stories that have no concrete beginning or end, and the whole comic has sort of a modernist/absurdist feel to it that I personally quite enjoy. The art itself isn't great, but the artist does a lot of interesting things with panel layouts. If you have a rather bleak sense of humor, I highly recommend it. If not, not so much.

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