I don’t hate Buckley, I just hate everything he does. Somewhere down the line he just realized these were his characters and it was his decision to do anything he wanted with them, and damn anyone who didn’t get it/like it. And then the God complex kicked in, and then his silly and quirky webcomic about people doing cool things, among them playing video games and owning robots, became a scathing social commentary about how depressing the real world can be. I don’t need a comic character telling me how depressing the real world can be, I know. After all, I live there
I’ll say this, Buckley has been and still appears to be successful enough to earn a living doing CAD. I think at the end of the day, that speaks volumes.
A drastic shift in content/style can do that. I suppose he could have started a serious comic on the site as well, or ended CAD and done something different in it’s place. I can’t really speculate, but it does seem unfortunate that a loyal fan base was sundered.
I don’t think drastic covers the all of a sudden-ness of his turn. It’s as if one day you’re driving a car and it turns into a plate of waffles . He still does something akin to the old CAD, his “Sillies” but they’re so basic it’s almost a slap in the face. I’ll admit that one thing that kept me coming back to his site was the random Chef Brian strips, but such a quick serious turn made me feel left out.
I used to read CAD, then lost interest for a while. I’ve been reading it again lately, and I don’t mind the serial-soap-opera-ish-ness of it all. I was never a big read before though, so the change didn’t bother me.
In comparison though, I think the sillies do the daily-game-humour thing better and more effectively than the old comic.
I still see your point, as an invested reader, you paid Buckley with your time, and its hard not to feel a little taken-aback but a 180 in content.
Take other webcomics like PVP and PA, they switch out different styles and content in story arcs but always return home. They branch out without major change and they advance enough to keep from stifling themselves. Krahulik has Cardboard Tube Samurai, Kurtz has Kringus, but then when those stories are over it’s right back to the old formula. I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t a big fan of CTS but I appreciate what it allows Krahulik to do artistically. If CAD would have had more of a kind of back and forth to what he wanted to achieve to what kept his fans comfortable. I understand it seems selfish and it seems that I want everything to stay the same, but really I’d just like to be lead in slowly. Occasional change is good, and full turn at once is bad.
I think being too much like PA and PvP might have been part of what led Buckley to change his format so drastically. I’m speculating, but I think there is only so much “you’re copying everything PA does all the time you haxxor” a guy can take before wanting to be as different as possible.
That said, I agree an occasional divergent path might be better than wholesale change. It’s something I’ll try to keep in mind, if I’m ever feeling wayward.
That does seem to be a constant pitfall with making a Geek Culture webcomic, always being compared to everyone else, and I’m sure at times it gets degrading to an artist. That’s why you evolve past them, not completely give up on the medium. He went from Geek Culture to Days of Our Lives, and I knew people who stopped reading PA for CAD before the full flip because they said it was better and more consistent. Had Buckley toughed it out a little longer he might have been Top Cat
And just so you don’t think of me as close-minded I have tried to read CAD multiple times since drifting away from it, and this current wedding arc has piqued my interests some.
Tim Buckley takes a lot of flak. Such as here, here, here, here and…here! (This was all surprisingly easy to find.)
I don’t hate Buckley, I just hate everything he does. Somewhere down the line he just realized these were his characters and it was his decision to do anything he wanted with them, and damn anyone who didn’t get it/like it. And then the God complex kicked in, and then his silly and quirky webcomic about people doing cool things, among them playing video games and owning robots, became a scathing social commentary about how depressing the real world can be. I don’t need a comic character telling me how depressing the real world can be, I know. After all, I live there
I’ll say this, Buckley has been and still appears to be successful enough to earn a living doing CAD. I think at the end of the day, that speaks volumes.
Yeah, some of his fan-base did take it, and they’ll defend him til oblivion, but it singled a lot of people out. Both new readers and old fans alike.
A drastic shift in content/style can do that. I suppose he could have started a serious comic on the site as well, or ended CAD and done something different in it’s place. I can’t really speculate, but it does seem unfortunate that a loyal fan base was sundered.
I don’t think drastic covers the all of a sudden-ness of his turn. It’s as if one day you’re driving a car and it turns into a plate of waffles . He still does something akin to the old CAD, his “Sillies” but they’re so basic it’s almost a slap in the face. I’ll admit that one thing that kept me coming back to his site was the random Chef Brian strips, but such a quick serious turn made me feel left out.
I used to read CAD, then lost interest for a while. I’ve been reading it again lately, and I don’t mind the serial-soap-opera-ish-ness of it all. I was never a big read before though, so the change didn’t bother me.
In comparison though, I think the sillies do the daily-game-humour thing better and more effectively than the old comic.
I still see your point, as an invested reader, you paid Buckley with your time, and its hard not to feel a little taken-aback but a 180 in content.
Take other webcomics like PVP and PA, they switch out different styles and content in story arcs but always return home. They branch out without major change and they advance enough to keep from stifling themselves. Krahulik has Cardboard Tube Samurai, Kurtz has Kringus, but then when those stories are over it’s right back to the old formula. I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t a big fan of CTS but I appreciate what it allows Krahulik to do artistically. If CAD would have had more of a kind of back and forth to what he wanted to achieve to what kept his fans comfortable. I understand it seems selfish and it seems that I want everything to stay the same, but really I’d just like to be lead in slowly. Occasional change is good, and full turn at once is bad.
I think being too much like PA and PvP might have been part of what led Buckley to change his format so drastically. I’m speculating, but I think there is only so much “you’re copying everything PA does all the time you haxxor” a guy can take before wanting to be as different as possible.
That said, I agree an occasional divergent path might be better than wholesale change. It’s something I’ll try to keep in mind, if I’m ever feeling wayward.
That does seem to be a constant pitfall with making a Geek Culture webcomic, always being compared to everyone else, and I’m sure at times it gets degrading to an artist. That’s why you evolve past them, not completely give up on the medium. He went from Geek Culture to Days of Our Lives, and I knew people who stopped reading PA for CAD before the full flip because they said it was better and more consistent. Had Buckley toughed it out a little longer he might have been Top Cat
And just so you don’t think of me as close-minded I have tried to read CAD multiple times since drifting away from it, and this current wedding arc has piqued my interests some.