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1y ago

The Critic

Website: https://toonhole.com/tag/toonhole-chris/

95 comments

I'm thinking it would've been a bit lighter if he said "I don't like this guy" with the same expression as in the previous panel.
- Yeah it reads more like from a self help book with a focus on belief systems and how your feelings and reactions to something are always the result of your very subjective perception of reality.
  
  Or projection.

I don't like this comic
- I don't like this comment
  
  I don't like this reply.

Good for him, brushing your teeth and honest introspection isn’t easy when you hate yourself. He’s right about that art though, derivative trash.
- If you don't like that art, let me introduce you to post modernism: 💩😘👍🚙⚫
  
  Oooo so anti authoritarian with a dash esoteric symbolism.
- I find introspection the easiest part of hating myself, there's so much to attack! Lol
  
  I get you’re joking, but just in case there’s any earnestness there and you’ve been hurting your own feelings lately. I’d like you to know that acknowledging self loathing is honest introspection and a good first step, the self loathing itself is more like self harm and generally dishonest. If there is any honesty in it, try and practice more self compassion.
  Shit’s tough out here, you matter and people care about you. Keep going friend :)

Because all negative opinions are invalid.
- No. It's not about having a single negative opinion, it's about having nothing but negative opinions.
  
  Counterpoint there has been a measurable decrease in quality of most forms of media as more and more stuff are soulless cash grabs. It used to be that games shipped completed, now they ship broken cost more and expect you to pump even more money into them on top of that. The last move I saw that I cared about was Dune. Many of the restaurants near me have reduced their quality of ingredients and staff, now when going to the nearby sandwich shop my order is wrong more often than it is correct.
  What do we do when the world is measurably becoming worse?
  
  The comic is clearly mocking critics, tho, down to the stereotype bald man with a thin mustache and a scarf.
  
  Yep, it's about the proverbial sitting and pouting while folding arms, declaring that "everything is lame".

im14andthisisdeep?
- Some people take waaay more than 14 years to figure this shit out

Sounds about right for some types of depression

Do critical critics exist anymore? I feel like I haven't seen a good pan in ages. Maybe when Cats came out, but everyone dog piled that one.
- The Pitchfork review of Jet's album "Shine On" was just an embedded video of a chimp pissing in its own mouth and a 0.0/10 score. That was 2006.
- I'll try to fill the void...
  : Watches Saw XI:
  It stinks!
  
  I completely forgot about that show! (Provided this was a The Critic reference)
  
  Expend4bles and Aquaman 2 are the worst films of the last year by far.
- Critica didn't like Cats? Isn't that the most successful Broadway show of all time?
  
  I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but if you really don't know, Google up the best reviews of "Cats 2019" and delight in the glorious train wreck. Some of the better quotations include: "Will haunt viewers for generations." and "To assess Cats as good or bad feels like the entirely wrong axis on which to see it. It is, with all affection, a monstrosity."
  Just don't actually watch the movie.

I would like art critics more if they were explaining things that they noticed instead of telling me how I should feel.
It's kinda cool to me that there are people in the world who can really nerd out on a given piece. Explaining the style, history, context etc. That is useful to me.
Movie and book reviews are not like that however. Usually it is "I didn't like this, you shouldn't like it, let me rant about 20 things I didn't like about it that are not really relevant to JUSTIFY my subjective opinion that is also objective and you are a moron if you disagree".
- Where are you reading your reviews? Most of the reviews and critiques I read online and in the odd newspaper skew positive.
  Comment sections are often negative I find, though. Case in point I'm only commenting to disagree with you, so... I guess I should watch what I say lol.
  Anyway hopefully you take this the right way. I feel like you're referring to a source of critique that I'm blind to
  
  Rotten tomatoes. I don't even know why I bother anymore.

I don't like food, I love it. If I don't love it, I don't swallow.

Jay Rayner "I'm in this comic and I don't like it"

Heavy.

I'm on board with every type of criticism except food criticism. That one is just inherently classist.
- nah, when there’s people shoving a 3 lb block of cheese up a raw turkey, we as a society can weather food criticism without it being labeled “classist.”

I can feel the ugly guy way past his prime, but I don't like the tempo of this community. Can we skip to catharsis already?

Crop the final panel and then it's funny
- Like so it's only the last panel? Or if it's the comic minus the last panel? Or both?

https://youtu.be/-JPOoFkrh94?t=55

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