Quote:http://www.megatokyo.com - How can I not mention this?Oh, oh, I know! Because he's frequently and inexcusably late posting his strips, which are banal and pointless? Yeah, I think I'm right. That "strip" has stories that drag on for months, damn near years, without actually going anywhere, with an author that is just as sad as his digital/artistic representation of himself. I've never read so much whining, except for in 14-year-old high school kids' blogs.
The fact that "Piro" got rid of the co-creator and took over the whole show to make a sappy Manga just irritates the hell out of me. It occurred to me that, as soon as "Largo" was booted (he didn't leave, he was kicked out), it became a humour-less sap fest that is a poor attempt at co-opting Japanese culture. This guy isn't even close to Japanese; a pretender, a phony, an imposter, a counterfeit, a fake!! He's just an old white guy who has watched too many Anime videos. Don't get me started on his girlfriend, "Seraphim"...
He's good at what he does, if what he does is whine for very very long periods of time and draw woefully unfinished "comics". I've seen much more polished and finished drawings elsewhere, for example, machall.com. Ok, so they're a bad example, since they're even worse at meeting the time schedule than Piro is...
I gave up on MegaTokyo long ago. It's his full-time job now, so you'd think he'd be better at it. As far as I'm concerned, he can continue pissing off his fans with delays and fake-strips and excuses all he wants. I should have left it behind as soon as Largo was booted, but I didn't realize what had happened for a few weeks afterward.
I respect greatly those webcomic artists that say, "I will post a picture monday to friday" or whatever terms the decide on, and actually do it. Penny-Arcade is the best example of this. It's their job, they do these comics for a living, and when they say, Monday-Wednesday-Friday they put the comics up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I can understand when it's a hobby, like the MacHall guys, where it's just something to do in your free time, it doesn't matter all that much that they miss a strip here and there. But for someone doing it as their job, it's just plain inexecusable.
EDIT: Typo
"Yay! We did it!"
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*