I CAN believe that Evans had no social life in High School....

[dreadedcandiru2]

Now that I'm about to go back into the wider world of the comics page, I'd like to remind you of what most bothers me about the genre: the fear and hatred a lot of creators have of the younger generation. As regnad_kcin reminds us, it's a vast exercise in watching the people who used to grumble about their parents being Nazi space monsters because they tell them to turn that rock crap down and get a job grumbling about how children are, well, Nazi space monsters because they don't have jobs and think that prog rock is something that Fred Flintstone grooved to. What I really don't care for is the nerds who didn't rate with the girls writing about them; this is why Greg Evans's Luann has become somewhat painful to watch. The portrait of a sensible young woman I painted earlier is a trifle optimistic, you see; it does not take into consideration the author's default belief that a typical teenaged girl is a callow, amoral manipulator whose purpose is to toy with boys much as a housecat 'casually' torments the rodents it consumes. Much as the child who states that there's a dragon in the bathtub simply wishes to avoid taking a bath, Evans's "teen girl = mean girl" philosophy would appear to stem from his blank-eyed incomprehension at being laughed at for committing the comic faux pas of reading an awkward, stupid love poem to the girl it's about. One doesn't have to be a man to fall into that trap, of course. There's a woman I can think of that shares Evans's unreasonable hatred of a demographic cohort: Allison Barrows.

Comments

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Didn't she write Preteena? Other than that, do you think you'll do a commentary on Candi?

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Yes, she did and that's the plan; about the only person I don't intend bothering with is the pretentious hack who wasted ten months having someone tell someone else the man who raised her is not her birth father.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

As said before, it could've been a decent story under a better writer who took less time.