Happy Monday! This is the last week of the Spiderforest Comic of the Week promotion, so let’s look at the last two Featured Comics of 2016!
Damsels Don’t Wear Glasses: Lave Faraday, a natural human living in the Multi-magical city of Persephone is assigned to protect Jake D’Crux, a twelve year old danger magnet who has yet to understand the supernatural world he now finds himself in. But things only get more complicated when Lave finds herself fighting off the denizens who scrabble to take Jake for their own ends.
The Only Half Saga: Garrett Kelly, Wanderer for the supernatural hunting organization, Victor Sierra, gets wind of Cabal’s possible location and goes hunting. What he finds is completely different from his original quest.
By Jiala Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 3:27 am
Ow… low blow Si’ri. Low blow.
By Ladon Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 3:49 am
Urg. You know it’s bad when the demoness who is determined to bring ruin to mankind through manipulation decides she can stop manipulating. Not that I believe her. She is a manipulator after all. She lies.
By Towering Barbarian Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 9:02 am
Precisely. That’s as generic an anti-politics statement as you can get and could have been said at anytime in American history with equal justice or lack thereof. So I’d say she’s blowing smoke. The question is whether Count Fang will fall for it. ^_^
By CTNC Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 5:21 am
;_;
By Gianluca Burdon Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 8:21 am
Why does everyone keep saying that, Hillary LOST and Trump has yet to START, you can’t really say anything until the next election. I mean, everybody was saying the same thing when Bush was elected, yet here we are, JUST FINE ‘_’
By Towering Barbarian Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 9:17 am
I think Scott Adams has a part of the answer here. ^_~
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/154289405111/the-time-that-reality-forked-right-in-front-of-you
Mind you, the way he phrased isn’t the way I would phrase it which is “Some people have invested too much of their ego in their politics and have made a substitute religion of their particular ideology”. So I guess it’s natural if losing an election means that they feel the end of the world has come. Which means that a booked called “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer is also a good way to look at some of these folks as well. >_>
By heregoesname Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 10:58 am
Because she is a demon and is trying to manipulate the powerful vampire into action which would bring about ruination?
In all practicality Trump (if he was elected in the world of supervillainous) will be a fine president – maybe sometimes good, maybe sometimes bad but overall probably fine.
However getting a vampire to take action against him (or anyone else) would create a crisis which could easily spin out of control bringing real harm to a great number of people (and potentially kickstarting WWIII if a foriegn power is blamed – irrespectively of responsibility) – and that war could be fought with super powers and alien tech.
But than I am not an American (or living in America) and so my view of fictional American politics might be different than those who are.
By Darius Drake Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 8:38 am
@ Ladon: Honestly, she says what the rest of the world thought when Trump won.
@ Gianluca Burdon: There’s a huge gap between G.W. Bush & Trump. Bush was a potential disaster because we already knew that he didn’t know how to run things, and was, through incredibly dodgy legality, reelected. Basically a political disaster, but the people around him knew how to deal with Bush, and Bush was willing to “play the game” that is politics.
Trump, however, has outright stated that he’s not going to “play the game”, has promoted his business savy despite his numerous bankruptcies, has shown through the business community that he doesn’t think long-term, has already demanded impossible things, and, honestly, to a certain degree it doesn’t seem like HE thought that HE would win until near the end.
In other words, while Bush was a disaster for legal reasons and international public relations, Trump looks like he’s going to make all the disasters that was expected for Bush look like a friendly sparring match to his all-out-civil-war.
Hell, ignoring the potential damage, I’ve heard news reports of Gay and Racial Bashings in the US increasing after Trump was stated to be the President Elect. That alone is a big enough problem with him, that the Racist and Homophobic Communities see his election as permission to violently discriminate.
By agent8606 Mon Dec 12th 2016 at 2:16 pm
There was a more than 50% increase in hate crimes after it was announced trump was president-elect. Draw your own conclusions.
By heregoesname Tue Dec 13th 2016 at 9:49 am
Really? http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/15/13628200/trump-hate-crimes-racism
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So is America facing a growing hate crime epidemic, fueled by Trump’s campaign for president and election?
The truth is very unsettling: We have no idea.
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Other similiar references exist also – but I would be interested in reading your 50% increase source.
Also we still don’t know if it is even an election year within the world of supervillainous (I suspect it will not be important to the story).
By Darius Drake Tue Dec 13th 2016 at 11:27 am
Actually, thinking about it, Si’ri is probably the person who knows the politicians best due to being, well, the Supervillianous Version of Apple’s Siri. This means that she can (and might actually have to) spy on anyone who uses an Apple (or local equivalent) Phone with little to no consequences, and without anyone actually knowing. As this likely includes many major politicians, she likely knows what they’re really like behind closed doors. To the point where her “watching American Politics” could be a reference to her outright spying on the politicians for her own amusement.
By RunninginReverse Tue Dec 13th 2016 at 8:00 pm
I feel like everyone is overthinking things and her comment on American politics is just a one-off gag.
By Ev Tue Dec 13th 2016 at 9:36 pm
She’s got a good point… Humans do a fine job of bringing ruin onto ourselves, we don’t much need help there XD
I guess all she needs is a limitless supply of popcorn to watch the show.
By Siva Fri Dec 16th 2016 at 3:25 am
She’s right, you know!
By winger Fri Sep 15th 2017 at 6:54 am
true si’ri very true least i did’t vote for that egomaniac
By Yuxria Wed Feb 17th 2021 at 4:32 pm
When I first saw this, I thought it was funny how Si’ri talked about America’s politics, but with how Trump handled the CO-VID 19 pandemic, which is still going on, and the tantrum he’s been having since Biden won the election, I’ve got to say that she’s 100% right.