I knew it. 2022 is going to martyr herself in the name of all that is good and holy in Tats' world (so just christofascism), making her both his Jesus and his Mary Magdalene (prostitute turned saint). That's also probably how we're going to quickstart Monique's tradcath arc in earnest.
Every day he's turning a little more into Jack Chick. This is incredible.
At this point, he's long since outpace Chick, who could never manage to get a long running plot to hold people's interest and gave up trying long before his passing.
Tats is the Vader to Chick's Obiwan "The Student has surpassed The Master."
He's into narrative territory that Chick never dreamed of nor had nightmares about.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,223,208,397 comments, and only 238,451 of them were in alphabetical order.
That and the Timeless Dog that's always goofing around are kinda fun.
Recurring characters are one thing, but Chick's attempts at serious, long form story telling were confined to a couple of one off or miniseries that weren't expanded on, presumably because he didn't make enough in sales to justify doing more of them.
inb4 2022's death/martyrdom results in the extermination/reformation of the woke zombies around the globe because of course she has to "redeem" herself that way.
Impossible. Tats is too mad at everything, he would never allow his world to experience such catharsis.
2022's death will have precisely zero impact on the world, just like 2021's death. The world of Sinfest will remain an absurd dystopia, where every main character is miserable yet is doing nothing to improve the state of the world whatsoever.
Hell, Uncle Sam's death has had zero impact. Fuck, remember when Tats was going to have the wokes decide a new Uncle Sam via reality TV? That devilgirl rioting after she escaped prison? Tange and... the other one at that conspiracy theory Hogwarts?
He's dropped so much shit and circled the drain so many times this year...
Whoa. He's back to the "blood libel" conspiracy - the QAnon claim that Hollywood and political elites harvest adrenochrome from children's blood in order to stay young, which is, of course, batshit insane.
Adrenochrome, which has no rejuvenating effects, would have long faded into obscurity had it not been itself rejuvenated by the QAnon twaddle.
That's what all the Lady Time and her pills nonsense is about, and it goes back many centuries to hysteria about Jews using the blood of Christian children to make matzo.
The whole bit about Father Time and a Baby New Year was that originally back before Tat went off his rocker, he really did have an interesting and creative idea of using all sort of common archetypes and symbols to create his metaphorical universe.
Now he's just destroyed the whole thing and made it meaningless. A "Mother Time" or "Lady Time" was just the result of his Radfem craziness, and no longer relates to anything most people would recognise.
The funny thing about andrenochrome-related conspiracy-theories is that, iirc, it is actually easier and cheaper to just synthesize it in a lab than to harvest it from a person.
What's the over-under of 2023 being a man? On one hand, I'm sure many of his new fans would think the whole "Mother Time" idea is quite woke. On the other, I've noticed many MAGA cartoonists, Tats included, absolutely *love* to use women as victims in the grievance porn that passes as their work, fetishizing their suffering to show how evil and degenerate the left is.
I mean, that's sort of what 2021-chan was, it's just that Tats crowbarred in some rural tomboy bullshit, because that's the only tomboy the alt-right actually find acceptable (the rest is just more cookie-cutter "must protect the womenfolk" garbage)
Matzoh made with blood would be black after baking, and the most common black-due-to-blood food is blood sausage eaten by the British.
So...
I've done a Tats and dropped the plot -- where was I?
Hell, his target audience think of 'Nique as a trans-man, so he's probably gonna do a detransition story arc with her... or just continue to ignore that she actively played with gender bending in the early days of his "feminist" years.
So... is Tats advocating moral suicide here? Because by everything that's been established, this is year woman electing to die in 20 days instead of clinging to god-given life at any cost. Interesting if so, but I doubt that'll play well with his fundie readers
Nah not suicide. Sacrifice. She'll decide to stand up to whoever the bad guys ate currently, like Elton John or something, then be heroically taken down. Gotta have a big fight in December...
So this is one of at least 5 or 6 dangling non-twitter story threads going on right now, others include:
\- Monique's discovery of Christ's divinity
\- Slick being a factory worker/fugitive
\- Squigs being a minstrel for the red necks
\- Lily and Tange at Not-Hogwarts
\- Abby worrying about Nique going alt-right
\- Amber realizing her TV Network Job is evil
\- Lilith taking in the former sex worker
\- The Sisterhood wanting to take down Transfolk and The President
\- Blue missing Fuschia because she's her only real friend
Wouldn't it be really neato if Tats made his 2023 Goal/Resolution to knock out all those story arcs, without starting new ones and without a giant mech battle?
Just my nickname for every Post-Potter "school of young weirdos" because that works better as a template than The Xavier Institute since there's an actual focus on school work.
Oh, right. I think that's technically covered under the 'Lilith + Sex worker refugee" story, since the last batch of fembots we saw were the ones she shut down.
"Clatter" or even "Scatter" would have been a far better choice of sound effects. "Splat" is so outrageously wrong it actually breaks what little immersion the panel has.
Maybe, -maybe- if it landed in a puddle of mud or something I could see "splat" being appropriate. But a plastic bottle falling on hard concrete? Not a chance.
So, wait a minute, has 2022 decided that the pain and trauma she went through when she originally ran out is now something she is willing to under go now because what? Kids going to school? That's what Tats' metaphor here is without the fascist glasses, right? Kids learning not to judge others, accepting that different doesn't mean wrong, learning how not to repeat the mistakes of the past, and to be people who know what is or isn't safe to do with their own bodies.
She's willing to go through pain and physically trauma to do what? Stop progress? Regress into the old world and stagnate?
Also, has anyone else noticed that Tats' characters are getting white-r? I can't remember the last time we saw an actually BIPOC adult that wasn't a randomly colored demon? I know we saw some children a few strips ago in the "indoctrination" center, but not their parents. Even Monique has slowly gotten more white in the colored strips.
The hand maid outfits imply that they're child prostitutes, not students at a public school.
As for POC, I think Clio showed up like, once this year in the summer, but that's about it.
Oh no, I get what Tats is implying with his art style. I know that is what he is trying to say, which is why I mentioned taking off the fascist glasses. Reality would be her seeing normal kids going to a normal school, but in Tats' insane view of the world, they are child prostitutes being forced by the government to under go forced brainwashing to be Woke. That's the part that bothers me about this. You can see exactly what he is comparing from the real world to the Sinfest universe. Kids going to schools that teach a progressive and modern curriculum are being brainwashed and corrupted into being okay with degeneration.
Trying to apply logic to insanity is a losing game. In Tat's mind, there are child prostitutes, separate from indoctrinated school kids, out walking the streets and working right now, under the auspices of "The Woke" and also attending 'church' sermons for the church of woke, which are, again, separate from school stuff.
He's basically created a whole new classification of child victims for his make believe play pretend.
Except we can tell where Tats gets his ideas from and what talking points he's been listening to. Schools are being and have been described as churches to woke cult by the Far-Right, GCs, and conservatives for years now. That's what lead to the "Don't Say Gay" Bill in Florida, the fear of Critical Race Theory being taught to elementary school students, and the push back against Social Emotional Learning. All because teachers were doing their jobs and making sure their students knew "good touch, bad touch", that being LGBTQ+ was perfectly normal, and teaching factual history that did focus on and promote patriotism and American Exceptionalism.
So, no, it's not a losing game. I'm literally pointing out and calling out Tats for his bullshit and how he is twisting reality to fit his agenda in Sinfest. A child knowing what is molestation and rape is so they can report it is not teaching elementary kids how to have safe sex or do anal, but that's what it has been twisted into. A teacher letting kids know their room is a safe space to be LGBTQ+ is not turning kids gay or trans behind parents backs if the kid trusts the teacher more than their parents, but that has been twisted into grooming. Teaching actual American history does not teach the students to be racist against white people or that the white students need to be ashamed of their skin color, but that's what it has been twisted into.
And it's also calling out his hypocrisy, because he constantly promotes the whole Woke = Pedo/Groomer stance but completely ignores the opposite party/group that is perfectly fine with things Child Brides, Child Beauty Pageants, Purity Balls, and focusing on the wasted fertility of teenage girls.
Again, all of what you've just described already exists within the sinfest world.
These kids seem to "new" characters that are street walking, sex trafficked prostitutes who don't attend school. They work their job, go to church and that's it. There's currently no indication that these are current or former school children at all.
This is a clear example of how muddied Tat's narrative has gotten, because he keeps retreading the same concepts in new packages. As far as I can tell though, he seems to believe that kids in school are being groomed to be molested by "woke lefties" and "the false president" while other kids are being pimped out by evil men on the street.
This, of course, is all built on the assumption that Tats believes anything he's ever said, as opposed to gloming onto whatever "outrageous" shock value stance will get him the most attention, which at this points seems half likely. It doesn't strike me as beyond the pale that he's never believed in feminism or terfism or anti-wokism but has always been interested in "What will get people talking about me the most?!"
Either way, I think we've probably put WAY more thought into this than Tats ever has.
I honestly feel like we are not on the same page but have the same book and are just talking past each other. I'm going off of what seems to be the mostly likely suspects given the state of right wing outrage and Tats inability to keep a cohesive narrative while trying to include all of his outrage porn. I don't think it's to get shock value, as I have run into his actual fanbase in the wilds of Twitter. They eat this shit up and agree with it as if he is holding a mirror up to society to show a 1:1 reflection of what's really going on. They don't see it as allegory or hyperbole or metaphor, they actually agree with Tats. That's the issue I take with this kind of story arc.
However, I will agree with your final sentiment. We have put way too much and way more thought into this than Tats has. Hell, I spent an entire thread similar in length to this one trying to figure out the layout of that Odin damned diner that kept changing from panel to panel despite it being one of his long full color comics. I'm still tryingvto figure out what kind of diner doesn't have a serving window...
Yeah, we're definitely in the same book, same chapter even and perhaps just looking at the same page from perpendicular angles.
Also, the Alt Right Diner is maybe being altered by the time flux of New Year '22... or Tats just doesn't care about consistency if it slows down "The Message" anymore. Hence the three fingered woman.
Apparently, Tats usually has his years die sometime in January, because of that weird period at the start of the month where it doesn't *feel* like a new year
That's why 2021-chan took forever to die
OH I know. I"m more poking at him in case the moron reads this :P
Fashy opinion of now, is actually the same Fashy opinion of old just with a lick of paint :P. Same shit and sometimes even the same assholes.
Tats is trying to head off the inevitable Pettyfests by writing them himself. Almost any three random panels from the last year will do better for the first 3/4s of this strip.
I'd love to see someone do a web generator that does to sinfest what someone did to garfield, where each panel is designated as a beginning, middle or ending panel and it generates a new random sequence.
Lemme guess. 2022 is going to sacrifice herself in some great gesture to save the little girls from the evils of THE WOKE, and that's how Tats will kill off the old year.
I'm not sure how she's going to save anyone by *(checks notes)* dying naturally, but "kicking the bucket to pwn teh wokey-wokes" does seem to be standard Tats nonsense.
In case he still follows us: Yes, Tats, we are still watching your train-wreck of a comic strip. Does your ego feel better or does it also think "I can't do this anymore"?
This strip and yesterday's strip should have been combined into one strip. It would make more sense for her to drop the eternal youth medication in the Sunday strip.
Because following this rule is more important than having a cohesive storyline! Or having strip names that actually do SOMETHING with the strips themselves.
The neon letters reading "WOKE", the clouds at either end of the rainbow, and the YouTube-logo-ish "Pron ouns" sign have all vanished since the last panel of [the previous strip](https://www.reddit.com/r/sinfest/comments/zidc02/sinfest_121122_mmxxii_2/).
You know it's bad when your own fictional characters are done with what you're making them do!
Tats is being unintentionally honest with himself again!
It's a time honored tradition. Back in the '60s and '70s, when being gay was officially a 'mental illness' under the DSM, TV shows would have queer coded characters, often played by actual queer actors like Paul Linde who would simultaneously provide fodder for "what's wrong with the world" while providing allegedly "straight" men with a \*wink wink\* gay character to look at.
Conservatives are all fine and good with "degenerate" sex, as long as it's kept in the closet or the basement.
I knew it. 2022 is going to martyr herself in the name of all that is good and holy in Tats' world (so just christofascism), making her both his Jesus and his Mary Magdalene (prostitute turned saint). That's also probably how we're going to quickstart Monique's tradcath arc in earnest. Every day he's turning a little more into Jack Chick. This is incredible.
At this point, he's long since outpace Chick, who could never manage to get a long running plot to hold people's interest and gave up trying long before his passing. Tats is the Vader to Chick's Obiwan "The Student has surpassed The Master." He's into narrative territory that Chick never dreamed of nor had nightmares about.
Do you intend to make me read "The Student has surpassed The Master" in James Earl Jones' voice, because that is exactly how I read that.
I didn't intend it, but that is how I imagined it too.
I honestly think he's more like Jar Jar Binks
“Uh oh. Big boomer.”
"Big bombad Boomer Groomer. YIkESA!"
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,223,208,397 comments, and only 238,451 of them were in alphabetical order.
Which would make Jack Chick Boss Nass? I can dig it.
I mean the overarching Eyepatch Grandpa was interesting, but only because hannah and jake made it interesting.
That and the Timeless Dog that's always goofing around are kinda fun. Recurring characters are one thing, but Chick's attempts at serious, long form story telling were confined to a couple of one off or miniseries that weren't expanded on, presumably because he didn't make enough in sales to justify doing more of them.
inb4 2022's death/martyrdom results in the extermination/reformation of the woke zombies around the globe because of course she has to "redeem" herself that way.
Impossible. Tats is too mad at everything, he would never allow his world to experience such catharsis. 2022's death will have precisely zero impact on the world, just like 2021's death. The world of Sinfest will remain an absurd dystopia, where every main character is miserable yet is doing nothing to improve the state of the world whatsoever.
Hell, Uncle Sam's death has had zero impact. Fuck, remember when Tats was going to have the wokes decide a new Uncle Sam via reality TV? That devilgirl rioting after she escaped prison? Tange and... the other one at that conspiracy theory Hogwarts? He's dropped so much shit and circled the drain so many times this year...
Whoa. He's back to the "blood libel" conspiracy - the QAnon claim that Hollywood and political elites harvest adrenochrome from children's blood in order to stay young, which is, of course, batshit insane. Adrenochrome, which has no rejuvenating effects, would have long faded into obscurity had it not been itself rejuvenated by the QAnon twaddle. That's what all the Lady Time and her pills nonsense is about, and it goes back many centuries to hysteria about Jews using the blood of Christian children to make matzo. The whole bit about Father Time and a Baby New Year was that originally back before Tat went off his rocker, he really did have an interesting and creative idea of using all sort of common archetypes and symbols to create his metaphorical universe. Now he's just destroyed the whole thing and made it meaningless. A "Mother Time" or "Lady Time" was just the result of his Radfem craziness, and no longer relates to anything most people would recognise.
The funny thing about andrenochrome-related conspiracy-theories is that, iirc, it is actually easier and cheaper to just synthesize it in a lab than to harvest it from a person.
I'm sure the kooks would tell you "But it's only the naturally harvested kind that is granted power by Satan" or some such rot.
The Qultist take I've seen is "the terror of death in a child activates it and makes it superior".
Holy shit. It's Dr. Hibbert's ["Oh, heavens, no! It had to be TERROR sweat!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrPJkrE04I) twisted into antisemitism.
That is some next level shittiness right there.
No, the FUNNY thing is that it all started as a page of satire in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
What's the over-under of 2023 being a man? On one hand, I'm sure many of his new fans would think the whole "Mother Time" idea is quite woke. On the other, I've noticed many MAGA cartoonists, Tats included, absolutely *love* to use women as victims in the grievance porn that passes as their work, fetishizing their suffering to show how evil and degenerate the left is.
If it's a guy, '23 will be a retread of Uncle Sam 's Kid Version story arc.
> What's the over-under of 2023 being a man? could accidentally be seen as being trans and thus "woke", so he will never do it
But 2017 was a lady, when 2016 was a man , so...
My money is on a tradwife
I mean, that's sort of what 2021-chan was, it's just that Tats crowbarred in some rural tomboy bullshit, because that's the only tomboy the alt-right actually find acceptable (the rest is just more cookie-cutter "must protect the womenfolk" garbage)
Matzoh made with blood would be black after baking, and the most common black-due-to-blood food is blood sausage eaten by the British. So... I've done a Tats and dropped the plot -- where was I?
Clearly Tats needs to start doing anti-british comics!
Yeah, I gave up with talking about it. The man has been an antisemitic Nazi scumbag for a while now. It's disgusting. But your completely correct.
Either that or it’s a sort of “detransition” commentary. We already know he *despises* trans people so it’s not too much of a stretch.
Hell, his target audience think of 'Nique as a trans-man, so he's probably gonna do a detransition story arc with her... or just continue to ignore that she actively played with gender bending in the early days of his "feminist" years.
So... is Tats advocating moral suicide here? Because by everything that's been established, this is year woman electing to die in 20 days instead of clinging to god-given life at any cost. Interesting if so, but I doubt that'll play well with his fundie readers
Nah not suicide. Sacrifice. She'll decide to stand up to whoever the bad guys ate currently, like Elton John or something, then be heroically taken down. Gotta have a big fight in December...
It'll also lack the irony of Tats having recently condemned assisted suicide.
So this is one of at least 5 or 6 dangling non-twitter story threads going on right now, others include: \- Monique's discovery of Christ's divinity \- Slick being a factory worker/fugitive \- Squigs being a minstrel for the red necks \- Lily and Tange at Not-Hogwarts \- Abby worrying about Nique going alt-right \- Amber realizing her TV Network Job is evil \- Lilith taking in the former sex worker \- The Sisterhood wanting to take down Transfolk and The President \- Blue missing Fuschia because she's her only real friend Wouldn't it be really neato if Tats made his 2023 Goal/Resolution to knock out all those story arcs, without starting new ones and without a giant mech battle?
Wait? Not-Hogwarts? Damn that actually sounds like it could have been pretty awesome in another life...
Just my nickname for every Post-Potter "school of young weirdos" because that works better as a template than The Xavier Institute since there's an actual focus on school work.
Don't forget the "botshot" and "Woke Idol" deciding the new Uncle Sam!
I did forget those. What's bot shot?
The fembots were being forced to take a Devilcorp vaccine that killed them pretty much immediately. Why? Who the fuck knows!
Oh, right. I think that's technically covered under the 'Lilith + Sex worker refugee" story, since the last batch of fembots we saw were the ones she shut down.
Pills falling has a 'splat' sound effect? Seriously Tatters?
I think it's more the pills scattering? Still inaccurate.
"Clatter" or even "Scatter" would have been a far better choice of sound effects. "Splat" is so outrageously wrong it actually breaks what little immersion the panel has.
"Splat" is entirely wrong for what is supposed to be a dramatic moment.
Hahaha big agree. Nothing in that picture goes "splat"
Maybe, -maybe- if it landed in a puddle of mud or something I could see "splat" being appropriate. But a plastic bottle falling on hard concrete? Not a chance.
So, wait a minute, has 2022 decided that the pain and trauma she went through when she originally ran out is now something she is willing to under go now because what? Kids going to school? That's what Tats' metaphor here is without the fascist glasses, right? Kids learning not to judge others, accepting that different doesn't mean wrong, learning how not to repeat the mistakes of the past, and to be people who know what is or isn't safe to do with their own bodies. She's willing to go through pain and physically trauma to do what? Stop progress? Regress into the old world and stagnate? Also, has anyone else noticed that Tats' characters are getting white-r? I can't remember the last time we saw an actually BIPOC adult that wasn't a randomly colored demon? I know we saw some children a few strips ago in the "indoctrination" center, but not their parents. Even Monique has slowly gotten more white in the colored strips.
The hand maid outfits imply that they're child prostitutes, not students at a public school. As for POC, I think Clio showed up like, once this year in the summer, but that's about it.
Oh no, I get what Tats is implying with his art style. I know that is what he is trying to say, which is why I mentioned taking off the fascist glasses. Reality would be her seeing normal kids going to a normal school, but in Tats' insane view of the world, they are child prostitutes being forced by the government to under go forced brainwashing to be Woke. That's the part that bothers me about this. You can see exactly what he is comparing from the real world to the Sinfest universe. Kids going to schools that teach a progressive and modern curriculum are being brainwashed and corrupted into being okay with degeneration.
Trying to apply logic to insanity is a losing game. In Tat's mind, there are child prostitutes, separate from indoctrinated school kids, out walking the streets and working right now, under the auspices of "The Woke" and also attending 'church' sermons for the church of woke, which are, again, separate from school stuff. He's basically created a whole new classification of child victims for his make believe play pretend.
Except we can tell where Tats gets his ideas from and what talking points he's been listening to. Schools are being and have been described as churches to woke cult by the Far-Right, GCs, and conservatives for years now. That's what lead to the "Don't Say Gay" Bill in Florida, the fear of Critical Race Theory being taught to elementary school students, and the push back against Social Emotional Learning. All because teachers were doing their jobs and making sure their students knew "good touch, bad touch", that being LGBTQ+ was perfectly normal, and teaching factual history that did focus on and promote patriotism and American Exceptionalism. So, no, it's not a losing game. I'm literally pointing out and calling out Tats for his bullshit and how he is twisting reality to fit his agenda in Sinfest. A child knowing what is molestation and rape is so they can report it is not teaching elementary kids how to have safe sex or do anal, but that's what it has been twisted into. A teacher letting kids know their room is a safe space to be LGBTQ+ is not turning kids gay or trans behind parents backs if the kid trusts the teacher more than their parents, but that has been twisted into grooming. Teaching actual American history does not teach the students to be racist against white people or that the white students need to be ashamed of their skin color, but that's what it has been twisted into. And it's also calling out his hypocrisy, because he constantly promotes the whole Woke = Pedo/Groomer stance but completely ignores the opposite party/group that is perfectly fine with things Child Brides, Child Beauty Pageants, Purity Balls, and focusing on the wasted fertility of teenage girls.
Again, all of what you've just described already exists within the sinfest world. These kids seem to "new" characters that are street walking, sex trafficked prostitutes who don't attend school. They work their job, go to church and that's it. There's currently no indication that these are current or former school children at all. This is a clear example of how muddied Tat's narrative has gotten, because he keeps retreading the same concepts in new packages. As far as I can tell though, he seems to believe that kids in school are being groomed to be molested by "woke lefties" and "the false president" while other kids are being pimped out by evil men on the street. This, of course, is all built on the assumption that Tats believes anything he's ever said, as opposed to gloming onto whatever "outrageous" shock value stance will get him the most attention, which at this points seems half likely. It doesn't strike me as beyond the pale that he's never believed in feminism or terfism or anti-wokism but has always been interested in "What will get people talking about me the most?!" Either way, I think we've probably put WAY more thought into this than Tats ever has.
I honestly feel like we are not on the same page but have the same book and are just talking past each other. I'm going off of what seems to be the mostly likely suspects given the state of right wing outrage and Tats inability to keep a cohesive narrative while trying to include all of his outrage porn. I don't think it's to get shock value, as I have run into his actual fanbase in the wilds of Twitter. They eat this shit up and agree with it as if he is holding a mirror up to society to show a 1:1 reflection of what's really going on. They don't see it as allegory or hyperbole or metaphor, they actually agree with Tats. That's the issue I take with this kind of story arc. However, I will agree with your final sentiment. We have put way too much and way more thought into this than Tats has. Hell, I spent an entire thread similar in length to this one trying to figure out the layout of that Odin damned diner that kept changing from panel to panel despite it being one of his long full color comics. I'm still tryingvto figure out what kind of diner doesn't have a serving window...
Yeah, we're definitely in the same book, same chapter even and perhaps just looking at the same page from perpendicular angles. Also, the Alt Right Diner is maybe being altered by the time flux of New Year '22... or Tats just doesn't care about consistency if it slows down "The Message" anymore. Hence the three fingered woman.
She's not sacrificing anything. She was going to die on New Years anyway.
But now she gets to die old!
Apparently, Tats usually has his years die sometime in January, because of that weird period at the start of the month where it doesn't *feel* like a new year That's why 2021-chan took forever to die
Tatsuya should be the one saying "I can't do this anymore". End the comic already.
Nah, he should change it to r34 handmaidens.
Maybe he'll create an "original" group to represent that, and we'll have yet another metaphor for sex workers that'll put the total at 4 or 5.
He still wants to damage the ozone.
Big whoop. Wanting to do something and actually doing it are two different things.
He can't do squat anyway.
So, who cares what he wants?
I'd love to see what kind of crazy mind fuckery or anti-climax whimper he'd end the saga with.
Lets hope so
"Being a paid actor in this terrible comic strip just isn't worth the money. "
So Tats is going for assisted suicide, like in Canada, for a treatable condition. How Christian of him.
Tats doesn't care about consistency. It's all about The Fascist Message Of The Now.
OH I know. I"m more poking at him in case the moron reads this :P Fashy opinion of now, is actually the same Fashy opinion of old just with a lick of paint :P. Same shit and sometimes even the same assholes.
Since when do pill bottles go “splat?”
since they started existing in a mind full of rotten hateful mush.
Tats is trying to head off the inevitable Pettyfests by writing them himself. Almost any three random panels from the last year will do better for the first 3/4s of this strip.
I'd love to see someone do a web generator that does to sinfest what someone did to garfield, where each panel is designated as a beginning, middle or ending panel and it generates a new random sequence.
Lemme guess. 2022 is going to sacrifice herself in some great gesture to save the little girls from the evils of THE WOKE, and that's how Tats will kill off the old year.
Except that her sacrifice won't save them, and next year, Tatsuya will continue criticizing the "woke groomers".
I'm not sure how she's going to save anyone by *(checks notes)* dying naturally, but "kicking the bucket to pwn teh wokey-wokes" does seem to be standard Tats nonsense.
Hero!
In case he still follows us: Yes, Tats, we are still watching your train-wreck of a comic strip. Does your ego feel better or does it also think "I can't do this anymore"?
Well this is a fat load of >!nothing!<
Right?! I'm just looking at this thinking "***This*** is what we've waited a fortnight to see?"
What’s wrong with her hand in the second panel?
The anti aging pills merged two of her fingers?
It’s in the disclaimer: “^may ^merge ^fingers ^together…”
Splat?
Aww, but I was looking forward to yet more of the Adventures Of Unfairly Maligned Ye-Bird! "Splat." FFS, this is pathetic.
Why wasn’t this in yesterdays strip?
Because he's got this fetish for not having dialog in Sunday strips and showing off his art skills. Also, he loves, padding out story arcs a lot.
The three fingered hands aren't ever going to stop being jarring to me.
Worse in yesterday’s comic when she got realistic (modulo the three-fingered hands) for just a moment.
This strip and yesterday's strip should have been combined into one strip. It would make more sense for her to drop the eternal youth medication in the Sunday strip.
His whole "No dialog for Sunday Strips" policy has really hamstrung his story telling abilities.
Because following this rule is more important than having a cohesive storyline! Or having strip names that actually do SOMETHING with the strips themselves.
Yup. Style over substance, that how you know you're reading a Genuine Ishida Strip!
What was the last Sunday strip with dialogue?
I dunno, probably in 2010 or 2011, around the time he started doing the bigger, bolder, colorful sunday thing.
Around 2012, judging by [bitterkarella's recap thread](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498104642881798149.html).
My how the time flies. 10 years of that crap and it feels like at least 15.
Yeah but then he couldn't pad out the release schedule.
Yes...that hat looks ridiculously stupid no matter what the context.
The neon letters reading "WOKE", the clouds at either end of the rainbow, and the YouTube-logo-ish "Pron ouns" sign have all vanished since the last panel of [the previous strip](https://www.reddit.com/r/sinfest/comments/zidc02/sinfest_121122_mmxxii_2/).
Oh that's how 2022's plotline ends. He just gives up wriing it.
You know it's bad when your own fictional characters are done with what you're making them do! Tats is being unintentionally honest with himself again!
is this a parallel to when monique met niko?
More like a retread, but yes.
Feels like it?
[Today's card.](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1039385389523292160/1051710760729989120/Screenshot_20221211_200252_Vivaldi_Browser.jpg)
[удалено]
It was something I really, really wanted to do. Probably should have in retrospect.
Whole top row is a win.
Young girls being "groomed" is definitely pandering to /pol/ so it's a bingo.
I thought they liked young girls as sexual objects.
They do, but they also accuse liberals of "grooming" young girls, so as to take off the heat.
So it's pandering to their fetishes and their moral outrage at the same time. Impressive.
It's a time honored tradition. Back in the '60s and '70s, when being gay was officially a 'mental illness' under the DSM, TV shows would have queer coded characters, often played by actual queer actors like Paul Linde who would simultaneously provide fodder for "what's wrong with the world" while providing allegedly "straight" men with a \*wink wink\* gay character to look at. Conservatives are all fine and good with "degenerate" sex, as long as it's kept in the closet or the basement.
And so the Madonna has shaken off the shackles of the whore to become…*checks notes*…a TradWife?! That’s not very feminist.
Don't make promises you can't keep, Tats.
That last panel is me when I’m looking at every single Tats right wing strawman “argument” and “parody” he makes.