AG Lite # 176

[CyberSkull]

I just love it! Did that really happen?

[Deooirian]

i guess it shows just how stupid some people can be. i mean seriously use your eyes jackass.

[ironsides]

Missing 5th panel:
Guy strung up, hanging by one foot, from the ceiling of the dealers hall.

[Rheinhard]

i guess it shows just how stupid some people can be. i mean seriously use your eyes jackass.

As to the shirts part, i'd agree.  But not as to the latter question about Megatokyo.

Sometimes i do think that we need some kind of version of the slave who would ride behind the Roman generals in their chariots during Triumphs and whisper in the general's ear "Remember, you are only mortal," for webcomic artists.

(In other words, it's ridiculous to assume that everbody in anime fandom should as a matter of course know what Megatokyo, or any other webcomic, is.  I have friends who have been anime fans for more than twice as long as many otakon attendees have been alive, and who laid the groundwork for organized anime fandom in this country.  Just because they don't squee when Piro walks by doesn't mean they couldn't school the young'uns on a whole lot of way more important stuff...)

[ananth]

i guess it shows just how stupid some people can be. i mean seriously use your eyes jackass.

As to the shirts part, i'd agree.  But not as to the latter question about Megatokyo.

Sometimes i do think that we need some kind of version of the slave who would ride behind the Roman generals in their chariots during Triumphs and whisper in the general's ear "Remember, you are only mortal," for webcomic artists.

(In other words, it's ridiculous to assume that everbody in anime fandom should as a matter of course know what Megatokyo, or any other webcomic, is.  I have friends who have been anime fans for more than twice as long as many otakon attendees have been alive, and who laid the groundwork for organized anime fandom in this country.  Just because they don't squee when Piro walks by doesn't mean they couldn't school the young'uns on a whole lot of way more important stuff...)

Buddy, you need to get off your high horse ... it's a joke. There were banners and signs everywhere that said www.megatokyo.com, and books in the display case. There were price lists, none of which had a Megatokyo anime listed. And if your friends are experts on anime fandom, then they would have taken one look at the booth and realized it was something else entirely. No single anime series gets a dedicated booth and a line of t-shirts like that. It's got nothing to do with pompous webcomic artists and everything to do with using powers of simple deduction - which is further illustrated by the fact that that is the one and only time we got asked whether Megatokyo was an anime. There were plenty of people who came by the booth, who had never heard of Megatokyo, and they figured it out alright.

Also, honestly ... you are taking this too seriously.

[Giga Guess]

On one hand, I don't believe a person should be ridiculed fro ignorance such as that.  On the other...it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out, either.

At any rate, good comic!

[Rheinhard]

Sorry, I read the last panel to mean "How could anyone be so stupid as to be at Otakon and not know what Megatokyo is??"  ... which, although it may not have been the impression you intended, most definitely IS  a reaction I have encountered from a number of younger fans.  It does get my goat, I'll admit, to have somebody like Rin Taro or Noburo Ishiguro at a con and barely be able to scrape together 25 attendees to sparsely populate the seats for their panel in the main hall, while that same hall is filled to capacity and beyond a few hours later for the webcomic panel.

[ArtisticMystic]

Personally, I don't consider a comic to be Manga or Animation to be Anime unless the artists and wrtiers are Japanese. Just an opinion from someone who's been a Manga fan since 1984...

[Deooirian]

How can a simple comment like mine start a huge debate on anime fandom? All I was getting at was instead of doing a little common sense into finding out what the booth was about the guy just kept asking questions that could be answered by just looking deeper into what the booth was offering. Not that webcomic artists are elitists.

[Rheinhard]

It wasn't your comment that started it. I was going to make my comment after reading the strip regardless; your post just happened to already be there and seemed to reinforce what i was more or less planning to say anyway about the final panel.

I suppose it's a normal human reaction that when one is surrounded by crowds of adulators that one's ego and opinion of oneself begins to grow, possibly beyond the actual levels of one's accomplishment.  Note that I'm not specifically accusing Hawk or Ananth of this - I've never met them but they seem relatively grounded... but I have encountered this attitude in fandom before ("I have written the very popular Swords of Fooblah fanfiction, look at all my fans in this panel discussion, WHY DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!??!" kinda deal.)

So I don't  believe  comic artists are born "elitists" (i don't even think that's quite the right word...).  The real problem I was referring to is more the attitude of a lot of fans...that what's popular in their circle of the interweb is by right the center of the universe, and if you're not aware of it, that just shows you're an ignorant n00b. 

[brentodd]

The real problem I was referring to is more the attitude of a lot of fans...that what's popular in their circle of the interweb is by right the center of the universe, and if you're not aware of it, that just shows you're an ignorant n00b. 

You're the same person who said it gets your goat that somebody like Rin Taro or Noburo Ishiguro can barely scrape together 25 attendees, yet mere webcomics can fill the room.

So... you seem to be guilty of the same thing.

edit:
I actually don't disagree with your first post though - yes, the "what do you sell" part is a stupid f'in question - the "anime" part is not necessarily a stupid f'in question.

[Rose]

Kay guys. A good portion of people are pretty stupid. And so is this conversation

The End!

[Giga Guess]

Uh-oh...the modstick.

Errrrr...to the topic...good comic...I really hope it was only the one guy though.  ;p