Royalty Free Speech | |||||
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| CID: | 20597 | Subscriptions: | 0 | ||
| Frequency: | Lost | ||||
| Url: | http://www.royaltyfreespeech.com/ | ||||
| Genres: | Drama, Spiritual | ||||
| Description*: | Welcome to my creative corner of the crossroads of life. Go on, pull up a chair. You’re gonna want one, trust me: there’s a respectable shit-load of text in some of these comics. (Redacted: actually in ALL of these comics.) This is Royalty Free Speech. It’d be tough for me to give you a quick summation of what we’re all about here. We don’t exactly have a corporate message or a theme, or hell, even the barest flirtation with consistency. At its most basic level (in its current incarnation) this comic is about an incredibly abusive relationship between a vicious alcoholic and his bleeding heart of a victim, along with a dog who is literally Satan, the Morningstar. Obviously I don’t really draw this comic. I write it, and then I use public domain images and clip art to act them out, akin to an inner city internet puppeteer. I’ve come a long way thematically from where I started, with this little drawing serving as a convenient mouthpiece. He’s got a name now, and a family, and life, if you’d care to call it that. But here’s Royalty Free Speech in a nutshell, and here’s why you should read it, if you choose to. The deadpan, cynical snark that comprises virtually 90% of the non-pornographic entities on the Web is lauded as the superior way of life. A personality that is emulated and adapted by numerous empty-headed, empty-hearted wastes of celluar matter. And webcomics are the medium through which they are insistently glorified; even great webcomics like Penny Arcade play off the idea of the cynical, snarky intellectual and the well-meaning imbecile. Welp, that’s what we’re doing here. But we’re gonna take it a step further, dig? We’re gonna take a good long look at what the deadpan snarker’s life would really be like. Let’s examine, through the glass bottom of the fourth wall, the goings-on of a human being whose only pleasure and purpose is to tear down those around him who care for him, who adopts a romanticized version of alcoholism to fill the all-consuming void within. And then, once we’ve understood him, once we’ve seen the one-dimensional waste that comprises his existence, we will laugh at him. Why? Because his antics are funny. His phrasings are occasionally clever. His reactions follow the basic rules of comedy we’ve come to expect. But do not aspire to be him. His wit is no solace. He is a tragedy, all the more tragic for the lack of any to mourn him. I outgrew Arthur Surrogate, and I no longer needed him as my mouthpiece. But he continued on, robbed of even that paltry purpose. I follow him for the same reason you will: to see the depths he sinks to next. I may kill him someday. I’m not even sure it would be murder. -Ryan Kennedy, the Writer | ||||
* Descriptions are user submitted and might not express the views of the admins of this site, or of the comics creators themselves. | |||||
| Flags: | A Adult Situations | ||||
| Entry Added: | Thu, Feb 14, 2013 | ||||
| Entry Modified: | Tue, May 24, 2016 | ||||
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