Artcow Kimchi Cuddles / Tikva Wolf / Bethany Kurrus - "Shishkaboots!" Bethany Kurrus's Poorly Drawn Poly Tumblr Hipster Comic Approved by Sophie LaBelle
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Hagar the Horrible already exists.
Don't forget Garfield. Poor Jon.
soliloquyR
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Heloooooo new Assigned Male.People were requesting a thread on this in the Polyamory on Tumblr thread and even I cringed pretty badly at this comic too, so let's make fun of it here. I'm going to go by what @melty and @Frenda were saying about this comic and add my own screenshots of the mess of a comic here.
So what is Kimchi Cuddles and why should you care? Well, in my own quick Googling on this comic, the TVTropes page on it explains that it is "a Tumblr-based Slice of Life webcomic following the relationships of a community of mostly polyamorous people. The main characters are Kimchi and Vajra, a couple in an open marriage looking to meet other partners, and although their relationship is central to the comic, numerous other relationship dynamics are explored through other characters."
I was trying to see if they had any entry on the Bad Webcomics Wiki but in my quick cursory glance, I didn't find anything there.
The comic strip has gotten some really mixed reviews on r/Polyamory. Just check out a few of these screenshots.
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I really liked the last comment on this screenshot. It sums up everything wrong with this comic in just one paragraph. It's so accurate that I decided to copy and paste what they said here too though I'm much more critical of the art style than they are.
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I don't want this to come across as mean, but I'm not a fan of Kimchi Cuddles.
First, the good. I don't dislike the art style. It's cute.
As others pointed out, it is preachy. It feels like a 22 year old who has never done polyamory is lecturing me on how to do it based on her ideal of what it should be. I know what I thought it would be like. That's not particularly funny.
What is funny are the thousand and one moments in polyamory where it goes some place you never expected. When you're sitting with your wife and your metamour and a party guest makes an unintentionally on-the-nose comment about how all three people on the sofa are packed in so close that they might all as well go home together. It's the thing odd public slip-ups and gaffes that you all have to keep a straight face for and laugh about later.
Poly can be damn funny. It's just a shame not to mine that and instead turn it all into a nonmonogamy PSA.
If you want to see examples of this piss poor comic in action, you're in luck. Melty already compiled great examples for us.
If you're this retarded I don't know if you are ready for one relationship let alone five
This is actually a good point, but it's expressed in the most retarded way possible
This person has a kid? What the fuck? Also why are these all so unfunny?
Ok this is just fucking creepy as hell. Your kid gives another kid a toy and you bring up her future sex life? What?
?I don't even know
Here she all but admits she does this stupid shit for attention
What a great guy, completely ignoring his partners insecurity to soapbox about polyamory. And dealing with one person in pretty much any situation is easier than dealing with two or three because people are fucking complicated no matter what you're doing. Though its not like any of these characters care about complicated stuff like other peoples feelings or what they want.
The purple hair chick and red hair glasses guy have some recurring issues and I guess they break up after many comics of them getting upset and not talking to each other about it. For some reason red hair is portrayed sympathetically and purple hair is portrayed as being really unreasonable even though they're all pretty awful so she ends up unintentionally being relatable, kind of like the bad guys in Assigned Male.
I also recommend reading Frenda's explanation about what the comic is. It has details about its Patreon and all of that.
Relevant tags taken from her comment:
http://kimchicuddles.com/tagged/polyamory
http://kimchicuddles.com/tagged/poly-problems
http://kimchicuddles.com/tagged/metamour (i had to google wtf this means but apparently it refers to your partner's partner)
it has a Patreon, because of course it does - the creator makes $1.2k a fucking month for these shitty doodles.
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bonus: here's an article the creator wrote about how normalizing polyamory would help destroy rape culture.
It's like "Tails gets Trolled" but not as funny.
Speaking of Assigned Male, apparently Sophie Labelle wrote the foreword of her shitty "best-of" book.
When did Pepper Ann become such a whore?
I think she's always been one..When did Pepper Ann become such a whore?
Hagar the Horrible is not that bad of a comic. Kimchi Cuddles on the other hand is nothing but tumblrina propaganda.
Once again, The Lockhorns is still gold compared to Kimchi Cuddles. (yeah, I'm a comic strip sperg)I was thinking more along the lines of The Lockhorns.
Kimchi Cuddles is more like Assigned Male if anything since it spouts nothing but tumblrina crap and involves trannies.
soliloquyR
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The authors predicted Jake Rapp's marriage before it even happened!I was thinking more along the lines of The Lockhorns.
....Still better than Kimchi Cuddles.
Well, The Lockhorns isn't that great. There's nothing that's as bad as Kimchi Cuddles aside from all of the other tumblrina comics.
Iconoclast's comic is more offensive in its ugliness. Like it almost hurts to look at it.
This is just dull.
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It's hard to compare this comic to comic strips:
> Is missing an attempt at humor at least half the time.
> Bad morals and messages are a disservice to the subculture it claims to represent.
>Art style is only one additional blow to the head away from using stock gradients to show something is made of metal.
This is comparable to crap kids make in the computer lab in grade school.
> Is missing an attempt at humor at least half the time.
> Bad morals and messages are a disservice to the subculture it claims to represent.
>Art style is only one additional blow to the head away from using stock gradients to show something is made of metal.
This is comparable to crap kids make in the computer lab in grade school.
Honestly, isn't there another label for whatever the characters of this comic are doing? Isn't the term for this kind of thing "swingers"? Or hell, an open relationship?
Either way, someone who finds this comic funny would probably not be the type of person you want to hang with. Like we didn't know that, though.
Either way, someone who finds this comic funny would probably not be the type of person you want to hang with. Like we didn't know that, though.
Does anyone know how old the author is? Someone in another poly related thread made the point that a lot of the "experts" in polyamory right now really don't have much experience or credentials, and it seemed like a salient point.
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Vajra is Kimchi's husband and the father of their child. So apparently, he didn't even want to be poly, but Kimchi forced him to watch her date other guys and just deal with it anyway? What the fuck? This is Alison Rapp type shit right here.
I love the not-really-subtle propaganda about how polyamory is totally all about fucking three chicks at the same time! And they all love it! When more realistically you're sitting at home crying into a tub of ice cream while your wife is out on a date.
I don't even know what to make out of this. Autism? I usually don't plan fucking my boyfriend so far ahead that we have to autistically make other plans for the night but idk
Gosh I really want to side with the hippie feminist chick here, but she's also just really unlikeable. Also, what is a punchline? Is the moon goddess labia song circle supposed to be a joke? Since this is Tumblr I honestly cannot tell.
Even though I'm only spending less time with you because I'm out banging other guys, the time we spend together is SO much more special!
I mean.. most younger people nowadays don't go into every relationship assuming you're going to be together forever.. it's just a process of getting comfortable? I don't even know what to say here really.
Having friends that you are really close to is still just called HAVING FRIENDS, it's not a poly exclusive thing, holy fuck
Well first of all I don't think anyone would ask that question. Second of all, literally what?
There's honestly too much content here and it's all autistic as hell.
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Vajra is Kimchi's husband and the father of their child. So apparently, he didn't even want to be poly, but Kimchi forced him to watch her date other guys and just deal with it anyway? What the fuck? This is Alison Rapp type shit right here.
I love the not-really-subtle propaganda about how polyamory is totally all about fucking three chicks at the same time! And they all love it! When more realistically you're sitting at home crying into a tub of ice cream while your wife is out on a date.
I don't even know what to make out of this. Autism? I usually don't plan fucking my boyfriend so far ahead that we have to autistically make other plans for the night but idk
Gosh I really want to side with the hippie feminist chick here, but she's also just really unlikeable. Also, what is a punchline? Is the moon goddess labia song circle supposed to be a joke? Since this is Tumblr I honestly cannot tell.
Even though I'm only spending less time with you because I'm out banging other guys, the time we spend together is SO much more special!
I mean.. most younger people nowadays don't go into every relationship assuming you're going to be together forever.. it's just a process of getting comfortable? I don't even know what to say here really.
Having friends that you are really close to is still just called HAVING FRIENDS, it's not a poly exclusive thing, holy fuck
Well first of all I don't think anyone would ask that question. Second of all, literally what?
There's honestly too much content here and it's all autistic as hell.
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