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New PBF comic - "Metamorph-Assist"
- Thread starter Übermatik
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Westbahnhof
Banned
...can "the promised land" mean the afterlife? I thought it was something different.
Edit: Like, it's usually a good place where living people go.
Chuckie
Member
This I agree with.
woopWOOP
Member
This one for instance
There's no next or previous buttons and it doesn't seem to be listed below
Searching through Google images shows plenty more I didn't come across on the site itself, despite some of them still being on the site. Weird.
Westbahnhof
Banned
Übermatik;242632837 said:
Oh really? I was just spouting BS when I posted
But now it's doesn't seem that far from the truth..
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
The dialogue shows how people will double down on wanting their dreams to be a reality even though they're blatantly being manipulated.
John Kowalski
Banned
It really is.
You get that without dialogue
Seems to be a pretty straight forward PBF joke to me. Are people really having trouble getting the basic joke that its a spider dressing up as a butterfly to trap other bugs in its web with promises that they can be beautiful and fly? Seems about as to the point as you get with a joke like this.
I think some or half are trolling because some didn't get it
Chuckie
Member
It is a GAF meme. Everytime a new PBF comic is released, about half of the replies will be: "I don't get it" (By people who get it)
Another part of the meme is really long posts analysing the deeper meaning of the comic.
New to gaf so didn't know
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Another GAF meme is to try and rationalize people's stupid behavior/opinions as "memes."
Westbahnhof
Banned
Obviously, it's all about Trump.
The butterfly simply symbolizes greatness, or someone enjoying the good life.
The bug, a person in a worse position, yearns for similar status.
Along came a spider named Donald.
Those ugly thing, pretending to be one of the beautiful and great butterflies, promises help.
"Come to me, and you too can become like us".
The Trumpspider uses flower petals (beautiful lies) to appear good. The true, evil nature is obvious, but only to those who can bring themselves to properly look at everything from different angles.
So they bug goes to(elects) the spider. It let's him envelop it in silk, which of course is representative of political action. As an example, Healthcare would be appropriate.
While the deadly healthcare legislation is threatening to snuff out the bug, the insect thinks it is being helped, and calls out for even more changes.
The bug corpses represent Donald Trumps previous victims, before his political career.
Edit: The bug sprouting extra legs in panel 2 is meant so symbolize the inconsistencies of Trump voter behavior.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I thought it was a metaphor for the predatory lending practices that occurred before the 2008 housing crisis. The bugs are families who dream of owning a home, buying their way into a better life. They see others around them flourishing and imagine that could be them. The spider/butterfly is the lender, promising assistance, a pathway to this better life. The "cocoons" are subprime mortgages. You enjoy the ride before it strangles the life out of you. Literal and figurative predation.
We could turn this into a movie. A Bugs Life meets The Big Short.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Mine is that the Butterfly is in on the con.
Cymbal Head
Banned
Thank god for PBF threads.
TheJollyCorner
Member
PBF threads... Jesus Christ... consistently a trainwreck shitshow.
I hope Gurewitch doesn't lurk around here.
Then again, he might laugh his ass off
I hope Gurewitch doesn't lurk around here.
Then again, he might laugh his ass off
backflip10019
Member
Nice.
presumably, at some point, eons ago, some Gaffer didn't "get" a PBF comic, thus a meme was born
the only two other comics that have or had the privilege of getting their own regular threads are VGCats (once upon a time), in which every comic was shortened to two pannels, and Charlie Hebron, in which some Frenchmen make futile attempts to explain the concept of satire
the only two other comics that have or had the privilege of getting their own regular threads are VGCats (once upon a time), in which every comic was shortened to two pannels, and Charlie Hebron, in which some Frenchmen make futile attempts to explain the concept of satire
cr0w
Old Member
Just last week this forum had a thread dedicated to someone asking how to properly wipe their own ass.
I sure as fuck hope he isn't reading Neogaf reactions.
PBF threads are the worst threads in this site.
worst threads on NeoGAF? I don't see it. There's some people enjoying the comic, others not, and the typical people doing the whole "I don't get it *wink*"
seems pretty harmless and far from the "worst."
Lord Azrael
Member
Yeah I noticed that too, I was coincidentally going through them just a couple of days ago and was confused as to why a bunch of them weren't there.
Westbahnhof
Banned
Really? I prefer this kind of thing to any thread involving cops, minorities, feminism, terrorism, freedom of speech..
This is all fun and games.
In the ones I mentioned, people show opinions that can be really depressing.
Haunted
Member
that's_damn_good.gif
IamDodongo
Member
This is gaf tho
Massive Nights
Member
He 'removed' them when he published the books I think.
IdreamofHIME
Member
It's about how Marvel are stupid to do a deal with Sony over Spiderman.
Sure the move will make 150 million this weekend, but the Venom spinoff next year will be so bad it bankrupts both companies.
That's how I interpreted it.
Sure the move will make 150 million this weekend, but the Venom spinoff next year will be so bad it bankrupts both companies.
That's how I interpreted it.
sixteen-bit
Member
That crafty spider gonna feast well tonight
In before "the expressions"
Edit:
Edit:
Damnit! (Nice catch)
The New SJWs is my definitely favorite team comic.
Wow, didn't notice that.
TetraGenesis
Member
People seriously don't get this?
This is a very easy comic to understand compared to some of the more challenging PBFs.
This is a very easy comic to understand compared to some of the more challenging PBFs.
It's a meta joke
TetraGenesis
Member
Gotcha. I wasn't on GAF during the height of PBF so that's new to me.