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So I get the feeling we're talking among latinamerican furs here? Cool, I'll chime in, too.
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First off, thanks for mentioning "Oso Pérez". The few strips I read were pretty enjoyable (legitimately so instead of "GAB"'s cheesier, more lowbrow ways) and it's always nice to find furry stuff in Spanish.
Now, about the comic at hand, I've never liked "Lobbo", but still follow "GAB", and I think the main difference between the two is that the latter is far, far less pretentious about what it wants to be (an easily digestible product with mass appeal); only the most recent arc with the band showed signs of trying to aim for grandeur from something that should remain cute and dumb and only at the very end, so I'm hoping they won't really follow that path too often. "Lobbo" on the other hand derailed too early into trying to take itself seriously when it's clear its format does not lend itself to telling an overaching story very well. Maybe the author could've coped with this and found a way in the face of the formal limitatioms, but his art is mediocre and unappealing, and his writing skills are very poor (the story is nonsensical for something of this kind and the dialogue doesn't flow very well). Add to this the lousy translation for the English-speaking audience and you have what is essentially the equivalent of a low-budget trainwreck made by a director who alternates between "hack" and "deranged, but not in a good way". The comparisons to Mexican soap operas are not uncalled for, because the same artistic gracelesness permeates them on every level.
(On a different note, I don't really know why people think the videogame arc in "GAB" was so strange. "Sexing monsters up to beat a challenge" is nothing new in porn, and the final twist gave more credence to the proceedings, not to mention it made for a good punchline).
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