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Well, I dont know whether I should laugh or cry about this situation....


The Bad part: As many of you know, i wrote "What In Neopia?" for the Neopian Times.... and I also made a few posts about how I was having problems sending in comics. I made my 13th comic, my funniest one ever, especially since it had everybodys opinion... nobody likes those ugly orange spots on our neopets, so I finally made a comic about it! *however, this isnt an art board, so if you want to see the comic, its here: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7509

Anyway, Whenver I hit the "submit comic" button, it brought me to the beauty contest page for some reason.... I figured it would just fix itsself, and it did... after a few months. anyway, I send it in, and it gets rejected... my favorite comic of mine doesnt get accepted. However, this isnt entirely a gloat/cry post... theres more to it


The Fun/Ironic part... I got a neomail earlier from TNT that said that there were too many good entries that week... so, i sent it in again, and I get another neomail that says "it didnt get accepted because the editor didnt understand the joke".... come on, the comic is made up of lots of little jokes! Im not here to talk about my comic itself.... but knowing the fact that they did accept 13 comics that I sent in all in a row without hesitation at all.... send, accept. send, accept. send, accept. And look, i send in this one, my best one yet, and i get a message saying the editor doesnt get it? *which is one of 2 or 3 automatic comic responces they have*... So, do you think they didnt accept it because of the fact that I'm expressing my opinion on the situation? They obviously have to make all of the purple pets with orange for some reason, because they revamped all of the ones that didnt have orange. And everybody talks about how they dont like the orange all the time, and Im sure that TNT is well aware of it..... so I guess my main question... is the reason that my comic didnt get accepted because of me.... or is it REALLY because of TNT's thoughts about us expression it to all of neopia through comic? *that makes fun of the WHOLE situation of purple pets?*

Just a thought.... another...really long though. Like I said, I dont know whether to laugh or cry. Im sad because my favorite comic didnt make it, and our opinions dont get to be released in the neopian times... but I like the situation because I actually think TNT didnt accept it because of THEIR problems.


oh yeah, if you are going to comment on the comic ITSELF.... then please post on the topic I made in the Art gallery *on that link above* because this isnt the area for critiqing or comments about the comic... this topic was made to discuss TNT's values and problems with public opinion

Neo probably has its own reason, which might be one of the following:

1. Adam was shoving asparagus up his nose and fainted and hit 'reject' on the keyboard for your comic.

2. A giant canary weighing 60 pounds flew in and ate one of their compys and everyone spasmed and the computers all exploded.

3. They ran out of water balloons to throw at news reporters so the news reporters stormed Neo HQ.

4. A ninja came in and took the editor hostage.

5. Someone cut the cheese. REAL BAD.

6. Too much coffee.

7. Too little coffee.

8. They went shopping at a supermarket and got lost in between the Oreos and Chips Ahoy on Aisle 8.

9. They had a party. A nice one with lots of chocolate cake!

10. THE ONLY LOGICAL EXPLANATION: Neo must really have something aganist flying rodents.

that's better than the comic (no offense TWW)

You know, I just signed the petition last night on those silly orange spots! I think they didn't want to publish it because there IS a controversy over those spots. This way, they just pretend the controversy doesn't exist!

It's not really that funny, I'm not surprised it wasn't accepted. You're just saying they made a bad decision in putting orange on all of the purple pets. I like having orange on the purple pets, it's better than a color fill. Why would striped pets get spots? Do all purple pets only have orange in the shape of spots?

Inrun Edit: TWW kindly asked (and I do agree as do the other staff) that critiques of the comic itself be put into the proper forum, and under the proper thread; which was linked.
http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7509
I am certain that TWW would be more then happy to reply to any questions about his comic that you may have in the thread in the gallery.

My comic got smashed as well. Next week I'll submit TWO! Take that confused and humorless editor person.

Then I don't think I understand the point of this thread, I was attempting to explain how the editor wouldn't find that funny. Did I write something else in there because I don't remember anything else. I'm all confused now

Edit: My comment was basically that the editor probably doesn't find it funny to make a joke of the artist's work and theme of the purple pets.
I have seen a few people complaining about the orange, but maybe there aren't that many people saying good things about it since they just don't think it's worth their time. I know I haven't found just cause to celebrate the orange, but I do like it. The editor might have thought the conent wasn't humorous enough even though it was well-drawn.

WonderWeezel, your comics are very well drawn, IMO. They thoroughly deserved to get chosen. Maybe the editor really didn't get the joke...

Back when they were doing the Sloth Plot, there was an orange grundo and a purple one that are fighting. The orange side suggested a truce, but the purple side did not initially accept the truce. But later after Sloth shows up, they figure that they have to work with the orange ones in order to stop Sloth. And they realize that they are all grundos after all, the only difference is color. Since the orange ones suggested the truce and the purple one rejected it, it cursed all the purple grundos. Now they have the spots. But I don't know why that should effect every purple pet in Neopia. But it did. And as we didn't have the Sloth Plot, how do we know that any of this happened at all? The End.

I think the reason it wasn't accepted was because TNT doesn't want to advertise people critizing them. (or one of Kirby with Yugi Hat's suggestions ) I think it should have been though. I too dislike the annoying orange, but they probably did that to make it more interesting.

could be worse, they could also make the orange pets have purple spots.

*shudder* thats cruel.

on some pets i don't actually mind the orange, its when it becomes overwhelmingly obvious it starts to eat away things in my brain. and it says things like *thats why theres a split pb!!*

tnt are reasonably good about providing a wide range of views, its not easy to let in articles wihc you feel criticize yourself or your work, so i can see the editors maybe not having a good sense of humor about it, but still it was well done and makes a point, maybe you'll have better luck next time with an editor who hasn't been attacked by a giant asparagus eating canary?


and kirby, those reasons are hilarious, i suggest you submit them to the times

now I have to admit that I don't read the Neopian Times as much as I used to, but from what I've seen of the comics is that they are taking a situation and making a joke out of it. TWW did a good job with that and awesome art so how could it be rejected for doing the same thing he's probably been doing with all the others... (right TWW?)



now to answer your questions... 1) all purple pets have orange spots of some sort except the kougra which has orange stripes. 2) it isn't the point that a striped pet gets spots... it's more that what if they decide to put spots on all of the other colors? or any other color?

personally I thought the spots were kinda odd at first and now I just don't like them... but I like purple. I mean they already have spotted pets...

...but autechre has a good point. they probably are having a hard time having a sense of humor about it.

like you said, you had 13 or so comics accepted straight-away.. so you had what is basically a really good run. I think what the editor is probably trying to do is give all the new comics a chance. I wouldn't take it as anything personal against your comic. It seems some of the other established comics haven't been accepted for a few weeks either... like really confused.

[I also agree with yr opinion on the purple spots, but didn't really find the comic funny, I thought it was a bit heavy-handed.. so maybe it wasn't about yr opinion, maybe the editor really didn't get the joke. I know you don't want people to comment on yr comic here - but if you're going to discuss reasons for rejection it IS relevent.]

They keep rejecting my comic because of "too many good entries". They've done it twice so far. It's not THAT bad of a comic!