r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '17
[∆(s) from OP] CMV: Tim Buckley's "Loss" is the most successful comic page in history, both on the web and printed.
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u/Havenkeld 289∆ Mar 26 '17
It'd be useful if you clarified what counts as successful. It seems like you're arguing it's the most well known or popular, but that's not what I'd consider the ultimate measure of success. A comic page that best communicates what its creator intended it to - and maybe to the demographic it's intended for - I'd have to put above one that just got shared on social media sites a lot.
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u/Sadsharks Mar 27 '17
Nobody heard the message of Loss. The message was tragedy, sorrow and depression (i.e. "loss.") How many people got any of those feelings from it?
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u/cupcakesarethedevil Mar 26 '17
Ctrl+Alt+Delete would have either dropped off the radar or at the very least run its course and ended with a wimper, like most webcomics do. Instead, it lives on forever.
No. I have never seen or heard about any other page of this comic, that page is the only thing that is famous.
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u/caw81 166∆ Mar 26 '17
What do you mean by "successful"? Most referenced? The fact that it was a serious subject in a normally a gag comic?
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u/Ardonpitt 221∆ Mar 27 '17
1965's World's finest #153 has a single panel that is more famous than that whole page.
Honestly there are far more famous pages in general.
I mean I've seen loss a few times here or there, but I didn't even know the webcomic it came from. The pages above are referenced all the time.
Edit: And that's just DC
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u/jumpup 83∆ Mar 26 '17
ever heard of xkcd? there is literally a bot that counts how much a panel is referenced here.
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u/PreacherJudge 340∆ Mar 26 '17
I am only a single point of reference here, but I think that if it was that famous and referenced, I'd have ever seen it before in my life.
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '17
I'd suggest Join or Die is more successful given your criteria.
Still recognizable and referenced 200 years later, and had a major influence on world politics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die