Modok
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YES. This is exactly what I think is holding his comics back from maintaining the notoriety they once had. He keeps the titles going out of the assumption that we're engaged enough with the characters to follow them regardless of how dead-end the plots end up being. Somewhere it got lost that the story has to have a taboo shock factor to draw you in and create the sexual tension. At this point I think he could generate a more provocative comic about a husband and wife who we've never seen before having sex than another issue of one of his legacy titles with moms and dads and sons and daughters fucking.
That's why I will always consider Dat Ass his best work. It could have been wrapped up in 2-3 issues but would have told one of the most powerful stories because of how he told it and how real and grounded the plot was.
I'm not going to condemn the guy for that. Jab has done a lot of shit that I don't necessarily agree with, but in the case of the slop that he's outputting these days he clearly doesn't care what he's doing, he's just...Providing the fix that many gooners desire. Is it the drugs or the disillusionment of feeling like this being the only revenue stream he has at this point in his life? Maybe, he's clearly not driven to draw just plain pedobait like lilandy or shadbase was - the calculus for him is money - and it's worked, for some reason that is entirely beyond me, he manages to not only get people working for him but makes enough money to still be working through the same pay vendor.
Jab's work used to be sublime. I loved the irreverant sauciness of it when he was happily doing disney and hanna barbera parodies...But that just isn't him these days, sadly. He was right up there with Miravi and Tooshoes for me back in the day.
In short, I honestly think that at this point if you're hoping for coherent storytelling from any of these comics, your best chance is to blank out the text and script your own thread into it.