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[Burnt Face Man 10]

I was excited to have David Firth make me feel uncomfortable again. Back in the day, my favorite Firth cartoons were weird, semi-abstract, and saturated in a tonal atmosphere that carried the emotional impact and enjoyment of the piece. Burnt Face Man was never the most memorable of his work to me, but even those I felt like were based on Firth's trademark morbid and almost abstract absurdity, being transposed onto a typical archetype and then *that was the joke*. But in Burnt Face Man 10, the joke is often "sexual predation". It's not the first time Firth has done that, but this time it's very focal. Something maybe my younger, more immature self would have have laughed at, but today I don't find much amusement in. It's a shame too, because some of Firth's stylistic tone is definitely here, and it is great to see again. I love some of the visual bits and animations. The way a character twiddles his thumbs is a delight to see. But for this piece as a whole, to me, it feels like there are too many instances of "Sexual Predation on young people: isn't that FUNNY?", and to me the answer is: "No. Not really.".

So in short, David Firth has come back to make e feel uncomfortable, but this time it wasn't for any of the right reasons.

[Exterminated]

This was fantastic! Very imaginitive and well realized- this is something to be proud of. I would really like to see more of this conceptually awesome world that we only got to see a little bit of here.

[The Invasion]

You should make your own sprites- the game isn't that bad, it's just harshly unoriginal. Also, you have this listed as an animation when you should have submitted it as a game.

tonytouch13 responds:

I did? whoops lol, thanks for the input.

[Hot Kool-Aid Ad]

Would have liked it more if you had used your own material for the joke. This is just a semi-decent animation the sound of an already popular live-action web skit. At least your fellow creators credit, eh?

[Abstract v00 1]

Needs more work.

You should probably slow the frame rate down on the first part. The second part could use improvement by putting more time into making the animation more smooth and fluid- like the first part seemed to be.

[Guns of the Awesome]

Great!

This was a very well done flash parody, and while the style is a familiar one, it would obviously be remiss to discount you of any creativity. I only reccomend that you don't include 'awesome' in your title, so as to seperate yourself a bit from Egoraptor. It's one thing to be inspired by him, but is it really necessary to use his signature titling as well?

secondstamp responds:

You might have a point, but I think it's more of a label to say "This is a parody"; and if I would not include that in the title, I'm sure everyone would hate it for being a rip-off for the content. With this name, your sort of have an excuse for ripping something of. And some like to call that parodies. Haha.