It'd be the same thing if you quit playing a game because one of your favorite characters got killed off.
Basics in drama: It was originally divided into two big groups : a, comedy and b, tragedy.
A miscarriage is a tragedy. Otherwise CAD is a comedy.
You don't fucking mix the two. That's not convention. That's a fucking rule.
And Buckley broke it. Buckey has largely ignored and shat on every sign of criticism to ridiculous lengths. The fact that CAD's forum is mysteriously on maintenance the exact same time Yathzee stood up and dared criticize CAD is just one example.
Dark comedy downplays death and suffering, but it doesn't take it seriously, it doesn't dwell on it beyond the point to make a good joke with a little meaning sprinkled unto it. That's why its comedy.
A tragedy emphasises the horrors of death and suffering, but it might make a comic moment(s) to create irony for it and thus emphasize it even more. That's why its tragedy.
There is a clear difference. Now, there are allot more groups and sub-groups and whatnot. But the distinction between the two groups at large is clear, even today.
Artists can brake conventions but rules exist for a reason. Some are more valid then others, sometimes we get something new and interesting by breaking them but there are some rules that are just basic. This whole internet drama is the same thing.
It is possible to shift from a light-hearted setting to a tragic one and vice-versa. It is even possible to switch rapidly from one to another, in order to control the audience (I've saw a great film that did something like this). But it is not possible to switch from a comedic setting to a tragic one.
This is a fucking high-school level literature studies. Hell, this is more-or-less common sense.
*WARNING*Long-winded rant.
Buckley doesn't handle CAD like art. He handles it personally. While art is unavoidably personal, you have to realise that there is skill and technique to it. It doesn't matter if its music, comic books or glass-shaping, you make something and in the end, that something is a product of what you do as a profession. You have to handle a profession professionally, and (pardon the quote) a professional has standards: one is admitting that you have to develop what you do.
Poetry for example. Not any random, vaguely-rhyming collection of sentences is poetry. There is a deal of science to it, called prosody, that studies and analysis things like tempo of the rhyme, styles, tools and whatnot. You can write entire books about it, because there are books about it.
At first glance, these things look like the bread and butter of self-important critics. Poetry is just poetry, right? Just led the words flow, right? Wrong. Nobody was (and hopefully, still is) more interested in prosody then the actual poets. The same is true for any kind of artist. Good artist take their art seriously but also professionally, looking for flaws and errors from which they can learn and develop from. That's how art works. Sometimes bounderies and conventions, rarely even rules, are broken but the difference between doing it right and doing it wrong is doing it consciously.
"I am just doing it my way" is not an excuse. I can, for example, play on a flute and I enjoy it. But I don't do anything then bumble about. That's not necessarily art: if I am conveying something, that's accidental. If I were to start playing it to you, you would pay me to stop, because its that horrible (well, compared to some awesome flute and whistle plays I've heard and are otherwise considered mediocre).
Buckley shits not only on conventions, but also these kind of ideas. This storyline, he openly admitted, to be because his girlfriend had a miscarriage. This wasn't concious effort to brake rules: this was an impulse effort to channel his feelings. CAD becomes his speechpipe, in his own style and that's all there is to it. It's not that different if I suddenly switched from, say, a guitar song you love to my awful flute play.
And that's why "I'm doing it my way, its my comic and I do whatever I want with it" is not a good excuse, not for art anyway. Buckley isn't trying to create art: he's making a speechpipe and get money off it.
*end of rant*
Now, to see as the other members will tear me apart.
*what fun*
