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[Impaler[WrG]]

Yeah, IMO the nudity is tastefully done, and is used within context, to further the story.

I've also noticed that Rich Morris doesn't jump on various opportunities to add gratuitous content to the strip, so all in all, I'd say that it's very well done, and not pornographic, to the point where the heavy sprinkling of nudity actually adds something (maturity, and a certain boldness) to the quality of the strip, rather than taking away from it.

It's also very good *as* a comic strip, so the nudity isn't covering for any creative deficits that I can find.

I completely agree, the comic hits a very good balance between drama, comedy and titillation and the technical merit is quite high for a web comic.  This is going right to the top of my daily read list.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Yeah, so far I've found it worthy--but I haven't read every single strip yet, so I can't vouch whether the quality degrades over time, so please keep that in mind.

[Ultimuh]

I don't have a problem with all the boobs. It's probably no worse than the D&D creature book or whatever.

The 3.5 edition isn't that bad.. Tough I havent taken a look into the 4th edition yet tough..

[inaluct]

After reading up to and through that whole pirate thing, I stopped.

It isn't that I object to nudity, but it's pretty obvious that the author uses his comic to play out sex fantasies. It's sort of shameful.

Pretty disappointing, too. That dragon head on the chimera is adorable, and so is that little kobold pirate guy. A lot of things in there are adorable.

If that comic didn't have all the gratuitous sexual content, I'd be lavishing it with praise.

Umm... Shameful? That's a pretty strong word. I don't find the sexual content to be gratuitous -- of course, if by "sexual content" you mean pictures of breasts  Playing out sexual fantasies? Sheesh, the act of sex is only implied, and is never overused, not is it revelled in by the author. It all fits into the storylines well, and it's not that blatant to begin with. I mean come on... 

Almost every one of the strips is marred by the author's sexual fantasies. I don't want to read his porn. I just want to stare at the adorable kobold things he draws.

[Ultimuh]

Well, if you say so.. *shrugs*

I know that I'll keep reading it anyway, since Ive been doing that since 2008. 

So far I don't have any complaints about it.
So maybe I'm just used to that sorta stuff, or atleast naked women.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I'm really not seeing a whole lot of gratuitous stuff here...I'm on strip 390 now, and even the most sexually charged scenes (which are, frankly, uncommon) further the plot, atleast incidentally.

The "pirates" portion was no exception.

Nudity's present, but it's certainly not what I would call excessive, and I see the artist consciously choosing to avoid it, time and time again, when it would be just as easy to display it, flaunt it, and excite it into a state of pornography.

And I entirely fail to pick up on the whole "almost every strip is somehow acting out a sexual fantasy" thing. I tried my worst (which is pretty bad), but many of them can be taken as entirely innocent, even when viewed through the most aslant and lecherous of mental lenses.

I wouldn't deny that it's certainly possible to bend some of those in directions of vice...but to do so would entail a change in their nature, inflicted by the viewer.

[Aldaris]

Thank you for ruining about 16 hours of my time, but I'm almost done reading.
It's still pretty good, even if the start of the current bardic contest thing is a bit on the boring side.