slincoln blog

I’ve been giving a bit of thought to Megatokyo recently. Basically trying to determine when things “went wrong.” MT’s a comic that is without a doubt pretty polarizing, heck there’s a sizable number of people on the site’s own forum that profess to hate the strip and never read it. Obviously, better men than I have dissected MT and I definitely agree with that basic argument, the strip lost a lot of life when Rodney left. Yes, this is basically piling onto the chorus and is a piece of analysis nearly 5 years too late, however I know of one simple way to fix at least some of what went wrong. Namely, tone down Largo. For some unknown reason I found myself poking through the MT archives and discovered that way back when Largo was a much more realistic character. It’s almost as if in an attempt to compensate from the lose of Rodney’s voice Fred over-amped the Largo character so that now he cannot go two words before descending into “leet-speak.” In essence the character is a parody of what he once was. If Fred simply ratcheted back the crazy, and didn’t have him talk with quite the overwrought dialogue (and cleaned up his art a bit more) MT would be a much better strip.