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La Cosa Nostra

Basic summary: This is Twilight if the story were about the Mafia instead of vampires. Which makes this worse than Twilight because the Mafia is REAL. Hell at least with Vampires you have the leeway of them being fictional so you can say whatever you want. But this chick/whoever made this comic did little to no research on the subject what so ever. She probably saw the Godfather once, read Twilight, decided both were awesome and made this webcomic. People who are intrigued by the mafia would be offended by this. If any of you guys are actual mafiosi, you'd be offended by how awfully emo and inaccurate this is XD

the creator, Darci Robbin's FAQ page reveals how utterly lazy she is.

Q. When does LCN take place?
A. LCN has no set time period. It has aspects of the 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, modern day, and a bit of the late 1800's with the way immigrants are treated. I would say most of it is a 1940's or modern feel, but certain characters have different decades feel to them.

This translates to: "Doey I dunno. I didn't bother to crack open a book or even wiki some of this stuff. I just wanted to write about emo pretty boys who kill but don't wanna kill even though they are in the Mafia. And they are little kids, not grown men like in real life." A good example of this is the very first chapter. The main character,Saoirse an Irish girl and her family are fleeing Ireland's Great Famine. Ok well that's acceptable enough. That took place between 1840 to 1850, right? Roughly that I guess. And I think a lot of immigrants flooded into America from 1850 to 1930. Roughly. But during a few panels of prologue you'll see a character with a cellphone with a hello kitty key chain. And in chapter 2 a girl is shopping in New York using her Daddy's American Express credit card! Widescreen televisions... There is even discrimination against immigrants for some reason. I know this happened a long time ago but since Darci decided she wasn't going to give the setting a concrete year any potential drama against immigrants coming to America is totally lost. She may have even gotten the name of a baseball team wrong because according to what I've read the Yankees weren't always called the Yankees. (I checked. Not until 1913)

She doesn't even understand the meaning of the term 'La Cosa Nostra' as seen here

I believe the term is used specifically for the Mafia of Sicily to tell it apart from other mafias or other criminal networks. This comic takes place in America. If nothing else she could have wiki'd this.


Miss Darci Robbins aka Eiko-chan (egh) could have done SOME research. Anything would have been better than nothing! And those complaints above are only cosmetic. She apparently did an even worse job researching actual Mafia terms or how the organization works. Be prepared to read something more like an annoying highschool drama show than a crime novel. This webcomic must be aimed at little girls who love anime and don't know or don't care about how much effort the creator puts into their work as long as there are emo pretty boys with slight incestuous tendencies to 'squee' over. Of course in the great anime tradition there are one or two female characters placed in a position of power no woman would have in the mafia in the days of old but-oh right, Darci doesn't believe in research! I would let this slide if Darci was clever about it but nooooo she just sticks them in there when the Mafia has for the most part been exclusively male and only recently have women started playing an active role in its workings. This is worse than Twilight.


*weeps* I wish Lackadaisy Cats would update more often...

EDIT : I think I need to correct myself on the La Cosa Nostra term. Later I found this : La Cosa Nostra - The term cosa nostra, which is sometimes translated from Italian to mean "our thing," originally referred to the general lifestyle of organized criminals in Sicily. When the Mafia moved to the United States, FBI agents listening in on wiretaps heard the term. They began using the term La Cosa Nostra (which is grammatically incorrect) to refer to the Mafia. In time, La Cosa Nostra referred specifically to American Mafioso, differentiating them from "old world" mobsters.

So I guess Darci is right in that respect but I bet it was by mistake.