What's the worst online comic strip?

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"Excuse me while I kiss the sky" morelike "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" amirite?

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Little bit of politics, ladies and gentlemen

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We've all been there guys, hey?

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...wait, what?

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lol placenames

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That's exactly how women talk! Mitch Clem OTM.

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She's so angry her breasts have started to levitate.

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cat & girl is nicely drawn but makes less sense than day by day

san antonio rock city is the fucking worst

does your crazy ex like these?

cat and girl lost the plot at some point but the ones you've just reposted are actually good

Ok you don't like it. we get the point!
i think if you peek at the "batshit right wing cartoons" thread you'll see this shit called "day by day" that makes this junk look like it was done by picaso.

ha ha xposts!

From these examples Cat & Girl seems a lot better. The jokes don't make much sense, but they're not nearly as trite and obvious. Also, yes, quite nice drawings.

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Dom RU OK

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Now THAT is funny.

That seems like some drawn from life shit.

Cat and Girl is sometimes okay, the real answer is Questionable Content

I read questionable content everyday. Crossref w/ Justice thread:

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=905

oh god that's awful. are those meant to be teeth in her mouth?

Nothing ever happens in QC. They just mention a band, make some zing and then hint at sex. It is very boring. I still read it though because I like the anthropc and want one.

Hey I like QC. Love it. SA Rock City looks kind of shit from the examples here tho.

QC = every subculture gets the Nemi it deserves

HEY HAY PASSANTIIIOOOA or anyone what is yr view on thelondonpapers' Em comic. They had a joke about iliketrains. ILIKETRAINS! THATS LIKE MAKING A JJOKE ABOUT 65DAYSOFSSSTSTSTSTATIC! the punch line was like "lol i don't like trains cos they is late!".

Can I please be the Faithmouse of the "What's the worst online comic strip?" thread?

I think you could be onto something here. Today, our protagonist finds out what happens when one wears a nylon shirt for just over two months; tomorrow they become a 'pigeon detective' in an attempt to find out why they get covered in shit every time they step out the house

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it's strange that there isn't, to my knowledge, a brit indie equivilant of these comics. i guess cos amerindie is into books and comics and geekiness while britindie, well, isn't.

i was thinking more of the protagonist searching for 5live on AM for a long time. yr idea is better. keep the ideas coming, we could sell this stuff to drowned in sound!

On a Kerrang thread some time back we mourned long-dead K! strips and the continuing existence of Pandora... but that isn't really what we're looking for I suppose

Woah wait is no one going to comment on the fact Dorothy just posted here!?

hmmm anyone remember the cartoons in late era melody maker about the two djs? it wasn't "good" but it was better than a lot of the stuff up thread.

xp

Oh oh and Moody DJ in Select... it wasn't brilliant or anything either but was quite clever in that it was quite nerdy about dance culture but zinged eg jungle and ambient enough for indie kids to laugh along

Trayce. Please explain.

of cat and girl authorship fame

Ha I can't see any of the Cat and Girl comics due to websense. Has / have she / you done a picture celebrating this thread like Faithmouse did?

Dom, you really are a bitter old cunt.

But then again I'm the guy wearing a Cat and Girl t-shirt (actually I wore it on Tuesday but poetic licence y'all) so it's probably just simpering fanboy bias ;_;

HI PERSON OF MILD NOTE ON INTERNET THANKS FOR POSTING TO OUR MODEST LITTLE FORUM I AM BIGGEST FAN OF YOU GET WELL SOON KANYE

I Don't get it... Why does the guy who confesses his indie guilt have vampire teeth? And why did he put the Dolly Parton cassette in his mouth? Are these two things interrelated?

actually Tuomas that was the only thing on this entire thread I laughed at, but I can't explain why

I agree that the "hugging a mestruating woman" strip is the worst. Because, you know, when you hug a woman with mensies some blood may squirt out of her! EW!

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I mean I can try, but...you know the speeches people give at AA and NA meetings about how they hit rock bottom?

The vampire is a long-running character. I dunno - I think Dom's posted one poor C&G strip and two good ones, so I don't know what point he's trying to make.

Okay, so hitting the rock bottom is putting Dolly Parton in your mouth, I get that. But why the teeth?

Whoops, x-post.

Did Mitch Clem use to do stuff in Punk Planet? I know I've been gently irritated by his strips somewhere in print

the melody maker djs were called Herman and Sherman. or so i have been informed by a person who owns a cat and girl hoodie.

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The only way I can make any sense of this one is if it's a They Might Be Giants reference.

also, can we throw Penny Arcade and Dustinland into the debate here? PA is occasionally funny (when the video game refs don't go over my head) but this whole genre of comics that are just a stand-in for the author wearing a band shirt and saying shit they say to their friends has got to stop. wtf happened to comics about talking animals and incongruously worldly children?

questionable content is totally awful

I used to like Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, but it's the same joke over and over. Bored now.

river wolf otm, I tried to read qc for a couple of months and it's just 'aren't my characters adorable omg'. dude designs pretty good t-shirts tho.

ughhhh...

ugh

ha xp

Cat and Girl is about 100x better than that other shit. Comments about Dom's ex otm

besides daybyday I think the other answer to this is http://www.little-gamers.com/

I mean it's all well and good to bitch about penny arcade, but their competition is so horribly lame it beggars the imagination to conceive of a person so lame as to put this shit up on the internet on a regular basis

guy who does PVP is clearly talented and works hard at it but his material is pretty standard soap-opera-for-nerd-alerts (cf sluggy freelance, scarygoround, etc) which gets old as hell after a while IMO- which is another reason I favor stuff like PA or even achewood, where continuity is treated as optional from week to week etc

there are seriously hundreds of webcomics that could probably be objectively rated worse than the ones pointed out on this thread so far

I've read far, far too many of them

should read "competition is so horrible" nix the adverbial suffix and redundant use of lame

The only way I can make any sense of this one is if it's a They Might Be Giants reference

OMG it is too, how did I not realise. Still sucks though.

river wolf otm, I tried to read qc for a couple of months and it's just 'aren't my characters adorable omg'. dude designs pretty good t-shirts tho.

wtf, the questionable content t-shirts fully reflect dude's lack of drawing ability and unfortunate aesthetic sense

haha, man, i'm discussing webcomics

Tombot otm about penny arcade mostly... at least they don't have pretentions of being anything other than a cheetofingered circle jerk. Achewood has its moments of greatness.

GOTCHA xpost

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argh

I just tore my own head and shat down my neck, reading those.

Wow thats TERRIBLE. And I like some of the XKCD strips!

"lol i use linux i am cool" wtf that joke wasnt funny in 1995.

Some of them are ok. A lot of the "nerdy in jokes" are really pretty surface level references meant to make Joe Dorito Breath feel better.

Although maybe I should try my hand at this as my cute programmer/indie rocker ex-girlfriend from 2001 seems to get moist for XKCD etc

I like his whimsy ones that arent nerdy, like his one about a whole part of his brain being devoted to building the greatest treehouse ever. I liked that.

I think my webcomic tastes are more of a pokey the penguin / tim @ kfc.edu / jerkcity flavor though.

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Jerkcity is awesome.

I avoided Achewood for a long time because I hate the artwork, but the writing is winning me over.

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I kind of like that one.

I have used that right hand term many times

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This dude is trolling for pussy.

That one's kind of depressing!

i love achewood unreservedly

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best achewood?

cmon the art in achewood is key to the lolz

This dude is trolling for pussy.

This otm.

not as good as pokey

mr nutty: "i have a dream that one day penguins will live in peace!!"

penguin: "we do live in peace"

mr nutty: "my dream has come true!!!!"

This is crazy. Cat and Girl is fantastic. Part of XKCD's charm is that it's more like a blog with random thoughts than a "webcomic" like most of the rest, so even though some of the ones you posted are cringy, it's all good in the end.

Nothing beats Pokey of course.

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!!! HELLO SEXY WORLD!!!

fuck you, corny indie web comic fuck

I hadn't noticed that the time+date on that xkcd hasn't happened. Are his avid readers meant to turn up and propose to him or something?

Anyway, uh, as a corny indie webcomic-reading fuck with a Cat and Girl t-shirt (and I don't read SARC but I used to read Mitch Clem's old comic Nothing Nice To Say, probably more because I like the way he draws characters than anything else, but it had its moments), I have to wonder if there are any webcomics you don't hate, Dom?

Really though, you want to see worse comics, go to keenspace or drunkduck and click on one at random. And if you think you've found the worst webcomic ever, just go through the archives until you see the words "guest strip", and there you'll have a link to an even worse one.

(I am really tempted to link to a friend of a friend's apparent attempts to recreate Love Is... for the Warcraft/livejournal generation, with every other strip being "hiii I was in the pub and Lisa asked me to draw her so here is some unrecognisable Photoshop-daubing with the word Lisa underneath and here is Lisa's gerbil and Lisa likes dolphins so here is a picture of a dolphin lols" "my boyfriend made me a cup of tea he is really nice and i like tea!!" "this strip was late because i am busy lol work sucks huh here is a cartoon of a pile of books and me looking sad!!! :( :(", but I could see them getting upset enough to go through the whole of ILX to find out who I am, so you'll just have to imagine that delight. Also they've improved a bit and taken the really lousy stuff down, but I'm sure there are even worse comics out there which haven't reached that stage yet.)

I have to wonder if there are any webcomics you don't hate, Dom?

Dinosaur Story, Cyanide and Happiness, most Natalie Dee.

Can you explain the appeal of Natalie Dee?

when did it get popular to draw as if you were an eight-year-old, and can we please get to the next stage of what's popular please

2005

I have to admit that Linux joke made me laugh. (Well actually the motorcycle made me laugh.)

Let's see what Natalie Dee is 'taking on' today. Baby Penguin? Making a noise?!? GENIUS

lolol cyanide and happiness

Those Natalie Dee drawings remind me of Mr Scruff

is NEMI online?

http://goaste.cx/goaste/nemi001.html

Uncultured bitch:

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those doctored nemi strips are fantastic

ftw:
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I avoided Achewood for a long time because I hate the artwork, but the writing is winning me over.

-- Rock Hardy, Sunday, 17 June 2007 04:30 (Sunday, 17 June 2007 04:30)

Glad to hear it. It's perhaps my favourite strip both online and off. The blogs were pretty good as well (when I had time to keep up with them), it's amazing that the characters are so 'credible' and have such distinctive voices.

whoever redid those nemi strips has just listenedto/read bjork interviews.

xkcd can fuck right off as well

Your therapist and I are both glad you were able to get that off your chest.

The explanations Mitch Clem includes underneath his strips are really something. This is for the first one posted in this thread:

Since drawing this comic, it's come to my attention that the above percentage is well over 82%. I base this information solely on the amount of people who were upset after reading said comic and started trying desperately to defend themselves. Listen you guys, you're allowed to do whatever you want, really. But I, for one, am hardly impressed to learn that you know the lyrics to a song (a song), and you will find me nothing short of annoyed if you insist on reciting said lyrics ad nauseam despite my inevitable repeated barks of "PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP, NO ONE CARES!".

Victoria does this, of course (anyone who knows her will be none too surprised), but the actual murder victim in the above strip is none other than Tom "Theater Hopper" Brazelton, whose insistence on reciting the "Humpty Dance" (for those of you too young to remember the "Humpty Dance", just close your eyes and try to imagine what it would sound like if the Holocaust were a rap song) once every hour the last time we were at a comic convention together was nothing short of maddening. I'm fairly certain that, at some point, he was just trying to annoy me, and it worked.

Personally, I'd say the fact that I have damn near every Boris the Sprinkler lyric memorized (including all the between-song monologues) is far more impressive, but I generally only break out that skill in the car by myself. I lead a sad, sad life.

I think xkcd may actually be worse than San Antonio Rock City. I dunno what's the most abhorrent thing about xkcd, whether it's the intellectual dishonesty, the smug self-satisfaction, the douchebag IT nerdity, or the fact that it's basically a bunch of "Whether you think you CAN, or you think you CAN'T: you're right" posters for the Open Office generation.

penny arcade

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^^^best Penny Arcade zing ever

haha, great last panel.

penny arcade is funny sometimes despite being a webcomic about video games. xkcd is unbearable. but srsly, lolol cyanide and happiness

I hadn't noticed that the time+date on that xkcd hasn't happened. Are his avid readers meant to turn up and propose to him or something?

http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/10/01/the-meetup/

I like xkcd (even if I don't get the nerd stuff) :(

Xkcd hurts geeky people more because they understand it, I think. That, and he's totally trawling for the puss.

http://l33tgamerz.comicgenesis.com/

the best zing of all game comics and their common attributes of copy+paste template art, lack of punchlines, and general incomprehensibility to anyone is actually here:

http://www.megagamerz.com/

I have laughed at several of these. it's by the same guy who does Goats.

my current roommate went to that xkcd thing I think. I don't understand xkcd.

my former roommates wallpapered their current living room with natalie dee comics (hand-colored). :DDD

xkcd isn't really that nerdy.

pretty nerdy

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Making sophomore computer science majors feel good about getting "in-jokes"!

Let me get this straight: Jon is arguing that xkcd isn't nerdy because, compared to his ocean of nerdiness, xkcd is but a mere speck of nerd-sand?

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ok this is actually true

xkcd is touchstones that any idiot who spends 2 months into Linux or "coding" can be all "lol this speaks to me"

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xkcd webcomic fans converge in Cambridge park

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blech

the only good think was the breakdancing raptor

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wait he cant dance

xkcd is touchstones that any idiot who spends 2 months into Linux or "coding" can be all "lol this speaks to me"

lol at "It's not that nerdy! All you need to get it is months of Linux exposure!"

Dude had half a year to prepare for that dance. The mind boggles.

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Making sophomore computer scienceEnglish majors feel good about getting "in-jokes"!

Fixed.

Or did you not get that part of the joke?

It does have that vibe, like TMBG sometimes has, like you can just FEEL the 13-yr-olds worldwide popping smug "I get it" boners.

Is the cat drinking a bucket of paint in the first comic posted?

Also, that xkcd thing:

Sean Nichols, a graduate student from the University of Calgary, bought his plane tickets nearly six months in advance, only days after the Dream Girl comic debuted. "I had no real expectations one way or the other," Nichols said. "I just sort of figured, well, it could be a lot of antisocial people standing around sort of looking at each other, or it could be a lot of interesting interaction. And luckily, it seems to be the latter."

Though Munroe had not organized any activities, the participants found multiple ways to entertain themselves and connect with others. Several people were attempting to vertically extend tape measures without bending, a reference to the Tape Measure comic strip. Some used colorful chalk to scrawl computer code on the sidewalk.

Two creative fans even put together a poster of 100 possible conversation topics, while others simply climbed the jungle gym or used the swings. A webcam taped to the swingset broadcast the event online for those who were not able to attend the meetup.

Oh, what is that comic about punk rock with a bald guy and an emo guy? That shits me.

Find me ANY online comic strip that doesn't suck shit.

head on over here:
do YOU love achewood, too?

Oh, what is that comic about punk rock with a bald guy and an emo guy? That shits me.

-- S-, Saturday, October 6, 2007 7:38 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Figures, it's by the same guy.

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I cant decide if thats kinda funny or kinda shit.

shit

I was only amused cos I like the song, but yeah otherwise meh lazy.

song?

The whole strip is a reference to "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen.

whatever. this guy is the absolute fucking worst.

Find me ANY online comic strip that doesn't suck shit.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, October 6, 2007 7:39 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I like Jason Little.

Oh wow, I haven't read Bee in years, need to get caught up on that.

Penny Arcade is pretty great IMO, and I'm someone who is completely NOT up on video game news generally. It's kind of mixed on a regular basis but skimming over the archives you find all kinds of really hilarious ones. Also the art has gotten fantastic. And they have spun the success of their nerdy webcomic into channeling nerd dollars into children's hospitals which I think is pretty admirable. Over a million dollars last year!

This still cracks me up to this day:

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I was only amused cos I like the song, but yeah otherwise meh lazy.

Yeah, esp. since it doesn't show them jumping up on the table before they shout "anarchy."

oh, and it's the Philly Pizza Company.

Thats what I thought! I was like "hang on, surely they dont sing "village pizza company" in the song do they?" in which case the whole damn comic's joke is crap.

The problem with that comic is endemic of 95% of online comics that I see: there's no punchline. Its entire existence is based on the reader going "I recognize that Dead Milkmen song. Clearly this is a joke we share." When, in reality, if this was a COMIC (read: funny), the guys annoying the waitress with the Dead Milkmen song would be a SET UP.

So: There should be another panel with an actual joke in it.

Achewood at least has a quirkiness and uniqueness to it, but also it depends way too much on the reader finding quirkiness in itself amusing. "Oh, this character I'm familiar with is drawn 10 years in the future and saying 'Are you crapping.' Also 'crapping' is a funny way to say that."

Also, thanks Ned for recommending Jason Little. It's pretty sweet, but it seems more comic-comic than internet comic.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction but if you mean drawn to be seen in a comic rather than onscreen then you're probably right.

Its entire existence is based on the reader going "I recognize that Dead Milkmen song. Clearly this is a joke we share."

otm but also i'm getting too olde to appreciate dicking around disguised as rebellion. there's a commercial on now where Irreverent Youth have an impromptu grocery cart race through store aisles and all i could think of was "quit the horseplay you're gonna kill somebody!" and that strip is that ad's cousin. it took mad focus groups to spew the kind of stuff he's coming up with for art's sake there's some measure of pride in that surely.

doing my bit for "talk like an alex in nyc" day ;) ignore the pissiness

i'm getting too olde to appreciate dicking around disguised as rebellion.

Problem is, that's 90% of what people my age produces. We are truly the worst generation.

was it ever any different?

I do like the Perry Bible Fellowship FWIW

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A++

dudes the PBF is awesome, how the fuck is it on this thread, ditto achewood

pbf should never in any context be mentioned in a worst comics thread.

;)

Every comic posted on this thread (except for pbf, x-post) sucked btw. Dom otm.

Jerkcity

from wikipedia:

"Jerkcity contains almost no character development, storyline or continuity. Primary themes it has in abundance include drinking, drug abuse, masturbation, homosexual and/or homophobic activities, gluttony, dick jokes and programming. Dialogue tends towards the absurd, incomprehensible and obscene."

this is why it's great.

My favourite online comic is Dinosaur Comics which really does deserve its own thread, but I can't be bothered to start one.

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/09/comics/index.html

Dom, that's the one which features the same 6 or 7 panels over and over again, with the dialogue changed? That one's generally pretty good, aye.

The problem with that comic is endemic of 95% of online comics that I see: there's no punchline

Sometimes comics don't need to be funny. Sometimes, they can just be poignant and smart.

that one is very good too, but this is a WORST online comic thread

nah, it was cheeseball!

"i promist to try not to use too many cuss words when i talk about you to my therapist."

bleugh

Perhaps she was just upset about her inheritance tax she had to pay when her dad died, max.

Dom OTM.

LJ: Someone upthread said QC was the worst online strip, which is why I linked what I thought was a good (perhaps the best) example of the comic.

Max: That last line wasn't the best in the strip, I'll admit. But -- for an online comic -- I think the emotions and the way they're expressed in QC are surprisingly genuine.

Besides, that type of flippant remark fits Faye's character (she routinely uses zings and snide remarks to protect herself).

;_;

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Hm. Stay classy!

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lol

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity3240.html

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yeah, I don't think of Perry Bible Fellowship as a webcomic at all, since it is run in some alt-weeklies (my local paper being one of the first to pick it up). and it's definitely more ha-ha-funny than the average internet comic, albeit in dry, Far Side-kinda way.

this article is pretty much OTM:
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2376

yo I hate to be this dude but PBF hasn't been funny for like a year and a half now

awesome art tho

no, you're right. PBF has had a profound drop-off in form recently (well, for about a year). Almost all the earlier stuff is gold.

It drives me batty when people expect comics to be funny, that being funny is the sine qua non of comics.

Well, yeah. PBF is often brilliant not because it's funny, but because it's utterly devastating. (see: The Shortcut Express, Billy The Bunny etc etc)

seriously, though, guys, questionable content is terrible

God forbid I expect something funny from something called a "comic"

(that's an xxxpost to "It drives me batty when people expect comics to be funny")

YES I WOULD MUCH PREFER THE SAME PIECE OF CLIPART WITH A NON-SEQUITUR AT THE END

And re: Questionable Content, don't expect me to find something "poignant and smart" in something the artist cut and pasted over and over again to achieve the effect of multiple panels.

If you're gonna do the dead dad comic, AT LEAST DRAW THE FUCKING CHARACTER THREE TIMES go they have the illusion of warmth and humanity.

*so they have the illusion

I'm not going to relate to your dead-eyed photoshop cut-and-paste jobs no matter how many indie rock bands you put on their t-shirts. Draw something.

Amen, grumpy McGroth in that Salon piece. The internet is ruining comics for a generation.

Having checked out Cracked's 8 Funniest Web Comics:

8. Dinosaur Comics - Not funny. It pains me that my friends like this.
7. Penny Arcade - Not funny. More "situations" with no punchline
6. White Ninja comics - Not funny
5. Over-Compensating - Not funny. Just awful, really.
4. Creased Comics - Not funny. "Lol non-sequiturs"
3. Dr. McNinja - Not funny. Fuck you
2. Perry Bible Fellowship - Funny.
1. Achewood - Not funny.

yo I hate to be this dude but PBF hasn't been funny for like a year and a half now

RONG

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF201-Toad_Race.gif#187

I just looked at a bunch of Jerkcities and I'm not so much baffled as to who would find this repeatedly funny, more what the guy who creates it gets out of it. I suppose it can't take up much of his time, at least

And re: Questionable Content, don't expect me to find something "poignant and smart" in something the artist cut and pasted over and over again to achieve the effect of multiple panels.

To each their own. I don't know if the QC author cut-and-pasted those images or not (if you say so, I'll assume he did), but (a) it made no difference to me in terms of that strip's power and (b) upon considering it, I wouldn't want much variation in Faye's expression from panel-to-panel in that strip. Her maintaining that frozen, sad, resigned look is part of the story, it seems to me.

There is no way that QC comic is cut and paste, she has different facial expressions and poses ffs.

ugh

ugh

Why do you dislike Questionable Content? I'm not trying to be confrontational (as I said earlier, to each their own); I'm just curious.

Not being confrontational:

Personally, I think QC relies way too much on it's own quirkiness.

Take this strip for example:

http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/985.png

1. It goes out of its way to mention Dinosaur Jr to where it doesn't sound like a piece of real human dialogue
2. The ending is written to feel like a punchline, but there's no actual joke. Just an overall feeling of quirkiness. It's like reading a comic strip that's constantly making quotey fingers at you.

Plus I there's way too much dialogue!

The pictures are supposed to tell me story! Yet these huge word balloons are doing all the work.

is Get Your War On! still around?

that "perioding" thing upthread is reprehensible

Personally, I think QC relies way too much on it's own quirkiness. . . . Plus I there's way too much dialogue!

Okay, I get that. I like the D, Jr. reference (although QC can sometimes overdo this sort of stuff) and the packed dialogue, and I'm not upset by the lack of a punchline (a lot of QC's humor relies on the characters just riffing off of a sly line of dialogue, which is very different from a traditional concluding "punchline"), but I now better understand where you're coming from.

Worst online comic strip is User Friendly.

Me OTM

Lock thread

those nemis are awesome

oh fuck now i remember user friendly :(

http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/

Wow, user friendly makes that xkcd look pretty okay.

Good lord. I had no idea the depth of pure comic badness on our Internets.

riverwolf: if it makes you feel any better, I dont like QC as much as I did reading the first few months worth. It started to get really really samey and I havent read it in ages.

I never liked UserFriendly or Sluggy Frelance. They were the two strips all my linux-lovin, role playin', nerdy Flying Circus recitin' friends loved. Unironically.

I always found Sluggy kind of sweetly charming, it was blatantly nerdy and its longer "serious" plotlines were generally unbearable, but there was something kind of folksy and endearing about the whole operation. Maybe just because it really, REALLY predated the glut of webcomics and its site always (still? haven't checked it in ages) maintained a "Geocities 1996" look. I dunno. It's hard for me to hate a strip like that.

User Friendly was always the pits though. Also, anything in the genre of scrubby black-and-white "dark adventure" stories gives off huge red flags, especially if laden with nerdy or "controversial" material. Eg: Exploitation Now, Everrything Jake, and (by far the worst) MegaTokyo.

Being confrontational: the guy who does QC should be in jail

megatokto was always o_O

I kind of can't believe both Sluggy Freelance and User Friendly still exist, it seems like they both must have begun to feel hopelessly dated about five months into 1996

Whiney G. Weingarten is the Geir Hongro of comic strips.

ABC is OTM.

http://www.shreddedmoose.com/smcomikaze/comics/2007-05-04.jpg

Shredded Moose is an eye-opener

Jude Law kills babies, huh

what the fuck

Whiney G. Weingarten is the Geir Hongro of comic strips.

OTM.

I laughed...

http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/936.png

megatokto was always o_O

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 8 October 2007 06:32 (Monday, 8 October 2007 06:32)

OTM. Very crepey...

I must admit, though I occasionally binge read QC I don't like it. I don't hate it (it still has one or two characters I like) but I don't like it.

I still read Sluggy Freelance. The old serious storylines are better than the new serious storylines and I kind of want Oasis dismembered, but I still really like Aylee and Kiki.

I really like Sluggy Freelance! Puns and pretty good story = ROCK!

megatokto was always o_O

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 8 October 2007 06:32 (Monday, 8 October 2007 06:32)

thirded

Kv_nol: I might be wrong, but I think that QC strip you posted is by a guest writer/artist. Not that it necessarily matters to your post; just sayin'.

i knew a guy who was way into MT, he would always talk at length about the characters and i was just like what the fuck dude stop

That doesn't really help the defenders of QC Daniel, Esq! I do like Something Positive a lot of the time though so I feel less bad laughing (xpost)

That doesn't really help the defenders of QC Daniel, Esq!

Fair enough. If, however, someone finds that strip either offensive or too flippant -- as they might, in light of the serious storyline behind it -- I'm only suggesting that the QC author isn't responsible for it (although I suppose he might have blessed it before it was released).

I do like Something Positive a lot of the time though so I feel less bad laughing (xpost)

Is the guest writer of that strip the author of Something Positive?

I believe that it is, yes.

Daniel, QC author's comment:

For those of you unfamiliar with Randy's work over at Something Positive and/or those offended by today's comic, I have a tidbit: I thought it ws completely hilarious. I love it when people play rough with my characters!

Anyway, S*P is an excellent comic all around, and I highly recommend it. Especially if you liked today's guest strip. Oh man I am giggling even now. Randy has encouraged any offended readers to send hatemail to rkm0001 at gmail dot com. I can only hope he will share the cream of the crop with me.

i knew a guy who was way into MT, he would always talk at length about the characters and i was just like what the fuck dude stop

-- sleep, Monday, October 8, 2007 10:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lol u went 2 nerd skoole

http://www.theaterhopper.com/vault/040802.jpg

I fucking hate it when stand-up comedians do this shit. "Hey, do you ever wonder what it'd be like if..."

Hummer drivers drive like this...

Only people who can't cook get takeaways, well observed

What is it with internet people making fun of people who drink diet soda?

Does this guy actually think there are people that believe diet soda speeds up their metabolisms? (As opposed to just satiating a soda craving without the 160 corn syrup calories)

the calories are the least bad part of soda

I fucking hate it when stand-up comedians do this shit. "Hey, do you ever wonder what it'd be like if..."

Usually becomes it signals an impending impersonation of Robert De Niro doing the washing up, or something.

the calories are the least bad part of soda

RONG

Especially for tubby up there.

My favourite online comic is Dinosaur Comics which really does deserve its own thread, but I can't be bothered to start one.

-- Dom Passantino

^ yes

altho it is just as vulnerable to having one strip taken out of context and being made to look lame as any one of the other genuinely shitty comics on this thread.

also when i find myself laughing at mr tusks and batman i do wonder if i'm not just gonna be laughing at digitiser the rest of my life.

anyway ive been reading achewood today and have concluded that it's okay. yall could have just told me pat's estranged gay dad was simon reynolds earlier, that was a dealbreaker

i like married to the sea too but it was SO WACK last month. i think it's recovered now though.

Hummer drivers have no blood flow to their genitals, a malady for which a pill was created years ago. Those guys!

yall could have just told me pat's estranged gay dad was simon reynolds earlier, that was a dealbreaker

I noted this in the suck-uppy Achewood thread

oh ok i got about a quarter of the way into the suck uppy thread the other day but it made me wanna punch babies so i quit

kudos anyway dj mencap

hahaha

http://xkcd.com/327/

ok this one was ok

^^^ban

I'm glad I don't understand that.

SQL jokes ftw or something

wow I hate that comic

It's funny how the idea of Cat & Girl being the worst just melted away isn't it.

I just read about 20 Shredded Moose strips, seriously nothing else being talked about here is even coming close to its depths

I did chuckle at that latest xkcd strip. I fear I am lost.

It was a cheap yuk and I felt unhappy about it afterwards.

that was an xpost, HI DERE otm

I admit I chuckled :D

And thats about the extent of my SQL knowledge anyway so wtf.

Please to explain joke to normals

Okay why anyone ever complain abt Achewood's draw-rings when this insult affronts me.

I've taken to being SCANDALIZED by minor offenses. Is this c, d, or Alex in NYC?

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/100907.jpg

Lock thread.

Fotoshop Phunnies

Is her IV drip tattling on her in panel three?

JW is right about the diet coke btw

holy hell, every one of these comics posted in this thread are *terrible*
it makes the normal sunday newspaper comics seem like dostoevsky in comparison

JW is right about the diet coke btw

-- J0hn D., Thursday, 11 October 2007 05:13 (14 hours ago) Link

Even if he's right, that's clearly not the point the strip was making.

And he's not right.

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/07.09.13.BombSights-X.gif

you just know that the angsty girl in questionable content is the nerdy author's fantasy girlfriend.

http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20071008.png

http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20071010.png

http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20070430.png

jeez dom i may be spannered but that is nothing short of diabolical. nice find, but never inflict it upon us again.

Hey now, wigu was kind of cute. I don't know if it's going on still. Can't be bothered to check, ditto Goats.

http://www.myextralife.com/strips/9-23-01.gif

SAYTOWN REPRESENT

DEZA BITCH

I['m sure I was reading a 'best' version of this thread yesterday, but I can't find it now!

Anyone help?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nostalgia.png

KILL.

the first strip on this thread is one of the worst things ever

(nb have not read whole thread)

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/0328239&from=rss

lolo

"Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame

FAME!!

new low at questionable content today.

haw

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff307/classwarpanda/justice-1.jpg

http://cartoonme.net/~dave/archive/comic/20071213.jpg

Have a joyful honica, everyone!

http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/assault.png

David Buist, eh? The name reminds me of something. As does the strip, funnily enough.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00354/david_busst_manutd__354272a.jpg

http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2007-12-30.gif

This certainly makes you think.

That black and white one wins

That last one isn't that bad. Maybe I've become all corny in my post-Christmas snuggliness. Plenty of the earlier ones are far, far worse, and indeed devoid of any positive value. I agree that it's making a somewhat unnecessary point in a thoroughly unsubtle manner, but it has quite a few likeable details. Panels 11 to 13 are shite and kinda ruin it, I'll give you that. But the anti-love minions in bikinis portray beautifully the hypocrisy of the pro-abstinence and anti-premarital bible basher movements.

Spent the afternoon trying to come up with for pitches for a fetish mag. No matter what I came up with and typed into Google, every single fetish came up with a link to the xkcd forums with one of the fans of that comic going "Yeah, that's hot, wish someone would do that to me".

VG Cats

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/080108.jpg

http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/comics/20020614.gif

Mitch Clem does in fact win.

http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/comics/20020614.gif

(I don't)

http://www.feartheboot.com/comic/images/strips/044.jpg

http://www.druglordcomics.com/images/corduroyninja/cn055.jpg

http://stickfiggers.com/img/comic/9.gif

my first encounter with xkcd!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/important_life_lesson.png

>_<

gotta go with totally not vegan

Like the dude from xkcd has ever gotten laid.

theoretical comic

Oh fuck I did NOT just need to see stick figure cunnilingus.

Spent the afternoon trying to come up with for pitches for a fetish mag. No matter what I came up with and typed into Google, every single fetish came up with a link to the xkcd forums with one of the fans of that comic going "Yeah, that's hot, wish someone would do that to me".

-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:26 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

thank you metafilter for introducing me to belgian humour

http://www.zoitz.com/comics/pageviewhigh.png

ha?

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9734/kawaiinotstrip157de0.gif

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3358/kawaiinotstrip152gf1.gif

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2788/imageuploadimagegw8.jpg

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20060218.jpg

http://www.patriotart.com/weekly/patriot_art.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~wrmbero/assets/images/_over.jpeg

http://www.kiddmillennium.com/images/480_kidd_false_prohets.jpg

And here's one that isn't safe for work or home or any living thing.

Madre de Dios

http://hijinksensue.com/comics/2008-03-31-matrix-browsers.jpg

hands

www.yehudamoon.com

^^^^ awful

Yehuda Moon is just plain bad -- at least the artist has his own style -- but the madgoblin guy mentioned above is simply off the charts in terms of inducing eyeball-wrenching fury: http://madgoblin.comicgenesis.com/

i'm not clicking on that again

http://arcadeafterdark.com/images2/jr%20critic%20monsters1.jpg

boob tune thing is deep level

I need to stop clicking on this thread before I die of rage

page one

http://bigeyedeer.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/graf.gif?w=500&h=402

I think that CTRL+ALT+DEL one really takes the cake. it's the bold font on all the 'laugh lines' that does it.

tHAT's exactly what the world needed: unfunny New Yorker online knock-off's.

this is on the frontpage of mitchclem http://www.mitchclem.com/graphics/wwhrd-girlfit.gif

and this http://www.mitchclem.com/graphics/NN2Scover-small.gif

finally, a furry character that speaks to ME!!!!

http://www.mitchclem.com/graphics/wwhrd-girlfit.gif

^^^would wreck this

she looks like a dude, bruv

http://hijinksensue.com/comics/2008-07-09-concert-commercials.jpg

http://www.crispygamer.com/_img/comics/ding/Ding-2008-07-15___Selected.jpg

^^^would wreck this

If that means she's hot, then, seconded.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5416/imageuploadimageqs2.png

Gonna have a stab in the dark here and guess that Lisa Faires is a brunette.

lol

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1742/imageuploadimageei7.jpg

Does the Jesus comic imply the two girls who die weren't actually hers because they have blonde hair?

Oh wait, that only happens to guys.

I should go to sleep.

From March upthread:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/pew.gif

lol

Dont't get it?

http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/1149.png

^^^this came up in the Google Reader "shared" settings of some dude I met once three years ago who has for some reason chosen to share his favourite blog posts with me.

http://www.maxinegreen.co.uk/jnt/toons/Toon08-134Sm.jpg
http://www.maxinegreen.co.uk/jnt/toons/Toon08-053Sm.jpg
http://www.maxinegreen.co.uk/jnt/toons/Toon08-068Sm.jpg

Cower in slightly sarcastic fear! The Chaosbunny is an artist by trade, geek by inclination and full-time embodiment of entropy by nature. She has no intention whatsoever of growing up, but fully intends to take over the world.
Chaosbunnies thrive on a steady diet of polka dots, tea, cuddles and intellectual discussion.
Jim and Tonic is an autobiographical web comic by Maxine Green that's been described as cute, geeky, quirky and silly, and occasionally poignant. If you're a fan of xkcd or The Devil's Panties you'll probably enjoy the humour.

man, this thread is even more masochistic than the batshit rightwing cartoon one

seriously would like the 30 secs of my life that it took to look at those 3 strips back

fuck me that's bad

Some of them are ok. A lot of the "nerdy in jokes" are really pretty surface level references meant to make Joe Dorito Breath feel better.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

ahead of his time

thankku

http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/images/gws/GWS597.jpg
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/images/gws/GWS594.jpg

Women!

at least!

those chaosbunnies are wowbad

so yeah I hear CTRL ALT DELETE did a miscarriage storyline

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080602.jpg

lol!

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080602.jpg

Third panel caption: "ok well im super drunk right now after playing bass in an awesome metal show and i have a hot chick waiting for me in my bed so ill say this"

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080606.jpg

^ that is like really emotional, that is almost as emotional as that video game Braid

Bitch wouldn't have miscarried if she used Linux/bought a Wii/filled in an online petition to bring back Firefly (delete as applicable)

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/1271/cadawesomehu5.jpg

it's like the treatment for a judd apatow movie

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/2439/luigicad1sl5.jpg

i didn't realize the internet could be so beautiful

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8909/1212719364682tz2.jpg

Add a Post

and say what?

looooooooool

Where are you getting these 'shops from? I need to pay homage.

I don't know, somebody just posted on a Villa forum about there having been a miscarriage plotline in a webcomic and also posted the parodies for balance

Tim Buckley was better in his Starsailor days I think.

LOL

also what the hell is wrong with his hair

that last one is brilliant

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9581/36tv6.jpg

uh

uh indeed

sweet jesus ctrl alt delete

is that a parody of the previous comic or something else?

Tim B^Uckley heh

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/4636/20060107jc5.jpg

Ok apparently somebody made a thing where it takes a random strip but automatically replaces the last panel with miscarriage

I sense there's a garfield one.

(No need to confirm)

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3659/20030604zk3.jpg

also what the hell is wrong with his hair

― hyperspace situation (gbx), Monday, November 17, 2008 10:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm pretty sure IRL it'd look like this:

http://www.vivianreed.net/BMW/media/rider07.jpg

lol his name is ethan?

not enough sideburn

"Aww Ethan, I feel the same way. I really like hanging out with you"

^^^this meant to be deej?

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080602.jpghttp://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

What board is doing the parodies? Those are epic.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/20080602.jpg

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8909/1212719364682tz2.jpg

lmao

I was going to do Stevie's gag but it was taking too long to find Osama gif

that rightwing cartoonists page takes forever to load now, i'll grant you.

Any attempt to answer "What's the worst online _______________?" only leads to tears of tedium. Watch out!

good luck ilx

apparently the guy that writes this is some kind of jock/wrongcock who spends all his time removing criticism of his terrible work from Wikipedia and sent a picture of his penis to an underage girl

it is unclear whether this caused the girl to miscarry

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:HEAUGE.jpg

not sure if direct linking that would be a terrible idea

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Let-down-softwise.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/111815664_ae1ef2fad3.jpg?v=0

http://www.absath.com/?p=251

someone needs to make a gif of that pic and him and his GF where she slowly disappears until only her smile is left.

first 'and' = 'of'

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/8/8a/Plugandplay.jpg

LMFAO

I hope these photoshops keep coming all day

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/CTRL_ALT_Delete#CADbortion_Comic_Shops

that page is crazy

"Also, in case you didn't know, because they almost never talk about it, she had a miscarriage.
...
It's highly likely that Fuckley simply did not know how to draw a human child, even with a CADface, and gave up on it."

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/75/YIPYIPYIP.jpg
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/fe/CAD_miscarriage_stare.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2jeo40g.jpg

And I forgot how much I heart Cyanide and Happiness:

http://elitepicturehost.com/up_imgs/img_e26e2940b804d3faf06d562174e29a2a.png

(the final panel is a direct quote from the CAD guy)

It must suck to have 10,000 nerds gang up on you.

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-11-17.gif

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-10-06.gif

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-07-21.gif

is that John Fardell

I think you meant to place the Johnny Ryans in the "best online comic strip" thread

dave borg is roflicious

^^^ comics up there just now = AWESOME not dud.

yeah, johnny ryan is awesome.

now to blog about about important issues facing the rat jizz puddle community

FWIW, Johnny is a real deal comic book dude published by Fantagraphics, not some dude photoshopping video game names into word bubbles.

http://johnnyr.com/images/ncp2008-09-01.gif

true, but that "new character parade" series is just stuck up on his site every week, so it is technically a web comic.

xpost

Yeah, I like these comics. All that other nerd crap on here sucks shit

http://i34.tinypic.com/1z72zww.jpg

personal fave:

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/3/36/ABORT-origional.jpg/474px-ABORT-origional.jpg

ethan

Why doesn't ILX have a page on Encyclopedia Dramatica?

not funny, entertaining or interesting enough

BCO, now we're talking

u guys dont get it

our trolls don't rate

http://cp-journalcomic.livejournal.com/

I honestly can't find a single joke in these.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/christopherpphoto/comics/aaaaastickbutt.jpg

o rly

Guys, I've been making my own strips lately, but every time I read this thread, it makes me go back and reconsider.

It's better to take a chance on making a bad strip and risk a critical pounding than not to do anything at all. I mean, at the end of the day, you can at least say you did this thing even if it's not brilliant, whereas critics don't have anything to point to. Also, seeing tons of bad strips will help you not to fall into common traps, so if yr strip sucks, at least it will suck in the knowledge of suckitude.

I like the one that tells you how to find the centre of a circle, I didn't know that! The explanation seems pretty clear tbh?

I think the main trap that so many of these online guys, as well as Lynn Johnston of For Better or For Worse, fall into is thinking that something haha in real life is going to be haha on the drawing board once they get all the borders connected.

In Dom's link above, there's one of the guy's baby going "dada" at some old man. Yeah, that happens and it's funny at the time, but it doesn't translate in any fashion to being funny as a comic strip.

I mean, unless that guy's drawing strips just for his family members and they all know him and his kid.

It's better to take a chance on making a bad strip and risk a critical pounding than not to do anything at all.

there is no way this is OTM

Like its ALWAYS cool to have a shitty comic strip or a shitty band for fun. Dut don't start pushing them on friends and family and the internet like they are good and deserve attention.

Also, livejournal comic tubby guy has some pretty epic threads on BCO dedicated to his shitty comic.

Oh, critical beatdowns aren't stopping me from drawing anything. I guess that I'm saying it's just as important to spend time looking at really bad comics as it is learning from really good cartoonists.

It's like making fun of some shitty cover band and then spending the next day just playing the bass riff to "Godzilla" over and over.

I think the main rules from these cartoons are:

1) Try to have actual proper jokes
2) If you're going to bother with characterisation, bother with characterisation. Don't just give one of your guys cancer FOR DEPTH
3) Don't write yourself
4) Don't write a sockpuppet black/female/gay character to give some "insight" to your views
5) Don't mention sci-fi. At all.

Or do all those things and prepare for message board snark.

I once wrote a letter to Peter Bagge saying I live in Minneapolis though I know you don't like it, and he wrote back politely saying, uh, it was my character who didn't like Minneapolis.

It's OK not to have jokes, but you've got to have something else to become the content.

Yeah I was about to say, is it really neccesary for comics to be funny all the time? What are we, twelve?

Comics, no. Three panel web cartoons that have no artist values on the drawing at all so they live and die by the zingy text, yes.

Fair point.

also, if you can't draw and just do photoshop and clip art shit fuck you

any artist that photoshops from old strips and doesn't draw each panel individually can simply get fucked.

Even Aaron MacGruder wouldn't do that with his "Grampa watches TV" strips.

Is it OK to use Illustrator then?

http://i36.tinypic.com/24zypfr.jpg

that might be the worst

Thank goodness he didn't use the word "nigger". Otherwise, that caricature of the cross-eyed b-boy who doesn't know what Green Day is would have been racist.

two ppl had to collaborate on that

yeah but Chug does all the real work, Shadow is just a colorist

I think that could go in the "batshit right wing cartoonist" thread.

http://whatthehellpeople.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/e-paper-tigers/

Don't forget: Electronic Tigers and Right Left Center

http://whatthehellpeople.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/totallynotlikemegatokyo.jpg

One comic is ostensibly the political one and the other just about 4 guys and their fapworthy token female friend, except that as usual, the two strips tend to bleed into each other

looks like shadow and chug are at it again

I"ve been saying for years, chug really needs to ditch shadow and go solo. then you'll see the potential i see in these comics.

i saw the same joke in family circus a few weeks ago.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8393/30405827450591773f7d144fk4.png

i'm still convinced that power-up comics is a parody of rubbish gamer web comics in general. if i'm right, then it is truly a work of comedy genius.

i mean, come on:

http://comics.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/pages/03f2a4abd500fb1029c655eaa0a7c45e.png

i'm still convinced that power-up comics is a parody of rubbish gamer web comics in general. if i'm right, then it is truly a work of comedy genius.

how many times do I have to post the link to megagamerz 3l33T on these boards

6

Yeah I was gonna say, uh isnt the hoax/parody well known by now?

I didn't like how the author attempted comic-relief at the end of the strip (I think it's kind of a cop-out), but strips like this, and this storyline in particular are what prompt me to regularly read Questionable Content.

http://backecto22.tripod.com/puke.jpg

questionable indeed.

lol

http://cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/397727694c11792gd2i0a3178872.jpg

http://media.drunkduck.com.s3.amazonaws.com/users%2FShadowGamer%2Fcomics%2FPowerup_Comics%2Fweb%2F00739719.jpg

http://media.drunkduck.com.s3.amazonaws.com/users%2FShadowGamer%2Fcomics%2FPowerup_Comics%2Fweb%2F00737285.jpg
Chug's Decision

ShadowGamer on Aug. 21, 2010

This should help explain how me and Chug are disagreeing right now.

If a person IRL asked me if I read Questionable Content I'd probably just start walking in the other direction

so hilarious to me that many of our Worst And Most Hated Webcomics not only are no longer publishing, but that the entire archive of, say, shreddedmoose no longer exists anywhere on the web. Shadow & Chug's dissolution seems particularly bathetic.

http://olivil.imgur.com/

http://gifs.gifbin.com/052012/1337623423_will_smith_slaps_reporter_for_trying_to_kiss_him.gif

tbf, this comic gets funnier with every passing year.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linux_user_at_best_buy.png

i can't even work out what's going on there. my best guess wd be so painful that i can't believe it's true.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bel_air.png

there's a rhythmic jolt between the 3rd and 4th panels that makes it impossible to rap these lines properly. it would work if it were "so kick back relax, let me put on some Adele for ya/ and tell you why I'm running for the town of Philadelphia," but as it is, you'd either have to throw your rhythm totally off or insert an awkward extra beat between "ya" and "while". c'mon, Randall Patrick Munroe, sort it out!

The first is just "Linux users think they're all that"

How is this not Billy the Heretic, come on folks
http://www.billytheheretic.com/

http://www.billytheheretic.com/pages/images/bandaid.jpg

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is super offensive and horrible, basically NSFW. Has that strip made it into the Batshit Right-Wing Cartoons series yet?

don't give that guy the pageviews imo

wtf yeah thats terrible.

lol wtf omg

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/072812.jpg

day by day: never coherent, never funny.

the Questionable Content guy has a kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/168734274/permanence-the-new-album-by-deathmle

$121,797
pledged of $9,500 goal

fuck him and his misuse of the ø!

'it is an instrumental heavy metal style of band'

exact quote from a musician talking about his own music

http://i.imgur.com/VRZH0kC.png

http://i.imgur.com/haayPpT.png

http://i.imgur.com/HHwLJBh.png

http://i.imgur.com/as78Yf8.png

http://i.imgur.com/JwAJUnH.png

http://i.imgur.com/MVr9Uil.png

http://i.imgur.com/m8rkTSm.png

http://i.imgur.com/QCRfYIj.png

woah questionable content is still going. i remember occasionally reading it (dunno why) and thinking it had run out of steam like ten years ago

hoo boy.

https://i.imgur.com/lynBI0O.jpg