What's the worst online comic strip?

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.

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

Jerkcity is awesome.

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

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

I kind of like that one.

I have used that right hand term many times

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

This dude is trolling for pussy.

That one's kind of depressing!

i love achewood unreservedly

http://m.assetbar.com/uua3CDHzw.gif

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:

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/cartoons/nemi/nemi_1910_600x194.gif

those doctored nemi strips are fantastic

ftw:
http://goaste.cx/goaste/pictures/nemi/nemiswiz005.jpg

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

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/5674-noscale-vgbwc.jpg

^^^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.