What's the worst online comic strip?

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

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

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?

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

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"

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

xkcd webcomic fans converge in Cambridge park

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1145/1433969764_42f024b9ee.jpg?v=0

blech

the only good think was the breakdancing raptor

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uInQwL0srUA

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.

http://www.aeropause.com/archives/haloringofdeath.gif

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.

http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/

: http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/comics/20070912.gif

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:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2000/20000721h.jpg

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

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF45025BC-Dinosaur_Meteors.jpg

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