What's the worst online comic strip?

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

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).

;_;

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity39.gif

Hm. Stay classy!

http://www.megagamerz.com/comix/0510/mg051013.jpg

lol

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

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity3241.gif

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.