What's the worst online comic strip?

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.

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.