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tehloki posted:Doesn't pretty much everybody fantasize about killing people from time to time? Like, there are a lot of infuriating assholes in the world and I find that it really helps me in the situations where I actually have to deal with one of them for an extended period. A lot of people have those thoughts, but not many have the same ability. Imagine how uncomfortable it is to have those thoughts while waving around a sharp knife or a loaded gun. And now imagine that you don't have the ability to put down your deadly weapons because your deadly weapons are your arms. The difference between Allison and Cleaver is that one of them could hold back and the other couldn't.
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Niton posted:It definitely did, although I can't find it right now. There's a few Zen Pencils whose underlying quotes really do make for good comics, but that is decidedly not one of them. This seems like Frank Miller's take on childhood bullying.
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Remember a while back when XKCD had comic that changed over time? Well, it finally finished.
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It looks like animal people hybrids aren't protected by the laws of robotics in the world of Kiwi Blitz.
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Onean posted:It does. She posts a lot of cool stuff to her tumbler, and she was the artist for some of PA's The Trenches until just recently. Really like her style too, very anime influenced but still different. I didn't know she worked on The Trenches. The first time I started following her stuff, she was putting Steffi, Ben, and the Kiwibot through wacky deviantart tournaments, and she got knocked out in the second round by this gem. Her writing's come a long way since then.
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Sep 17, 2013 18:38
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I just found out that No Need For Bushido is back! There's even a handy-dandy recap for people who have forgotten all of the plot over the hiatus. It looks like there's something weird going on with the image quality in the archives though.
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Sep 18, 2013 04:05
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I know that Boulet has said that he plans out the composition of pages separately, so he's not doing everything from scratch, but I think his biggest secret is just absolutely obscene amounts of practice and lifedrawing.
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Oct 9, 2013 20:35
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Boulet has a great way of putting feelings into comic form. I mean, this is the exact same way I feel every single time I wake up from a dream.
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Oct 12, 2013 08:55
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Does anyone here read Internet Webcomic? Generic name aside, it's pretty good! If this comic's not reason enough to read it, I don't know what is.
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Oct 13, 2013 16:26
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Continuity can be a real bitch when it gets out of hand. It all starts out simple enough with references to past storylines and revealing hither-to unknown backstories for already established characters, but before you know it, branching timelines and parallel dimensions are oozing out of every crevice, and every new storyline gets swallowed by the horde of references and cameos from the rest of the continuity. Eventually, all the past storylines gain a life of their own and keep the comic going forever out of sheer inertia, and you get Sluggy Freelance. I'd be happy if Dr. McNinja had a finale and quit before that point. King Radical was getting pretty old anyways.
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Oct 15, 2013 18:51
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Shredded Moose is so amazingly bad in so many strange ways it belongs in a museum or something.
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Oct 18, 2013 07:22
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Yeah, that's what I was expecting. I have no idea what everyone is obsessed with the dog for.
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Oct 25, 2013 15:57
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It's kind of amazing how much drama in this thread just dissolved after the destruction of the mockthreads.
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Oct 27, 2013 21:41
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It looks like even Brawl in the Family and Gastrophobia got in on the spookiness of the holiday.
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Nov 1, 2013 15:25
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It looks like Sluggy Freelance may be heading towards some kind of finale. They're digging up a bunch of forgotten storylines, and they've finally after 16 years found a meaning for the name "Sluggy Freelance."
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Nov 11, 2013 19:05
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AriadneThread posted:John Campbell made a thing?  Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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Nov 15, 2013 16:20
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Man, Derelict is one of those things that it's easy to slip into bingereading the thing all over again. I particularly like the maps that have been dropped so far. http://derelictcomic.com/?strip_id=32 http://derelictcomic.com/?strip_id=111 Of course, the big problem is that it's one of those slow-updating webcomics, so it will take forever to see what Dang Thu Mai can do with the secrets she took from the Goya. 
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Nov 20, 2013 06:44
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In Gastrophobia, it appears that Krphxyzwlps's scamming capabilities have been greatly exaggerated.
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Nov 21, 2013 17:03
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That's actually pretty common scam for awards. The award is basically intended as a paid advertisement, and then the awards people try to finagle a way so that the recipient can indirectly purchase the award. There was a big example a while back where a restaurant won an award from a wine magazine despite intentionally choosing wines that were rated poorly by said magazine and not actually existing as anything more than a forwarding address.
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Nov 23, 2013 08:15
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Sakana is really good, although it hasn't updated in forever. If you go read QC, I'd recommend skipping a bunch of the early stuff, it's really boring and dull and hard to wade through. I started reading after the first thousand comics because the earlier stuff made me want to chew my arm off to escape the boredom.
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Nov 24, 2013 05:43
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TwoPair posted:Except the guest comics. Somehow, the guest comics for QC are all pretty great. Yeah, the guest comics are the best part of QC. Some of David Willis's guest comics are literally his best work.
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Nov 24, 2013 18:46
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Basically, it's Seinfeld without all the comedy and some crazy sci-fi poo poo going on in the background. By all accounts though, Jeph Jacques is a pretty cool guy in person, which may be half the reason he gets so many people from great webcomics like Gastrophobia, Dead Winter, and Johnny Wander to make guest comics for him. It's not like he's hurting anything. I've really been liking Three Panel Soul's ongoing storyline, and I look forward to where it goes next,
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Nov 25, 2013 03:32
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Isn't Penny Arcade's success mainly due to all the inertia they've built up from starting in 1998 and never stopping while always keeping relevant to their target audience? I personally have never seen much of its appeal as a comic.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:03
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The problem I see with a lot of DnD comics is that the author notices how much fun they're having with their friends and thinks that they can recreate the fun by merely transcribing into comic form what is happening in the game. The quest of Narsfelle of Umgoliath and his friends to purge the evil slime-beasts of Gwarthanc from this earth, or the underwater adventures of Haim Lamed the golem and his pal, Mushnik the crab, aren't nearly as interesting from an outside perspective as it is when you're playing a game with friends. It's the same reason why Questionable Content can be so insufferably boring, it's basically Jeph Jacques transcribing what it's like when he's hanging out with friends and making small talk.
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Dec 1, 2013 20:10
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Here I thought that Chris Hastings was running out of steam, and couldn't really reproduce all the crazy wacky fun earlier in Dr. McNinja anymore. Looks like he's still got it.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:40
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I thought Penny Arcade was doing the right thing by trying to diversify for wider appeal. I haven't really liked the comic since I was a stupid teenager, but I did keep going back for Extra Credits and Shut Up and Sit Down. I don't know about PA's target demographic, but I know that I'm not going back to that site to see more comics like this gem.  ...I guess something boring happens in AC4 at some point? I really don't get what the joke is in this comic.
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Dec 7, 2013 08:04
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Homestuck is an amazing undertaking, the kind that probably you won't see anything like ever again. It is a unique special snowflake, and you kind of want to just keep with it just to see what happens. It's also a complete waste of time, there's so much stuff to get through, so many crazy things running around to make sense of, lots of bits where Hussie thinks he's more clever than he is, and reading the text dumps is just a slog, which is why I stopped reading a while back. If you ever want to try reading Homestuck, try Problem Sleuth first. Its comparatively more grounded and faster paced, and no massive dialogue text dumps.
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Dec 9, 2013 02:07
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Half the appeal/problem with Homestuck is that it breaks every rule there is about storytelling, which is what makes it so amazing/terrible. And then it never ends, every time it seems like it's spinning down, it just gets more crazy. Forever.
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Dec 9, 2013 02:52
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I'm reasonably certain that the Wizard of Oz is the most popular fairytale for adaptation or writing weird fan fiction of. I mean, look at all this stuff. I think it's all just because its the earliest children's story that follows the epic format. I really don't have patience to read Erfworld's text dumps, so I haven't been following it lately, but I remember it being good.
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Dec 12, 2013 18:08
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Whomp! Is basically sad porn by this point if you include the alt-text.
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Dec 16, 2013 14:57
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Pick posted:Whomp! is one of the best comics ever made by a human. I see how you left Depress-O-Tron 5000 Joseph Campbell out of your statement. Clever.
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This can't be serious. The site navigation has a random button for people who don't want to wade through all the weird junk to get goofy pages, and nobody could ever be so lacking in self-awareness to compare being made fun of on the internet to real world oppression and racism. I mean, there's a gang called the "Skullz" like in Fallout, that's just so stupid. This can't be real. But this can't be fake. It's too deadpan to properly be a parody of anything. It can't be fake. Edit: Oh god, look at the about pages. This is loving nuts. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Speaking of furry webcomics, something is finally happening in Freefall. Also, Dr. McNinja is a great person and so is the president.
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Dec 24, 2013 16:19
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Girl Genius tries to emulate the feeling of old-fashioned pulpy serials. As such, it is prone to losing the greater, overarcing plot in a minutia of little crazy adventures. You can see it in their little radio dramas; they're just seasoned adventurers going from one crazy thing to the next.
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Rand Brittain posted:The thing is that it actually doesn't! I think it is incredibly decompressed, it's just that the Foglios stuff all the decompressed bits with so much action that you get caught up in the flow of things, and you never notice how little progress is being made until it's years later and the "main" plot is still where it was before. There are all sorts of little adventures that go nowhere and end up just taking up time. People in this thread have latched onto the time when the castle waking up was stretched out to something like seven pages, but there's more. How about the time an army of clanks was threatening Mechanicsburg until Gil blew them all up, or the time Gil and his school chums put on a big show of entering the castle, or the attack of a killer euphoria-enducing plant, or Professor Tiktoffen's scheming and playing every side against eachother came to fruition, or Snapper, Vasquez, Sanaa, or any of the other prisoners in the castle who had their own things going on in the background? And this sort of weird, punched-up actiony padding has been with the comic from the start. There was the daring quest of Agatha's mini-clanks to set off a rocket (that wasn't even there in the end), and the rivalry Agatha had going with Zulenna Luzhakna, and Agatha's trials and tribulations trying to pull her weight in the traveling circus, and the circus folks' merry adventures through the sewers. Buck Godot had a similar thing going on with a million subplots going every which way, but most of them coalesced in a huge masterstroke in the end which at this point seems pretty unlikely in Girl Genius. Also, looking back on the rest of the comic, there's clearly some sort of storytelling theme going on, what with Agatha's parents being in these popular stories, and the plays at the circus, all the way up to Baron Wulfenbach delivering a message to Gil in the form of a story. I feel like there's some kind of meta point being made here, and I'm almost tempted to go reread everything to figure out what it is.
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It's an awful comic and all, but is it really the worst thing in the world that he copied a deer from an online photo? I mean, it's better than Mookie consistently being unable to figure out the anatomy of a cat. It just seems to me that pointing out where he got his material from is kinda reaching for criticism when there's so much worse already wrong with the comic.
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Jan 8, 2014 21:27
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This probably is just going to be Willis putting an end to Shortpacked!'s storylines, and it will still update every time he thinks of a dumb joke on nerd things. Which is constantly. And eventually he'll catch the plotline bug again and bring back the soap opera drama stuff.Patrick Spens posted:Speaking of which, is there any way to find just the strips that are making fun of nerd stuff, and skip out on all the decade of storylines? They sort of all run together. There was one time he started making jokes about Toys R Us having corporate issues, and wound up with Galasso building a cult with Ethan as its Messiah. There was also a little arc devoted to Bruce Tinsley drunk driving.
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So long as we're talking about webcomics that are kinda bad but also kinda good, has anyone been reading El Goonish Shive lately? I think it's somehow turned into a romantic comedy  .
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xanthan posted:So my taste in webcomics isn't the best, but what do goons think of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things? That is probably the best time travel that I've ever seen.
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Tollymain posted:E: I posit the future possibility of a Whomp-related smut story. In order to prevent this from coming about we may need to take drastic measures Whomp is already misery porn.
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