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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Classic » Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:22 am

Assy Gasses?

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Thad » Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:48 pm

François wrote:Yeah, it's going in my next pruning. At this point, it's been about coffee and cats for so long I can't even recall why I liked it in the first place.


Oh right, I was just thinking, "Wait, he did one that wasn't about coffee today; what was it again?" Thanks for reminding me.

(I see the Jump the Shark moment as that time Clango got his memory erased.)

And it's certainly not that I don't like coffee. I fucking love coffee. It's just, the strip's reached a point where it's more predictable than 1990's Peanuts.

It kinda reminds me of Dilbert. In that Dilbert found its niche and huge success when it became entirely a workplace comedy, but it was actually a lot funnier before that, when it was frequently about other shit.

Though really you could make the same case for any comic strip that became stale and repetitive. Like, Garfield was pretty good when it was about Jon and Lyman being socially inept as often as it was about Garfield being grumpy (and the animated version is better than the comic strip, because it has plots instead of just gags).

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby François » Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:58 pm

That sounds about right. Since then it's been in that weird limbo where I don't really enjoy it anymore but it hasn't done anything terrible enough for me to eject it immediately with extreme prejudice. Like Cat and Girl and... hmm... huh. Just those two, then.

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Thad » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:11 pm

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Welcome back, Berk. We missed you.

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Cthulhu-chan » Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:16 am

jesus christ has it really been 25 years?!
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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Thad » Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:42 pm

Well, yes and no. It's been 25 years since the end of Bloom County (actually, almost 26). But Bloom County was immediately followed by Outland, which ran from 1989 through 1995, and then Opus ran from 2003 to 2008.

But yeah this is the first time we've seen those guys in a new black-and-white four-panel strip since 1989.

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby zaratustra » Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:17 am

Alright I know you guys are sick of Homestuck
but prediction time

The NEWEST CHARACTER looks a bit too much like Yaoiest Motherfucker Caliborn

I'm thinking all this rainbow shit has to do with LE's eyes

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Cthulhu-chan » Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:29 am

I ain't sick of shit!

Also the reveal of Akwete Purrmusk, at last.
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Re: Webcomics and

Postby zaratustra » Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:09 pm

it's time for Kimiko Ross to get

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPED

http://dresdencodak.com/2015/06/15/dark ... inal-form/

I like how hilariously close it is to the DC Comics Reboots Dresden Codak from... wait did diaz himself write that

http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/113 ... sden-codak

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Re: Webcomics and

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Re: Webcomics and

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby zaratustra » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:18 pm

Erfworld has burned through yet another artist:

http://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/47103 ... g-erfworld

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby François » Tue Sep 01, 2015 5:48 pm

Kinda makes me wish the comic was terrible so I could stop giving a crap about it. It's brutal timing too, given the recent events coming to a head. Or inside a head, as the case may be.

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby zaratustra » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:35 am

It just struck me how much creative control Balder has over the arrangement. The artists must feel like what the Oatmeal termed "voice-operated drawing tools".

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Healy » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:03 am

Need more comics about vigilante justice in your life? Try Metal Hands McGee, the only webcomic about a superhero with metal hands that go "Catamo!" whenever she hits people. Current arc deals with some ugly jewelry and the mob boss who's obsessed with them.

Sample page:
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Re: Webcomics and

Postby nosimpleway » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:12 am

zaratustra wrote:The artists must feel like what the Oatmeal termed "voice-operated drawing tools".

It must objectively suck somehow, this is what, their fourth artist? Fifth?

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby beatbandito » Wed Sep 02, 2015 11:17 am

Did no one read Zara's link? It took me about a paragraph to realize the writer may the biggest fuckwad of a boss I've ever seen.
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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Mongrel » Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:05 pm

Woah holy shit, The Meek started updating again.

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Re: Webcomics and

Postby Mongrel » Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:22 am

Well that was one hell of a Power Nap update this week.
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Re: Webcomics and

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