Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: June 18

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: June 18 - 24, 2006

by Ross Miller { Jun 24th 2006 at 11:00AM }

Congratulations to Extra Life, now five years strong. Lots of cross-comic references this week -- we'll return to tinkering with the format next week, after I cool off from the recent comic incident. Here are our picks for best game-related webcomics this week, be sure to vote for your favorite!

Tags: web comic, WebComic

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Markster @ Jun 24th 2006 11:20AM

Webcomic! The Movie!

for so excellently pointing out the failings of other webocmics! (And it went the high route, by avoiding an all-too-easy jab at Megatokyo!)

HotShotX @ Jun 24th 2006 11:30AM

Uwe Boll Killed = Webcomic WINNAR.

~HotShotX

Zero_ @ Jun 24th 2006 11:54AM

Maxis saw VGCats' comic and did their version:

http://www.vgcats.com/news/comic_spore_Will.jpg

As for this week, Comixpedia FTW.

Joseph Matt @ Jun 24th 2006 11:55AM

Webcoming! The Movie! for it's accurate CAD spoof, and for making Gabe smoke a doobie.

Martin @ Jun 24th 2006 12:41PM

being that Webcomic the movie was posted in the comments because someone was sad that their webcomic wasn't chosent to be voted on... I cannot vote for it. Sorry!

scott @ Jun 24th 2006 1:15PM

sure you can mark.

i wasnt at all saddened by the fact nobody got to vote for my comic. i got an honorable mention, and more people got to see it (if you reread the post you'll see that i thanked joystiq for the mention).

I wonder why it hasnt been selected for this wrap up, but not saddened. it gives me an excuse to push harder for hopes of next week.

I didnt nominate chex because i was sad, i did it because hes a big character among the webcomic community and i wanted joystiq to consider running him.

please reconsider your vote.

scott @ Jun 24th 2006 1:19PM

whoops, my bad, guess i should have reread your post to.

martin, not mark. martin.

sorry bout that.

Chris Thomas @ Jun 24th 2006 1:23PM

Artist for "TEE HEE" says:

All your vote are belong to us!

Seriously tho let us win this one oh gaming gods, I slaved for ages (minutes?) over that drawing of Mathias from Mercs 2.

Nik @ Jun 24th 2006 1:30PM

Tough vote this week. Mr. Buckley's Uwe Boll bit was an excellent chunk of funny and my first instinct was to vote for CAD. Far Cry: The Musical. :D

However, it's been a long time since I laughed so hard at a VGCats Comic, and as a thank you to Scott Ramsoomair I voted VGCats. Well done my countryman, well done indeed.

GSI @ Jun 24th 2006 2:25PM

NSMB difficult? It was a great game and brought back a lot of memories but it's not THAT difficult. Sure it had some tough areas but really difficult? um no.

Oh and Uwe Boll being killed FTW!

Tim @ Jun 24th 2006 2:40PM

If you ask me, these comics are all crap. I guess I will vote for the first one.

It's_A_me! @ Jun 24th 2006 2:49PM

Ewww, something stinks and I think it's ALL of those comics (I use that term VERY loosely). Where's the funny? I hate to be so blunt but they SUCKED.

TheBlunderbuss @ Jun 24th 2006 3:26PM

Finally, a VGCats I get.
Brilliant.

It's the kind of hope we all have for the possibilities of SPORE.

Shiro @ Jun 24th 2006 4:37PM

CAD was the only one that truly made me laugh. The others were entertaining, but I never actually laughed aloud.

Just kinda makes me wonder why it's only got 20% of the vote. Especially since nobody likes Uwe Boll.

obo @ Jun 24th 2006 6:22PM

"Just kinda makes me wonder why it's only got 20% of the vote."

Many people don't like Tim Buckley because he's, in general, kind of a dick. So even if CAD suddenly became the best comic in the world, he'd still probably only get 20% of the vote here. He's personally pissed off most of the rest.

pierski @ Jun 24th 2006 10:13PM

"Many people don't like Tim Buckley because he's, in general, kind of a dick."

I've been reading CAD for a while now and I never noticed it... did I miss something?

squeevi @ Jun 24th 2006 10:38PM

Damn, this was an exceptionaly good week for web comics I guess. I think this is the first time I have really had to think about what comic I was going to vote for.

Nick @ Jun 25th 2006 12:28AM

I can name one of these that arent funny, as well as two. Heck, I can name all but two that aren't good. VGcats was a stroke of brilliance. And chekerboard Nightmare was great as well.
And You have been reading CAD for a while, Mr. Pierski and Tim Buckley hasn't said he's being a punk. People don't admit they are wrong. Saying the word "people" implies that once in a blue moon they will admit to such an act. If you have time, check out his blog archives and see if he has ever mentioned erasing his WoW guild. Other webcomic artists have called him out on erasing his guild in a storm of immiturity. Not a really nice thing to do to you fans who joined up to follow in raids with their favorite web celebrity. I think he's a little biased myself, but I won't tear him apart for that though.
And Joystiq, WTF? Why was there no Fanboys-Online? That site is just as good as anything you have put up for voting in the past two weeks.
http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?cid=31
http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?cid=33
That second one is definitely up to snuff with little gamers.

Ren� Kneyber @ Jun 25th 2006 1:01AM

I'm sorry but my vote goes to penny-arcade for their comic about the WoW-patch.. hilarious!

Why doesn't joystiq let me choose it?! :(

Rare Hare @ Jun 25th 2006 1:10AM

for some reason, i'm actually more interested in Spore now than i ever have been up to this point. my interest spiked right after reading VG Cats. although it was little more than a humorous exaggeration of the game's possibilites, i think it was the "it has to poop to see" line that really opened my eyes. er, my "butts".

Rafi @ Jun 25th 2006 2:19AM

C+A+D usually have brilliant ideas in hand, but execute it, quite frankly, in a stupid manner with way too much gore.

Does the VG Cats one have anything to do with games?

The Dueling Analogs one was brilliant, hence I voted for it =]

So was the Extralife one, but Dueling Analogs defeated it with their play on Little Gamers, which was also pretty awesome.

Nick @ Jun 25th 2006 9:49PM

@Rafi
Agreed concerning CAD
But the VGCats one is regarding spore for the PC hence Will Wrightand his cameo. EA even liked it so much that they remade the comic with the same creatures, but IN GAME. So a creature with butts for eyes is indeed possible. Here is the remake:

http://vgcats.com/news/comic_spore_Will.jpg

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