Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: July 30 - August 5, 2006 [update 2]

Hooked On Polygons better rape this poll or we'll know this blog's full of fanboys.

What have you done! Linking to a furry comic?!?! You have brought eternal shame to the gaming blogs.

JOYSTIQ SEPPUKU

Definitely Penny Arcade on this one (alhough they were all funny, including the rampaging R.O.B.).

You kind of forgot the funny. :/
Vgcats was the only one close to being funny.
Penny arcade is so full of themselves its just dumb.

What's with the nipple in duelinganalogs? Someone isn't getting any...

You're joking, right?

VG cats is the same old shit over and over. Although I've never heard of Lobcomics or whatever it is, I voted for it, because it was the only funny one.

This week's Digital Unrest was awesome. And at the time I'm posting this, DU is actually in second place behind PA. Sweet!

Friday's PA should have been up instead, it was much better. So, I voted for My Extra Life instead.

I voted for Extralife. Great execution on the "loss of innocence" theme.

Staples Center? Don't you mean the L.A. Convention Center?

You do know that the L.A. Clippers, L.A. Lakers, and L.A. Kings all play in the Staples Center during May, the month that E3 used to be in... right?

Anyway, I was surprised to see a comic right out of LiveJournal make it up here. Naturally, it's the one I voted for. It was funny, too.

A furry comic? Wow. Joystiq has sunk to new lows.

I liked the Console Wars comic though. Shaun of the Dead always gets my vote.

Dueling Analogs totally threw in a random nipple shot there.

Vote for the furries!!! They need your love and support!!!

*furry pride*

This is the best batch of comics that I've ever seen :)

Tough to choose among them.

If you're surprised by the nipple in DA, you must not have read very many.

Anyone remember the one where's banging that girl from behind and he compares it to levelling up in Final Fantasy?

L_A_M_E!

God the comcis for the last couple of weeks have been pretty unfunny recently.

...and I swear all the NON-industry people (i.e the ones who don't belong there) need to quit whinning like little babies about not being able to attend the show.

@1

Actually you're right, but you have it backwards. If Hooked on Polygons won, it wold only show that there's a lot of HoP fanboys.

I don't know how many times it's been stated that you don't need to make big sweeping movements with the Wii-mote. You can make small flicks that will the same exact thing. If you get tired from moving your wrist then you need to stop playing video games and go to the hospital. Because something is seriously physically wrong with you.

And even though I shouldn't have to say this I know I do: I am not a Nintendo fanboy, I haven't owned a Nintendo system since the SNES and while I'll probably get a Wii, I'm also probably not going to be waiting in any line for one.

Lol! Everyones comments to this weeks wrap-up are pretty true to it. I didn't even notice the Dueling Analogs nipple until I read the comments, I think I must be nipple blind or some shit *nooooo* Anyway I voted for my own comic RPG-TV because I'm a bias son of a bitch.

I some how forgot to type "be" in my one sentence.
"You can make small flicks that will the same exact thing." should be "You can make small flicks that will be the same exact thing."

Wish you could edit! :)

Good God, VGCats has been in the crapper for years. They're reduced to making jokes about 11-year old games?

I AM a Nintendo fan and I still voted for Hooked on Polygons. I liked a lot of different aspects of the comic besides saying how one could get tired using the remote. It was funny how Reggie just popped in out of nowhere and how he brought back ROB. Penny Arcade is the only strip I read regularly but I still feel like it's unfair how they win all the time because they have the biggest fanbase. I can see how someone might think that HoP wasn't the best comic, but Penny Arcade definitly wasn't. Joystiq, may I suggest taking Penny Arcade out of the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup? Just because they're almost always gonna win.

I cant understand .. Penny Arcade is great yes ... but is taking the lead again ... and i must said this comic "Was not funny at all"

... meh

It's pretty obvious that the "Hooked on Polygons" person(s) who made that comic are extremely biased.

Just as others have said on here as well as Nintendo, you DO NOT need to wave your arms around to play the game. I played a couple games at E3 and the only time I had to big movements was when I was playing Wii Sports Baseball.

As for VGcats being crap for years? I dunno if it's been THAT long but they're couple of stips have just been lame.

Good to see the people who were the reason to downsize E3 are making comics about it. How ironic!

'sup giant nipples, wtf DA?

Take PA off of this, it wins every week no matter what the comic is..

None of these comics made me laugh much. Does that make me a humorless jerk, or does that make the comic writers humorless jerks?

Man, I don't like any of them. I voted My Extra Life, it's mildly amusing. VG cats is about 5% funny, but I never played that game or it might resonate more w/ me. PA is as lame as it's ever been.

Maybe I just have a different take on recent news events... (It's people like me that killed E3 - GATech paid for my entry to E3 twice. :) )

I reitterate Post #1, if Hooked on Polygons doesnt' win, the Joystiq fanbase loses it's credibility. ^^

@ Zero_:

You also obviously have no idea that it doesn't take large movements to play the game.

I swear...ignorance must be bliss for you people...

Why does everyone vote 99% of the time, even when the comic is unfunny, and more or less a diatribe or serious commentary on a gaming event? It' best web COMIC...not "Who is your favourite, and click that button". Some of the genuine talent here is never getting exposure because of the Penny Arcadians.

Hooked on Polygons was hilarious, regardless of whether anyone will actually get tired playing the Wii.

This strip is very well designed, and is consistently underrated in the polling. I agree that the backlash against HoP does not reflect well on this blog readership.

Anyway for two weeks in a row PA is gonna win and for two weeks in a row both comics were lame and unfunny.

Hey, just wanted to give a shout out to the guys at Joystiq.com for putting my comic in that list. Totally wasn't expecting it, but I gotta give you thanks for having an open enough mind to include a comic featuring anthropomorphic characters. It really made my day.

Major respect to Joystiq.

@ GSI:

You've misinterpreted my message. I wasn't implying that Wii gameplay was like that, and that Hooked on Polygons should win because it was 'representing the truth'. No, I'm saying it should win because it's genuinely amusing, and if it doesn't win, it really does show that because it's making fun of the Wii, the voters are pro-Nintendo.

It's funny whether it's true or not, and that's what should be.

I swear... attacks at people based on your assumption alone and generalising people by calling them 'you people' must be bliss for 'you people.'

No F@NB0Y$ this week joystiq? oh wellz. maybe next week then.

I'm probably gonna have to go with my extra life. partly becuase its funny, and partly becuase im too lazy to read after reading hooked on polygons... so much reading... but i loved that close up of reggie. that alone had me deciding between the two.

I dont know why that penny arcade strip is up there either. it was decent, but the one from friday was just so much better. figured that'd be a shoe in this week.

now if youll excuse me, im gonna get my cinna on.

Well my bad then, my apologies. But when 99% of people say the Wii will fail b/c of remote or that "waving your hand around" will get tiresome and having not even tried the Wii...seeing people trying to justify their false claim is irritating.

Yey, I'm not in last place! ^^

And I'm even beating the "none of the above" xD

Great comics this week, I read someone saying thta he didn't play the game featured in VGCats and so he didn't find it funny. Well I didn't play that game and I found it funny.

It's the good thing of VGCats, most of the time you don't have to play the game to understand the joke.

I didn't finish the first one. Does it ever end?

Ugh..Webcomics.
"Garfield" and "Foxtrot" don't seem as eye-gougingly unfunny now.

n.40 actually I was a big fan of Garfield, then I grew up and realized it was always the same five jokes recycled over and over.

Holy crap, did someone hack the poll? PA was way ahead and now all of a sudden Hooked on Polygons is raping it.

I liked Hooked on Polygons, but PA was definately funnier... if not for its clever relation to current events in the industry, then for its elegant simplicity.

glad to see the cynical and bitter anti-nintendo strips. They really make me feel secure in not only my undeserved sense of pride, but my coplete and undying loyalty to my Sony overlords. So what if those jokes are as stale and recycled as a nickel whores neatherealms, they make me feel better about myself.

These comics make Marmaduke look like Calvin and Hobbes.

I have no problem with the concept of Hooked on Polygons - I haven't played the Wii, so I have no idea how the controls worked - but the execution was terrible. Someone has never heard the phrase "brevity is the soul of wit". The comic is Just. Too. Long.

Man... most of them blow. What's so funny about the WII or the down sizing of E3... the only one up there that actually made me laugh is Extra Life. The rest just suck.

Actually, of you say wii a lot of times until the word completely loses it's meaning, you'll see it's pretty fun.

Heck you can try it with your family! Now that's home entertainment, Nintendo!

Actually... I prefer to say Weeeeeeeeeeeee if I'm gonna say it at all :-P


	F.U.B.A.R.O.B.
	Whaaaaaaa!
	Shaun of the Dead Rising
	So happy together ...
	Black thunder, white lightning
	Remember those girls who put "?" blocks around their town and they called the bomb squad?
	Too bad for the Alderaan Convention Center
	E3 bias?
	More E3 criticism
	Objection!
	None of the above

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: July 30 - August 5, 2006 [update 2]

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