Readers double negate VG Cats as "not not best" webcomic

by Ross Miller { Oct 31st 2006 at 11:22AM }

With a well-established name, a gem of a muse (Phoenix Wright), and sticky sex jokes, VG Cats was the obvious winner from the start of last week's webcomic wrapup.

Second place and third place go to Penny Arcade and Ctrl+Alt+Del ... boooring. Thanks to everyone who voted, and be sure to let us know of any gaming webcomics you stumble upon this week -- seriously, we love reading them all.

Tags: phoenix wright, PhoenixWright, vg cats, VgCats, web comic, WebComic

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gredom @ Oct 31st 2006 11:32AM

even though it's not a "webcomic" today's Dilbert was hilarious...and game related!

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2036649061031.gif

ArcSine @ Nov 4th 2006 10:22AM

As funny as the general populous agrees it is, I still can't get over the uneasy feeling that the anthropomorphized characters mean I'm going to come across a joke that I'll later realize is yiffing-related. Gah.

BernieGrafe @ Nov 1st 2006 10:24AM

Forgot to mention GU Comics. It's single panel, but hellavu funny. Good community on the forums as well.
http://www.gucomics.com/

I give PA and CAD due for there namesake, but as far as funny > art, the Noob weighs in as the new champ. http://www.thenoobcomic.com/

And as far as best storyline to date, can't touch Rich over at Order of the Stick:
http://www.giantitp.com/index.html

GlitchCog @ Oct 31st 2006 12:01PM

Yeah, the only off-putting part of VG Cats is the furriness. Everything else is superb.

Bob @ Oct 31st 2006 4:05PM

Since it is Halloween week you outta do a contest for best videogame related costume in a webcomic.

Silver R. Wolfe @ Oct 31st 2006 1:07PM

Wow, I feel hurt. What's wrong with furriness?

Mayu Zane @ Oct 31st 2006 12:21PM

As long as the furriness stays as either hilariously cute/hilariously violent (or both), I'm fine with it.

Yay VGcats for being cute, violent and hence humorously bizarre.

colin @ Oct 31st 2006 12:27PM

This was the first vgcats in about, oh, one thousand years that made me laugh, albeit a little. However, Ctrl+alt+delete was about as retarded and unfunny as usual, and Penny Arcade got a rare miss. They don't deserve their spots.

'Course, they were all pretty terrible this week.

GlitchCog @ Oct 31st 2006 1:02PM

Silver R. Wolfe,
I generally have no problem with fetishes, but by their nature fetishes are creepy and weird to outsiders. For that reason, they should be enjoyed with a healthy bit of shame and humility. In general, furries seem to lack this shame. This is evident in all sorts of internet based furry-rights movements where sexually deviant teenagers proclaim that they are a proud, special, and unique fox, squirrel or whatever trapped in a human shell and that their weirdness deserves respect. I think the personality traits that make someone a furry also make them tend to feel repressed and encourage them to act self-righteous. That is what’s wrong with furriness.

And that is why it’s a little scary how close to furry the VG Cats comics get, especially considering how the humor is often sexual in nature. It feels like VG Cats might be just a little too familiar with the concept of declaring an ERA for guys in cat suits, and that’s a shame because the comic is truly funny.

Silver R. Wolfe @ Oct 31st 2006 1:07PM

@GlitchCog

Not all furries are like those you mentioned. Some people just like anthropomorphic characters, some just like drawing them, not all are those raving teenage kids claiming they're a vixen trapped in a human boy's body.
I do agree with you about the lacking shame however. I am one of the staff members for one of the largest furry websites and boy do I see my own share of disturbing imagery that the user is actually proud of posting.

I don't think VGCats really is one of these things however. Just my take on things. If you want to get in contact with me more and we can talk on length a little bit, my email is silver.r.wolfe(at)gmail(dot) com.

_habit_ @ Oct 31st 2006 1:34PM

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/

hopefully you'll use that one for next week (if you get the link on a day other than today, go to 10/31 for the right comic)!

pierski @ Oct 31st 2006 2:18PM

I think the best choices won this week. Granted they are the most popular of the gaming webcomics, that's irrelevant. I guess that's why they're the most popular... hmm.

OtakuCODE @ Oct 31st 2006 2:03PM

Simply because something is unusual is not a good reason to claim that people should be ashamed of liking it. Furries shouldn't expect other people to share their interest in furry things, but it's not unreasonable for them to expect to not be attacked for it. What is it to anyone if someone is walking down the street in a squirrel outfit or playing a game as an anthropomorphized frog or something?

If someone is not causing you actual bodily harm, I recommend you get over yourself and let people enjoy their fantasies.

GlitchCog @ Oct 31st 2006 1:28PM

I still think a significant enough portion of furries are of the bad type to justify worrying when something you enjoy leans towards it.

Thanks for your invite, but I feel pretty comfortable with the current grasp I have on what it means to be furry. I have less than no interest in learning more... even of the nice type, for which I still respectfully withhold any sort of respect.

Catgirl @ Oct 31st 2006 3:26PM

then of course, there is the most awesome of all furries ever...

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i193/pomgenozide/catgirl.jpg

LordMinogue @ Oct 31st 2006 3:27PM

Woah, when did anthropomorphism become perverted?

GlitchGog, VGCats is drawn by a 25 year old canadian. Niether he nor Leo and Aeris (the "furry" characters) suffer visibly from bizzare sexual issues. They have also gotten progressivly younger as the series has progressed, which further weakens your steryotypical assertion.

Jonn @ Oct 31st 2006 10:32PM

>14. Woah, when did anthropomorphism become perverted?<
Best guess? Sometime in the 80s, with t3h internet.

>GlitchGog, VGCats is drawn by a 25 year old canadian. Niether he nor Leo and Aeris (the "furry" characters) suffer visibly from bizzare sexual issues. They have also gotten progressivly younger as the series has progressed, which further weakens your steryotypical assertion.<
Not to mention that he stated that he didn't even find out about furry until after he started the strip.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31135582/
/shameless promotion

Moogle @ Oct 31st 2006 11:04PM

While I can understand why people can shy away from other people's fetishes (BDSM creeps me out, for one), in this case it seems akin to being nervous about PA because it stars two guys so it might be gay.

The author of VG cats has talked about his stroke of uncreativity in using his two RL cats as main characters, I think. AFAIK, no other characters, including the author's persona (pantsman), are furry (unless thematically appropriate, i.e. easter bunny or a videogame character like Fox McCloud). You picked about the worst example of comics to get the heeby jeebies over.

ArcSine @ Nov 4th 2006 10:22AM

First of all, all apologies to Ross and Joystiq for being dumb enough to bring this up in the first place.

Now, I'd like to present a hypothetical situation:

Let's say my wife and I are sitting on a park bench next to you. Since we love eachother and aren't the least bit ashamed about it, we start having riotous buttsecks in your immediate vicinity. Are you creeped out? Duh. Now, pretend it's two men. Does it make the least bit of difference?

Ian Cooley @ Nov 1st 2006 11:09PM

Okay, sure... This may seem like a shameless plug, but
I do feel that
this first comic in my (very short) run thus far... Is pretty
funny... For a newb like me at
least...http://jorgesmodernlife.smackjeeves.com/comics/59007/It's
really the only one worth checking out, but I'd be damn proud if
the folks here at Joystiq thought it funny enough to make the list...-Ian

Linkman2004 @ Nov 3rd 2006 3:28AM

Yay! I got fourth place!

Anyways, I'm back with a few of my comics. Not sure if any of them top the one I did last week(if you give a Metroid a cookie), but, meh.

http://gameboyz.smackjeeves.com/comics/74915/

http://gameboyz.smackjeeves.com/comics/75727/

http://gameboyz.smackjeeves.com/comics/75980/

Chrysis @ Nov 3rd 2006 10:55AM

Wow our archive at RPG-TV has been breaking a lot with new comics not showing. But new ones are now up and a whole new website is on the way :) anyhoo our comics this week...

Haloween comic

http://www.skush.com/rpgtv/?strip=95

latest comic (kim possible rocks!)

http://www.skush.com/rpgtv/?strip=96

Annnnd our Sony/Liksang comic

http://www.skush.com/rpgtv/?strip=94

Thank you and goodnight! *runs off into the sunset*

Ash @ Nov 7th 2006 10:46AM

I’m getting sick of these assumptions that Scott is a furry. Have any of you ever read VG cats without these preconceived notions that the world is a cesspit of closet furries?

When I read VG cats for the first time -before I even knew what the hell a furry was- I took it as it was; something fresh that sets it apart from the monotony of most other online comics, especially those based around parodying games. In my opinion, if you’re going to call this a furry based comic, then you might as well label Calvin and Hobbes “Furries for the Children”.

Go ahead and show this to someone who hasn’t been warped by the internet and find out what they say. I doubt they’ll see the same thing as some of the more perverse of you, shoot this comic down for.

Self-conscious morons…

Hate @ Nov 16th 2006 8:41AM

Yay! Vg Cats won! It's the first video gaming webcomic I've read, so it's one of my personal favorites in comics, next to The Boondocks.

VJ R @ Nov 10th 2006 3:52AM

Well i like the comic VG cats alot. But what i dont get is these people who get so god damn retarded when it comes to furries. Its just a drawing and some people go as far as to make it a fetish which really isn't a big deal at all. Then of course there are those who go to say that it isn't "mormal".
Define normality. What is it. Does normality mean that something has to be done your way and only then you may view it as "normal". And if anybody just decides o express his individuality, they call him a freak. This kind of thinking is extremely typical of people as they try to justify their existance on this planet, when in fact there is no such thing as a normal person in this world at all.
Bottom line is if you cant respect a person's intrests in whatever he/she choses to indulge in, then well, what can i say, you're just another typical self-centered person that nobody could really give a damn about. But hey thats just typical human beings.

Normal Dude @ Nov 14th 2006 5:14PM

To everyone who says VG Cats isn't trying to accept furries or get a fanbase of them, just go to the forums. With all of the crap there (from pretty much every memeber) you'd think the cats were two porn stars created in a fanfic. Even worse,the most famous fics on the forums pretty much are the two cats being souless porn stars.

I think the comic is lame. Often times the lack of the actual character (ex: Link) makes it hard to connect to certain jokes about games, some comics try to ride on with pointless violence when the joke could be better in another format, the comic often never updates on time, despite the colors the characters aren't as detailed as the CAD and PA ones, many jokes are ruined by overextending the strips or overlooking an obvious joke, some comics are just jokes about things which are already jokes in the game, there is no story or character development, and many jokes could be done better with CAD's "demonstration on noobs" complete with over-voice. Overall, it's just crap that got lucky.