Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: stuck in WoW edition
by Ross Miller 
{ Jan 20th 2007 at 4:45PM }
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Seifer @ Jan 20th 2007 4:56PM
You know, I was gonna vote for VG Cats, but that Digital Double comic made me spit out my soda. It gets my vote.
Breserk @ Jan 20th 2007 4:59PM
Seifer, I'd have agreed were it handled with more finesse.
My vote goes for the thoroughly awesome VG Cats this time. It describes exactly what I had in mind. "So life is brown and dark, except for the shiny parts? Huh."
Ixistant @ Jan 20th 2007 5:11PM
This is a tough one. It's so close between VG Cats and F@nboy$.
VG Cats wins, although only by a single, HD Hair.
alexanderwales @ Jan 20th 2007 5:15PM
The digital double comic made me find out that there's a new Harvest Moon title coming out for the Wii - which gets me very very excited.
The VGCats comic, on the other hand, perfectly represents my feelings towards the next generation graphics. It got my vote.
Benny @ Jan 20th 2007 5:22PM
VGCats, Fanboys and Digital Unrest were all very good. I voted DU as I predicted less people would vote for them. I was right of course. VGC always gets all the votes.
Sanchez @ Jan 20th 2007 5:30PM
I voted for Digital Unrest, which was clearly the best comic this week. Vg Cats sure is exaggerating, most people would agree that more bloom and HDR adds nicely, even if it doesn't help realism. Fanboys was surprisingly not bad. Game Boyz is the worst comic i have ever read, art and dialogue wise, I'm not sure why you keep featuring it.
Andre Deminiac @ Jan 20th 2007 5:46PM
CAD is amazing. I found it a while ago, and I've been reading it since.
RDX @ Jan 20th 2007 5:58PM
VG Cats got my vote. The Wario Ware weed one was close though. Digital Double was not funny. Vulgarity doesn't equal humor.
Ninegauger @ Jan 20th 2007 7:43PM
"Haven't you heard? Real is brown."
I saw that the other day and knew that I was going to vote for it... the Wario one almost changed my mind though.
Zachary Hinchliffe @ Jan 20th 2007 6:17PM
oh my god, VG Cats is only 1 vote (mine) above Fanboys. O_O
Muku @ Jan 20th 2007 6:51PM
RDX, I agree.
It seems that with most of these folks, vulgarity = humor. Either that or the American funny bone gets the most giggle out of elementry school kind of jokes like that. 'Tis sad really.
Dr. No @ Jan 20th 2007 7:04PM
I voted for VG cats, but I felt that he missed something about HD graphics; mainly, the fact that in Next-Gen graphics, all characters have to look like they've been wrapped in cellophane and given two coats of polyurethane varnish.
Brisby @ Jan 21st 2007 12:01AM
Fanboys was awesome, but VGC was my favorite.
Jaunty @ Jan 20th 2007 7:29PM
I really disliked the art style with vgcats this week. Sure the joke is pretty good but I couldn't get over Leo's craptacular look throughout the entire thing. Lines Mr. Scott! Thick Lines!
Endejas @ Jan 20th 2007 8:00PM
haha I liked Digital Unrest this week.
awesome.
Mike @ Jan 20th 2007 7:50PM
Jaunty, there were no lines,because that would imply cel shading. Leo was in a "next gen" video game.
BPM? @ Jan 20th 2007 8:03PM
DU FTW
Science is funny.
Joe @ Jan 21st 2007 8:54PM
I voted DU. That made me LOL.
VG Cats steals memes just as they end being funny.
Satertek @ Jan 20th 2007 10:37PM
http://zombiesloveburningcrusade.ytmnd.com/
Defenestrator2.0 @ Jan 20th 2007 10:48PM
Wow, no straightforward bashing of VGcats this week?! OMGSPLOSION! I'm genuinely surprised. I agree that the art style of VGcats was not at its best this week, but that didn't defer me from the humor. Next-gen is impressive, but exaggerated at times. Also, I've never really found Tip of the Sword that funny. Perhaps it's because the characters are too "cute" to produce any real hilarity. And, on a final note, I am now deeply disturbed thanks to Double Digital. See you all later, gotta go to a psychiatrist now.
Matters @ Jan 20th 2007 10:48PM
That Digital Double comic was pathetic. Talk about uncreative. They must have watched Kingpin for the first time just the other day. That joke was old 10 years ago but at least Kingpin made it funny.
Spencer @ Jan 20th 2007 11:13PM
The VG cats made me laugh more than most past winner. Definitely got my vote.
Demaar @ Jan 20th 2007 11:27PM
Old joke is old. People have been taking the piss out of bloom and "OMFG REALISM" for ages.
Fanboy$ wins for remote amount of originality.
mrfong @ Jan 20th 2007 11:50PM
it CRACKS ME UP every time someone on the vgcats comic does the scream with the trapezoid shaped mouth. scott just has an amazing art style. but i do agree with the comments on leo in this comic, when i first saw it i wasn't sure if it was fan-made or not.
Tetelestia @ Jan 21st 2007 2:39AM
And that entire Bull Milk comic should be the stale joke for the Gameboyz strip. zzzzz
chenry @ Jan 21st 2007 2:32AM
Ok... seriously, stop putting in Tip of the Sword. It's embarrassing.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Jan 21st 2007 3:36AM
Brown and Bloom should be outlawed on all nine planets... I mean, eight.
I voted for Digital Unrest, though. Why didn't someone think of that sooner? :)
StalkerB @ Jan 21st 2007 9:20AM
http://cascadefailure.comicgenesis.com/
Gotta love D&D + WoW
Evan @ Jan 21st 2007 9:14AM
Game Boyz: The staleness of stale jokes is stale.
Ctrl-Alt-Del: That joke might have worked better if one of the characters didn't already look a game system. Oh wait, no it wouldn't.
Dueling Analogs and Tip of the Sword: They speak the truth, but the truth isn't funny.
Penny Arcade: I'm sorry, they aren't included this week because they didn't produce a video game related comic this week. Instead, we have Tycho carrying a dismembered penis on an airplane.
This is pretty much just a contest between VGCats and F@nboy$ this week.
Dave M. @ Jan 21st 2007 1:11PM
Wow, every last one of those comics were awful! That's quite unusual. Usually I can find one that is humorous. I suspect that it's because all the people that are doing those comics are off playing Burning Crusade. :)
Shmil @ Jan 21st 2007 7:55PM
Why the hell is CAD even included anymore, there was a time when i thought it was funny, but now rather than write comics that parody video games he just now makes long stupid story arches that lead up to a very weak punchline
Rence @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:11AM
How come you guys never include PvP? I know it's mostly not a gaming themed comic anymore, but the last couple of strips have been about WoW and it's hardly some obscure comic..
scott @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:31AM
I think the first WoW strip relied on the characters too much for most people here to get it. The second one...? I think it was posted after the wrap-up was posted, now that I'm thinking about it...
Ross is pretty good about including PvP when Scott Kurtz posts a gaming comic.