Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: Little Big Parody edition

I had to give it to extra life

but there were quite a few good ones this week

The footnote in the DA's final panel did it for me.

Virtual versus Reality is the winner.

http://www.ebizmba.com

Just for the people who don't know, the Fanboys guest comic is done by Katie Tiedrich, aka Hail-NekoYasha.

Oops, forgot a link to her site for those who don't know her: http://hail-nekoyasha.deviantart.com/

Dueling Analog have my vote... funny.

By the way... NDF FTW!

Am I the only one who's sick of all the Raving Rabbids jokes? It was funny the first time. The second? Not as much.

Raving Rabbids jokes?

Either way, I thought Fanboys was brilliant this week. A lot of good ones but that one had me laughing out loud.

What is this best-computer-deals.net site that always comments on sites that Joystiq links? Has anyone noticed that the site is an exact copy of Joystiq except it doesn't list the authors for each blog post?

NDF eh... has a nice ring to it.

I like it!

*Hi5* @ Fernando

I thought we forged the NTF man.

10. Wow, The Wii dropped in sales by 48.14%!!!

NTF ASSEMBLE NOW! *he hits big bed button*

By your powers combined, and the eye of Thundera, I have the power! *emphasis on the word power*

Now let's form Nintentron and the blazing sword.

Posted at 9:29AM on May 19th 2007 by Kye

11. Oops, I meant NDF instead of NTF

Posted at 9:30AM on May 19th 2007 by Kye

12. No we are truly the Nintendo Task Force. Nintendo doesn't need defending rather we need a counter-offensive force tasked with errrr... revolutionizing news agai... I mean not allied with us.

I'm surprised all the Game Boys increased sales. I guess that Wii and DS were redirected for SPM and Pokemon D/P. That still doesn't explain the drops for Sony's unless the summer seasons were characteristically slow times for games.

Posted at 10:14AM on May 19th 2007 by hvnlysoldr

13. Ok hvnlysoldr, you can lead the counter-offensive news task force thingy...

I'm more of a hands-on guy.
Me, Sheppy, Ken, Rubang B and Fernando are gonna Get our giant robotic lions to kick some ass, then form like a super-saiyan captain N by using our element-controlling rings. Then use our Nintendo-branded peripherals ninja-turtle style.

Posted at 10:29AM on May 19th 2007 by Kye

14. NINTENDO FANBOT DESTROY

oh and vanilla ice is in the corner singing Go GameBoy Go GameBoy Go

Posted at 11:35AM

Several good ones this week. Then there was CAD and DA...

Little Katie's Guest Strip for Fanboys got my vote. She's very talented and should have her comics put on this voting list sometime.

It was a close one between Dueling Analogs and Extra Life. I really like how Scott drew the 'Microsoft dream-gamer', but the footnote at the final panel at Dueling Analogs is really the thing that makes him the winner.

www.awkwardzombie.com

Awesome game-related comic.

Sorry for the advertisement, I 'sent a newstip' which seemed to be completely ignored.

After going through the AZ archive my only question is why didn't someone submit this comic earlier. This whole thing is better than 90% of what gets into the roundup.

It's easy to comment on how lame CAD and DA are in every single Wrapup. And rightly so. They're not particularly well-written or even visually interesting. But their greatest sin is just being unremarkable.

But how in the heck did a Mighty Vikings strip manage to get in this week? Really, Joystiq? We just have to make a horrible doodle in photoshop in the space of 2 minutes, then parrot a meme to get featured? Instead of putting in any real effort to make something funny and visually appealing in any way? All of those wasted nights TRYING...

I don't think they're looking hard enough for decent gaming webcomics. Need help?

http://slimeculture.tv/comics/games/metroid-tmnt-fusion

There. Slime Culture TV. That's a better gaming parody webcomic than The Mighty Vikings. Too good? Here's some inane Canadian-Microsoft drivel:

http://www.xbox.com/en-CA/community/360prophecy/past.htm

Still not crappy enough to be in the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup? Well, there's always my comic:

http://halfmasked.pixelatedempire.net/comic.php?comicID=123

Really, guys. There's an entire list of gaming webcomics categorized at The Webcomic List. I'm sure there's a better punchline in there than "DAAAA!". Putting in a comic like The Mighty Vikings but leaving out Awkward Zombie isn't just casually missing the mark. It's undermines the concepts and practice of artistic quality and presentation. It's only a stone's throw away from a bad Bob and George sprite comic clone with bright MSPaint two-toned backgrounds and jokes about xbox controllers being large. Is this the kind of crap that passes off for entertainment these days? Well, American Idol is still on the air, so ask a stupid question...

If you're going to list webcomics each week for us to vote on, I don't ask that they all be excellent. They can't all be, and I'm not asking them all to be winners. This poll should just be for fun. But is it so much to ask that Ross Miller not make claim that a turd is actually a brick of gold? Did anyone find that Mighty Vikings strip funny?

~A.H.