Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: unexpected edition

by Ross Miller on Oct 28th 2007 1:55PM

Previously on Webcomic Wrapup.

Ordinary bloggers make extraordinary discoveries. Such as the existence of a life outside of the internets.

A man with horn-rimmed glasses visits us, tells us we're not special. We wonder why he even bothered to visit, but before we can ask him, a Haitian puts his hand on my head and ... well, we don't know , exactly, but we checked our watch and it appears we were knocked out for well over a day. Our only memory is one of sheer horror.

Apologies for the delay in the wrapup, blame the man in horn-rimmed glasses. Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics; be sure to vote for your favorite!


	My dearest wish
	J'acuse!
	A New Hope
	Enough is enough [Edit: link fixed]
	Baked goods
	Dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight
	E for Most
	The eye sees all
	It's not what you think! (guest strip)

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Wow-- strong week.

i know, there was only like 1 bad one

also that weebl thing was really funny, it reminded me of something but I couldn't quite place it

A strong week -- IF YOU HATE COMEDY

I agree, this entire week was pretty hilarious.

I disagree, not that great of a week.
I had to vote VGCats. It was the only truly funny comic this time. But Digital Unrest came close.

zzZZzzzZz...

The "Enough is enough" link is broken.

VGCats and CAD were good, but CADs joke was more original

E for Most (2P Start) could've been good if they had tweaked it somehow. Personally, i think E for All would succeed if it wasn't just one more trade show on the WEST COAST. Move it to New York, Philly, Cleveland, somewhere

and yeah, RPG-TV's link is broken

Noes!!!!!!!!

I liked it in LA!!! It was the first gaming show I could attend!!!!

But I understand where you are coming from....

(West Coast ftw! 'cept for the fires...:l)

i voted vgcats cause i was waiting for a mario 64/portal combination and they were the first. but it was an overall strong week imo.

VGCats, for the Portal alternate ending.

I would also like to continue my claim PA is NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.

I would like to add VGCats makes very lame anime refences.

Anime itself is lame :/

VGcats was awesome is not the portal reference but the way they did the portal reference lmao.

J'acuse was a clever one, CAD was hilarious it was though to choose just one.

Don't make me go Super Sayian on your ass!

VG Cats just nudges by Dueling Analogs this week, they're both awesome. The rest...meh

Actually, it should be 'J'accuse', not 'J'acuse'.

I debated whether or not to fix his "french" or leave it as is. In the end, I decided that there might be some reason other than ignorance, so I kept it verbatim.

Anyway, I voted for CtrlAltDel

VG Cats was pretty amazing this week!

It's not in the wrapup this week, but this week's Hypercombofinish is pretty sweet... * wink wink *

I meant to email you, but I know you'll read this if I publish it as a reply. Because, although I did think HCF was funny this week, it alas was not game-related so I couldn't run it. Sorry, I gotta keep up with the theme.

Understood! Staying on topic is always good. ;D

First week where I laughed multiple times. I agree with the above poster, Penny Arcades comics suck these days.

( http://www.hypercombofinish.com/past.php?entry_num=60 )

Unbelievably funny. I was suprised, seriously.

Bahahahaha!

I loved the second panel,Zombies are great Muhahaha.

You sir, have won the award in my heart.

Hahaha VG Cats had my vote! That was so fucking funny!

How the hell are boob jokes winning this thing? Oh, yeah, the geeks... In any case, I voted the second one because Nolan Bushnell is a douche and I'm glad someone finally stuck it to him. Ralph Baer invented video games, and he gets squat in terms of recognition... Someone, please sodomize Douchenell until he admits stealing all the credit?

It's not the boob joke (that bit isn't funny at all), it's the alternate Portal ending. It seems that now-a-days, all a comic needs to be funny is a Portal reference. This week, sadly, that comic was the only one to make me laugh.

VG Cats due to the Portal alternate ending for me. Chell Aeris looks cute. And I hate furries, too, so that's a big deal.

PA is a little iffy, I don't think you picked the best one this week.

I agree, there were a lot of good ones this week. But I had to go with Dueling Analogs just for the simplicity of their joke. I seem to always love their one panel strips.

Note to Penny-Arcade: It's spelled "artifacts."

Wrong.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/artefact

ar·te·fact
n.
Variant of artifact.

Well, not wrong. But neither are they.

"Artefact" is never used. It's extremely archaic.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-art1.htm

well star wars did take place a long time ago...

"Artefacts" is part of the funny.

Wow, people actually voted for the Halo strip? Was there even humor in there, or were people voting for it simply because it had Master Chief?

It's funny if you get the history: Ralph Baer was the man who actually pioneered the technology that made video games possible, so he, in effect, invented video games. Nolan Bushnell only made it into a business, but he often takes credit, or is given credit for, actually inventing the technology. Which he didn't.

I liked the Darth Vader/Katamari strip the best - it was the most clever.

The portal/mario strip was hilarious.

yea, i agree, nice selcetion. The guest strip was completly unrelated to games tho :-(

Between CAD and VGcats, VGcats gets my vote this week. The alternate ending made me laugh my pants off! Scott did a nice job this week if I have to say so.

And yes, I've to agree with Neebs. PA isn't funny anymore, like it used to be. I'm not really sure why it has suddenly started to suck though...

Star Wars Katamari got my vote. 2P Start was excellent though because it is really true to the heart. Ctrl-Alt-Del gets point because it's so evil.

I felt that VGcats took the easy way out of humour, as well as Digital Unrest: it's funny and classic, but not as witty as they usually are in my opinion. =)

really good stuff. vg cats did it for me.
wouldve been better if the alternate ending was the only ending tho...

I went with VG cats only reason why I didn't go for the J'acuse comic is because I don't agree. Oh yes, Nolan Bushnell is a jerk off that stole property of others and called it his, and deserves a pineapple in his ass in hell that lodges another pineapple further up his rectum then another pineapple out of that one till he spits them up every minute.

But how does that change the fact of what he said about halo being true or false? If somebody used that attack on Bill gates to discredit the Xbox360 people would just look past it though he used the same business tactic. Yet because Bushenell insulted a game what he did was suddenly the evilest thing ever, and discredits what he says?

VG cats was the best of the week by far. Although we didn't make the list, feast your eyes upon the next Uwe Boll crapfest.

http://www.mondaynightcrew.com/comic.html

I'd see it as a midnight showing!

I stopped reading this week comics when I clicked VGcats,That one sir wins and I dare you to prove me wrong.

PORTAL FTW.

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