Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is Still Alive

by Ross Miller { Dec 9th 2007 at 8:00AM }

Did you miss us yesterday? We bet you did, but don't think for a second that we were gone for good. Believe us, we are still alive. So is Scott Ramsoomair, who after an extended VG Cats hiatus delivers a flash-based fan video for Portal. The music is Jonathan Coulton's "I'm Still Alive," so we should go ahead and warn those that haven't beaten the game to not view this video, as it is enriched with spoilers. Enriched like moist, delicious cake.

Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics, be sure to vote for your favorite!

P.S. - Check out this new graphic novel series from sister site WOW Insider.

Tags: webcomic

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

GUIGUI @ Dec 9th 2007 8:33AM

LeaveGamspot alone! They are human being!...
Wait...

tc @ Dec 9th 2007 8:43AM

colour me not impressed...so i guess thats beige or something.

lack of funny means I gotta give it to dueling analogs for the lemmings reference.

madato @ Dec 9th 2007 8:51AM

Yeah already saw this, closed it half way. It's a very pointless, crappily done, boring, non-interesting piece of work. Definitely didn't expect something like this on Joystiq (is this what we're turning into?).

Ghen @ Dec 9th 2007 8:54AM

w8, wut?

Veko @ Dec 9th 2007 10:08AM

Don't comment drunk.

jamma @ Dec 9th 2007 11:37AM

Wow madato your comment perfectly sums up......your own comment

Ghen @ Dec 9th 2007 8:53AM

I voted for Pixpup because at least they added all the week's jokes together for a nice string of tiny laughs.

Arch Stanton @ Dec 9th 2007 9:03AM

Ugh, they are all terrible.

"Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics" I would hate to see the ones that didnt make it.

Evan @ Dec 9th 2007 9:07AM

Why is VG Cats excluded from voting? Scott put in the extra effort of animating it, and he is rewarded by being excluded from voting? What's next, will Joystiq exclude Penny Arcade because it's too nicely colored?

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Dec 10th 2007 12:13PM

Last time I checked, an animation was not a webcomic. Just because Scott made it and put it up on his comic site does not make it a comic.

t_m @ Dec 9th 2007 9:23AM

Well, I'm not watching the VG cats one because i don't want the spoilers, but it wins by default because none of the others were funny.

What happened???

The lemmings reference was interesting (mostly because it made me want a Wii Lemmings game), but it wasn't funny either. (and it was based on an ancient joystiq piece which didn't make sense at the time, as it failed to factor in the fact that the Wii is/was the only console with a pack-in game).

Arno @ Dec 9th 2007 9:38AM

They all suck equally.

J.Goodwin @ Dec 9th 2007 11:25AM

This is a pretty weak week. I voted for PA, and it's barely relevant.

Steve @ Dec 9th 2007 9:11PM

That's why in the results, they all have pretty much the same vote counts. Because everyone's voting randomly.

Shignami @ Dec 10th 2007 12:33AM

Ugh, picking the lesser of multiple evils is going to be a challenge.

Thierry @ Dec 9th 2007 9:48AM

The lemming/wii reference is hilarious.

Veko @ Dec 9th 2007 10:06AM

Pixpup fails since Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk were already Activision properties before the merger. I know they tried to flavor it up with the Vivendi music comment, but no.

2Pstart wins. Sonic's doesn't even have breasts and Sega's still trying to milk him.

Zertoss @ Dec 9th 2007 11:23AM

I agree. 2PStart was great. Made me laugh while sobbing softly.

Almack64 (NOF - Ultrazord) @ Dec 10th 2007 10:33AM

I also voted for the sad sad 2pstart one. Sometimes the funniest things are the truth.

Lgndk11r @ Dec 9th 2007 10:17AM

We should just give VGCats the weekly award right now and call it a day.

Neebs @ Dec 9th 2007 10:22AM

This week sucks.

Jeff @ Dec 9th 2007 10:25AM

That VG cats music video is worthless. It's only getting attention because of how amazing "Still Alive" is. Bitches are riding its coat-tails.

gonk @ Dec 9th 2007 10:30AM

night elf guitar hero!

Aero @ Dec 9th 2007 10:41AM

I don't see why everyone's loving the VGcats video so much, it's just a simple animated face so the actual video isn't good and it's just getting attention for Still Alive. Which must be a month old by now.

Joe @ Dec 9th 2007 11:41AM

Still Alive is old as the internets.

Well, it's two months old, and he's JUST NOW trying to profit from it? (It shows something about VG Cats and CTLALTDEL vs Penny Arcade about Portal... only one of the three doesn't have a crappily-designed "Cake is a lie" shirt.)

I voted Dueling Analogs after reading his comments. Made a ton of sense, great post.

CJC @ Dec 9th 2007 11:44AM

"Call of Guitarcraft" could be the best game ever, if it didn't take itself seriously, or was super campy.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Dec 9th 2007 12:08PM

Anything making fun of the writing in Sonic games is a-okay in my book.

Anni @ Dec 9th 2007 12:22PM

Truly awful selection this week save for 2pstart, but at the very least now I really wish they'd put Lemmings on the VC.

kidc @ Dec 9th 2007 12:24PM

My vote goes to Madiart. Irony FTW!

and now a shameless link to my comic, hehe.
http://ninjaken.blogspot.com/2007/12/snowjob.html

ssuk @ Dec 9th 2007 12:34PM

I swear three of those comics were basically the same damn thing. However, one did make up for it's lame Activizarrd theme by poking fun at the GameStop situation.

David @ Dec 9th 2007 1:33PM

Why is Penny Arcade up at nearly 14%, which is a tie for second place? It's not even funny. Glad everyone votes from the humor perspective and not the name.

Psaakyrn @ Dec 10th 2007 3:57AM

FYI, humour is not a necessity in a comic. It's at least more intellectually engaging than avtivision blizzard jokes.

Mr Khan @ Dec 9th 2007 1:42PM

Fairly weak, as most of them were about Activizzard, the jokes about which already feel old

I liked 2Pstart for commenting on Sonic's hideous writing, but Digital Unrest took it because of that griefer with the 0.5 starred video

Shagittarius @ Dec 9th 2007 2:34PM

I guess being even remotely funny is not a requirement for wasting your time publishing a web comic. What a bunch of stinkers.

Zsavior @ Dec 9th 2007 3:29PM

ALl of these comics were horrible, when it comes to being funny, but I voted for PA since it made a comment on the change in gaming, by concentrating on a market that was always there.

DA was the worst it was another Bitch a moan comic about people buying the WII. Basically crying they aren't doing what he feels they should do with their game system, when are these comics going to end.

Big John @ Dec 9th 2007 3:41PM

This weeks' VG Cats != comic

Brello @ Dec 9th 2007 5:45PM

Wow. World of Warcraft + Guitar Hero. A punchline EVERYONE thought of 5 seconds after hearing the merger news. Props to those websites that actually had a shred of creativity and an original thought.

Mr.ESC @ Dec 9th 2007 5:59PM

PSP jokes wow thats kind of old,too bad the PSP lite really sucks,the quality of the new PSP model is inferior compared to the older one,I dropped it yesterday by accident and the umd drive door doesn't works anymore(With that I mean now its really hard to open).

ThornedVenom @ Dec 9th 2007 6:54PM

The Node and Dueling Analogs made me ROFL. The first one was very ironic, but it felt like a jab made too easily.

rowd149 @ Dec 9th 2007 8:24PM

Anything with Tauren, I'm game for.

mattydread @ Dec 9th 2007 9:11PM

I couldn't understand half of what was said in the VGCats video. At first I thought it was my laptop speakers, so I tried it on my desktop, and still I only catch half of it. Mostly just "I'm still alive".

The Penny Arcade comic that came after the one linked here was hilarious. I wish I could have voted for that one.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Dec 10th 2007 12:19PM

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
HUGE SUCCESS
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science

we do what we must because we can
for the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead
but there's no sense crying over every mistake
you just keep on trying until you run out of cake
and the science gets done and you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive

I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
even though you broke my heart and killed me
and torn into pieces
and threw every piece into a fire
as they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a wonderful line
and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
so I'm glad I got burned
Think of all the things we learned for the people that are still alive

go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
maybe you'll find someone else to help you
maybe black mesa
that was a joke, haha, fat chance
anyway this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist
look at me still talking, when there's science to do
when I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
on the people who are still alive

and believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive
While you are dying I'll be still alive
and when you're dead I'll be still alive
STILL ALIVE, still alive

Maximilian Lockwood @ Dec 9th 2007 11:37PM

I voted for the Pixelated Pupils... You got the Activisizzard and Gerstman (sp?) going on... But I gotta ask: Is the whole Activizzard thing REALLY that funny? REALLY that substantial? I couldn't care less really. Activision isn't my favorite publisher and Blizzard, well I would never pay subscription fees for a game. That's just wrong.