Weekly Webcomic Wrapup resets for the new year
by Ross Miller 
{ Jan 5th 2008 at 2:22PM }
Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics, be sure to vote for your favorite!
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Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics, be sure to vote for your favorite!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Obie @ Jan 5th 2008 2:31PM
Why does CAD always need to whip out the boobies to be funny? Too bad the Santa one was funnier anyways. ;)
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 2:53PM
They haven't brought boobies into this comic business in a while actually. It was a refreshing comic.
Ghen @ Jan 5th 2008 9:47PM
No. I don't care. Boobies always win. And yes, I'm married so that might have something to do with it.
Davey @ Jan 5th 2008 2:32PM
xkcd = win
Patrick @ Jan 5th 2008 2:48PM
busting at the seems with win, monday, wednesday, firday are the best days ever
pasta @ Jan 5th 2008 9:35PM
Yeah, I wish we could vote for XKCD.
Jeff @ Jan 5th 2008 2:42PM
The first one and the one with boobs were the funniest.
The second one is by far the truest =)
Mr Khan @ Jan 5th 2008 2:45PM
A weak week, so i went for Dueling Analogues
The other comics were either too minimalistic (DU) or Wall o' Text (CAD)
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 2:51PM
I love when people complain about CAD having to much text, it is hilarious. I'm gonna go read some manga.
Mr Khan @ Jan 5th 2008 2:55PM
But Manga are meant to tell stories (usually), I equate Web comics with newspaper comics, something to make me laugh in a few frames simply enough, but not too simply
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 2:57PM
CAD-comics has a continuing main story. Like a sitcom but you know funny and clever. I like the extra text, it adds to the humor without over-stating everything.
A person @ Jan 5th 2008 3:09PM
"Like a sitcom but you know funny and clever."
Funnier than any of the webcomics this week.
aristokrat @ Jan 5th 2008 3:09PM
Character development tends to lead to more humor, as in most sitcoms on TV (except for Scrubs, where they whitewashed all the characters once the show became a hit). For example, Homer's antics would be as funny as a one-shot gig. I like CAD's commitment to story and narrative arcs.
SoxFan13 @ Jan 5th 2008 2:52PM
Boobs trump all!
Joe @ Jan 5th 2008 3:10PM
8^U makes an impressive return this week.
Um... Everquest? ONE? He's addicted to Everquest, which came out 11 years ago? Buckley, first you photoshop your characters in the same position for three panels a comic and then you say everquest 1? And you broke out the seventh-grade BOOBIES!LOL joke?
And you're winning?
The first one was incredibly true so I picked it.
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 3:24PM
Apparently you've never really read any CAD-comics otherwise you'd know what was going on there and find it hilarious.
Badwolf @ Jan 5th 2008 3:43PM
@ Anticrawl: I read CAD every day it updates for gods know what reason, and don't find it even remotely funny.
That said, this is probably one of B^Uckley's better efforts, not that it's saying much.
Simstim @ Jan 5th 2008 5:00PM
They are playing Everquest 2
http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20071205
Nguyen @ Jan 5th 2008 3:41PM
so you all you guys above admit to infantile comedy with boobies as commitment to narrative? I've tried, like seriously sat there for more than an hour of my life and reading through the CAD archive, and it was the first web-comic where I read through the archive and decided not to book mark it. It sucks that much balls. (Is that the kind of comedy appropriate for describing CAD?)
Jim @ Jan 5th 2008 3:43PM
http://www.2pstart.com/2008/01/02/advice-not-heeded/
500 error?
Tim Harding @ Jan 5th 2008 5:18PM
it's back up now, sorry about that.
Badwolf @ Jan 5th 2008 3:46PM
Voted DU this week, seeing as it was the best of a bad bunch. VG Cats was a close second, but seeing how infrequently it updates, it'll be next Christmas before this story arc's finished / scrapped, which seems to defeat the whole point.
Also, it'd be awesome if this appeared on the poll next week, even if just to see how (badly) it fares in comparison to everything else:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php
guy_man @ Jan 5th 2008 4:16PM
Firstly, comparing CAD to manga when there is no manga in the review in question isn't really helping your cause in defending a really mediocre comic.
"Well. I like how people hate how this has too much text. I'm gonna go read this thing that I think has too much text even though that's never been brought up."
Fantastic.
Second, the difference between Manga text and CAD wall of text is manga has a multitude of things that actually affect how the comic is read. Three lines of text are broken up into three speech bubbles to keep your eyes moving to move you through a page quicker. In other words: Lots of words distributed over many pages.
CAD dumps may lines into one panel with no thought on placement (unless you consider covering up the copy and paste art to be thoughtful speech bubble placement) which just results in WALL OF TEXT WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS.
I also love the character development of the fat jerk, the zany idiot, and the girl who is a girl who rolls her eyes. Very funny and clever. I've also never seen boobs used in such a "clever" way along with the "clever" rpg jokes that have been on the internet since PA and PVP did them years ago alongside of every other 13 year old kid with a scanner.
Oh, and Lilah looks like a dude. Thanks for the side view of the testicles that hang off of "her" chest.
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 4:39PM
You're a very angry man. I never compaired manga and CAD-comics, I just enjoy a little dialoge in my comics.
These Everquest jokes are a nostalgic return to previous strips in the series my friends, just calm down. It is a gaming comic, and I'd say a damn good parody of gamers, the internet, and their lifestyle. You need to take some pills or atleast do something constructive with all that "negative energy."
Perhaps lift weights, jog, or knit a quilt depicting you're hatrid of CAD-comics.
Shignami @ Jan 5th 2008 5:23PM
Or we could make a website!
www.cadsucks.com
But really now, boob jokes? was that REALLY the most clever thing B^Uckley could think of to resolve this joke-less story arc? was that really the punch line of 2 weeks of exposition?
guy_man @ Jan 5th 2008 7:23PM
Me? I'm happy. Very happy, and quite calm.
I just happen to have good taste. Shame they don't make a pill for that. :3
fanguad @ Jan 5th 2008 4:23PM
xkcd was the only one of those comics that actually made me laugh.
ALH @ Jan 5th 2008 4:24PM
8v| ¯\(°< o)/¯
8^U ¯\(°< o)/¯
Krudman @ Jan 5th 2008 4:29PM
No love for Janet's Miyamoto guest strip?
http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?cid=255
For shame, Ross. :(
Anticrawl @ Jan 5th 2008 4:42PM
Isn't that strip from December 23rd? If so that may be the reason, then again these guys aren't very strick on the whole weekly time frame.
Sillines @ Jan 5th 2008 5:34PM
OH I GET IT BECAUSE ETHAN IS ADDICTED TO EVERQUEST AND BY SHOWING HER BOOBS IT'S A WAY TO GET HIS ATTENTION. HOW CLEVER AND ORIGINAL. PLUS I LIKE HOW HE DOES A GREAT JOB OF INSERTING TONS OF MEANINGLESS TEXT. IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD FOR BEING A LOYAL READER CUZ I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON EVEN THOUGH IT'S OBVIOUS AND TOTALLY FUNNY AND IS A HINT INTO THE MIND OF A COMEDIC GENIUS LIKE BUCKLEY. I'M REALLY GLAD I READ THAT.
MNC Dover @ Jan 5th 2008 5:34PM
Dueling Analogs was the best this week for sure. It's not game related, but here's our comic.
http://www.mondaynightcrew.com/comic.html
chenry @ Jan 5th 2008 6:37PM
boob jokes. I see we're a very sophisticated crowd.
Aludra @ Jan 5th 2008 8:04PM
Hah...In CAD, I feel bad that I have to do that to my boyfriend to make him pay attention anymore. Least its true.
icicle0424 @ Jan 5th 2008 9:28PM
I voted for boobies, cuz my wife does that to me as well.. heh.. she has boobies :)
Judd @ Jan 5th 2008 11:32PM
I thought 2PStart was the obvious choice. It was just really clever. All the more so, because people have actually drawn Pac-Man into the streets.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/21/pac-man-moves-from-screens-to-highways/
Blue_Falcon @ Jan 6th 2008 1:37PM
I was hoping one of the options this week was going to xkcd, seeing it as the main image.
This poll does not deliver.:|
(xkcd ftw!)
Dio @ Jan 6th 2008 4:19PM
At first I was going to vote for 2pstart, but then CAD was funny(which it hasn't been in a long time) so I voted for them. I think Tim needs a break from all the hate.
And why the hell do people still read VGcats? It NEVER updates.
Cap'n Jack @ Jan 7th 2008 9:16AM
Everquest is for Weaboos.
NeverSage @ Jan 7th 2008 11:48AM
I like how all you people bashing CAD are just doing it because other people liked it. Pointing out how immature the comic is, isn't going to make the CAD-lovers change their mind. You guys need to chill.
I voted for CAD for the "slightly rewired" link, and I generally don't even like CAD