Weekly Webcomic Wrapup minus Garfield plus Lair

by Ross Miller { Apr 20th 2008 at 5:30PM }

For those who haven't seen Garfield minus Garfield, you've really been missing out. It's not the most brilliant Photoshop we've ever done, but the Garfield void can sometimes be easily filled with a character foil to Jon's manic depression ... enter Lair. Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomic; polling after the break.

Square Peg, Round Hole (Dueling Analogs)Gamer Revisionist History (Digital Unrest)
We are living in a Materia World (Penny Arcade)
Like a Sturgeon (VG Cats)
The Deal with Airline Food (Awkward Zombie)
strongbad_email.exe (2P Start)
Naked News is Off the Air (Funny Farm)

Tags: garfield, lair, webcomic

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Apr 20th 2008 5:38PM

2P Start this week... very funny!

=p

Jerk Face @ Apr 20th 2008 7:03PM

Why the hell did everyone minus his comment? Fernando hating was so 2007.

Yourself @ Apr 20th 2008 7:14PM

Let's start with... 2P start this week: very not funny.

Maverick Saturn @ Apr 21st 2008 6:42AM

Silly Jerk Face :) Fernando hating is teh fun :)

mr nimblewick @ Apr 20th 2008 5:43PM

I love garfield minus garfield. Especially the one where jon exclaims that he is an empty grocery sack.

mr nimblewick @ Apr 20th 2008 6:33PM

I see I still can't change my profile image. Anyone else having this problem?

playwhutyalike @ Apr 20th 2008 8:40PM

I have.

ogvor @ Apr 20th 2008 10:56PM

Garfield minus Garfield made that comic into the funniest comic around. I also love Joe Mathlete explains Marmaduke:

http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/

Chris @ Apr 21st 2008 2:10AM

I need to tell someone what happened half an hour ago..

The time was roughly 1:30 AM or so... I was reading Garfield minus Garfield, laughing in hysterics just all out giggling and belting out laughter at various comics, and I was eating a banana. I got to a certain comic, and did one of those "HA" type laughs as I bit into my banana. I breathed out, then sucked in quickly, and instantly became aware that I was choking and couldn't breathe. It's amazing what you think of when your mind is filled with terror.

I instantly grabbed my mouse, clicked the google search box, and typed "self heimlich". Within a couple seconds I had a diagram up. I placed my fist above my navel, grabbed it with my other hand and dove onto my desk...

Out popped the banana, and I could breathe. Tears were streaming down my cheeks. And the only thing I could think of was "I could have died... damn.. why the hell wasn't I eating steak as a last meal..."

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 20th 2008 5:50PM

awwww, I was kind of hoping to be part of the running this week.

Fernando Rocker @ Apr 20th 2008 6:14PM

Send us the link, sheppy... =)

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 20th 2008 6:29PM

ummm, k. But as I said wednesday, fairly new to this.

Mondays

http://sheppyboy2000.deviantart.com/art/Angry-Stick-1-Black-and-White-82860897

Wednesdays

http://sheppyboy2000.deviantart.com/art/Angry-Stick-2-WiiFat-82996603

Fridays

http://sheppyboy2000.deviantart.com/art/Angry-Stick-3-Terrible-Ts-83175538

mr nimblewick @ Apr 20th 2008 6:37PM

I just, wow. I don't know what to say.

Jerk Face @ Apr 20th 2008 7:04PM

That first one was really funny, pal!

Mr.ESC @ Apr 20th 2008 8:38PM

Remember Art Mania slogan "Everyone can be an artist" well it seems there are exceptions :P

Seriously the first one was good, the second was "meh" and the last one well Um yeah that happens in COD4 but isn't actually funny is kind of sad.I really hate playing with other people in games other than TF2 and somehow they stll manage to ruin it for me.

It seems only idiots use the voice chat,I rarely hear anything useful.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 20th 2008 9:24PM

Well, there is an excuse for the art....

Basically I've tried to launch a webcomic 8 times already, trying to do my actual art style which is excessively detailed and time consuming. So I basically had to say "fuck it" with the art style and see what I could chuck out in a small amount of time. You'll notice on Monday, the art quality goes slightly up, but nothing major.

Superstar90 @ Apr 21st 2008 9:06AM

Those were very funny. I liked the 2nd one the best, lol.

Matt B @ Apr 21st 2008 9:46AM

Hilarious stuff Fidlious!!!

umm....hello??? @ Apr 20th 2008 5:56PM

...the comic with Link and the fish wasn't funny last week either, dunno why you repeated the comic this week...

deft @ Apr 20th 2008 5:56PM

XD @ 2PStart!

Shmil @ Apr 20th 2008 6:06PM

Fanboys Online is back up
http://www.fanboys-online.com/

CB @ Apr 21st 2008 12:07AM

I was wondering what happened to them.

samfish @ Apr 20th 2008 6:13PM

They all suck this week, but VG Cats sucks the least, so that one by default.

Stink Snake @ Apr 20th 2008 6:35PM

The only time that they tend to be consistently decent is when the internet is on the precipice of beating a meme to death.

Yourself @ Apr 20th 2008 6:24PM

Penny Arcade and Dueling Analogs continue not knowing how to put jokes in comics.

Nonetheless, at least that gives them an excuse for not being funny. The rest are just plain retarded.

Mr Khan @ Apr 20th 2008 6:34PM

I liked Awkward Zombie and 2PStart, the appeal of morbid humor leans me towards AZ, though the fact that it loads on my 3 Mpbs DSL slower than a 10 minute YouTube movie on a 56k connection really makes me want to vote against it, for spite

Seriously, AZ is usually good, but get a new host or something

mr mobius @ Apr 20th 2008 7:05PM

I got so bored waiting for that to load that 1/2 way through I just went back to Joystiq. On broadband that just shouldn't happen.

playwhutyalike @ Apr 20th 2008 8:45PM

Or he should run through his HTML and slim that bitch down a bit. Just sayin....

playwhutyalike @ Apr 20th 2008 8:46PM

Or she should......whatever...

Geist @ Apr 20th 2008 9:53PM

Isn't she like, 15 or something? I'm not sure what you guys expect from someone who can't (if I remember correctly) even get a job yet.

waynski1457 @ Apr 20th 2008 6:36PM

I'm sorry. I fell out of my chair laughing at Funny Farm. There's no way I can't vote for that one.

Beatz @ Apr 20th 2008 6:45PM

I wish there was still an 'all of these suck' vote button.

Schmobu @ Apr 20th 2008 7:16PM

\why can't I reply to sir fidlious wongs comment, oh well I do like the first one but the second one is dry and the third one could have been better.

Dueling Analogs this week is the funniest it is so well executed, I didn't even know what was going on until the last few panels.