Weekly Webcomic Wrapup looks up at the stars

Yeah I would have gone with Asteriod personally.

Hey! He's a writer, ease up! It's not like he's got time for all these crazy indie games you kids are playing today... he's got stuff to write!

But it is in stores! I played it all afternoon!

I didn't get Softer World.

I've seen someone with the hoodie they sell in their stores, didn't know what it was though.

the joke is that virtual hooker killing isn't very telling of real life hooker killing, but virtual racism is chillingly telling of real life racism?

but i don't know why.

I voted for Softer World as well. I think the reason that it's so creepy is that you would have no reason to do that except severe racism. The game (obviously and thankfully) doesn't have anything that would incite someone to methodically hunt virtual black people. I suspect that if the developpers had designed the game so that all black people carried thousands of dollars, people would rob them specifically in the game without having racist sentiment. But as the game is now, if someone went on a hunt like that, it would be a sign that they have some pretty severe issues.

If you kill prostitutes in the game, you probably aren't doing so systematically, but rather casually; presumably to steal back the money you payed.

Incidentally, I have a friend who makes a point of running over the really fat people in the game, which I find kind of disturbing. I suppose GTA is sort of a vessel in which people's prejudices get expressed. Which is a good thing I suppose, since it opens those impulses up to criticism.

It's definitely showed me up to be a vindictive bastard, since I tend to hunt down the idiots who run me over with their cars (I mean come on, it's never a good idea to run over a guy wandering around NYC with a shotgun, now is it?)

Yeah, why doesn't fanboys ever get any love on here? It's easily my fave game related webcomic. xkcd is the funniest webcomic all around, though!

Fanboys is actually my favorite webcomic. I totally identify myself with Lemmy.

Too bad Scott changed the comic draw style last month. I liked the other style better.

I liked the old style, too. The new one has grown on me over time, though. And yeah, I'm totally Lemmy. Haha.

Thats the way Qwantz is. It relies almost entirely on snappy witty dialog. Gives me a chuckle most every day.

It relies on writing because he's never drawn more than that one comic strip. He just keeps changing the words around. It's sort of meta, but VERY funny.

The thing about Dino Comics is that it usually has multiple jokes in it. It doesn't always follow the "5 panels of buildup resulting in a 1 sentence punchline" formula, in an effort to be more than one-dimensional (or maybe just following the logic that putting in more jokes makes it more likely one will be funny). Nonetheless, it doesn't always work, Grand Theft Dinosaur being an example. Still "I could probably borrow one" made me chuckle.

Just PLEASE do not group it with the vile monstrosity that is CAD.

I've tried to get into dino comics but it just does nothing for me. Although I can see why some people like it (unlike CAD, which is just terrible), it's just not my kind of humour.

I agree. I've yet to read a funny Dino comic.

Walls of (unfunny) text and the exact same art panels every time =/= funny.

Me, too! What's so funny about someone doing that in GTA4? Also, the images seem barely applicable. It feels like they're trying to be clever with the lay-out of the text but it's really just another "omg racism" joke.

I voted sharcbite for the brevity and delivery.

It wins for having two jokes. One about a creepy racist kid and one about media alarmism.

I agree. And personally, I think racism is a joke anyway. The fact that anyone is honestly, truly racist anymore is laughable and pathetic, and I've noticed the only people that get uptight anymore about it are white people, who have no right to complain about anything, since it's never directed against them. If anything, their fake outrage is the only other thing they can think of to do rather than laugh, because they're afraied to.

Racism is very much alive and well, it's just less white vs. black and more black/white vs. hispanic. At least here in Southern Cali anyway.

Ugh, the point isn't that the comic is racist, it's that it's entire punch is a racism hook. No one thinks the writer of the comic is racist, but, as far as jokes go, racism ones aren't exactly the wittiest of jests.

Actually the point is that while the news made such a sensationalist story out of killing hookers in the game, there are far worse things you COULD do...such as displaying such racist behavior.