Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is no longer #1 at GameRankings
by Ross Miller 
{ May 18th 2008 at 6:00PM }
Word on the street is that Tim Harding of 2P Start had changed his score of us from a 9.9 to a 9.0 after changing his scoring metric, prompting the error. But really, truly and honestly, it all had to do with some WWW-hating bias buried deep within the halls of GameRankings, wanting to see us crushed and buried among the top 3 denizens. Well, thank heavens the community rallied behind this injustice to keep the old score, because #3 all-time best periodical game-related webcomic compilation post would invalidate all the joy we've had with this feature.
Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomic, be sure to vote for your favorite! (Voting after the break.)
idspispopd (Slef Improvement)
Grand Theft Art Imitating Life (HijiNKS Ensue)
Raiding through the Ages (Sharcbate)
Finish Line (XKCD)
Lego My Statue (2P Start)
03 (Super Effective)
Je Parle Un Peu (Penny Arcade)
Common Language (Digital Unrest)
Bargaining (CAD)
Everyone Forgets Winston (Fanboys)
Rejected Mega Man Villains XI (Dueling Analogs)
Raiding through the Ages (Sharcbate)
Finish Line (XKCD)
Lego My Statue (2P Start)
03 (Super Effective)
Je Parle Un Peu (Penny Arcade)
Common Language (Digital Unrest)
Bargaining (CAD)
Everyone Forgets Winston (Fanboys)
Rejected Mega Man Villains XI (Dueling Analogs)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zeus.:God @ May 18th 2008 6:07PM
"Je parle un peu."
I speak a little.
Fevrier? February... Mere is mother... Aujourd'hui is today...
Today mother fucker... How the Hell does that have anything to do with shit?
Neebs @ May 18th 2008 6:47PM
the joke
your head
mr nimblewick @ May 18th 2008 6:09PM
Hmm... now if GTA VI could only drop below SMG...
KirbyMeister @ May 18th 2008 6:10PM
Not to sound like a troll, but why is CAD still on the list anyway? CAD hasn't been funny in ages.
Carl Abrams @ May 18th 2008 6:24PM
You did...
And I made a vote today, but it's mostly none of the above.
Sir Fidlious Wong (Justin T. McElroy Memorial Burn of the Day Award) @ May 18th 2008 6:31PM
I laughed at CAD, voted for it too. And now I'm laughing at your mounting failure as an organism.
Ross Miller @ May 18th 2008 6:42PM
I'd like to remind you that two weeks ago we were reminded we hadn't included them in awhile:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/18/weekly-webcomic-wrapup-is-no-longer-1-at-gamerankings/#commentform
The use of "still" implies a continued trend, when this is only the second week in some time. So to answer the question you didn't ask, yes you do sound a bit troll-ish.
Also, I've been given a superhuman ability: I can skip over a link without clicking it. But it's not actually superhuman, anyone can learn it.
I can teach you how.
ScottyGEE @ May 18th 2008 6:42PM
Stop everything! If one person doesn't find something funny it should be permanently removed from the weekly webcomic wrapup forever!
Just a few weeks ago people were demanding it to be in there. Unless those people are evil bastards just wanting it in there so they can make comics like this, I can imagine there being *some* appeal to them.
The thing is, I could say the same thing about many of the comics featured on here, but I'm not going to demand they be taken down simply because I don't find them funny.
Anticrawl @ May 18th 2008 8:11PM
CAD is usually pretty enjoyable, just the funniest ones always get overlooked in the weekly webcomic wrapup. In fact this is the first one posted in a while.
Silicon Siren @ May 18th 2008 8:17PM
You're just bitter because you can't make a living drawing comics, hosting huge gaming conventions and producing your own animated series. Hell I know I'm envious, but I'm not going to run site to site bitching about the quality of his comics.
tmacairjordan87 @ May 18th 2008 6:21PM
I'm sure if OOT had gotten 30 more reviews it would have dropped a point or two as well.
Joeshie @ May 18th 2008 6:24PM
Yeah, pretty much. GTA IV held on to the lead for more than the reviews that OoT had.
That's the reason that OoT will never be surpassed in overall score. There are just too many reviews for big-name games nowadays to allow any game to achieve that high of review.
SWAT Kats are back! @ May 18th 2008 6:47PM
We all knew it would happen, though. It happened to Super Mario Galaxy, it happened to GTAIV, and it'll happen to the next game that is hyped to all hell and actually lives up to most of that hype
C. T. @ May 18th 2008 7:51PM
Yup.
Yourself @ May 18th 2008 9:31PM
Though it's impossible to say, this isn't as true as people automatically assume. If you look at games today, the best reviews almost always are the early-comers, so saying that the "first 25 reviews of GTA were better than the total 25 that OoT got" is relatively meaningless. The positive/negative review ratio of OoT is almost identical to that of GTAIV (negative here being the extremely relative term meaning "not perfect"), and it is therefore just as likely that the game could go up a half-point as down, given an equal amount of reviews.
hvnlysoldr @ May 19th 2008 12:49AM
You got a point there Yourself, except OoT doesn't get any more reviews so its score stays static. GTAIV for 360 slipped down because it has some 30 more reviews than the PS3 version, so 20 or 30 less perfect reviews is likely to take that down as well.
Defenestrator2.0 @ May 18th 2008 6:33PM
God, it was hard to pick between 2pstart, Digital Unrest, and Super Effective.
Neebs @ May 18th 2008 6:48PM
Fanboys, cause I said I would last week, but I have to say I would also have voted for the Seinfeld parody immediately after that one!
SWAT Kats are back! @ May 18th 2008 6:48PM
This was a very strong week, and i would've voted for Hijinks Ensue until i read Fanboys, i laughed for a minute straight
GenBanks @ May 18th 2008 6:51PM
Voted for grand theft hijiNKS...
Made me lol, because it's so true! I'm constantly thinking 'hang on a second...' as I'm going out with friends, getting drunk, watching TV, surfing the internet, listening to radio, watching Ricky Gervais perform at the comedy club... in the game.
Mr.ESC @ May 18th 2008 6:54PM
Super effecive is just plain good.
Too bad I can't vote for f@nboys Seinfeld comic.It was great.
Martez @ May 18th 2008 7:05PM
Hey, CAD was actually funny. Did the LHC activate already and screw with the universe?
Otto Zero @ May 18th 2008 7:20PM
Sorry Joystiq... Dont Really care if your 3rd or the 100th.. just keep blogging about the social injustice in video games and I will keep reading, by social injustice I am referring to Ahem.ka.... (clears lung pipes) NOOOOOO SSHHHEENNNMMMUUEEE 3333333333333!!!!!!!!!!1
ark_keeper @ May 18th 2008 7:27PM
Picked Fanboys just barely over 2pstart. My wife liked 2p though.
capt_carl @ May 18th 2008 7:30PM
As someone who played with Lego's obsessively as a kid, 2P Start for me.
Roto13 @ May 18th 2008 7:35PM
Slow week this week.
Demaar @ May 18th 2008 7:58PM
Nothing really stands out except for B^U... and it stands out for its atrociousness.
Yourself @ May 18th 2008 8:34PM
Man, I must've smiled 4 times this week. Official best WWW in history.
Jhongerkong @ May 18th 2008 8:36PM
XKCD = win
Cesaria (MKW:2621-2994-1376) @ May 18th 2008 9:02PM
XKCD always=win. It's the most consistently funny comic on the web. Fanboys is for game related webcomics.
hvnlysoldr @ May 19th 2008 12:50AM
Jerry's a roller.
Marc @ May 19th 2008 8:08AM
I don't get it, which one is the seinfeld parody and why. And super effective is my favorite comic now, slightly overtaking the hobo on vgcats.
Yourself @ May 19th 2008 8:53AM
It's this http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=274
It's not in the vote.
Kassu @ May 19th 2008 8:38AM
Come on, 11 entries?
That's not a roundup.