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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! 'Tis not a single thing bad about this day! Althought we're knee-deep in the awesome Penny Arcade Adventures (hence the really bad tracing on the Photoshop above), we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on sunnier adventures. ... Okay, we're done, back to the game! Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomics. Voting after the break.

Bingo, the New Game by Rockstar (Married to the Sea)
Universal Access (Robot Martini)
Tales of the Boundless Universe (Nobody Scores)
Super Ultra Double Secret (Penny Arcade)
Million Dollar Arcade (Dueling Analogs)
The Case (CAD)
Ages 7 and Up ... and Up! (VG Cats)
A Turn of Events (2P Start)
Waistline Dilation (Digital Unrest)
D'awwwww! (Fanboys Online)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: May 25, 2008
Bingo, the New Game by Rockstar (Married to the Sea)	166 (10.7%)
Universal Access (Robot Martini)	10 (0.6%)
Tales of the Boundless Universe (Nobody Scores)	54 (3.5%)
Super Ultra Double Secret (Penny Arcade)	251 (16.2%)
Million Dollar Arcade (Dueling Analogs)	312 (20.2%)
The Case (CAD)	96 (6.2%)
Ages 7 and Up ... and Up! (VG Cats)	279 (18.1%)
A Turn of Events (2P Start)	56 (3.6%)
Waistline Dilation (Digital Unrest)	150 (9.7%)
D'awwwww! (Fanboys Online)	171 (11.1%)

Reader Comments (44)

woah... they all have one vote. swooky.

they're all....bad....

Yes, but some are worse than others.

God damn Dual Analogs, keep your thrashing envy at bay, please.

B^U had promise up until the last panel, ugh. Why can't he make a joke, like, EVER?!

He ruins his jokes with the massive amounts of dialogue in his comics.

General rule of B^U:
It's a lot funnier if you cut out panels 2 and 3. Sometimes panel 4 is all you really need.

For some reason I can't pick a winner here.

Either they are all equally good or they all suck equally, I can't seem to decide

I wonder which one Fernando will vote for?

Voted for Penny Arcade, but VGCats is a little bit special to me cause I used to play Pokemon until after Emerald(Still have my copy of Pokemon Red!). I'll probably join in next color/mineral generation though.(They've sucked me back in with Online play!)

I'm voting for Fat Sonic cause I'm a physics nerd.

Except he confused the term mass and the term momentum.

Actually, I didn't. It may seem strange and wrong at first glance, but it's what special relativity predicts and it's what happens in reality. However, the effects don't become noticeable unless you are moving at a substantial fraction of light speed, which humans never do (yet).

Yup, speed increases, mass increases and relative time slows down.

Million Dollar Arcade got my vote this week. As a Penny Arcade fan you have to get that feeling sometimes. CAD was really really awful this week though :(.

Except that, you know, they may be motivated by things OTHER THAN MONEY. Don't let DA's seething jealousy sway your feelings.

Apollo, you say that as if B^U was ever funny...

I can't believe I'm only the second person to vote for A Turn of Events.

Honestly, I really didn't like any of these too much. The best one was the "up down up down" charade that really isn't all that funny anymore. (they forgot the "Fatality" part at the end)

To be honest, the best comic this week is the combination of fear and loathing in Las Vegas and Super Mario Bros. for the "Today in Joystiq" post.

Which comic are you talking about? Because if you mean Robot Martini, that's not a fatality, that's the Konami code.

vgcats is always funny.

thats what you get for a one update a week. it's gotta be gold. and it always is.

So, what? Is CAD just shitty now or all they going through some sort of funny dry spell? I use to love that shit.

CAD has always been shitty, but this is pretty bad even by shit standards.

CAD was funny... once. It really lost it about a year ago, but Tim Buckley scores a funny every once in a while.

PA and DA were both great this week, and anyone who labels Dueling Analogs should read the news post, especially if they don't understand the webcomic community.

That judge in the CAD comic died from TEXT WALL.

died from B^U.

The writing is so causticly bad even his own characters are suffering from ill health effects.

Does anyone know when Super Effective 05 is coming out?
On May 13th, Scott said he'll update on a Thursday...but that's obviously not gonna happen this week(5/18-5/24)

Am I the only one who thought Married to the Sea was god-damned hilarious?

"Penny Arcade is the godfather of webcomics. I know other well-known webcomics came before them. But Penny Arcade changed the rules. They took a format that was only seen by few and made it global enterprise (with lots of credit going to Robert Khoo's marketing prowess). The number one webcomic in the world. Largest video game convention in North America. And now their own video game: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. And if this game succeeds it can send the message that webcomics can make profitable premises for video games. Much like PvP and MegaTokyo did for print.

Kudos, Tycho and Gabe. This is definitely an awesome accomplishment."

what part of that says "thrashing envy"? did you even read the post?

He changed the news post.

@Demaar:
...Don't be an ass.

@ Demaar

Screenshot or it didn't happen

Another vote for PA, so true! First time I voted for them as well...

VGcats for me. Its a humorous representation of the way I think about Pokemon now.

Very lazy PA, even by their standards.

this one should have been in the line-up

this rules and would be a ok new catch phrase

http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20080521

I liked Digital Unrest, if only for that sample picture they put with the Turtle with the rocket on its back

Really a weak week overall, though

What does B^U mean exactly? I think I've surmised it has to do with CAD, but for the life of me I can't think of anything?

It's a representation of the facial expression of every character in the strip.

Also to explain the CAD rule as I understand it:
- Panel 1 stays the same
- Panel 2 and 3 removed
- Panel 4 has text removed

It's a shame not enough people can understand "the Case" comic this week. It's probable one of the better comics that's been released. Oh well, like the Judge dieing of the stupidity of people then I can understand how the comic wouldn't win.

I totally agree with VGCats on the Pokemon issue. I remember when there were 151, and it was great. Then Gold/Silver came out, and I was crushed. I haven't picked up a Pokemon game (other than Leaf Green/Fire Red) since. =(

ya! change is the devil! new stuff sucks!

VG Cats is consistently more original and funnier than PA.

"D'aaaaaaw" is the best punchline evar

Thanks again for including Sidescroller!

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