Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is unoriginal

by Ross Miller on Aug 17th 2008 2:00PM

... and we don't mean anything stolen from other Joystiq features. We're just a fan of self-referential webcomics and wanted to highlight Scott Dewitt's Fanboys strip from earlier this week. Also making it appropriate, we saw a preview for Disaster Movie last night and wanted to end ourseles to the pain. Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomic. Polling after the break; be sure to vote for your favorite!

Gamers (Urf)
Gears of Conflict Resolution (Penny Arcade)
I'm as much of a fan of Braid as everyone else ... (mudron)
Warning! Challenger Approaching (2P Start)
Block Head (Fanboys Online)
Moar Co-Op (CAD)
Street Dated (MNC)
Besting Thee (Castle Vidcons)
New Heroes (Burn the Internet)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: August 17, 2008
Gamers (Urf)	150 (10.4%)
Gears of Conflict Resolution (Penny Arcade)	405 (28.1%)
I'm as much of a fan of Braid as everyone else ... (mudron)	57 (4.0%)
Warning! Challenger Approaching (2P Start)	54 (3.7%)
Block Head (Fanboys Online)	192 (13.3%)
Moar Co-Op (CAD)	217 (15.0%)
Street Dated (MNC)	202 (14.0%)
Besting Thee (Castle Vidcons)	68 (4.7%)
New Heroes (Burn the Internet)	98 (6.8%)

(What? You say we didn't pick your favorite gaming comic this week? Make sure we and everyone else gets to see it in the comments below.)

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Hey everyone! I'm a spammer who's been banhammered. Ouchies!

No.

Check out my fist in your face in the immediate future.

How about I just report your comment instead. I'm sure it's much funny that what I would have to do for those free games...

I enjoy watching how you guys flame the spambot.And I'm like "Uuh...should I tell them?".

Fear the mighty banhammer!

I don't get the Guitar Hero Comic. What does godsmack have to do with a 4 fret stretch?

Having never heard Godsmack and guessing purely from the comic, it's a joke about how their songs use only 1 chord. Seemed easy enough to understand to me.

I hate to explain my stuff, but what the heck. It's not so much that it's a 4 fret stretch, but that it's the same 4 fret stretch over and over again.

I think they just mean it's the same chord over and over and over... Not that I would know, I haven't really listened to much Godsmack. But if you replaced the guitar with drums and changed Godsmack to Dragonforce, then THAT would have made the joke obvious to me (Man, Dragonforce needs a new drummer...)

All Godsmack songs are basic power chord riffs requiring the guitar proficiency of a chimpanzee.

Your comic elicited a lol from me, Kyattsuai. But the Street Dated one got a bigger one, so that's where my vote goes, I'm afraid.

Now here's something you don't see everyday.A really funny comic from CAD and a half-decent one from MCN!

No not really. In fact all of these seem to forget that as a comic that is supposed to be about comedy they are supposed to be funny, which they aren't except for Penny Arcade.

saying comics are supposed to be funny is likes saying games are for kids

totally agree. CAD and MDC are usually super bland or at least shallow. They weren't perfect this week either, but I give them props for trying. CAD especially -- the expressions were pretty good.

Still, got to vote for Urf. Has a fresh indie feel to it, not seeing in the other stuff.

@j.howlett: Not when they are trying to be funny and miserably failing at it. I agree comics don't have to be funny but when thats what they are trying to do, failing and then trying to pass it off as funny it's just worse. Humour is subjective but bad writing is bad from any perspective.

1. Penny Arcade's strip was done before, years ago, by Aqua Teen Hunger Force. "What are Standards and Practices? Ok, Meatwad, let me tell you about Standards and Practices. Let's blow the head off of this nun."

2. It was a very strong weak overall

3. The reference to Tim-Tom & Kevin put mudron over-the-top, for me anyway.

Strong Weak? Strong Bad's wussy brother? ;)

Also: I didn't know there was a Venture Bros Wiki

Color me interested.

It would have for me as well, but he didn't update the name to Dr. Mrs. the Monarch. He hasn't been keeping up with Venture Bros.

Every repost is repost repost.

This lesson can be applied to PA.

Try and criticize the Penny Arcade comic on a different level, cause that was just pathetic.

For me, it's a tie between the CAD comic and 2P start. While the games for the iPhone/iPod Touch aren't REVOLUTIONARY, dear CHRIST is there a chance this thing could crush the DS.

They've got an RPG on the iPhone for only 5 bucks. FIVE, BUCKS. Is that a steal or is that a steal? Not to mention De Blob, Crash Kart Racing and this knockoff of Puzzle Quest called Aurora Feint.

Plus a bunch of random 'lite' game apps here and there. Seriously though, De Blob is a blast.

I gotta go with the Madden sheep for this one hehe.

GOD DAMN BORKED COMMENT SYSTEM!

lol, i didn't catch that. I've been sliding into the dark pit of mistaken homophones for a while now. I need to get back to school.

I do it all the time two..err..too ;)

WOW it screwed up this reply chain. First, my comment about the wiki should go under my original comment, not here, Obie's "borked" comment should go right after his double post, and my homophone comment should go right after that

You guys need to work on this

Now if someone made a comic about the comment system, now THAT would be really funny!

Am I the only one who didn't get the Guitar Hero joke?

It was a Godsmack joke... Listen to a Godsmack song to understand.

am i the only one who thought CAD was funny this time?

no, I thought the CAD one was the funniest, although PennyArcade and mudron were close 2nds and Gamers was a distant 3rd...

@Alex: I've heard Godsmack a lot in my life, although not in a few years. I still don't get it. Could you just explain it to me?

You see Jarret, the punchline of the joke is that Godsmack sucks.

Oh, I got that alright.

Wow! Penny Arcade actually made me laugh for once!

Urf it is though.

whoops!

Wow.... I think I am less amused now than before reading those.

Urf was clever, but could have done a lot more with that joke.

Anyway, I don't know if it counts, but Horribleville is vaugely game-related this week.

http://www.horribleville.com/comics/20080810.gif

I really liked that. I didn't make me 'lol', as the kids say, but the juxtaposition of the serious discussion and Mario Kart, coupled with the ending, was pretty funny.

Oh shit, wait, this comic! Yay! I read through the archives a while ago, forgot to bookmark it, forgot the site. Awesome.

Venture Bros. reference ftw

Unfunny PA is unfunny this week

PA is better than the rest, though it's not saying much.

BTI FTW!

:/

I'll go watch my Invader Zim DVD's instead.

(Weak sauce so I'll go for PA)

I agree about the Disaster Movie preview.
It was such a pain to watch, and it will truly be a... disaster!

God I'm terrible...

I believe that PA and VG should be kicked outta the poll.They always screw up the rating.This weeks comic sucked.Period.

Yet how come it's on the top of the poll? It's all the fanboys!

Fanboys?! On Joystiq?! IMPOSSIBLE.

:( But I think VG is usually very funny. And it's not like I'm biased towards cat characters or anything...honest.

Meh, I just pick what I think is funnier, not whom I know/like more. When I see a comic from a lesser-known that is hilarious, it'll definitely get my vote.

Though I see your point since PA is at the top and it is not very great at all this week. o_O CAD is definitely the closest to being humorous. Dry week...

I get the idea behind the 2P Start one, but does the iPhone have ANY games that are really worth playing, let alone any that would make you stop playing the DS?

I don't really understand how anyone would consider the iPhone a contender in the handheld market, if Nintendo simply slap a phone onto the side of the DS, then it's over. (I'm surprised they haven't done this yet..)

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