Weekly Webcomic Wrapup picks its running mate

by Ross Miller on Oct 4th 2008 6:00PM

My friends, I appreciate your support, but it is now, after much deliberation and discussion, that this Weekly Webcomic Wrapup pick its running mate. With the Japanese Hardware Sales, I have with me a popular public figure with experience and foreign policy credentials. Should it accept the nomination, together, we will win this election ... for Supreme King and Queen of the Internets.

I've already picked my cabinet. Since I like playing favorites, please vote for the best after the break.

Flash Games (xkcd)
A Trick of Retrospective (Penny Arcade)
A Braid Knot (Dueling Analogs)
geek sign lesson (Sidescroller)
Dear Cousin (Castle Vidcons)
Runway Wreck (2P Start)
Return to Form (Digital Unrest)
The Hype Machine (Monday Night Crew)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: October 4, 2008
Flash Games (xkcd)	368 (23.2%)
A Trick of Retrospective (Penny Arcade)	457 (28.8%)
A Braid Knot (Dueling Analogs)	144 (9.1%)
geek sign lesson (Sidescroller)	21 (1.3%)
Dear Cousin (Castle Vidcons)	89 (5.6%)
Runway Wreck (2P Start)	151 (9.5%)
Return to Form (Digital Unrest)	269 (16.9%)
The Hype Machine (Monday Night Crew)	89 (5.6%)

Tags: webcomic

Reader Comments (60)

voted xkcd for the large amount of truthiness.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

"Oh, I think he does"

(said from the console fanboy)

Psh, my vocabulary doesn't obey Stephen Colbert.

Besides, I think the fact web games are more addicting than super-console-games sometimes -is- truth from the gut.

Told ya!

Chuck Norris may be able to slam a revolving door, but he can't know everything.

Chuck Norris slamming a revolving door is for losers.

If you want a real manly man, slam Chuck Norris into a revolving door.

Shouldn't we judge comics by how funny they are?

@snarfoogle

Well obviously we should.

And luckily xkcd is the funniest web comic in all the land.

since when are all comics funny?

there "comics" not "comedy".

there's a difference.

"Shouldn't we judge comics by how funny they are?"

No. Some comics are funny but with very little actual message, it might be un-concise, or the art may not be as good as others, or the writing fairly meh. Voting purely on comedic value is phail.

Voted XKCD because it was the only funny one in the whole lineup.

Monday Night Crew is really just a poor Bloom county knockoff for videogames.

Sweet! I love Bloom County and would be happy with a tenth of that strips success. Just wondering about the comparison though, is it due to the animal characters?

A bit of the characters, drawing style and humor delivery all add up to the sub par bloom county experience.

I actually thought that the Monday Night Crew one was the funniest of this (quite poor) lot.

You'd think during the most frantic season of game releases webcomic makers would have something to talk about..

xkcd for truth.

I also agree with the alt-text in the image.

Ehh... pretty weak week in my opinion. None of them even brought a smile or a chuckle, let alone a laugh.

So in 9 months Wiispeak will have a camera?

Gotta be the Braid Dueling Analogs strip. xkcd's strip is not very funny, kids. It's just true. Sad and true.

When did truth sop having merit!? Seriously, these posts are demoralising. The net statement of all those disappointed is "Why aren't they making me laugh!" Well a few of these comics aren't designed to be explicitly hilarious; that's what VGcats tries everytime, and is usually why it wins. People seem to think webcomics are exclusively for humour.

Trick of Retrospective hands down. That comic is my wallpaper because it totally described the feeling I felt playing Mega Man 9.

Bingo

with our powers combined...

Earth!

Fire!

Fire is cool..huh...huh.

Death!

I don't know what the hell you people are talking about, but be careful, you could get your asses kicked by a shovel and a bucket of water.

HEART!

PK FIRE!

"Go Planet!"

Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero

He's our powers magnified
And he's fighting on the planet's side

Captain Planet, he's our hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero

Gonna help him put asunder
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder

"You'll pay for this Captain Planet!"

We're the Planeteers
You can be one too
'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do!

Looting and polluting is not the way
Hear what Captain Planet has to say!

"The Power is Yours!"

wind

Captain Fire!

XKCD didn't even make me crack a smile. Penny Arcade fully deserve to win. I also liked the new IH actually

http://www.indoorheroes.com/?s=252

Penny Arcade made me say aww how cute but not funny... xkcd and DU got little chuckles.

DU made me chuckle, PA, xkcd, and Vidcons all had good messages

You can see the future of Wii in the DSi, certainly.

xkcd for truth

XKCD (puzzle pirates) FTW!

I usually make it a point not to vote for Penny Arcade. They're usually good, but the fanboyism surrounding them usually gets them more votes than I think they deserve. However, this week they absolutely deserved my vote.

I always look at each participant in the Webcomic Wrapup but I never vote. I have my biases towards Penny Arcade, but in general the type of humor and presentation is so different for each "contestant" that it is difficult to say which one is the "best".

However, this week I have to voice my opinion. There is so much that rings true with "A Trick of Retrospective" that I can't NOT vote for it. Not only is Mike Krahulik making leaps and bounds in his art, but this one is so genuine and well executed that I think it is one of the best comics I have seen period.

Isn't this what gaming is, in essence? Ditching adulthood for short periods at a time? There must be those that agree; Gabe has made a couple posts about the staggering popularity of this particular comic.

that it is difficult to say which one is the "best".

Aye, i think it would be better to have a rating system per comic than to actually vote. Voting gives one vote to one comic, leaving you no proper voice on how you felt about the others. Ratings would more accurately reflect each comic's performance

Would be a bit more time-consuming, but not much more so to those who read all the comics before voting anyway.

That reminds me I haven't passed a single level of Megaman 9 or finished Bionic Commando rearmed.

MM9 is kinda of hard but just because the space you have to perform a jump is very tight.

Dear PA fanboys,
I urge you to look into your heart and realize that PA is not the funniest comic this week.

It is one of the truest, though.

And after the funny wore off, I could still look at the comic and go "AWWWW" at 10-year-old Tycho and Gabe.

Seriously... it's too cute.

Except that remarkably enough, the article doesn't ask you to vote for the funniest webcomic, it asks you to vote for the best. And this week, as much as I totally agree with xkcd and love DU -- that's Penny Arcade, hands down.

Why does Castle Vidcons keep making this list week after week?

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