Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is still wearing a costume

by Ross Miller on Nov 2nd 2008 10:30PM

To be perfectly honest, we don't see why Halloween can't be a week-long holiday with state-sponsored costume contests and talent shows. Then again, after two hours downtown we had a 7:8 Palin to Joker ratio, so maybe we have too much faith in the creativity of humanity (kudos to the "Most Overused Costume of 2009" Rorschach we saw).

We're asking a lot of you this time: Tell us the best and worst costumes you saw this weekend, check out these comics and vote for your favorite (polling after the break) and if you still have any logo ideas, send them in! We really appreciate what we've seen so far, and come next Saturday we'll be having a vote on the favorites.

Translation (Castle Vidcons)
Halloween on a gamer's budget (Sidescroller)
Operation Myriad (Penny Arcade)
On Edge (Dipswitch)
The Living Un-Caffeinated (Boys of Floyd)
Criminal X (Digital Unrest)
Mushroom Kingdom in Recession (Extra Life)
You're Pushing My Buttons (2P Start)
LittleBigObscenity (CAD Silly)
Sackboy's First Day (ONAM)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: November 2, 2008
Translation (Castle Vidcons)	205 (18.9%)
Halloween on a gamer's budget (Sidescroller)	74 (6.8%)
Operation Myriad (Penny Arcade)	251 (23.1%)
On Edge (Dipswitch)	67 (6.2%)
The Living Un-Caffeinated (Boys of Floyd)	42 (3.9%)
Criminal X (Digital Unrest)	50 (4.6%)
Mushroom Kingdom in Recession (Extra Life)	200 (18.4%)
You're Pushing My Buttons (2P Start)	98 (9.0%)
LittleBigObscenity (CAD Silly)	39 (3.6%)
Sackboy's First Day (ONAM)	28 (2.6%)
(Write-In)	31 (2.9%)

(What? You say we didn't pick your favorite gaming comic this week? Treason! Make sure we and everyone else gets to see it in the comments below. Also, don't blame us -- we're still in beta.)

Tags: halloween, webcomic

Reader Comments (46)

hahaha...ha.......

meh

yep, no laugh this week :(

I actually pretended to be Samus with a paper towel tube before. I passed on the balloons though.

It's sad that Halloween is over once again, but at least now I have good food to look forward to. And after that it's every gamer's favorite day. :)

I liked Extra Life's stab at the economy personally. Once the boxes owe him 100 coins, does that mean there going to owe him a life as well? Hell, will Mario be getting interest?!

I was hoping our comic would make it this week. Bomberman does rule after all.

http://www.mondaynightcrew.com/issues/comic_0069.html

Oh well, there's always next week.

That was pretty good. Better than anything up there this week. What gives?

You have my invisible vote.

only one to make me laugh...

Oooo... It was actually kinda hard to pick one this week. :\

Had to go with Extra Life, everything else was pretty boring, but EL elicited a chuckle from me. MNC should have been there though.

Also, in my research to find out why VG Cats hasn't been featured (Not video game related recently, not recent either) I found a wicked indie animation studio. http://www.fortaxreasons.com/ Good stuff, don't know why I hadn't heard of them sooner...

Pretty sorry collection of comics this week.

Best costume was this kid that came trick-or-treating, probably about 12, dressed as Ash.

Not pokemon "Ash," Evil Dead "Ash."

Complete with toy shotgun slung over his shoulder and a plastic chainsaw over his hand. Bad. Ass.

You better believe that he got extra candy for that.

I don't care for Castle Vidicons, as the background page seems to fuck with my eyes, but I love when the King gets pissed and his slot glows.

Pure awesome.

Honestly I always just skip over it because it hurts my eyes too. Are you color blind as well?1 Perhaps that's why! :-)

I'm not color blind, but still think the color scheme/graphics are very hard to look at for more than a few seconds. I appreciate the attempt to do something a little different than most comics, but I could never read it on a regular basis.

Castle Vidcons gave me a good guffaw. It's nice to see someone doing something different than Halloween, LBP, or the coming onslaught of video games.

C-Vid has been pretty consistently good from what I've seen from this feature. I'm thiiis close to adding them to my favorites...

CAD, always there to bring the funny!

eh, it feels like i've read that joke somewhere before

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/8/

Which had you read before - the "making burning wangs in LBP" joke, or the "CAD is funny" joke?

@ Kyattsuai

I was wondering the exact same thing!

B^Uckley isn't, and never will be funny. The only times he comes close to funny is when he rips someone else off.

PA this week, and can I vote against CAD? Why, why, who post that garbage?

CAD and 2PS need to be removed from the wrapup imo.. they haven't been funny in forever. At least when PA is lame they look good doing it.

Dead Space must be attracting pussy in huge quantities, because that game was NOT as scary as everybody says it is. It's a fantastic game, by far the best one I've played all year- but it wasn't that scary. The 'boo' moments were predictable and usually announced.. they definitely pulled some punches. Which I guess is a good thing, or the guys at Dipswitch would probably had a heart attack.

Heh.

There's just one guy at Dipswitch. I liked the game. But the comic is more about the fright my character had playing the game. Denny is a little...uh...high strung. Thanks for all the mehs out there. Gotta work harder on them thar jokes, I suppose. :)

I know why Dead Space isn't scary. You're too invincible. Not only do you have powerful weapons with LOADS of ammo, you can slow the enemies down and pick them off at your leisure.

If that indestructible one popped up a few more times, it would have been a lot more tense. Scary is when there's something out to get you, and you can't do anything about it except run.

Not knocking the game tho, it's really fun, but I've seen scarier kittens.

No, really, I have. Cyclops kitten freaks me out.

Love DeadSpace

No Gamemarks this week?

http://www.gamemarks.com

State sponsored, huh? I knew that the marxian liberal bias would spill out sometime, joystiq.

You just lost a reader.

I loved how Castle Vidcons this week captured the attitude Nintendo has about Mother 3.

Not just Nintendo, the game's creator feels the same way

Boys of Floyd and CAD were both Penny Arcade ripoffs this week.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/8/9/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/8/

Right- heaven forbid another comic use the same game as the basis for their jokes.

Oh suuuure. PA came up with the people acting like zombies gag first didn't they.

The flaming penis jokes are also too bloody obvious too. Copying? Maybe not. Shit and unfunny? Defiantly!

i picked criminal x because the original xbox buttons are brutal. that controller gave me the worse case of sore thumb since snes and it didn't take that long of a play session. i once wore out the x button on a dualshock playing tony hawk on the ps1 but i fixed it.

How aren't more people voting for 2P Start?

because sonic jokes have been incredibly easy for the last ten years, and have lost their luster.

Oh come on. "You're a Pokemon, aren't you? You followed me here from Brawl." The thought of annoying sidekicks following Sonic from his adventures into crossover games is hilarious.

Maybe his next buddy will be a talking mushroom.

did you not follow the links? the PA version of Boys of Floyd was based on Dead Rising, not left 4 dead.

And while even jokes about penises in LBP are odvius enough, both specifically had them on fire.

Cool. I was actually dressed as Rorschach this year. And I ran into another Rorschach while waiting in line to get into a club. We drunkenly hugged and then gave high-5's to the passers by who were fans of the display.

My costume this year was by far the best I saw at work. I grew out a goatee and came as the 'Alternate Universe' version of myself.

Extra life and (surprisingly) Digital Unrest were both pretty cute this week :-)

Went as Mario. Unoriginal, but recognized by the general populace. Even did pretty well playing "Meet an attractive girl or gaiden" (but ultimately, ran out of continues).

Thanks again for the love Ross! Extra Life ftw!

Operation Myriad FTW.

Seriously, there cannot be a single gamer here who isn't nodding in agreement. November is going to be fucking INSANE no matter what games you play.

For me, an RPG/Simulator fanatic, it's Wrath, ToS: Dawn of the New World, Eternal Poison and Animal Crossing: City Folk ALL WITHIN ONE WEEK.

Then shortly AFTER, I have Rune Factory 2 coming out, with Sonic Unleashed following soon after, THEN Chrono Trigger (Mind you, I'm renting most of these games from gamefly sans Wrath and AC which I WILL buy) ) and december will be focused on completing said games.

And for anyone who knows how long those games can take, it can be hellacious. Not to mention, the various PC releases I've forgotten about. I still need to get Rain Slick episode 2 before wrath hits.

...Granted it's Sonic Unleashed on the Wii and honestly may end up sucking, but it's still proper planning of my GameQ I must set up.

Wow. Thanks for all the votes for those who voted. Better luck next time, I guess. And, to anyone who thought 'meh' at the comic, come over to http://www.playitreviewit.com and drop me a PM with specific criticism.

Even if it's to just shout 'DOUCHEBAG'. :)

Those guys over at the Legendary Boys of Floyd are giving away a free print of their comic. Go check it out.

http://boysoffloyd.com/lucky-beans-give-away-2/

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