Weekly Webcomic Wrapup tweets from the strip

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 10th 2009 8:30PM

WeeWebWrap Just landed in Vegas for CES '09. Airline lost luggage. Luckily, kept Barbara Streisand tix with me as carry-on. 1:05 PM Jan 7th from txt

WeeWebWrap Turned away at convention center. Press credentials were in luggage. Trying to keep myself amused 'til flight home. Streisand should help. 11:34 AM Jan 8th from txt

WeeWebWrap Lost life savings (and Babs tix) on Roulette table. Thanks for nothing, Snipes. Walking streets at night. Hope I don't get stabbed/mugged. 10:41 PM yesterday from txt

MugStabbr86 JUST MUGGED AND STABBED SOME GUY about 18 hours ago from txt

MugStabbr86 THIS IS A NEAT PHONE about 10 hours ago from txt

While we recover from multiple stab wounds and our first heartbreaking foray into the world of high stakes gambling, read these webcomics which we've designated "Best of the Week" using an incredibly complex algorithm that you could never hope to understand. Be sure to pick your favorite after the jump!

Locked in Brutal Combat (Penny Arcade)
You Decide? (Digital Unrest)
The House of Miyamoto #7 (Hsu & Chan)
Song of Time (Brawl in the Family)
Silver Lining (Castle Vidcons)
The 'Duke Nukem Forever' Guy is Always Late (My Life as an Evil Genius)
Altering the Deal (GameMarks)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: January 10, 2009
Locked in Brutal Combat (Penny Arcade)	198 (22.9%)
You Decide? (Digital Unrest)	58 (6.7%)
The House of Miyamoto #7 (Hsu & Chan)	50 (5.8%)
Song of Time (Brawl in the Family)	97 (11.2%)
Silver Lining (Castle Vidcons)	34 (3.9%)
The 'Duke Nukem Forever' Guy is Always Late (MLaaEG)	200 (23.1%)
Altering the Deal (GameMarks)	228 (26.4%)

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I was going to declare fail until I read the last comic. PA is always good but this one wasn't hilarious.

Star Wars + Controversy = Lulz.

I hear you. The rest were kinda 'meh' but seeing Vader betray Lando like that was damn funny.

I dunno, I kinda like the My Life as an Evil Genius One, especially the Katamari bit :)

The last panel AND the image description sealed the deal on MLaaEG. This is actually the first time I've really wanted to vote for more than one, though.

The post+wesley video was funnier than the comics.

it usually is...

I like the sombering yet funny 'Altering the Deal' strip this time around. Poor SOBs at EGM/1UP.

So no Marmaduke this week?

Look, I feel bad that people are losing their jobs. My wife's department has gone to reduced hours in an attempt to spare the axe falling.

But it happens. A company bought another company and shut it down. Why the big uproar? I mean it was a frigging gaming MAGAZINE - rendered obsolete by the internet long before now. It was already on life support whether they knew it or not.

While I don't blame UGO for looking after their bottom line above all else (that's what companies do), I do think the firings are a big loss for gamers at large.

Sidescroller dealt with it too. http://www.robotmartini.com/community/viewpost/894

The tetris comparison in My Life as an Evil Genius was taken to just the right place; +1.

GameMarks was gold for it's Star Wars reference. Penny-Arcade this week is probably best to those who know the cost of Cintiq tablets.

Here's our comic for this week: Acronym of Choice http://www.n00bsquad.com/comics/82_Nintendo_WTF_Connection.shtml

LOL Nintendo WTF connection, that was pretty clever.

I had a lousy time with Wii wifi on Brawl, it was awful, so why pick the one game on wifi that works flawlessly and doesn't actually get these kinds of problems?

The setup could've been written better but the final panel was drawn very nice and I laughed :)

I haven't seen one 'Castle Vidcons' I've liked..

also, I haven't seen one 'Brawl in The Family' that I HAVEN'T liked

100% agree on your first point.

Pretty much with you on the second, usually.

Castle Vidcons is hit at miss

but when it hits, it hits pretty hard

The castle vidcons can be pretty damn obscure. The Brawl in the family, though, ones seem a little too... obvious... if you know what I mean.

the depressing thing about vidicons is reading all the people in the comments desperately trying to sound cool or intelligent because they "get it".

Its like that annoying guy who claims to like obscure movies so he sounds intelligent, but usually misses the point entirely.

Afraid I'm with you this week.

What are the people with CDs for heads supposed to represent? Developers?

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog - the procedure kills both."

Lord PS3 isn't happy Home is not the success they were hoping for. However the silver lining is that the peasant vidcons, usually represented as discs, are still buying quite a lot in the Home store.

I'll have to give it to Penny Arcade for the cheer amount of Funninest.

A good week, except for Hsu and Chan (lets totally miss the point of Wii Music, why don't we?), and Castle Vidcons (made no sense)

But The Katamari Idiot elicited the most lulz from me, so there it is

I can just hear the tune in my head "la laaa la la laa laa laaa laa katamari damacyyyyy"

I would not want them moving my stuff.

To be honest I also thought that bit was funny but the comic itself was very random.

Castle Vidcons: The silver lining is that people in HOME will buy the stupidest shit just to try and differentiate themselves from each other

I must be the only one who got the most laughs from "Boxtacular!". But I'm one of those lecherous few who still play Halo 3, it seems...

I still play Halo, don't let close minded, JRPG, PS3 gamers on the internet get to you.

The GameMarks strip reminds me of the one Robot Chicken skit that I found to be hilarious, so I guess I'll vote for that one. Also, thank you for the compliment Joystiq. Us readers are very complex (and trollish, but mostly complex).

Brawl in the Family won for me. That really did make me laugh out loud. GameMarks, while true, made me facepalm because it's so true.

Lando FTW!

Alright, Joystiq...*When* are you going to fix this green text issue on Firefox?

I pretty much always use firefox on here and have no idea what you're talking about.

What issue, specifically? That the text boxes light up green when selected?

Otherwise, i haven't had that problem, latest version of Firefox on Vista

No.

All comments text below 3 stars appears as different shades of blocky green to me. On Firefox on Vista and W7.

You might want to try fixing it yourself.

Tools >> Options >> Content >> Font & Colors

try that

Here's a screenshot. It exacerbates the issue somewhat, but you get the point:

http://www.tcnj.edu/~milewsk2/green%20text.jpg

Also, I just realized something: My Vista laptop doesn't show the problem on any browser. However, my desktop shows the green text (only on comments text below 3 stars) on Firefox on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. I can't remember if the issue showed up when I used to have Windows XP installed on my desktop, but if it did, it would have only been after Joystiq got its visual upgrade a while ago.

Strange, isn't it?

curious, I've never had that happen

Here's another example showing that 3 star text is black like it should be:

http://www.tcnj.edu/~milewsk2/moarGreenTextButAlsoSomeBlack.jpg

Also, I think the text looks worse in Windows 7 than in Windows Vista. The colors are the same, but I think the text is definitely more blocky in Windows 7 (though it could be this new TV that I'm using as a monitor making it look worse, as well...).

Aaaand: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/10/rumor-patent-hints-at-casual-zelda-title/#c16502348

Seems more people see it, too, but this is definitely not a new issue for me. Perhaps this "idiot" guy is seeing it because he just installed W7, maybe? Hm?? Must ask him...

Teh GreeEEEeeNNN!!! It's EVERYWHERE!!! NOoOoOooooOo

the only issue I have using FireFox is it takes the bar from the right of the page and sends it to the bottom left side

In my case a giant ad appears every time I click on the “Add comment” button and it never closes no matter how many times I click the close button.

I got it The super pens are the future and I would buy one if they were available here but they aren’t.Why Joystiq? Why you keep tormenting me with what I will never have and which could had happen? WHY?!!!

*Adopts fetal position in a dark corner.

You're computer is angry, you wouldn't like it when it's angry.

I run Firefox on 3 different machines and have never witnessed the phenomenon of the green text. All of them run XP.

not ever had the green text issue with FF.

It sounds/looks like a display driver problem to me.

Have you tried checking/unchecking the ClearType option (assuming vista has one).

indeed i have just installed w7.
funny thing is that it's fine on my desktop but showed up on my laptop.
however i can't say if it's still like that

NO WAY! I just saw the green text issue when I upvoted or downvoted a review on circuitcity.com!!!! The "Was this review helpful?" (or whatever) text is supposed to fade out when you vote on a review, and instead of turning gray then disappearing it turned green and blocky then disappeared!

SO! The issue comes up whenever a website has a "text fade" thing going on, like here on Joystiq's comments that are under 3 stars. I'm not sure what's causing the issue on my end, but at least now I (roughly) know what causes it on a website's end.

So, Joystiq, how do you do the "text fade" thing? Is it some HTML tag, or what?

lol Mr.ressetti is yelling at link.

For a guy named 'MugStabbr86,' he seems really surprised that he just stabbed and mugged a man.

I'm surprised that Star Wars one is winnin
OMG Star Wars reference in my Video Game News! HAHAHAHA. No. it wasnt funny

I declare Hiimdaisy's LiveJournal the winner this week again

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