Weekly Webcomic Wrapup likes shorts

While the swiftly approaching dawn of spring might signify the arrival of the MLB season or an annual debaucherous excursion to some tropical Central American destination for some, we see it as a celebration of truncated legwear. The feeling of freedom when our calves are freed from their daily denim and corduroy prisons is a sensation like no other. You are truly wise beyond your years, Pokémon Youngster.

Below are our seven favorite gaming-centric webcomics of this past week -- oddly enough, across the board, their respective titles are decidedly not short. Regardless, you can vote for your favorite after the jump, then use the comments to tell us what comics we've skipped over. You could also use that space to voice your love for knee-length pants, should you feel so inclined.

The Good Son (HyperComboFinish)
Fanboy Baiting 101 (SideScroller)
It's Simple, Just Grind Inner Peace (Of Noobs and Men)
Going Green With Painful Radiation (MLaaEG)
Does the Carpet Match the Drapes (Stolen Pixels)
This is Actually a Real Thing (Penny Arcade)
REeducated Part 5 (Digital Unrest)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: March 7, 2009
The Good Son (HyperComboFinish)	199 (17.9%)
Fanboy Baiting 101 (SideScroller)	98 (8.8%)
It's Simple, Just Grind Inner Peace (Of Noobs and Men)	181 (16.2%)
Going Green With Painful Radiation (MLaaEG)	61 (5.5%)
Does the Carpet Match the Drapes (Stolen Pixels)	132 (11.8%)
This is Actually a Real Thing (Penny Arcade)	336 (30.2%)
REeducated Part 5 (Digital Unrest)	107 (9.6%)

Reader Comments (68)

Does anybody actually think Digital Unrest is funny, ever?

The latest batch has been subpar, but it has had good runs in the past.

Yeah, I would have to say, as lame as my comic for the week was: (mercilessly plugged and submitted to joystiq @ http://alsobagels.com/comicpages/unfertalizeddevotion.htm, with general silence being the response) it was at least remotely funnier than digital Unrest and a few of the other nom nom nominees...

Bagels- you clearly think too highly of yourself.

"lame"...
"remotely funnier"...

I spoke these words upon my high horse of bragidocia, scoffing at the fact that ANY other excuse for a webcomic could possibly be considered next to-

YEEeah, anyway, I was simply comparing it to Digital Unrest's. I thought PA's was good, and I actually liked Hyper Combo Finish's previous comic "Exit 2 Haiku" much better than their selected one. but hey, there's high weeks and low weeks.

Still better than Dipswitch though, , ,

I read your comic bagels. it wasn't very funny. so I read past strips to see if there were any gems and found a lot of horrible punch lines that could have easily been delivered by different characters in the strip. Just because bagel is the main character doesn't mean he always has to get the good lines.

So basically when there was a joke, which was rare, it was pulled off poorly creating a disconnect between you and the reader.

And none of 'em are game related, so stop plugging them on the W.W.W.

Thanks for the critique. To each their own. :)

Never have.

Submission within context of reply: DOWNVOTE'd!
Sarcasm: DOWNVOTE'd!
Beeing courteous to someone who gutted my website and left it on the floor to die: DOWNVOTE'd!

The internet: Im doin it rong

Downvoted?

lol, can you find a way to put that into a comic? I'd vote that up all day.

I don't find DU funny so much as i find it consistent. It's drawn 'well enough' and even if it fails to inspire laughter, I usually know what the artist thought was going to be funny.

End of the day: there are much less interesting, much more poorly drawn entries on WWW on a regular basis

I like this week's hypercombofinish, even though the website is painfully pretentious.

It reminds me of when I used to play Earthbound on SNES. I'd be halfway around the world and make the trek all the way back to Onett. My mom would make me some NACHOS and tell me to get some rest. It was comforting, somehow.

PA. Seriously... it's idiotic how they'll slap "game" on something and expect gamers to buy it. Game mouse and keyboards, normally, when a simple Internet mouse is good enough, but razors? That's stepping over a boundary.

There is actually a razor for that?

About the gaming mouses /mice? well you see the Ms Game mouse is actually great and the macros buttons help a lot with Copy / paste stuff,it also makes reloading in Gears of War Pc easier.

Gaming keyboards have also some good functions.

I meant a razor for gamers,lol wth?

Yes, man... I've seen commercials.

pssssh real gamers like me can't even grow enough facial hair to warrant a quadruple bladed razor

Oh its a serious product? =/

http://www.gillette.com/en-us/#/products/phenom/en-US/index.shtml/

In the Products tab, first selection, Fusion Gamer

NEW! From the makers of Fusion Gamer its FUSION EMO! A razor with the twice the blades for twice the wrist slashing action! Coming soon to a Hot Topic near you!!

Moptimus Slime is winner.

Boy that screenshot takes me back.

Woops... dropped my balls.

Sigh. Can't say I'm voting for anything this week. Boo urns.

You should have taken the scene from that episode where that one guy gets Gigantism from drinking too much nerve tonic, though i do remember Mr. Burns' crazy signals

its like a party in my mouth, and everyone's invited

Ol' Griffey Jr.

Now, Simpson, if I tilt my cap like this, it means the signal is a fake. But I can brush that off by rubbing my hands. To make you more alert, I will tap my belt buckle not once, not twice, but thrice...