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In around 20 seconds (may vary depending on your reading speed), Joystiq.com will have a world exclusive reveal of a world exclusive piece of ... exclusivity. (14!) Here's a hint: It's weekly, it's illustrated, and it's ... wrapup-y. (9!) It's one of the most highly anticipated events of the year -- we guarantee you haven't seen anything like it in, like, seven days. (2!) Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to reveal: Metal Gear Solid 5!

Oh, fine. It's just the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup. Below you'll find our seven favorite gaming-centric comics of the past week! Check 'em out, then vote for your favorite after the jump! If we left out one of your personal favorites, tell us of our inexcusable oversight in the comments section!

Update: AVGW's contribution removed due to some weird spyware apparently being hosted on the site. I contacted the author to find out what happened. Sorry!

~~E3 Rumors (AVGW)~~
We'll Make 'Em Fight, Too! (Of Noobs and Men)
P-Block (Brawl in the Family)
The Survival Horror Dilemma (Digital Unrest)
Body Movin' (Penny Arcade)
Real Estate in a Virtual World (2P Start)
I'd Hit That, Then I'd Punch That (Hello With Cheese)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: May 24, 2009
We'll Make 'Em Fight, Too! (Of Noobs and Men)	207 (25.8%)
P-Block (Brawl in the Family)	137 (17.1%)
The Survival Horror Dilemma (Digital Unrest)	66 (8.2%)
Body Movin' (Penny Arcade)	261 (32.5%)
Real Estate in a Virtual World (2P Start)	88 (11.0%)
I'd Hit That, Then I'd Punch That (Hello With Cheese)	43 (5.4%)

Reader Comments (71)

Enjoyed oNaM this week. I love how super powerful inventions get used for mundane things in video games / gaming franchises (and promptly killed the joke by thinking about it)

still got my vote though :D

Also, loved SideScroller this week http://www.robotmartini.com/community/viewpost/980 but understand that Star Ocean 2 is not especially topical news... still a good strip!

once again, sidescroller wasn't even remotely funny.

I hate ragging something like this repeatedly, oh well, but I'm with SlySni, it misses again like usual.

SlySni? i like it...

oh and Gavin, sorry for the unrelated double posts, but i gotta ask this. Markez, am I the only one that misses Panda? Joystiq doesn't feel right without him.

He, um, apparently touched us both with his heart of gold with that spinning rod of revulsion that horrified us both to the core. Ish. I miss his presence as well :P His last post was a bit cryptic one, stating he didn't have a computer anymore and wouldn't for who knows how long, so hope he is doing well!

haha i loved that first sentence. hahaha. but yeah, his last post made it seem like some kind of convoluted and cliched movie plot.

Man, I just HATE Sidescroller, probably the worst comic on the interwebz.

sidescroller is funny, like last weeks assassins creed one. it got alot of votes but it seems some didn't get it.

I don't draw or write SideScroller. So, while I disagree about how funny it is, I don't take the criticism personally. Even less so when, as J.howlett points out, it got 130 votes last time.

Now you'd hurt my feel'ns if you bad mouthed Floppy Boy (my comic) but since it's rarely video game focused, its never appeared on the wrup ;-)

(sorry for the double post. didn't see the reply link hadn't stuck)

If I see that countdown one more time...

You'll go all emo and cut yourself? Why wait? Cut yourself, cry kid. Do it... let me relish your pain. No one understands you... not even your myspace friends. Bleed yourself of the pain... BLEED!

*cough* Umm, yeah....

@ Sheppy

Dude, you are freak.

@archigamer

What the point of your avatar, you might as well have left the original one

@ Marius'

Which one: Jack or the default Mario.

the default,

also anyone know the dimensions of the avatars so mine will stop fluctuating

I think he was failing to reference this meme

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/That_fucking_cat

@ Marius

Well, the default one isn't cute, that's why.

And my avatar is 350 pix by 350 pix so I guess anything within that range would come out perfectly.

I swear to christ one day I WILL laugh at a Brawl in the Family strip. I mean they've gone 150+... not so much as a titter. SERIOUSLY!

Oh well, back to Awkward Zombie...

Jesus man, calm down and go laugh at Sprinkles in the Japanese Hardware article.

the key to like there stuff is to be a big Nintendo fan

I suppose you did not receive your free thick rose tinted glasses. You get it free if you've bought a lot of Nintendo games, especially older generation ones.

BiTF uses these glasses to make the jokes come out in 3d...Otherwise, there is nothing there.

2P Start was WAY tl'dr. Except I did read it. And it wasn't funny. Which is annoying, because it took so long to read. I want my minutes back.

I just want the punchline.

MGS5...

MGS 7

Barbie: Makeover Tea Party Time

Of Noobs and Men

And I saw PA's joke coming from a mile away

As did I, but I voted because the video game industry really is trying to get us to move around a lot. Fuck that noise.

I was just testing my avatar. Took forever for it to show up. What a hassle...

It'll disappear at the drop of a hat, too. The avatar system has been broken since December, at least.

i don't know, my Ezio avatar has been there quite consistently for the past few days. haven't seen mario or pedobear in quite a while.

what's ironic is now the pedobear avatar is showing up.

cot dammit i must be sleep-avataring again...

haha pedojokerbear...

ditto

Does anybody else get bombarded by viruses when they try to go to digitalpimponline or something, whatever site the E3 rumors comic is on? Every week, when I click on the comic from that site, I get all these warnings from my anti-virus software and end up having to close internet explorer through the alt-ctrl-del method. No other sites that these comics are posted on do it, so does anyone else get the same horseshit from that digitalpimponline site?

I have not encountered that. Perhaps your computer is just anti-pimp.

Yeah, same here, I got a warning from my antivirus when I clicked on that link.

What the hell Joystiq?! Remove that link.

Yeah, wondering if it was just me.

i'm on my ps3 right now and it kept bringing up the download to usb device screen

Huh. I've never gotten it. Overzealous security standards, mayhap?

my norton didn't say anything about it...

Yeah, I get it too. I think its one of their ads, cause it only happens sometimes for me.

Yeah, that happened to me too. Then I went back and tried it again and it didn't give me any problem.

Yup, same here, and I'm renting their ad space.

Yup. Got hit with some spyware from it.

Got it too.

2P Start got it, mostly for that "Luigi Liquidators" line. Penny Arcade was hilarious, but damn is it a cheapo joke.

Digital Unrest was good, but not funny. But that chart could also be applied to pretty much any genre in the modern day.

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