Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is pirate-talkin'

by Griffin McElroy { Sep 19th 2009 at 11:30PM }

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, everyone! We hope you've celebrated appropriately -- by discussing the benefits of IP blocking software and remote relay points for worry-free torrent distribution. Just kidding! Piracy is illegal. If you do it, your mom will get brutalized by a SWAT team, you'll be attacked by push broom-wielding inmates, and Klingons will make disparaging comments about your illicit behavior. Trust us on this one.

Below are our seven favorite (piracy-free) webcomics from this past week. Vote for your favorite in the poll after the jump, and tell us what strips we may have missed in the comments section!

Scribbling (Brawl in the Family)
A Rupee for your Thoughts (Digital Unrest)
Penny Arcade (by Tiny Kitten Teeth) (Penny Arcade - Guest Strip)
Caring is Sharing (Nerf NOW)
Scribblenauts (xkcd)
Tried to Make Me Go to ReSTART (Virtual Shackles)
New Sonic Game!!! (GG Guys)

Tags: webcomic

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Mr Khan @ Sep 19th 2009 11:34PM

Virtual Shackles, though i must admit i didn't even get a lot of them this week.

MechaGamerX @ Sep 19th 2009 11:36PM

Virtual Shackles stole my misspelled joke!!

What the fuck?

Premature ejaculation man @ Sep 19th 2009 11:38PM

LOL@BITF Another HILARIOUS joke about kirby transforming!!!!! lolllollollollolol!!11!

-.-

Solace @ Sep 19th 2009 11:53PM

it was awesome!!!

evan @ Sep 20th 2009 12:00AM

The joke wasn't really about Kirby transforming. It just contained kirby transforming. The joke was that King Dedede was playing Scribblenauts, and he summoned Kirby, and then he summoned himself, and the Scribblenauts AI had Kirby eat him. And he was unhappy about that.

I don't like BitF, and don't think I've ever voted for it, but fair's fair... this was a joke containing, but not about, Kirby transforming into something.

WINterfang @ Sep 20th 2009 2:04PM

I was on the gamefaqs smash board when the creator of BITF started and Kirby transforming jokes are the point of the site.

[ArchiGamer] [Nominated for Three Glemmys] @ Sep 19th 2009 11:39PM

I loved Virtual Shackles comic more than the others.

Also, I now have that song in my head!!

Nytemare @ Sep 20th 2009 6:08PM

Yeah, Virtual Shackles was hilarious. I thought the others were funny, but that one actually made me laugh.

The Dark Wayne @ Sep 19th 2009 11:44PM

i dont understand NN at all

Traceur_Ryuk (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Sep 19th 2009 11:52PM

I don't either, but I figured that just because I don't play TF2.

Yuccadude @ Sep 20th 2009 12:16AM

Newest TF2 update allows the heavy to throw the sandvich on the ground, allowing teammates to regain 50% health, so the heavy gave his sandvich to his medic, even though the medic regens health.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 20th 2009 12:46AM

It was an adorable chibi medic, I would have done the same.

The Dark Wayne @ Sep 20th 2009 9:38AM

yeah i got all that put i didnt understand why the medic was a little girl

WINterfang @ Sep 20th 2009 2:05PM

So it will be more kawaii DUH!

Sly (Now with less shake, more bake!) @ Sep 19th 2009 11:46PM

virtual shackles was hilarious. the TF2 comic was my second favorite since i have a soft spot for the heavy. and *shock* BitF went for the kirby transformation joke again.

cheeto blue @ Sep 19th 2009 11:51PM

as a diehard TF2 fan... i had to go with Caring is Sharing... i know it wasn't funny, but it was heart-warming. ^_^

Sly (Now with less shake, more bake!) @ Sep 20th 2009 3:03AM

and the spy sneaking up on the sniper in the last panel is pretty awesome too.

Matthew Perry @ Sep 19th 2009 11:57PM

Holy shit, stop nominating BitF.

Solace @ Sep 20th 2009 2:18AM

FUCK YOU!

Ghen @ Sep 20th 2009 7:38AM

BitF is continually funny. Maybe not funny enough to win but it definitely deserves a spot. A few others this week though, including penny arcade, were completely unintelligible.

Gavin @ Sep 20th 2009 10:39AM

I don't really like it either, but at least it relates to videogames... Penny Arcade doesn't seem to belong on the list at all this week...

mr nimblewick @ Sep 20th 2009 11:38AM

Never played Animal Crossing?

I always enjoy BitF. Perhaps you just don't enjoy Nintendo characters?

Demo @ Sep 19th 2009 11:58PM

Virtual Shackles or GG Guys for sure.

MystileArmor @ Sep 20th 2009 12:05AM

Digital Unrest just took the easy way out, and it wasn't even all that clever as well. They should've just ran a normal comic and at the last frame before the end put in there "Digital Unrest is ok, and I'll let you finish, but BitF had the best comic ever"

MystileArmor @ Sep 20th 2009 12:09AM

By the way, I'm voting again by not voting. They all sucked ass in my opinion. Sorry.

[ArchiGamer] [Nominated for Three Glemmys] @ Sep 20th 2009 12:21AM

Really? Compared to past weeks, some of these are -actually- funny.

Except DU; its just took the easy way out.

MystileArmor @ Sep 20th 2009 12:46AM

I hardly ever find them funny, to be honest. Last weeks Wario thing made me laugh somewhat, sometimes BiTF has some clever ones. I don't know. I'm like clever kind of humor, like David Hinkles Braid april fools joke no one got:
http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/05/07/braid-ii-totally-rips-time-a-new-one

Freakwincy42 @ Sep 20th 2009 12:06AM

This one easily goes to Virtual Shackles. imagine poor Link- "Hey, Listen! Hey, Listen!" i'd develop a chemical dependency, too. but i don't know who the guy next to Link was, with the dark hair. can someone enlighten me?

Nomi @ Sep 20th 2009 12:32AM

Who are the other two guys besides Kirby, Link and Mario in VS?

Mr Khan @ Sep 20th 2009 12:40AM

One of them looks like Bane. No idea who the other guy is, though.

Dr. steve brule @ Sep 20th 2009 1:41AM

it kinda looks like prince of persia with sand all over him, but not sure.

Sly (Now with less shake, more bake!) @ Sep 20th 2009 3:01AM

yeah, khan is right. it is bane.

Ghen @ Sep 20th 2009 7:40AM

Other guy is making a cross shape, maybe from Castlevania?

Blank-Mage @ Sep 20th 2009 12:45AM

I'm going with GG Guys. ....I fell down some stairs, too....

WINterfang @ Sep 20th 2009 2:12PM

*sniff*

Me too, but I just love him so much, this relationship isn't healthy anymore.

Alive @ Sep 20th 2009 12:56AM

they all sucked... not voting

Alexisonfire @ Sep 20th 2009 1:10AM

Hmm... good week. PA, BitF, Nerf NOW, or GG guys.

Will have to think about this one.

The Untitled Game Show(PSN:Bigbiki) @ Sep 20th 2009 1:48AM

Virtual Shackles, was great.

jekoln @ Sep 20th 2009 2:12AM

penny arcade isn't about videogames this week! and based on that guest comic, it'd be like having achewood up for nom.

Solace @ Sep 20th 2009 2:19AM

BitF FTW!!!

Bowser Rogozhin: England is finished @ Sep 20th 2009 2:52AM

BITF was the best, that or the Sonic comic. The rodent gets such a a rough ride, deservedly so, but still.

cuteSAVAGE @ Sep 20th 2009 6:18AM

Hedgehogs share their own order with moonrats. They aren't rodents, jsyk.

Lance Icarus @ Sep 20th 2009 3:09AM

Darn, didn't get a chance to submit the newest +1 Comic. Well, no reason why you can't all see it, right?

http://www.plusonecomics.com/

For this week's nominees, Virtual Shackle barely takes it from GG Guys. Raccoon Tail Mario and obese Kirby win this round.

Ghen @ Sep 20th 2009 7:42AM

Meh... Maybe if the joke were changed to have in-game drawings for all but the last frame and then have a nice boring line be the punchline to bring us back to reality.

Ghen @ Sep 20th 2009 7:45AM

Ooooh or even the other way around and make the last frame totally in-game with Bats standing over a downed henchman.

aristokrat @ Sep 20th 2009 4:02AM

So I just tripped over an Xbox controller cable and nudged my Xbox, causing it to make a circumferential scratch towards the outside edge of my Beatles Rock Band disc and making it unplayable. I just bought it from GameStop on launch day with a pre-order. Any chance they'll give me a replacement (I read somewhere about people getting replacements due to publishers being aware of the stupid 360 disc scratching issue)? Any advice other than that?

Ghen @ Sep 20th 2009 7:43AM

Call gamestop, worth a try and its only a phone call.

Freakwincy42 @ Sep 20th 2009 10:53AM

if there is a Play N Trade or Gamer Doc franchise near you, take it there, they should be able to repair the disc to like-new condition.

CaramelZappa @ Sep 20th 2009 4:48AM

I had to go with GG because I am that broken, battered Sonic fan.

Catoo @ Sep 20th 2009 5:17AM

One of the strongest weeks in a LONG time!

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