Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is becoming its own worst enemy
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Nov 14th 2009 at 10:00PM }
Whoa, that was uncalled for. As we go cool our jets, check out the seven webcomics from this past week which we've highlighted below. Read them all, then vote for your favorite after the break. If there are any notable strips missing, make sure you point them out in the comments section.
Toads (Brawl in the Family)
At The Midnight Hour (Penny Arcade)
Beneath Torchlight, True Might is Revealed (Dipswitch)
Approaching Infallibility (Virtual Shackles)
'fficial Instructions (Slackerz)
Cold, Cold Mountain (2P Start)
Calm and Pre-Orderly Fashion (Player vs. Player)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
robothouse @ Nov 14th 2009 10:06PM
Boycott all copies of Modern Warfare 2, that's my 'fficial instructions.
Premature ejaculation man @ Nov 14th 2009 11:13PM
Thankfully you didn't include "kill all sons of bitches" else you'd have quite a bit of blood on your hands.
tyetheczar @ Nov 15th 2009 4:00PM
My 'fficial instructions: either boycott all things Fox News(Including other stuff owned by Fox/NewsCorp - MySpace, Photobucket, RottenTomatoes, IGN, Gamespy, Direct2Drive, etc) or destroy all sons-a-bitches at the top in NewsCorp.
Remember - No Murdoch.
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/
AltairDusk @ Nov 15th 2009 5:02PM
Tytheczar you may want to scroll back up and read what the article was about. Way to be on topic there.
freaparn @ Nov 14th 2009 10:10PM
Heh. I wasn't even aware that PvP was still about gaming...
Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 14th 2009 10:12PM
2P Start.
Mario's a bastard, all right. ;)
Gavin @ Nov 15th 2009 12:58AM
wow... 2p start was awesome this week! Is the world going to end? :(
Kanjou @ Nov 15th 2009 8:26PM
No kidding. 2P Start is NEVER funny. I guess that explains all the flying pigs recently.
SpaceFox @ Nov 14th 2009 10:13PM
Tough decision between 2P Start and BitF, but I chose 2P Start. Took me a few seconds to get it but it was hilarious.
Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 14th 2009 10:14PM
They needed to make the bloody footprints a bit brighter.
CKCheeseboy @ Nov 15th 2009 1:28AM
^Which has a different connotation if you're British.
Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 15th 2009 1:56AM
I know. I thought about that when I posted it...
Yorick @ Nov 15th 2009 1:47PM
Sorry if this is an idiotic question, but what is the British connotation?
Markez @ Nov 14th 2009 10:18PM
'fficial Instructions? What the fuck? Really?
Markez @ Nov 14th 2009 10:21PM
Oh and I went with PVP because I loved the 'Tron was real' comment. Please don't ever put a Slackerz comic in here again.
freaparn @ Nov 14th 2009 10:58PM
Y'know, if they'd just gone with the first two panels? That *might've* been funny.
Psyguy @ Nov 15th 2009 12:31AM
I thought SlackerZ did a great job actually. Maybe not the best here but I laughed out loud. :/
Filthy Assistant @ Nov 15th 2009 6:03AM
The book part was kinda funny I guess but the rest, holy shit
Maverick Saturn (Igor) @ Nov 15th 2009 8:30AM
What exactly is a 'holy shit'? Is it like a blessed peice of excretion touched by divine hands or something?
Trickob @ Nov 15th 2009 5:32PM
one week slackerz makes me laugh. the next, they break my heart. If they change out the "z" for an "s," we'll call it even.
Mr Khan @ Nov 14th 2009 10:21PM
Slackerz, actually. The dialogue just clicked.
bongoes Sector 2814 @ Nov 14th 2009 10:39PM
Can you explain it then? I have no idea what happened.
Traceur_Ryuk [Founder of The Anti-EMCB(tm) and co-leader of ATDF] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Nov 14th 2009 10:25PM
Decent week, I'm definitely gonna have to go with Virtual Shackles, though.
kenny goo @ Nov 14th 2009 10:28PM
Fox News = cleverly and thoroughly shitted on. Thanks Virtual Shackles, that made me chuckle. It's rare that the old school nerd in me would pass up the Brawl In The Family or 2P Start ones from this week, but not only did you make fun of the most pathetic excuse for a "news" station I've ever heard of, *but* you managed to make it kinda funny. Props.
MowDownJoe @ Nov 14th 2009 11:00PM
Fox News is easy, fun, and profitable to ridicule. Hell, look at The Daily Show.
kenny goo @ Nov 14th 2009 11:16PM
To the Daily Show's credit, I saw the funniest clip a few weeks ago that ripped CNN a new one. It was this whole thing about how the anchors would always say "we're gonna leave it at that" right as we could of got some legitimate discussion going and got some answers. Just the way John and his writers set it up is pretty funny shit.
But yea, it's easy, fun, and profitable to make fun of Fox News because they bring it upon themselves. If they didn't intentionally get somebody from a game site called *Slash* Gamer who had no conversational articulation, then cut him off and barely let him speak, take an entire topic way out of context, and then make bullshit quotes like this, then nobody would have anything to get at them about.
Then they'd just be "Fox News: a reliable news source that happens to be conservative", not "Fox News: a group of conservative, racist, close minded, ignorant bigots who spew garbage to a group of like minded idiots who want to hear the same bullshit they believe in read back to them through the television."
Levi @ Nov 15th 2009 11:05AM
seriously rupert murdoch can suck various things that would get a joystiqer banned for saying. That guy is such a dumb prick
schwal @ Nov 14th 2009 10:35PM
good week. brawl edges out penny arcade for me.
pauljsquire @ Nov 14th 2009 10:35PM
The only one that was laugh-out-loud funny for me was Penny Arcade. It's the first time in a while that I've actually laughed at a webcomic, so that gets my vote.
Top Cat @ Nov 15th 2009 2:39PM
My word, PA was absolutely terrible.
bongoes Sector 2814 @ Nov 14th 2009 10:40PM
2P Start. They've been very good lately and this one was pretty funny.
Me @ Nov 14th 2009 10:51PM
2p start should have had a frame of Mario telling a penguin to put the lotion on it's skin or it gets the hose again. :P
Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 14th 2009 10:56PM
...what? That doesn't make any sense!
Seanross @ Nov 15th 2009 12:48PM
it doesnt make sense to you cuz you havent seen the movie.
Sidebuster @ Nov 14th 2009 11:00PM
I voted for PvP because the douchey youngster was drawn to look like the Ctrlaltdel artist Tim Buckley. And I also find myself complaining about the same things while sounding like an old man yelling at kids to get off his front lawn.
Premature ejaculation man @ Nov 14th 2009 11:18PM
It wasn't in Buckley's typical expression though B^U
Me @ Nov 14th 2009 11:17PM
It's from silence of the lambs. A movie that has a serial killer who kidnaps women in order to make "women skin suits." Kind of like what Mario did in 2p start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQb2m6VJ-eo
Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 14th 2009 11:18PM
But that would have been utterly stupid...
Also, as always, reply fail.
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Nov 14th 2009 11:38PM
The jokes were amusing this week but I'm not gonna vote since I only vote for the one that makes me at least chuckle IRL.
Premature ejaculation man @ Nov 14th 2009 11:54PM
"chuckle IRL"
As opposed to what?
BigD145 @ Nov 15th 2009 12:03AM
I think he was making a jab at Fox "News". Or maybe I am IRL.
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] ATDFs Financier and Batman @ Nov 15th 2009 12:37AM
no chicken avatar man, prejaculation man is asking what "chuckling IRL" would be opposed to, since you cant NOT chuckle irl
Hyams @ Nov 15th 2009 1:46AM
'lol'ing isn't the same as chuckling IRL, funnily enough.
Markez @ Nov 15th 2009 3:15AM
I'll chuckle URL
BigD145 @ Nov 15th 2009 12:02AM
Virtual Shackles but not because it's funny. It's really eerily true.
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] ATDFs Financier and Batman @ Nov 15th 2009 12:17AM
I feel really stupid, but im getting hung up on the clock part and cant see if im missing the punchline or if it's just not funny. Can anyone explain?
TheOverlord#2[ OMGITSJAD on Youtube :D] @ Nov 15th 2009 2:16AM
The joke is that a clock is right more times in a day than Fox News will ever be.
Although now it's not funny since I had to explain it. =\
the_pop @ Nov 15th 2009 2:47PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-nOCy7FfE#t=3m33s
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] ATDFs Financier and Batman @ Nov 15th 2009 7:50PM
okay, wow well i guess it was just not funny after all
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] ATDFs Financier and Batman @ Nov 15th 2009 12:15AM
wish you guys would have went with the virtual shackles before this one, although this was good and ill vote for it anyway