Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is delaying the Holidays

Maybe you should expand your vocabulary and then perhaps the use of a common word wouldn't be so hilarious. Just sayin'.

hmm, maybe I should expand my vocabulary, I wasn't aware that exquisite was commonly used to describe something atrocious

/sarcasm

Agreed.

Hell, they could have shown them sitting at their PC reading the report from Tony Hawk and just blankly staring and it would have been funnier.

Or perhaps have Tony Hawk outside of a local Gamestop telling everyone to try his game, then crying when no one walks out with it because they aren't giving it a fair chance. (All while a giant sign nearby shows the price of the game).

Or hell, just draw Tony as a used cars salesman, trying to sell the fucking boards.

Or you could do a comic where Sonicspike is crying because his posts are so bad, and next to him is a sign that reads "Sonicspike makes dumb observations" in red bold font to further punctuate this already obvious gag.

And thus, we see why you guys do NOT have successful webcomics...

^Thank you.

Better idea:

Tony Hawk knows about the secret toggle that makes the Ride board into an actual hoverboard.

I don't have a succesful webcomic cause I don't fucking have one at all! Maybe they should be more like me and just dont' fucking bother with it if you can't do it right. All I'm saying is they could've done more with it.

yeah, but they're trying to say your idea is fucking terrible. GET IT?

people who are related to gaming aren't funny.

So like, you day job quitters are the guys voting for what comics are and aren't funny yet you completely fail at making your own?...

Crap. Also, Bagels is doomed.

you know that many places had to BUY the game to rate it
G4 even talks about how they had to pay for it as none were sent out

PS if the game makers dont send out copys to get rated then even THEY know it sucks

It's smart humor.



Troll not, lest ye be trolled.

Penny Arcade is also one of the original video game webcomics. Take a look at their archives. They're making Doom, Tribes II, and John Romero jokes in the beginning. Arguably, most of the other webcomics on this Wrapup owe something to PA for kicking it all off.

Smart humour eh? Perhaps, but still doesn't make it funny. I think a lot of PA gets a free ride simply because it's PA. They seem to make a lot of "jokes" that foster a kinda "that is so true" response, rather than laughter. I enjoy reading it, but I think a better way to describe a lot of their work is wit rather than humour. Then again there some that are just poor. Take the most recent one for example (An actual, real film). I get it, but it just isn't funny. You can't really say it's clever either.

You didn't laugh at Ralph Maccio joke? Seriously. If you can't have a laugh at that strip then you have a bad sense of humor.

Every week people take this too seriously.

PA was funny back in the beginning, but it's all topical humor. Going through the archives now is more likely to elicit an "oh, I remember that happening" response than actual laughter. Well, for me anyway... In recent years through, with the industry becoming much more insular and controlling about insider drama and all the scandals becoming "more of the same" cash grabs, it doesn't really matter how you spin it, it's just not that funny anymore. All you can do is snidely comment on the fuck-uppery and hit publish.

Possibly the other part is that you can't do the same job five days a week for over a decade and keep giving a shit even when you're working on something you enjoy. Eating your favorite food five days a week would render it a joyless process pretty quickly. For a few years now I went to the site to read Tycho's overly-verbose blathering on the front page rather than the comic itself, but that's been hit or miss for years as well.

I'd say more than anything else, PA is a "tradition" of online gaming. Even if you don't understand why you hang mistletoe in a doorway or throw salt over your shoulder when you spill some, you might still do it out of habit. So in that respect, it is likely given a free pass by a lot of people.

PA is a cross between Joan Rivers, Def Comedy Jam, and Frasier. It drops too many names, is overly vulgar, and thinks it's smart, but really isn't.

Penny Arcade is my favorite webcomic for various reasons. One, the accompanying blog entries are usually hysterical and intelligently written. Second, I enjoy their usual brand of high-brow humor, and even if it isn't high-brow, I think it's fucking funny anyway. Third, after meeting the guys and watching their reality show I have a massive amount of respect for them. They love what they do, they love games, but most importantly they love their fans. They are very nice, very funny, and very humble. If they were dicks there would be no way that I would read the comic every week.

The blog entries read like IGN reviews.

PA, smart humor? Did you read the strip this week? I think it's a little stupid to say any videogame webcomic is 'smart humor'.

XKCD is smart humor. Penny Arcade is not.

I'd classify xkcd more as "educated humor" than "smart humor". Most of the jokes are simple puns based on advanced scientific theories, gender and caste discrimination. Once you understand the principles he's basing the comic around, the humor is pretty simplistic and blunt. That's not to say he isn't intelligent or his webcomic is stupid, but that it's presented in a fairly simple manner.

Here for no apparent reason is a completely random and unrelated comic made by Kris Straub I felt was somehow appropriate to this discussion.

http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/12/14/mopey-awkward-comix/

You're a pretty bad person then, aren't you.

While not a dedicated games comic, xkcd has made me laugh loudly sometimes. I have laughed pretty hard at some of the previous Weekly Webcomic Wrapup featured comics before.

For example, I thought the Balance Patch comic was pretty good.

VGCats is usually good for some laughs.

VGCats is often laugh out loud funny... though i haven't checked it out in a year or two.

Other than that, and the occasional Penny Arcade Comic, nope.

@t_m, I don't think vgcats has updated in a year or two anyway.

VGCats doesn't update often, no, but the side project super effective does.

http://www.vgcats.com/super/

The newest one made me laugh like crazy, but that's because a couple weeks ago, me and my friends were talking how Brock should open his eyes on the final episode of the anime.

"does anyone have an actual example of an online gaming comic strip that they laughed out loud on?"

doesn't exist

VGcats is sometimes very funny, but because he updates so infrequently I feel it puts more pressure on the current comic. If he updates two or three times a week it would be like: "hey, this one wasn't so great, but that one from Tuesday was awesome." Instead it's more like: "hey, this one was okay, but that one from a month and half a go was better."

I used to read them regularly, but updating once a month isn't enough to keep me interested, and super effective hasn't been that great lately.

funnier than Assfuck Jamboree

Dude, I have to hand it to you because that was literally the only comic that made me laugh out loud this week (no joke (no pun intended)). Probably because it was random and unexpected but it was still hilarious. Good job.