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Readers pick best webcomic: Hell

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 17th 2010 6:00AM

Oh, now this is fun. So, you enjoyed last week's Wrapup winner, xkcd's nightmarish look at a puzzling classic game, titled "Hell?" Well, someone actually made a Flash version of the impossible Tetris clone which serves as the butt of the comic's joke. We suggest checking the two out in the appropriate sequential order: Viewing the comic, imagining the horror of trying to stack bricks in a bowl, then being forced to actually stack bricks in a bowl.

Second and third place went to Brawl in the Family's "Snifit Salesman" and Awkward Zombie's "No Pokemon Allowed in my Pokemon Game," respectively. If you've got a favorite strip you'd like to see in the next Wrapup, make sure you drop a link in the comments section of this post, or send in a tip!

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Reader Comments (27)

Dammit! My L blocks were so neatly organized until I got something different...haha. Fun game, awesome job to the creator.

Anyone else almost get a piece to actually fit but it doesn't so you try to slam it in with another? Usually ended in catastrophe for me....

Yes. Yes I did. It gives me chills.

If you hold down the down arrow the whole time then in glitches.

That truly is Hell for me. I was so close to getting a line that I had a lingering sense that it almost wasn't useless. I would easily be driven insane if I had to play that for any extended amount of time.

After playing this game, I immediately had to pick up my Game Boy and put Tetris. That's how frustrating this game is.

The physics are a bit floaty and you can never lose if you simply hold the down arrow and never let go. Then again, you'll never win either.

Hell indeed.

GAHHHHH... the fact that it's so floaty and it isn't aligned to a grid at all (even before you reach the bottom) bothers me soooooo much. Even worse than the comic.

Let's put another plug out there for HATERIS, just in case you didn't see it the first time.

Roundtris is nothing compared to this hell...

http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

It's badly programmed... Some guy managed to get 20 points and all... I got 1. It should be impossible to get even 1 point.

That is really annoying.

With some creative positioning of the Z/S tetriminos I managed to score 3 points. I was pretty proud of myself for a few hours.

I managed 4 with some practice. Fun.

This game would be decent if they didn't bounce all over the place like you were on the Moon. But, I guess that's what makes it hell.

Bowser and the Snifit salesman made me smile.

If Bowser bought his 'copter used I wonder if The Joker had it last?

If they had less floaty graphics, then it could be worth the challenge. The blocks are too floaty though. Maybe that was just to add to the hell of it.

xkcd sucks. I'm disappointed.

I thought it was decent, nothing too funny, but decent.

That's pretty genius. Amazing that no one else did it before; in retrospect that seems like a pretty obvious idea.

The only thing that could suck worse is playing Frogger with a traffic jam.

Entry: http://www.plusonecomics.com/redmeansdead.html

This actually made me die a little on the inside.

Hell for me would be stuck in a room with the guy from XKCD, the walls plastered in his Marmaduke-caliber efforts.

Leave the internet and never come back.

Why? Because I have a good sense of humor? Because I don't break out into laughter every time I see an equation? Because I'm not a creepy nerd who always writes webcomics about women who will never love me and yet who I'm obsessed about?

For the record, I haven't even heard of, much less take a serious look at xkcd until last week.

- "Because I have a good sense of humor?"

Er...

Good sense of humor? That argument never helps people who don't follow up with things that they actually do like.

At least this guy's jokes tend to be somewhat original AND straightforward.

- "Because I don't break out into laughter every time I see an equation?"

*looks through the most recent 30 comics in the archives and sees only 3 or 4 comics that could qualify as an equation joke*

Huh?

- "Because I'm not a creepy nerd who always writes webcomics about women who will never love me and yet who I'm obsessed about?"

*looks through the archives for the latest 30 comics again and finds nothing about women that will never love the author*

...Methinks you're only hating this for the sake of hating at this point.

Sorry I have a different opinion than other people, I guess I'll defer to your opinions since obviously random blog commenters are more qualified than I am to judge things.

P.S. if 10% of a webcomic is about a particular topic then I think it's safe to say there's a pretty heavy bias towards that topic! (Not that you read through all of them anyway)

"Sorry I have a different opinion than other people, I guess I'll defer to your opinions since obviously random blog commenters are more qualified than I am to judge things"

We are.

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