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Readers pick best webcomic: Frogger

by Ben Gilbert on Aug 7th 2010 5:30PM

This week's Weekly Webcomic Wrapup winner XKCD helps to highlight one of the harsh realities that video games tend to ignore -- specifically, that frogs are monsters. What with their leaping onto highways full of cars and relishing in the disaster that follows. For shame, we say!

Virtual Shackles' "What is love?" (baby don't hurt me -- ahem) took third place, while Brawl in the Family's "Kirby's Pet" placed second. As always, please send in your suggestions for tomorrow's Wrapup or leave a comment below. And congrats to all the winners!

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Reader Comments (27)

That comic reminds me of that episode of Robot Chicken i saw yesterday.

@TheMichaelJackson

This joke has been done so many times that I am surprised it won.

@Jason B The other comics were so bad and overdone I'm not surprised XKCD won.

One thing that somepeople doesn't know about xkcd - on mouse rollover(or whatever it is called when you stop cursor on picture for a few seconds to display extra text) the text sometimes contains most of the "joke"...
Froger one, Title text:
"I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics."

Maybe it's just me, but most of the time I don't find XKCD funny at all, and it almost every time manages to win...
Which means my sense of humor is broken :(

@vmenge

I'm pretty sure that there's a rule somewhere that says no matter how funny any other comic that week is, xkcd must always win.

@ChuckBartowski It's intelligent comedy. Only intelligent people find it funny.

@BigD145
I'm intelligent enough to know that not only have I thought of this joke, but plenty of other outlets have done it as well.

It's a decent joke, but too obvious and hackneyed to be considered funny anymore. At least in my opinion.

@BigD145
It's a joke about Frogger.

@BigD145

"It's intelligent comedy. Only intelligent people find it funny."

...Really? You find a frog jumping onto the road and causing an accident "intelligent comedy"? I think that tell us a bit more about "your" intelligence rather than that of the joke.

@BluElement He was obviously referring to xkcd comics in general and not this specific one.

@BigD145
If by "intelligent people," you mean "annoying people."

@vmenge

In general, xkcd is definitely for intelligent people. Not saying the OP isn't one though.

@BigD145,
hey, thank you for reminding how stupid I am for having a different sense of humor than yours, really! :)

Meh

@Iron Man

If Iron Man says meh, it must be meh.

Meh.

The better comic won I suppose. Weak week all in all. Just gotta hope this week's batch is great (and hopefully devoid of BitF).

Is it just me or is the comic funnier with just these two frames Joystiq grabbed out of context? Sometimes a lot of these game comics have a funny premise and beat it to death. Joystiq does a great job a lot of times just posting the funny part. I'd definetely like to see a site that just did that; rip out the funny parts and leave the excess out that ruins the joke.

@Infe

Umm.. how is a frog caused accident "funny" exactly?

+1 Comics entry of the week:

http://www.plusonecomics.com/drawingtheline.html

Enjoy!

@LanceIcarus

secret swears was funny. Didn't get the force within joke, though the frame where he throws the lightsabers is just comical by itself.

Remember that a crucial element of xkcd comics is their title tag (the desciption you see when you mouse over them).
Also, why is there no direct link posted to the winner comic? http://xkcd.com/772/

if I saw a frog that big, I'd chance swerving into the other lane as well.

@Radio Smith

Point. Match. Game.

So what's the deal with the image links on the new joystiq? Clicking on the article image just links us to the article we're already on, or back to the homepage (depending on the article)?

It used to be that if we clicked the image of that comic up there it took us to the whole comic. Now it just refreshes this page...

@Vcize You know how at the top of this page, it says beta. Yeah, expect things to not work right.

not like people actually swerve for frogs

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Reader Comments (27)

Posted: Aug 7th 2010 5:33PM TheMichaelJackson said

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