Weekly Webcomic Wrapup wants to help you survive Black Friday

Next week, you guys. Black Friday. The biggest ~~trampling~~ shopping day of the year. Sure, there are plenty of guides out there for consumers, to find the best deals and get the most out of their holiday and whatnot, but what about the people actually working retail? How can they possibly know what fresh Hell waits for them in the early morning hours on November 25?

Well fear not, young-and-probably-temporary-retail-worker. We've been there and we've done that, and in our experience the only surefire way to survive an explosive retail warzone is via the mental safe haven created by webcomics. So! Allow our favorites from last week to drag your legless worn-torn husk of a body through the nightmare that awaits you, and be sure to vote for your favorite after the break.

The Legend of Zelda Tribute (Brawl in the Family)
Remember, Remember (Penny Arcade)
Never Grow Up (Dueling Analogs)
Not A Cheat (Nerf Now!!)
Buck Up (Awkward Zombie)
Bubble Bobble (Blow The Cartridge)

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: November 19, 2011
The Legend of Zelda Tribute (Brawl in the Family)	344 (35.0%)
Remember, Remember (Penny Arcade)	124 (12.6%)
Never Grow Up (Dueling Analogs)	94 (9.6%)
Not A Cheat (Nerf Now!!)	142 (14.4%)
Buck Up (Awkward Zombie)	180 (18.3%)
Bubble Bobble (Blow The Cartridge)	99 (10.1%)

Reader Comments (53)

I really wish they had picked Mondays Penny Arcade comic, you know, the one that had something to do with gaming. That one is me in a nutshell.

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/14

@dantree

Wow, that actually IS funny! I don't get Joystiq sometimes...

@dantree
LMAO yes! I'm such a hoarder in Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

@dantree

Haha. THanks for sharing that link. xD

Awkward Zombie = Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

@Ashitaka
Really? Works fine for me.

@Ashitaka
It does that from some locations, for some reason. I couldn't tell you why, but I had the same problem when I lived at my school's dorms last year. Here's a direct link to the comic: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/katietiedrich/comic223.png

Hope that works.

@Epsilon

Ahaha nice, thanks for the trouble!

And I don't know if the owner of Awkward Zombie did anything but I can see the comic now. Go figure...

DA gets my vote this week. Nostalgia is reaching a very unsafe level there...

I miss Pokemon yellow.

BitF said that there was a reference to every Zelda game, but I can't spot Link to the Past in there. Can anybody see it?

@Punchdrunkbrian Link as a rabbit with pink hair.

@Punchdrunkbrian

Rabbit Link with pink hair heading to stairs in ground.

@Punchdrunkbrian

Ages/Seasons is the one i'm missing. Possibly Twilight Princess as well, unless that's the specific castle design that was used

I actually voted "Blow the Cartridge," go figure. But a strong week to recover from last week's horrid one

@Mr Khan

The TP reference is link in wolf form in the first panel

@Mr Khan
The Ages/Seasons reference is the mermaid suited Link.

@Punchdrunkbrian

Who can list all the Z games?

@Calatia Right, now I feel silly. I looked right at it and said "Well what the hell game is that from?". And here I consider LttP to be my favorite. I feel like a noob.

@Morisato13

I haven't played all of them (never had a handheld besides Gameboy), but I'll try:

(In up-down order)
Skyward Sword
Spirit Tracks
The Minish Cap
Twilight Princess
Four Swords (Adventures)
The Wind Waker
Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Majora's Mask
Link's Awakening
Ocarina of Time
A Link ot the Past
The Adventure of Link
The Legend of Zelda

The one I'm missing is Phantom Hourglass, but there's something on the sea horizon that may be the reference to that game (haven't played it, so I don't know).

@Morisato13

Also, there's no reference to the CD-i games.

Miranda's ''personality'' is 2 legit.

2 legit 2 quit.

Giving it to Nerf Now, because when I started playing Skyrim, the moment I got a sword, I started attacking the NPC just to see what he'd do, and when I saw he did nothing, I just continued till my One-handed skill went up about 7 times (3 level ups in the process apparently).

People seriously overplay how bad Black Friday is. I waited in line for the Best Buy opening last year, and I don't think I even remember a single person running.

@maveric101
In my city people are already camping for black friday

@maveric101
You're doing it wrong. Go to Wal-Mart.

@maveric101
@pluupy

Yeah, most of the BF horror stories come from Walmart shoppers.

@maveric101
Obviously wherever you come from has a population of less than 50 people for about a hundred miles.

@maveric101
For the last five or six years, excluding last year's lack of participation, I shopped in or near the Nashville area and had no worries other than crowds being large and traffic being dense.

@trinica

I live in Fairfax County (northern VA), which has over a million people.

nice try, though.

Holy shit, Awkward Zombie, you're a little late to the party there.

@Tez
That's just how Katie rolls.

@Tez
She's just fashionably late.

@Tez
Katie makes comics about games she's currently playing. It just so happens that they are often not the latest releases.

Get used to it.

@Tez
Better than PA, where half the comics now are tied to some non-gaming or barely-gaming event occurring at or near the time of publishing, often resulting in the comic making no goddamn sense months down the line

@darkinchworm

i don't see why every comic has to be directly about gaming. it's more a comic about gamers and their lives, which isn't gaming 24/7.

We're nearing the end of the month...
How are those beards doing, Joystiq?

This is like how the Paultards flood every online poll and straw poll. We see the BiTFtards in action, promoting a thoroughly unfunny comic that doesn't even deserve to be in the running.

@tehixe
Cry moar. Not every comic is necessarily supposed to be funny. The poll is a vote for your favorite webcomic strip from this week. Depending on your tastes, you vote for a webcomic.

@tehixe

What's with all the BitF hate? It's not really supposed to be funny, just kinda cute, and it's not bad at all. At least they got rid of the truly bad one... No Cash Value *shudders*

Nerf Now, ugh. Facepalm.

BitF is cool. Not really funny, though. I'll pick it if nothing else works.
PA isn't funny and is just going for shock value.
NN was even worse than usual, and I already don't like it. Go figure.
AZ kind of made me smile a bit.
BtC was the same, but less so.

Guess I'm going with BitF. Pretty poor week.

Opening up Blow the Cartridge seems to cause my monitor to bleed spontaneously. Not sure if it's the art or the writing.

I have a feeling Blow the Cartridge is gonna be the new No Cash Value.

Awkward zombie. Just read the description and click the links to see why.

Ah yes, winter and joystiq ... nothing says christmas like an ad filled comments sections selling sweaters and boots

Brawl in the Family's comic was such an obvious ripoff of this other 25th anniversary picture that I didn't even consider voting for it.

http://www.giantbomb.com/the-legend-of-zelda/62-9/all-images/52-157454/zelda/51-1783072/

@Yuglyoshi
But you're wrong.

Every comic sucked this week, I didn't bother voting, no point. Also, I'm at the front of the line working crowd management at Wal-Mart on Black Friday.....

I'll see you all in another life.

Personally i liked the Super Mario 3D Land Penny Arcade best

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/16

Working Walmart electronics on BF. I'm 18, this is my first job, and I'm terrified.

Heck yeah, Zelda's 25th!

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