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Strain42

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werewolfsfury said:
Strain42 said:
Persona 3 FTW and Persona 4TW. The art style is total crap, the parody aspect of it is laughable, the jokes are often either stale or repeated call-back jokes that aren't even funny. Overall they are horrible horrible webcomics and I have no idea how it gets thousands of views every single day.

And don't even get me started on the writer. "J.C. Scott aka Strain42". He has to add that so that he can pretend people give a crap about him as a serious cartoonist instead of just another stupid internet username with a Hitchhikers reference in it

A dumbass comic written by a total dumbass. Stay far far away from it if you know what's good for you.

...That was fun :p
i think it's pretty good( the artwork is crappy but at least you can tell who they are)
Well thanks buddy ^^ I appreciate that :p
 

Mr.Numbers

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There are quite a few.
I don't want to keep you here all day though, so I'll just give you the really popular ones that are terrible, and deserve to be taken down a few pegs.
XKCD, Questionable Content, Sluggy Freelance.
XKCD and QC are terrible?

Xkcd has a specific target audience, that you may not just be in and how much QC have you read? That stuff is pure awesome sauce. It's the perfect fusion of high and low brow humor.

I will accept all flaming that comes from that previous statement.
 

grimhammer

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Innegativeion said:
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Penny-Arcade... they might have occasional funny moments but the fact that there's NO overarching storyline is pathetic. I want characters that learn and grow, not just random disjointed cheap easy jokes. I'm not interested in two and a half men...
Um... that doesn't make the comic bad.

That makes it a different genre from what kind of comic you want to read.

It'd be like saying Schindler's List was shit because it didn't have enough of C3PO.
This thread is about bad webcomics. What's bad is subjective. Sure, you can go on about technical skills, how this and that is technically skilled or poorly done, about composition, writing, art, whatever but at the end of the day it's your opinion that matters. My opinion is that P-A is bad. Are there worse, fuck yeah, but this is as incendiary as I could get, going after P-A :p

Bottom line, I prefer my characters to grow and learn, I want people, not mannequins that can be replaced by anyone at any time. P-A doesn't have that, that's why it might be amusing at times but it'll never be one I check regularly.
 

Flare Phoenix

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While I enjoy Control-Alt-Delete, I do definitely see a ton of problems with it. As people have already pointed out, the miscarage strip was an incredibly stupid idea. I do have to wonder what was going through the creator's mind when he wrote it. He even admits to it likely causing a lot of readers to stop reading, and I don't think anyone was really asking for it to happen.

Beyond that though, I just find the comic directionless. It tries to do everything and does nothing particularly well - from the sitcom-esque bits with the main characters, the obvious jokes about video games, and the painfully unfunny bits (even for random humor) with Chef Brian.

And really, the comic gives us no reason to like Ethan (the main character) since he is a bumbling idiot but everything just happens to go his way. Hell, it's even hard to call him a bumbling idiot since he built a sentient robot out of his Xbox...
 

Ordinaryundone

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El Goonish Shive. The art was, until only recently, absolutely terrible and the story is a huge clusterfuck. And on top of it all, its perverted as all hell and not in a really interesting or good way.
 

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There are a couple I can't stand, but if I don't like a comic I don't remember it. The ones I do remember include: White Ninja (formerly featured on Cracked), Flaky Pastry, and Joe Loves Crappy Movies (which is kind of ironic considering my name is Joe and I too love crappy movies).
 

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Order of the Stick, CaH, fuckin' Penny Arcade, XKCD, Dr Mcninja, Axe Cop, Stolen Pixels, Critical Miss, and Name Game which I personally hate for being some of the blandest crap I've ever read.


Non-web comic, the worst shit I ever read has got to be Transmetropolitan. Warren Ellis... just what the fuck was this shit?
V for Vendetta was pretty terrible too. (made by that weird beardy fuck whose name I can't recall right now and don't feel like googling it)
 

Garrsus

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CTRL-Alt-Del
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lokiduck said:
Cad for sure I definitely won't defend it.
what is wrong with cad? i mean really?
i know that it uses a lot of text and the 1 miscarriage thing but if you dont mind reading it its fine and the miscarriage was off the rails but there's been things like that in A LOT of comics.
 

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I think it might be best to preface our judgements with an explanation for why we feel a comic is bad. For me, a webcomic is bad if I find it regularly and glaringly offensive, or simply not entertaining.

First one I'd list: Better Days (and the sequel comic). Naylor's Objectivist idealogy grates, but what made me give up in disgust wasn't even when Fisk blew up a building filled with mobsters and patrons and hookers to save the one girl he was there for (and who was therefore the only one that mattered). It was when his daughter's gym teacher told her that she was the only hope they had of doing well at the upcoming gymnastics event, because the others were hopeless. A teacher/student relationship is very simple. The student is required to follow instructions, and try their hardest. Then it's up to the teacher to make sure the student learns. If the kids are trying and not learning, it's the gym teacher's fault; the "my child is inherantly superior because of genetics" really rubbed me raw. (and I speak as an instructor)

Second is one I'm shocked no one has mentioned yet: Least I Could Do, by the same author/artist responsible for Looking For Group. That's mainly because protagonist Raine is an overgrown, immature, criminally irresponsible manchild who regularly endangers everyone around him while having lots of sex (apparently due to possessing an oversized set of genitals). I gave up on that one after the thread in which Rayne is kissed and thanked by his friend's wife after Rayne bulldozes their way out of a cabin in a winter blizzard so she can give birth in a hospital. She had somehow conveniently forgotten that Rayne was the reason they were there in the first place, in the hopes of recreating the events of Evil Dead and having fun killing zombies with a chainsaw.

Third would be Black Tapestries. Simply because it was so... repellent. None of the characters were sympathetic, everything was vile and sucky. I read through the sum archive at that time and then quit in disgust.

I should note that whenever I dislike a webcomic, my response is to... stop reading it. I would offer my admiration for those here who share my feelings and simply refrain from reading the comics they dislike. I say that because Naylor in particular has a "hatedom" of people who obsessively view everything he posts so they can complain about it. If you dislike something, then ignore it and find something you do like. After all, there's a huge variety of webcomics out there... and if you don't like webcomics, there are plenty of other things to entertain as well.
 

Grand_Arcana

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Well, at least none of my favorites were mentioned (Darths&Droids, Menage a 3, 8 Bit Theater). The only bad webcomics I can think of are the ones made by that dude who made an unofficial sequel to Bill & Mandy. There's also Ansem Retort, which has gone on too long and updates sporadically. (Still funny as hell to my juvenile sense of humor.)
 

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HT_Black said:
shintakie10 said:
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Everything here, with special mention to Monster Lover and Kit n Kay Boodle (for reasons that should hopefully be obvious).
The fuck? Jack is on there.
I probably should've mentioned something about the prevailing anti-furry bias (And applaudable lack of intelligence) that defines most of the editors...Yeah, that would've been a good idea.
I'm surprised they didn't put up The Whiteboard with it's paintball humour, mane (no, no Brony joke there) cast of animals ("Doc" (the author/artist character) is a friggen POLAR BEAR for one thing) and "no-neck" humans (saved for comics with Guest Characters from other comics, mainly during Halloween).


As for bad webcomics? I can't think of any, mainly as if I don't like a comic after a few strips, I dump it from my browser and flush it out of memory
 

SpaceBat

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CAD and Critical Miss are the first two that come to mind. While CAD still does occasionally make me chuckle a little bit, the Critical Miss webcomic here is one of the most unfunny, stupid, bland webcomics I have ever seen.
 

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Sleekgiant said:
SonofaJohannes said:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/

I win.
This qualifies under so bad its good actually.

Want a bad bad bad comic, take a look at Concession

http://concessioncomic.com/

its like a train wreck, you can't look away
Damn you and your links! *shakes fist* I sat down and read them all...and LIKED IT! ;~;

OT: I never had the (dis)pleasure of reading a terrible one...kinda makes me feel left out.
 

Sariteiya

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I used to love VGcats once upon a time, when it updated regularly and was about the humor in games. Now however, it only seems like he updates whenever he has a bone to pick with gaming culture, and the comics generally come off as bitter. I miss you old school VGcats.

Also, not AWFUL, but Flipside always looses my interest. I think I just don't care about the characters, they're just too unbelievable.
 

chaos order

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i dont like looking for group or xkcd. but i do like questionable content and cyanide and happiness i go on every day to see whats new
 

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EBHughsThe1st said:
Another one would be Lil Formers. It's a Transformers webcomic that uses a pretty cool, very nicely drawn art style, but that's pretty much all it has going for it. It makes too many Transformer Culture in-jokes and terrible puns, as well as harping on about how good G1 was and how Michael Bay loves his explosions and rapes childhoods. The art is the only thing that kept me reading, since I liked the little re-tooling of old characters, but other than that it's just bad.
I am just curious, but do you not like the jokes because you don't get them, because you aren't a big fan of pre-Michael Bay movie transformers? (just using that as a kind of timeline, not a rip on Michael Bay)

op- I don't particularly like comics with overly long story arcs.. Like, year long arcs that have lore involved and character lists and whatnot. It's a bit ridiculous. I'm not saying character expansion is bad, but if you have to put up a list of characters with all of their oddities and differences, that's a bit much.
 

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Sleekgiant said:
SonofaJohannes said:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/

I win.
This qualifies under so bad its good actually.

Want a bad bad bad comic, take a look at Concession

http://concessioncomic.com/

its like a train wreck, you can't look away
Concession gets far better after you get past the first 50 or so comics. The art improves a lot and a story actually forms. Its a weird ass story that he admits to wingin it far more times than he should have and ends it rather abruptly due to that fact, but there's a lot of really good story arcs in there that people miss out on because of how randomly god awful the first bit is.
 

Sleekgiant

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shintakie10 said:
Sleekgiant said:
SonofaJohannes said:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/

I win.
This qualifies under so bad its good actually.

Want a bad bad bad comic, take a look at Concession

http://concessioncomic.com/

its like a train wreck, you can't look away
Concession gets far better after you get past the first 50 or so comics. The art improves a lot and a story actually forms. Its a weird ass story that he admits to wingin it far more times than he should have and ends it rather abruptly due to that fact, but there's a lot of really good story arcs in there that people miss out on because of how randomly god awful the first bit is.
Story, you mean the magic power shower he pulls out of his ass, lolno the comic was always bad but after that it got worse.

It doesn't even have good fanart 3:<
 

axeman157

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XKCD use to be such a funny, clever, tongue in cheek webcomic....now its just boring,unfunny, and predictable.