Zero Punctuation: Webcomics
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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hmm.. see while i agree most webcomics are awful. I still like the writing in CAD.
I also realize im probably one of the few, that has yet to laugh at a penny arcade comic.
"Oh look garbage humor it must be grand!"
Thanks to comics like those(and most comedy movies made these days) I have lost my sense of humor. I do enjoy quite a bit of your wit, heck i even chuckled a few times. I even enjoyed todays review.
The mis-carriage was a little off in the series, but didnt stop me, or my wife from liking it. Because it added a little bit of depth. It opened the way for characters to grow up a little.
and yes I understand im probably going to be yelled at for saying Penny Arcade isnt funny.
But to be fair your probably the people that like LOL Catz(though ive only been told about it... not really sure what it is).
I also realize im probably one of the few, that has yet to laugh at a penny arcade comic.
"Oh look garbage humor it must be grand!"
Thanks to comics like those(and most comedy movies made these days) I have lost my sense of humor. I do enjoy quite a bit of your wit, heck i even chuckled a few times. I even enjoyed todays review.
The mis-carriage was a little off in the series, but didnt stop me, or my wife from liking it. Because it added a little bit of depth. It opened the way for characters to grow up a little.
and yes I understand im probably going to be yelled at for saying Penny Arcade isnt funny.
But to be fair your probably the people that like LOL Catz(though ive only been told about it... not really sure what it is).
I am a fan of CAD and I thought the digs at it were funny.
Anyone else think that Buckley is going to retaliate in his comic? I sure hope so.
*grabs popcorn*
Anyone else think that Buckley is going to retaliate in his comic? I sure hope so.
*grabs popcorn*
And the fact that his "Example" was a female character having a miscarriage. Call me crazy, but I don't think he's talking about PvP.David_Cat said:
I like CAD, Penny Arcade, and ZP, and no one's opinion about any of these will change my mind. It gets a little exhausting at times, though.
Kind of like a driving sequence in an FPS or wrestling on the sci-fi channel, not bad but not exactly what I came here for. I guess no mockalicious games came out recently?
I only know about CAD anecdotally because God knows I would never read it willingly, but I would remind folks who think this is strictly about CAD that pretty much everything Yahtzee rambled off would apply to nearly every webcomic artist in the past decade or so. It's not Yahtzee's fault that CAD paints such a huge bullseye right on its ass.
Whatever you think of Penny Arcade, the art has vastly improved over the years, they know how to keep to a schedule, and they're funny at least roughly half the time. *That* is the winning formula regardless of what your comic is about. Maybe it's harder than it looks, since so few seem to get it right.
It's hard to believe that things like Jerkcity and Pokey the Penguin have been around for about ten years(!) and have thrived on sheer absurdity and a complete lack of punchlines. And then you have things like Dinosaur Comics which are more like amusing art projects. Some things are just weird enough to be entertaining. But Yahtzee is keeping his scope to video game comics, and if he's making the case that gamers have a very shallow sense of humor, then that's a delicious bit of irony that I can't really argue against.
Whatever you think of Penny Arcade, the art has vastly improved over the years, they know how to keep to a schedule, and they're funny at least roughly half the time. *That* is the winning formula regardless of what your comic is about. Maybe it's harder than it looks, since so few seem to get it right.
It's hard to believe that things like Jerkcity and Pokey the Penguin have been around for about ten years(!) and have thrived on sheer absurdity and a complete lack of punchlines. And then you have things like Dinosaur Comics which are more like amusing art projects. Some things are just weird enough to be entertaining. But Yahtzee is keeping his scope to video game comics, and if he's making the case that gamers have a very shallow sense of humor, then that's a delicious bit of irony that I can't really argue against.
This should be forwarded to Fred Gallagher, tho, hell, I haven't hated myself enough to read his comic in almost two years. Maybe he's gotten better?
And, ya know, the greatest webcomic ever made is XKCD.
And, ya know, the greatest webcomic ever made is XKCD.
I need to second this, as Yahtzee has indeed publicly announced his dislike of CAD in the past and I have yet to see Buckley retaliate.David_Cat said:
Yet another video game review video that didn't have a video game review in it.
I love Yahtzee's humor don't get me wrong here. I'm just starting to get a little tired of him going on about how much we hate him and that he doesn't care (and then goes on to acknowledge it over and over and over for 4 minutes).
I found the vid pretty boring and fell asleep somewhere around the 2 min mark. Not because I love penny arcade or ctrl+alt+del or anything like that, but because the vid felt pretty stale.
So c'mon Yahtzee! Go on to rip apart some horrendous piece of crap game! Stop with the fan commentary!
I love Yahtzee's humor don't get me wrong here. I'm just starting to get a little tired of him going on about how much we hate him and that he doesn't care (and then goes on to acknowledge it over and over and over for 4 minutes).
I found the vid pretty boring and fell asleep somewhere around the 2 min mark. Not because I love penny arcade or ctrl+alt+del or anything like that, but because the vid felt pretty stale.
So c'mon Yahtzee! Go on to rip apart some horrendous piece of crap game! Stop with the fan commentary!
The CAD forums are dead right now. I think too many people are trying to get in to talk about this week's ZP
I'd never heard of CAD before coming into this thread, but I still recognised every beat Yahtzee mentioned from other comics. It's especially confusing, not to mention off-putting, when you come across a new comic that has suddenly switched into drama mode at the hands of a writer who has no idea how to do it. I once ran into a very disturbing example with really nice artwork that appeared to be about domestic abuse. I flicked through the previous pages to try and find out what was going on, only to be confronted by tearful flashback after tearful flashback of young women having the piss leathered out of them by their menfolk. Not shocking, just plain ol' nasty.
I usually find political comics worse than gaming comics, partly because they're usually more bitter than funny but mostly because they're always about American politics and I'd have to go and read the CNN website for a while before understanding any actual jokes they make.
Give me http://www.sinfest.net/ and the like any day.
-Nick
I usually find political comics worse than gaming comics, partly because they're usually more bitter than funny but mostly because they're always about American politics and I'd have to go and read the CNN website for a while before understanding any actual jokes they make.
Give me http://www.sinfest.net/ and the like any day.
-Nick
Normally, I think Yahtzee is funny, even when I like the game he's bashing. I like CAD, and I didn't think this was funny at all. A few true statements were made, but that didn't make them funny. It all just seemed childish to me...the same with a lot of the comments made.