Bad Webcomics
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Well...that was certainly eye-opening for me.SonofaJohannes said:
EDIT: I've never read a webcomic that I thought was really bad. The closest I've seen to bad was Electric Gas, while I could appreciate the fact it was shit, I loved how stupidly offensive it was. Sadly, i think the guy ran out of money to keep the server so you can't read it anymore.
EDIT 2: NO! It's called Electric Retard and it's still alive and kicking! Joy oh joy!
I'm surprised nobody has said user friendly yet. It's so unfunny, and it's almost as old as I am.
i think it's pretty good( the artwork is crappy but at least you can tell who they are)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
I'm going to be a little unpopular here and say XKCD. It's not that I don't get. I just don't think it's at all funny. The art style is just terrible for a comedic piece. Comics are a visual medium and a big part of all comedic visual media is the expression of emotion. A George Carlin routine is funny when read by George Carlin; it is not funny when read by Microsoft Sam. It is the same thing with XKCD. Faceless stick figures can only express emotions in a very, very, crude and dull manner.
Contrast XKCD with [a href="http://www.theslackerz.com/"]The Slackerz[/a]: a comic that, while only competently written, is one of my personal favorites because of its brilliantly emotive art style. Its near-perfect flow and highly-emotive faces elevate its otherwise nominal writing into extreme hilarity.
Contrast XKCD with [a href="http://www.theslackerz.com/"]The Slackerz[/a]: a comic that, while only competently written, is one of my personal favorites because of its brilliantly emotive art style. Its near-perfect flow and highly-emotive faces elevate its otherwise nominal writing into extreme hilarity.
Well thanks buddy ^^ I appreciate thatwerewolfsfury said:i think it's pretty good( the artwork is crappy but at least you can tell who they are)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
XKCD and QC are terrible?Souplex said:
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.
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-AInnegativeion said:
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.
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...
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...
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.
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).
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)
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)
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what is wrong with cad? i mean really?lokiduck said:
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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).HT_Black said:
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
