The downfall of Ctrl+Alt+Del...
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My webcomic reading time is valuable. I am not about to waste it on a barely-funny-enough-for-a-wry-smile gaming comic written by someone who can only be described as a ****.
He's not doing anything "different", he's doing the exact same descent into Drama! and Serious Plots! that every initially humourous webcomic (and some print comics) do over time. Cerebus Syndrome [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CerebusSyndrome].
Well, I guess that's just a natural pattern, in order to explore their own skills. Would you rather that he continued to just make mindless parodies of video games until he completely ran out of ideas? Then it would end up as horrible and unfunny as 8 Bit Theatre.GloatingSwine said:
You reckon he'll get to the full-on breakdown stage? I think a warning of that would be the very next panel after the one in the OP is a drive by mobster gunning down the bride.GloatingSwine said:
If Buckley wanted to "explore his own skills" as a writer, he could have created an entirely new fiction, rather than awkwardly repurpose an old one and hope the audience goes along with it (because nothing would be worse than obscurity).Elurindel said:
i have no problem with buckley exploring what he can do with his comic. I mean that's what its there for. but for god's sake man, make a decision. Is ethan going to be an idiot with no forthought or is he going to be a decent human being? you need to make some calls here buck. it's not development if we see ethan do things that aren't retarded occasionally, there has to be at least some effort to show that it's genuine.
i actually hoped his woman would have left him, but no, buckley wanted to wrap up all the drama of the last few months in a nice bow and throw it off the closest cliff
i actually hoped his woman would have left him, but no, buckley wanted to wrap up all the drama of the last few months in a nice bow and throw it off the closest cliff
^ This.Logan Frederick said:
I've played the demo. I didn't get motion sickness, but just from reading the odd news story over the past month or so, I know that some people have, so I get the joke. In fact, I don't think there's ever been a PA strip that I had to think about for more than a few seconds before I got it.
It's really quite sad about Ctrl+Alt+Del. It really had its moments, and Ethan is (was) a great character. I hardly even look at the site anymore, it's become a really terrible soap opera.
This is why i stick to stuff like Applegeeks, Sequential Art, Fanboys, Three Panel Soul (Machall with less panels) Comedity (which has recently ended and become Finders Keepers)
and of course that shining gem among gaming comics, Penny Arcade.
It's also an example of why i'm going to avoid anything too serious or romantic when/if my comic ever makes it to the internet.
(Yeah, yeah, aspiring Web-comic author in the thread...)
Admittedly i can appreciate that Tim Buckley is going in directions that he feels like, it is HIS comic and he IS free to do so, but unfortunately he's in a wide public scope and he boasts a rather large fan-base that is used to the trend and conventions that he'd previously layed down, so unfortunately he's not going to be making anyone but himself happy with it.
Well besides the die-hard fans...
Really, i'm not defending his current choice in story-archs, considering sudden miscarriage is an incredibly over the top way of breaking away from the "funny" but he's only going with what all comic (be they internet or published book/magazine) makers go with.
and that is
"Write what YOU enjoy, not what everyone else enjoys, if everyone else enjoys it anyway, then you've done good."
But then again it's becoming painfully obvious that everyone else isn't liking quite as much...
and of course that shining gem among gaming comics, Penny Arcade.
It's also an example of why i'm going to avoid anything too serious or romantic when/if my comic ever makes it to the internet.
(Yeah, yeah, aspiring Web-comic author in the thread...)
Admittedly i can appreciate that Tim Buckley is going in directions that he feels like, it is HIS comic and he IS free to do so, but unfortunately he's in a wide public scope and he boasts a rather large fan-base that is used to the trend and conventions that he'd previously layed down, so unfortunately he's not going to be making anyone but himself happy with it.
Well besides the die-hard fans...
Really, i'm not defending his current choice in story-archs, considering sudden miscarriage is an incredibly over the top way of breaking away from the "funny" but he's only going with what all comic (be they internet or published book/magazine) makers go with.
and that is
"Write what YOU enjoy, not what everyone else enjoys, if everyone else enjoys it anyway, then you've done good."
But then again it's becoming painfully obvious that everyone else isn't liking quite as much...
I found it funny until it started with relationships, the sillies section is what the main section SHOULD be.
Samurai Goomba (top of page):
What the hell was that? That one is even worse than anything in the OP.
Alex_P:
I wish some more people read "Your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad" [http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com]. It'd make the world a safer place.
also:
What the hell was that? That one is even worse than anything in the OP.
Alex_P:
I wish some more people read "Your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad" [http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com]. It'd make the world a safer place.
also:
The motion sickness story was ruminated upon by many people after the first closed doors demo showings. It showed up at 1up, kotaku, eurogamer and a number more (these three I check every now and again, others not so much). The developer came back with the ways they changed the game to fight motion sickness because it was way worse before. The posts kept coming for about a month on newssites. I am amazed anybody with an eye on gaming hasn't heard about it.Amnestic said:
To be fair to Tim, if he'd stuck purely with gaming jokes, he'd have run out by now. It's his comic, he can do what he likes with it. If you don't like it, don't read it. Besides, it has never been purely about gaming. There's always been other stuff going on.
Whilst I will say that everything since the miscarriage has been fubar, hopefully now the comic can get back on track.
Whilst CAD isn't my favourite webcomic any more, I still have a lot of affection for it.
Whilst I will say that everything since the miscarriage has been fubar, hopefully now the comic can get back on track.
Whilst CAD isn't my favourite webcomic any more, I still have a lot of affection for it.
Wait, are you saying my joke was bad, or the CAD page I linked to was horrible? I don't really disagree with either point, but at least my joke took about 3 seconds to come up with. I doubt the creator of CAD can claim the same. Well, now that I think about it, he probably CAN, if his work is anything to go by.Vortigar said:
Maybe it's just because it's late and I'm tired, but at least I laughed at my own joke. And at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
With that in mind, maybe I should go through the CAD archives, read the first 2 panels of every strip, then make up my own punchlines. I would laugh a lot more.
Uhm, yeah, talking about the original comic...
I don't think it matters what you put as panel 3 and 4. 1 and 2 are a setup to nothing so you either have to start all over or simply continue on from there and jump into the pit.
If I had to make a panel 3 and 4 for that thing it'd be about man-eating bunny parasites that inhabit carrots.
I don't think it matters what you put as panel 3 and 4. 1 and 2 are a setup to nothing so you either have to start all over or simply continue on from there and jump into the pit.
If I had to make a panel 3 and 4 for that thing it'd be about man-eating bunny parasites that inhabit carrots.