The downfall of Ctrl+Alt+Del...

[wilsonscrazybed]

I read Ctrl+Alt+Del. And by that, of course, I mean the past tense of "read (kind of annoying that the past and present tenses of that word are spelled the same)."

Which is why in written English we often say "used to read."

 

[pillota]

Ctrl+Alt+Del was the webcomic that got me involved.I started reading PA,but i didn't have the patience of rummaging through tones of "published" issues(I promised myself to try later).
For me CAD had some(if not hilarious)modestly funny moments-the Chef,when Ethan tried to assassinate Bill Gates,the dude with the penguin,etc.It wasn't till that yahtzee episode,that I realized Buckley had a large amount of doucheness.CAD is similar to SlipKnot in my mind-it used to sound "ultra br00000tal lolz" at some point,but now it only brings back sympathetic smiles.Oh well,there is still Doctor McNinja...

 

[Noamuth]

As with pillota, Ctrl+Alt+Del got me into webcomics.

But.. The more other webcomics I started reading, the more I got bored with CAD. The near-constant 'inserting game situation into life', the freaking horrible drama, the boring characters that never, ever change.. I just got over it.

Now I can barely stand it. I would say Buckley needs to quit while he's ahead.. But it is a few years too late.

 

[Alex_P]

yo b^uckley said he was glad his girl miscarried because it gave him a reason to break up with her, he's like a major jerk

Well, to be fair, that's just regular-person jerkitude, which is small-time jerkitude as far as the webcomics world goes.

This [http://bp2.blogger.com/_WIYhqGkhZiw/RoOOeLFpy4I/AAAAAAAAAAM/wW04KPYmGW8/s1600-h/whinymcblame.jpg] is what full-blown webcomic jerkitude looks like: guy who financially supports webcomic author refuses an impossible demand that would waste years of his life, webcomic author creates a wish-fulfillment comic of him apologizing for being a "screwed up, nasty little boy."

-- Alex

 

[sneak_copter]

Good... But not great

 

[Alex_P]

I believe now is as good a time as any, to say that, a new VGcats comic is up.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/

Now that is a how a good webcomic is done.

I'd say VGCats is "not that bad" rather than "good." I read it for a while and found it enjoyable, but it's still hardly deserving of the top place.

Issues:
- The expressions are rather repetitive.
- While Buckley overextends jokes with text, Ramsoomair overextends them with extra panels of googly-eyes. Many of the strips are like the long jokes in Family Guy... too stretched, too forced.
- Some of the gaming jokes seem to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the games themselves.
- Ramsoomair occasionally does this thing where he trots out a reference and expects you to laugh without actually, like, adding anything.
- Probably because of the release schedule, a lot of the referential humor is late. You get a lot of stale memes.
- The creator's alter-ego character is pathologically unfunny (though, mercifully, he is also uncommon).
- Right now it really seems like Ramsoomair is sick of this but keeps doing it to pay the bills.

-- Alex

Oh, forgot the most important one:
- Most of the jokes seem to be ripped off directly from /b/.