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Author Topic: Webcomics that aren't MSPA  (Read 122934 times)

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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #920 on: July 13, 2010, 10:18:39 AM »

Yes, it is indeed a gift as well as a curse. All the awesomeness of a magical horse, all the deliciousness of a can of Alpo.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #921 on: July 16, 2010, 05:11:33 AM »

Sad that Gone With the Blastwave is a pile of crap that is never updated by its creator who hates webcomics?

Then try out Romantically Apocalyptic


WARNING: May actually suck, but the art is great

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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #922 on: July 16, 2010, 05:42:13 AM »

... wow.

It's like GWTB died and went to Russia.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #923 on: July 16, 2010, 12:17:00 PM »

This comic is absolutely fantastic Constantine.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #924 on: July 16, 2010, 08:07:31 PM »

I am drastically less of a fan of Amazing Super Powers since my first ever comment on a comic was deleted for being mean to a stupid person.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #925 on: July 17, 2010, 03:50:06 AM »

Man I hope they do The 4th Panel on that one, I need to know the conversation that got them there.

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It's even better than I imagined. I still have a tear in the corner of my eye.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #926 on: July 19, 2010, 09:24:11 AM »

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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #927 on: July 26, 2010, 10:26:52 AM »

I don't get Achewood. The drawings are ugly and the punchlines are... are there punchlines? Anyway, what's the appeal?
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #928 on: July 26, 2010, 11:15:13 AM »

I tried making that same confession a long time ago. It was explained that I had to invest a lot of time reading an inaccessible backlog, after which point I'd get it.

When I did try to read Achewood, there was a part of me that felt like that fellow at the party who Didn't Get The Joke. Then there's the other part that kept saying "but, these bears have no clothes on!".
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #929 on: July 26, 2010, 11:23:52 AM »

Imagine what it might be like if you had empathy for bears with tiny wangs. Or maybe like, the feeling of watching one of those bears get his everywhere but his testicles with footballs. It's about that special brand of schadenfreude and catharsis you get from watching someone who just cockblocked get his own dicky-parry-riposte. Or maybe it's just surreal in a way that's really affecting to... whatever it is achewood's readers are. I guess maybe they're otter fetishists?
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #930 on: July 26, 2010, 11:50:51 AM »

Imagine what it might be like if you had empathy for bears with tiny wangs. Or maybe like, the feeling of watching one of those bears get his everywhere but his testicles with footballs. It's about that special brand of schadenfreude and catharsis you get from watching someone who just cockblocked get his own dicky-parry-riposte. Or maybe it's just surreal in a way that's really affecting to... whatever it is achewood's readers are. I guess maybe they're otter fetishists?

This post makes about as much sense as the comic does.

Which is appropriate, I suppose.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #931 on: July 26, 2010, 11:59:51 AM »

I felt the same way for a long time, even after several attempts at figuring out why everybody else seemed to love it. Then I was linked to one particular strip*, laughed my head off, went through the archives, and fell in love. You definitely need that click moment, but once you're in it's pretty much self-sustaining. Overall it's about the flow of dialogue, the character's voices and interactions, and a unique brand of pathos that gives it a bizarre and nigh-unexplainable sense of reality.

I wish I could give it some concrete props instead of this ethereal crap, but in the end you get it or you don't, and if you don't then you shouldn't worry about it, it's not on account of a flaw on your part. It's a weird comic.

*: For the record, it was this one, though you probably shouldn't expect it to do it for you. Frame of mind, etc. etc.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #932 on: July 26, 2010, 12:10:21 PM »

That was actually one of the strips I found funny.

I guess I don't hate it, and I like a small number of the strips, but it just doesn't appeal to me. Which is funny, because I usually enjoy stuff with a very personal pathos.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #933 on: July 26, 2010, 12:31:07 PM »

Alright, idea. Here's kind of a superfluous and extreme thing, and I doubt anyone cares that much, but eh, just in case.

This is my assetbar profile page. It has a random selection of strips I've rated 5 out of 5. Anyone who for some reason feels like it can pick any of them, and I'll try explain why I like them. It probably won't make you like them, but maybe it'll offer some insight into the tragically deranged mind of an Achewood fan.


Scratch that, you'd need to register to see that page.  :nyoro~n:
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #934 on: July 26, 2010, 05:32:37 PM »

Achewood is basically a comic strip you have to dig through because sometimes the entire cast is dressing up like Cheers or Ray is flying Airwolf, and sometimes you just get months and months of pointless weird Cartilage Head shit.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #935 on: July 26, 2010, 05:41:13 PM »

Achewood is very character-driven. If you don't know the characters, it stands to reason you won't like most of it.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #936 on: July 26, 2010, 05:43:50 PM »

It's pointless to read Achewood expecting a punchline.  Most of the humor comes from the bizarre dialogue and surreal situations.  Most of the time it's this deadpan delivery where you're not ever sure there is a joke.

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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #937 on: July 26, 2010, 06:54:24 PM »

I finally read every Penny Arcade.


...Do I get a prize?
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #938 on: July 26, 2010, 07:00:07 PM »

I'd say "spared of the task of having to read every Penny Arcade", but they give that one out for free.
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Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
« Reply #939 on: July 26, 2010, 07:06:04 PM »

Probably your prize is a new penny-arcade.
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