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I mean it looks like a copy of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things in the format of "two guys and a chick on a couch", but I suppose if you're going to try to copy something successful you can at least copy something great.
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I don't think anyone gets dibs on "people talking on a couch".
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umalt posted:
Thats more of a 'if you read through the archives a fair number of them are reasonably funny' than a 'it updates ever' sort of thing.
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The gag is ok I guess, but for some reason I am really bothered by the ridiculous size of the dude's chain (that kind of looks like a pull from a ceiling fan?) and the girl's zipper pull. Which seems to change sizes halfway through. Anyway, everyone knows that young people today all listen to that dubstep music while playing pokemons on their nintendos!
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Devor posted:Post some funny ones so that we don't have to sift through it, because I just went back like 20 comics and they're all plot-centered dreck that barely have a joke among them. The one you posted is pretty good though! This is what killed Sluggy Freelance for me. (Although I do not believe it was only coincidence that he also got into World of Warfcraft around that time.) Comics do not have much inertia to fall back on when they start to lose steam. Mostly hit-or-miss comedy.
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Suicide Sam E. posted:This is what killed Sluggy Freelance for me. (Although I do not believe it was only coincidence that he also got into World of Warfcraft around that time.) WoW didn't even exist when he started trying to do big sweeping plot arcs; he was on that poo poo by the third year or so, I think? I started reading Sluggy in 2000, stopped a couple years later. God drat is that comic unreadable now, how did I ever love it enough to buy 3 of his loving books EDIT: Holy mother of gently caress I just googled sluggy and not only is he still updating (that's what, 15-ish years now probably?), his art hasn't gotten the slightest bit better in all that time
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I really really liked sluggy freelance at the beginning. My only regret is reading it for too long after the point where it jumped the shark. It was quite fun for awhile.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:WoW didn't even exist when he started trying to do big sweeping plot arcs; he was on that poo poo by the third year or so, I think? I started reading Sluggy in 2000, stopped a couple years later. God drat is that comic unreadable now, how did I ever love it enough to buy 3 of his loving books I liked the initial plot arcs. But Abrams started to re-visit them, when most of them seemed stale by so doing. Agent355 posted:I really really liked sluggy freelance at the beginning. My only regret is reading it for too long after the point where it jumped the shark. It was quite fun for awhile. Same. The Kitten story arc was pretty weak IMHO. If I had to say when it definitely died I'd state around when the Halloween stories started lasting for months after Halloween. Maybe the cursed/haunted house one, with the vengeful ghost walled in the attic. Or the story where Riff is outed as working for an evil/amoral laboratory. Whichever one came first. I liked reading Sluggy and sometimes they were funny. Sometimes many were funny in a row. I didn't mind missing for a while and playing catch-up, but when I started having to follow plots several weeks long and going to where I left off and following in order had no benefit to the humor ..too little reward. Personally I hate Bun-bun and believe the comic took a definitely dip when he went from being introduced to turning out to be a recurring character instead of a one-off. But this is probably not an opinion most would share.
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Hey look it's party cat     
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Pick posted:I don't think anyone gets dibs on "people talking on a couch". It's well-traveled ground:  Suicide Sam E. posted:This is what killed Sluggy Freelance for me. (Although I do not believe it was only coincidence that he also got into World of Warfcraft around that time.) I can't think of a comic that started as joke a day and tried to focus on actual involved plotlines without turning to poo poo. It's like magic. Maybe some exceptions, but only ones that made the leap to storylines very early. Even with Oglaf, when a storyline outlasts the week I start to tune out. (Returning to past characters/themes later seems to be safe.) I used to say "webcomic" specifically, but reading the newspaper strips thread made me realize it's just as true on paper.
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Yah Oglaf story arcs are kinda hit or miss and end to be worse than their one off pages, that said they also tend to create some fun characters and give them set personalities, so when hey show up later it makes for better jokes. So even the bad arcs tend to lead to good one off jokes later, I think that's acceptable.
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Agent355 posted:Yah Oglaf story arcs are kinda hit or miss and end to be worse than their one off pages, that said they also tend to create some fun characters and give them set personalities, so when hey show up later it makes for better jokes. So even the bad arcs tend to lead to good one off jokes later, I think that's acceptable. This was slightly true of Sexy Losers as well. Also, if you are at work SL is NSFW.
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You can get this one in candy form!
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If we're talking about Fanboys, it's worth noting that the guy is a good lesson in taking criticism, so even when he's not great, I still dig and respect his comic a lot:
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His art really improved. The worst you could say now would him drawing very disney-esque.
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Funny old fanboys:   Edit: Oh yeah, this one's great. 
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And this starts playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppTbLm_zJg&t=7s
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I thought Fanboys had great facial expression, I know a handful made me laugh anyway, especially the one where the guy has the dream about Shigeru Miyamoto at I think Sams Club?
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Speaking of the devil, guess who updated today.
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AbusePuppy posted:I can't be the only person who likes Cat and Girl, right? 
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AbusePuppy posted:I can't be the only person who likes Cat and Girl, right? Some of it's old stuff is great, but for the longest time all it seemed to be was the cat and girl talking past one another in weird philosophic wonderings. 
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It feels like you could read the panels of this strip in any random order and it would still make the same amount of sense.
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Its kind of stupid but I laughed at the latest Wondrella.
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MrGreenShirt posted:Some of it's old stuff is great, but for the longest time all it seemed to be was the cat and girl talking past one another in weird philosophic wonderings. It's definitely pretty hit or miss, but I think she does a good job of Cat's not-quite-part-of-the-conversation addendums balancing out Girl's text-heavy musings. Also I tend to love any comic that requires a bachelor's degree and extensive references to Wikipedia to understand half the jokes.
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This is one of my all time top faves. The whole concept just eludes him
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Triskelli posted:I mean it looks like a copy of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things in the format of "two guys and a chick on a couch", but I suppose if you're going to try to copy something successful you can at least copy something great. First Fanboys was in 2006. First Manly Guys Doing Manly Things was in 2010.
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Toriori posted:I thought Fanboys had great facial expression, I know a handful made me laugh anyway, especially the one where the guy has the dream about Shigeru Miyamoto at I think Sams Club? It was a guest strip, but it's still good.
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muscles like this? posted:Its kind of stupid but I laughed at the latest Wondrella. I don't get it. Crabs? Cancer?
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There's also a crossover (?) between the two for April's fool.
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Not a viking posted:I don't get it. Crabs? Cancer? vvv 
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Not a viking posted:I don't get it. Crabs? Cancer? Rock Lobster
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Not a viking posted:I don't get it. Crabs? Cancer? it was a rock lobster. Edit: aww, beaten...
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Rock rock rock Rock Lobster!
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Pilchenstein posted:It's a Rock Lobster. And just in case the setup doesn't make sense either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM
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AKA Pseudonym posted:And just in case the setup doesn't make sense either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM
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AKA Pseudonym posted:And just in case the setup doesn't make sense either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM ... not available... in my country? I'm the guy who can't understand he was a baby. I'm thinking that hard about this.
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