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Nuns with Guns posted:So this is making the rounds... Haha holy poo poo they put Megatokyo on the list? I love that there is basically no justification for it other than "popularized the style". Yeah, the style that was already popularized... By manga and anime. I dare you to point me to one loving decent webcomic that had Megatokyo as an "influence" other than how not to produce content. Also a reminder that Megatokyo had a Kickstarter for a visual novel game that raised $300,000 four years ago and delivered nothing other than some concept art.
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I know Megatokyo is one of the oldest webcomics still going right now, but is it really influential? I feel like maybe Sluggy Freelance if probably more notable in that respect. Laid the grounds for a lot of other gag-a-day webcomics that would eventually spiral into an absurdly complex plot.rannum posted:Kelly Turnbull had a short thread about MGDMT and some of the related things going on It's always nice to get some kind of closure on something that's ended. I kinda expect most sources of internet content will go dry one day after the creator moves on to better pastures. That's the nature of the business. Either it's just a hobby or it's something the creator needs to work somehow to leverage into money. Often whatever project the creator moves onto next will be better, and some people should've tried moving onto something new a long while ago. It's not like the world "needed" Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, but I sure did like it. Hopefully whatever she moves onto next will have the same qualities that made it good. Some of the best pages were the ones that just had Jared, Jonesy, and Captain Lobster, no video game parodies required.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Haha holy poo poo they put Megatokyo on the list? I love that there is basically no justification for it other than "popularized the style". Yeah, the style that was already popularized... By manga and anime. I dare you to point me to one loving decent webcomic that had Megatokyo as an "influence" other than how not to produce content. Megatokyo was really huge for a little while at the dawn of webcomics, before it ran off the saner part of the creative team and then ran itself into the ground. lol about "popularizing" lovely anime drawings on the internet but it was definitely a big entry point.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I know Megatokyo is one of the oldest webcomics still going right now, but is it really influential? It might have been in the early 00s. There was kind of a spate of Notice Me, Senpai! imitators that aped its style and/or premise for a little while before people got bored of it because it refused to either loving end or evolve. But yeah it is kind of a footnote all told ironically for how long it's run. Honestly, I'd put Ctrl-Atl-Del on that list over Megatokyo purely for Loss.jpg alone. One misguided image of four panels and no dialog has had a longer lasting and more profound impact on the internet than anything Fred Gallagher has ever drawn or written.
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Megatokyo is insanely bad. As a thirteen-year-old, I got the first three volumes for Christmas. Volume One was hilarious, Volume Two was mediocre, and Volume Three... existed? I went through the whole online archive out of sheer inertia and it only got worse and worse. I can't imagine trying to read it now. My pet theory at the time was that it was Largo's influence that kept the comic from becoming pure faux-anime wish-fulfillment bullshit, and once he left... well, we got what we got!
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Mors Rattus posted:It directly led to Clevinger breaking into real and good comics, and Atomic Robo happening, so there’s that. oh i'm not contesting it was important to clevinger, (atomic robo and real science adventures are both good btw)
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People keep talking about "what Megatokyo was like before Largo left." Largo basically was never there. The period before he left is like fifty strips.
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Rand Brittain posted:People keep talking about "what Megatokyo was like before Largo left." 
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Nuns with Guns posted:So this is making the rounds... Lackadaisy's good and all, but I wouldn't call it "influential". Besides, for better or for worse, Dresden Codak's on the list for a pretty comic. I mean, it shouldn't be, because it is also a bad comic, but I'd say it is far more well known and people do love those symbolic butts.
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Penny Arcade, unfortunately, really does belong there.
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AriadneThread posted:agree I'd call 8-bit the only "good" sprite comic  TwoPair posted:Lackadaisy's good and all, but I wouldn't call it "influential". Besides, for better or for worse, Dresden Codak's on the list for a pretty comic. I mean, it shouldn't be, because it is also a bad comic, but I'd say it is far more well known and people do love those symbolic butts. I'd say at this point that they're about equally notable in the "pretty, slow-updating webcomic" category. DC started first but spent its first couple years being a humanities-centric XKCD while Lackadaisy started strong right out of the gate, so it has that going for it.
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I appreciate that nobody's even trying to argue that Homestuck isn't #1.
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Elephant Parade posted:Megatokyo is insanely bad. As a thirteen-year-old, I got the first three volumes for Christmas. Volume One was hilarious, Volume Two was mediocre, and Volume Three... existed? I went through the whole online archive out of sheer inertia and it only got worse and worse. I can't imagine trying to read it now. Megatokyo was really ahead of the curve when it came to distributing print collections of webcomics. It's kind of remarkable how badly the Megatokyo guy squandered so much popularity, to the point where it legitimately shocks me that there are still people who read it in 2018
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Haha holy poo poo they put Megatokyo on the list? I love that there is basically no justification for it other than "popularized the style". Yeah, the style that was already popularized... By manga and anime. I dare you to point me to one loving decent webcomic that had Megatokyo as an "influence" other than how not to produce content. Don't think webcomics, Megatokyo basically created the entire OEL Manga genre.
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i am the creator of megatokyo
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incredible flesh posted:i am the creator of megatokyo I’m so sorry.
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thanks for the kind words, it's been a rough few years, i dropped a coin into my rear end in a top hat for a joke but then i tried to get it out and got sucked into my own anus up to the waist and i've been stuck like that ever since. now i communicate through speech-to-text and fart into my own mouth, they had to install a vent in my stomach to let the farts out
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Tollymain posted:what is a good webcomic That one where Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet gently caress while the ship sinks: The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.
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Tollymain posted:what is a good webcomic Kill six billion demons
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what does it mean to be olivia jamesed
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Tollymain posted:what is a good webcomic That one QC guest strip Hastings did where Faye's dad offs himself
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HorseRenoir posted:Megatokyo was really ahead of the curve when it came to distributing print collections of webcomics. It's kind of remarkable how badly the Megatokyo guy squandered so much popularity, to the point where it legitimately shocks me that there are still people who read it in 2018 I wonder if the fans are still super-defensive, like to the 'you should feel LUCKY he considers updating AT ALL!' Ah, what am I saying. Of course some of them still are.
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Tollymain posted:what does it mean to be olivia jamesed To be Olivia Jaimesed is to have your comic taken over by someone who is better at it than you
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Didn't the Penny Arcade guys start a still ongoing convention that ends up donation hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions by now?) worth of stuff to children's hospitals? That alone should probably put them at the top of the list for positive influence regardless of how the comic itself morphed into a blob art dad comic. OotS isn't on there either and that's the highest grossing webcomic kickstarter. And while it wasn't really intended by the author, Pictures of Sad Children ought to be up there as a cautionary tale about kickstarting and shipping costs. That ought to count I think. I hadn't heard of half these comics before I read this list, and I'd never read half the others.
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I feel like Bob and George is historically important and influential, in that it spawned the entire era and genre of sprite comics. Thank god that ended.
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Galvanik posted:Didn't the Penny Arcade guys start a still ongoing convention that ends up donation hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions by now?) worth of stuff to children's hospitals? That alone should probably put them at the top of the list for positive influence regardless of how the comic itself morphed into a blob art dad comic. I'm pretty sure the PAX conventions are for-profit endeavors, but the Child's Play charity is still going strong with $44.5 million raised after 15 years. (I've dealt with Child's Play tangentially through work, they're legit.) Tollymain posted:what is a good webcomic Jerkcity
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iospace posted:Is Dresden Kodak still "updates when the artist feels like it" a la Megatokyo? Seems that way. Dude still gets 4200 a month on Patreon.
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Galvanik posted:Didn't the Penny Arcade guys start a still ongoing convention that ends up donation hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions by now?) worth of stuff to children's hospitals? That alone should probably put them at the top of the list for positive influence regardless of how the comic itself morphed into a blob art dad comic.
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Dawgstar posted:Seems that way. Dude still gets 4200 a month on Patreon. At $4,500 he says he'll do a new comic every other week! How he's not able to do something this while already having a part-time assistant "to handle day-to-day work" I don't know. Looks like the last page went up at the end of August.
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Nuns with Guns posted:At $4,500 he says he'll do a new comic every other week! How he's not able to do something this while already having a part-time assistant "to handle day-to-day work" I don't know. Looks like the last page went up at the end of August. Is he one of those guys who'll throw out completed art if he decides he's not happy with it?
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Dawgstar posted:Is he one of those guys who'll throw out completed art if he decides he's not happy with it? Iirc he had a big post a while back that said this was the case, and he had come to realize that behavior was coming from a pretty unhealthy place, so he was working to get help.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Iirc he had a big post a while back that said this was the case, and he had come to realize that behavior was coming from a pretty unhealthy place, so he was working to get help. is he also getting help for his unhealthy fascination with sexualized amputees
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