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Out of all the bad videogame webcomics, which is the worst?

DarkFlow

Banned
The main problem it seems that way is that oftentimes a single dissenting poster will get swarmed by a dozen other posters quoting him and trying to make a counter-argument. Though that's just kind of the nature of online discussion.
That's when you just bail out. I've been ganged up on before, your best move is really not to play and let them go.
 

Nerdkiller

Membeur
I always get a kick out of this miscarriage remix.

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And I think this strip really says a lot about lazy webcomic writers.

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Blizzard

Banned
People have already covered CAD being the worst. So I'll say that hiiimdaisy (all the time) and Awkward Zombie (sometimes) are legitimately good.



If you dislike hiimdaisy idk what's wrong with you.
I tried a couple of failed Google attempts, where is the best place to follow hiiimdaisy's comics? *edit* Sorry, answered by Crushed. I didn't realize they disliked the comics now, did they say that on LJ?
 
The main problem it seems is that oftentimes a single dissenting poster will get swarmed by a dozen other posters quoting him and trying to make a counter-argument. Though that's just kind of the nature of online discussion.

True, true, this is also sometimes the case. But back to the topic at hand.

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This guy has a HUGE history of idiocy and drama. Have fun, kids.

TOM MOTHERBLEEPING PRESTON aka Andrew Dobson
 
"Hiimdaisy" wasn't really a gaming webcomic, it was an artist's livejournal account. She doesn't even go by that name anymore, and actually dislikes those comics now.

Oh I didn't know it was never a webcomic. Oh well.

That still leaves Awkward Zombie having good moments.
 
I haven't read CAD for years. What was so bad about it?


Oh God, yes. This encapsulates that entire... thing... perfectly.

Besides all that, his male characters are rewarded for doing horrible things to the females, such as Lucas ditching his fat date but then getting with her when he realizes she is actually skinny. He rewrites his comic with the internet's words after they have told him what a horrible person he is.

He tried making a Child's Play competitor. He tried to make a competing charity.
 
He tried making a Child's Play competitor. He tried to make a competing charity.

While the creator is a terrible person, that doesn't necessarily make the webcomic itself bad.

I mean don't get me wrong, the webcomic is awful. But stuff like this shouldn't really factor into that in my opinion.
 

Kenai

Member
I knew about CAD and VGCats, but I'm genuinely impressed by how terrible the gamerchick and roleplayinggamer ones in this thread are. They seem like pretty big contenders.
 

Herne

Member
I have to agree with those who posted Awkward Zombie and said it was one of the best. Her art is great and she's genuinely funny. I love the expressions she draws. I offer up a few as an example and to get more people to check out the comic -

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Love those expressions. As for bad comics, there are plenty out there... VG Cats really went to shit, but he still chucks out a decent one from time to time. But the worst one we all know of is the one we all know is the worst, and that's CAD.
 
Penny Arcade may not be the worst, but they're definitely in contention for biggest drop in quality. It just feels phoned in now; they're literally using the same jokes from a couple years ago.

2011: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/09/14

2014: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/01/06

Yeah. I keep thinking they wanted to abandon the comic itself to do PAX and PAR and such full time, but yeah...didn't work out so hot for them.

For me, currently the best gaming-related comics are both Awkward Zombie (i love when she makes Fire Emblem related strips) and Nerfnow (latest ones, ain't been good tho)

NerfNow is so damn inciteful when he doesn't crawl up his own ass with his goddawful in-comic avatar. *shudder*

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"Hiimdaisy" wasn't really a gaming webcomic, it was an artist's livejournal account. She doesn't even go by that name anymore, and actually dislikes those comics now.

I wonder how much of that is people constantly on her about new ones.
 

Persona7

Banned
I pissed off dozens of people on the Official Nintendo Forums years ago when I stated my distaste for CAD.

A bunch of people got banned as well.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I'd say CAD easily.. Which makes me sad, cause I used to LOVE the series way back when. Even owned the first season pass (which I forgot to watch half of those episodes. lol). I stopped reading the comics like 5+ish years ago. Looks like I got out at the best time too.

Anyways, for best: Castle Vidcons and Brawl in the Family are my favorites. Brawl one feels special to me slightly as I remember reading them before it was actually a comic site back on IGN when the author just made them randomly one day.
 

With this one, I just feel bad for her. It's obvious she's just a weeb who wanted to express herself and her love of her hobby. I mean you can look at how often they've been updated/released to see it was nothing more than a little bit of harmless passion sprinkled with a little narcissism.
 

XaosWolf

Member

Awkward Zombie my absolute favourite! Consistently funny, and I'd also recommend following Katie on twitter too. =D

I don't mind VGCats' humour, but apparently he's not a good guy, and rarely updated., (Even when he wasn't moving house/starting a family/whatever he's doing)

As for worst? CAD. Nothing else needs to be said.
 

G-Fex

Member
Stop staring, Laser Cheese! BAKA PERVERT KUN

why in the world would you make the crowd a block of yellow?
With this one, I just feel bad for her. It's obvious she's just a weeb who wanted to express herself and her love of her hobby. I mean you can look at how often they've been updated/released to see it was nothing more than a little bit of harmless passion sprinkled with a little narcissism.

that's a very polite way of putting it.
 

rpmurphy

Member
True, true, this is also sometimes the case. But back to the topic at hand.

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This guy has a HUGE history of idiocy and drama. Have fun, kids.

TOM MOTHERBLEEPING PRESTON aka Andrew Dobson
It's rather amusing how his comics have degenerated to wallowing in self-pity. His ego is quite inflated and even after all that has happened, still never stops producing juvenile caricatures and making the basest of straw man arguments.
 

Doctor Ninja

Sphincter Speaker
Penny Arcade used to be great but I can't stand it now, they lost the subtly that made them so good in the first place. VG cats at least have a very decent artwork but it also lack subtly when it comes to jokes and subject matters.

And man, why do some hate on Zero Punctuation here? I think it can be really hilarious.
 
I'll just vote for CAD solely on that massive fuck you to the readers that the writer did with the strip reboot. That could not have been handled any worse.

I don't know why his weird sexual antics and flat-out plagiarism didn't bother me before that, but looking back...yeah, it really was a pile of shit.
 

LaserHawk

Member
It's super easy to rag on CAD. Here are a couple that are overdue:

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GU Comics is the king of talking-heads comics, and the characters are hideous. You can see he uses a lot of Photoshop effects, giving us a perfect example of the idiom "polishing a turd".

Sorry, I edited the dialogue in this one. That one character said that one line and I couldn't resist.


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Here's Dueling Analogs. The art is pretty hard to look at, and the jokes are joyless and awful. Okay, this is an old strip, but I'm posting it because at one point the guy used Jessica from the first frame as a vertical ad for his comic.... like we were supposed to find it sexy and come running to his comic.
 

Kyuur

Member
That's an odd question?

"Why is something so bad."

"*Example of it at its worst*"

"Why are you using that example?"

I don't get what's bad about it? Clearly the comic is not meant to be funny, it's part of a story arc or something. If I wanted to make an example of it being a bad gaming comic I would grab an unfunny gaming strip...
 

Drago

Member
Best goes to Awkward Zombie. She does a lot of self-deprecating strips and is genuinely funny:

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oh my god, i havent seen this one before ahahahahaha

Dunno about the worst (there are many many candidates) but my favorites are Brawil in the Family, Awkward Zombie, and Vidcons
 
Can someone explain to me why the miscarriage comic is used as a shining example of why CAD is horrible?

It presented a critical moment and a serious, grim subject with the same timing and tact as a punchline to a joke. It also didn't help that it wasn't a comic known for tackling serious life issues in its plot.
 
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