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Out of all the bad videogame webcomics, which is the worst?
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SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Tails Gets Trolled... I don't even know what to make of it. It's like... weirdly funny, yet not funny at all, and sometimes terrifying.
I used to love Psyguy's comics, and Bob and George, back when I was around 13. BaG had a pretty good canon going on, like someone else has already said, and I remember getting pretty invested in it back in the day. Was really involved in those communities for a while, too. Everyone hated Psyguy for some reason I can't remember, though.
CAD is one that I've grown to really dislike. I have a soft spot in my heart for PA, and Jerry Holkins is actually a personal hero of mine, but their quality has declined, recently. I'm convinced it's because they're involved with running PA the company as well as PA the comic, have families, are industry figureheads, and are just not goofy teenagers/young adults anymore.
I used to love Psyguy's comics, and Bob and George, back when I was around 13. BaG had a pretty good canon going on, like someone else has already said, and I remember getting pretty invested in it back in the day. Was really involved in those communities for a while, too. Everyone hated Psyguy for some reason I can't remember, though.
CAD is one that I've grown to really dislike. I have a soft spot in my heart for PA, and Jerry Holkins is actually a personal hero of mine, but their quality has declined, recently. I'm convinced it's because they're involved with running PA the company as well as PA the comic, have families, are industry figureheads, and are just not goofy teenagers/young adults anymore.
airmangataosenai
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It really doesn't though. What it does well is embody the persecution complex prevalent in a large portion of the Nintendo fanbase online and the strawman arguments they use (Nintendo is the only ones who make colorful games, etc.), hence the unintentional comedy.
It's too easy to say CAD, so I'll give a dishonorable mention to Danny and Spot by Tom Preston.
The adventures of a Hardcore PS360 gamer and a Nintendo Fanboy. Guess who's supposed to be whom.
Lol i was thinking about that but the OG xbox controller didn't have the bumper buttons.
ThatObviousUser
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The Dobson comics are wretched and easily the most insipid ones posted in this thread. If you sympathize with them, you're part of the problem.
I have now seen this thread updated in my subscriptions 3 times since this was posted, and I stop and laugh at this one for like 5 minutes every time. Fucking perfect.
ALL OF THE DAY BRO
MrCunningham
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The CAD love is strong.
If only the real things were as good as their parodies.
This one would have a decent punchline without the last panel. Would seem less autobiographical too (I have no idea if it's supposed to be).
Princess Viola
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Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Another unintentionally funny one.
Doctors hate him. This video game web comic artist learned how to remain with the body and mind of a teenager after two decades.
Travis Touchdown
Member
this is way funnier than the original
It's like a miniature revenge fantasy.
Oh yeah I was really big into Bob and George as a kid. That and Captain SNES, which is ongoing, but never updates.
... Wanna get some ice cream?
I'm not exactly a fan of VG Cats, but I'm trying to follow the things that Wiki is pointing me to as to why the comic is bad/the author is a douche, and even reconciling the mistaken pointers to comics, I'm not seeing a lot of it. Was it in, like, the news posts relating to the comics or stuff outside of it or what?
The funny thing about this one is that the button says "Send Request." I don't know if this is another example of Dobson's laziness, or if this is some kind of bizarre meta-joke. I'd like to imagine that it is the latter.
Nymphae
Banned
I don't read this comic, what is the context here?
Holy crap. He didn't seriously post that, did he?
Deified Data
Banned
I think my least favorite part about them is they're actually formatted like an annoying newspaper cartoon.
Deified Data
Banned
Speaking of worst game comics, iirc this strip was made in response to the infamous Electronic Tigers:
Can anyone explain to me if this comic is sincere is is it parodying something else?
It's not like a collaboration between Andrew Dobson and Brentalfloss could be anything but awful.
AdawgDaFAB
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I've always enjoyed her comics.Best goes to Awkward Zombie. She does a lot of self-deprecating strips and is genuinely funny:
What's the consensus on 8 bit theater? I enjoyed that when it was ongoing but never went back and finished it.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
8-bit Theater is good. It's another comic that follows a canon storyline in addition to being a comedy strip. I haven't read it since... 2005, I think, but I remember spending an entire weekend catching up on it.
I'm also glad that nobody has mentioned PvP as bad.
He did and then changed it.
Lately he said he was going to reboot the ethan character which will no doubt be ripe for edits.
I don't have time for two flash back arcs and a trip through an alternate timeline.
King of the Sprite Comics. Bob and George might be the Grandaddy and Cap'N SNES runs on my nostalgia, but 8 Bit Theater is legitimately funny no matter what.
peanutbutterlatte
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Love AZ
Nails my issue with the games.
First webcomic I ever followed. It was pretty great though it dragged a bit sometimes.
That guy has his own ongoing mainstream comic book series now, called Atomic Robo. I've only read the first few, but it was good stuff. I should really go back and read them all from the beginning.
PvP is never bad. At worst it's been bland and boring at times, but never straight up awful. I will confess that I almost always stop reading around Christmas when the Scratch Fury has his Christmas arc, although this year it was somewhat entertaining.
Pretty much god tier.
It kind of went on for too long and remixed old jokes a bit too much, but even at its worst it was a billion times better than any of the shitty comics posted in this thread.
ThatObviousUser
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tintin1029
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This was my first exposure to Andrew Dobson/Tom Preston. The best kind of exposure
KittenMaster
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I just want to say I have been browsing that bad webcomics wiki for about a week now thanks to this thread.
Shmuely Bully
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8-Bit Theater is pretty horrendous.
Corronchilejano
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ThatObviousUser
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Another "classic"
It's like he has a punchcard for most annoying internet nerd ever.
wat?
Is this supposed to be.. making fun of the other one, if so in a sense its worse.
I mean, people not wanting to hang out with people for treating them like poo, seems like a normal reaction to that kind of thing. Where is the humor here, whats the joke being achieved here in this comic?
Deified Data
Banned
I spent all of my high school computer programming class reading bob and george. time well spent.
oh yeah, 8-bit theater was another great webcomic, for a while at least, swordchucks yo.
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