2001-04-12 - 9:39 p.m.
#43: No Need for The Return of My Daily Crack
Note to everyone: Sorry about yesterdays entry. I tried to sound cool and collected, and instead I sounded arrogant and pretentious. ^^;;; Besides, if I was REALLY over the issue like I said, I wouldn't have bothered mentioning it at all. Or gone back to the newsgroups. Or have fantasies involving the horrible, violent demise of the involved trolls that will leave scientists baffled for years. They still get my goat and I'm just denying it. I wonder how well it's being treated on the other side, anyway? Ah, well. At least I wrote SOMETHING in my journal yesterday....
Well, since the last few entries have been a bit on the "unfunny" side (for those of you who regularly laugh at my pain when I describe them in humourous prose but this time, I didn't) so for THIS entry, I'm just going to put up a couple more links to webcomics I read that I didn't put up last time. Surefire way of getting an entry done, as well as keeping all you readers busy. O.o
Cool Cat Studios: See, this webcomic started off pretty well and seems to get stronger as the story progresses. It's about a group of people working for a web design consultancy who engage in the arts of romantic hijinx, misconceived love and humorous sexual misunderstandings. Nice lightweight stuff and the characters are pretty cool for a romance/drama comic. And then the author introduced alien abductions and centuries old dragon humanoids. At that point it gets a little weird and fairly silly, but there's always hope for improvement in the near future. Plus the art style is pretty nice. This is just one of the comics I keep up with for the possibility of it getting better.
In2ItOnline: Great concept, weak execution. The story is about two gamers, Twitch and Korn, who suddenly find themselves (mistakenly) drafted into an intergalactic war; where the battles were not fought in space, but in the little Pentium processors that power computer games. Yes that's right, every gamers wet dream, to become part of a game world and actually be in the front line with all the special powers attached. The strip started off with a battle in Diablo IIs world and is currently meandering through Crimson Skies, which is up to date with current games and wins points for being "topical". Unfortunately for a webcomic strip series that only gets updated about 3 times a week, the stories are pretty damn weak, and the art style just doesn't capture the dynamic visuals of the games Twitch and Korn are trapped in. Damningly of all, despite the fact that it uses 6 panels to get its point across, (most strips use 3 or 4) it's as slow as Dragonball Z during the Frieza Saga and it almost always misses a punchline. And if a webcomic isn't funny, it's dead. The only thing keeping this webcomic alive is the authors previous connection to Player vs Player Online (a much better and funnier webcomic) and the slim hope that things will improve.
Real Life: A fun little strip involving Greg and his frinds as they go about their daily "real" life. Apparently the strip was meant to have stories reflecting parallel developments with real life, but some of those events are a little bit... suspect. (check out the finding of the monolinth from 2001. Or the Evangelion vs. MechWarrior battle. I still think the Eva should have won simply by default) Anyway, I had a couple of negative comments to say about this strip (hence it didn't get into the list last time) but it's gotten a lot better recently so I won't bother to air them out for fear of causing a jinx. ^_^ Let's just say I find gamers who have trouble differentiating between events in games and those in real life funny. Hillarious, even.
Triangle and Robert: Got into this one recently. You know, for a webcomic series that's all about the adventures of a triangle and a rhombus, this strip is pretty damn good and funny. And there's a storyline too (or at least, the author is FAKING a storyline) which somehow manages to tie all the whacky adventures that the two polygons have. And there are super-intelligent telepathic sheep and giant pudding monsters involved, too. All drawn with the simple lines of something that's barely acceptable in Windows Paint. O.o
Red Meat: I totally forgot about this strip and I should be flogged to death for it. The art looks like something lifted from a clipart gallery, and all the strips often have the exact same art for all the panels with minor facial differences to convey different moods. It's functional, but that's okay because the best part of this series is it's weird, off the wall humour that seems mentally unstable enough to be banned. It's like going on a trip through a schizophrenic psychotics mind while he's on drugs. Very entertaining, I just wish the time between updates wasn't so damned long. As well as that, I remember seeing a lot of strips that don't appear to be in the archives.... Dang, I should have downloaded them all earlier.
Well, those are the links to the rest of the webcomics I'm currently keeping up with. Will probably do a list like this later on with a lot more though, since I'm currently going through a list of webcomics I SHOULD be reading, but haven't gotten around to yet.
So what are you still doing here for? Shoo! Go read and lemme alone!
