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The Webcomic Overlook #36: Fanboys

Submitted by El Santo on March 7, 2008 - 05:10

Earlier this week, when I reviewed VG Cats, I received plenty of responses. Some folks agreed with my review. Others were fans of the series and didn’t agree with me at all. One of the most interesting responses, though, was posted at the Scienteers blog. The writer agreed with my review, [...]

Metapost: RIP Gary Gygax

Submitted by El Santo on March 5, 2008 - 04:04

I’ve never been an AD&D gamer, but I read a lot of Dragonlance novels when I was younger, and I sure played a lot of Baldur’s Gate video games.
The webcomics react:
The Order of the Stick sees Gary Gygax wandering the planes of the afterlife.
Penny Arcade does one of the best puns I’ve seen [...]

Metapost: RIP Gary Gygax

Submitted by El Santo on March 5, 2008 - 04:04

I’ve never been an AD&D gamer, but I read a lot of Dragonlance novels when I was younger, and I sure played a lot of Baldur’s Gate video games.
The webcomics react:
The Order of the Stick sees Gary Gygax wandering the planes of the afterlife.
Penny Arcade does one of the best puns I’ve seen [...]

The Webcomic Overlook #35: VG Cats

Submitted by El Santo on March 4, 2008 - 00:54

Last week, while preparing my daily ration of spaghetti with sauce, it struck me that I was ignoring, for the most part, a fairly large genre in webcomics. (I don’t suggest doing this, by the way, unless you want more than your fair portion of garlic salt in your artichoke sauce.) I suddenly [...]

Metapost: I just realized…

Submitted by El Santo on February 29, 2008 - 01:49

… that every single one of my posts this week had something to do with zombies. That was purely accidental. Although… I did just download Thriller (both the song and the music video) on my iPod. Is the disembodied voice of Vincent Price guiding me from from beyond the grave?
Could [...]

Crabcake Confidential: A Fine Example

Submitted by El Santo on February 29, 2008 - 00:52

What do you get when you have a webcomic that features … get this … both pirates AND zombies? Bet you didn’t guess “a surreal, stream of consciousness comic with subtle, absurdist humor.” But that’s what you get with Brian James’ very strange series, A Fine Example.

When I first started reading this webcomic, [...]

The Webcomic Overlook #34: Last Blood

Submitted by El Santo on February 27, 2008 - 05:32

Bobby Crosby.
Creator of webcomics with questionable quality, such as Pupkin and Marry Me (which I reviewed here). However, has managed to win over several skeptical reviewers with +EV, a webcomic about online poker. (The world is full of surprises, huh?) Burns with the passion of a thousand suns, and has a flair for drama [...]

Metapost: Revisiting the first five reviews (or, PBF is DEAD! Or not.)

Submitted by El Santo on February 24, 2008 - 06:36

Is there a Webcomic Overlook curse? Let’s look at the fates of my first five reviews, ever:

Nedroid’s Bad Webcomic Challenge: The Bad Webcomic Challenge is a yearly contest it seems, where different webcomic authors try to churn out 200 webcomics in a very short time frame. Despite worthy efforts from KC Green and [...]

Metapost: LOLCATS R WEBCOMIX? F DAT!

Submitted by El Santo on February 21, 2008 - 22:34

I love checking out T. Campbell’s rankings on the most popular webcomics by readership at his webcomics.com site. It soothes my inner statistician. Plus it’s always fun to see what webcomics people are reading. However, T’s latest list had a strange new addition, which is now occupying the #1 slot. And [...]

The Webcomic Overlook #18: Savage Chickens

Submitted by El Santo on November 2, 2007 - 04:32

As it was once said on the late, great Mystery Science Theater: “Chickens are a cruel people.”

Well, I wouldn’t know, since I don’t really hang around chickens all that much. I will say, though, that my fiancee is terrified of them. Just last weekend, we pulled into a parking lot, and a couple of fat chickens were wandering around nearby. My fiancee froze and got all SWAT Team with a ticking time bomb in a building.

As in, “We’ve get out of here … NOW!”

She also claimed to have a sense of where the chickens were near. Now, that sounds like the worst superhero power ever. However, I’m not going to be too hard on her alektrophobia. She’s the one that grew up on the farm, after all, and she’s the one that has been on the receiving end of those vicious, pointy beaks.