It's the Reason for the Season: VGCats #295

My god....not only is this a ripoff, it's a ripoff of a TERRIBLE comic.

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Oh god, that made me sick.
 
The 2nd to last panel is superfluous because, as has always been the case, Scott WANTS to be storyboarding an animated sequence. He's an anime fan. He really is good with character body language and expressions. But he tends to visualize his comics as storyboards for something that actually moves.

The story of VGCats has always been that Scott would do great if teamed up with a writer. Stuff like Penny Arcade tends to have tight, polished sequential art logic behind it because Tycho is a good writer / scripter. Gabe has someone to bounce ideas off.

I see that. The final panel would be the silence after someone shouts something absurd or bonkers to highlight the stupidity. The technique is used in anime to great effect.
 
When he draws humans, he's actually a somewhat decent artist.

Too bad he took a B^Uckly and copy-pasted them into the panel with no changes.
 
That pink cat is so cute. I used to read VGchatz until a skag ate my leg. Now I just sit on my porch with my shotgun yelling at strangers.
 
The 2nd to last panel is superfluous because, as has always been the case, Scott WANTS to be storyboarding an animated sequence. He's an anime fan. He really is good with character body language and expressions. But he tends to visualize his comics as storyboards for something that actually moves.

The story of VGCats has always been that Scott would do great if teamed up with a writer. Stuff like Penny Arcade tends to have tight, polished sequential art logic behind it because Tycho is a good writer / scripter. Gabe has someone to bounce ideas off.

uhh no. This would be weaker as an animated storyboards, because there are no camera instructions or details to how the character moves.

As a comic strip however it's perfectly fine. There is nothing wrong with it on a technical level.
 
I like it that Super Mario and Ezio are hidden in the crowd. There are surely even more.
I personally saw many,many worse Webcomics,e.g "It sucks to be weegee" or this "Girlz & Games". VGCats is...decent.
 
This joke/reference has been done in so many videos on YouTube. Probably hundreds given the popularity of the game. With stuff like reddit populating 4chan-style comics and image macros and people just freely putting shit on YouTube, any sort of position of uniqueness VGcatz had in ripping off old memes has been lost. Basically, this dude is a C-grade internet dweller and if he wants his comic to be anything more than a 5th iteration of a copycat he needs to actually start writing jokes.

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Also, his comics lack any sort of personality. Like I don't believe a human created it.

Also, try saying "Fus" outloud with your teeth clenched. lol funneh faces so random

Nothing wrong with having his teeth clenched after saying "Fus". All of his faces are at the end of the words.
 
You know that bit in Family Guy where Asian Reporter Trisha Takinawa dry-humps David Bowie, declaring she will make him fish, then Tom goes "thank you, Trisha, for setting your people back a thousand years"?

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This comic really makes me cringe :( There is so much disconnection with reality, I don't understand how someone actually made that :/
The problem with people that spends all their time on the internet and with 4chan memes is that they become severaly and dangerously disconnected with reality. They think the dumb shit they see and talk about online at three in the morning actually translates well in real life but that's just not true. Nobody has made a "cake is a lie" reference in a real life setting outside of an anime convention. Ever.
 
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