(NSFW) Oh Eegra how did you know I love CAD hate

Cryptozoologist said:
Links to the comics in question, please.
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The girl actually brought it up, I never read the comic past the first year.

I get it. Your real plan was to trick your friend into sleeping with a guy who writes a webcomic. Badass prank dude.
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:lol
 
Needs moar Boston and Shaun;

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leroy hacker said:
I read the thread title and wondered "Why would someone hate Computer-Aided Design or the Canadian dollar?"

Ctrl+Alt+Del is terrible. How is it one of the most popular webcomics?
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If Penny Arcade can be popular why can't other similar shit?
 
leroy hacker said:
I read the thread title and wondered "Why would someone hate Computer-Aided Design or the Canadian dollar?"

Ctrl+Alt+Del is terrible. How is it one of the most popular webcomics?
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Like Megatokyo, CAD is a self-indulgent fantasy. It's popular because escapism feels less pathetic when it's done in groups, and the guise of a "webcomic" further serves to protect their fragile egos.
 
tehbear said:
Nah miscarriages can be tragic, but I don't need some trashy gamer webcomic to exploit it to add dimension to his shitty characters. It's like putting tragedy into Garfield. Sometimes it's an author being creative, sometimes it's just cheap and insulting.
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I'm guessing you haven't heard about the "death of garfield" comic series (4 strips) from 1989? Jim Davis did the set right before Halloween of that year.

I do understand your point, I just think people overreact too much over petty things IMHO.
 
I love how the terrible comic making fun of another terrible comic is far more terribly terrible than the original terrible comic it was making fun of. Eegra is terribly terrible. And not a good terribly terrible.
 
Neo Samus said:
I do understand your point, I just think people overreact too much over petty things IMHO.
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Agreed.

Neo Samus said:
What's the big fucking deal? I realize that it is a gaming webcomic, but as Tim has stated in the news post about that comic is that it's "a comic about gamers". Oh no! There is a serious life changing event in my game comic! What am I to do!!! Now, I've never experienced a misscarriage myself with my wife-to-be but I've had friends who've had a misscarriage and it's very tragic. Now granted, some of you might be acting sarcastic, but it's very hard to tell on the internet. For the ones who are being sarsastic this is not pointed toward you....as much. For the ones how are not being sarcastic grow a heart, it may happen to you, and if it does I hope you feel horrible about it. [\rant]
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FF_VIII said:
Needs moar Boston and Shaun;

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Even though there's nothing sexually explicit in any of those comics, you can tell the creator is getting turned on by what he's drawing. Somehow, I find that much creepier then I would had he made B & S a flat-out fetish porn comic.
 
Neo Samus said:
I'm guessing you haven't heard about the "death of garfield" comic series (4 strips) from 1989? Jim Davis did the set right before Halloween of that year.
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Just looked these up. The fuck?
 
ShockingAlberto said:
Did you stomp your foot before or after you made this post?
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Not going to lie, i don't know what you are talking about.
 
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Oh my god, what is this shit. Does Buckley secretly want to write Grey's Anatomy or something. I don't understand what this tragic stuff is doing in a webcomic about games?!?
 
McBacon said:
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Oh my god, what is this shit. Does Buckley secretly want to write Grey's Anatomy or something. I don't understand what this tragic stuff is doing in a webcomic about games?!?
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Webcomic artist's equivalent of a mid-life crisis.
 
:lol :lol :lol

I thought the comic in the OP was just making fun of the pregnancy story in CAD and how the comics are fantasies of what Buckley wishes his life was like. I didn't realise CAD had actually gone for a miscarriage story too.
 
I just spoke to a goon friend, he says there's a bunch more of these parodies probably around on SA but he didn't have a link and I'm not a member. Apparently they're good if anyone wants to find them.
 
_tetsuo_ said:
Because its a lot better than CAD? And it started like 3 years earlier?
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So there is 3 years worth of shit more on Penny Arcade than on CAD?
 
shagg_187 said:
Am i the only one who loved the comic? :lol
Pretty good parody of CAD if you ask me...
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I think Eegra has had a lot of good parody comics and "news." Only site I go to that has anything to do with gaming that isn't gaf. I enjoy that it's usually more a comment about gamers than the actual games themselves.
 
NinjaFridge said:
So there is 3 years worth of shit more on Penny Arcade than on CAD?
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I don't particularly think any gaming webcomic is any good, but at least Penny Arcade attempts to be humourous without some overarching storyline, not like whatever the fuck CAD is trying to do.
 
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Why the mom(?¿) is 4x times bigger in the first panel, than in the others?

WTF!!!

I thought I forgot about this horrible comic, and here is again....in front of my eyes....
 
NinjaFridge said:
So there is 3 years worth of shit more on Penny Arcade than on CAD?
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I'm going to admit it, I think PA is a horrible comic. However, the guys that run it are pure class acts when it comes to the hate they get and all the charity work they do.
 
leroy hacker said:
Ctrl+Alt+Del is terrible. How is it one of the most popular webcomics?
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Basically, there was this point in time when webcomics had this huge surge. I mean, there were webcomics before, but with the creation of things like Keenspot and popular top lists like Top Webcomics and Buzz Comix, a lot of webcomics became really popular overnight. CAD pretty much dominated the top lists to the point where everybody who voted on their favorite comics (and the competition to be in the top ten was scary) would see CAD listed as the best webcomic out of hundreds. They'd all go check it out. Why they stuck around, I'll never know. It also got linked to by a few big comics (forget which ones, but I think PvP and Penny Arcade have both linked to it). But once CAD reached a certain critical mass, around 25,000 daily readers, it just started growing exponentially.

Gamer comics are easy to grow because if you make a joke about World of Warcraft, it will be linked to in every World of Warcraft forum on the internet. See a few of those things and it creates a name brand recognition for people who don't normally know about webcomics. Again, I don't know why they stay. CAD is absolutely terrible. But if they've never heard about Order of the Stick or Gods of Arr-Kelaan, I guess they probably just don't know any better.

These days, the top lists are completely worthless and a lot of professional artists are entering the field, making it harder (if not impossible) for amateur webcomic creators to get attention or reach that critical mass of readership. The gold rush is over, and the webcomics who were big and stuck through it pretty much all ended up getting published - especially the ones with halfway decent art but terrible writing.

Can you tell I used to make webcomics?
 
the chris said:
I'm going to admit it, I think PA is a horrible comic. However, the guys that run it are pure class acts when it comes to the hate they get and all the charity work they do.
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I agree that they are great for their Charity work but it doesn't mean they are funny.
 
Sqorgar said:
Basically, there was this point in time when webcomics had this huge surge. I mean, there were webcomics before, but with the creation of things like Keenspot and popular top lists like Top Webcomics and Buzz Comix, a lot of webcomics became really popular overnight. CAD pretty much dominated the top lists to the point where everybody who voted on their favorite comics (and the competition to be in the top ten was scary) would see CAD listed as the best webcomic out of hundreds. They'd all go check it out. Why they stuck around, I'll never know. It also got linked to by a few big comics (forget which ones, but I think PvP and Penny Arcade have both linked to it). But once CAD reached a certain critical mass, around 25,000 daily readers, it just started growing exponentially.

Gamer comics are easy to grow because if you make a joke about World of Warcraft, it will be linked to in every World of Warcraft forum on the internet. See a few of those things and it creates a name brand recognition for people who don't normally know about webcomics. Again, I don't know why they stay. CAD is absolutely terrible. But if they've never heard about Order of the Stick or Gods of Arr-Kelaan, I guess they probably just don't know any better.

These days, the top lists are completely worthless and a lot of professional artists are entering the field, making it harder (if not impossible) for amateur webcomic creators to get attention or reach that critical mass of readership. The gold rush is over, and the webcomics who were big and stuck through it pretty much all ended up getting published - especially the ones with halfway decent art but terrible writing.

Can you tell I used to make webcomics?
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