Were videogame related web comics really that big during the early 00's? Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?
>>12036429I was reading EGM for the Hsu & Chan comics.
I see no video games here.
>>12036434and no jokes either. where's the joke, buckley?
well i read them in the late 2010s after the fact instead but this guy made some pretty good comics at least. i should read them again desu.
>>12036429>inb4 loss comicweb comics were pretty massive prior to youtube and streaming video, they really were some of the only shareable forms of visual media you could drop a quick link to in a message board post or whatever to get your point across
They spawned enough interest that there were whole conventions around them and the artists of said comics would be huge stars at various conventions, comics posted everywhere and sometimes officially included with some games. I guess PAX is still running, but otherwise everyone got tired of "Epic gamer webcomics" and most web comics in general, aside from occasional butt hurt over stonetoss.I really don't think anyone really cares about comic strips any more past that, aside from some /co/ users and those 2 or 3 times recently when Garfield comics got uploaded without the black layer.
There was a time where every webcomic was about gaming and nerd shit, or was a furry webcomic. Now every webcomic is a political cartoon or a furry webcomic.
VGcats had some rough early years.
>>12036429A friend introduced me to VG Cats in the early 2000s, I didn't think much of it, but then I found 8-Bit Theater. I used to check it daily for updates and I still like the humor.
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I read Penny Arcade for a long time.
>>12036429Only read Penny Arcade from time to time. The one I really liked was 8-bit Theater.
Penny Arcade, yes, CAD no. VG Cats and 8-bit Theater were more popular than CAD with people I knew. Even Megatokyo was.
Who here ONE ONE SE7EN?
LOL
Not exactly retro as this was around 2013 or 2014, I remember going to Connecticon and there was a kiosk for Ctrl-Alt-Del, and the guys there were in pokemon trainer cosplay and talking to neighbors. They were giving away copies of Analog and Dpad issue 1, and I snatched one (They were free after all).
>>12036429CaD never interested me, but I was big on Penny Arcade for a long time. They had a podcast which was fun. Though honestly can't remember why I stopped following them.>>12036430Also this, those were great.
>>12036653VG Cats mildly interested me for a while, but then I got bored of it, and after a while of not caring, I learned the ultimate fate of it.
>>12036759kek
>>12036429I've never been into them and I've been on the internet since 9600 baud. My sister did send me a link to 8bit theater and I read a bit, but dropped it without telling her.The only webcomic I thought was funny was DM of the Rings, but it's tabletop/movie based and not vidya.
>>12036757Holy fuck, forgot about that one.
>>12036438>Video gamers aren't violent. But also don't fuck with us or else.It's stunning how tone deff one person can be
>>12036429I was a Last Days of FOXHOUND reader.
>>12037054>tone deff
Nothing will fill the voice left by 8bit theater. I'm glad the writer got a real gig in comics and Atomic Robo was pretty alright. But man to go back to that era again.
>>12036429I just read this and RPG WorldDiane was a formative fap for me
>>12037093>I just read 8 Bit Theater and...fixed
>>12037093Reminds me of Dobson for some reason
>>12036429I don't read any videogame webcomics anymore, I just cringe when I think back on them now. Especially Bum Tickley.The only webcomic I still read from the 00s is Perry Bible Fellowship (but is not focused on videogames.)
>>12037096Dobson's style is very "early webcomic", there was a lot of this anime influenced type stuff going around. Part of why he got a reputation for never improving is he was still doing this stuff in the late 10s. By comparison, at that time the RPG World guy had his own TV show and his art was totally different
>>12037093> RPG WorldDIdn't he go on to do Steven Universe and Bravest Warriors?
>>12037076I don’t think 4chan being flooded by ESL gremlins is funny at all
How times have changed
>>12037097Perry Bible Fellowship was greatSo was Nedroid, Lego Robot, Whomp!, and Super Mega Comics
>>12037156Kek
>>12037097Penny Arcade will occasionally put out something funny but for the past however many years they really have just been weirdo dad comic. It's kind of sad how pussy whipped they got
>>12037156Nedroid is just wonderful.
early internet humor was a very different beast. You of course had people just shamelessly ripping off Simpsons jokes, but sites like Newgrounds and the ability to host your own comic easily really did create a new frontier of humor. For better and worst it was certainly not boring and really did have an exciting feeling as the new generation were making their voices heard. Even early youtube feels like so long ago.
>>12037180Penny Arcade was always out-of-touch xoomers pretending they know more about video games than they actually did.
I read 8-Bit Theater religiously on the days it came out. It was about as exciting as 56k dial-up got. I checked out Penny Arcade now and then.
>>12037135I think he worked on those shows but OK KO was the show he created. He did marry the creator of Steven Universe though
>>12037251https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0the anthem of an era
>>12037251>It was about as exciting as 56k dial-up gotIf only that were true.The horrors I'd seen even by then...
>>12037182Lmao what an ending
Video games
>no laser cheeseI'm disappointed in all of you.
>>12037151
>>12037214What is your definition of a "xoomer"? These guys are almost 50.
>>12037353Yeah these guys are very much the same kind of gen x retards as Kevin Smith
>>12037356So... xoomer is now the new kiddie speak for Gen X? What the fuck is a "zoomer" then? Because most of them also look like kids. Am I really supposed to keep up with your lingo?
>>12037386Looks like meSounds like me
>>12037069>The Pain: "I'M COVERED IN BEES!!"
I still have the hardcover collection of these.
>>12036429yeah I sorta would check in on Penny Arcade once in awhile to see new comics but it was a once every few months kinda thing
>>12036429It's wild he thought this at 24.
>>12036429>Were videogame related web comics really that big during the early 00'sYes, but more late 00's >Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?Nah I didn't followed any comic in particular, and Penny fucking sucked
WHY I AM SO BALD?
>>12038140This anime comic not a videogame comic
>>12036442>inb4 loss comic
>>12037096It's very similar to Dobson, like in Dobson's comics the humour it's a copy of Ranma
>>12037097Better times, today this would be a JoJo reference
>>12038339Found the bot.
>>12038353
>>12038370Jokes on you I'm racist and a fan of JK Rowling.
>>12038227SB&HJ was the best thing about Homestuck. Peak absurdity and I absolutely miss it.
>>12037156Not gaming related but Super Mega was great. I mostly read Perry Bible, Super Mega, Abstruse Goose, and sometimes Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
>>12038404. . .and?
Hahahaha hey guys... you now remember megatokyo
>>12038597Never forgot about it.
>>12038603Damn bro check the site, this nigga is still drawing this shit and it looks literally exactly the same as it always did. Only now it has uh, sonic OCs as anime girls?
>>12036429We mostly made fun of fuckley for adding entire novels to a 4 panel comic and never reaching a punchline and of pigbald for being so bald and so pig-like in appearance.Do you like the vidya game?
>>12038616Forgot to addB^U
>videogames never made anyone violent! and if you disagree, us gamers will find you and murder you! don't fuck with us!??????????
>>12038613i owned the evil leet shirt in middle school
>>12038339amoungcube
>>12038669A video of this comic was actually what first led me to 4chan in 2011.
>>12038729Holy newfag.
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>>120387292008 here, I want to die
>>12038669>>12038729i stumbled upon this when i was like 9-10 in 2009ish when i searched "garfield ps3" in google images for some autistic reason. at the time i was just confused and moved on, but when i rediscovered the comic a few years later after learning about dobson and his danny&spot comics, i thought it was the funniest shit ever
>>12036429>WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDSYeeesh
>>12038774It's unbelievable to think today, but people used to be comfortable with reading longform text a lot more back then. Look at any webcomic from the 2000s and you'll be surprised at just how many words there are.
>>12038780we used to read entire newspaper articles, anon
>>12036429This shit was the laughing stock of /v/ back in the day. If someone posted one of those the response was either>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAor>WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
>>12038404No one but a terminally online group of twitter psychos actually hates the Harry Potter lady
>>12038780Yeah, I think Buckly here really has a thing or two to learn about economy of writing and all that jazz but when I see so many people who will look at any post longer than mine right now and need a TL:DR it's pretty bleak.
>>12038780No, people have been mocking Dobson for years for turning his comics into a novellaYou don’t see Charles Schultz or Bill Waterson turning every strip into Ulysses.
>>12038857classic
>>12038883You don’t have to tell me twice… but in the Stone Age
>>12038883How terrible is it that even before I read the whole thing or noticed sonichu at the bottom that I instantly knew this was Chrischan
>>12038986That's not hard, you can tell what it is from the thumbnail.
>>12038883>>12038893Chris-chan has a blonde girlfriend, a steady income stream, and a house purchased for him by the internet. What are YOU doing with your life?
>>12039006He's also in indentured servitude to a bunch of zoomers he has to pay rent to.
>>12038774>upset because she has to use her fingers to zoom in on her phone and move it around to read the whole thing
>>12039006>a steady income streamFrom what??
>>12039015Yes yes that's right grandpa zoomers are the ones bullying the OG lolcow that started getting notoriety from before they were even born. Time for your nap now
>>12039030You know nothing about Chris' lore.
>>12039006I rather die a loser than fuck my mother
>>12039037I know enough to know it's not fucking people that were in diapers when he first started getting bullying. You people need to stop crying about younger generations. It's not going to make your hairline come back.
>>12039050Your post makes no sense you galaxy gas brained faggot
One I really liked back in the day was Kid Radd. The best way I can think to describe it is "Wreck-It Ralph with 2004 internet humor".I know it still has a bit of a cult following, since I see it brought up on /co/ occasionally.
Imagine being so fat you look at computers and see food
>>12039050Look it up, you drooling retard.
>>12039082Oh shit, this reminded me of Code Monkeys.
Neglected Mario Characters was quite literally the first thing I ever got into on the internet, and it's heavily defined my interpretation of the Mario universe ever since. I still refer to the SMB2 enemies by their NC names.
>>12039006A wife I love, a job I enjoy and which allowed me to buy a house on the fruits of my own work.
>>12038859I hate her for being a dumbass rich lib, and hoped that her comments would mean I never have to hear about her again, but now all I hear is faggots whining about her existence every waking hour. The whole "All I've read is Harry Potter" crowd ended up being the "I also read Handmaid's tale" crowd.
>>12039097>babies in diapers were the first ones bullying CWCjust stop grandpa. you've lost it. go get ready for your nap.
>>12039145She's based, don't know what you're talking about.
>>12036429No idea. I only read Concerned.
what's that one with the green dinosaur and it's the same template for all of them?
>>12039323Dinosaur Comics.
>>12039173Aside from calling out tranny shit, not really. She's literally the poster child of champagne liberals, pro rapefugee even.
>>12039145>The whole "All I've read is Harry Potter" crowd ended up being the "I also read Handmaid's tale" crowd.If reading a set of bad books lead someone to read a good book, I mark that as a net positive.
Anyone remember MS Paint Adventures on Bob & George?
>>12039424With the megaman sprite recolors? I member.
>>12036429Used to read PA all the time but once they started doing Pax or whatever their con was they seem to be less and less based. I’m assuming they are full on blue hair dyed transitions at this point but I haven’t checked in on them in years. It was fun playing on their wow server back in the day. People complain when celebs take over a server but I still have video of beta vanilla wow where me and 2 other rogues stopped Asmongold and his goons from killing Rexxar in Desolace and taking out his friends on their way to shadow fang keep to fuck w their grind. I can’t remember which side I was on when PA chose their server because they did it opposite another popular web group so both sides had “big” names playing so you could fuck w either.
>>12038747I bet you’ve seen some real shit being here this long.
>>12039017No, he's just using the wrong medium for that wall of text. It belongs on his livejournal, not in a visual medium like a 4-panel comic.Hell, even expanding it to more panels and showing more visual examples of what he's text-spewing about would have been an improvement. But no, wall-o-text and 4 pathetically static poses.Dull, uncreative, and not amusing at all.
>>12037079I lost track of B-Bit Theater pretty quickly, but I'll always have a soft spot for it because it introduced me to Bangai-O.Thanksgiving 2001, 8-Bit Theater posted a special strip saying that Bangai-O was the best game ever. I saw that, believed it, and asked my brother to get me Bangai-O for Christmas. He did (used, in a new jewel case), and we played it off and on together until we beat the game a few months later. It's still one of my favorite games.>>12037097Perry Bible Fellowship was great
>>12038739I'm impressed you kept that nurage
>>12036429>Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?No, because for me it was The Noob
>>12037069I feel like this was the only VG-based webcomic that could match 8-Bit Theater. Also funny in hindsight that it called Ocelot being the one who killed Miller long before MGSV essentially confirmed it.
>>12036429>Penny ArcadeIs there a mod for Poker Night at the Inventory that removes that fuckin guy? Can't stand him.
>>12037325These are the best.
It’s more /tg/ related, but did any of you guys read Oglaf? Half the punchlines are sex, but it’s pretty amusing sometimes.
We all have a little bit of him in us.
>>12039020Streaming and selling his sonichu shit but Praetor probably takes most of it. They also own the house he rents so he pays them rent too.
>>12041179Why do zoomers think it’s an epic meme to give money to a rapist?CWC was funny when he was a fat kid screaming in his room about trolls and homos; now he’s a sad horror cow and a sexual predator.
I never really cared for particular comic artists, I just liked random shit I'd see posted here.
It really feels like Penny Arcade is behind and out of touch on a lot of stuff. They either play softball with big corpo now or wait till it's safe to take a stab at something.
Only VG Cats.I don't know who the fuck was reading Penny Arcade and CAD. They were never funny.
>>12037135>>12037259>OK KO>worked on SU>married sugarI know this isn't /co/ but jesus christ how horrifying, almost everything terrible about CN in the last 15 years compressed into one couple
I remember one day I found a sprite webcoming themed around Smash Bros, and then never found it again. Anyone know what the fuck that was?I also vaguely remember a webcomic about Samus and Megaman living together in an apartment. This may have been the same comic.
>>12037214they were relevant in the 2000s, just started losing relevancy once they obviously aged out and had families. >>12037376stop wasting your time on his stupidity>>12037346man I forgot about laser cheese>>12037156yes it is, just not a video game comic
>>12038227I'm jealous, last I check it's absurdly expensive
There was something really magical about stumbling onto a random website, and reading every entry in some literally who kids' webcomic over the course of an afternoon.that side of the internet is dead, these days.
>>12039725Started around same time as that anon, I dunno. I don't spend all day here anymore cuz it's not worth it, but it's funny sometimes at least. There's nowhere else like it so I never leave forever. I also owe /v/ and /vr/ for helping me find a shitton of great games.
>>12041163ronnie is one of us, no question.
>>12041857specifically because stumbling onto a random website is dead. Only sad fools chasing a dead era make their own random shitsites and put them out on neocities or something.
>>12036653>8 bit theater concluded 15 years ago
>>12041873yeah, I know. Social media and tech giant monopolies ruined all the fun.
i used to spend half my free time reading shitty sprite comics in the 2000s, anyone remember bob & george or sonic & pals?
>>12041910Yeah! Also all the ones on fireball20xl. I remember being mindblown in high school because one of the girls in the grade ahead of me was a contributor on that site. There was also some sprite comic I remember reading a bunch of in like 2003 that was probably started a year or two prior, I wish I could remember it. It's surely gone and it only exists in that "I'd know if it I saw it" space in my brain so it's rather frustrating.
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>>12041857I remember when I found Maddox's website, highschool me thought it was the funniest shit ever
>>12036429More people made fun of them than unironically read them. Good webcomics were pretty scant to begin with
>>12039082Kidd Radd and the fantasy comic the author did were really fun.
there was a really fun one on drunkduck called consoles and it had like 300 pages or comics but they got nuked somehow. the original story was an apartment or something with a ps2 a gamecube and an xbox that talked and their pet was a gameboy or something. eventually they replaced the characters with a wii a 360 and aps3 i think but stopped not long after that. ive never been able to find them anywhere and the creator said they dont have them anymore. creators name was something like thealmightynarf. i remember it being really fun to read in the early 2000s.
>>12036429>Tack JhompsonBum Tickley with the fire spoonerisms
>>12041846>they were relevant in the 2000s, just started losing relevancy once they obviously aged out and had families.Doesn't change the fact they were WAY exaggerating their gamer cred as clearly shown by only knowing surface-level details about the 3rd and 4th generations (and getting them only half-right) while pretending to have "been there." Pretty much all the comics from their "golden age" are regurgitated mainstream gaming publication headlines in the form of yo mama-esque jokes and/or Reddit-tier pop culture references.
>>12042118achewood is an american treasure and a celebration of the english language
>>12036429I really liked both CAD and Penny Arcade (Among some other gaming webcomics) when I was 13-14. Lost interest in reading both of them when I was in highschool though.
>>12041910Tons, I don't think any of them were any good, but it was fun just being on sprite forums and all doing different things (think I even made some one-offs that I threw up on Photobucket and Imageshack just to post on forums).
I honestly don't get Penny Arcade at all. Like, where are the jokes? Why do the characters look so ugly?It's not even funny-bad like CAD. I just feel like I'm missing something.
>>12037093Times are tough.
>>12036429Yeah, they were a big deal. Somehow I started reading CAD (friend recommended it?) and in the very beginning it was just some dude’s comic about video games. However as time passed I distinctly remember telling my friend that it was starting to get seriously stupid, though I still kept reading out of some morbid fascination. When Buckley started paywalling shit like wallpapers and that god awful animation, I wrote him some hate mail that he actually responded to. But yeah the internet still had a wild west feel to it. A lot of the video game comic people weren’t actually that talented or funny, but they were first movers in a niche that had very little competition. Buckley was able to custom build his own fucking house with the money he earned off CAD.
>>12037214It is really weird that they’re clearly talking about the plain NES when the super NES would have been out already, particularly since he mentions the 32x.
>>12037346I’ll legit go back read through gamer chicks sometimes just to feel like I’m in the early 2000s again. Doesn’t hurt that I loved weeaboos
>>12043126This is comfy to read.
>>12038857lol
>>12041852>last I check it's absurdly expensiveYou're right, wtf. I guess it's not surprising since these earlier comics had a lot of fans in tech, Achewood guy even got invited to speak at Goggle at some point.
>>12043075To be fair, you needed a pretty high IQ to appreciate Penny Arcade.
>>12037348KEK
>>12036429Enough time has passed that this is now a question? Webcomics don't exist anymore?
>>12036434you see, my wife Mrs. Columbo, she loves video games..
>>12043190Not like they used to
I felt Penny Arcade was mostly Garfield-tier whenever a skit ended up in front of my eyes, however they were right about the Wii U's huge missed opportunity with virtual tabletop D&D (via asymmetric multiplayer).
>>12043075>I just feel like I'm missing something.yeah, you weren't alive during their heyday.
>>12043124It mentions Star Fox though
>>12041151It's the only regularly updated webcomic I still read but it's from the 2010s I believe and not really as much videogames related as it is /tg/ or fantasy in general.
I think about this often.
There was a loss reference (using minimalist lines, similar to pic rel) on the rifle of that transgender shooter in Minnesota last month. It was weird to see Bum Tickley still affecting cultural output with an abandoned plotline of his more than 15 years later.
>>12043797Loss is an immortal meme, even when it finally got tiresome and found it's way outside of 4chan/Something Awful circles, it still finds a way to persist and still be a bit enjoyable.
Ignore zoomer threads
