Web Comics

So for this post, I am going to describe all the webcomics I have read and what I think of them and the medium in general.

Ever since I got my first computer, I have always loved searching the internet looking for places to play games and look up interesting stuff. MY curiosity eventually led me to multiple sites which hosted comics you could read online for free.

 One of the first of them I read was one called Kid Radd which was a webcomic based on the life of a video game character who gets sucked out of a game and enters a worlds filled with characters who were also pulled out from there respective games and live a normal life without being controlled by human players. Think of it as Wreck it Ralph before Wreck it Ralph but somehow a lot deeper in terms of the characters and story telling. It was a sprite based comic, so everything was created in pixels and some of the panels were animated which I thought was very creative.

Later down the road, I discovered other kinds of webcomics that focused mostly on video game based humor like Penny Arcade and sadly, Vgcats. When I say sadly, I mean that I enjoyed Vgcats when I was younger but now looking back at it, I kind of feel ashamed. The humor is poorly done and the jokes are sick and gross just for the sake of it being sick and gross.

Penny Arcade on the other hand, still holds up pretty well and there are times where I found myself laughing at the strips really hard, especially some of the earlier issues. Granted, I haven't found myself checking that site anything soon recently, it's one of the more successful webcomics I read. I have met he creators once at a con, but they were kind of jerks, which is what other people said about meeting them. I suppose that's the way some people like to be, especially when they are incredibly successful millionaires like them.

There is a website I usually check out called The Bad Webcomic Wiki which consists of a shit load of terrible webcomics and this one guy reviews them all. I have to say, I did not realize what kind of horrendous stuff was out there until I saw this site. You even learn about the authors and you just wonder what in the fuck went on in their brains to create ungodly material such as this. There are some articles that are literally disturbing to read like for example, the Sonichu article which almost caused me to become blind and bleed out of my eyes.  It's like a damn David Lynch film, in fact, the history on the guy who made that comic is more fucked up than the lifetime of Robert Crumb. There are other memorable awful comics on there, but if you want to see the bottom of the barrel, there you go. Maybe a more appropriate terms is the bottom of the internet.

Anyway, there is a little more to me when it comes down to webcomics but I just wanted to talk about the ones I knew the best.