7 posts tagged “comics”
Second, ask yourself this question: if you were a teenage male, would the thought of hot cleric ass and a gigantic phallic sword that intimidates dragons make you want to play Dungeons & Dragons? The only answer, of course, is "hell yeah!"
Oh, they just don't make advertisements like they use to. Who needs political correctness, original characters or nuanced storytelling when you can market your product straight to the teenage male demographic?
(Via found another D&D comic ad on Jeff's Gameblog.)
Hey, it's another Bizarro post! (Dudes and ladies, you can read this awesome one-panel comic online at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. You can even get it via RSS feed if you set up an account for Comic Alert!)
Can we all promise to be less of jerks about our beliefs? I, for one, will try my best. (Except when I am being an over-the-top jerk for comedic effect.)
Let's get to work on that magical solution, dudes and ladies!
Time for some morning math.
Today = Monday.
Monday = Not Fun.
Webcomics = Fun.
Monday + Webcomics = ?
To counteract the horribleness that is Monday, I bring you two of my newest favorite webcomics. These comics are guaranteed to make you forget your troubles after you pee your pants from laughter. (Guarantee void if you don't regularly pee your pants.)
- Dinosaur Comics: How could a comic that uses the same art every day be so crazy delicious? I don't know, but you can find out for yourself! (Does anyone want to buy me the sexy exciting book?)
- The DM of the Rings: Tolkien would be spinning in his grave, but The Lord of the Rings is a perfect edutainment RPG tool. Laugh at the sacrilege while you learn how to be a better player, GM, and/or hobbit.
Enjoy the hilarity! Maybe it'll be enough to forget that it's horrible, horrible Monday without the case of vodka that it usually takes.
Which cartoon character best represents you?
Submitted by Know It All.
I don't know if this technically qualifies as a cartoon character, since it's technically a webcomic, but I'm going to put it forth anyway. My 2-D doppleganger would be Ozymandias J. Llewellyn, otherwise known as Ozy. Fittingly, L meshes right up with Millicent Mudd, also known as Millie. Both characters are from my favorite webcomic, Ozy & Millie.
Here's one of my favorite strips: Define "Cynical."
Following hot the heels of "Garfield is Dead", it is with great trepidation that I bring you an even more frightening look at classic comics.
If you don't mind a bit of the ultraviolence, check out this hypothetical Peanuts special that puts Charlie Brown on the run from the rest of the Peanuts gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head. (Approximately 3 minutes in length.)
Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
Don't say you weren't warned. This isn't a charming Christmas special for the kiddies or the faint of heart.
(From waxy.org)
For those of you who agree with me that Garfield needs to be killed from syndicated comics, it might be too late. In fact, according to one storyline, the orange tabby is living out deluded fantasies while he wastes away.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about this peculiar week-long storyline:
It depicts Garfield awakening in a future in which the house is abandoned and he no longer exists. ...some theorize that the end of this storyline actually implies that the rest of the series, the more conventional strips, are all fantasies Garfield is playing out in his head to delude himself from realizing the dark turn his life has taken, as he slowly starves to death in an abandoned house.
View these depressing comics here and make your own judgments.
My opinion? Garfield has become an exponentially more interesting character for me now that his whole life is a desperate delusion. (But I never had much sympathy for Garfield anyway.)
(From Wired Magazine's Table of Malcontents, Garfield is Dead.)
