Weekly Webcomic Wrapup has vivid dreams

47 Comments by Ross Miller Apr 6th 2008 5:30PM
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Polls

"Wake up, Samus!"

"What is it, Weekly Webcomic Wrapup?"

"I just had the craziest dream. I was in the movie theater with my mom and grandmother and we were trying to decide what to buy tickets for. There were two movies: A Flicker, and one called Ludwig Kietzmann."

"Isn't that your editor?"

"Yeah, but there's nothing weird about dreaming about your superior's name, is there? ... Anyway, so we buy tickets to Flicker, and we walk into the theater -- no bigger than my college dorm room, mind you -- and the screen starts showing BioShock footage. It was an origins of BioShock movie, except instead of splicers the people turned into demons. And the Big Daddy, he was skipping and dancing around like from a 1950s musical!"

"Skipping? Webby, I think you need to stick to your namesake."

A Preview (Penny Arcade)
Wheel of Fate (2P Start)
Nested Ironies (Penny Arcade)
Theory of Evolution (2P Start)
Make it Double (VG Cats)
If buying a car was like Bad Company (Extra Life)
Zero Punctuation, Multiple Puncture Wounds (Dueling Analogs)
Some Restrictions Apply (Digital Unrest)

(Voting after the break.)

Update: Poll is fixed. Given how few votes there are for it right now (approx. one hour since publication time), we're just gonna leave the current count for 2P Start.

Tags: big-daddy, bioshock, dreams, little-sister, webcomic

(Page 1) Reader Comments

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994): Apr 6th 2008; 5:46PM

Hey, it's my desktop background.

On topic: As a former pokemon fan back in the good old Red and Blue days, my vote would have to go to Vgcats.

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994): Apr 6th 2008; 5:47PM

HAX!
There's a problem in the voting menu, 2pStart and Vgcats are on the same button, and lord knows I'm not giving my internet vote to 2pStart

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994): Apr 6th 2008; 6:12PM

Also, in answer to your question: No it is not wrong to dream about movies named after Ludwig

Saria the Cat: Apr 7th 2008; 10:35PM

VG-Cats = teh arsesome. But Scott really gets a billion bonus points for using a Japanese onomatopoeia reference! Also, regarding Dueling Analogs, I find it strange to make a funny out of a funny-maker.

pacokorn77: Apr 6th 2008; 5:47PM

There's no selection thingie for the VG Cats comic; it's decided to cuddle up with the Theory of Evolution comic.

Tiptup300: Apr 6th 2008; 9:38PM

Bitch be trippin balls!

pwkalt1: Apr 6th 2008; 5:49PM

The poll is messed up. There's no option for "Make it double".

xenikos: Apr 6th 2008; 5:49PM

This didn't make the list, but in case anyone wants to have a look-see at Scout Rush's comic while they're at it...

http://www.scoutrush.com/2008/04/dangers-of-palette-swapping.html

EMaster: Apr 6th 2008; 5:52PM

VG Cats. That is something I always thought back in the day too. Pikachu's are everywhere why not just catch your own? lol.

Skor: Apr 6th 2008; 5:53PM

Here's a vote for VG Cats once it gets seperated from 2P start.

Benny: Apr 6th 2008; 5:54PM

That image is seriously cool.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force): Apr 6th 2008; 6:05PM

Joystiq failed at polling: why can't we have our old system already?

Extra Life is win.

TheOverlord#2 (will beat you with Toon Link!)(1461-5875-9923): Apr 6th 2008; 6:05PM

How can't you love the VG Cats' comic? It is so true.

Oh and thats awesome someone made a ZP comic :D

TheOverlord#2(Toon Link FTW)(1461-5875-9923): Apr 6th 2008; 6:35PM

(Sorry for Double Post)
Um...
2P Start has 52% and VG Cats has 5%
(No hating on 2P Start...it just is more acclaimed in the comments D:)

Roto13: Apr 6th 2008; 6:06PM

I like the Extra Life one. Everything I hate about DLC.

Kid C: Apr 6th 2008; 6:06PM

Seriously joystiq? No lovin?

http://www.theninjaken.com/comic/2008/03/26/how-mario-got-to-be-the-hero

Well it amuses me.

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994): Apr 6th 2008; 6:25PM

If I were you, I would've actually drawn in a bulge rather than copy/paste the original image and then MS Paint in a bulge. Also that joke was not what I was expecting, I was expecting Mario to grow big from the mushroom and then beat the shit out of Luigi.

tc: Apr 6th 2008; 6:06PM

I havn't found the comics too "laugh-out-loud" funny these days.

Luckily, the 6th panel of VG Cats renewed my tendency to guffaw ten fold!

CONFUSEDgam3r: Apr 6th 2008; 7:12PM

I agree. The last panel did it in for me. Too funny!

Mr Khan: Apr 6th 2008; 6:24PM

I call shenanigans

The fourth option will probably win, because both of those comics are good, and people voting for one or the other vote for both

But i liked Sonic & the Wheel of Fate

Shignami: Apr 6th 2008; 6:32PM

Was Buckley doing Dueling analogs this week?

Sure seems like it.

Mr Khan: Apr 6th 2008; 8:10PM

My dyslexia (not really dyslexia, just a tendency to notice key letter combos rather than whole words) keeps registering your name as Shinigami

Was that deliberate?

Shignami: Apr 6th 2008; 8:27PM

Yes, the misspelling is deliberate.

long story short, i fucked up bad one day and ended up liking "Shignami" better.

It worked well for a while until Bleach (followed by Death Note) became popular.

Kid C: Apr 6th 2008; 6:42PM

I really liked how I drew it the first time around and didn't feel like trying to re-do it well. Although I do agree that the MS-Painting is weak...

there's always next time eh?

mr mobius: Apr 6th 2008; 6:51PM

Zero Punctuation or Pokemon? Choices! Damn! I like the ZP reference and no one ever does it, but that Pokemon is absolutely brilliant.

mr mobius: Apr 6th 2008; 6:53PM

Also Cubetoons (find it at IGN) had a decent SSBB based comic this week.

Korova: Apr 6th 2008; 7:22PM

Vagee Cats voted for have been

Neebs: Apr 6th 2008; 7:57PM

All suck this week.

Neebs: Apr 7th 2008; 6:41AM

Oh poo poo, I couldn't pick one unfunny comic to deem funny enough to vote for.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School): Apr 7th 2008; 10:06AM

If you don't find VGCats funny, then you have no sense of humor.

Mr.ESC: Apr 6th 2008; 8:25PM

I can't see that first Penny arcade comic :(

As a Sega fanboy that first 2P start comic in the list sucked bawls, as a normal guy the werewolf thing is nothing new and as a Nintendo fanboy I think is a great concept who cares if they rip it off from Twilight Princess.

The next penny arcade comic was nothing especial considering that there are better Team Fortress 2 webcomics.

2PStart evolution comic wasn't exactly funny but it makes a great PSP Wallpaper.

Vgcats is just plain awesome and my second favorite. Why the CAD parody isn’t in the list?

Extra life and DU well they were good. I can’t believe I’m saying this but Dueling Analogs just won one free internet for the ZP comic.

BPM [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186]: Apr 6th 2008; 9:03PM

Even though it's a parody of CAD, it was just as unfunny as CAD itself. Which is why it was excluded. :P

TheOverlord#2(Toon Link FTW)(1461-5875-9923): Apr 7th 2008; 1:00PM

P.S.
If you look at the inside of the wheel, you can see some logos from other games.

-Will BPM & Zelderman add me?

MNC Dover: Apr 6th 2008; 8:38PM

The Digital Unrest comic speaks the truth. If I'm going through the effort of inputting a 12-16 digit code, I should at least be able to have voice chat with them.

Here's our non-game related webcomic this week:

http://www.mondaynightcrew.com/comic.html

Ranko: Apr 6th 2008; 9:32PM

That last panel of "Make it Double" always gets me.

Powerlord: Apr 6th 2008; 10:31PM

Why is a VGCats comic from two weeks ago (Monday, March 24) appearing in the WEEKLY webcomic wrapup for the week of March 31-April 6?

Jerk Face: Apr 7th 2008; 12:26AM

Because it's Really Fucking Funny and they forgot to include it last week?

Zertoss: Apr 6th 2008; 11:02PM

Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn!
Tell us the lesson that we should learn!

Oh wait, wrong wheel. Or is it?

WhatIsThatThing: Apr 7th 2008; 4:32PM

WINS.

GreyFox: Apr 7th 2008; 12:13AM

VG Cats because I laughed fucking hard. That's some funny shit right there.

Roger: Apr 7th 2008; 12:19AM

damn...that wallpaper is so freaking awesome...mind if i snag it?

ogvor: Apr 7th 2008; 12:41AM

The extralife one just isn't that funny: it's just stating the obvious in a not very clever or ironic way. The past 3 Extra life comics were much better in my opinion. The Penny Arcade comics both aren't that great either (and I'm usually a huge Penny Arcade fan). My vote goes to VG Cats, mostly because I thought the same thing back when I was a kid watching that awful show. The DA and DU comics made me laugh though.

Auker: Apr 7th 2008; 12:25PM

Umm, i dunno if this has been said or not, but I dont think they ever announced the winners from the last wrapup, which was 2 weeks ago.

Demaar: Apr 8th 2008; 4:50AM

Oh man, a stack of good ones this week. Gonna have to go with the Nintendo bashing, though. I haven't touched my Wii in ages...

Bacon: Apr 8th 2008; 9:23AM

http://www.game-lad.com/?p=7

There's a new guy on the scene.

EBH: Apr 8th 2008; 3:25PM

I loved the 2P Start evolution one. Odd drawing of Bonk though.

This was my best one of last week:
http://ofnoobsandmen.com/2008/04/01/damn-thick-russian-accents/