Bad webcomics

[Arthur Morgan]

It was around in the late 90s and early 00s if I remember right... and that was when millennials were young, optimistic, and most of all, weebs. And the artist was living the dream being a young 20 something dude in Japan just as it became cool to be a weeaboo. It was basically living vicariously through him via the webcomic. That and if I also remember right, webcomics were hitting their golden age and it got to ride that wave just as hard.

Pretty much this but also, there was nothing else like it at the time. Sure, you had gaming comics and other stuff, but a comic by a weeb for weebs? Especially after Fred got rid of Rodney and embraced the anime stereotypes side. And even though Fred was pretty sporadic with his updates, they were still frequent enough to have a sizable archive that told a story with characters that didn't just make pop culture references at each other.

Eventually other stuff came out and Fred lost his audience because of those lack of updates (There was one year where he went a month without anything, then put up a drawing and announced he was going on vacation because he was working too hard) but it really was like other comics like PVP where there being no real competition and the audience's options being limited, along with Rodney begging PVP and Penny Arcade to link the comic which is where most of its readership came from, that meant Fred was able to keep this going for other twenty years.

Also, the soap opera thing where people are hooked and have to keep watching to find out what happens next and what the hell Miho is supposed to be and did Piro really cyber with a young teen and all the other shit that got brought up. Maybe he did answer it, I haven't read it in over a decade, but that's what people wanted to know.

 

[Ghostse]

Also, the soap opera thing where people are hooked and have to keep watching to find out what happens next and what the hell Miho is supposed to be and did Piro really cyber with a young teen and all the other shit that got brought up. Maybe he did answer it, I haven't read it in over a decade, but that's what people wanted to know.

I check like every year so (fuck spoilers)
Remember Fred is a terminal weeb and a despressoid, and this comic is about him being is most weeby and is essentially his love letter to Anime as a whole, also with his wishfulfillment about the merge being real and how being a super weeb could influence reality.

Miho has been revealed to be a "tragic heroine", who is forced into a constant cycle of being born with some terminal illness or another who meets someone, falls in love, and they die horribly with her to spend the rest of her life sick and sad (that's Freds fetish). She and Piro were cybering and she sent him naughty pictures while she was in the hospital and faked her own death. She was released but pretended to Piro she died so he wouldn't be caught up in her curse. There is also something with the online game they played and keep referencing, but that is only covered in the text-only books I am no where near a big enough faggot to go read those.

Anyway, when he comes to japan she comes up with this idea to seduce Largo so he'd die horribly instead of Piro - her plan backfired and she ended up catching feelings for Largo.
Violent Foxgirl Teacher is stuck on the reincarnation train with Miho, along with most of the crew from her most previous life as a steampunk pirate queen, as her friend and sometimes lover in the various lives. There's some sort of stupid "writers characters" mechanic that I think he got from the horrible Canadian currynigger Wizard-of-Oz comic I can't remember the name of, where the Foxgirl teachers daughter is able to influence anime tropes.
Not following the tropes made fans angry or something (whatever the fuck was supposed to be happening was too gay for me to follow). So right now Miho and Violent foxgirl are recovering in hospital, Foxgirls daughter has broken Mihos curse with Largo & his girlfriend somehow by them somehow distracting the fanboys, plus piro's underaged magical girl stalker. Piro finally got some pussy, Largo got some pussy and didn't pop his cork early, and Ping is being trailed by two other PS2 girlfriend accessories at a Foxgirl Brothel, and something is going on with Foxgirl's daughter and Junpei's Ninja Clan who are in a romeo-juliet death grudge with the Brothel-owning Foxgirls.
Oh and Piro's girl's friend from the maid cafe is revealed to have been part-fox girl this whole time and just went full Kitsune after getting box-blocked for the n-th time.

You are now gay.

 

[Hummingbird]

Menage à 3 was one I didn't really care for. Granted it's not as bad Megatokyo or Dominic Deegan, there was something frustrating about this series. It's a shame, because I liked the Archie Comics-style art. I think part of it is the three main characters aren't that great. Gary is a pathetic nerd who'd rather jerk off to porn and cop feels off unconscious chicks than talk to a woman. I know it's hinted he had a hard life and has similar hangs up like the protagonist of The 40 Year Old Virgin, but that guy was sympathetic and doesn't suck the fun out of watching a zombie flick like Gary does.

Zii has no respect for personal space and no sense of boundaries which makes her annoying. She can also be quite manipulative, especially to Didi (who she likes to get cheap feels off of) who is a slow-on-the-uptake airhead. Granted Didi is the most likable of the three. I hear the series got better after the first year or two, which I've only read that far at the time I did.

While I'm at it, Marry Me was very overrated comic.

 

[Ghostse]

Menage à 3 was one I didn't really care for. Granted it's not as bad Megatokyo or Dominic Deegan, there was something frustrating about this series. It's a shame, because I liked the Archie Comics-style art. I think part of it is the three main characters aren't that great. Gary is a pathetic nerd who'd rather jerk off to porn and cop feels off unconscious chicks than talk to a woman. I know it's hinted he had a hard life and has similar hangs up like the protagonist of The 40 Year Old Virgin, but that guy was sympathetic and doesn't suck the fun out of watching a zombie flick like Gary does.

Zii has no respect for personal space and no sense of boundaries which makes her annoying. She can also be quite manipulative, especially to Didi (who she likes to get cheap feels off of) who is a slow-on-the-uptake airhead. Granted Didi is the most likable of the three. I hear the series got better after the first year or two, which I've only read that far at the time I did.

While I'm at it, Marry Me was very overrated comic.

MA3 was just an overplayed premise that tried to pretend it wasn't. When it leaned into just pure debauchery and forgot that when you made a guy bi you make him a fag. And of course "its not rape and perfectly OK if its a woman doing it".

Marry Me was initially kinda fun but quickly had no where to go. The real crime of Marry Me was pulling the creator away from No Pink Ponies which was a cute romcom and killed mainly by a Megatokyoesque update schedule.

 

[Hummingbird]

MA3 was just an overplayed premise that tried to pretend it wasn't. When it leaned into just pure debauchery and forgot that when you made a guy bi you make him a fag. And of course "its not rape and perfectly OK if its a woman doing it".

Marry Me was initially kinda fun but quickly had no where to go. The real crime of Marry Me was pulling the creator away from No Pink Ponies which was a cute romcom and killed mainly by a Megatokyoesque update schedule.

Marry Me's biggest crime was Stacia and the geek guy she "married" don't have much chemistry and I didn't know where he stands with the relationship (I got to the part where the crew runs away to Africa). It made me wish that she had accidentally married his lesbian friend who has more personality and has better chemistry with.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Menage à 3 was one I didn't really care for. Granted it's not as bad Megatokyo or Dominic Deegan, there was something frustrating about this series. It's a shame, because I liked the Archie Comics-style art. I think part of it is the three main characters aren't that great. Gary is a pathetic nerd who'd rather jerk off to porn and cop feels off unconscious chicks than talk to a woman. I know it's hinted he had a hard life and has similar hangs up like the protagonist of The 40 Year Old Virgin, but that guy was sympathetic and doesn't suck the fun out of watching a zombie flick like Gary does.

Zii has no respect for personal space and no sense of boundaries which makes her annoying. She can also be quite manipulative, especially to Didi (who she likes to get cheap feels off of) who is a slow-on-the-uptake airhead. Granted Didi is the most likable of the three. I hear the series got better after the first year or two, which I've only read that far at the time I did.

While I'm at it, Marry Me was very overrated comic.

It did get better when more characters came in but it wasn't much. Especially if you hate wacky Archie-style humor, just with more sex and nudity. I stopped reading around book five because it just became 'Gary gets abused for existing' and that stopped being funny. And actually most fans agreed with it. I later found out that it got better about that and gave it a re-read almost a month before it ended. Gary does get more of a spine as the strip goes on, but I feel like they should have just written him out. They had him appear in one of the spin off comics that only lasted a couple of books before getting cancelled, and in that one he was more entertaining and started standing up for himself.

What I did like best, though it took for fucking ever to get there, is that Zii finally started getting comeuppance for her actions. Her plans would fail and she'd be miserable. She almost lost her chance to be a pro musician because she was too busy fucking around with Didi. There's a sequel series about the comic store Zii used to work at, but I haven't checked it out yet. Anyone read it? I assume it's just more of the same, like all of Giz's work.

Also, I completely forgot about Marry Me. I can barely remember what it was about besides some dude holding up a sign at a concert and the chick on stage bringing him up so they could get married, and it was actually a real marriage.

 

[Ghostse]

What I did like best, though it took for fucking ever to get there, is that Zii finally started getting comeuppance for her actions.

She was a shit character and didn't get nearly enough consequences.

Also, I completely forgot about Marry Me. I can barely remember what it was about besides some dude holding up a sign at a concert and the chick on stage bringing him up so they could get married, and it was actually a real marriage.

That's all there is to it pretty much.

 

[Anonitolia]

the longer it goes on the worse it gets
the ending isn't as bad, but god there is just
so much to unpack

a guide for the lazy:
>Sneasel and Alolan Meowth so heavily stylized that the latter is hard to identify as a Meowth and not a Persian due to the anatomy
>brownwashed Giovanni made to look like a sleazy "tough guy" has a zoomer hairstyle and brown skin in traditional japan while having a japanese last name
>binding while battling and commenting on height because in this universe Silver is trans (because the story centers around a gay romance, which has now been revealed to be a ??? romance because one of the Pokemon involved is apparently nonbinary now)
>trying to make Team Fucking Rocket into sympathetic villains because fuck the system I guess? (author clarified in the author comments that sympathy was the goal)
>Lance has apparently been genderbent, because how dare a white (asian) man be top dog

 

[Blacklight]

I just went back and caught up on Two Kinds after nearly three years of not touching it, and god damn. The big bad that's been set up for almost five years at this point is beaten within the course of 6 pages. I am reminded why I stopped reading it when I started developing better tastes, I think I dropped Las Lindas at the same time too.

 

[JelloJerk]

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the longer it goes on the worse it gets
the ending isn't as bad, but god there is just
so much to unpack

a guide for the lazy:
>Sneasel and Alolan Meowth so heavily stylized that the latter is hard to identify as a Meowth and not a Persian due to the anatomy
>brownwashed Giovanni made to look like a sleazy "tough guy" has a zoomer hairstyle and brown skin in traditional japan while having a japanese last name
>binding while battling and commenting on height because in this universe Silver is trans (because the story centers around a gay romance, which has now been revealed to be a ??? romance because one of the Pokemon involved is apparently nonbinary now)
>trying to make Team Fucking Rocket into sympathetic villains because fuck the system I guess? (author clarified in the author comments that sympathy was the goal)
>Lance has apparently been genderbent, because how dare a white (asian) man be top dog

I thought binding was for FTMs? Is Silver supposed to be an FTM here? I was getting the vibe that it was the classic "bigot dad doesn't let their kid be themselves uwu" but then he's calling him a boy, but at the same time telling him(her?) not to bind? Kind of confusing.

 

[Anonitolia]

thought binding was for FTMs? Is Silver supposed to be an FTM here?

yes
the point is that Giovanni is made out to be sympathetic because he's not transphobic
alongside the aforementioned "he's actually fighting da man u guys he's so anti-establishment!!"

 

[JelloJerk]

yes
the point is that Giovanni is made out to be sympathetic because he's not transphobic
alongside the aforementioned "he's actually fighting da man u guys he's so anti-establishment!!"

Yeah because a real mafioso Italian mobster type would totally support his hecking valid tranny kid and not be pissed in the slightest that his only child is about to end his bloodline. And it still confuses me that he's telling him not to bind even though he's being supportive?
Such a shame. I actually like the artstyle, even if the Pokemon don't look like the actual Pokemon at all.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

yes
the point is that Giovanni is made out to be sympathetic because he's not transphobic
alongside the aforementioned "he's actually fighting da man u guys he's so anti-establishment!!"

So Ash was actually the villain all along? No wonder everyone liked Team Rocket better than him.

 

[Anonitolia]

And it still confuses me that he's telling him not to bind even though he's being supportive?

I have no idea why either. Maybe it's something to do with the stress being so invested in a battle can bring or some shit. I don't know. None of this comic makes sense dude, it's all zoomer haircuts and nonsensical gay pandering that doesn't even pander right because half its characters switch up their gender identities at the drop of a hat. It's ridiculous. I passionately hate that so many Nuzlocke comics are like this, too. I've been considering making a thread for ages and I already made a post about them in the past that has been seriously bugging me with how little it covers.
But they're not stupid enough to use neopronouns and they're such a huge hugbox that it's hardly even worth it. Just being terrible writers and bad artists who eagerly expose minors to gendershit and 30-year-old transformation fetishists isn't enough content for a whole thread if they all agree with each other and get along because they're all the same level of stupid. Sigh.

 

[AnOminous]

I have no idea why either. Maybe it's something to do with the stress being so invested in a battle can bring or some shit.

Or maybe it's just a really bad webcomic and whoever made it is fucking retarded.

 

[Anonitolia]

Or maybe it's just a really bad webcomic and whoever made it is fucking retarded.

that's a given
I still want to try and see sense in this shit, though
Even retards must have some kind of logical thought process and throughline, right??

 

[Anonitolia]

-snip-

Holy fuck how did I forget to mention the worst part
it was only mentioned in the comic before this one, but it actually makes me gag to think about
Giovanni is also trans and apparently gave birth to Silver, while Executive Ariana was always a dude

 

[Anonitolia]

comics that are literally just the author (almost always a middle-aged female) winging about their personal life

oh god, I found another one. This is Ellen Woodbury- u/pizzacake. She is a 39-year-old woman with two kids, two cats, a husband and a complex.


Her stuff is a little more political than the comics from before, as you can see, but it is also painfully unfunny and just fucking bad. Like, really really bad. That shading drives me nuts and every person is drawn with nearly-identical proportions.
Anyways, art whinging aside, I'm posting this here because most of the comics Pizzacake makes do not have jokes. Just whatsoever. They're either some weird complaint session, often political and sometimes not, or some weird creepy "joke". See: the comic I linked above about young children drawing dicks everywhere for some reason. Like, "visibly lower-elementary-age" young. Or the couch comic soon after.



There is no humor here. This shit is just not funny. It gets tens of thousands of upvotes on Reddit, because of course it does, but if anything that just affirms how dogshit it is.
I'm going to spend most of my time writing this just posting her comics because they really speak for themselves. She even falls into the same retarded trap as every other middle-aged-woman-who-makes-comics does, where she addresses "the haters" in your classic I AM SILLY comic format to get them to go away instead of being sensible and either ignoring them or learning from their feedback, before going on to do the exact same thing as always while proclaiming how "unique" and "quirky" she is for acting "weird" and being broke.


I also find it funny that her style is very similar to Lily Orchard's. I don't know why, and I doubt the two are even remotely related. It just stuck out to me.

EDIT: didn't realize I was triple-posting, hopefully this isn't a bother.
Also pizzacake apparently draws porn, too.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

See: the comic I linked above about young children drawing dicks everywhere for some reason. Like, "visibly elementary-age" young.

Did you really see a joke about "children like to graffiti dicks" and get creepy vibes from it? Maybe it's a generational thing, but my schoolbooks were covered with drawings of dicks growing up and I wasn't an outlier.

Apart from that, yeah. These are pretty dumb. Not outright bad, IMO, just very milquetoast and hackneyed

 

[Anonitolia]

Did you really see a joke about "children like to graffiti dicks" and get creepy vibes from it? Maybe it's a generational thing, but my schoolbooks were covered with drawings of dicks growing up and I wasn't an outlier.

yeah, but mainly because of their depicted age
look at how they're drawn- the tallest ones are hardly a quarter of the lady's height, they probably wouldn't be old enough to be graffitiing dicks everywhere
that's like an 8+ year old thing not a 5 year old thing
it seemed creepier when combined with the couch joke, anyways

and yeah, I agree that they're very milquetoast and hackneyed, but since it was relevant to the genre I mentioned earlier and is so excruciatingly mediocre at its very best it was worthy enough to be called "bad"