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If there’s any terrible web comic I’d vote as being a time capsule for the edgy, mid 2000s furry scene it’s this one. The fact that the author was a self righteous cunt actually makes it more authentic.
 
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KoldHardTruth said:
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Oh fuck. I remember this one now. I hadn't clocked it because of the generic "aping Penny arcade but failing" art style and I had dug up some lore through his blog. Its been like a decade so there's some brainmold on this but as I remember

So the comic is going on, in his real life final stage of him and his QT AZN girlfriend dating, then getting married (I believe he did 'will you marry me' comic), and breaking up while she cheats on him specifically to piss him off. There was some mopey comic about it I think. Anyway, he still keeps drawing his self insert with azn qt and it is super cringe because he has some breakup comic and the accompanying blog post was utter simp unable to let go, but trying to pretend he's angry not completely dickless. (and I think there was some comic about her literally having his balls)
 
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I've been thinking about this webcomic that I briefly read, probably in the early to mid 2000s. It was kind of an edgy comic - like a lot else was in that era of the Internet - but I can't remember the title of it for anything. I don't remember it being a bad comic... not like some of the crap in this thread, but it probably is pretty cringe in retrospect. But maybe somebody here still might know it.

All I can really remember about it right now is it was about two mid-20s guys, whose names I also can't remember, who had been friends in college or something. At the very beginning of the comic's story the main character goes to visit the other guy in California. While visiting, a Jehova's Witness knocks on the door and in response the Californian friend immediately blasts the evangelist to death with a shotgun. The visiting friend is mortified, initially, but the other character assures him that hunting them is legal in California, and so, the next time a Jehova's Witness is at the door, he also joins in murdering them and they decide to become roomates or something.

Any chance anybody has read and remembers the name of that comic or who wrote it?
 
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WarJams said:
I've been thinking about this webcomic that I briefly read, probably in the early to mid 2000s. [ ... ]All I can really remember about it right now is it was about two mid-20s guys, whose names I also can't remember, who had been friends in college or something
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Guys I'm trying to remember this webcomic I used to read. It had pictures and I THINK there were words too. Can you guys help?

but srs. that sounds vaguely like something like J. Grant (the Two Lumps guy) would have done in his previous 7edgey12u comic.
He and his wife's friendship with the the Dominic Degan guy always amused me given his entire persona was snark and shitting on failure. It was like a great white becoming friends with an injured, bleeding seal.
 
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I used to follow a lot of comics and made at least a couple of forays into webcomics myself, and it was all for naught. Sometimes I still get the urge, and then I think, "Nah, fuck that."

I was looking through some old drives the other day, and re-read one of the installments of "Dreaming of Utopia". It was the last Furtaugh one, and it was kind of a mashup between Miracle on 34th Street and Bike Cuck. In spite of the crappy art, I thought it wasn't a bad mystery, and had a lot of humor. I don't know if Bike Cuck himself ever read the comic, but I'd like to think that he did at some point.

Too bad I never got that thing off the ground. I thought of reworking DOU and making it more of a comedy, but I can't see it happening. It was bad enough when I was making DOU, but there's no way I could make something like it today even if I wanted to. I'd be canceled right out of the gate! Well, that and the soul-crushing hours-on-end grind prevents me. I can't see why anyone would get into the webcomics game today, but maybe I've just been out of touch with it too long.

If I ever did take another stab at it, I sure as hell wouldn't want to make crap like the stuff being posted in this thread, though.
 
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UtopiaGuy said:
I can't see why anyone would get into the webcomics game today,
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The only people who still make real modern webcomics (You know, the COMIC comics, not the depictions of the author bitching and moaning about something that happened to them or someone they don't like in a blank white void.) are the ones that are autistic enough to be in it for the love of the game.
It's too much time and effort for too little chance of the actual pros or recognition expected of making a webcomic, so they can only be born out of passion, pettiness, or naivete.
 
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Cave Fisher said:
The only people who still make real modern webcomics (You know, the COMIC comics, not the depictions of the author bitching and moaning about something that happened to them or someone they don't like in a blank white void.) are the ones that are autistic enough to be in it for the love of the game.
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Such true words! That is how I feel about making comics, I love the concept and process of making a comic. But I also need to make money out of that if I want to do it for a long time.
 
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UtopiaGuy said:
I used to follow a lot of comics and made at least a couple of forays into webcomics myself, and it was all for naught. Sometimes I still get the urge, and then I think, "Nah, fuck that."

I was looking through some old drives the other day, and re-read one of the installments of "Dreaming of Utopia". It was the last Furtaugh one, and it was kind of a mashup between Miracle on 34th Street and Bike Cuck. In spite of the crappy art, I thought it wasn't a bad mystery, and had a lot of humor. I don't know if Bike Cuck himself ever read the comic, but I'd like to think that he did at some point.

Too bad I never got that thing off the ground. I thought of reworking DOU and making it more of a comedy, but I can't see it happening. It was bad enough when I was making DOU, but there's no way I could make something like it today even if I wanted to. I'd be canceled right out of the gate! Well, that and the soul-crushing hours-on-end grind prevents me. I can't see why anyone would get into the webcomics game today, but maybe I've just been out of touch with it too long.

If I ever did take another stab at it, I sure as hell wouldn't want to make crap like the stuff being posted in this thread, though.
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You're a good illustrator, the furry stuff just was a bit odd for most people is all.
 
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WarJams said:
I've been thinking about this webcomic that I briefly read, probably in the early to mid 2000s. It was kind of an edgy comic - like a lot else was in that era of the Internet - but I can't remember the title of it for anything. I don't remember it being a bad comic... not like some of the crap in this thread, but it probably is pretty cringe in retrospect. But maybe somebody here still might know it.

All I can really remember about it right now is it was about two mid-20s guys, whose names I also can't remember, who had been friends in college or something. At the very beginning of the comic's story the main character goes to visit the other guy in California. While visiting, a Jehova's Witness knocks on the door and in response the Californian friend immediately blasts the evangelist to death with a shotgun. The visiting friend is mortified, initially, but the other character assures him that hunting them is legal in California, and so, the next time a Jehova's Witness is at the door, he also joins in murdering them and they decide to become roomates or something.

Any chance anybody has read and remembers the name of that comic or who wrote it?
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That sounds really familiar but I can't remember it for the life of me, sorry.

It's a shame there's no big archive for these old comics any more, most of the directories that collected them together are gone now. Which is a shame, places like online-comics.net was great for keeping track of comics and finding new shit... in 2005, at least.
 
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Electric Retard
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IIRC The first website ever to get blocked on the DNS level (i think that is the correct descriptor) here in Germany.
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Least I Could Do
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God, i am embarrassed for how long i read that piece of shit. It took ED's article, including a picture of Ryan Somner, for me to realize how much of a blatant self-insert of how the author desperately wants to be IRL it was. Shameful.
 
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