Thread 12036429

Were videogame related web comics really that big during the early 00's?
Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?

>>12036429 (OP)
I was reading EGM for the Hsu & Chan comics.

I see no video games here.

>>12036434
and no jokes either. where's the joke, buckley?

well i read them in the late 2010s after the fact instead but this guy made some pretty good comics at least. i should read them again desu.

>>12036429 (OP)
>inb4 loss comic
web comics were pretty massive prior to youtube and streaming video, they really were some of the only shareable forms of visual media you could drop a quick link to in a message board post or whatever to get your point across

They spawned enough interest that there were whole conventions around them and the artists of said comics would be huge stars at various conventions, comics posted everywhere and sometimes officially included with some games. I guess PAX is still running, but otherwise everyone got tired of "Epic gamer webcomics" and most web comics in general, aside from occasional butt hurt over stonetoss.
I really don't think anyone really cares about comic strips any more past that, aside from some /co/ users and those 2 or 3 times recently when Garfield comics got uploaded without the black layer.

There was a time where every webcomic was about gaming and nerd shit, or was a furry webcomic. Now every webcomic is a political cartoon or a furry webcomic.

VGcats had some rough early years.

>>12036429 (OP)
A friend introduced me to VG Cats in the early 2000s, I didn't think much of it, but then I found 8-Bit Theater. I used to check it daily for updates and I still like the humor.

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I read Penny Arcade for a long time.

>>12036429 (OP)
Only read Penny Arcade from time to time. The one I really liked was 8-bit Theater.

Penny Arcade, yes, CAD no. VG Cats and 8-bit Theater were more popular than CAD with people I knew. Even Megatokyo was.

Who here ONE ONE SE7EN?

LOL

Not exactly retro as this was around 2013 or 2014, I remember going to Connecticon and there was a kiosk for Ctrl-Alt-Del, and the guys there were in pokemon trainer cosplay and talking to neighbors. They were giving away copies of Analog and Dpad issue 1, and I snatched one (They were free after all).

>>12036429 (OP)
CaD never interested me, but I was big on Penny Arcade for a long time. They had a podcast which was fun. Though honestly can't remember why I stopped following them.

>>12036430
Also this, those were great.

>>12036653
VG Cats mildly interested me for a while, but then I got bored of it, and after a while of not caring, I learned the ultimate fate of it.

>>12036759
kek

>>12036429 (OP)
I've never been into them and I've been on the internet since 9600 baud. My sister did send me a link to 8bit theater and I read a bit, but dropped it without telling her.
The only webcomic I thought was funny was DM of the Rings, but it's tabletop/movie based and not vidya.

>>12036757
Holy fuck, forgot about that one.

>>12036438
>Video gamers aren't violent. But also don't fuck with us or else.
It's stunning how tone deff one person can be

>>12036429 (OP)
I was a Last Days of FOXHOUND reader.

>>12037054
>tone deff

Nothing will fill the voice left by 8bit theater. I'm glad the writer got a real gig in comics and Atomic Robo was pretty alright. But man to go back to that era again.

>>12036429 (OP)
I just read this and RPG World
Diane was a formative fap for me

>>12037093
>I just read 8 Bit Theater and...
fixed

>>12037093
Reminds me of Dobson for some reason

>>12036429 (OP)
I don't read any videogame webcomics anymore, I just cringe when I think back on them now. Especially Bum Tickley.
The only webcomic I still read from the 00s is Perry Bible Fellowship (but is not focused on videogames.)

>>12037096
Dobson's style is very "early webcomic", there was a lot of this anime influenced type stuff going around. Part of why he got a reputation for never improving is he was still doing this stuff in the late 10s. By comparison, at that time the RPG World guy had his own TV show and his art was totally different

>>12037093
> RPG World
DIdn't he go on to do Steven Universe and Bravest Warriors?

>>12037076
I don’t think 4chan being flooded by ESL gremlins is funny at all

How times have changed

>>12037097
Perry Bible Fellowship was great

So was Nedroid, Lego Robot, Whomp!, and Super Mega Comics

>>12037156
Kek

>>12037097
Penny Arcade will occasionally put out something funny but for the past however many years they really have just been weirdo dad comic. It's kind of sad how pussy whipped they got

>>12037156
Nedroid is just wonderful.

early internet humor was a very different beast. You of course had people just shamelessly ripping off Simpsons jokes, but sites like Newgrounds and the ability to host your own comic easily really did create a new frontier of humor. For better and worst it was certainly not boring and really did have an exciting feeling as the new generation were making their voices heard. Even early youtube feels like so long ago.

>>12037180
Penny Arcade was always out-of-touch xoomers pretending they know more about video games than they actually did.

I read 8-Bit Theater religiously on the days it came out. It was about as exciting as 56k dial-up got. I checked out Penny Arcade now and then.

>>12037135
I think he worked on those shows but OK KO was the show he created. He did marry the creator of Steven Universe though

>>12037251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

the anthem of an era

>>12037251
>It was about as exciting as 56k dial-up got
If only that were true.
The horrors I'd seen even by then...

>>12037182
Lmao what an ending

Video games

>no laser cheese
I'm disappointed in all of you.

>>12037214
What is your definition of a "xoomer"? These guys are almost 50.

>>12037353
Yeah these guys are very much the same kind of gen x retards as Kevin Smith

>>12037356
So... xoomer is now the new kiddie speak for Gen X? What the fuck is a "zoomer" then? Because most of them also look like kids. Am I really supposed to keep up with your lingo?

>>12037386
Looks like me

Sounds like me

>>12037069
>The Pain: "I'M COVERED IN BEES!!"

I still have the hardcover collection of these.

>>12036429 (OP)
yeah I sorta would check in on Penny Arcade once in awhile to see new comics but it was a once every few months kinda thing

>>12036429 (OP)
It's wild he thought this at 24.

>>12036429 (OP)
>Were videogame related web comics really that big during the early 00's
Yes, but more late 00's
>Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?
Nah I didn't followed any comic in particular, and Penny fucking sucked

WHY I AM SO BALD?

>>12038140
This anime comic not a videogame comic

>>12036442
>inb4 loss comic

>>12037096
It's very similar to Dobson, like in Dobson's comics the humour it's a copy of Ranma

>>12037097
Better times, today this would be a JoJo reference

>>12038339
Found the bot.

>>12038370
Jokes on you I'm racist and a fan of JK Rowling.

>>12038227
SB&HJ was the best thing about Homestuck. Peak absurdity and I absolutely miss it.

>>12037156
Not gaming related but Super Mega was great. I mostly read Perry Bible, Super Mega, Abstruse Goose, and sometimes Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

>>12038404
. . .and?

Hahahaha hey guys... you now remember megatokyo

>>12038597
Never forgot about it.

>>12038603
Damn bro check the site, this nigga is still drawing this shit and it looks literally exactly the same as it always did. Only now it has uh, sonic OCs as anime girls?

>>12036429 (OP)
We mostly made fun of fuckley for adding entire novels to a 4 panel comic and never reaching a punchline and of pigbald for being so bald and so pig-like in appearance.
Do you like the vidya game?

>>12038616
Forgot to add
B^U

>videogames never made anyone violent! and if you disagree, us gamers will find you and murder you! don't fuck with us!
??????????

>>12038613
i owned the evil leet shirt in middle school

>>12038339
amoungcube

>>12038669
A video of this comic was actually what first led me to 4chan in 2011.

>>12038729
Holy newfag.

>>12038729
2008 here, I want to die

>>12038669
>>12038729
i stumbled upon this when i was like 9-10 in 2009ish when i searched "garfield ps3" in google images for some autistic reason. at the time i was just confused and moved on, but when i rediscovered the comic a few years later after learning about dobson and his danny&spot comics, i thought it was the funniest shit ever

>>12036429 (OP)
>WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
Yeeesh

>>12038774
It's unbelievable to think today, but people used to be comfortable with reading longform text a lot more back then. Look at any webcomic from the 2000s and you'll be surprised at just how many words there are.

>>12038780
we used to read entire newspaper articles, anon

>>12036429 (OP)
This shit was the laughing stock of /v/ back in the day. If someone posted one of those the response was either

>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
or
>WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS

>>12038404
No one but a terminally online group of twitter psychos actually hates the Harry Potter lady

>>12038780
Yeah, I think Buckly here really has a thing or two to learn about economy of writing and all that jazz but when I see so many people who will look at any post longer than mine right now and need a TL:DR it's pretty bleak.

>>12038780
No, people have been mocking Dobson for years for turning his comics into a novella

You don’t see Charles Schultz or Bill Waterson turning every strip into Ulysses.

>>12038857
classic

>>12038883
You don’t have to tell me twice… but in the Stone Age

>>12038883
How terrible is it that even before I read the whole thing or noticed sonichu at the bottom that I instantly knew this was Chrischan

>>12038986
That's not hard, you can tell what it is from the thumbnail.

>>12038883
>>12038893
Chris-chan has a blonde girlfriend, a steady income stream, and a house purchased for him by the internet. What are YOU doing with your life?

>>12039006
He's also in indentured servitude to a bunch of zoomers he has to pay rent to.

>>12038774
>upset because she has to use her fingers to zoom in on her phone and move it around to read the whole thing

>>12039006
>a steady income stream
From what??

>>12039015
Yes yes that's right grandpa zoomers are the ones bullying the OG lolcow that started getting notoriety from before they were even born. Time for your nap now

>>12039030
You know nothing about Chris' lore.

>>12039006
I rather die a loser than fuck my mother

>>12039037
I know enough to know it's not fucking people that were in diapers when he first started getting bullying. You people need to stop crying about younger generations. It's not going to make your hairline come back.

>>12039050
Your post makes no sense you galaxy gas brained faggot

One I really liked back in the day was Kid Radd. The best way I can think to describe it is "Wreck-It Ralph with 2004 internet humor".

I know it still has a bit of a cult following, since I see it brought up on /co/ occasionally.

Imagine being so fat you look at computers and see food

>>12039050
Look it up, you drooling retard.

>>12039082
Oh shit, this reminded me of Code Monkeys.

Neglected Mario Characters was quite literally the first thing I ever got into on the internet, and it's heavily defined my interpretation of the Mario universe ever since. I still refer to the SMB2 enemies by their NC names.

>>12039006
A wife I love, a job I enjoy and which allowed me to buy a house on the fruits of my own work.

>>12038859
I hate her for being a dumbass rich lib, and hoped that her comments would mean I never have to hear about her again, but now all I hear is faggots whining about her existence every waking hour. The whole "All I've read is Harry Potter" crowd ended up being the "I also read Handmaid's tale" crowd.

>>12039097
>babies in diapers were the first ones bullying CWC
just stop grandpa. you've lost it. go get ready for your nap.

>>12039145
She's based, don't know what you're talking about.

>>12036429 (OP)
No idea. I only read Concerned.

what's that one with the green dinosaur and it's the same template for all of them?

>>12039323
Dinosaur Comics.

>>12039173
Aside from calling out tranny shit, not really. She's literally the poster child of champagne liberals, pro rapefugee even.

>>12039145
>The whole "All I've read is Harry Potter" crowd ended up being the "I also read Handmaid's tale" crowd.

If reading a set of bad books lead someone to read a good book, I mark that as a net positive.

Anyone remember MS Paint Adventures on Bob & George?

>>12039424
With the megaman sprite recolors? I member.

>>12036429 (OP)
Used to read PA all the time but once they started doing Pax or whatever their con was they seem to be less and less based. I’m assuming they are full on blue hair dyed transitions at this point but I haven’t checked in on them in years. It was fun playing on their wow server back in the day. People complain when celebs take over a server but I still have video of beta vanilla wow where me and 2 other rogues stopped Asmongold and his goons from killing Rexxar in Desolace and taking out his friends on their way to shadow fang keep to fuck w their grind. I can’t remember which side I was on when PA chose their server because they did it opposite another popular web group so both sides had “big” names playing so you could fuck w either.

>>12038747
I bet you’ve seen some real shit being here this long.

>>12039017
No, he's just using the wrong medium for that wall of text. It belongs on his livejournal, not in a visual medium like a 4-panel comic.
Hell, even expanding it to more panels and showing more visual examples of what he's text-spewing about would have been an improvement. But no, wall-o-text and 4 pathetically static poses.

Dull, uncreative, and not amusing at all.

>>12037079
I lost track of B-Bit Theater pretty quickly, but I'll always have a soft spot for it because it introduced me to Bangai-O.

Thanksgiving 2001, 8-Bit Theater posted a special strip saying that Bangai-O was the best game ever. I saw that, believed it, and asked my brother to get me Bangai-O for Christmas. He did (used, in a new jewel case), and we played it off and on together until we beat the game a few months later. It's still one of my favorite games.

>>12037097
Perry Bible Fellowship was great

>>12038739
I'm impressed you kept that nurage

>>12036429 (OP)
>Did any of you guys seriously read or followed CAD or Penny Arcade back in the day?
No, because for me it was The Noob

>>12037069
I feel like this was the only VG-based webcomic that could match 8-Bit Theater. Also funny in hindsight that it called Ocelot being the one who killed Miller long before MGSV essentially confirmed it.

>>12036429 (OP)
>Penny Arcade
Is there a mod for Poker Night at the Inventory that removes that fuckin guy? Can't stand him.

>>12037325
These are the best.

It’s more /tg/ related, but did any of you guys read Oglaf? Half the punchlines are sex, but it’s pretty amusing sometimes.

We all have a little bit of him in us.

>>12039020
Streaming and selling his sonichu shit but Praetor probably takes most of it. They also own the house he rents so he pays them rent too.

>>12041179
Why do zoomers think it’s an epic meme to give money to a rapist?

CWC was funny when he was a fat kid screaming in his room about trolls and homos; now he’s a sad horror cow and a sexual predator.

I never really cared for particular comic artists, I just liked random shit I'd see posted here.

It really feels like Penny Arcade is behind and out of touch on a lot of stuff. They either play softball with big corpo now or wait till it's safe to take a stab at something.

Only VG Cats.
I don't know who the fuck was reading Penny Arcade and CAD. They were never funny.

Raped by dick wolves.

>>12037135
>>12037259
>OK KO
>worked on SU
>married sugar

I know this isn't /co/ but jesus christ how horrifying, almost everything terrible about CN in the last 15 years compressed into one couple

I remember one day I found a sprite webcoming themed around Smash Bros, and then never found it again. Anyone know what the fuck that was?
I also vaguely remember a webcomic about Samus and Megaman living together in an apartment. This may have been the same comic.

>>12037214
they were relevant in the 2000s, just started losing relevancy once they obviously aged out and had families.

>>12037376
stop wasting your time on his stupidity

>>12037346
man I forgot about laser cheese

>>12037156
yes it is, just not a video game comic

>>12038227
I'm jealous, last I check it's absurdly expensive

There was something really magical about stumbling onto a random website, and reading every entry in some literally who kids' webcomic over the course of an afternoon.
that side of the internet is dead, these days.

>>12039725
Started around same time as that anon, I dunno. I don't spend all day here anymore cuz it's not worth it, but it's funny sometimes at least. There's nowhere else like it so I never leave forever. I also owe /v/ and /vr/ for helping me find a shitton of great games.

>>12041163
ronnie is one of us, no question.

>>12041857
specifically because stumbling onto a random website is dead. Only sad fools chasing a dead era make their own random shitsites and put them out on neocities or something.

>>12036653
>8 bit theater concluded 15 years ago

>>12041873
yeah, I know. Social media and tech giant monopolies ruined all the fun.

i used to spend half my free time reading shitty sprite comics in the 2000s, anyone remember bob & george or sonic & pals?

>>12041910
Yeah! Also all the ones on fireball20xl. I remember being mindblown in high school because one of the girls in the grade ahead of me was a contributor on that site. There was also some sprite comic I remember reading a bunch of in like 2003 that was probably started a year or two prior, I wish I could remember it. It's surely gone and it only exists in that "I'd know if it I saw it" space in my brain so it's rather frustrating.

>>12041857
I remember when I found Maddox's website, highschool me thought it was the funniest shit ever

>>12036429 (OP)
More people made fun of them than unironically read them. Good webcomics were pretty scant to begin with