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GeekNights 20110928 - GeekNights Worst Webcomic Contest

MrPeriodMrPeriod
edited September 2011 in GeekNights

Tonight on GeekNights, we bring you the exciting conclusion to the GeekNights Worst Webcomic Contest! We want to thank all of our submitters: you're all jerks! Second, we want to thank all of our "entries:" remember that even the "worst" creative output is better than no output! If you're going to do something, OWN it. Before this, however, we geekbite Thundercats, and a pretty-cool Madoka Majica poster is sold for way too much money.

Now, we cover the following comics. Some of them are NOT safe for work. However, they're surprisingly not that bad. Some of them are downright excellent, and some of them are fine, just not for us.

The winner, by a WIDE margin, is Billy The Heretic. Congratulations?

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  • InvaderRENInvaderREN
    OK, I'm only 10 minutes into the podcast but I just had to comment. Archer IS the GOD DAMN funniest fucking thing I have ever seen. It is so damn funny, that in fact it killed me and I now speak to you from the grave. Rym is 10000000000% correct.

    *sniff*

    What's that burning smell? Can anyone else smell that??
  • DJ_Katsuhiko_JinnaiDJ_Katsuhiko_Jinnai
    ...Uh I'm still waiting for my prize for the World Worst Podcast contest from...2007 I think. :|
  • AprecheApreche
    Here's a video of the hidden burger joint.

  • KaiyoteaKaiyotea
    In response to the question about the voices for MLP:FIM, they do all record together. Except for Tara Strong, who I believe lives on the opposite coast from Studio B.

  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Listening now and checking out the comics one by one. The Freckled Finger is very hit and miss, but there is some funny stuff in there!
  • RymRym
    Listening now and checking out the comics one by one. The Freckled Finger is very hit and miss, but there is some funny stuff in there!
    I was surprised at how mediocre-and-up the comics submitted were. Very few were bad enough to be notably bad. Weird, offensive, nichey, etc..., but not bad.
  • Ryven CedrylleRyven Cedrylle
    In response to the Archer voice acting question, Aisha Tyler addresses this on the most recent episode of her "Girl on Guy" podcast (www.girlonguy.net) with Judy Greer and Amber Nash. A joke is made that the voice actors had never met one another until a recent ComiCon.
  • RymRym
    In response to the Archer voice acting question, Aisha Tyler addresses this on the most recent episode of her "Girl on Guy" podcast (www.girlonguy.net) with Judy Greer and Amber Nash. A joke is made that the voice actors had never met one another until a recent ComiCon.
    Interesting.
    Then it must all just come down to the scripts and the directors.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Modest Medusa. Fap or not? I looked through and found this. Shall I look further?
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    This shit is hilarious!

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  • RymRym
    Modest Medusa. Fap or not? I looked through and found this. Shall I look further?
    I don't think it is in fact a fap comic, though it has elements that could lend it to that for particular kinds of perverts (moe monstergirls?).
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Geeknights Comic One. Also hilarious.
  • DevilUknowDevilUknow
    Modest Medusa. Fap or not? I looked through and found this. Shall I look further?
    I went about 20 strips deep and she starts living with a fat gamer guy and is trying to see him naked... I decided that here there be dragons and left.
  • ShadedSpriterShadedSpriter
    I am adding 3 of the "worst" webcomics to my reading list: So You're a Cartoonist, savage chicken and Modest Medusa (as long as it just stays moe monster girls and doesn't become perverted.) and I am glad only two I actually read are on the list: The Wotch and bob and George.

    I knew about the Fetish fuel aspects of The Wotch but just ignored them. It was a funny comic and I didn't find it any more Mary-sue than Buffy the vampire slayer. Bob and George holds a special place in my heart because It made me do a bad sprite comic for 3 years before switching to just doing Pixel Art and doing that comic was the origin of my name. It also got me to read some actually good sprite comics [url=http://www.captainsnes.com/]Captain SNES[/url] (It is basically a deconstruction of Captain N.), 8-bit theatre and Secret of Mana Theatre (Which is flash series technically.).

    To the Person who submitted SpicyTornado or Scrym can you give the link to the forum thread - It seems like it will be another dude-bro type topic to read.
  • RymRym
    I knew about the Fetish fuel aspects of The Wotch but just ignored them.
    Yeah. I've read other comics with similar content. What's funny is that I never noticed it until other people on the Internet complained. Some tvtropes, encyclopedia dramatica, and 4chan reading later, I started seeing it like Neo in the Matrix.
  • chaosof99chaosof99
    edited September 2011
    Nevermind.
    Post edited by chaosof99 on
  • SailSail
    ...Uh I'm still waiting for my prize for the World Worst Podcast contest from...2007 I think. :|
    lololololol
  • RochelleRochelle
    ...Uh I'm still waiting for my prize for the World Worst Podcast contest from...2007 I think. :|
    lololololol
    I did the same thing. Poor guy.
  • Anthony HemanAnthony Heman
    edited September 2011
    The Ctrl Alt Del link lead me to this:

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    No comment.
    Post edited by Anthony Heman on
  • open_sketchbookopen_sketchbook
    edited September 2011
    Listening now and checking out the comics one by one. The Freckled Finger is very hit and miss, but there is some funny stuff in there!
    I submitted it entirely based upon the fact that it had all the hallmarks of a pretty good "edgy" comic... as written and drawn by a pretty fucked up, bigoted dude. It was clear to me that he was trying to be edgy, but he was already starting from a pretty fucked up worldview so the line between him trying to be offensive, and the horrible shit he actually believes, has been blurred into oblivion. I've seen more offensive comics (like Billy the Heretic) but I thought the stark contrast between the production values and the crazy (especially the racism) made it stand out.
    Post edited by open_sketchbook on
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Listening now and checking out the comics one by one. The Freckled Finger is very hit and miss, but there is some funny stuff in there!
    I submitted it entirely based upon the fact that it had all the hallmarks of a pretty good comic... as written and drawn by a pretty fucked up, bigoted dude. It was clear to me that he was trying to be edgy, but he was already starting from a pretty fucked up worldview so it dove into crazy. I've seen more offensive comics (like Billy the Heretic) but I thought the stark contrast between the production values and the crazy (especially the racism) made it stand out.
    Personally I thought some of the comics were about racism, rather than racist. There is a difference. But it's a fine line.

    I thought this was very funny:
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    But then, on more reading, the vast majority of the comics fail so hard at being funny, that it just comes across as pure racism or homophobia or misogyny.
  • Totally GuyTotally Guy
    My entry must not have gone through... But now I can't remember the name of it.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
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  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    I just read through all 400(ish) pages of Sarah Zero. I understand if it isn't to the taste of some readers, but I thought it was genius. And at points very, very funny. The meta-meta-meta levels is beyond most things I've ever experienced. At one point it drops out of the "main" "story" "line" for a six page Zero Punctuation parody. The YouTube sub-plot near the end had me in tears of laughter.

    But as Scott said, unless you read this from the start, every page will look totally random.
  • RymRym
    I just read through all 400(ish) pages of Sarah Zero. I understand if it isn't to the taste of some readers, but I thought it was genius.
    The author emailed us, and I will forward the sentiment. She is pretty chill. ;^)
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    I just read through all 400(ish) pages of Sarah Zero. I understand if it isn't to the taste of some readers, but I thought it was genius.
    The author emailed us, and I will forward the sentiment. She is pretty chill. ;^)
    Pretty sure the author photo is a guy called Stef, not a she.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited September 2011
    moe monstergirls?
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    Wish they were a bit more dressed though.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • Jordan O.Jordan O.
    edited September 2011
    That's more moe colossi than monster girl.
    /semantics
    Post edited by Jordan O. on
  • chaosof99chaosof99
    To clear up Scott's confusion as to why anti-semites do not necessarily like Nazis: The enemy of you enemy is not automatically your friend. Simple as that really.

    Jews were persecuted for generations by christians as "Christ-killers". As such a lot of bad traits were assigned to them to dehumanize them and rally people against them, which is the origin of most jewish stereotypes that persist to this day. Both american anti-semitism as well as the anti-semitsm of the Nazi party in germany are informed by this. However, this doesn't necessarily make them brothers in arms, because the Nazis as well as american anti-semites don't quite like each other. It also happens that those american anti-semites are also more often than not nationalists, and as you certainly knew america was at war with the Nazis.

    Those american nationalists are also often theocrats, or at least very religious nutjobs, and it also often the case that their detestation for Jews is not informed via the roundabout way of the things that are being said about Jews, but directly by the origin of the Jews being "Christ-killers" (which makes even less sense because Jesus died to forgive all sins, so him dying was a good thing by the theology of it).

    Anyway, TL;DR version: The anti-semites in america are american nationalists, whereas the Nazis are german, or at least aryan, nationalists.
  • a1sa1s
    Similarily, Nazis (National Socialist German Workers' Party) double-classed in being nationalists and socialists. They aren't much remembered for it now, but they did raise worker's wages, nationalize heavy industry and organize 'leisure' activities for the schoolchildren and workers.

    TL;DR: Nazis ⊂ Socialists.
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