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...that I can turn into a short stop-motion animation for a work presentation I need to do in a week or so.

Ideally, something with a Star Wars character or two or one or two of Giger's aliens or some modern-ish soldiers (or some combo I can shoehorn together), as those are the figure models available for me to work with.

I'm thinking something Robot Chicken-ish, but short and amusing yet not offensive. (yeah, I know).

Aren't you a reporter or something?

That's Tale. Well, he works in a newsroom as an editor-type person. I'm a teacher. We're both Australian though.

Anything from pbfcomics.

He said funny, new jack.

Some of us still have a sense of humor, fuckbunny.

You were trolled too easily. Obviously, due to your fragile state, I'll let this one slide. There's a PBF hate thread in the comics forum. I was just fucking with you.

As for OP, I suggest taking some panels from the most recent CAD comics. They deal with miscarriages. Making something funny out of that will give you personal glee. Trust me. But that, also, on it's own, is not funny.

Sorry.

Text misunderstandings are ruining my life.

Also.

PBF comics is funny.

No one can trust a man on a gaming forum that doesn't play games.

Also, stop trying to state lies as fact. You're killing me here. There are 1, maybe 2, funny PBF comics. One involves a weaboo. And depending on how far the third moon of Xatlu IV is from Tyquando, another involves Little Mac getting punched right in the gob by the Earth.

That is fact. As such:

Some PBF comics are funny. Where "some" equals "2."

Meanwhile, the rest are overrated, badly drawn trashticles.

But then, funny is also a sliding scale. For example, if I were homeless, watching someone's house burn down while they were trapped inside would probably be funny to me. Very funny. Especially if it was the guy who made me homeless and I didn't start the fire. In fact, that's the basis of The Sims right? Obviously funny. Now, PBF comics, you'd have to be in quite the state for it to be funny. I'd have to be doped up with all sorts of happy pills to find it funny. it's not that my bar for 'funny' is higher. I laugh at dick and fart jokes. It's just fact that PBF, as a comic, is not funny. It's sandwiched firmly between White Ninja and Mary Worth. Mary Worth being the "funniest" of the 3. Once again, sliding scale.

Your funny is broken.

Achewood

No, no, stop this right now. You know what happens when Achewood gets mentioned. Just stop it right the fuck there.

I hear Serek Dmart is a big Achewood fan.

There are funny webcomics? I've yet to see one.

How about this one?

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20080602

Blerg, read the next few comics on that.  I hate it when web comics make attempts to be serious.  There really really bad at it.

Oh, and while I know this is pretty much standard info for everybody on the entire internet: Schild Sucks.  News at 11.

WTF? The awesome pictures thread delivered. You people aren't even trying in here.

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You could probably find something here: http://plif.courageunfettered.com/index.htm

I was going to suggest XKCD, but I wasn't sure how well it would translate into a physical medium.

Ctrl+Alt+Del is golden most of the time, I personally prefer it to Penny Arcade.

XKCD is funny when the author is not being fucking weird about girls.

The models from Terror Island (http://www.terrorisland.net/) are easily reproducible, and the comic is generally inoffensive.  Funny if you like jokes about philosophy, math, and groceries.

Alien Loves Predator (http://alienlovespredator.com/) might work, too.  It's got one of your model requirements in it.

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Not funny at all.

Seriously, you never played where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Also, hard to find a comic that meets his "work safe" requirement.

You're broken.

Obviously, this is the most reasonable assumption.

I played them both, it's still barely funny. The bobcat one was actually funnier.

You are both soulless robots.

Binary is not any more or less expressive than base 10. A "binary fraction" is not different from a normal fraction. What the author means here is a fraction in the form of x/2^n, AKA a fraction with a power of 2 denominator.

Math nerd humor fails when the math is wrong.

Also Carmen Sandiego is too hot to settle for Waldo.

She sure is a looker...

(http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/033.jpg) (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-06-25)

(http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs11/300W/i/2006/195/4/d/Carmen_San_Diego___Pinup_by_SaraAlrister.jpg)

 :ye_gods: Stop!

Also if you want a challenge Dresden Codak has got a few comics that might translate well into animation. Bit big for a direct link (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/a_rpg.jpg)

May I suggest Copper?

http://www.boltcity.com/copper/

Every time people give SChild shit and say he has bad taste in stuff, I will link to this very post.

Dude, CAD is the worst webcomic. The WORST one. Ever. You should re-evaluate your life. Yes, because of a webcomic, it's THAT bad.

XKCD's author is a fucking creep.

I like www.nuklearpower.com (8 bit theater).  He's already animated his strip though, but, it could give you ideas.

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Oh wait, I thought you said a serious, completely unfunny comic with a writer who thinks he's hot shit but actually hasn't a clue.

Right. Carry on then.

Wrong. VGCats is worse.

You should sit on your hands if this is some sort of a knee-jerk "HURRRR ITS A FURRY COMIC" sort of thing. VGCats has actually made me laugh a few times, CAD has never. Also the artist of VGCats can sorta draw and isn't a proven piece of human shit. Not that he isn't only batting like 4/200+.

VGCats has its moments.  It misses more than it hits for me, but every now and again it makes me laugh.

CAD is right up down with UserFriendly as some of the worst crap out there.

Something I like a lot is Scary Go Round.  Something about his characters / humor / artstyle tends to just work for me (warning, most recent 2 weeks he's been taking a break and the guest art is pretty bleh).

Hell, his art has actually improved quite a bit over the years (vgcats guy).  That's one thing that I think differentiates the people who are actually trying from those that found their niche and are milking it for as much ad and merchandise revenue as they can get from minimal effort.  Every now and again I see a UserFriendly or CAD or whatnot and it's just as uniformly awful as it was 5+ years ago.  A number of webcomics I enjoy, I flip back to the archives and think "wow, he's come a long way since he started".

I'm willing to forgive really cheestacular art sometimes if somehow the writing massively compensates for it, but in general a webcomic, like any other visual dealie, I sort of want to not be eye-bleedingly-awful.

I'm pretty sure that if this doesn't make you laugh your funny chip is broken.

(http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/070802.jpg)

Beat me to it.  I was just flipping through the archives looking for that one.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=200 is also a favorite of mine, but the first FF game I played was FF7, so I am probably broken.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=96 does an unbelievable job of explaining the random party experience in FFXI (and, really, many other MMOs).  "My Toes Are Cold" has become a staple among friends I gamed with.

I think part of the problem here is that people assumed I thought CAD was funny. It's not funny. Comics don't have to be funny. Apparently webcomics mostly about gaming HAVE TO BE FUNNEH according to the loud netizens. VGCats _IS_ however supposed to be funny. Now, that Leo Used Poop comic pops up EVERY SINGLE TIME someone says it's not funny, much like the Warhammer stole from WoW PA comic. VGCats however is uniformly unfunny. 3 examples, the latter 2 in the thread not actually being funny, is a pretty bad sample from a 5+ year old webcomic.

Now, if CAD is supposed to be laugh out loud humorous, I missed the joke. I simply assumed otherwise. I throw CAD in with Questionable Content. Not necessarily supposed to be LOLLLLERIFFIC. I might be assuming incorrectly, and that's fine, because it makes them tolerable. VGCats is consistently meh. Also, nearly every single comic (of inconsistant release, fuck he's bad at keeping to ANY sort of schedule) in VGCats needs a tl;dr version. For serious. Except the poop one. Which again, is like the only funny and memorable one.

I certainly don't require that everything be laugh-out-loud funny.  I'm also not going spend time defending vgcats -- it amuses me every now and again, but it certainly misses more than it hits.  CAD just does not impress me.  Taking a quick look, I realize it is not eye-bleedingly-awful like UserFriendly (which features terrible art, terrible writing, and stupid lunix-user/fropen-source-targeted humor).

I've heard you bitch for years about wildly popular (penny-arcade, pvponline, vgcats) webcomics not being funny. In fact, I don't think you've ever mentioned a webcomic that you thought was any better than "one funny comic every so often".

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but
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Noes, not opinions, on the internets.

So uh, what's the one with the still shots of the three dinosaurs?

I happen to find that one mildly amusing.

FUCK PEOPLE AND THEIR HOUSES.

I AM BATMAN!

 :drill:

Dinosaur Comics (http://www.qwantz.com).  Easily my favourite webcomic.  Helps that Ryan North, the creator, is a fantastically nice guy.

VG Cats is worthless piece of shit. I don't get 95% of the strips, hell I don't even have a clue what niche console game author is reffering to. Hell, if PA requires several pages of explanation (according to Kurtz:P), VG Cats would need a tome of Britannica for every strip.

Even the poop comic sucks - the punchline  is so predictable it renders 2/3 of strip redundant.



BTW, have anyone mentioned Schlock?

Fantasically <noun> is a wonderful phrase. Thanks for reminding me.

Well done.

Also, xkcd really isn't so bad, I promise. My girlfriend really likes Rob + Elliot, but I just don't get it.

If it was possible for an opinion to be empirically wrong, it would be yours about CAD. It's a fucking terrible comic and quite possibly the worst one on the internet (even over the 50,000 sprite comics and Vendetta), it's indefensible. Buckley is the biggest hunk of shit ever to cut and paste his way onto the internet and he deserves his obscurity in the face of everything else on the internet meant to entertain people.

I don't know if it can be expressed in English exactly how wrong it is to find CAD even momentarily amusing.

Edit: Also, while I know that no one on earth honestly reads PVP, go check out the wedding arc he's finishing. It's a wonderful reason why he should have his fingers broken.

Outside of the anime ones, I'm not really sure what you're talking about when it comes to niche (http://www.vgcats.com/archive/).

Ok, so provide some linkage as to why Buckley is such a piece of shit.  There's a story here and I haven't heard it so now I'm interested.  I know the B^Uckley thing, but this is the first time I've heard reference to him, personally, being a piece of shit.

Woody, on the other hand, over at GU. Yeah, total tool. The more I find out about the guy the less I like him.


Didn't bother me.  Of course, I don't claim to be a hardcore gamer-geek, either.  The comic's moved beyond just being games and is into the characters for their own sake.  Yeah, he should write a different comic but that'd kill his marketing.  Since he makes his living off of it, I can't blame him for not doing that.  (Tho he's never seen a dime from me.)   It's still better than Garfield or Marmaduke or Dennis the Menace or Blondie.  Or, shit, come to think of it, it's better than ANYTHING that gets published in the daily paper that I've seen.  The sole exception being Boondocks, but I don't get to read that anymore because it's Too Black and scared the Cincinnati Enquirer into dropping it.  :awesome_for_real:

The man takes no constructive criticism, and pretty much bans anyone who offers any on his forums. He cribs jokes from other comics which by itself is embarrassing since most webcomics are terrible, but after ripping a few PA strips and getting called out on it says, "I haven't read PA in 2 years." Nah, you haven't read the example of how to make a living off a webcomic in 2 years, my fucking ass.

Oh right, and there's the thing where he sent pictures of his cock to an underaged girl.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tim_Buckley  (NOT WORK SAFE)

Amazingly the ol' encyclopediadramatica is pretty on the spot this time.

I can't even begin to scratch the surface of why the comic itself is terrible. There's a nearly 1250 page topic dedicated to CAD and other shitty comics on Something Awful and CAD dominates most of those pages.

Looking the characters up on Wiki, I note that the female character miscarried a child.

Yeah, that must have been a hilarious arc.

Fuck sake.

CAD doesn't offend me.  It doesn't make me laugh, either.  It's just the most average, most bland webcomic out there.

Some comics I DO like that aren't as well known:  http://threepanelsoul.com/ (http://threepanelsoul.com/)

No, today's isn't especially funny.  But it usually makes me laugh, and there's a nice variety of art styles. 

Also: http://samandfuzzy.com/ (http://samandfuzzy.com/)

This one is a little tough if you start from the beginning, because the first year or so was, well, really bad and had that not so subtle webcomic-about-the-author's-life thing.  However, later on, the art improves dramatically as do the jokes and storylines.

Some good Three Panel Souls:

http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2006-11-13 (http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2006-11-13)
http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-04 (http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-04)
http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-24 (http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-24)
http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-09-11 (http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-09-11)

I'd recommend people new to Sam and Fuzzy start reading at the beginning of the Noosehead Story Arc (http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=566) and read the older stuff afterwards, if they like it.

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Oh, yeah.  Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/).

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I'm starting to agree with schild here. 99.9 percent of webcomics are just sad. That said, I really liked Oots, but I doubt I will ever find anything even remotely as fun. Note I said fun. Not funny, although it is funny here and there, its just more about the fun.

Girl Genius is good if you like Steampunk. It's got a story and drama, but the writer is obviously having fun and doesn't take it too seriously.  He knows he's writing a serial comic, not the next great novel.  www.girlgeniusonline.com

LFG is good for the episodes with Richard.  Without him it gets too serious and approaches silly fantasy melodrama as all the other characters are 'serious'.  www.lfgcomic.com

I actually love both PBF and White Ninja. The random humor always interests me. Same reasone Tales Designed to Thrizzle was so damn good.

Schild: Really, your dislike for PBF has always irked me. That strip is freaking great and honestly  Nicholas Gurewitch is a really talented artist. I am constantly surprised everytime I hear you talk smack cause I always assume you woke up and stopped being full of crap. You know that strip is good. You know it.

(http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/080211.jpg)

I suggest we find better images and take them to one of the 5 image threads on pg1 of this board...    :pedobear:

Those Carmen Sandiego shots are making me think of rule 34 for some reason...  :pedobear:

PvP and CAD IMHO can be funny.  They can also be pompous and preachy.  Luckily I don't have to pay money to read either of em, so I can read em, laugh at the funny ones, and ignore the non-funny ones.  And steer well clear of their blogs.

VGCats is very hit and miss.  When he hits, hes fantastic.  The Pacman one ie this one (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=136) is pure art, albeit one of those melty watch Dali paintings. 

XKCD can be good too when they're not talking about maths problems that I just don't understand.  It does make the maths nerd in my office laugh all the time though.

Anyone who disagrees with these opinions is clearly a subhuman form of life and needs to DIAF.

Hahaha.  That pacman one is awesome, thanks for that.

I'll second LFGComic if you haven't read it yet.  It's good times from beginning.

Here's a hilarious one from Dinosaur Comics:
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/chuckle

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 :drill:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! hahahahaha

That was freaking fantastic!!

HA HA HA!

I know right.  Christ, I nearly pissed myself in the office.

(for those who don't get the reference (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xIhKRKSpvbI))

Pure win.

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Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net (http://"http://www.explosm.net/")

Edit for context: The :words: in the final panel were in a newspost the CAD author made recently.  :awesome_for_real:

fixed link - Samwise

Your personal life influences your art. That's the inevitability of artistic movements.

Still, you should realize your original goals of a webcomic, which is to make people laugh. The moment you get all Lisa Simpson on shit, you lose your stranglehold on the audience.

Alright how about my ms paint of the Office: Ass Effect

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I'm so depressed that ME mirrors my RL. It doesn't matter what I say, I still end up with the goddamn assignment. The only difference my response made is probably described best by the Mass Effect official strat guide:
I felt very very down when I read that sentence.