xkcd

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i hate it when i am reminded that randall munroe and jeffrey rowland are friends.

Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 703

i don't know who that is

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Dezro wrote:

Super Mario wrote:

totally friggin' Bowser

best post in the thread by far

Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Illinois, USA

goatboner wrote:

i don't know who that is

he does overcompensating and wigu

he's also friends with jeph jacques though fyi

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oh ok

thanks

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:24 pm

Gosh the latest xkcd is just unmitigated horrible.

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so awful

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he's not even trying anymore

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:05 pm

seriously so incredibly retarded

Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Illinois, USA

I think he actually actively hates the cast of Firefly, and is seeing how much he can mock them before the browncoats in his fanbase revolt.

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randall munroe should not do story arcs

they're even worse than his regular ones

Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 155

I dunno guys, xkcd is what it is. It's like those transgender fetish comics -- there's no art in it (there's a better word but I forget it), and yeah it's pretty technically terrible on every level, but it sort of doesn't matter because the entire point is fanservice. For fetish comics, it's sexual; for xkcd, it's geek fanservice. And whatever, I've totally laughed out loud at more than one comic. (Remember the random number generator one? That was funny.)

That said, yeah, this storyline is pretty much shit. GUYS IT'S AN ACTOR WHO CAN'T DISSOCIATE HIS FICTIONAL WORLD FROM THE REAL ONE HOW ORIGINAL AND FUNNY RITE? NO? OH WELL IT'S FIREFLY THOUGH. Meh.

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:56 pm

Fermatprime wrote:

derp

Uh yeah that's the point of this thread. Thanks though

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:56 pm

I disagree. The latest ones are that, pure lame fanservice references, but xkcd is occasionally something like a real comic. Most of the time it's more of a comic (even if it's dumb) than this current story arc. But this is just pure terrible.

Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 155

Craftsmanship! That's the word I was looking for.

There's no sense of craftsmanship.

Anyway, eh, it's pretty much always largely been geeky fanservice. It just used to be pretty consistently clever geeky fanservice. Nowadays it seems like he just phones it in three times a week, which is sad. At least with something like Questionable Content you get the idea that Jeph Jacques really is trying as hard as he can to make his comic good. Randall Munroe I'm pretty sure just asks his friends to name something geeky-nostalgic, draws some stick figures referencing it, goes hug IT THAT'S ALL I WANT TO DO and plays in his ballpit.

Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Illinois, USA

my anus is a ballpit

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:39 pm

ive seen porn of that

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:47 pm

If you ask me Jeph's problem is that he tries too hard (especially when it comes to drawing lips).

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:36 pm

I honestly can't express how much I hate the current storyline. And I like Firefly and Nathan Fillion a lot. I think this is finally enough to make me unsubscribe to the RSS feed.

Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 1108 Location: PA

I saw the storyline referred to as a "meta-commentary on self-insertion fanfic" (Kris Straub's Twitter), which made me reread the week's strips... but... if that's what it is, I'm not seeing it.

(Though, Kris was possibly being ironic in that comment to begin with, I suppose.)

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:04 pm

Yeah, I saw that too but I don't see how just being a horrible self-insertion fanfic qualifies as commentary.

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I'm pretty sure Kris Straub has forgotten how to NOT be ironically detached.

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i enjoyed today's alt-text

(mostly because it's cute when detached from the storyline)

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guys I laughed at how terrible the ending of the storyline was. It was really terrible. From a dramatic standpoint, from a comedic standpoint, from lik every viewpoint imaginable.

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at this point munroe could just post a picture of goatse up every day and he'd lose like ten fans

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i would read that though

it would actually be about as clever as xkcd, although it would produce a more visceral reaction

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:32 am

goatboner wrote:

at this point munroe could just post a picture of goatse up every day and he'd lose like ten fans

and gain 11!

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:36 am

Also, to me the worst thing about xkcd had nothing to do with the comic or Randall. It's more that he has created a webcomic subgenre where people can draw horrible stuck figures and claim "you just don't get it" to anyone who calls them on it.

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kind of like bob and george or 8bit theater

Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Illinois, USA

look guys it's NOT THAT EASY, i would know. i tried drawing horrible stick figures and being a condescending douchebag to my readers, it didn't work.