*unlocks the dark vault*
okay first off a lot of people do not seem to know this so I'm going to share this story.
a while back this woman named Jade Raymond was hired by the Assassin's Creed people to be their lead. Raymond didn't have the best credentials but looked a bit okay so gamers started saying LOOK AT THIS THEY HIRED A SLUT. I should point out as far as I know Raymond did nothing to deserve this other than 1. take a job and 2. look normal. a guy named Dave Cheung did a pretty disgusting comic where it showed all these fat nerds being sucked off by Raymond, ending with a bukakke and BUY ASSASSIN'S CREED.
I'd like to reiterate: Raymond did nothing to deserve this at all! now what happened afterwards got a bit of netpress because some dude at SA posted it and Ubisoft tried to cease and desist it, all of which is rather stupid and they deserve the response blah blah but here is the aftermath:
-no one stopped buying Assassin's Creed.
-Jade Raymond still has an unfair reputation of being an industry whore, and all the nerds clapped each other on the back
-Dave Seung got a lot of nerd pride and still has about five hundred megs of child porn out there WHOOPS.
yeah the guy who drew the original comic was for years one of the biggest pedo artists out there. look up Scribblekid if you really want but I have my limits. there's fucking loads of it. in a nice twist by the way, his terrible comic for years charged you like twenty dollars and you got a picture of one of his characters in a bikini or showing her panties. he also filled his comic with that shit, you can go look at that terrible fucking thing but it's boring as shit. it's called Chugworth Academy.
basically a pedophile accused an otherwise innocent woman of whoring out for the industry while dressing his characters in scantily clad outfits and begging for money.
that's not even one of the ones I was thinking of, but it's a good intro into the kind of person we're dealing with here as Seung btw has published a book of Chugworth Academy.
here's ED's terrible entry about it where they ignore the fact that they have Seung's art under webcomics as an example of violence and child porn (calling him a "webcomic artist"). idk if there's something to sperg about it's the high horse a pedo has over a fucking employee.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Ubisoft#Jade_Raymondokay now let's get to the great shit.
-a popular trend in webcomics is to start out with a gag comic and slowly fall into horrible drama plotlines. a good example is the atrocious Ctrl Alt Del miscarriage plotline, something so bad Buckley not only saw a so far permanent hit in visitor numbers but has been deinvited from comic book expos and basically become known as a joke. it is because webcomic authors mostly suck at everything.
Squidi became famous back in I think 01, and our own Hiretsukan had a part in it! Squidi made a sprite comic that he insisted was pixel art. so when a Penny Arcade member used one of his characters for a template, he contacted PA with a legal threat. bad move, as a bunch of people started to steal his sprites. turns out Squidi is a humorless dick, and Hiret made a squidi character generator that got passed around and Squidi ran away and most everyone forgot about him BUT NOT PEO!!!
Squidi tried to relaunch his comic a few times until he realized when he was just running a
shitty (look at those gradients man. also for a pixel artist, he sure didn't notice
his eyepatch was moving) gag strip he had more of an audience and went back to it but decided it's time for a horrible plot again!
okay just context: this isn't the first time Squidi has "challenged" his audience. here is a completely out of place swear:
http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=2&id=89here is the pixel artist showing us not one
http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=2&id=79 but two massacres of innocents
http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?ep=1&id=246 so much...blood...
okay I'm getting bored but he also tackles wonderful issues like abortion and actually had a sidecomic that is just the gooniest fucking thing and you're like UGH YOU SAY THAT ABOUT EVERYTHING but click this shit:
http://www.squidi.net/comic/aaa/index.phpbut none of this compares to what I'm about to link. I'm not even going to provide context, okay, just remember this was not done as a joke!
http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=3&id=85go forward about two clicks and you will experience a wonderful time.
the only reason squidi hasn't become a name with anyone is because after his comic collapsed the first time almost no one remembered him but me and so you can see his decline into insanity.
jesus christ that took longer than I thought I will speed this up.
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Goblins first came into the limelight when fairly terrible webcomic Order of the Stick got popular and people started looking for their next fix of stupid D&D jokes. it has the quickest turnaround from comedy to drama I've seen in a while but HOLY SHIT this is one ugly piece of shit. every character is melted. why!!! I'm not even sure if the artist is talented because EVERYONE HAS A MELT FACE. it's also unbelievably violent. I don't mean that as an exaggeration, I mean the violence is honest to god unbelievable because the characters still shout D&D shit like I'VE TAKEN -5 DAMAGE while
someone is impaled through the throat and gags out blood. I mean holy shit this thing is ugly and violent. his money shilling gimmick is pretty awful too; he puts some fan character named Tempts Fate against supposedly unbeatable puzzles and you have to donate up to some amount to see how Tempts Fate will get out of it. it's pretty awful.
but Goblins is particularly amazing not just because of little ugly meltface people killing each other in the worst ways possible (flip to like any page seriously, he has prolonged torture scenes and everything) but because of an SA thread that I think everyone here passed around. the thread was something like WHAT IMAGE ALWAYS MAKES YOU CRY NOT FROM SADNESS BUT FROM ITS POWER and it was mostly stupid shit like a soldier crying from his dead buds or whatever but then someone posted this and it was honestly the funniest fucking thing at the time:
http://www.goblinscomic.com/d/20061223.htmlth...thank you blobbo.
-lastly here is a good one that I also don't need to write much about.
Better Days[url=http://www.jaynaylor.com/catalog.html]furry porn] is Jay Naylor's sideproject. I say side project because the dude makes a comfortable living selling LOTS of [url=http://www.jaynaylor.com/catalog.html]furry porn, I mean, fucking loads of this shit.
Naylor himself, by the way, is completely fucking insane. I mean he's a confurvative, somehow more CONSERVATIVE than he is furry, and his shitty webcomic reflects it. it's also pretty racist, sexist, hell any negative you want to apply fits, so I'm just going to link this pretty good break down instead of doing it myself:
http://www.crushyiffdestroy.com/show/bdayswhat's great about better days though is an arc the writer of the above missed. once again I don't want to spoil this incredible shit so I'm just going to link the whole chapter.
http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/chapter-10-brothers-arms/he also did draw a porn comic about this I can't find so no the implication is not something only you are picking up!
that's three and I'm tired but if you spent an hour in the archives of any of these sites your head will probably feel really bad for the rest of the day.