xkcd vs. MATT

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/rockaway.jpg

Bit of context from Spamusement:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6972/picture9xy5.png

NONONO NOT THAT ONE, I MEANT THE ONE WITH THE FLYING DUDE

ARGH WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM, TOM????

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/06/matt.gif

Clear winner here is MATT.

Isn't there some spoof of MATT in Private Eye or Viz? Like a UK version of The Onion's Kelly?

sorry dan but you do like to laugh at random death and maiming y/n
that's all I was getting at
btw the one you actually claim to have found funny is also terrible

Yeah, but it has a drug reference in it.

xp to bodrick, matt isn't the only single-panel topical cartoonist in the uk papers. There was Austin in the Guardian, but he dead.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

also pugh in the times and the godawful rick brookes in the metro.

bugger

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

At first, I thought this said, It turns out you can't take turns taking responsibility for someone else's happiness.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/helping.png

Which is like a mutual-assistance pact of sorts, but she obv fell down on the job.

xp to bodrick, matt isn't the only single-panel topical cartoonist in the uk papers. There was Austin in the Guardian, but he dead.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

also pugh in the times and the godawful rick brookes in the metro.

-- ledge, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:03

Oh yeah, course. (The Metro fella is well rubbish, you're right.) But this parody seemed to be directed at some centre-right bod like MATT.

Haven't bought a Private Eye in a while but don't remember any parodies like that. Seems like it would be a bit of a nebulous target, he's mostly harmless and often funny - unlike the ones the onion satirises.

lol ile losing its shit about harmless geek comic shocka

lol shocka

I picked matt for the other option here having never really read any of his stuff, but it turns out he has a way better strike rate than, say, the New Yorker cartoons and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> xkcd

I don't mind a couple of xkcds, like the one about having a bit of one's brain devoted to planning the ultimate treehouse is cool. Appeals to me, I love treehouses.

But ffs, the idea of the geeks acting out what he writes about - like the aforementioned coordinates park party, the stallman cape n goggles shit - jesus people, you make yrselves look bad enough with the Potter slashfic and land rights for poly whales bullshit. Just stop.

No, keep going; it will tell the aliens who to cull first.

Having said that, I'm pretty amused at how violently angry some ppl on this thread are getting over this. Keep it up, angry dudes.

No, keep going; it will tell the aliens who to cull first.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

or who to ignore as completely harmless and posing no threat to their domination whatsoever

HGWDYGAL?

i don't see what the big deal is. mocking lame-ass web comics is fun.

Pardon, but I think that ILX is above that kind of lowbrow buffoonery, latebloomer.

there's a very small handful of funnies that i can say were consistently good. calvin. far side. the vast majority suck about 95% of the time. i would say xkcd is better than that. artistically MATT is boring. it's also a bit novel that compared to your usual funny strips, xkcd could try occasionally to branch out of the standard thematic form. (even tho the melodramaticness of a few of those upthread feels like heartaching by the numbers.)

m.

my music history professor tried to tell us that hip-hop = swung sixteenth notes, rap = played straight lol

lolol

haha.

'what you know' - rap
'get it' - hip-hop

THIS GUY CAN'T EVEN DRAW GARFIELD????

This is the much stupider version of Ted Rall's beef with Art Spiegelman.

And that beef is no winner!

What's the worst online comic strip?

New today:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/techno.png

Just wow.

THE BOOMERS ARE KICKING OUR ASSES

hmmm might buy some techno on itunes today, anyone in?

i already wrote a program in c++ that loops itunes samples to make whole tracks of so-called techno "music" ;-)

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

passive remote trolling

proxy trolling

-Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape.

Noel Gallagher?

This thread needs an Exploding Dog Red Robot

http://cellar.org/pictures/redrobot.gif

bloody hell these xkcd comics are worse than ilx!

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

-- and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lolool

Stewie: All right, that's it! I could handle the crappy apartment and the pedestrian job, but now you're telling me I'm a 35-year-old Parade magazine reading virgin?! Well, you, sir, are pathetic! So forget about sending me back, because I'm not leaving until we do a complete overhaul on this sad thing you call "our life"!
Stu: Can I still read Parade?
Stewie: NO, YOU CANNOT STILL READ PARADE!

OK waht why did my bf laugh at that xkcd from last night. He is so dead.

quoting the direct-to-video family guy movie on a thread about how something isnt a funny is not a good look

I'm pushing the envelope.

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

-- and what, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:44 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

obama vs. hillary still #1

Classical music in general bores the living shit out of me, but I never tell anyone for fear of being thought "uncultured". Wagner = exception to this rule.

— Adolf Hitler