xkcd vs. MATT

However much that Pinky Tuscadero up there's dad beat him as a child, it wasn't enough.

xkcd is for those among us who don't wallow in self-pity. It's for those of us who are filled with awe for the ordinary, not those who seek to fill emptiness with bland fiction.

It's for people with an intelligent sense of humor, not a chip on their shoulder.

http://www.froggyville.com/images/collect/thinkmac.jpg

ACHEWOOD REALLY ISN'T THAT FUNNY AND I DO NOT SEE WHY PEOPLE LIKE IT SO MUCH

Where's my Cat and Girl? Halfway up, far right (assuming "funny" can also mean "existentially stimulating")?

reading about xkcd has led me to shit like
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/hstrips/0/1/9/8/01987.png

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1277/1xlstc4jr2.png

otm

matt is like an inch above and to the right of xkcd

Milfwich sounds like one of the opposition teams in Roy of the Rovers

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

bad man

ts: emo xkcd vs. nerd jokes xkcd

oh god

dino comics is the only web comic that is any good at all and it is REALLY good

it actually took me weeks before i even realized that the drawings in dino comics were exactly the same in every strip

achewood >>>>>>>>>>>>> dino comics >>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

(PBF RIP)

xkcd is kinda like if the guy who does achewood took his meds and got a degree

no

i don't think there's any sequence of events that could lead to the achewood guy becoming the xkcd guy.

romanian orphanage?

that was a nice try at realistic humanoid observation, gabb-bot

it actually took me weeks before i even realized that the drawings in dino comics were exactly the same in every strip

-- Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:13 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

F'real.

are you calling me elitist, TH? ;)

people are bitter, they cling to achewood

maybe that guy would be funnier if he ate some arugula every once in a while

achewood is funny

sorry bros dinosaur comics isnt funny

that MATT 'views of the recession' is great!

Pet peeve: motherfuckers who consider themselves "insane".

I've enjoyed the occasional xkcd ("You're a cat!" was cute) but it's too damn painful overall. Like a lot of those indie and punk comics, it seems to eschew jokes for an "oh, I recognise that! This I like!" reaction. I see no other reason why anyone would give a shit about something like this:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png
Oh ho ho ho, you guys, Dennis the Menace did an SQL Injection on the school's server. That scamp! :^D

^^^ still on the fridge at my office

there's also one where blowing in NES cartridges is the 'punchline'

i think the dude thats on the somethingawful forums all day is responsible, dom otm

I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes

-- J0hn D., Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:49 (45 minutes ago)

hey guys, does anyone know how girls feel about the xkcd question?

(PBF RIP)

-- Jordan, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:14 AM (21 minutes ago)

wait what

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003712741

i didn't even know it was monthly, i thought he just stopped making PBF comics.

lol we have this one stuck up on the wall at work, I had no idea where it came from until this thread, you learn something every day.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png

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

hey guys, does anyone know how girls feel about the xkcd question?

-- caek, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The only girls that are aware of this that I know like to go to B@rcamp and dated the j@vascr1pt adv0cate for m0z1lla j0hn r3s1g. Also when I dated her we had "his and hers" Belle and Sebastian mugs making

it's schticks are "lol maths and physics exist and some programming languages are bad" and "i am a belle and sebastian fan with a moleskine"

OTM.

Achewood has the occasional miss but:
a.) The characters have consistent voices
b.) The stuff that completely fails is usually the weird concept shit, that's a gamble, at least
c.) Even if you don't like the adventures of five year old Phillippe, he's at least pretty consistent

I liked Diesel Sweeties a fair bit a few years back but don't look at it that much anymore, it's more good for one-note jokes and I don't tend to care about the characterization quite as much. xkcd geek jokes get passed around the office, but I really think it's guys in another area just reading it when a database pun gets posted to digg or something, I dunno. Dinosaur Comics has a few funny ones but same thing, I just read the occasional ones I'm sent.

Not experienced enough with this "Matt" comic to have a strong opinion.

there should be one about dudes on a message board arguing about internet comics

I don't think anyone's arguing here, DG! Everyone seems to agree that this comic totally blows.

you obviously haven't been here very long, xp :D

xkcd's "gamble" comics to me are the weird emo-suicide ones where they're all like "but if we could have love..." and some sort of boring shit with a guy sitting staring at stuff. Minimalist representations of the depth of the human condition don't work so good when your writing is better suited to dork jokes and the stick figures aren't doing anything

That Python comic will be wrong when 3.0 comes out in the summer and hello world becomes print('Hello world'). I bet he does a strip about that.

matt archive: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Matt/pMattTemplate.jhtml?pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/18/matt.gif

i laughed

^^ genius

xp

lots of lj goth girls like xkcd