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heartless guttersnipe (parsimonia) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-26 10:32:00

Entry tags:

medium: webcomic

What would an internet-wide webcomic crossover event look like?

From Least I Could Do.

Love the line at the bottom: "If you read ONE webcomic this year, I have a bicycle!" (Although technically that looks like a tricycle, but whatever. =) )

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	blake_reitz 2009-03-26 10:10 am UTC (link)
	It took me a second to figure out what the floating sphere to the left was, then I realized it was the head of the stick-figure from xkcd. (Reply to this)

	drsevarius 2009-03-26 10:18 am UTC (link)
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	parsimonia 2009-03-26 10:19 am UTC (link)
	Oh god. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-03-26 10:44 am UTC (link)
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	parsimonia 2009-03-26 10:49 am UTC (link)
	Dude! I think you just discovered the short-form for "ZOMG"! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jesidres 2009-03-26 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	I personally love Yahtzee's response to that...er...sordid episode in misogyny. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-03-26 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	do you have a link? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jesidres 2009-03-26 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.serverplus.netvideos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics although The Escapist seems down at the moment. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	joysweeper 2009-03-28 10:47 am UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-03-26 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	This never, ever gets old. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thandrak 2009-03-26 10:56 am UTC (link)
	I suspect strongly that this was done out of extreme insanity at NEWW last weekend. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-03-26 10:57 am UTC (link)
	Hahaha, I didn't think of that, but probably. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-03-26 11:00 am UTC (link)
	Looks like the real artists. The style matches really well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mr_anon_y_mous 2009-03-26 11:22 am UTC (link)
	But the B^U's not B^U enough. The joke is that Tim Buckly can't draw more than one face. /yellow text box (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-03-26 11:49 am UTC (link)
	Nope. All of that was done by the guy who does LICD. His style is apparent in all of 'em. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-03-26 11:29 am UTC (link)
	What, no VGCats? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-03-26 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I'd be more interested in this if I recognized more of these characters. The only two guys from webcomics I read regularly are Richard from LFG and THAC0 from Goblins. I mean wheres the representation from Sluggy Freelance or Order of the Stick or Gunnerkrigg court? Hell, I'd do with some Dominic Deegan or Dresden Codak. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jesidres
2009-03-26 11:53 am UTC (link)

Pete doesn't read other webcomics, which is why it's extremely rare to see his involvement with anything, and Gunnerkrigg is being published by Dark Horse (and in England, so I don't think they were at the event) so they're not going to really want to put that in their daily comic. Dresden is on semi-hiatus as he works on his TV pilot. And Dominic Deegan's too involved with the Gary Stu to share the limelight with someone else...

Actually, I'm surprised they got PVP and Penny Arcade to chip into this.

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	parsimonia 2009-03-26 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	Every time I see the name "PVP", I think "PWP". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jesidres 2009-03-26 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	And let's be honest, most of the time, there wouldn't be that much of a difference. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stranger_dan 2009-03-26 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	Nobody "chipped in". It is just some fan art. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jesidres 2009-03-26 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	Aaaah, I thought this was an actual event spawned by the Webcomics Weekend. Makes more sense. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-03-26 11:44 am UTC (link)
	No Order of the Stick? No Sinfest? No 8-bit Theater? DDD: (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-03-26 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	See? It's just like a real comics crossover event! Nobody's happy with it! =) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-03-26 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	If I only read one webcomic this year, it sure as hell is not going to be any of these [expletive deleted]. ~~Well ok, XKCD maybe..~~ (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-03-26 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	No love for Something Positive? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ian_karkull 2009-03-26 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	I used to absolutely adore SP way back when, but I feel like it lost most of it's razor sharp wit about 3 or 4 years back. That, or I'm just getting old and grumpy. Either way, R.K. Milholland's current stuff does nothing for me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-03-26 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Old and Grumpy? That seems to be Something Positive's stock and trade! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dejadrew 2009-03-26 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	What's wrong with Girls with Slingshots? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-03-26 12:12 pm UTC (link)
	No "Butterfly" or "Evil Inc" or "Real Life"... actually, I think I'm quite glad about all of those not being included. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-03-26 02:21 pm UTC (link)
	Not an original idea, exactly. (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-03-26 03:30 pm UTC (link)
	Surely I can't be the only one thinking/hoping that Faye would give Ryan's lecherous asshole author-avatar the kick in the crotch he deserves many times over. (And then Aubrey and PeeJee would come along while he's doubled over, and the next few panels are blacked out.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-03-26 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	That is probably what would happen if it were in Something Positive. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-03-26 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	I'd settle for a crossover between Penny Arcade and Looking for Group, simply because I'd love to see Richard and Tycho and Gabe interacting. (Reply to this)

	scottyquick 2009-03-26 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	Really, if you only read one webcomic let it be Vampirates. Canadian. Vampire. Pirates. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ravenjade 2009-03-26 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	I really, really liked Vamirates but then.. it got needlessly yaoi-ish? It's getting better again now that it's going closer to plot driven stuff. XD (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-03-26 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	There is ALWAYS a need for yaoi, my good ma'am. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ravenjade 2009-03-26 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	But.. but Hassan was so ANGSTY. D= (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-03-26 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	HASSAN was angsty? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-03-26 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	I'm coming to the conclusion that webcomics are a very divisive subject... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-03-26 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Well you're wrong! But no, seriously, I just don't think of Hassan as angsty. I'm a tad behind on it, but Hassan? Angsty? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

parsimonia
2009-03-26 09:14 pm UTC (link)

I don't know, I don't know who Hassan is or what he's like.

But really, I was just kind of voicing my surprise at people's reactions to this post in general. I'm not a big fan of Least I Could Do, and the only webcomic references I got from it was XKCD and Something Positive (in fact, I only found it because I follow Randy Milholland on Twitter and he linked to it).

But I saw it, and thought it was a funny/weird way of making fun of Marvel/DC crossover events, the peeing dude aside. So the fact that it is so divisive was surprising and kind of fun.

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besamim
2009-03-26 05:25 pm UTC (link)

Whew! For a moment there I thought that was a promo spot for an actual crossover. But it's just a gag.

Webcomic crossovers are like those general "website awards" everyone used to give each other twelve years ago. That is, they were all the rage once but crossovers quickly played themselves out and pretty much no webcartoonists do them anymore. At most one might see the odd background cameo of someone else's character(s) in a single strip, but even those are getting less frequent. Particularly for those webcomics that have moved from gag-a-day to ongoing storylines with a large cast and backstory, having characters from other webcomics pop in, even in the background, just doesn't seem plausible.

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	suzene 2009-03-26 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Response: 2 parts "ew!" 1 part "I stopped reading most of these due to lack of funny some time back" 1 part "Shouldn't Scott Kurtz be huffing or something about this by now?" (Reply to this)