Tuesday 24 November 2015

Lazy November Post: Comics!



I bet everyone in their life enjoyed a comic strip or two. I decided to gather some info about the comics I enjoyed through my life, mostly for myself, but I bet someone can find something interesting here

1. Donald Duck was the first comic I remember enjoying, but since it's a rather childish stuff I wanna talk about way more mature comics connected to it- The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Now this is not only much more mature but also way more epic and meaningful.





2. Garfield was with me for a very long time, not very serious but had it's moments. Later books were much more interesting, with Jon finally getting along with Liz and presenting more stuff about relationships



3. Dilbert, office driven humor isn't for everyone, but I read this stuff as a kid, didn't understand more than a half of it and I still enjoyed the shit out of it. So many memorable characters and some one time characters were so good I wished to see them again.



4. Kid Paddle was the first comic I read about video games (gamers), while itself it was rather childish and no longer appealing to me it was fun "back then"



5. Człowiek Paroovka was the last comic I read on paper, only in Polish. Not very popular but it parodies many superhero stereotypes, has some funny moments for adults and some characters got their own comics later (Gang Wąsaczy). + Some action takes place in my actual town :D
And just how awesome is defeating evil Apocalipso by making him applause?



For years I was into webcomics, to the point where I myself wrote some scripts for smaller artists. I probably forgot to mention many great comics here but let me gather what I remember

1. Rotflpg was and still is the most important comic in my life. It came back a year or two ago now also in English. A team of dwarf, paladin and necromancer trying to fight an unwinnable battle against cruel Dungeon Master maybe lost the impact that it had on me years ago but still is fun to read. In English it loses a bit of the original humor but Greger is trying to make it funny anyway.



2. Concerned, a comic about Gordon Frohman, a lovable idiot and asshole in a world of Half Life 2. But many people unfamiliar with the game can still enjoy it to some level. Finished and never continued is still the best, funniest webcomics I've ever seen.



3. Bug City, another dead webcomic that is quite hard to find today, very vulgar, brutal and only in Polish, a comic showing a bit darker side of the Polish society. Still managed to be funny about it.



4. VG Cats is well known to video game fans, also connected to it Super Effective about Pokemon



5. Awkward Zombie, another mostly about video games, or the life of the artist, Katie



6. Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, ANOTHER comic about video games, I think I need a life :P



Internet is full of great webcomics, you can always find something for you. I grew tired of writing this lazy November post so I will end this here :P

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