New Webcomics Thread is Tremendously Magnificent

Amake · 02-24-2010, 09:18 AM

My own research shows most humor is based on absurdity. See Incongruity-resolution theory.

But that's beside the point. I can't make sense of your complaints about VG Cats. It's based on shock value, yet it overworks its punch lines? It's cheap and unimaginative, but still packed with too much material?

Comics work best when overloading the reader with information, you know. Look at Watchmen for the extreme example. But it works on a smaller level here, making a strip that demands a minute or two to read and interpret it, but offers a lot in return. (Nine jokes are still more than one.) It's something quite unique to comics, and a part of why I like them. What the Rare Candy strip loses in initial impact, it more than makes up with lasting appeal and material for debates such as this one. The BITF strip could have been a five second gag in a Jay Leno monologue if he was a little nerdier, and worked just as well. Who's going to care about it ten years from now?

Yeah, it might have been funnier at first, depending on your preference, but we're not exactly talking about any busted ribs, are we? Be honest: Did anyone here even crack an audible giggle?

02-24-2010, 09:18 AM	#11
Amake Keeper of the new Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: A place without judgment Posts: 4,506	My own research shows most humor is based on absurdity. See Incongruity-resolution theory. But that's beside the point. I can't make sense of your complaints about VG Cats. It's based on shock value, yet it overworks its punch lines? It's cheap and unimaginative, but still packed with too much material? Comics work best when overloading the reader with information, you know. Look at Watchmen for the extreme example. But it works on a smaller level here, making a strip that demands a minute or two to read and interpret it, but offers a lot in return. (Nine jokes are still more than one.) It's something quite unique to comics, and a part of why I like them. What the Rare Candy strip loses in initial impact, it more than makes up with lasting appeal and material for debates such as this one. The BITF strip could have been a five second gag in a Jay Leno monologue if he was a little nerdier, and worked just as well. Who's going to care about it ten years from now? Yeah, it might have been funnier at first, depending on your preference, but we're not exactly talking about any busted ribs, are we? Be honest: Did anyone here even crack an audible giggle? __________________ Hope insistent, trust implicit, love inherent, life immersed Last edited by Amake; 02-24-2010 at 09:22 AM.