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Stupid computer, be more funny!

I don’t know if it’s just extremely lowered expectations after the riveting Bat-porn series of strips, but I actually found this one kind of funny.

Yes, it’s a shame that not every webcomic is like Penny-Arcade or VGCats that ends with cuss words and violence. Where are the cliches? There should be a smart angry person and a dumb happy person.

Yeah, that Bat-porn thing went on way too long for way too few laughs. Definite improvement.

I like the first four panels.

erm… I don’t get it.

Definitely improving.

Nice!!

Above average for this strip, below average for the funny.

I didn’t know that Nighthawk’s second cousin was a Skrull!

I can’t tell which I enjoy more: the comic strip, or the endless parade of comic-book fans that “don’t get it” or don’t find it funny because the joke is ABOUT THEM.

I can’t tell which I enjoy more: the comic strip, or the endless parade of comic-book fans that “don’t get it” or don’t find it funny because the joke is ABOUT THEM.

Speak for yourself. I get that the joke is about comic fans. I just find it’s poorly told– it uses way more panels than it needs to make its payoff (my common complaint about this strip– it lets things drag over six redundant panels when 2-3 would do) and it treats a guffaw at best as though it were a laugh out loud gag from Berke Breathed in his prime.

I’m glad you like it. I’m glad the creators enjoy it. But not everyone finds it funny and it’s not because they lack a sense of humour about their fannishness.

How come there’s a sign on the comic shop, and a sign on the copy shot, but not on the other building?

Get too lazy Brandon?

If you guys aren’t going to put effort in to making this strip, then why should I put effort in to clicking the link, reading it, and then writing comments about how much I hate you?

Also, if you read Secret Invasion: Power Pack #3, you’ll see that the night hawk thing was a fake out, and it was actually Lady Master Mind pretending to be a Skrull, pretending to be Nighthawks second cousin - but by the clues dropped in Secret Invasion: Alpha Flight #2, I think that it’s going to be revealed that it was a skrull pretending to be lady master mind, pretending to be a skrull, pretending to be Nighthawk’s second cousin…. crafty Bendis, crafty.

and it treats a guffaw at best as though it were a laugh out loud gag from Berke Breathed in his prime.

The strip itself treats it’s gags as funnier than they are?

Maybe it’s just aiming to give you a chuckle - is there anything wrong with that?

A chuckle would be a vast improvement, this thing is terrible.

I can’t tell which I enjoy more: the comic strip, or the endless parade of comic-book fans that “don’t get it” or don’t find it funny because the joke is ABOUT THEM.

Well all you’ve shown me is that you know nothing about me.

A chuckle would be a vast improvement, this thing is terrible.

And yet every week you click the link…

While I realise that neither of the creators have disagreed with this, but as this is a comic about CRITISING other comics, it’s hardly fair for it not to be able to be critised. For instance if someone was to critise my reasoning here I wouldn’t like it, but they fully have the right to. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Oh and Joe, “cuss words and violence”? How many years is it since you stopped reading Penny Arcade? South Park used to be all about poo jokes as well, it hardly seems far to critise it about that now.

I’m becoming a little event-exhausted with this one. I do like it, but it’s been slacking for a while, huh?