
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Comic 419: Forks and Spoons

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"[a] vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a silly and harmless comic."
Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.
I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.
Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.
Isn't that a knife at the end? I dunno. I don't get this one. "powerful forces"=cutlery coming to life?
ReplyDeleteApparently. And that does kind of look like a knife - maybe he killed them out of jealousy? No one wants to breed him. I would be jealous.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, I don't really ever thing spork jokes are funny. Maybe I got tired of them in middle school? I am just never impressed with them.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a Jurassic Park reference that I didn't get because I never saw the movie. Did I give Randy too much credit?
ReplyDeleteOk now you are just mean. This comic was funny. It is parody to all those movies where scientist create something that gets out of control. Jurasic Park is an obvious example but by no means the only one.
ReplyDeleteArgh. I actually enjoyed this one.
ReplyDeleteThe "we're dealing with powerful forces here" is meant to be funny in a way which I don't know the word for.
RE: last (most recent) post
ReplyDeleteDoes enjoying a comic really necessitate the "Argh" onomatopoeia? I'll admit that xkcd's funny-ness lacks consistency, however once in a while when Randall delivers an insightful humorous or witty social comment one could at least be grateful for the dozen or so decent comics he has brought to the global community.
The humor comes from the lack of information as to how it got out of hand.
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