"[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seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated.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.
Carl==LEVIATHAN
ReplyDeleteConclusion: Carl should never leave!
ReplyDeleteKidding, I heart Rob too. And about that DC, I thought it was a little funny, but mostly because I enjoyed the phrase "It's Foreshadowing taking off her negligee!" But perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if it had made some sort of pun on the term "flash."
I liked the DC.
ReplyDeleteBTW, XKCD is pretty bad today. Have fun.
Ah crap I linked to the wrong dino comic. CLICK AGAIN it will show you one that is not as good.
ReplyDeleteIt's like he was quoting directly from http://www.tvtropes.org/
ReplyDeleteGotta be careful with a blog founded on hatred: that hate can get out of control and burn the bloggers (nice comment juggling, Rob).
ReplyDeleteAh, I agree! I did not enjoy today's too much either.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed today's Dinosaur Comics (thanks for reminding me to read it, by the way). To me it does random humor right, where that baseball xkcd failed at absurd humor. The play on words in panel 5, combined with the completely bonkers example it pertains to, and Utahraptor's reaction... and then T-Rex just keeps going, clearly so swept up in his imagination that he's stopped caring if his audience (Utahraptor) understood what he was saying in the first place... well, I find it quite funny. I've always been a fan of using pointlessly weird analogies to explain mundane theories.
ReplyDeleteThat and I love the dialogue in the alt text. I can almost feel the awkward tension between Shakespeare and T-Rex :-)
Look guys - we've been through a lot of hate together here at Carl's place. We've fought the Cuddlefish, mocked the forumites, and made witty banter in the comments section. However, no matter how stressful, how divisive, how violent things got, there was always one thing of which we could be sure:
ReplyDeleteEverything is better than Electric Retard.
omigod poore why did you ever type those words
ReplyDeletei wanna tear my eyes out of my head
fuck my curiosity
Calm the fuck down?
ReplyDeleteThat's it man, game over man, game over! :-p
You may have seen this already, but apparently someone registered xkcdsucks.com.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it's godawful.
SORRY AMANDA
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason I didn't make it a link. Electric Retard is like an unfunny version of LegoRobot Comics. It is terrible and I hate it.
Dinosaur comics was ever good?
ReplyDeleteJay, yeah, it's pretty bad... but the best one is actually okay.
ReplyDeleteAlso poore, it's okay. I've blocked most of it out of my mind. Let's just never speak of it again, yes?
ReplyDeleteAlas, the other xkcdsucks website is unfortunate. I can't imagine that anything will come of it though, so I'm just going to ignore it and hope he's paying a lot for that URL.
ReplyDeleteGuys, guys, what if the other xkcdsucks is actually just Randall making fun of us?
ReplyDeleteThat's preposterous! Such a tactic is a) way too meta and b) requires way too much original thought for it to be Randall's work.
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