"[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seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated.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.
Randall mailed you a free copy of his book? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteRetrograde. Wait, can we stop doing this now?
ReplyDeleteRandall's publisher*
ReplyDeleteSquee!
ReplyDeletewow, classy of them. did you ask for a copy or did they do it on their own accord?
ReplyDeleteYou know, I used to think that complaints here about Randall's art going downhill were unjustified, and then I saw this comic. Lord.
ReplyDeleteThis makes you an OFFICIAL CRITIC now! Many congratulations!
ReplyDeleteEr. #647, that is. In case I wasn't perfectly clear. I suspect using a tablet instead of scanning pencil-and-ink is making him even more artistically lazy than he used to be.
ReplyDeleteSeriously?
ReplyDeleteWow. We are recognized critics!
Muhahahahahah
Being recognized critics means that we're one step closer to being "notable" or whatever it is that you have to be to get into a Wikipedia article. Soon those wikipedia douchebags won't have anymore excuses to keep this blog out of the "XKCD" article.
ReplyDelete... and that's all that matters, right Fred?
ReplyDeleteOf course.
ReplyDeleteFred's right, if a webcomic is notable enough to get away with vandalizing wikipedia, so should their foremost critic.
ReplyDeleteSchool's going up, won't be called xkcd.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that this incredibly stupid site relies entirely on xkcd.
ReplyDeleteI must say dont find the comic to be very funny (or comprehensible), but this entire site is just hilariously ridiculous
Please, continue to amuse me
of course we will, because this is all just for your benefit and we wouldn't DREAM of doing otherwise.
ReplyDeleteYou say Randall is lazy. Hello, where's the review for 647? Hypocrisy is baaaaad.
ReplyDeleteUntil Monday's comic goes up, Carl's not really obligated to post just yet.
ReplyDeleteespecially since this is Aloria's guest week and also SOP for Carl.
ReplyDeleteit's not hypocrisy because a) posting before the next comics goes up is my goal, nothing else, and b) this is nowhere close to my full time job, so I am not trying to be professional in the least.
ReplyDelete"The funny thing is that this incredibly stupid site relies entirely on xkcd."
ReplyDeleteWell duh you dumb fuck.
and xkcd relies entirely on 4chan and reddit.
ReplyDeleteOH SNAP.
hahahah
ReplyDeletebah-zing
I do have a bit of a problem with how this site criticizes Randall for his occasional poor timing and then sets a goal of getting its criticism up in the next 48 hours. Especially since by the time the criticisms come up most people are reading the next comic and talking about that in comments.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'll go post it on xkcdsuckssucks. After all, we have procedures for this type of thing.
Surely you don't want me to just post as soon as I can, do you? My posts require time and effort and research and things of that nature; to hurry me along would be to say that I should stop the attention to detail that I have long been known for.
ReplyDeleteor something.
also xkcd gave us reason to pick on its tardiness when it had "updates at midnight without fail" or whatever
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