tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post6694095152851773499..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 699: A Comedic AbortionCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40043502687866081502010-02-14T09:36:49.185-08:002010-02-14T09:36:49.185-08:00It bothers me that this entire review was centered...It bothers me that this entire review was centered around the fact that it's been done before... pretty much every joke has been done before, and is made funny by presenting it in a new way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-43976317350433881692010-02-11T21:51:48.610-08:002010-02-11T21:51:48.610-08:00"What, no love for Mencia?"
Nobody shal..."What, no love for Mencia?"<br /><br />Nobody shall ever love Mencia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-36010338765099401782010-02-10T17:00:17.173-08:002010-02-10T17:00:17.173-08:00This is like the "All x's are y's, th...This is like the "All x's are y's, therefore all y's are x's" fallacy, only even more blatantly stupid. "This particular Y is X, therefore all Y's are X's" I guess. You suck, anonymous 10:16ScottMcTonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-4630749979716718402010-02-10T15:27:37.536-08:002010-02-10T15:27:37.536-08:00--"@math_mage - read the title text. It says ...--"@math_mage - read the title text. It says all his experiments end with him being punched in the face by batman."<br /><br />Got that part.<br /><br />--"In the comic the character is punched in the face for flipping a coin and looking like two-face."<br /><br />Got that part.<br /><br />--"So wow, yes."<br /><br />Why? Does "getting punched in the face by Batman" ==> "Looking and acting like Two-Face"? That's backwards.<br /><br /> --"Unless all his other experiments make him look like some OTHER batman villain."<br /><br />Sure. Or maybe they just threaten Gotham City in general. Or maybe Batman punches him for being such an idiot. Whatever. In any of these cases, your mockery is misdirected.Math_Magehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14642323916552846153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-28775858094523925222010-02-10T13:21:10.107-08:002010-02-10T13:21:10.107-08:00I disagree. I got it on the first read-through.I disagree. I got it on the first read-through.R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20112644874627664752010-02-10T12:55:07.647-08:002010-02-10T12:55:07.647-08:00I didn't like the comic. Wasn't fond of th...I didn't like the comic. Wasn't fond of the layout. The fourth panel was smaller than the rest, to the point where I didn't mentally connect it to the rest of the comic. This is one of those comics that you are forced to read twice, or three times, or four, until you finally get it. At that point, what's the point of laughing?N'artnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26684551547474533902010-02-10T11:47:49.559-08:002010-02-10T11:47:49.559-08:00As with the other cuddlefish who posted, I origina...As with the other cuddlefish who posted, I originally laughed because random violence is funny. Then I realized it was a play on TwoFace.<br /><br />I did actually laugh, so it's God-like in quality by the standards of recent XKCD strips. I don't know if I'm prepared to call it "good" by other standards though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-29486494759471162292010-02-10T11:16:12.853-08:002010-02-10T11:16:12.853-08:00I haven't even been posting lately but I just ...I haven't even been posting lately but I just had to comment on good 'ole 700 -_-<br /><br />To be blunt. I didn't get it. And it seems to me that a lot of people didn't get it on the first read through. I finished reading it and went, "Oh, it is supposed to be that disfigured guy whose name I never remember? How are we supposed to get that?" <br /><br />Apparently I didn't remember the coin flipping thing but since I didn't remember his name either... I haven't seen any of the semi-recent Batman films so I'm running completely on having last watched Batman over 8 years ago so I was apparently the wrong audience for this comic but REALLY. It seems way too complicated for five panels and I've been thinking about it on and off all day and I still have no idea how this joke could work. I... just... can't imagine it as funny. When Doctor McNinja talks about wanting to be Batman it's funny. When a random teenager gets punched by Batman... I don't get it.Miyukinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-64957333961121757652010-02-10T10:57:16.830-08:002010-02-10T10:57:16.830-08:00Comments on comics...
699: someone said it and I ...Comments on comics...<br /><br />699: someone said it and I agree: this is not XKCD, it's C&H wearing XCKD's skin. Come on, where's the "Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language"? Where's the "science is awesome"? Nowhere, we have a crude joke with stick figures. Yay. No, wait, no yay; rahter, eww.<br /><br />700: I like the punchline, but the build up is contrived like hell! I had the same feeling of "punchline to setup work" here, it's transparent! I'm just hoping here Randall won't make this into a running gag...<br /><br />That's all for now. Mole out!Professional Molehttp://comic.guedesav.blog.brnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-78556837753268482572010-02-10T10:47:50.691-08:002010-02-10T10:47:50.691-08:00I'm not sure "fleshing it out" more ...I'm not sure "fleshing it out" more would actually help, though. I like it the way it is now, setting things up JUST enough to bring in the punchline. If you don't get it right away, the elements are all there for you to look back and go "OH, right..." Nothing wrong with a good delayed-reaction punchline.<br /><br />If he tried to spend more time building up on the coin toss, I think that'd just make it look more contrived, like he knows it's a ridiculous situation, but has to waste 3 panels justifying and fanwanking and explaining it away.<br /><br />Unless, of course, he kept on fleshing it out to better Nate than lever territory, crafting a huge believable story about these scientific endeavors just to get in a silly Batman joke at the very end. But I doubt Randall would want to commit to that much drawing unless it was for a poster grab.Ambivaliciousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-83022679418530767582010-02-10T10:35:17.512-08:002010-02-10T10:35:17.512-08:00I do. :DI do. :DRupertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85136526502711403792010-02-10T10:26:18.700-08:002010-02-10T10:26:18.700-08:00Look, assholes, it doesn't do you any good to ...Look, assholes, it doesn't do you any good to go "WELL THE COMIC WAS ONLY FIVE PANELS, OF COURSE HE COULDN'T HAVE FLESHED IT OUT!"<br /><br />Maybe Randall shouldn't be trying to tell a relatively extended story, with a complicated buildup, in five fucking panels. He's not like Tim Buckley, where he is bound by OCD to always use the exact same format for every idea. Using five panels for 700 was a decision Randall made, and I think it was a shitty one.<br /><br /><i>But I didn't see that when I read it first, and thus it didn't seem contrived to me then. Anyway, I got the Two Face reference although I didn't know about the coin thing. So, basically, fuck you. Stop reading the comic in search of flaws *first* (in case you do this).</i><br /><br />Nobody does this. Fuck you.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-57517235036755063642010-02-10T10:25:57.053-08:002010-02-10T10:25:57.053-08:00I don't read the xkcd comics looking for flaws...I don't read the xkcd comics looking for flaws. Sometimes I read one, and then, hours later, I think "I wonder what xkcdsucks says about this comic. I thought it was OK, but maybe it could use some improvements." But 700 was so bad. After I read it, I looked down and noticed my hands typing xkcdsucks.blogspot.com while my conscious mind was still reeling. It was like a primal, instinctive response to badness.Leonardhttp://overratedfilms.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76527087085450421262010-02-10T10:14:19.878-08:002010-02-10T10:14:19.878-08:00I think 700 was good. Not "good" as in &...I think 700 was good. Not "good" as in "better than the other xkcd crap" but as in "actually good". Looking back on it, I see that it *is* very contrived. But I didn't see that when I read it first, and thus it didn't seem contrived to me then. Anyway, I got the Two Face reference although I didn't know about the coin thing. So, basically, fuck you. Stop reading the comic in search of flaws *first* (in case you do this).<br /><br />On a related note, what's up with all the anti-xkcd cuddlefish?<br /><br />- Anon 10:14Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20741114709532878932010-02-10T09:55:26.297-08:002010-02-10T09:55:26.297-08:00Oh my God. For linking to Electric Retarded I now ...Oh my God. For linking to Electric Retarded I now hate you for ever. I don't think I'll ever be able to scrub my eyes hard enough to get the images out of my retinas. I may actually need to remove my eyes and repace them with glass ones. If that doesn't work, I'm going to be really irked.Sam Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-19348100664946793952010-02-10T09:46:48.758-08:002010-02-10T09:46:48.758-08:00'Jay, sorry to ruin the magic of comedy for yo...'Jay, sorry to ruin the magic of comedy for you, but a lot of jokes are built up by starting at the punchline and working out a way to reach that point. <br />it's also a good way to write a murder mystery.'<br /><br />A lot of jokes are also bad. Coincidence?<br /><br />No, seriously, do you think I don't know that? I was trying to succinctly express what kind of joke this is, not passing judgment on all jokes like it. Even if your joke was built backwards you don't want people to notice that, see?Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037127857062536971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-39812840428930886502010-02-10T09:05:03.993-08:002010-02-10T09:05:03.993-08:00Oh wow, famous person participates in thing about ...Oh wow, famous person participates in thing about other famous person, and an Anon who thinks that everyone who posts here is the same person is trying to . . . rub it in? Is that what's going on here? Like, "ha, a famous person likes this comic and not the blog, YOU SUCK?"<br /><br />I like Neil Gaiman but my purpose in life is not to please him. Sorry.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48346657284147351102010-02-10T09:00:20.765-08:002010-02-10T09:00:20.765-08:00I liked the Batman one, but looking forward to the...I liked the Batman one, but looking forward to the post about it anyway.<br /><br />As for Neil Gaiman... so what? It's nice that he collaborated on this little project, but does that mean we need to bow to his tastes? Or that he's given a stamp of approval to ALL of XKCD's content regardless of varying quality?<br /><br />Besides, I would still love Neil Gaiman even if he admitted he was a fan of Kidz Bop.<br /><br />Er... maybe.Ambivaliciousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-55007121923871094322010-02-10T08:19:07.588-08:002010-02-10T08:19:07.588-08:00Chalk me up as a "no" for the Batman one...Chalk me up as a "no" for the Batman one too. Just felt contrived, and not contrived in the good way.<br /><br />Also, the three spots on Megan's face look like eyes and a nose, and it's really unnerving. And the blonde one looks like a catface.Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33371419936273720632010-02-10T08:16:29.199-08:002010-02-10T08:16:29.199-08:00Shut the fuck basileus. Go sit in a corner and wa...Shut the fuck basileus. Go sit in a corner and watch a shiny piece of foil for a while. You seem really easy to entertain. DUR DUR WHY IS 6 AFRAID OF 7? I'll give you time to figure that puzzler out!<br /><br />This comic made me embarrassed for xkcd. The move contrived lead up ever leads to such an unfunny payoff. So terrible. Yes he obviously worked backwards, but the punchline made the comic stillborn and it was done with the finesse of a middle schooler.<br /><br />Fuck you xkcd.King Neckbeardhttp://www.suckmydickbasileusphrontisteon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-28993762164800580602010-02-10T08:05:43.365-08:002010-02-10T08:05:43.365-08:00Didn't like the comment this post is about eit...Didn't like the comment this post is about either. Really kind of stupid, an attempt at shock humor pasted over an old joke doesn't make it funny. <br /><br />The Batman comic was good. Not good for xkcd, just good. Seriously, people saying it's not that well fleshed out, it's a 5 frame comic. Should he do one of his 20 frame ones so that he can put more into it? The execution was fine. <br /><br />Mal, when The Dark Knight came out did you say, "This is a really old topic, I don't know why someone decided to make a movie someone has already made a long time ago." <br /><br />NO. It's fucking timeless. Classic superhero references are always valid (please don't take that as "always good" or "never overused").DUCKrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350074028345986461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41922353799958242382010-02-10T07:46:39.166-08:002010-02-10T07:46:39.166-08:00Jay, sorry to ruin the magic of comedy for you, bu...Jay, sorry to ruin the magic of comedy for you, but a lot of jokes are built up by starting at the punchline and working out a way to reach that point.<br />it's also a good way to write a murder mystery.Keepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33688150786140032932010-02-10T07:42:59.931-08:002010-02-10T07:42:59.931-08:00To call this a Dark Knight reference is a bit much...<i>To call this a Dark Knight reference is a bit much -- Two-Face has been a Batman villain since 1942, with the exact same coin-flipping routine. I'm perfectly willing to accept that a bunch of people were introduced to two-face via the Dark Knight, and are most familiar with him there. But complaining it's not topical because The Dark Knight was released a long while ago is just a bit much. He was in several cartoon series, and in the Batman Forever, and the re-runs of the really old series.</i><br /><br />So, what, referencing even <i>older</i> things somehow makes XKCD <i>more topical?</i><br /><br />I'm really not convinced by anyone who says this has "good execution". It's got the basic framework of a correctly told joke, but it's so skeletal and obviously exposed. It's very rushed, and so the clanking machinery of him deriving the comic from the punchline backward is super obvious.<br /><br />The execution isn't as abysmally howlingly awful as most XKCDs, true. But I still resent the use of "good" to represent "mediocre-to-bad, but still better than Randall's ordinarily insufferable garbage." People tend to use it with Randall's art, too, where if he includes a visible background and a few slathers from the Paint bucket, it counts as good.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77279395247681488962010-02-10T07:37:45.857-08:002010-02-10T07:37:45.857-08:00Seems to me like the entire comic was just a way f...Seems to me like the entire comic was just a way for Randall to express his newfound love of benzoyl peroxide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-79659914525527578032010-02-10T06:30:43.592-08:002010-02-10T06:30:43.592-08:00"The batman one is pretty good... reminds me ..."The batman one is pretty good... reminds me of a C&H short."<br /><br />I would just like to point out that xkcd is now considered pretty good if it reaches the standards of C&H.Jonnoreply@blogger.com