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Eric: Dare I hope my posts will become fodder for this? Dare I? DARE I?!?
So, if anyone asks me from this point forward where I get my Webcomics Community news? My answer is Webcartoonist vs Webcartoonist: The Tabloid!. This is the up to the minute coverage of all drama that has infected my life that I've been waiting for.
Besides, I'm given to understand there are topless girls on the third index page, if I can just find it.
Posted by Eric Burns at June 10, 2005 1:57 AM
Comments
Comment from: SeanH posted at June 10, 2005 2:05 AM
PENNY-ARCADE'S SECRET AGENDA: Truth Behind Cat Garza Documentary Debacle!! is my new favourite headline. All it needs is an awful pun and it could be a Sun front page.
Comment from: Bo Lindbergh posted at June 10, 2005 3:01 AM
Any day now, your WCN account will become generally known and we'll get Eric Burns Leaves Keenspace!.
Comment from: Jin Wicked posted at June 10, 2005 3:02 AM
I think I just hurt myself laughing.
All they need now is badly photoshopped images and articles about so-and-so's recent weight gain, illegitimate child, or plastic surgery.
Comment from: Alexis Christoforides posted at June 10, 2005 3:24 AM
All they need now is badly photoshopped images and articles about so-and-so's recent weight gain, illegitimate child, or plastic surgery.
Nah, Webcomic drama is way easier to generate than that:
- Howard Tayler's Google Ads Fall Short! Tycho/Tayler paid to pimp Google ?
- The moon isn't a planet! Chris Crosby tells all!
- Whatever Scott Kurtz says tomorrow.
Also, I think I'm going to be posting "GASP!" to every single news item.
Comment from: poinko posted at June 10, 2005 4:10 AM
Y'know, given the track record for high drama and volatile personalities in the webcomic world, I'm rather surprised this sort of thing is just now starting.
Comment from: Phalanx posted at June 10, 2005 7:40 AM
You know, when I mentioned that with all the internet drama, a webcomics tabloid would be a great idea, I wasn't expecting an actual tabloid to appear out of it.
I can't stop laughing at it, though.
Comment from: RPin posted at June 10, 2005 8:36 AM
Now that we got that one down, we still need that old idea of a Webcartoonist Vs. Webcartoonist arena to get out of the paper.
Just think how great it will be to have deathmatch between the greatest names (and egos) of our little industry. Only one will survive.
Comment from: RPin posted at June 10, 2005 8:38 AM
Also, I hate websnark for Typekey. I can only comment when I'm at my home using my precious Firefox-tan.
I'm forced to use IE at work, and hey, I need things to do when the boss is not around! D:
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 10, 2005 10:01 AM
Heh. I was joking to Kelly today that what 'Pedia really needs is Associate Editor for Gossip. But this works too. Arguably better.
Either way, LA LA LA THIS IS NOT HAPPENING I'M GONNA DO LAUNDRY THEN GO BUY CLOGS.
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 10, 2005 10:01 AM
(Today? Yesterday. God. No brain.)
Comment from: Phil Kahn posted at June 10, 2005 11:53 AM
Ugh... I know this is meant in jest and mockery, but we still don't need a tabloid covering this. Or ANYBODY covering this anymore.
Is there so little going on in our community that we have to cling to the drama between the major players?
Comment from: William_G posted at June 10, 2005 2:13 PM
The short answer: Yes.
The long answer: Yes, there is nothing going on. That's why critics have appeared to talk about it.
Comment from: Dragonmuncher posted at June 11, 2005 12:02 AM
Just so everyone knows... I take full credit for this snark. Well, almost full credit (in the sense that I didn't actually write it). I posted the link in a previous comment, after all!
(And no, I don't acknowledge the fact that Wednesday may have told Eric about it, as she already has commented on the site. She didn't post a link to it, thus she forfeits all credit. I win!)
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 11, 2005 8:54 AM
Wednesday didn't tell Eric about it in any event. Eric tends to find stuff first, and, besides, Wednesday was off having scary capitalist adventures at the Texas Roadhouse.
(Whose unholy Word gave us that corporate alliance, BTW? A steakhouse where they serve Kraft Dinner, drop absurd amounts of peanuts on the floor, boast Smithfield and Tyson logos on the menu (and Willie Nelson on the wall and tables), place elderly men upon saddles for their birthdays, and yet -- despite asserting cool rare and generating medium rare -- competently grill highly edible ribeyes?)
Also... dude. Wednesday is more than a little burnt out on teh drama. It continues to remind her of early lesbian feminist BDSM anthologies, where the most irrelevant and pointless essays consisted of slow-motion flamewars.
Comment from: Dragonmuncher posted at June 11, 2005 6:36 PM
I dunno... I kind of like Teh Drama. I keep hoping Scott Kurtz will one day just go "GOD! I HATE ALL OF YOU!" and become a goth. Or emo. Or both.
High school drama is amusing, as long you're not personally affected by it...
Think about it... Tycho and Gabe can be the football team.
Kurtz can be the basketball team.
Morgan-Mar and Bluel can be the techies.
Rowland can be that crazy guy who everyone thinks is weird but likes anyway.
Scott McCloud can be the wise, slightly creepy janitor.
Jacques can be the indie crowd!
Milholland can be the rebel who marches to the beat of his own drum!
Rich Burlew and the Gaming Guardians people can be the RPGers!
Piro can be the sensitive artist.
And of course, Eric's the head reporter of the school newspaper.
I suddenly have an urge to go through the rest of my webcomic list and assign roles to them all... do you think Maritza Campos and Aerie would like to be a pair of oddly mismatched girls who stumble through life while learning about each other, and themselves?
Comment from: Dragonmuncher posted at June 11, 2005 6:37 PM
Ah! I forgot cheerleaders! Damn... any suggestions?
Comment from: siwangmu posted at June 11, 2005 9:05 PM
"I suddenly have an urge to go through the rest of my webcomic list and assign roles to them all... do you think Maritza Campos and Aerie would like to be a pair of oddly mismatched girls who stumble through life while learning about each other, and themselves?"
I for some reason find this completely hilarious.
Thanks!
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