http://www.vgcats.com/comics/
I mean seriously WTF? even Jack is tamer than the last few updates...
VGCats still updates?
People still read VGCats?
Wow. Learn something new everyday.
Hasn't it been a bit of a dead baby comedy anyway?
I read a lot of webcomics; probably not as much as many people here, but I still read quite a few that are also familiar with others. Once I tried going through the VG Cats archive...and no comic ever had strips so bad as to make me just stop reading through the archives, until this one. Honestly. ><
Quote from: Roureem Egas on January 10, 2009, 03:04:03 PM
Hasn't it been a bit of a dead baby comedy anyway?
...That's comedy? :B
eh, it may be the most nightmare fuelish comic to date, but it's by no means the goriest (most realistic blood splaters on the show there, but that's compared to over the top gore)
I think the problem might be that this one doesn't cross the line twice (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossesTheLineTwice) like the others do.
I'll be back again some day!
I dug that comic.
VGCats is an odd beast. There's more than a few comics in its archive that are very meh... But then one comic comes along that is pure brilliance.
It's for similar reasons that I read CAD still. Sadly, CAD is less and less often in the brilliance zone.
teh evil snowmen are a dime a dozen. Plus, I now realize how much VG cats is no longer funny nor original.
Nightmare Fuel, possibly. But it's all offscreen violence so far as I can tell.
Quote from: GabrielsThoughts on January 10, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
teh evil snowmen are a dime a dozen.
That's probably part of the joke.
I like VG Cats. :< I think Darkmoon summarized my thoughts well but I think there are a lot more genuinely funny comics than he described. But my sense of humor is really,
really weird.
I concur with Keaton. VG Cats has had several comics that made me unable to breathe for a minute out of their sheer hilarity, even if it doesn't update that often. This one was well-drawn, I'll give it that, but it was a lot darker than some comics, and didn't really make me laugh. But he's drawn other (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=193) stuff that was almost (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=180) darker. (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=229)
EDIT: Well, as long as we're posting favorites instead of the dark stuff...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72 (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=72)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=74 (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=74)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=110 (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=110)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=115 (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=115)
This one (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=136), for example, tickles my funny bone, but could be argued to be extremely dark.
NSFW, mind. So very NSFW.
I gotta agree with darkmoon. Except about CAD.
Here's a recent one that's not violent and has sort of started a meme (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=260). (oh yeah, little NSFW language)
Among my favorites:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=42
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=52
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=163
EDIT: Oh, and CAD really just sucks now.
This (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=176) explains it all.
Meh, VG cats has it's moments, but as far as violence- it seems to be an intergal part of it's funny, so I can't really say that it's getting any more violent, just less funny maybe!
This one is informative... (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=77) Replace "snow" with "rain" and you have the story of traffic in New Orleans.
The Winnie the Pooh being dissected for science made me laugh so hard I started bleeding. It was awesome. But then, I'm an evil scientist who dissects things on a regular basis. >:3
And the Bankai with the rat flail was full on awesome... as is anything with "Bleach". Yesh. :B
Quote from: Alondro on January 11, 2009, 08:23:52 PM
The Winnie the Pooh being dissected for science made me laugh so hard I started bleeding. It was awesome.
...HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Alondro, please explain to the class how you laughed so hard you bled.
I think Scott's gone even further off the deep end.
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on January 12, 2009, 09:02:11 PM
Quote from: Alondro on January 11, 2009, 08:23:52 PM
The Winnie the Pooh being dissected for science made me laugh so hard I started bleeding. It was awesome.
...HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Alondro, please explain to the class how you laughed so hard you bled.
The air in the lab is extremely dry. My sinuses dry out frequently, and if there is too much pressure put on the damaged mucous membranes, internally or externally, they crack and bleed.
Laughing too hard caused a split!
:tmyk
Quote from: Keaton the Black Jackal on January 12, 2009, 09:02:11 PM
Alondro, please explain to the class how you laughed so hard you bled.
...And now we know, I wish there was a way I could un-know it...
Really now Tape, it's not that bad.
Quote from: Alondro on January 13, 2009, 08:32:58 AM
The air in the lab is extremely dry. My sinuses dry out frequently, and if there is too much pressure put on the damaged mucous membranes, internally or externally, they crack and bleed.
Laughing too hard caused a split!
:tmyk
...wow. Very wow. Although that's kind of what happens here, in Florida, sometimes (basically if there's a drought).
You know, actually, that sounds very similar to what happened to me. :U Wanna hear a silly story?
Here you go:
Once upon a time, I was sitting at my computer, drinking a Burger King slushie. It was very good. At one point I left it there, on the desk, and turned away with my chair to check something. And when I spun back - guess where the straw jabbed. Right up my nose. I was bleeding pretty profusely yet for some reason I was perfectly calm when I phoned my mother to tell her that a wayward straw had brutally injured my nose.
It was hella embarrassing though.
Its amazing how calm one can be depending on certain injuries. I remember the time I ended up with a hatchet in my knee. Luckily it was just the tip and the patella did a pretty good block. But oh man the blood! I was able to hobble over to my parents relatively calm. My mom...was not quite as calm. :U
Its like some injuries just trigger the "ok. not the time to panic. Not the time to feel as much pain. Time to get the situation taken care of ASAP."
haha, sound's like the time i dislocated my shoulder playing a game a football with the neighbors...
My arm was dangling, and looked horrible... i didn't really notice for a good 5 to 10 minutes that i couldn't actually move my arm...my hand was clenched into a fist, and the bone was a good 4 inches below where it should have been, slightly protruding through the tricep (not through the skin, but there was a nasty bulge in the side of my arm)...greatest call home ever "hey mom, what's the insurance number, i kinda left the card back at the house..."
I still remember the time I stabbed myself through a carton of ice cream.
It was one of those tubs and the ice cream was hard at the bottom so for a crazy reason I decided to use a knife instead of a spoon to get it out. Holding it at the bottom with my left hand and trying to pry at the ice cream with a knife using my right, suddenly the knife went right through and sliced through the side of my left middle finger. It got five stitches. I still remember when I was trying to stop the bleeding with tissue paper at the sink. Some paper plugged up the sink and as I was in pain and cradling my damaged appendage, my brother gave out to me telling me to unblock it. After all, he certainly wasn't going to put his hand into water diluted with my blood.
I've never had anything like that involving blood and the like, but I do have problems with my ankles (sprained one of them two years ago, and it never fully healed: I'm actually going to get physical therapy for it to try and fix that). And every time I roll it, I just get onto my good foot, and make my way to a place where I can sit down until I can move again. Don't waste any energy crying or anything like that, just get somewhere that you can rest it for a few minutes. Not as dramatic as blood or anything (which is one of my problems: other people's blood makes me a little woozy, mine, not so much), but just one of those moments.
I also remember one time looking into my rear view mirror right before someone rear-ended me while I was sitting at a stoplight. The last memory I have before the car slammed into mine was taking my foot off of the break: I somewhat recall thinking that the impact wouldn't be as bad if my car could move with the impact rather than just be an immobile object. Considering that I got pushed out into the middle of the intersection, that was probably a smart move. So, kinda that same strange logic that lets you keep your cool in a problem.
On topic, I enjoy VG Cats. The "fluff and blood" one cracked me up, mainly because I could clearly hear the voices of Pooh and Piglet saying their lines...
I used to be kind of a crybaby whenever I got hurt, but now, not so much. While I was at school, I got a bad infection, and didn't find out till math class, when I could barely walk because I was in pain. I didn't freak out or call home; I just went to the campus doctor, they gave me medicine, and I was fine. But when I came home that weekend and told Mom, she was shocked for some reason. I think she's so used to babying me and my brothers when we're sick that it builds up when she doesn't get to do it. :P
The weirdest injury I ever got, though... when I was about nine, I was chasing my little brother around my room and Mom was watching us. I had a sharpened pencil in one hand, and well... you know how they always say not to run with sharp stuff? They're right. I stabbed myself in the chest. There's a little blue graphite-mark there to this day.
As for VG Cats, the "fluff and blood" one bothered my inner child a bit. Which is weird because I cracked up at the Captain Planet one and the Ninja Turtles one.
Quote from: Black_angel on January 13, 2009, 01:48:01 PM
The weirdest injury I ever got, though... when I was about nine, I was chasing my little brother around my room and Mom was watching us. I had a sharpened pencil in one hand, and well... you know how they always say not to run with sharp stuff? They're right. I stabbed myself in the chest. There's a little blue graphite-mark there to this day.
You to? I've got a similar mark on my right arm from when I was in... fifth grade? No, sixth. Except in that case, I wasn't running, I tripped and bumped into someone and stabbed myself.
As for Captain Planet and the Ninja Turtles... I loved those comics, because I really did not like those shows.
I've got a half moon scar on my belly from when I was stabbed with a bike...
I was riding my bike in georgia and one of the neighbor kids threw a rock. It hit the chain and knocked it off and I lost control of my bike and crashed. and I realised that one end of the handle bars was sticking in my belly (I'd taken the rubber grips off because I thought they looks like realy cool pretend lightsabers) It wasn't bad barely bled and didn't need stitches or anything.
Another time I wanted to see what was in side a tenis ball so I was cutting it open and my hand slipped, slicing my left thumb to the bone. I had just been given this brand new swiss army knife and I knew they'd take it away for this so I whshed my hand in the sink, wrapped the thumb in as many band aids as I could find and walked around for half an hour with my hand behind my back so mom wouldn't see. In the end I needed 4 stiches.. Which I thought was cool cause I could slide the knots back and forth when I was board and gross people out
Quote from: Jairus on January 13, 2009, 02:04:01 PMAs for Captain Planet and the Ninja Turtles... I loved those comics, because I really did not like those shows.
Uh, oh. Should I tell him, or do you want to?
As for me (is it me, or is this thread getting more violent), I'm a member of the Zipper Club (though I was 2 at the time, so it wasn't that traumatic--unless you want to count the brain damage I suffered as a complication of surgery)
Quote from: superluser on January 13, 2009, 04:12:22 PM
Quote from: Jairus on January 13, 2009, 02:04:01 PMAs for Captain Planet and the Ninja Turtles... I loved those comics, because I really did not like those shows.
Uh, oh. Should I tell him, or do you want to?
Why? Sounds like a good TV premise. And they were with the Power Rangers at one point.
I managed to nearly cut my thumb off while skipping stones. I grabbed a piece of coke (partly burned coal) and it shattered in my hand, with one of the razor-sharp fragments sliding down my finger and slicing it so fast I didn't feel a thing. In fact, it managed to sever the nerves for sensation so I could even pick all the pieces of coal out of it and douse it in alcohol.
I treated it myself and got to see how the different layers of tissue came back together over the next two weeks! The dermal tissue formed into the scar. I could watch how it was differentiating.
It was for SCIENCE!!! :boogie
I know what you mean Alondro. It's like, when things go wrong, that's when you learn the most about them.
Quote from: Alondro on January 13, 2009, 09:40:37 PM
I managed to nearly cut my thumb off while skipping stones. I grabbed a piece of coke (partly burned coal) and it shattered in my hand, with one of the razor-sharp fragments sliding down my finger and slicing it so fast I didn't feel a thing. In fact, it managed to sever the nerves for sensation so I could even pick all the pieces of coal out of it and douse it in alcohol.
I treated it myself and got to see how the different layers of tissue came back together over the next two weeks! The dermal tissue formed into the scar. I could watch how it was differentiating.
It was for SCIENCE!!! :boogie
did you take pictures? Tell me you took pictures...
Seems like we a have two topics in here: A) VG-Cats and how it has turned a bit more violent lately. B) Injuries! bloody, bloody injuries...
To A: Yes, I've noticed how there seems to be a lot more blood and rest of that sad-in-reality stuff floating around. Seems as if the comic is trying to provoke some people to send angry e-mails to the authors or something. Not sure why, thought. Maybe they realized that humor mixed with dead babies and rest of that stuff is the way to go.
I don't judge, but I don't approve either. I admit that it's funny, but quite tasteless at the same time. Though, bear in mind that some of the best story tellers have been shocking at their time (e.g. Monty Python crew and Shakespeare).
B) Most of the worst injuries that I've had have happened to me when I was less that three, so no real memories of them either. Apparently I got a scar onto my face when I fought some other kid in the kindergarden and a small hole into my skull when I fall and hit my head to a Lego. Guess the tough childhood gave me a thick skin or something or I learned to watch out for accidents.
Quote from: Omega on January 14, 2009, 04:28:46 PM
To A: Yes, I've noticed how there seems to be a lot more blood and rest of that sad-in-reality stuff floating around. Seems as if the comic is trying to provoke some people to send angry e-mails to the authors or something. Not sure why, thought. Maybe they realized that humor mixed with dead babies and rest of that stuff is the way to go.
I don't judge, but I don't approve either. I admit that it's funny, but quite tasteless at the same time. Though, bear in mind that some of the best story tellers have been shocking at their time (e.g. Monty Python crew and Shakespeare).
Hm. It seems like Scott Ramsoomair is really busy lately or something. I can only guess that real life got in the way of the comic because of the holidays and other stuff. Also, because of what he said about the comic:
QuoteI like how it turned out though even if it's not funny. I mean it's not like it has to be to funny to be enjoyable. On that note, enjoy!
He knows that a lot of people won't find it funny. I'm guessing it was fun to draw the comic, though. It looks like he had a blast drawing it. :giggle