New Comics

JamesDark · 03-24-2002, 05:10 PM

Latest:

One that you's may not have seen:

Comments are greatly appreciated.

GameMaster · 03-24-2002, 05:35 PM

They're funny.

PureEvil · 03-24-2002, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by GameMaster
They're funny.

No they're not.

Perfect Stu · 03-24-2002, 05:54 PM

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Originally posted by PureEvil

No they're not.

Agreed

JamesDark · 03-24-2002, 06:01 PM

Er... thanks for the comments...

DeathsHand · 03-24-2002, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by Perfect Stu

Agreed

Agreed...

maybe they're just too complex for us

GameMaster · 03-24-2002, 06:07 PM

PureEvil, comics are interpretive, not literal. Can you grasp that concept?

PureEvil · 03-24-2002, 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by GameMaster
PureEvil, comics are interpretive, not literal. Can you grasp that concept?

My thoughts on these comics has nothing to do with my interpretation of them.

I see them, read them, understand the joke, and still think, "Gee, that wasn't funny." Some comics are, and some comics aren't. These ones just don't make the cut.

Xantar · 03-24-2002, 06:27 PM

Both of you need to use the word "opinion." Can you grasp that concept?

By the way, I didn't find the comics to be funny either. I understood the jokes this time, but they still weren't funny. For me, humor is derived from the unexpected. Well, sometimes things are just inherently funny, but most of the time, something is funny because we never saw it coming and yet it makes a weird kind of sense to us.

Take one of The Onion's point-counterpoint articles for example. The first article was written by a 6 year old girl saying "I want to be a fireman!" The second was written by a fireman saying "I want to be a 6 year old girl!"

It's probably a lot funnier to read the actual articles, but I hope you can see the potential there. It's not just me who thinks they are funny. All my friends do, too. And I hope you see the element of unexpectedness in those articles. We don't expect the counterpoint article to talk about a fireman dressing in a pink princess costume and playing with dolls. But when we see it, we immediately understand that it's a simple role reversal. It's a change of logic that we can immediately understand and is not too complicated.

Contrast this with the comics by JamesDark. In the first one, I see the words "Paranoia and game-related delusion" so I immediately think "Ok, this comic is going to show me a paranoid guy talking about games." And that's exactly what the comic does. And unfortunately, the comic does no more and no less. Same thing with the second comic. I see from the headings that it's about a guy who's trying to go without Tony Hawk 3 for an entire day. I immediately think "Ok, it's going to show me the effects of withdrawal on the guy. He'll probably twitch." And that's exactly what happens. I expect it, and that's why it's not funny.

The second comic in particular had some potential. I can imagine that instead of just having a guy shaking and twitching, he could work off his withdrawal by attempting to play Tony Hawk 3 in front of a blank TV screen using a live cat as a game controller. Now that is something we wouldn't expect. We know that he's going to be suffering withdrawal symptoms, but we don't expect to see the image of him beating on a cat. And yet it makes sense because he's just working off his addiction.

Maybe you don't think that's very funny. I don't know. And I do know that just because the punchline is unexpected doesn't really make it funny. It also has to make a certain sense, and that's what's really tricky about humor. If I were you, JamesDark, I'd just go all out and do something really wacky.

JamesDark · 03-24-2002, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by Xantar
Both of you need to use the word "opinion." Can you grasp that concept?

By the way, I didn't find the comics to be funny either. I understood the jokes this time, but they still weren't funny. For me, humor is derived from the unexpected. Well, sometimes things are just inherently funny, but most of the time, something is funny because we never saw it coming and yet it makes a weird kind of sense to us.

Take one of The Onion's point-counterpoint articles for example. The first article was written by a 6 year old girl saying "I want to be a fireman!" The second was written by a fireman saying "I want to be a 6 year old girl!"

It's probably a lot funnier to read the actual articles, but I hope you can see the potential there. It's not just me who thinks they are funny. All my friends do, too. And I hope you see the element of unexpectedness in those articles. We don't expect the counterpoint article to talk about a fireman dressing in a pink princess costume and playing with dolls. But when we see it, we immediately understand that it's a simple role reversal. It's a change of logic that we can immediately understand and is not too complicated.

Contrast this with the comics by JamesDark. In the first one, I see the words "Paranoia and game-related delusion" so I immediately think "Ok, this comic is going to show me a paranoid guy talking about games." And that's exactly what the comic does. And unfortunately, the comic does no more and no less. Same thing with the second comic. I see from the headings that it's about a guy who's trying to go without Tony Hawk 3 for an entire day. I immediately think "Ok, it's going to show me the effects of withdrawal on the guy. He'll probably twitch." And that's exactly what happens. I expect it, and that's why it's not funny.

The second comic in particular had some potential. I can imagine that instead of just having a guy shaking and twitching, he could work off his withdrawal by attempting to play Tony Hawk 3 in front of a blank TV screen using a live cat as a game controller. Now that is something we wouldn't expect. We know that he's going to be suffering withdrawal symptoms, but we don't expect to see the image of him beating on a cat. And yet it makes sense because he's just working off his addiction.

Maybe you don't think that's very funny. I don't know. And I do know that just because the punchline is unexpected doesn't really make it funny. It also has to make a certain sense, and that's what's really tricky about humor. If I were you, JamesDark, I'd just go all out and do something really wacky.

*grasps information*

Xantar you are so extremely cool.

BreakABone · 03-24-2002, 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by Xantar
Both of you need to use the word "opinion." Can you grasp that concept?

By the way, I didn't find the comics to be funny either. I understood the jokes this time, but they still weren't funny. For me, humor is derived from the unexpected. Well, sometimes things are just inherently funny, but most of the time, something is funny because we never saw it coming and yet it makes a weird kind of sense to us.

Take one of The Onion's point-counterpoint articles for example. The first article was written by a 6 year old girl saying "I want to be a fireman!" The second was written by a fireman saying "I want to be a 6 year old girl!"

It's probably a lot funnier to read the actual articles, but I hope you can see the potential there. It's not just me who thinks they are funny. All my friends do, too. And I hope you see the element of unexpectedness in those articles. We don't expect the counterpoint article to talk about a fireman dressing in a pink princess costume and playing with dolls. But when we see it, we immediately understand that it's a simple role reversal. It's a change of logic that we can immediately understand and is not too complicated.

Contrast this with the comics by JamesDark. In the first one, I see the words "Paranoia and game-related delusion" so I immediately think "Ok, this comic is going to show me a paranoid guy talking about games." And that's exactly what the comic does. And unfortunately, the comic does no more and no less. Same thing with the second comic. I see from the headings that it's about a guy who's trying to go without Tony Hawk 3 for an entire day. I immediately think "Ok, it's going to show me the effects of withdrawal on the guy. He'll probably twitch." And that's exactly what happens. I expect it, and that's why it's not funny.

The second comic in particular had some potential. I can imagine that instead of just having a guy shaking and twitching, he could work off his withdrawal by attempting to play Tony Hawk 3 in front of a blank TV screen using a live cat as a game controller. Now that is something we wouldn't expect. We know that he's going to be suffering withdrawal symptoms, but we don't expect to see the image of him beating on a cat. And yet it makes sense because he's just working off his addiction.

Maybe you don't think that's very funny. I don't know. And I do know that just because the punchline is unexpected doesn't really make it funny. It also has to make a certain sense, and that's what's really tricky about humor. If I were you, JamesDark, I'd just go all out and do something really wacky.

Um only Xanny could make such a wordy post critizing a joke, but then again we expect nothing less from him.