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If there's one thing The Internet doesn't have enough of, it's Web Comics. Really, it's almost impossible to find a web-comic these days. [expand full text]
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Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:08 • by ldnunes (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-12 03:36
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Interesting idea! I hope this webcomic turn out to be really nice!

captcha: odio. That's "hate" in portuguese. I hope it's not a bad omen...

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:13 • by Jonathan B (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Me likes ;)

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:15 • by John Doe (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Alex, thanks for giving another delay to really start the work week :) Shouldn't MFD be Mon(datory fun )day?

By the way, It looks like Cobol Bill is wandering off to his scenic Waterfall model.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:31 • by Matthew W. S. Bell (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 09:35
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It is "IDEs" NOT "IDE's". BAD BAD BAD BAD.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:38 • by NSCoder • 0 Replies
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Yeah, it's IDEs, not IDE's, because when the s is in lowercase it's easy to tell that it's not part of the acronym.

Was anyone else reminded of one over zero by the first panel? Turns out Barnacle Jones doesn't have the same kind of hat though.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:46 • by Eli (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 09:54
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A 190kb PNG? Really?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:49 • by elgate • 0 Replies
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COBOL Bill reminds me of Doug Pederson, minus the GOTO statements and video camera.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:51 • by Anonymous Coward! (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Good idea!
I think I'm going do fscking love it!

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:55 • by Darth Mainer (unregistered) • 4 Replies • Last 2008-02-13 15:43
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Web comics: Somebody with no sense of humor, who can't draw, typing IT buzzwords and video game trivia into speech balloons.

Aside from xkcd, web comics have no reason to exist. Please have the decency to kill this moronic thing.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 09:57 • by Darth Mainer (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Was I too subtle?

YOU SUCK. STOP. NOW.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:02 • by Cochrane (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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I'm willing to keep an open mind, but MFD #0 here was a failure. Well, let's what comes up next.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:05 • by :-X (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Interesting idea, but failed implementation. I look forward to the real (?) first one.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:06 • by magetoo • 0 Replies
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It'll be interesting to see if this one also will fall into the no-update zone after 3-4 months, like so many others. But I am cautiously optimistic!

But stop with the alt="" thing already. (1x1 px images are hard to load on demand.)

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:07 • by alexgieg (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-12 12:16
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OMG! Look at his hand! HIS H-A-N-D! It doesn't have fingers, it has tubes! What, I guess, is okay for the internets. All of them.

By the way, link to more webcomics, they're cool. I follow some of those you linked, plus others worth mentioning.

Warning: the last two are furry ones, but fun nevertheless.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:08 • by Rob (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-13 16:09
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Oh Jesus Christ, seriously? The comic isn't funny. It's almost as bad as this site's latest layout.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:08 • by FredSaw • 0 Replies
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Bucked off right out of the chute. Are you making fun of Texans again? Try again, cowboy.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:31 • by jmcnary (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Hmmm... Instead of having the web comic run on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you should have it run on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. It fits the theme of the site better.

Hope it improves

2008-02-11 10:34 • by AlpineR • 0 Replies
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Episode 0 - Not funny. Episode 1 - I don't get it. But I usually like your sense of humor otherwise, so I hope it improves. A lot of paper comics that became classics were rough in the first few weeks. There's still hope.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:37 • by AccessGuru • 0 Replies
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I LOVE this comic! I laughed out loud and forwarded it to my entire contact list of 431 people. When will there be another one? Will you post these on a regular basis?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:39 • by shadowman • 0 Replies
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OK, I'm intrigued. Looking forward to it...

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 10:45 • by Adam (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Maybe you could keep the comic, but arrange for it to be announced via a different RSS feed, so that people can follow just that, or just the WTFs, or both, as they wish?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 11:00 • by John Cowan (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 14:58
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It's "dad-gummit", not "dag-gummit". My wife's a native "dad-gummit" speaker (really), so I should know.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 11:19 • by Gerrard Iaroos (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Honnestly, I think you should have ran this comic on W-T-F instead of M-W-F.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 11:45 • by J (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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When I saw that comic, I thought it would be a WTF. Please tell us you didn't intentionally, unironically create (or outsource) something that unfunny and poorly drawn.

How can someone so adept at spotting wretched code be blind to the wretchedness of this drawing and attempted humor?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 12:21 • by Someone (me) (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 16:21
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Wow, a discussion about web comics, and no one mentioned yet User Friendly?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 12:41 • by D. T. North (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 12:42
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Kill the comic. Not a bad idea...but I think it somehow lessens the value of your site.

Besides...it's not worth anything if you don't first print it out and take a photograph of it on a wooden table.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 12:59 • by Steve Evans (unregistered) • 2 Replies • Last 2008-02-11 17:29
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Where did you get the name Gilroy? Is it in any way related to the city in California?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 13:25 • by tlh • 0 Replies
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Bad title. As in..I can't see it from work. I'll have to wait another 4 hours and try to remember to look at it form home, do to the completely twisted settings the IT person at our corporate office has set for out internet.
It tells me that the article is "games"
of course these are the same settings that told me "Craigslist.com" was porn.
But either way, I cant see the comic from here, adn Im very sad.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 13:55 • by Jack (unregistered) • 2 Replies • Last 2008-02-12 08:56
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It's official, this site is stupid, now. There's just too much boring content. It's obviously just been added to have people clicking more and loading more ads out of some misguided sense of duty to absorb the kind of content we used to get here.
Your comic sucks - stick to what you're good at. I am not opposed to you doing whatever labors of love you enjoy, and I'm sure you'll get a few laughs eventually, but it's just shitting up this area, even more than it's already been polluted by every other new boring feature. Put it in a separate area.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 14:53 • by Smash (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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And I forgot to mention, since the subject is webcomics my favorite is The Order of The Stick. Here are two of my fav strips: this one and that one

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 15:19 • by Mr. Boo-urns (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Boo.

This is neither funny, nor drawn well.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 21:38 • by Anon (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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You need a better artist.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-11 23:29 • by Geoff (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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How has nobody mentioned Penny Arcade?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-12 01:48 • by Sebastian M (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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I have seen how you replied to people's comments on the name change, but I will still venture my two cents. (I cant find the link, damn!!!, but of course it is your site and yours alone, no-one is questioning that)

I won't comment on how funny or unfunny the comics are , until I see quite a few.
But Alex, do you really need this?
I mean, the people who take the time come here, I doubt they are going to go away because you don't feature a comic. I for one, already get what I want here.
Don't you Americans have an expression about not fixing what is not broken?

I sure hope you wont be typing "New New New New New New Alex", a few months from now.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-12 02:44 • by Flasher T (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

COBOL LIVES!

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-12 06:52 • by bau de jogos (unregistered) • 1 Replies • Last 2008-02-12 10:44
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only the Perry Bible is worth mentioning

sexylosers is ok too

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-12 11:13 • by s0be • 0 Replies
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I was reminded of 'The stranger' from The Big Lebowski.

more

2008-02-12 17:00 • by Enric Naval • 0 Replies
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What about making a webcomic about an anthropomorphic wolf that is trained as engineer? A female wolf. On space. Trained on spaceship engineering. Surroended by robots whose programation is a whole WTF on itself. Oh, wait, it's already been done.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-12 20:39 • by El_Heffe • 0 Replies
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Great. Just what the world need. Another lame, unfunny, badly drawn piece of crap.

Forget episodes 2 - 25. Please do us all a favor and kill it now.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-13 11:14 • by Brad (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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George,

Remember that it is easy to be critical, but it is difficult to produce. I would not worry at all about the ones that are overly critical of the strip, but take the ones that have constructive comments and try and apply them (for instance reducing the size of the image). That of course means that you will probably get someone else upset that it is now in black & white, but you can't please everyone.

Personally, I thought the strip was funny, and it certainly was much better than I could have come up with!!!

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-13 12:15 • by Daniel (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Without making any statements to the merits of this comic, would it be possible to get an RSS feed of the site which doesn't include it? It's just: comics are not why I read this website, it seems a little arbitrary and random to be including one here.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-13 12:43 • by BlakeMadden (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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I got a chuckle out of these, cut this guy some slack. Nothing but a bunch of haters up in here.

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-13 17:11 • by mikeh (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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Alex said: "Igorning MFD is actually amazingly easily in this case. Here's how! if (rssTitle.startsWith("Mandatory Fun Day:") || webTitle.IsColor("Obsidianish") ignore();."

It's not the fact that I don't find it funny*, or I don't visit here to read a webcomic, it's that a M-W-F run means there are going to be two or three of these clogging up the front page every time I visit. I don't read by RSS. I'm one of the people that uses a web browser to read, and might even click a revenue generating ad or two. If the actual comic was cut off and I had to click through to see it, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I might even check it out from time to time. As it is, it's like a huge, unfunny* banner ad, interrupting what I visit for.

* Humor being extremely subjective, I must add the disclaimer that I don't find it funny, but what do I know?

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-14 11:30 • by J (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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"And just when that happens, I’ll run out of jokes."

Whoa! You mean there are jokes in there? Do we get a prize for finding them? :-)

Re: 1.1: A New, High-Falutin' Web-Comic

2008-02-15 14:02 • by Militis Sanctus (unregistered) • 0 Replies
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I swear this makes me sick to my stomach...

...I hired on for what I thought was a .NET job, and somehow I'm programming COBOL now...

*heavy sigh*
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