Tuesday Choice – Circuit
December 8, 2009 at 2:41 am | In Tuesday Choice, new webcomics | Leave a CommentTags: Circuit, Greek Tragedy, hope for the hopeless, Luke Pola, Titanic
I’ve often flirted casually with the idea of doing stand-up comedy. Of course, my come-ons are inexorably shot down by my inability to say anything “witty”. And so, I typically jot down my comedic gems in a notebook and re-work them into a comic or, more usually, work them into a conversation with people who don’t know me, thus confusing them entirely and leaving them bereft of the will to laugh. This week, I’ve found a comic that probably does something similar with two major exceptions. The first: there is no notebook, and their rather shoddy attempt at humour spewed at us like so much rotten sewage. The second: Instead of being bereft of the will to laugh, I’m left bereft of the will to hope for the future of mankind’s comics. Harsh? Yes. But deservingly so.
Circuit by Luke Pola of Unbalanced Humors fame (it’s humour, Jim, but not as we know it – by that I mean it’s not really funny as much as nauseatingly boring) is today’s Tuesday Choice. I bet you’re wondering why I keep choosing rather mediocre comics. Well, here’s the thing: These are only mediocre from my perspective. Apparently this kind of guff is considered funny by people. Then again, people find Matt Melvin of Cyanide and Happiness funny, when in reality he’s presumably suffered a form of brain damage that doesn’t let him understand the concept of a punchline. I’m glad to say that Circuit, at the very least, has some vague idea of where the punchline goes. Almost. But let us look at the facts. Continue reading Tuesday Choice – Circuit…
In Lieu of a Friday Feature…
December 6, 2009 at 9:44 pm | In Friday Feature, Podcast | Leave a CommentTags: Al Byrne, ham sandwich, hold steady, Mister Hands, Podcast
Another rum-augmented podcast, entitled “Hold Sandwich”, from myself and Alan “Mister Hands” Byrne. This time we tackle the important issue of music (not webcomics) and thus solve something or other. You can listen to and download it from here, you can get the iTunes linky here, and of course the RSS is hither.
Friday Feature is back as normal next week. Fancy!
Tuesday Choice – Creative Catharsis
December 1, 2009 at 12:20 am | In Tuesday Choice, new webcomics | 1 CommentTags: Chibi, Creative Catharsis, Nick Clayden, review, Stoo Goff
Complaining: It’s the only way to stay sane most of the time, right? Of course. Heck, if you’re anything like me then you’re only happy when you’re complaining. Release your frustration with a good rant about the state of affairs pertaining to your misery. Boss making ludicrous demands of you? Complain. Got a long walk ahead of you in the pouring rain? Complain! You might as well, since you can’t change it. But what really pains my brain is out-of-context complaining: People who complain over things that can be changed. Did you drop your ice-cream, fatty? Well, go get a new one then and stop waffling at me about how the structural integrity of cones isn’t conducive to the ham-fisted idiot’s grip.
Today, I was all ready to complain about today’s Tuesday Choice. In fact, I was so excited I began formulating some decent put-downs in my head as I started researching. As it turns out, I may have misjudged this comic a little. Sure, it may not be the best comic out there, but it’s not bad either and it doesn’t merit a particularly bad review.
Creative Catharsis by Nick Clayden and Stoo Goff is a quivering mass of penis jokes, self-deprecating humour and whinging over ex-girlfriends. It spills trivial and all-too-done-before guff onto the internet, ignoring the fourth wall in the process, and yet, still, some-bloody-how makes it into a fairly decent comic. Then again, everything has been done before hasn’t it? There were ‘The Beatles’, then ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Oasis’. Everything has been done, then parodied, then re-done to look “modern”. Fortunately for us Creative Catharsis isn’t the ‘Oasis’ of penis jokes because, as I’ve said, they’re not bad.
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