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Offline Grey Wolf

The Cardboard Tube Samurai does it again...
I'm just saying the plot quality seems to vary from day to day.
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Offline J.F.K.

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I guess I'll stick with my regular paper Calvin 'n' Hobbes comics... :)
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Offline Cannikin

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:rolleyes:

 

Offline Dark_4ce

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Hehe, I can see the plot for that now!

"The blocks are still coming, and they're destroying the cities. Nukes won't help. But what we have noticed is a rare phenomena. If they are placed in line, the flash and vanish. What I propose we do is gather the best bricklayers in the country!" A scientist said amongst a secret NASA and jointchiefs meeting.

"I know just the one." A thin man with glasses raised his hand and said.

CUT TO:
L.A Central building complex


 COLIN FARELL, sweatly swabs some cement on some bricks and placing another one on. We zoom out to see that he's high up on a building, and a nice pan reveals the rest of the city.

"Hey Buck, don't you worry that your line of work is a dying breed?" A huge overwheighted man (John Goodman) said walking by him. He sat down and started to eat his lunch.

"Maybe so, Mack, but someones gotta do it." COLIN smiles and wipes some more sweat off.

We see a glint in the sky and a army helecopter flies towards the camera.

Alot of stuff happens.... Blah blah.

CUT TO:
NASA OFFICE

"More bricks are falling every day. And they're building up. No one seems to be able to get rid of them fast enough. We need you with a special unit of mathematicians to figre out their postions and get rid of them before the world gets covered..." The Nasa official said grimly. A small simulation of different shaped bricks falling ontop of the city is seen behind him on a tv screen. COLIN shakes his head.

"Man. Those mathematicians might know the answer to the a square root of negative one, but they know **** of brick laying. Its an art. You can't just ask anyone to do it..."

"What do you suggest?"

COLIN looks up the official with a bit of reluctance.

"All they gotta do is lay the bricks?"

"Thats all."

"Then I'll need my team."

"You got it."

More **** happens. We see the whole training of the brick laying, and then finally them attacking the next onslaught of falling bricks. Then in a fit of no luck, none of the bricks seem to line up and there is one final brick to lay which could connect all the bricks. But someone has to stay behind and under the brick in order to make sure its in place. COLIN decides to do it and saves the world.

uuuhm... Yeah... I got a bit carried away...:blah:
« Last Edit: May 25, 2003, 03:29:31 pm by 357 »
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Offline Knight Templar

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The Cardboard Tube Samurai does it again...
:lol: :yes:

Oddly enough, I'd pay the $6.50 to see that :D
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Offline Turnsky

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Gah, you people need to read more web comics... there's a backstory to the cardboard tube etc.. that I kinda presumed people were up to date with after all this time.

Clearly not.


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Offline ZylonBane

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I would enjoy Penny Arcade a lot more if the two main characters weren't utterly repellent assholes.

PvP fills my "gamer geek" webtoon quota quite nicely, thank you.
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Offline Turnsky

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indeed
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Offline Stryke 9

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Of course they're repellent assholes. We gamers aren't on average the most socially well-adjusted types, ya know? PA probably is so popular because it speaks to all sorts of bright, witty, but immature and jerky people- exactly what the typical gamer would be. It's kinda funny that, from all the evidence, they've gone through the effort to put up an elaborate pretense of being their characters, and yet are nothing like him (according to the one picture they hosted and hid, "Tycho" is pushing fifty, the whole name thing, etc.), but apparently it's a pretense that sells, and there you go.


And PvP is not a gaming-geek comic. Just because Calvin and Hobbes is set in Washington (or one of those northern states, forget which) doesn't mean that it's all about state politics in the North. PvP is about characters who happen to work in a gaming magazine, and yet the artist does a pretty damn good job of shying away from anything that has to do with games, magazines, technology (except for pulling out some rusty old Mac vs. PC jokes occasionally- wow, how tech-savvy and clever and hip and whatever. He might as well be making cracks about how the interface in Windows 95 seems to be a BSoD.), or anything else not directly related to some kind of melodramatic soap-opera plotline. Which is okay, I guess (if I wanted that sort of thing I'd read Apartment 3-G instead of using it as a spraypaint mask), it just has nothing to do with gaming, or indeed anything else- feeble protests of the writer aside.
« Last Edit: May 26, 2003, 12:08:46 am by 262 »

 

Offline mikhael

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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I would enjoy Penny Arcade a lot more if the two main characters weren't utterly repellent assholes.

PvP fills my "gamer geek" webtoon quota quite nicely, thank you.


Philistine.

Consistently PvP is one of the worst of the "big name" web comics out there. It is only outdone by User Friendly for raw anal-feeding suck-ass crapitude.

Such is my opinion. It is much like yours, except its not wrong.
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Offline 01010

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I don't really mind reading any of them to kill a bit of time but sometimes I think people take them way too seriously for their own good. Plus Calvin and Hobbes pretty much ruined any other comic for me completely when I discovered it.
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Offline Shrike

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Try Sinfest then.  :devil:
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Offline Stryke 9

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Sinfest's good, but it's basically got maybe three jokes, so you can't read it for too long...

Now certain minor comics, on the other hand...


 

Offline Eishtmo

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The Cardboard Tube Samurai does it again...
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Gah, you people need to read more web comics... there's a backstory to the cardboard tube etc.. that I kinda presumed people were up to date with after all this time.

Clearly not.


More webcomics?!  You must be ****ing joking.  I probably hit more webcomics per day than most of you have seen in your lifetimes.  And Penny Arcade is NOT one of them.

Unfortuantly, through third party sources, I've got some idea of what the title of this thread was refering too, and I still didn't find it funny or interesting.

This, however, is:

http://animehistory.keenspace.com/comics/animehistory20030409.jpg
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Offline Stryke 9

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Originally posted by Eishtmo
 I probably hit more webcomics per day than most of you have seen in your lifetimes.  


If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p

 

Offline Martinus

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Originally posted by Stryke 9


If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p

[color=66ff00]You know it's always bothered me that your chosen handle so closely resembles 'Strychnine'.
Considering the nefarious nature of said substance I find this similarity quite apt. ;)
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Offline Turnsky

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i've noticed that also....

they've named it after him:p
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Offline ZylonBane

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Originally posted by Maeglamor
You know it's always bothered me that your chosen handle so closely resembles 'Strychnine'.
Your own name is just about as close to "Megalomaniac". Should that bother us too?
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Offline Martinus

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Originally posted by ZylonBane
Your own name is just about as close to "Megalomaniac". Should that bother us too?

[color=66ff00]Admit it, you had to stretch for that one.
...and no, it shouldn't bother you. :drevil:
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Offline Eishtmo

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
If this has become something to boast about, I am officially off to the clocktower with a FAL.:p


Very true.  Scary.

Wait, there's something scarier.

No, I haven't read them all.
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