Erfworld web comic

[Sir_Dr_D]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Yeah, I second the goodness that is Erfworld. Good characters & story and witty humor. Even the text updates were a suprisingly pleasant read.

You left out a few important things. Cute little marbits, Archon flash mobs, and a lesbian relationship.

[Wrana]

Originally Posted by Sir_Dr_D

It takes place in an alternate world, that behaves similar to a turn based strategy game.

Yawn. I've read about 3-5 books with such premises, and I'm sure there are more. If it's your first one, it may be funny, but mostly they are just boring. It's amazing how people who wouldn't recognise a convention if it did bite them on the *ss, think themselves clever and funny...

[Sombre]

Have you actually read Erfworld? It isn't amazing but it isn't massively gimmicky either. It's just a decent fairly amusing ongoing webcomic.

[Burnsaber]

Of course, no webcomic can hold a candle to the genius that is

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

[Makinus]

Originally Posted by Wrana

Yawn. I've read about 3-5 books with such premises, and I'm sure there are more.

Care to mention some titles/authors? I would like to read them....

[Sir_Dr_D]

Originally Posted by Wrana

Yawn. I've read about 3-5 books with such premises, and I'm sure there are more. If it's your first one, it may be funny, but mostly they are just boring. It's amazing how people who wouldn't recognise a convention if it did bite them on the *ss, think themselves clever and funny...

There are a lot of web comincs out there. Most of them are bad. But to say that because some people did a particular type of webcominc bad, therefore all comics of that type are bad, is an unfair statement to make. Erfworld isn't even meant to be primarily a humor comic. It is a story driven comic with multi-dimensional characters, a deep theme, good artwork, and a plot in which you never know wich direction it is going to go. The comics humour relies on puns and references to the real world. I never found these references outright funny, but they are amusing, fun to figure out, and gives the comic its own unqiue artistic flavor.

Everyone has there own preferences for comics. So if you don't like it, you don't like it. But your statement did sound unfair. For the record, I did find the comic pointless with bad humour at the begining. Half way through the first book it started to get good, but not great. By the end of book 1, I found it epic.

[SnallTrippin]

This is a pretty good comic. Quite liked it, too short. Made me want to play Dom3 Multi VERY badly...hopefully game comes tmrw.

Note: I would read the first 25 strips to see if you like it...and it still gets WAY better than the beginning.

[FAJ]

I didn't like it when I started reading it from the beggining, I just was procrastinating doing work. But by the end of it, I was pissed off that there werent anymore

It seems like they get a lot of the gimmicky stuff out of the way early and the comic gets better as it goes along. Or maybe you just get used to the gimmicky stuff. It gets to the point that a huge-headed dude on a flying marshmellow peep can actually seem badass. D:

[Sir_Dr_D]

Yes, at the beginning everything seems like a lot of bad puns. But as the comic goes on, it stops seeming like bad puns, and more of a distinct artform.