CAD is just Buckley fantasizing about what he wants his life to be like.
The story where Lilah's ex tries to win her back, and she picks Ethan without him even needing to launch into a "zany scheme", and him ending up with the game shop as a byproduct of it without him needing to lift a finger is a good example.
But hey, more edits.
I think this is my favorite miscarriage comic yet.
But without all the funny. He takes it serious. Like that gaming is some thing that only he and his chosen ones are allowed to play.
The other part of the phone call was "Wait, are you standing next to him?" "No." "Damn it. I was hoping he would hear me cussing him out over the phone."
Remember the one where the VG Cats guy badly apes Colbert?
Yes exactly! I didn't want to link it because it's fucking horrible but that epitomizes everything wrong with VG Cats!
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What kills me is that these guys still have a rabid fan base.
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
I kinda can see where people are coming from when they are offended by the arc, but really what made the miscarriage arc really reprehensible for me was that Buckley was writing about what really happened in his life, where this is just silliness.
I frankly don't think anyone has any leg to stand on if they are offended by the Ripped From The Headlines arc, unless they are also offended by all the other violence and threats of violence that Gabe and Tycho routinely engage in. I still have yet to see anyone elucidate why they have a problem with this arc. It just seems like unfocused, pointless rage.
And even if these people ARE offended by all the other bits of violence that appear in all of Penny-Arcade's history, they would still be silly geese. Intellectually consistent silly geese, but silly geese nonetheless.
Yeah, I'm agreeing with Drez.
Which is not a sentence I thought I would ever type.
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What kills me is that these guys still have a rabid fan base.
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
I doubt anyone outside of Gabe & Tycho makes that much making webcomics.
I kinda can see where people are coming from when they are offended by the arc, but really what made the miscarriage arc really reprehensible for me was that Buckley was writing about what really happened in his life, where this is just silliness.
I frankly don't think anyone has any leg to stand on if they are offended by the Ripped From The Headlines arc, unless they are also offended by all the other violence and threats of violence that Gabe and Tycho routinely engage in. I still have yet to see anyone elucidate why they have a problem with this arc. It just seems like unfocused, pointless rage.
And even if these people ARE offended by all the other bits of violence that appear in all of Penny-Arcade's history, they would still be silly geese. Intellectually consistent silly geese, but silly geese nonetheless.
Yeah, I'm agreeing with Drez.
Which is not a sentence I thought I would ever type.
Head Asploded.
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CAD is just Buckley fantasizing about what he wants his life to be like.
The story where Lilah's ex tries to win her back, and she picks Ethan without him even needing to launch into a "zany scheme", and him ending up with the game shop as a byproduct of it without him needing to lift a finger is a good example.
But hey, more edits.
I think this is my favorite miscarriage comic yet.
whoops, i didn't check the posts in the interim to see if it had already been posted.
What kills me is that these guys still have a rabid fan base.
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
I doubt anyone outside of Gabe & Tycho makes that much making webcomics.
I think there's quite a few of them making ~50,000 a year with webcomics. I'm pretty sure one of them lives in Nashville.
What kills me is that these guys still have a rabid fan base.
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
Why bad webcomics make money and have fans was explained by Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad but they took that blog down. They really trashed on some popular webcomics in completely legitimate ways.
What kills me is that these guys still have a rabid fan base.
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
I doubt anyone outside of Gabe & Tycho makes that much making webcomics.
I think there's quite a few of them making ~50,000 a year with webcomics. I'm pretty sure one of them lives in Nashville.
While I'm not intimately familiar with the world of webcomics, I don't know that I can think of anyone who I would guess would pull in that kind of net income.
I mean, revenue, sure, but after expenses? I guess maybe the Megatokyo guys.
While I'm not intimately familiar with the world of webcomics, I don't know that I can think of anyone who I would guess would pull in that kind of net income.
I mean, revenue, sure, but after expenses? I guess maybe the Megatokyo guys.
I'm basing that on a ~40K to ~60K gross income, with the idea that each author has between 1000 and 3000 dedicated fans buying one book ($8 profit if bulk printed) two shirts ($12 if bulk printed) per year, which comes up to 32,000 to a little over 100,000 a year before taxes, but after cost of production.
That doesn't factor in any con profits, and is based on a readership of over 50,000 with a 5 to 10 percent purchasing fan base.
I can think of at least 20 comics off the top of my head that meet that criteria.
edit: a lot of this is sourced by the how to make webcomics crew and Johnathan Coulton's articles regarding online distribution
While I'm not intimately familiar with the world of webcomics, I don't know that I can think of anyone who I would guess would pull in that kind of net income.
I mean, revenue, sure, but after expenses? I guess maybe the Megatokyo guys.
I'm basing that on a ~40K to ~60K gross income, with the idea that each author has between 1000 and 3000 dedicated fans buying one book ($8 profit if bulk printed) two shirts ($12 if bulk printed) per year, which comes up to 32,000 to a little over 100,000 a year before taxes, but after cost of production.
That doesn't factor in any con profits, and is based on a readership of over 50,000 with a 5 to 10 percent purchasing fan base.
I can think of at least 20 comics off the top of my head that meet that criteria.
edit: a lot of this is sourced by the how to make webcomics crew and Johnathan Coulton's articles regarding online distribution
Do they include those estimates for a "purchasing" fanbase?
Because that seems pretty fantastically high to me.
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Nah, I laughed all the way through. Nothing sad about it. Nope.
I think this is my favorite miscarriage comic yet.
Yes exactly! I didn't want to link it because it's fucking horrible but that epitomizes everything wrong with VG Cats!
I mean, it's like no matter how many people they piss off, they've still got fans. I get that when you're a tv show with millions of viewers, but when you're a comic strip with only a couple hundred thousand it seems like you really need every one of them to make a good living.
I don't know how they still do it.
Honestly I don't know how Kurtz still does it. Then again, I have no idea how much these guys actually make a year so I can't really speak on the matter. I mean if I was making $50K a year doing comics I'd feel like I was extremely successful.
"Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do."
"What's that?"
"Go through his clothes and look for loose change."
Don't forget any rings and if he has a nice pair of boots take those as well. Kids these days, don't get the basics of looting.
Which is not a sentence I thought I would ever type.
Head Asploded.
whoops, i didn't check the posts in the interim to see if it had already been posted.
but yeah, i think that's my favorite too.
I'm always amused that this is a parody of WoW.
edit: And the Skymall one always busts me up for at least 5 minutes. I cannot get to the end if I try to read it out loud.
I think there's quite a few of them making ~50,000 a year with webcomics. I'm pretty sure one of them lives in Nashville.
Why bad webcomics make money and have fans was explained by Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad but they took that blog down. They really trashed on some popular webcomics in completely legitimate ways.
Wouldn't that be weird?
Love this one.
I mean, revenue, sure, but after expenses? I guess maybe the Megatokyo guys.
Clawshrimp strip is great.
It really isn't very good. It's like they had an idea for a 15 minute short and tried to stretch it out for an hour and a half.
So then I should steal a friend's Blu-Ray instead of buying it.
Also, I bought 500 Days of Summer and still haven't watched it. Should I watch it tonight?
So far it's pretty fuckin' adorable, but I'm not seeing where the next hour is coming from...
I'm basing that on a ~40K to ~60K gross income, with the idea that each author has between 1000 and 3000 dedicated fans buying one book ($8 profit if bulk printed) two shirts ($12 if bulk printed) per year, which comes up to 32,000 to a little over 100,000 a year before taxes, but after cost of production.
That doesn't factor in any con profits, and is based on a readership of over 50,000 with a 5 to 10 percent purchasing fan base.
I can think of at least 20 comics off the top of my head that meet that criteria.
edit: a lot of this is sourced by the how to make webcomics crew and Johnathan Coulton's articles regarding online distribution
Yeah me too. That Tycho has the same exact dead look in all three panels is win.
Yes.
Because that seems pretty fantastically high to me.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I mean I'm no expert in statisticology and I don't have a PhD in Numbers, I'm just sayin.
yay it is here!
This is D&D. It will devolve into a lengthy pseudofeministic argument between the white knights and the latent misogynists.