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4413647 No.4413647 [Reply] [Original]

Why were sprite comics such a popular thing in the late 90s/early 2000s? These seem like a phenom totally exclusive to one generation of people. I wonder how they would have been different in the internet as it currently exists.

>> No.4413653

>>4413647
They were easy to make but seemed novel. Now I miss 8bit Theatre dammit

>> No.4413656

The standards for internet content was very low.

>> No.4413663

>>4413647
They weren't very popular. A bunch of untalented unfunny faggots who couldn't draw found an easy way to make and distribute their unfunny shit within their circle jerk of friends. Eventually they grew out of it and the next generation wasn't so retarded so it died out.

>> No.4413664

Bob and George was and still is fuckin hilarious, I end up reading though it about once every year or two.

>> No.4413676

>>4413663
>they weren't very popular
Hey uhhhhhhhh it seems that you have made a post based on secondhand knowledge rather than actually having been there, please don't write out posts trying to sound like an authority on a subject you know virtually nothing about. They outnumbered drawn webcomics two hundred to one, and everybody then (at least everyone online) had at least a few they liked.

>> No.4413701

>>4413653
8bt is still good. Always worth a reread

>> No.4413707
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>>4413647
>This is the first comic in a series I plan to start with my friend (we both recently just started making Sprite Comics). I hope you enjoy this first episode. :)

>> No.4413715

>>4413676
They all looked awful and weren't funny, I never followed any of them either.

>> No.4413717
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I used to read this Dragon Warrior comic regularly in 01 or 02
http://www.dragon-warrior.com/archives.html

>> No.4413718

>>4413707
Is there a second page

>> No.4413721

>>4413717
I remember the heck out of that. Wasn't one of the first pages just grinding slimes for a copper sword?

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>>4413718
Yeah just follow the link

>>4413721
yep, he even bitches out the king for only giving him enough money to buy a stick

and while looking for that dragon warrior site i found this really nostalgic webcomic list site
http://www.roeszler.org/pumpkin/Links/web_comics.htm

>> No.4413738

>>4413730
Aw shit that link has some good in it. Secret of Mana Theater is the first webcomic I know of to use flash animation for its presentation. The only animated comic I know off as its contemporary was Kid Radd, which made clever usage of animated gifs.

>> No.4413742

>>4413647
It's literally just because they were easy to make. Also, video games in that time were still for a large part sprite-based (handhelds, plus the SNES era was not oto long ago). Kids today don't see sprite art as commonly so obviously it'll be less popular.

Also, they didn't have access to the drawing tools web comic artists these days have. Aside from drawing and scanning your comics you'd be stuck using graphic design tools from the 90s or primitive drawing tablets to make your 'art'.

Compare the average Newgrounds submission today with that of 2000, and you'll see the massive difference in art quality. Not necessarily because artists got better, but because the tools did. That's the difference between digital art and conventional art. The latter hasn't seen as many noteworthy innovations.

We've really come a long way since Link's Quest for Ass.

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>>4413647
>a phenom
"all exciting at first, but then by the end you're fucking sick of 'em"

>> No.4413792

>>4413676
Top kek kid. The only reason they outnumbered anything is because they were so easy to make any preteen could shit them out. And shit them out they did. The only people they were popular with were the people who made them and a few other dingi who shared their sense of "humor".
Your argument is like saying that you're a member of a scat fetish club and because there are more turds in your shit dungeon than burgers shit is the most popular food in the world.
Also, fedora tip for being a retarded pretentious underage.

>> No.4413796

>>4413730
Bob and George is forever

>> No.4413802

>>4413792
Saying that they weren't popular is wrong though. Making them was popular, and a select few were also really popular. The demographic (primarily teenagers) might not have included you, but that didn't make them not popular. Teens aren't exactly a niche market, you know.

Just because Barbie dolls are liked primarily by girls doesn't make it unpopular since 'girls' isn't a niche market. Similarly, sprite comics and animations were really popular among the internet's teenage audience.

YouTube 'let's play' videos are today's variant of sprite comics. Easy to make, low quality, wildly popular but only with teenagers.

>> No.4413810

>>4413802
The difference is that there are a couple of good Let's Plays.

There's only one good sprite comic.

>> No.4413814

>>4413810
There's also more internet users in general, so obviously the amount of flukes is higher. The average quality is the same.

>> No.4414037

>>4413810
Is this the good sprite comic? https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/

>> No.4414046

>>4413802
>my friends like me
>i'm popular in the demographics of my friends
>i'm popular
Keep telling yourself that. lol

>> No.4414078

I used to make a sprite comic. Then I started playing World of Warcraft and it killed all my drive to update anymore.

>> No.4414089 [SPOILER] 
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Don't forget the original, and best, sprite comic.

>> No.4414103

>>4414078
Got any of that comic saved?

>> No.4414106

>>4414103
I still have every last one of them. I'm kinda reluctant to out myself here though.

>> No.4414113

>>4414106
What could possibly go wrong?

>> No.4414114

>>4413717

I remember reading this one back in 2002ish. I remember at some point the author got incredibly petty and made a mini series where the hero dies and the only way the king would revive him is if the main web comic got more popular than 8-bit theater. After awhile I guess he realized how dumb the whole thing was and just continued it.

>> No.4414137

>literally fanzines, but on the internet and more shit

>> No.4414338

>>4413647
It was an extremely accessible form of expression for video game nerds back in an era where there was no Youtube. Most kids were into it simply because it was the cool thing to do and gave you nerd cred among your circle of friends and random strangers online.

In terms of form, their closest modern equivalent is machinima, except that actually requires talent for voice acting and editing. In terms of accessibility and proliferation, I would say the equivalent is having a Youtube gaming channel.

>> No.4414404

>>4413647
Jesus Christ, some things should stay buried in the past. I haven't thought about sprite comics in years. It's all coming back now. The gag comix turned world saving anime plots, the edgy Zero/Megaman X/Knuckles recolour OCs, the Family Guy jokes. I used to read them so much. I hated every second. I think my favourite was one where Megaman was accidentally programmed to be retarded or something. That or the FF1 one.

>>4413715
Garbage is often popular.

>>4414046
keklmaoing @ ur life kiddo you gotta be 18 to cuck here underage soyboy m7llenual

>> No.4414426

>>4413647
Several ingredients.
>First:
webcomics became a thing at the time, and a lot of people even in the comic industry thought that webcomics will take over, and everyone wanted to start their own webcomic.
>Second:
Most people can't draw. However, around that time, spritesheets and emulation became extremely popular. So this suddenly allowed people access to hundreds of drawings of iconic characters. In addition to that, editing and 'frankenspriting' was a popular hobby among people who didn't know how to make their own pixel art.
Which brings us to our third point...
>Third:
Sprites themselves. As in - 90s and early 2000s was the last time sprite-based games were popular. Sonic, Mario, Megaman - were all extremely recognizable characters, and easily recognizable to gamer public.

It was an easy recipe to follow that allowed you to easily create your own comic without creating original characters, or putting much effort, and people thought that you didn't need quality writing if you had recognizable characters from popular games.
>this was obviously wrong, as let's be honest, Bob and George is pretty much the only one of those that people remember, ironically because of okay writing and original characters

Eventually, as sprite-based games phased into niche obscurity and 3D games became popular, machinimas pretty much replaced sprite comics for mostly the same reasons.

>> No.4414436

I read 8 bit in the early 2000s. Retro game references were funnier on their own before it got so popular.

>> No.4414490
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4414490

I remember this guy. He was funny despite having quite the hair trigger character.

>> No.4414497
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I remember reading this one spritecomic about what happens in game worlds when the game is turned off, but I cant quite remember the name of it.

>> No.4414502

>>4414497
Kidd Radd?

>> No.4414507

>>4414490
Yeah, he was good.
His comic stood out because he used original sprites instead of just recolors like everyone else, they looked pretty good even if they were retouched NGPC sprites for the most part.

>> No.4414514

>>4414502
>Kidd Radd?
Yeah that's actually it. I think I found it on tcrf.net a few years ago.

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>>4414507
He quit using NGP sprites and began making his own after he left BnG for a year because of drama with the Mod staff. (Admin staff was cool with him though.)
His comic, plus Ferret and Karnak's comics were the only reasons I bothered checking that place anyway.

>> No.4414532

> mfw I later found out the kind of scumbag Psyguy was in real life
> mfw I have no face

>> No.4414549
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>Have all the assets needed to create narrative stories
>Have an audience already familiar with characters
>Easy humour because lul characters doing and saying things they didn't do in game haha Mario's fireball bounced back and hit him LOL
>????
>PROFIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMwoXfRo48U

>> No.4414551

Remember fireball20xl?
Was anyone actually shocked he was in fact a pedo?

>> No.4414569

>>4414551
I was more shocked to discover he looked like Jabba the Hutt.
Also, Card Captor Shweil-something from Bob and George turned out to be a pedophile as well. Yeah, the same author of Reploid Hunter Iris and other painfuly unfunny comics.

>> No.4414610

>>4414089
DEATH RAY

>> No.4414645

>>4413792
8BT had roughly 4 million hits per day in its prime, which is larger than any other web comic I know of and even surpasses some print comics. To say it wasn't popular is completely incorrect.

I understand that sprite based web comics lost a lot of steam when the demographic familiar with them began to age, but it's pretty much a fact that at one point in time, they were enjoyed by a very large base of readers.

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>>4414645
Brian Clevinger (8BT's author) became a professional comic creator and his work still retains all the charm from 8BT.

>> No.4414742

>>4414717
Oh shit, good for him.

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>>4414742
Robo is basically a sucessful, genuinely nice version of Black Mage.

>> No.4414798

>>4414645
damn was it that popular I only knew one other kid who read it

how many hits was homestuck getting in its prime

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Oh I'm gonna share a treat with you guys. So remember how at Bob & George how if someone made their own fan comic of good enough quality and popularity it became a "subcomic?" Well the following is what some kid at a small site I hung around at the time made, genuinely thinking it would rocket into B&G Subcomic status. I present to you Stereotype: The Comic!

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>>4414801
I can't imagine why B&G didn't recognize his genius.

>> No.4414813

>>4414801
Nuder your dog!

>> No.4414870

>>4414798
Homestuck was WAY after spritecomics were big.

Problem Sleuth is where it's at, anyway.

>> No.4414875

>>4414549
This comic is prejudiced against showers.

>> No.4414880

>>4414804
>>4414801
The irony is that you actually put in more effort in the art than most people who did this, because you drew your own backgrounds instead of stealing them from some game.

So it's not even the bottom of the barrel.

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>>4414880
>Saying I'm the one who made these.

>> No.4414910

>>4414549
Why cyborg is very adiment to "hit the showers".

>> No.4414915

>>4414880
That comment reminds me of this. It's a sprite comic of this era, but all the content is hand made. Wholly original sprites for this comic.

http://www.squidi.net/comic/index.php

>> No.4414916

>>4414875
Spotted the wall sprinkler.

>> No.4414953

>>4414915
I remember that comic. I also remember the author was notorious for how buttblasted he got over people using & editing his spritework.

>> No.4415118

>>4414953
Yeah he sperged out so hard that he started drawing it all, which wasn't nearly as good

>> No.4415178

>>4414645
>4 million hits per day
First, hits, lol. The reality is that the number of unique visitors per day was minuscule compared to that. How many unique visitors per week/month do you think all those "hits" translated into? What percentage of internet users did that translate into. Millionths of a percent. But hey, it was really poplar with those few thousand people.

>> No.4415231

I used to love and read Wily Labs all the time, shame it just ended on a cliff hanger.... I'm still sad about that like 15+ years later...

>> No.4415242

>>4415231
Wily's Lab, from Bob and George? Good shit.

>> No.4415295

I'm always scared that one of my piece of shit sprite comics from when I was 13 or whatever the fuck will show up in one of these topics.

I don't want to be reminded how awful I was.

>> No.4415317

>>4415295
Man I'd like to see one though

>> No.4415362
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>>4415295
I wouldn't worry about it. This isn't the first sprite comic thread on /vr/. People only tend to bring up their fond memories of the good/popular ones like 8BT, B&G, Kid Radd, etc. The shitty sprite comics were a penny a dozen, so the odds of yours getting picked out from that vast ocean are astronomical.

One of my absolute favorites was a lesser-known one called Oldskooled.

>> No.4415373

>tfw the Internet Archive captured everything on your favorite sprite comic's webpage except the actual comic

>> No.4415404

>>4413717
Is the frogurt also cursed?

>> No.4415408

>>4414804
>Villain Hour #1
I laughed way harder than I should have

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This guy should have been a Bob and George subcomic, I never understood why he was never picked.
Also, spoilers because of pixels.

>> No.4415450

>>4415362
The dime a dozen ones sometimes had real fun communities around them, though. I wonder if anyone remembers sakana yama or rosc

>> No.4415464

Anyone remember inSONICa?
can't remember if that was autism, or if it was just actually funny.
probably a combination of the two

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>>4415464
I thought it was funny, seemed like a response to the autism if anything

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>>4413730
So much on that link is quality. How did I not know that this comic existed

>> No.4415523

>>4415478
It was genuinely funny, but wordy as hell.

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>>4413647
>sprite comics
>not FPS editor screencap comics
plebs

>> No.4415804

>mfw I made a really shitty Mega Man "comic" when I was 12-13

It was pure shit, I'm glad the forum I posted it on is long gone

>> No.4415951

>>4415804
I kind of weeped when BnG's forums were finally deleted for good.

>> No.4415969

>tails has the most HP
>knuckles has next to no HP despite being a monk
this is what triggers me about this stupid comic

>> No.4416190

>>4415969
Tails is 10 levels higher though

>> No.4416278

>>4413647
The only sprite comic I liked was 8bit-theater.

>> No.4416382

>>4414804
1st one is actually kinda funny

>> No.4416745

>>4413792
>heh, nuh uh KIDDO, actually you eat shit
Damn, I got fucking owned...

>> No.4416809

>>4416745
I guess you had to be there to see it by yourself.
For example, Bob and George and Psyguy's communities were full of people making endless comics about Sonic eating a can of beans and farting, or Megaman eating ice cream and being a retard.

>> No.4416927

>>4416809
Being in this age group, I didn't like bob and George as a kid and only hung around fireball20xl for things like ruins of the 4th wall

>> No.4417021

>>4416927
And the fallout shelter?

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lel

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Stuff like this used to make me laugh.

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DONUT STEEL

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Anatomy lol

>> No.4417827

>>4417213
Aww shit is dat some Robot Masters? I loved that comic. Thanks for dragging it kicking & screaming from the depths of my memory.

>> No.4417847

>>4415504
oh my god little saiyalings! I haven't seen that in probably 18 years!

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>> No.4418540

>>4418278
This sure looks like something a 12 year old made

>> No.4418550

>>4415410
>dat Ranma/90s anime humor
Wasn't this guy Chilean or otherwise South American of some kind?
It shows.

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electric retard was great

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zophar has manboobs

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>>4418562
indeed, but I liked Legorobot Comics better. It was more often funny and less often edgy for the sake of being edgy.

pic is /vr/ related.

>> No.4418667

>>4418579
I've never understood people who actively want to wake up and stay in bed unmoving until they fall asleep again

That sounds like a nightmare

>> No.4418785

>>4418550
What do you mean with that? (Seriously)

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>> No.4418881

>>4418872
>>4418876
Jailhouse Blues was my favorite of the B&G subcomics.

>> No.4418884

>>4418881
It was definitely great and you don't know how many people kept asking us when he was going to resume his comic.

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>>4418881

>> No.4418893

>>4414490
Does it really count as a sprite comic when it's all hand drawn pixel art?

>> No.4418901

>>4418893
If you want to classify it as one, then yes. Otherwise, no.

>> No.4418902

>>4414569
Really? I remember lurking the Bob and George forums back in the day. Never posted much and thought most of the subcomics on the site were trash, but I remember some of the names of the more profilic authors.

>> No.4418932

>>4418902
His forum name was Cardcaptor Schlueter and he was the kind of guy who honestly tried to be funny, but simply didn't had it on him.
He had an unhealthy obsession with underaged anime and cartoon girls (he modeled his author avatar as that chinese kid from Sakura Card Captor because he was obsessed with the protagonist) but we never paid much attention to it until we got links to other communities where he had made other accounts to promote his comics and constantly trying to befriend underaged kids. He refused to give us an explanation for his strange behavior and eventually left the community on his own.

His lack of an answer was ironically, a huge answer on itself.

>> No.4418938

>>4418884
>us
Who are you? Part of the old staff?

>> No.4418940

>>4418932
Yeah, I remember his name. Don't think I ever read any of his comics. They were probably shitty, most of them were.

>> No.4418965
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I remember this Bob and George subcomic called "Kefka's Comics", which was so terrible it somehow managed to actually be funny.

>> No.4418967

>>4418938
Yep. It used to be a fun job but things quickly turned sour near the end of Dave's comic, all because we got so many conflictive users and Liss kept refusing to simply ban them all. To make things worse, we also had several members of the staff who kept causing drama and trouble because of their insane greed and unwarranted self importance, like for example Sytel, Chickbot, Infinity, Eternal Dreams and NGamer, who was made a moderator just to fill a void and the guy was so toxic, stubborn and invasive with the remaining users that he ended up killing the sprite rips and sprite requests subforums by simply pissing off all of our contributors until they left.

Dave was absurdly nice and humble, though. Seriously, you would think he would be all smug and proud over all the praise and attention he received all the time but the guy was practically Mr. Rogers.

>> No.4418971

>>4418967
>Sytel
Fuck, I remember her. She was that super autistic fangirl that worshipped Dave and had like 20 000 posts on the forum despite never making any actual comics or doing any spritework, right?

>> No.4418979

Bob and George sure is remembered way more fondly than I remember it being. I should have hung out there more than fireball

>> No.4418983

>>4418971
Yes, and she kept making drama on the staff board becaue people refused to obey her or kept calling her out on her constant yammering and drama.
I remember that terrible year when she kept invading everyone's comic to complain over the voilence and trying to push them into making pacific comics, with Zero as a non-fighting character.
I never understood why Liss made her a moderator and why she was never kicked out, considering all the reports we kept receiving about Sytel's annoying behavior and how many decent authors quit the board because they were so tired of her.

But she was sane compared to ChickBot, who was literally batshit crazy and we never found out until her behavior became so deranged that not even Liss could ignore it anymore.

>> No.4418990

>>4418979
I enjoyed it as a kid, but dropped it during the Mega Man 5 adaptation, when it had become too convoluted and dumb. A lot of the narrative devices were really poorly thought through, particularly the entire "everyone knows they're in a comic and the author is a character in it" shit that made no goddamn fucking sense no matter how much the comic tried rationalizing it.

>> No.4418994

>>4418983
>But she was sane compared to ChickBot, who was literally batshit crazy and we never found out until her behavior became so deranged that not even Liss could ignore it anymore.
Go on. All I connect to that name was a not-very-good sprite comic that based itself entirely around the idea "the characters like tacos instead of ice cream like they do in Bob and George, and that's somehow funny".

>> No.4418995

The internet took itself way less seriously back then. Sure they mostly sucked, who cares?

>> No.4419000

>>4418990
>A lot of the narrative devices were really poorly thought through

Dave said many times that he never planned his comic ahead and he simply winged his way though everything, so it surprised him a lot to see people praise his clever writing and trying to make silly theories to predict future events.

But as long his readers were happy, Dave was happy as well.

>> No.4419006

>>4419000
He was pretty decent at coming up with jokes, and the plots that mostly served as vehicles for them were generally solid. The Mega Man 4 adaptation was probably the comic at its best. The attempts at drama and clever plotting always ended up a mess, and everything involving his stupid author character was an incomprehensible mess of plotholes.

>> No.4419013

>>4418994
ChickBot was on her late 20's (she must be on her mid forties now) and on top of being poor, overweight and having mental issues, she struggled really hard to convince everyone she was some kind of legendary celebrity entitled to praises and full obedience, so whenever somebody dared to disagree with her (either the readers or the admin staff) she immediately had a meltdown.
The IRC channel was also a pain whenever she joined in to brag, complain about people who criticrized her crappy comic (think of Sonichu, but with a female author) or when she simply felt like spamming crap to make everyone pay attention to her. Eventually she got banned from the channel (and she was warned many times) so she became more bitter, more greedy and more self entitled than ever, until the day she had a super meltdown on the admin board because it was her birthday and the entire site didn't made a super celebration to honor her, etc. After cursing and threatening everyone she quit the place, to tell a distorted version of the story to her (dumb) followers and play the victim act for all what was worth.

Nobody missed her when she left.

>> No.4419019

>>4419013
You sometimes start to wonder if these minor e-celebs of yesteryear that threw shitty fits like that ever look back on their lives with regret. Especially if they attached their face and real name to the online handle.

>> No.4419031

>>4419019
Considering how damaged she was, I don't think she regrets anything and probably is still holding old grudges.
She milked the "Girl on the internet" gif for all what it was worth, and whenever other people's comics began turning popular she tried to get them under her grip, ESPECIALLY if the newcomers were female as well.

When Dave released the second Cataclysm movie, he accepted ChickBot's offer to draw art for it (the first movie had great hand drawn art for the final sequences) but ChickBot's crappy drawings were such a massive downgrade compared to the previous ones that the fans quickly complained and... well, you can guess the rest.

When her e-boyfriend (Gothic) finally had enough and dumped her, CB's reaction was immediately murder him in her comic, then drop the current arc and turn her comic into a blatant wish-fulfillment story that even her most loyal readers couldn't keep reading with a straight face anymore.
Honestly, she was like a happiness blackhole.

>> No.4419039

>>4419031
I want to read this comic now.

>> No.4419046

>>4419013
I've heard some nasty things about one of those fanart girls too. You have anything on them?

>> No.4419050

>>4419039
http://bobandgeorge.com/comics/taco

Be my guest. See how THAT thing made people drool all over her, and try to not choke on all the stupid anime cliches she kept shoveling in to make her self insert look more special than anyone else.

As I said, when better comics began to pop out and outshine her own, she took it really BAD.

>> No.4419054

>>4419050
What were the best comics there, anyway? I remember Jailhouse Blues, the one by Disgruntled Ferret, some Warcraft-based thing, a Resident Evil one and some offsite comic about Wily's female robots that were some fan OCs, all of which were pretty okay.

>> No.4419059

>>4419046
Not much. Death, Suraida-Chan and Iris had a bit of ego and tember each, but that's all.

Well, Death kept drawing herself as a slender brunette character, but later an ex boyfriend revealed she was really, really fat. (She didn't took it well but didn't had any meltdown or threw any tantrum like ChickBot or Sytel did all the time.)

>> No.4419063

>>4419059
http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/bob-and-george.html?showComment=1186666260000#c580236655718807744

Here's where I got it from. Not sure which of them he's talking about.

>I remember one time, I mentionned that I really liked one of the fanart girls on the main page, which got a mod yelling at me for hurting the feelings of the other fanart girl on the main page. Like she was going to go into a depression over me commenting on someone else's artwork

>> No.4419072

>>4419054
>What were the best comics there, anyway?

First of all, Disgruntled Fetter's comic was the absolute best of all so if you want to read some subcomics your first pick should be that one.

The Karnak's Show was a funny and deranged comic worth checking just for the fucked up gags alone.
Metroid Third Derivate was surprisingly good.

Dysfunction was another girl comic that was both hylarious and fucked up, so you shoulc check it as well. (ChickBot nagged and nagged until she got some cameos there.)

The Primer Chronicles is a "serious" comic that did reasonably well. It had an overowered OC (Allegro) that made it's way to Ferret's comic, with great results.

Warped Reallity is another absurdly funny comic you should check as well.

The rest of comics are... meh.

>> No.4419079

>>4419072
Do you happen to know the name of that offsite one about the female Wily bots I mentioned?

>> No.4419097

>>4419079
Sorry, no.

Unless you are talking about Kieran's comic, which was about X and a female Zero. It raised so much drama after too many newcomers were denied from having cameos there and so they began mass reporting the comic's violence as a petty revenge, which reached it's peak when Kieran made a single page where he had a naked (female) Zero staring at her reflection on a mirror before shattering it in fear.

It was supposed to be a dramatic moment (because of Zero and the Maverick virus corroding her mind) but it was like a christmas gift for all people with a grudge against Kieran, which included Sytel and her dog, aka Infinity.

>> No.4419107

>>4419063
The yelling Mod definitely had to be ChickBot because she was the only one who yelled at people at a regular basis.
Liss kept asking her to tone it down, but yeah... ChickBot.

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KittyKaboom's comics were full of moments like this. Personally, I liked it a lot.

>> No.4419120

>>4419097
No, it was about the OCs those fanart girls had made. Techno and Slider I think their names were?

>> No.4419126

>>4419120
Ah, that one. I don't remember it's name, sorry.

>> No.4419143

>>4413810
Actually, There's a good comic called "Will Save World For Gold". Although its recent.

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Kek

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>>4419225

>> No.4419568

>>4419031
You know who the biggest, most intolerable faggot there was, though? Rick O'Shay

I know that's you, Rick. I remember you from the last sprite comic thread we had forever ago.

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>> No.4419592

>>4419587
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Psyguy

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People literally believed this was a "sexy girl sprite" back then.

>> No.4419680

>>4419587
I remember finding out about all the shit psyguy did a few years ago, having not heard anything about that old shit for almost a decade. Was up until like 6 am following the trails of blogs where girls were describing how sad and monstrous that man was, it was so strange.

Putting him aside though, this is some primo shit http://www.sonicverseteam.net/comics/fan/chaosdiamonds3/001-040/comic.html?001

>> No.4419692

>>4417206
>2010

not retro

>> No.4419775

>>4413647
I only started browsing the internet in 2005, so I joined just as things were starting to shift from the old internet to nu-internet, but when I think about what the old internet was like in those days, one of the strongest things I associate it with is web comics. It sort of represented the spirit of things back then, when everything wasn't centealized onto a few big social media sites, but everything was fractured into a bunch of little sites and a lot of people were just doing their own thing. I even had my own web comic, hosted on an Apache server I set up on my desktop at home.

Forums were another big one. Forums have largely been killed off by reddit and facebook groups.

>> No.4419907

>>4419568
Well, looks like someone is still carrying a grudge.

>> No.4420063

>>4419907
Nah I was just messing. Rick's cool.

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Fat Satan was the tits.

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>> No.4420283

>>4415478
Ah, the clear divide in production value between MS Paint comics and Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro comics.

>> No.4420285

>>4418579
>2 2 liter bottles of soda
>2 liter bottles
>of caffeinated beverage
>caffeine -> diuretic
I hope this set includes adult diapers. Or a catherer.

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I personally like that one by a guy named Disgruntled Ferret I think? I think it was called MS Paint Masterpieces. It turned Mega Man into a story with a pretty solid plot, aside from being funny when it needed to.

>> No.4420316

>>4420297
Dude, NOBODY disliked Disgruntled Ferret's comics except by a small and noisy group of special snowfllakes annoyed and butthurt over Ferret not wanting to give them cameos there.

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>>4420283
> Paint Shop Pro comics
The layers and PNG support helped I guess, but at the end of the day you still needed to have enough talent to write and put together something worth showing around.

>> No.4420327

>>4420319
Wow thats really good

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Ferret always loved to invent his own words just fot the hell of it.

>> No.4420345

>>4417993
That's mean

>> No.4420365

>>4419000
So he was like an "Akira Toriyama" of web comics?

>> No.4420389

>>4420365
Toriyama had an editor.

>> No.4420475

>>4420365
Funny thing is, Dave's originally wanted to make a hand drawn comic about two siblings (Bob and George) and used Megaman recolors as a placeholder comic to keep his potential readers entertained while he honed his drawing skills so he could start the real comic.
Problem is, Dave's drawing (and spriting) skills were simply inexistent, so the placeholder comic ended up becoming the real deal. He never denied this, and he never stopped thanking and crediting the kind people who helped him with customized sprites and characters whenever he needed them to keep the comic running.

I don't think I've ever seen another webfamous guy as nice and humble as him. (It's worth mentioning that Dave still could be a real ass whenever he felt like getting back at noisy people who kept bashing his comic and community out of envy or frustration because he refused to add their characters to his comic. This happened a lot.)

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>> No.4420672

>>4420656
> dat time
> 13:37

>> No.4420682

>>4420656
This is actually pretty funny.

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>> No.4420723

>>4420319
Nice. Most of this page seems useless and just "why?", but then turns out it all leads to that amazing "punchpanel"

What's the comic called, by the way?

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>> No.4420731

http://www.ferretcomic.com/
Read it while it's still up because Dave already removed it from BnG's front page and isn't accessible anymore unless you still have a direct URL to it.

>> No.4420737

>>4420731
>Dave already removed it from BnG's front page
Why did he do that?

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> Another "Author" avatar comic.

>> No.4420746

>>4420737
Because Ferret quit making more comics and BnG boards were deleted from the site as well so it made no sense to keep advertising a comic that was never going to be updated again.

It's a pity, though- Disgruntled Ferret was really, REALLY good.

>> No.4420748

>>4420746
He did? Damn, that's a shame. When did he stop?

>> No.4420757

>>4420748
Almost 2 years ago. The boards were dead, all of his friends had quit the place already and the only members still hanging around did nothing but nag and complain instead of trying to produce new content- so Ferret pulled the plug and moved on.

>> No.4420761

>>4420757
Fuck. Now I almost feel guilty for never going there and posting. I did enjoy the comic.

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>tfw MSPaint Masterpieces never gets updated

it hurts

>> No.4420784

>>4420761
You didn't miss much of worth, to be honest. All of our popular authors had quit the place, either because they lost interest or because they got sick of the increasing drama that broke the community in the first place.
The reason were the same as elsewhere: power-hungry staffers and attention-seeking bottom fedders preying on popular authors to either steal and demand from them or to try blaming them for all of their own problems, etc.
It was fun while it lasted though. And I really mean it.

>> No.4420786

>>4413647
internet was way slower and even porn was animated .gif if you were lucky

>> No.4420794

>>4420723
Have you read Calvin & Hobbes?

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>>4415410

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>>4420945

>> No.4420974

I have an 8bit theater t shirt somewhere.

>> No.4421000

>>4420959
I fucking spat out my coffee. This guy has talent and could definitely turn this into a career.

>> No.4421003

>>4420974
> I like swords.

>> No.4421017

>>4421000
One of the last things we knew about him before he dissapeared from the community was that he was working as a comic artist for a newspaper. He showed us some strips and they were quite good, but then one of the mods came around and deleted the links because the strips were lewd. (It was just to get under his skin)
I wish I could remember the name of said newspaper though.

>> No.4421037

>>4421003
> Welcome to Corneria!

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>> No.4421094

8Bit Theater and Bob & George were so much better than the competition that it wasn't even fair.

>> No.4421096

>>4421094
What competition? Psyguy wasn't a competitor, he was just a faggot.

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>> No.4421120

I remember wanting to make an action sprite comic back around 2003. Pulled a bunch of characters from a series I never watched, therefore I didn't even know the character relationships because I thought the sprites looked cool. Looking back at it now, I was chuuni as fuck.

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Oh shit, the memories are coming back. My favorite was a 3-page sprite comic that I printed at middle school. Then me and my buddies kept adding drawings and extra jokes. By the end of the year it was covered in doodles and OCs. Good fucking times; I always wondered what happened to it.

>tfw learning how to rotate images in MS Paint for the first time.

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>> No.4421174

>>4421017
These mods sound like complete cancer and I think I'm starting to see why the community collapsed.

>> No.4421178

>>4421096
MS Paint Masterpieces was superior to both.

>> No.4421356

>>4420794
No, why?

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Not retro, but still topic related.

>> No.4421436

>>4421110
>SEIZURE DANCE PARTY!

>> No.4421497

>>4421396
The genre is still alive? Amazing.

>> No.4421502

>>4421497
Sprite comics will never die out. If something like a new indie sprite game gets released or some artist comes up with a own comic that uses sprites, expect more sprite comics to be made. Thats why this comic was so popular in the Terraria community.

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>>4421396
And an earlier one

>>4421497
Yep
Legend of Maxx is amazing

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>>4421504
And a much later one

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>>4421506
Actually I'm gonna post a string of five more of those
Hope you don't mind

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>>4421513

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>>4421514

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>>4421517

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>>4421519
And the last one

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Bump?

>> No.4421805

>>4421174
The original Modstaff was generally nice and fun to hang around with. (The only bad one was ChickBot and she rarely posted anything outside of her own comic thread) but when Liss added Sytel to the staff and old Mods began to quit to move on, everything began to go to hell.

That was when the first authors began to leave the community, and years later Liss admited that giving power to people like ChickBot, Sytel, Infinity, Eternal Dreams and NGamer was a mistake, but the damage was already done.

>> No.4421814

Nice thread you got here. Are any of these funny or good?

>> No.4421837

>>4421814
Why don't you check them by yourself?
Some are good, others are just meh and others are so bad that they will make you wonder WTF was wrong with early Y2k internet.

>> No.4421929

>>4413738
Fucking. Kid. Radd.

Out of all of the sprite comics I've ever read, it definitely takes the cake for originality and loving detail. Last I checked, it doesn't run so well in modern browsers

>> No.4421960

>>4421929
It was a very good one, too bad it's community was concentrated autism.

>> No.4421972

>>4421929
One of the many crazy things about kid radd is that it also uses html formatting the panel layouts instead of just putting an image together. All the text boxes are on the page, not on the image. Same with each individual sprite and tiled background.

>>4421356
That comic is a C&H reference. The characters often ride a wagon and have philosophical conversations, ending in a crash

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Does anyone remember a sprite comic where classic eggman was a retard who spoke baby-engrish and the CATS guy from Zero Wing was his mother and taught the viewer how to make pie from old broken AOL CDs?

I'm Serious.

>> No.4422210

>>4422118
... no.
And I'm glad for that.

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>>4420656

>> No.4422340

Oh man, this topic hit me with so fucking much nostalgia.
Honestly tempted to download a spritesheet and fuck around in photoshop again, just for old time's sake.

>> No.4422363

>>4422340
You need MS Paint to accurately recreate the experience.

>> No.4422440

>>4422363
Nah, Photoshop was already available back then, but only a real moron would have burned $500 on a PS license to play with some sprites.
MS Paint was already all what you needed.

>> No.4422448

>>4422440
MS Paint Masterpieces was named that because it was fairly standard to use Photoshop at the time, and he was making a point of how he was not using it.

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>>4422363
Hell yeah, nigga.

>> No.4422458

>>4422448
Yes. And back then a lot of people still tried to prove that DF was using Photoshop or other powerful graphic editor just to avoid admiting he could do awesome with the same tools they couldn't even use without crashing and burning.

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>> No.4422602

>>4413676
>They outnumbered drawn webcomics
That doesn't mean they were as popular as the drawn comics in terms of readership. The were far more popular /to make/, but readers didn't stick long with any one of them (outside a few exceptions that showed writing talent).

>> No.4422630

>>4422602
Yes, but remember that back then, your average hand drawn webcomic was like Megatokyo or CAD.

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>> No.4422648

>>4422630
>Megatokyo
I'm still surprised how big it got, considering.

>> No.4422730

>>4414786
>genuinely nice version of Black Mage
I find it difficult to reconcile "Black Mage" with "genuinely nice".

>> No.4422774

>>4415362
I chuckled.

>> No.4422784

>>4415804
>>4415951
>tfw mspa fora are gone

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>>4418876
「“OC”」

>> No.4422880

>>4420337
More sprite comics should have used that font. It's such an obvious choice.

>> No.4422895

>>4422440
>but only a real moron would have burned $500 on a PS license
I don't think buying a license was even on the menu. Everybody pirated Photoshop. It was easier before the activation.

>> No.4422942

>>4418562
Maybe I no longer hang out in the right places, but to me it feels like Electic Retard's type of edge is almost vintage now. It was common on the Internet throughout the 2000s, but is far rarer now.

>> No.4422974

>>4413647
>There's a Final Fantasy Sonic thread on /vr/
How in the fuck did it come to this? Why the fuck did that autist think it'd be a good idea to try and take this shit out of the grave again?

>> No.4422979

>>4413730
>RPG World will never be finished
>Creator is too busy being a muffpuppet for Steven Universe
>Creator became a complete faggot

>> No.4423116

>>4422979
Disgruntled Ferret will never complete MSPMP's stories so we will never know the rest about ResetMan's split personality.

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This one is so 2007 that hurts.

>> No.4423193

>>4421972
>One of the many crazy things about kid radd is that it also uses html formatting the panel layouts instead of just putting an image together.
Oh wow, the panels are actually HTML tables. This is some forward-looking design. This stuff will stay readable long after Homestuck and other fancy comics that used Flash aren't. It's probably even accessible to the blind.

>> No.4423204

>>4423193
>This stuff will stay readable long after Homestuck and other fancy comics that used Flash aren't.
Modern browsers cannot read them anymore though.

>> No.4423271

>>4423204
You must mean Chrome. The original is more readable than not in Firefox, and the fan-fixed version is seems to all work in Firefox. It was not a complicated "port" thanks to HTML.

By the way, does anybody know if Dan Miller had made anything since? It seems like he just did this one impressive thing, and disappeared.

>> No.4423291

>>4423271
As far I know, he finished Kidd Radd and then dissapeared from the internet.
Which probably was for the best because a very, VERY creepy fan kept stalking and harrasing him 24/7 to demand a Kidd Radd continuation and then to try convencing him to give Kidd Radd to him, on the grounds that "he was more worthy of it than Dan himself."

The creep in question named himself DakeDesu (Sheol on BnG boards) and sharing the board with him was like pulling teeth at a daily basis. (He also demanded the BnG staff to make him a Mod and hand over the board's database to him so he could see "who said what and when" to keep everyone in check. He was one of the few users so toxic, annoying, invasive and self entitled to force Liss to drop the banhammer on him for good.)

>> No.4423320

I genuinely enjoyed Pokemon-X. http://pokemonx.comicgenesis.com/

>> No.4423321

>>4420729
Secret of Evermore out of fucking nowhere.
Be still my heart

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>> No.4423838

>>4423271
If you haven't seen it, here is the making-of: https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/making1.htm

>> No.4423958

>>4413707
It's cool these are still getting made somewhat. me and my buddy were going to make a loving parody sprite comic poking fun at the overly edgy and complicated plots and fights of early 2 thousands sprite cartoons.

>> No.4423967

>>4423958
And what would make your parody distinguishable from the real thing?

>> No.4423982

I remember reading Bob and George every day. Fuck, what happened to my elementary school days?

>> No.4424072

>>4423958
> "It's a parody, it's SUPPOSED to be shitty!"

Ah, I remember that excuse being used all the time back then.

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Captain Snes: This one is still running and it's still good.

>> No.4424207

>>4416745
heh. better luck next time.
>*slips back into the shadows*

>> No.4424362

>>4415504
Holy fuckarooni! This comic is pure gold! Every strip ends with an awesome line!

>> No.4424410

>>4424106
Christ I read that when I was a freshman in high school and dropped because I thought it was terrible

>> No.4424612

>>4424106
dorkly is the best and is still making comics and videos, and the guy is actually fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMC9PcqHeNU

>> No.4424906

>>4420784
How about reynard/Metroid prime three? That was great but I swear no one read it beside me.

>> No.4424920

>>4418278
fuckin' power rings
the best

>> No.4425241

>>4424906
It wasn't bad, but the problem with his comic is that it lacked that unique feel that made other comics like MSPMP unique.
The degenerate space pirate (no, not in THAT sense) was great though.

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>>4423321
This comic was pretty unique in that it was a time travel comic that took place in the real world, so familiar sprites represented characters different from their original game's counterparts.

>> No.4426159

More comics, please? If anything, they are a testament of the old games and old game systems from back then.

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One for the ages.

>> No.4427158

>>4425270
>That system ain't dead yet?
Looks like the joke was on him and not in his shit comic.

>> No.4427168

>>4427158
It was set in 1995, but actually made in 2004.

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> The blind one trying to guide the other blind ones.

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>> No.4427749

>>4427709
I need context for this war

>> No.4428282

>>4427749
It was a Canadian-made comic about Wario, named... Wario Comic. It was a weird one, and it was under constant attack from other comics trying to take it over (friendly cameos, not bad or ill meant stuff).

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>>4428282
Was it Wario Comic? Or Wario Comix? i remember reading WarioComix and my only memory of it was Mario spazzing out on a diner floor saying "That's-a spicy shitball." because he shit himself, sprite comics were fuckin' weird
anyone else remember Deekman's Domain?

>> No.4428773

>>4428464
Deek and Dazz?

>> No.4429227

>>4428773
jesus, yes, that was it holy hell i remember him

>> No.4429301

>>4429227
Dazz later backstabbed him and opened his own community, which he still runs as today.
I remember that pathetic day when Dazz fucked up his college exam, his dad practically disowned him for wasting his one chance at education because of his obsession with E-glory and how he used his site to beg and supplicate everywhere for some "easy way to make easy money... please, please..."

As today, the guy hasn't done much with his life besides of keeping his website up and running. (I think he's supposed to be engaged, though.)

>> No.4429325

>>4429301
Jesus, first i find out that shit about Psyguy a year and a half ago, now this, I feel like the next thing i'm gonna find out is, that the guy who makes Bob and George is a big-time mafioso crimelord who smuggles discontinued cereal

>> No.4429336

>>4429325
Nah, Dave was absurdly nice and polite to everyone at the point of being almost boring in real life. (Almost, I said. He could be really funny after a couple of beers.)
He barely visited his own board and even barely posted there.

>> No.4429596

>>4427073
source?

>> No.4429783

>>4413647
it was quick to churn out at a fast rate, and required minimal talent. it was at a time when companies didnt interact with fans as much so anything made by fans with some nintoddler or sonicfag's favorite characters could get popular.

essentially, a product of their time.

>> No.4429789

>>4429596
That's a kid radd spoiler

>> No.4429810

>>4413647
Pre-existing good looking art that were easy to drag and drop onto a background. I honestly used to make a couple of comics using RO sprites. It makes you feel like you're better than you actually are at making comics.

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>> No.4431854

Wily Beer?

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>> No.4432904

>>4413802
Lets plays are dead, twitch is the new thing.

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That ugly guy there? That was supposed to have been Bob and George's hand drawn comic about instead of the pixelated comedy we got.

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>>4432928

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>>4432929

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>> No.4433120

>>4420285
Not all soda is caffeinated.

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>>4432906
Who is this SWOLE, shit-eating grin, balding mother fucker!?

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>>4433596
One of Dave's OCs, turned into sprite form by one of his friends. He's supposed to be his team's token strong guy.

Also, have another comic salvaged from Dave's dead boards.

>> No.4433667

>>4433656
so people keep saying this comic was good, but was there anything to it other than half-naked anime catgirls?

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Rock N' Roll was a hosted comic that caused quite the controversy back then over how awful it was, and how Liss still picked it over other much better candidates.

>> No.4433717

>>4433667
The visuals were very good and it had the occasional clever thing like>>4420319 but that's it.

If you like scantly clothed women you will love this comic, but if you don't, your best choice would be Disgruntled Ferret's Microsoft Paint Masterpieces.

>> No.4433720

>>4433717
fair enough. the visuals are definitely incredibly impressive, i'm assuming the sprites are all scratch and not edits?

>> No.4433748

>>4433720
Some were scratch made (the girls, Meowth and his author avatar) and other were heavy edits, like Gatomon and the bystanders. In fact, Maneko used to have a thread where he constantly released the unusual straight sprite rips and props he used on his comic for everyone else to use, and you always could find the weirdest, most fucked up things there.

MSPMP's unusual backgrounds, props and effects were mostly his doing, by the way.

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http://insonicnia-rebirth.tumblr.com/post/132621138900/it-starts

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>>4413717
>http://www.dragon-warrior.com/archives.html

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Anyone else read WTF back in the day?
http://www.wtfcomics.com/

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>>4413647

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>>4414497

>> No.4439445

Bob and George was fucking awesome
I would be lying if I said I don't think of the strips when I eat ice cream sometimes

>> No.4439453

>>4439445
I can't play MM7 without remembering BnG either.

>> No.4439809

>>4414497
Wreck-It Radd

>> No.4439927

>>4434439
Aww shit son, Dirk Crimson was an unsung gem of a comic.

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Does anyone remember a Baldur's Gate II sprite comic that turned into a drawn comic towards the end? The hero was a female monk and there was a cheeky thief and an orc barbarian. I think it was called Adventure Incorporated or something like that. I can't find it anywhere.

Also, the Elf Only Inn comic was nice in those simple days.

>> No.4440157

>>4427073
Fuck man. This is exactly what it looked like at my old job

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Fat Italy comics anyone?

Also I enjoyed that Kabutroid comic. Wonder if it's still running.

>> No.4440449

>>4440415
Planet Zebeth? I just tried to go there last week and I can confirm it's super dead.

>> No.4440513 [DELETED] 

>>4440449
All communities are long dead. Probably for the best, as I wouldn't want to browse a place full of Millentials sperging out and stealing other people's recolors to pass them as their own, as it happens at a daily basis on Deviantart and such.

>> No.4440523

>>4440449
All communities are long dead. Probably for the best, as I wouldn't want to browse a place full of Millenials sperging out and stealing other people's recolors to pass them as their own, as it happens at a daily basis on Deviantart and such.

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>> No.4442046

>>4441680
That's like Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff tier of shitty production.

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https://www.sonicstadium.org/2001/12/community-interview-fireball20xl-author-psyguy/

>> No.4444410

Final bump before I lose interest.

>> No.4445314

>>4444410
Thread is over, my dude

>> No.4445316

>>4445314
It was fun while it lasted. It made me remember so many fun things as well.

>> No.4445320

>>4445316
We'll do it again next year!

>> No.4445323

>>4445320
Or anytime. After all, I still have so many old comics to repost and juicy Bob and George stories to share as well.

>> No.4445370

>>4445323
Give us one more bit of gossip for the road, please.

>> No.4445568

>>4445370
We had lots of mentally disabled users and we were so naive that we didn't notice until they already had deep rooted themselves into the community.
Lots of awful cameo comics were made by, and exclusively supported by users with mental retardation, autism, aspergers, sexual disorders and bipolarity issues.

>> No.4446502

have been tempted to make a sprite comic with custom sprites for a while

despite deciding i would do this years ago i've made almost no progress though. :^)

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>>4446502
>custom sprites

>> No.4448063

http://www.ravycomics.com/
A crappy site made by an autistic man who's on his late 40's now and thinks of himself as a cartoonist on par with Jack Kirby and Bill Watterson.

He was banned from Bob and George's community for trying to groom underaged users (he was on his mid 30's by then) and for his sick obsession with ChickBot.

His crappy comic is practically all what he has done with his life.

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>>4422979
Where you been? Ian's got his own tv show now, and he made an episode with Hero and Galgarion that gives closure to RPG World

>> No.4449358

>>4415538
I remember that british webcomic that was done in the BUILD editor

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>>4419587
>Friend mentions he's talking to Psy
>Mention I use to follow a lot of his work
>Asks me what my favorite comic was
>Chaos Diamonds
>Go and read it for the first time in 10 years later that week
>It's absolute shit.

I had fireball20xl as my homepage when I was a kid, and I think I only read CD3 for the art.

>> No.4449425

>>4419680
Anon, you haven't read CD3 in a long time have you?

>> No.4449601

>>4449421
>I used to read Mr. O.M.A's comics back then
>The guy was actually funny and could draw very well as well
>I stopped visiting Psyguy's site after a falling with several members who were stealing my comics and adding their retarded sonic recolors to pass them as their own
>A few years passed, decided to let bygones be bygones an all that crap, resumed visiting that place and began reading Mr O.M.A's comics to catch up
>He developed an inflation fetish while I was out and now his comics are all about that
>The guy shares a pic of himself
>He's morbidly obese
>Psyguy's community hails him as a super handsome man
>Nope nope nope nope nope
>I quickly quit the site, deleted the bookmark, moved op
>A year later I found out about Psyguy's horrible behaviour
>Guy is morbidly obese as well

What the fuck is wrong with fatties?

>> No.4449603

>>4448096
Christ, are these cartoons still doing the spiky hair big sword joke? How many more decades are they gonna run that into the ground?

>> No.4449660

>>4414549
>hey Raven, are you pregnant?
>no.

>> No.4449825

>>4423182
Green Lantern's constructs are made of 'hard light', which is basically light that can acquire properties of matter (like hardness or mass). You can call it far-fetched (especially when you consider stuff like "Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum"), but it IS definitely explained and makes sense within physics of DC Universe. This strip is bullshit.

>> No.4449828

>>4422802
>editing sprites at upscaled resolution
REEEEEEEEEE

>> No.4450462

>>4439973

I loved Elf only Inn so much, damn shame he stopped.

>> No.4450775

>>4415295
I used to have a similar feeling, but regarding something else entirely.
Long ago, in a forgotten corner of the internet, I uploaded a Sonic/Final Fantasy/Phantasy Star crossover game I made. It was largely unpolished, not remotely finished and mostly shit, but at least I didn't use RPG Maker to cobble it together.
I don't even like Sonic very much. I just figured 'Mario RPG, why not Sonic RPG?'
For a while, I was concerned someone would find it and tear it apart here, but I doubt anyone cares enough to try to find it. Even I can't find it, ffs, mostly because I'd forgotten where the hell I'd put it in the first place. I also suspect that whereever it was that I put it, that site today likely exists only in the the darkest netherregions of archive.org.

>> No.4451079

>>4449601
>Have a inanimation fetish
>Going around yahoo groups back in the day
>Find some comics on one of them
>Recognize they're by the OMA since I'm a fan of his and know his style
>He comes out a few years later admitting his fetish and says he's going to draw some more of it
>Happy that people seem to be accepting him and that he can continue to make his normal stuff and his fetish stuff as well
>Stop keeping up with him after he devolves into only making fetish stuff

>> No.4451505

>>4424612
I'll be damned if this isn't bait.

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>>4448063
This is worse than Sonichu.

>> No.4451958

>>4414885
anon we all did embarrassing shit as kids, no one cares

>> No.4452063

>>4449601
>>4451079

When you lack self-confidence, you tend to lack charisma, and from there you tend to have shitty communication skills, so winning over anyone in any matter let alone sexually isn't going to happen. So, they get weird and creepy.

Not to get into it, but Psy was just being a perv and groping on girls right?

Does anyone know what Wil and that one girl with the Robotnik comic are up to nowadays?

>> No.4452893

>>4452063
This, so much.

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>> No.4452936

http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

If you've never heard of this site, you'll love it

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>>4413663
>A bunch of untalented unfunny faggots...
Stopped reading right there. I thought "Oh. Here he is. It's THIS guy. Of course he'd show up eventually."
The dude who thinks he's too cool. The dude who thinks things people like are "lame", just cranked up with that 2edgy5me 4chan attitude.
The dude who secretly wishes people would include him, but puts up a wall of defense around his hurt feelings. Everything's lame, people are dumb faggots, right?
I know you dude. I've met lots of you. Don't yuck someone else's yum.

>> No.4453082

>>4453023
You had a shitty sprite comic and never could get over the critics it received, eh?
You guys are so easy to read.

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>>4454453
> Ten year old memes

>> No.4454697

>>4452063
Jen from ruins of the fourth wall? She had a Tumblr where she talked about star trek and how trapped she was by taking care of her grandmother. That seems to have vanished and I don't know anything more

>> No.4454804

>>4453082
>i-i-i'm not butthurt you are nigguh

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>>4451958
I'm willing to bet yours weren't immortalized in your school's yearbook.

>> No.4454848

>>4454457
What's this comic called? I've seen it posted before but can't find its name.

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>>4455498

>> No.4455578

>>4413647
Is everyone here joking or is this entired thread being posted on by christian chandler? this is the stupidest shit i have ever seen.

>> No.4455585

>>4455578
t. didntlivethroughthe90s

>> No.4455596

>>4455585
fair enough

>> No.4455646

>>4455578
read the fucking thread, retardo- we all basically admit that sprite comics were a very, very dumb pleasure of ours and that practically all the "famous" people behind of them were basically scum

>> No.4455713

>>4454697
Broken home and got stuck with taking care of Grandma? She has to be in her late 20s early 30s now huh?

>> No.4455785

>>4455713
Early 30s I think. I'd play video games with that girl.

>> No.4457296

>>4454804
someone's mad lol

>> No.4458365

>>4414089
Wow I'm glad someone else remembers this

>> No.4458958

people do remember that Tyson Hesse, the guy who did the opening animation for Sonic Mania, started as a sprite editor and sprite comic guy back when he and psy start fb20xl doing stuff like That's My Sonic, right?

>> No.4459069

>>4458958
He did? That's really good to hear.

>> No.4460315

>>4433678
Ew. Ew, ew, eewww.

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>> No.4461360

Oh man, this thread takes me back. Mainly because of the bob and george comic... but also because of the forums. There were some cool people on there, but half of the mods were complete asswipes.

>>4419059
I actually have a Death picture she posted on the BnG forums a long time ago. Judging by how the picture was taken, I do believe she is a fat fuck.

>> No.4461424

>>4413647
>Tails goes first

Should Sonic have the highest speed stat...?

>> No.4461481

>>4461340
8 bit theater is the only good sprite comic. about 80 pages in, it got really good and it stayed at that level of quality for a thousand fucking pages before finally ending.

>> No.4461493

I'm just gonna leave this here in case anyone's curious:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/e2567yqq766llpt/DSP+Site+Comics.zip
DSP stands for Drshnaps, not DarksydePhil

>> No.4461510

>>4461340
It's almost funny

>> No.4461565

>>4461360
Her infamous weird faced angled pic?
She really struggled to get an angle that made her look less fat, yes. And BnG's boards had lots of really weird but funny people indeed.

Not all Mods were bad, though.

>> No.4461692

>>4461481
I'd say it was more of a gradual increase in quality that never really stopped. Comics 100-200, for instance, are not near the level of quality that the later stuff is. It got good for a sprite comic very early on, but the later stuff was more than just good for a sprite comic or good for a webcomic.

>> No.4461839

>>4414089

My favorite

>> No.4462389

>>4461839
link?

>> No.4463485

Friday bump

>> No.4464605

Final bump- it was fun while it lasted.

>> No.4465901

I used to read one that used M&L sprites. Until this thread I forgot all about my shit taste.

>> No.4466671 [DELETED] 

let it die or take it to /co/ this thread digusts me

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>>4466671
>/co/

>> No.4467838

>>4466671
No.

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>>4414549
I miss Disasterlabs.

>> No.4470306

>>4414426
This basically, sprite comics was something almost anyone could do but only applied to people who's childhood involved sprite based games.

Once people's early childhood memories moved on to games that didn't involve sprites, sprite comics were on their way out.

For a limited time I saw them replaced with screenshot and Gmod comics but even those eventually faded.


Speaking of sprite comics, anyone read Knights of the Old Coding, it still exists somewhere.

>>4414521
I miss the forums.

>> No.4470329

>>4414569
Another old regular.

I remember how Reploid Hunter Iris was so utterly retarded and weird that it warped around into funny but drove half the forum into hysterics. It was like a sprite comic drawn by the worst of /a/ filled with anime references no one understood, no surprise he was a pedo.

>>4419031
Yeah Taco went full retard in the end

>>4421805
Sytel was a mistake and I like to think the ending pissed her off because she fucked off after the comic ended, I think cause it went against her headcanon.

>>4445568
Yes you did.

>> No.4471468

>>4470329
So many Bngers...

>> No.4471772

>>4471468
Well it was a very popular site for Mega man fans no surprise plenty of them ended up here.

>> No.4471886

>>4419006
The "Mega Man didn't actually turn evil, he was replaced by the Helmeted Author" was the worst and messiest retcon.

>> No.4471921

>>4449603
>Christ, are these cartoons still doing the spiky hair big sword joke? How many more decades are they gonna run that into the ground?

well, it's a crossover with a webcomic from over a decade ago.

>> No.4471948

>>4471886
The entire "Helmeted Author" shit was terrible and made no sense. Meta humor about being in a comic can be funny. Meta drama and meta plotlines about being in a comic is always terrible.

>> No.4471961

>>4471948
That the-author-is-a-character shit that every sprite comic ever did because they all ripped off BnG was terrible in general.

It can be done well. Both Bud Grace and Stephan Pastis have written themselves into their comics as "the author" characters, complete with both "characters bitch to the author about his comic" meta jokes and "someone else takes over the comic" meta plots. The difference is (besides them both being much better authors in general) that they did it for the sake of some quick meta humor, while these sprite comics always do it for bullshit dramatic plotlines that never make any sense.

>> No.4471971

>>4471921
hold up, i need an explanation for this

an officially syndicated cartoon did a crossover with a webcomic?

>> No.4471974

>>4471971
The webcomic author went on to make the cartoon many, many years later.

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>> No.4473926

>>4418967
How is Dave doing these days? He's got to be in his mid 30's right?

>> No.4473931

>>4419013
It's kind of surprising to hear that, given she was one of the most visible subcomic authors, having made it to the levels of ancillary character in the main comic.

>> No.4473934

>>4419050
It was kind of strange how the comic suddenly became hand drawn right before it stopped. She suddenly put more effort in, then quit?

>> No.4474229

>>4473926
He's on his late 30's and is doing fine.
>>4473931
Any person who interacted with her, both in the boards or our IRC channel could tell you she was batshit crazy.
>>4473934
Chickbot ragequit the community after throwing a massive tantrum on the Admin board because Dave didn't gave her a massive homage parade the day of her birthday. She basically made a huge wall of text full of drama, hyperbole and bullshit arguing that the entire community owed everything to her and she deserved to be praised as the legendary super star she was, etc. Then she logged off for good and went to her Deviant and Sheezyart accounts to tell her own version of the story where she demonized everyone and claimed to have been banned out of spite, except she was never banned, could have returned anytime and Liss even was willing to giver her another chance, which ChickBot simply refused because she was too broken to understand.

She COULD have continued Taco outside of BnG, except she refused to do anything without a loyal audience and so Taco died a pitful death.

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>> No.4476007

>>4473934
She stopped using sprites once it was revealed that "her" fancy sprites weren't really made by her, but by another Bnger (Deccus). Then she quit.