Blaine's Web Comic (Strips 1-12)

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip1.jpg" target="_blank">The Creator</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip2.jpg" target="_blank">Prime Time</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip3.jpg" target="_blank">Does Not Compute</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip4.jpg" target="_blank">Edumacation</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip5.jpg" target="_blank">Reprogramed</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip6.jpg" target="_blank">A Christmas Show</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip7.jpg" target="_blank">Don't You Think?</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip8.jpg" target="_blank">In For A Penny...</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip9.jpg" target="_blank">It's Like This All The Time.</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip10.jpg" target="_blank">Minus 'myst'.</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip11.jpg" target="_blank">Minus 'myst' Part 2.</a>

<a href="http://www.samuraishodown.com/blaine/www/strip12.jpg" target="_blank">Minus 'myst' Part 3.</a>

[ December 13, 2002: Message edited by: Blaine ]</p>

lmfao the second one owns so much ass

Edit: What do you use to make them?

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: Ed ]</p>

[quote]Originally posted by Ed:
<strong>lmfao the second one owns so much ass

Edit: What do you use to make them?
</strong><hr></blockquote>

Illustrator and Photoshop. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I like the second one the best, too...

I like the second one the best, too...

But they're all good. ;)

they're great. keep 'em coming.

btw : the pink haired guy in the bg of strip 4 seems to be very well known. :D <img src="graemlins/tickled.gif" border="0" alt="[Tickled]" />

Cool comics! Let us know when you make some more.

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: GregN. ]</p>

Awesome work there Blaine.

rock on :cool:

New strip added.

Will probably do more tomorrow afternoon.

Again, thanks to EvilWasabi for letting me squat on his webspace.

Thanks to everyone who's read it so far.

Hope you continue to enjoy it.

new day - new strip ...

yesss! a leaque bowling shirt, too. gotta love that one. <img src="graemlins/drool.gif" border="0" alt="[Drool]" />

New strip (Prime Time).

Might be a little too obscure, but...hell, who cares?

nice!!! they are funny and very very well done!

I laughed I cryed I . . . think that you should try submitting to Penny Arcade.

On a side note Edumacation only loads half the image and I cant get the bottem half. I think that this may just be my PC

Excellent stuff, Blaine. Already better than a good portion of the webcomics out there, but that is not saying much. ;) The different posters you sneak into the background are amusing, as well. :D

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: BioMotor_Unitron ]</p>

[quote]Originally posted by Shapermc:
<strong>On a side note Edumacation only loads half the image and I cant get the bottem half. I think that this may just be my PC</strong><hr></blockquote>

Try holding Ctrl and hit refresh. It's only a 3 panel comic, maybe that's it.

[quote]Originally posted by BMU:
<strong>Excellent stuff, Blaine. Already better than a good portion of the webcomics out there, but that is not saying much.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Thanks, interesting what a little boredom can do. ha ha.

[quote]Originally posted by BMU:
<strong>The different posters you sneak into the background are amusing, as well.</strong><hr></blockquote>

The Christmas Show has one very near and dear to my heart. Every comic needs a gimick, I guess.

Strip 7 may or may not be done today, I haven't decided if I should keep going or pace myself.

Heh, good job, though the characters look, how do you say..., hideous.

great job ;)

[quote]Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>

The Christmas Show has one very near and dear to my heart. Every comic needs a gimick, I guess.

Strip 7 may or may not be done today, I haven't decided if I should keep going or pace myself.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ah, a new one already! :D Where Is Waldo... er... Rade? ;)

The t-shirt gimmick is cool, too. :) I suspect that the public at large would not find them as humourous as the people that frequent this site do, but you never know. The Christmas one is great. :D

The robot needs more screen time. <img src="graemlins/mrt2.gif" border="0" alt="[Mr T]" />

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: BioMotor_Unitron ]</p>

I agree I think the characters look like total crap, but the comics are funny.

[quote]Originally posted by Neon_Sonic:
<strong>Heh, good job, though the characters look, how do you say..., hideous.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Why, because they do not conform to a pre-existing style?

The guy on the left is fine, but the guy on the right needs something, not sure what.

Two more in.

9 and 10 may be up tomorrow depending on how smooth the day goes.

[quote]Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>Two more in.

9 and 10 may be up tomorrow depending on how smooth the day goes.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Real awesome super happy fun good work Blaine.

"Don't you think?" is the best one so far.."I am pointing at this game" great work Blaine. <img src="graemlins/loco.gif" border="0" alt="[Loco]" />

Ok, I sooooooo don't get some (most) of those. <img src="graemlins/shame.gif" border="0" alt="[Shame]" />

Great stuff, Blaine. 3 & 4 made me ROTFL!

Keep it up!

Thanks Blaine,
It made me stop playing PSO. :)

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>Ok, I sooooooo don't get some (most) of those. <img src="graemlins/shame.gif" border="0" alt="[Shame]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Oh, okay. Well:

"The Creator"- the joke is the robot was made specifically to point at, verbally berate and hit with a baseball bat one of the worst games ever. Superman 64. It's a game that is so bad, that it warrants such a complicated means beyond selling it or even throwing it away.

"Prime Time"- With the 'prime' in the title and the first two panels looking like Metroid Prime screenshots, you get the idea that 'hey this has something to do with metroid' then you see that it was actually the robot who you were seeing in the first person view. The robot was trying to free the R.O.B. robot from the closet in the basement.

Apparantly he's been trying to do it alot which is why they're sick of trying to stop him, and going for a non-cerebral laugh with a robot screaming while carrying a smaller robot that it considers it's "ancestor".

"Does Not Compute"- Most games these days that have a female character in it automatically have cleavage or bathing suits or tit bounce or something. Having a game that has a female lead character without such sexual things is far from common place and would make most gamers think 'hey, is it hidden or something?'. And the 'can she kick really high' was a stab at a funny DOA commerical.

"Edumacation"- Gasmouth taught the robot to say "Pee on me".

"Reprogramed"- The robot was engaging in an intellegent conversation. The viewer is then surprised to see he's considered to be working in a manner not commencerate with his current programing, having reprogramed him, you see that he should be sending Porn related spam, email, IM messages...whatever. Again, going for an obscure over complex method to a final goal (that is rather than having a program do it, use the robot you created to berate a video game). Sort of a Rube Goldbergian device.

"A Christmas Show"- No one caught the Samurai Shodown allusion, with the falling sakura leaves and the slicing up (in the game, a temple lantern. In the comic, Gasmouth). Funny because if I told you I had a dream that I killed you and then I wanted whatever I killed you with than maybe I think killing you is a good idea and it's disconcerting for Gasmouth to be asked to buy this aforementioned killamabob.

"Don't You Think"- Making a comment about something while doing that exact same thing. Alanis Morisette would have something to say about that.

"In For A Penny"- Penny Arcade joke.

Way to ruin the fun for everyone else... :D .

[quote]Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>


"A Christmas Show"- No one caught the Samurai Shodown allusion, with the falling sakura leaves and the slicing up (in the game, a temple lantern. In the comic, Gasmouth). Funny because if I told you I had a dream that I killed you and then I wanted whatever I killed you with than maybe I think killing you is a good idea and it's disconcerting for Gasmouth to be asked to buy this aforementioned killamabob.



Way to ruin the fun for everyone else... :D .</strong><hr></blockquote>

No, what is funny here is that Cave-Rade(star of the awesome 'Time Traveller' arcade game-released by SEGA, natch'!) is in this comic in his blurred, nay, soft focus iteration.

This alone makes it cool.

Remember, keep you lamp light trimmed and burning,
Rade


Don't worry, some of us understand your jokes.

[quote]Originally posted by Rade Kuruc:
<strong>No, what is funny here is that Cave-Rade(star of the awesome 'Time Traveller' arcade game-released by SEGA, natch'!) is in this comic in his blurred, nay, soft focus iteration.
</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, I HAD to use that!

Oh, some of us get it... it's just not really that funny. The Gyromite one was cute, though.

No offense, honestly... there's potential, but it'd work better if you do some character-establishment before wading into topical joke territory.

-Deuce

[quote]Originally posted by Deuce:
<strong>if you do some character-establishment...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ha ha ha! Can I use that? That's solid right there. Maybe flesh out thier dynamic a bit more before they go killing each other with samurai swords. Comic gold.

A lot of it seems like inside jokes. Like what if I didn't know those were Metroid Prime screenshots (I didn't), that joke was completely lost on me.

Don't know if you want constructive criticism but here you go, in order of comic number (BTW, I make kickass Mr. T VS Gizmo comics that pretty much own everything):

1. I got the "suck ass" game bit, that game sucked some major ass. The only part I found funny was how the robot said "the" Tony Hawk.

2. As I mentioned above, I had no idea what this was supposed to mean.

3. Pretty good. I like the DOA commercial ripoff and the ending line is pretty good.

4. Only loaded halfway the first time. By time I got it to fully load and see the punchline it wasn't that funny. Maybe the build-up I went through to see it gave me high expectations.

5. Ehh, not very funny. I liked how the creator got angry but became very disappointed when the click HERE link in the robots speech didn't work. <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" />

6. LOL, this one is my favorite. Maybe cuz I love Shodown and I like how that bitch got sliced and diced like a mofo and I liked how he then asked for a katana for X-mas. :D

7. Ehhhhhhh, not sure if the Superman pun can hold its appeal very long. You need to put something else on that table like a gerbil or something.

8. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>A lot of it seems like inside jokes.
<hr></blockquote></strong>
Oh yeah. Some of the funniest ones are.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>Don't know if you want constructive criticism...<hr></blockquote></strong>

I'm all about it. Trust me, after years of being a professional artist, you develop a VERY thick hide. I don't think anyone could say anything that'd upset me.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>1. I got the "suck ass" game bit, that game sucked some major ass. The only part I found funny was how the robot said "the" Tony Hawk.
<hr></blockquote></strong>

That's how robots talk.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>2. As I mentioned above, I had no idea what this was supposed to mean.<hr></blockquote></strong>

Can't win them all...or in this case, any.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>3. Pretty good. I like the DOA commercial ripoff and the ending line is pretty good.
<hr></blockquote></strong>

feel the powar.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>4. Only loaded halfway the first time. By time I got it to fully load and see the punchline it wasn't that funny. Maybe the build-up I went through to see it gave me high expectations.
<hr></blockquote></strong>

This is pretty much the defining strip. Either you think it's hillarious or you don't. A couple people have named that one as thier favorite overall. My ex-roomate, who Gasmouth is patterened off of, lost it when he saw that. He wants a tatoo of it. So it's his style. Other people I don't know have read it and liked it a lot. I think this is the lithmus test.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>5. Ehh, not very funny. I liked how the creator got angry but became very disappointed when the click HERE link in the robots speech didn't work. <img src="graemlins/veryangry.gif" border="0" alt="[Very Angry]" /> <hr></blockquote></strong>

The robot doesn't know how to use HTML properly, he just underlines the text.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>6. LOL, this one is my favorite. Maybe cuz I love Shodown and I like how that bitch got sliced and diced like a mofo and I liked how he then asked for a katana for X-mas. :D
<hr></blockquote></strong>

See, 2 for 5 (not counting the strip you didn't get)...that's around a .400 batting average. I'd get into the hall of fame with numbers like that.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>7. Ehhhhhhh, not sure if the Superman pun can hold its appeal very long. You need to put something else on that table like a gerbil or something.<hr></blockquote></strong>

The long and the short of it is I reused one of the least re-usable strips with different text. Everything is out of context. Puting something else on the table destroys the joke. Whether or not it's a very funny joke, he still has the same right to exist as you or me.

[quote]Originally posted by FeelGood:
<strong>8. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.</strong><hr></blockquote>

John Romero was homophobic. Yet he had very femine hair and mannerisms. In one strip, if memory serves the Matrix one at Penny Arcade, Gabe is lying on the ground and he says "Tell John Romero I love her".

Cut to, my comic with a much more dramatic death scene, saying the same thing.

Again, either you'd get it or you don't.

The thing is, a lot of people have problems with the specific nature of the jokes. Now, if they're generic, they're not very funny...because if everyone knows it, than it's bitterly obvious. Like a Giant X-Box controler joke. No matter how hard you fight that joke, it's not gonna be that funny because EVERYONE sees it coming.

So you're gonna lose a few when you go hardcore. I'm fine with that, I've made peace. The main problem is, as I see it, trying to make every strip funny to every person. There's a world of those type of strips, it's called the Sunday Comics...and most of them are lame as hell. Ooooh, look, Marmaduke is big and he wants to sit on that lady's lap. That'll probably hurt her lap.

Seriously.

I do feel the pain of my loyal (the past two days) readers, but I think the whole hit/miss scenario (where some people think it's funny, some don't and that alternates). Now, if people never find one they get, than that's something. But you like strips 15 21 and 23 and BK likes 13 22 and 43 than I feel like I've done alright.

Strip 9 is up, 10 is on deck.

As mentioned earlier, 10 will begin a series of comics of intertying themes. Should be fun.

I'll consider making the humor more...accessable, I'll see how it goes.

But, so far people have been enjoying it enough to warrant me making more.

I like it.


Needs more Cave-Rade IMHHO. I dont know what it is about that guy...

You can't be a videogame-centric strip without a few panels joking about the size of the Xbox and its controller!

am i the only one that got all of them, and firthermore liked all of them?

Strip 10 is up.

10,000 cool points for whoever can decypher the hidden meaning to the title.

lol.

wwrgbd.

own3d

[quote]Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>Strip 10 is up.

10,000 cool points for whoever can decypher the hidden meaning to the title.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I want one of those t-shirts. :D

[quote]Originally posted by Blaine:
<strong>

I'm shortly going to change all of these links from EvilWasabi's website to another one. I feel like I'm taking advantage of his generosity.
</strong><hr></blockquote>

no need to move on that account. If anything move only because my hosting sucks. But there's enough for you there. I supposedly have unlimited bandwidth...

Not like anyone ever goes to samuraishodown.com hahahaha

[quote]Originally posted by EvilWasabi:
<strong>no need to move on that account. If anything move only because my hosting sucks. But there's enough for you there. I supposedly have unlimited bandwidth...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Well, in that case, I'll stay where the URL is related.

But I'm still gonna have them on my Deviant Art account to help spread out the load.

Thanks.

Strip 11 up.

Strip 12 may be a day or two away.

11 is brilliant. I understood all the jokes.

Short Cicruit, WWRGBD, all of it.

110% supaa powaa!

[quote]Originally posted by Daisuke Jigen:
<strong>11 is brilliant. I understood all the jokes.

Short Cicruit, WWRGBD, all of it.

110% supaa powaa!</strong><hr></blockquote>

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking forward to these.

But at the rate Blaine is putting them out, I hope he doesn't get burned out.

Remember Blade Runner:
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

[quote]Originally posted by EvilWasabi:
<strong>

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking forward to these.

But at the rate Blaine is putting them out, I hope he doesn't get burned out.

Remember Blade Runner:
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I like 'em. Six! Seven! Go to Hell or go to Heaven!

I just think that Cave-Rade and his trilobite friend would make awesome neighbours.

Forever Green
Rade

Good work!

Every time I log on there's some new ones!

I really like the 'ancestor' one...

Poor robot got taken apart in Strip 10. :eek:

Strip 12 up.

About the robot...it's a shame he won't live. But then again, who does?

For some reason, Strip 10 refuses to load all the way. It stops at about 75%, cutting off at halfway through the lower set of panels. Refreshing does nothing, it insists that the image is loaded completely.