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Jumping the shark
#635270 - Sun May 11 2008 11:59 PM
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For those of you who have never heard the term, 'jump the shark' gets its origins from a Happy Days episode in which a main character, The Fonz, uses his motorcycle to jump over a penned shark. According to most viewers at the time, the show's writing went downhill from that point. So to this day, to 'jump the shark' is used for when TV shows start to show a decline in quality.
So, for the purpose of this thread, we are going to discuss when/if you belive webcomis have jumped the shark.
The first topic of discussion; Bob and George, the self-claimed birth of sprite comics.
Now in my opinion, and feel free to disagree with me, the entire comic was alright until the final week...when it turned out that nothing that had happened before was actually of any consequence because it was all planned out. Personally, that particular plot twist usually just kills any interest I had in anything leading up to it, because that says to me that all of the growth and development of the characters up until that point was irrelevant because some one else wanted it to happen that way thus it would have eventually anyhow. This takes all the excitement out of the story for me.
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I'd have to say it ripped Megaman sprites and modified them for the webcomic. I've never really read it but making a pixel webcomic is fine but just ripping sprites and adding text balloons shows sheer amounts of laziness.
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Thomas Greenbrier said:
I'd have to say it ripped Megaman sprites and modified them for the webcomic. I've never really read it but making a pixel webcomic is fine but just ripping sprites and adding text balloons shows sheer amounts of laziness.
Your blatant ignorance is sort of depressing.
Edit: Sigh, I guess I'll explain more because people will be like 'oh thal you and your lack of content.'
First off, this was, in its time, actually pretty original and new. Later on, there's a lot of custom sprites, and there's actually a fair chunk of work put into it.
Of course it was just ripped sprites and text balloons, it was /supposed/ to be filler until the drawn webcomic happened. Then the drawn webcomic never happened, so he just kept using the pre-made sprites.
I don't think you really understand what it takes to make a sprite comic /successful/ for several years, and Bob and George /did/ do that. And hosted a bunch of other sprite comics. And you're just so wrong in so many ways it makes me cry.
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Thomas Greenbrier said:
I'd have to say it ripped Megaman sprites and modified them for the webcomic. I've never really read it but making a pixel webcomic is fine but just ripping sprites and adding text balloons shows sheer amounts of laziness.
No offense, but if you didn't read it, then for the purposes of this thread you're not exactly qualified to make an educated opinion. o.O
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Wait...what?
Odd place to move this to, but sure.
Continue.
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