CAD was the first webcomic I ever read, it somehow draws you in, I thought it was funny despite the obvious flaws I endured it even through the miscarrage, but it's problems got too much to bear.
It's easy to see CAD has been following the same basic formula since 2002 without changing apart from some art evolution. Even that hasn’t evolved much, the characters used to have that same dull B^U expression for everything, while standing in the same ¾ perspective without moving. This apparently saves time; another way is to copy/paste backgrounds, like from Google image search, Buckley still does this nowadays, thinking it is clever.
Even if the art has improved only slightly the jokes have not. You can expect them to be lost in walls of text explaining the joke, under the assumption we are all morons, when they are not based off what’s popular ages after people have run the joke into the ground you can expect plenty of dick or boob jokes, interlaced with gratuitous violence, apparently because gamers are sex depraved, violent psychopaths. Add to very poor comic timing, blurting the joke out early on and you get an utter mess of a strip.
But the icing on the CAD cake is the characters, Ethan is the most blatant self insert Mary Sue around at, it’s fine to include yourself in stories, you need to give them believable personalities, faults and development, most arcs in CAD are Ethan being a manchild, who does something stupid and expects to get anything he wants, his best friend and wife go along with it; apologising to Ethan if they so much as doubt him, He always succeeds at anything. Stealing your best friend’s identity? Creating a gamer religion and holiday, demanding your wife can’t quit her job to become a professional gamer as it cuts into your gaming? CAD thinks that’s fine.
Lucas comes across as a smug, obnoxious prick, supposedly the comic foil but just as unlikeable. Lillah is there as she is a girl, with boobs, who looks after Ethan and makes no effort to get him to change because woman should stay in the kitchen according to CAD. Zeke is basically HK-47, hates humans, that’s it. If Buckley ever showed some humility, stopped treating his fans like rubbish, stopped trying to cover up his mistakes, stopped ripping off other artists and copying jokes, perhaps CAD would have respect.
Doesn't have much going for it.
CAD was the first webcomic I ever read, it somehow draws you in, I thought it was funny despite the obvious flaws I endured it even through the miscarrage, but it's problems got too much to bear.
It's easy to see CAD has been following the same basic formula since 2002 without changing apart from some art evolution. Even that hasn’t evolved much, the characters used to have that same dull B^U expression for everything, while standing in the same ¾ perspective without moving. This apparently saves time; another way is to copy/paste backgrounds, like from Google image search, Buckley still does this nowadays, thinking it is clever. Even if the art has improved only slightly the jokes have not. You can expect them to be lost in walls of text explaining the joke, under the assumption we are all morons, when they are not based off what’s popular ages after people have run the joke into the ground you can expect plenty of dick or boob jokes, interlaced with gratuitous violence, apparently because gamers are sex depraved, violent psychopaths. Add to very poor comic timing, blurting the joke out early on and you get an utter mess of a strip.
But the icing on the CAD cake is the characters, Ethan is the most blatant self insert Mary Sue around at, it’s fine to include yourself in stories, you need to give them believable personalities, faults and development, most arcs in CAD are Ethan being a manchild, who does something stupid and expects to get anything he wants, his best friend and wife go along with it; apologising to Ethan if they so much as doubt him, He always succeeds at anything. Stealing your best friend’s identity? Creating a gamer religion and holiday, demanding your wife can’t quit her job to become a professional gamer as it cuts into your gaming? CAD thinks that’s fine.
Lucas comes across as a smug, obnoxious prick, supposedly the comic foil but just as unlikeable. Lillah is there as she is a girl, with boobs, who looks after Ethan and makes no effort to get him to change because woman should stay in the kitchen according to CAD. Zeke is basically HK-47, hates humans, that’s it. If Buckley ever showed some humility, stopped treating his fans like rubbish, stopped trying to cover up his mistakes, stopped ripping off other artists and copying jokes, perhaps CAD would have respect.
Others like it, I don't think it's worth reading.