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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1: Sep 27th 2011 at 12:12:05 AM

So, Critical Miss.

A Webcomic on the Escapist about a snarky game reviewer and lots of videogame commentary.

As expected of the genre, the art progresses a lot during it's run... First comic here and last until now here.

A couple of favorites would be this ICO related one and how to deal with controversy.

edited 27th Sep '11 12:15:12 AM by daltar

Smilingcloud Since: Jul, 2011
#2: Sep 27th 2011 at 12:47:48 AM

Well, I love this series Now,

and I needed another big loss of my time..

So it's like a match made in heaven to archive binge this.

daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3: Sep 30th 2011 at 11:33:54 AM

New comic. Apparently Grey who usually writes the jokes is out of town so that leaves our artist to produce a couple of strips dealing with Erin's... Umm... expanded perception.

DougSMachina Since: Oct, 2010
#4: Nov 2nd 2011 at 5:40:59 PM

Check out this strip. In the second panel, the terms might start sounding familiar. (grin)

NLK Mo A Since: May, 2010
#5: Nov 2nd 2011 at 6:42:33 PM

Binged it. Decent. Didn't get the title's pun until after being done with it.

Likes many underrated webcomics
feotakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#6: Nov 2nd 2011 at 8:01:12 PM

I have no idea what to make of this comic. At first, I thought it was just another unfunny gaming comic. Then, I discovered that the author could parody other kinds of story so well as to evoke the same emotions those stories evoke while still being funny (something that even great writers struggle with.) And then the Stowaways arc began, and I was just blown away. I'm still disappointed with a lot of the jokes, but there's enough narrative power here that I can't care.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
willyolio Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Nov 2nd 2011 at 8:02:49 PM

the first critical miss comic i read. and i've been reading escapist articles for a while ever since ZP sent me there.

LE0Night Since: Jul, 2011
#10: Mar 14th 2012 at 8:44:14 AM

Slowbro-mances and wacky brain-damage hijinks, this comic deserves more troper-attention, really.

Mass Effect 3: The Process. Currently oscilliating inbetween 4 and 5, myself.

Sans pillow, unfortunately.

daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11: Mar 14th 2012 at 10:17:14 AM

Everyone's life is diminished by the lack of a Garrus body pillow.

LE0Night Since: Jul, 2011
#12: Mar 16th 2012 at 7:18:03 AM

Oh I see what you did there. Never saw what the big deal was about that, but I suppose most things even vaguely anti-Bio Ware goes these days.

Love Talis little "OOO YAY" gesture, though.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#13: Mar 16th 2012 at 10:00:46 AM

I think... yes. This is the best "Good-angel-bad-angel joke" I've ever seen.

edited 23rd Mar '12 1:35:09 PM by Enlong

I have a message from another time...
daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#14: Mar 16th 2012 at 12:11:55 PM

I just love Kratos' pose and expression in that panel.

LE0Night Since: Jul, 2011
#15: Mar 23rd 2012 at 10:16:44 AM

No one should ever wear pants, ever.

I cannot wait to see where this story-line will end up waii .

LE0Night Since: Jul, 2011
#16: Apr 3rd 2012 at 7:22:09 AM

She namedropped TVTropes. Again, I think.

...is there a trope for that?

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googlebot Herald of Endless Research. from The misty Albion Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Herald of Endless Research.
#18: Jul 13th 2012 at 3:11:22 PM

A nice twist. Didn't expect it.

“You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and embarrassment to others.” -Mark Manson.
daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#19: Jul 13th 2012 at 4:08:16 PM

I love little Erin even if she is evil. And I love Link, no evens attached.

Hmmm I've seen lots of people saying that Erin hallucinated the whole thing, but I do think that her visions have the ability to become corporeal... after all when she did throw Peppy from the window of the car a truck ran over him.

googlebot Herald of Endless Research. from The misty Albion Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Herald of Endless Research.
#20: Jul 13th 2012 at 4:59:15 PM

It was poked fun at with that "jaw like a brick wall" line.

“You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and embarrassment to others.” -Mark Manson.
NLK Mo A Since: May, 2010
#21: Jul 13th 2012 at 10:04:30 PM

Huh. Caught up with the archive, at this page. Crank up my opinion of the author.

Likes many underrated webcomics
LE0Night Since: Jul, 2011
daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#23: Nov 9th 2012 at 9:23:47 PM

You can just feel his pain.

daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#24: Jan 26th 2013 at 9:46:12 AM

Resurrecting again for the next hit racing game straight from WW2

Scardoll Burn Since: Nov, 2010
Burn
#25: Mar 18th 2013 at 6:35:54 AM

I think the problem with this comic and a lot of gaming webcomics is that it's not funny if you don't understand the context, and it can sometimes feel a bit too haughty and stuck-up its own rear when it talks about hot-button issues. There was a recent comic about buying PC upgrades, and that was moderately funny, but it was only really funny because of the facial expressions. There aren't enough punchlines with setups.

Still better than recent Penny Arcade, which reads like a completely different language half the time.

Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.

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