Topic: Damn you, POTATAMOTO!

[Shift Key]

LOL  Penny Arcade dealt with Crystal Chronicles in a much better way too. "And I dont have any firends so I'm gunna have to buy 3 hookers to play with"

Oh man, I forgot about that one. You can say whatever you want about Mike and Jerry "selling out" and building an empire around their cartoons, or whatever insults they're throwing around on YCS these days, but that comic was pure gold.

And Mav - no hotlinking. Its been covered before in this thread. Good thing the guy has set up his web server so he can kill paltry attempts like that.

[Spak-Spang]

It uses like 6-8 panels to tell us something it could have done in 3 or at most 4.  And it hurts the humor, because you just are waiting for the point.

The length is part of the joke.  You're waiting; the peas are waiting.  It's the title of the comic, for crying out loud.

What is the point of using the vegetables besides, well, um using vegetables? I see no real relation to the point. You could put any characters into this with the same dialog and it would fit.

It's a running gag of sorts.  It started here, I believe.

Ii just counted it was 15 panels.  And that just doesn't work.

I get the idea of pacing and have wait time within the comic...but this wait time was void of anything humorous. 

1)Peas Die,
2)Another gives up hope,
3)Only on remains at the very end.

It is a poorly contrived joke.  It could have been done with 6 panels.

Panel 1:  Wait here as I show you this brand new toy.
Panel 2:  Time Passes.  Spring
Panel 3:  Time Passes. Winter
Panel 4:  Time Passes Spring again...and fewer peas...perhaps tombstones in background.
Panel 5:  Potato comes back with Lays around neck, Pina Colada in hand and money in the other.  "Where have you been..where is the toy."
Panel 6:  Potato:  "Oops, funny story...I ran into these people that started throwing money at me
Panel 7: "Beep, Beep Beep"  From Beeper of Potato.  "Oh the limbo contest is starting...gotta run."



I just cut the comic in HALF, and made it more entertaining, funny, and lighthearted.

 

[vudu]

While I agree that the comic was unfunny, you people complaining about the length are just silly.  How long did it take you to read the comic--30 seconds at most?  Half the panels don't even have any words.  I greatly prefer this format to the comics that try to cram as many text bubbles into a panel as possible.

The biggest "innovation" of web comics is that the author is free to expand on the original 3-panel format because he or she is no longer limited by space constraints.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Blah blah blah ...

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

too many pictures, too many words

tl;dr

[Maverick]

And Mav - no hotlinking. Its been covered before in this thread. Good thing the guy has set up his web server so he can kill paltry attempts like that.

Fixed.

[Stogi]

It uses like 6-8 panels to tell us something it could have done in 3 or at most 4.  And it hurts the humor, because you just are waiting for the point.

The length is part of the joke.  You're waiting; the peas are waiting.  It's the title of the comic, for crying out loud.

What is the point of using the vegetables besides, well, um using vegetables? I see no real relation to the point. You could put any characters into this with the same dialog and it would fit.

It's a running gag of sorts.  It started here, I believe.

Ii just counted it was 15 panels.  And that just doesn't work.

I get the idea of pacing and have wait time within the comic...but this wait time was void of anything humorous. 

1)Peas Die,
2)Another gives up hope,
3)Only on remains at the very end.

It is a poorly contrived joke.  It could have been done with 6 panels.

Panel 1:  Wait here as I show you this brand new toy.
Panel 2:  Time Passes.  Spring
Panel 3:  Time Passes. Winter
Panel 4:  Time Passes Spring again...and fewer peas...perhaps tombstones in background.
Panel 5:  Potato comes back with Lays around neck, Pina Colada in hand and money in the other.  "Where have you been..where is the toy."
Panel 6:  Potato:  "Oops, funny story...I ran into these people that started throwing money at me
Panel 7: "Beep, Beep Beep"  From Beeper of Potato.  "Oh the limbo contest is starting...gotta run."



I just cut the comic in HALF, and made it more entertaining, funny, and lighthearted.

 

Ya...that's bullshit. Calvin and Hobbes best comic strips were the ones that took up an entire page.

[S-U-P-E-R]

So why are the characters depicted at vegetables?

[nickmitch]

Because Myamoto is secretly a potato.

[Spak-Spang]

Wow.  I am not saying there is not a place for longer comics.  Calvin and Hobbes and many other great comics have proven that...nor am I saying that every strip needs to fit into some contrived format.

What I AM saying is that in almost every comic less is more...and you need determine what is absolutely needed to tell your joke and go from there.  Pacing is important, and if you noticed I used 7 panels in my joke...far from the traditional 3 to 4 panels.

And it isn't about how long it takes to read...I read the comic twice, and the pacing is just off, and that is partially because of filler panels that do not provide anything extra for the joke.

[nickmitch]

The best sinfest comics are always the uber-long sundays. I look forward to them every week.

I also like the ones with the dog and cat.

[Crimm]

So why are the characters depicted at vegetables?

Because if they were animals Rasmoosir would get aroused, and that would cause him to soften his righteous indignation.

[Ceric]

So why are the characters depicted at vegetables?

There's a much earlier comic with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo that is from.  It just sort of stuck.

[NWR_pap64]

The "too long" problem is common among comics, not just in VG cats.

The thing with long, awkward pauses in comics is that it takes a lot of panels to create and what may have happened in a few seconds seems like an eternity in comics.

And for the record, I thought the comic did capture the drama behind E3 Nintendo rather well. It was just constructed poorly.