Untapped Potential

Hey there, folks. As it turns out, web-comics are in my juridstiction for review on this site. And I read a bunch of the blasted things, so when I see one I want to put up here I'm going to. I promise I won't just keep putting my comics up. Even though today's is double-sized and you should read it. Anyway, here we go:

Prickly City, 01/22/10

I usually don't like Prickly City, because the art is terrible and it's one of the most stupidly political comics ever, but this past week, it's cared about its art and the storyline (recapped in the first panel) is all right. I especially like Lizard-Girl's gung-ho attitude towards fighting crime conflicting with Cactus Coyote's attitude as to what constitutes "good" or "evil". It hasn't been too bad, and it's a shame that next week will be back to the same old garbage it usually is.

New Adventures of Queen Victoria, 01/22/10

Leno is quite a scary person. I'm mainly putting this up for Conan's line in panel four. How he's been put into the panel and everything is just really well-done.

Rip Haywire, 01/22/10

That kid could fit through the bars with no trouble. In fact, with bars that thin, I don't think they'd have any trouble bending them, even. Unlike the bars used in my comic. You couldn't escape those in a hurry.

Mike Luckovich, 01/22/10

I am already so freaking tired of this song. I'd be tired of it even if a friend hadn't texted me the lyrics every single day this week. I want this song to go away and never, ever return.

Rubes, 01/22/10

I don't think he's cocky as much as he is insane, and that is a very large leap to make for a pun.

Shark Attack Comics, 01/22/10

This comic, on the other hand, is genius. It features a shark messing with some guy in every installment. It's a new take on a classic tale. Also, sometimes the shark wears a hat or a wig or glasses, and it's more amazing than you'd think. Go take a look.

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Scary Asian Man

My goodness, but it's Friday once again, and that means that... I'm posting again. No big deal, really. I have nothing to say today, really, and I'm wondering if I should even keep putting links to my site up. I mean, it's not like any of the other people who post here (or have posted here) have used this as a platform to promote their own stuff, so why should I keep doing it? Well, I will think about that. Check out the message boards, too! There's a link in the sidebar now! So there's no reason not to!

Cleats, 9/4/09

It's almost as if they anticipated that yesterday's strip would be greeted with... apprehension, and pre-emptively made a strip to apologize for it. Good for you, Cleats. Still, even with the "In five years or so" caveat, it's kind of creepy and a little gross.

B. C., 9/4/09

As we all know, this strip takes place in the post-apocalypse. However, they're using caveman tropes, and in everything from old Warner Brothers cartoons to "History of the World Part One", a caveman hitting a cavewoman over the head symbolizes marriage. So is that caveman claiming one of the only females left alive? What will happen to the delicate balance they've achieved? Will everything erupt into anarchy? I doubt we'll ever know the answers.

Heathcliff, 9/4/09

Sick of Heathcliff's nonsense, the very Spirit of America sends a bald eagle to take care of him. In the following weeks, expect a giant animated Statue of Liberty (controlled with an NES Advantage controller, possibly) to stomp Marmaduke into the ground and Uncle Sam to show Snuffy Smith what-for.

The Other Coast, 9/4/09

For one, unless you've recorded all those shows, only a few are going to be on at once. Two, I would totally watch a talk show whose guests were a jellyfish and a juggling spider. Also, it's not like they can't reuse guests... I've seen Norm Macdonald on talk shows about fifteen dozen times. Which isn't a bad thing, just saying that it's not like the guest well is going to run dry.

Mike Luckovich, 9/4/09

The Disney/Marvel deal is big enough to warrant political cartoons about it? Wow. I just hope we possibly get a new "Darkwing Duck" comic book out of it, really.

Secret Asian Man, 9/4/09

That's the scariest looking guy I've ever seen. Also, just because he doesn't know martial arts doesn't mean he couldn't be a ninja thug. It's called acting, after all.

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Come one, come all!

Watch in awe and amazement as I start off coherently remarking upon comic strips, gradually slipping into incoherent babble and stream-of-consciousness, ending with the flourish of imagining that a comic strip was written to personally slight me! Oh, it shall be great fun for all*!

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/24/09

If you have all your teeth and a full head of hair, you too can travel to Appalachia and have your pick of any woman there. In fact, from this strip, it looks like that guy won't have to pick. He can have them all, if he so chose, perhaps at once. The parson is understandably upset by this.

Funky Winkerbean, 7/24/09

Cindy Summers will undoubtedly die in Iraq. Either that, or she'll be captured by a terrorist cell and then fashion for herself a suit of technologically advanced armor which she shall use to save her own life and fight for the greater good.

Oh, wait, this is Funky Winkerbean. She's going to die. She is so going to die.

Retail, 7/24/09

Oh god. My job involves a folding board, and the stupid thing is basically useless because, unless you do it exactly right, it causes every shirt to become just a bit unfolded when you're done using it. Furthermore, 98% of the time the customers will just come in and mess up all the shirts anyway. So the folding board is useless, except maybe as an exceptionally shoddy weapon. What I'm saying is that Val should totally smack that guy with the folding board.

Last Kiss, 7/24/09

If the snake was radioactive, wouldn't it be just about dead too? Or perhaps the radioactivity just gave it the power to speak with Lucille Ball. Which, I'm guessing, is not a super-power a snake would want to have.

Mike Luckovich, 7/24/09

This is just in poor taste, as the man hasn't been dead for even a month yet. Also, that guy in the back of the group... he looks like Bert from "Sesame Street".

New Adventures of Queen Victoria, 7/24/09

You know, this would make a heck of a lot more sense if they hadn't just ellipsed out of initial statement. I have no idea who the heck the person in the third panel is supposed to be. Heck, I don't even know who the person who is not Queen Victoria is supposed to be. I might if I actually read this strip more than twice a week, but with shenanigans like this being pulled, I'm not really interested in doing that.

EDIT: An anonymous commentor says that it's Oscar Wilde. Now that the mystery has been cleared up, the strip makes marginally more sense. So thank you, anonymous commentor.

Tiny Sepuku, 7/24/09

I was nice to you last week, and then you have to go and do a thing like this. That hurts, Tiny Sepuku. That really hurts.

*This might be a lie. For more semi-coherent babble, go to the Meekrat Entertainment Group.

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