It's sad when even minor characters (Rob the Counterstrike player, Scott the Linux user, etc.) are better-written than our "heroes". Ethan is your classic WACKY VIJEO GAMEZ guy who deserves punishment he never receives, Lucas is a douchebag Deadpan Snarker who got angry when his girlfriend cheated on him after he said they should take some time to experiment, Lilah is a Shallow Love Interest whose sole purpose is to orbit Ethan's dick, and Zeke is Stewie Griffin as a robot. And by inspiration, I mean he plagiarizes, only admitting it if he is caught.Ĭharacters: All one-sided and unlikable. It does not help that Buckley is known to use Google Image Search for inspiration. While Buckley has learned not to draw B^U faces, he now draws characters with oversized heads, nonexistent top teeth, and over-the-top gesticulations and expressions that would make William Shatner cringe. Rather than focus on the comic as a whole, let us start with some of its aspects:Īrt: I will be frank. Webcomic Yes, it is as bad as everyone says. However, the stuff they make is good: B^Uckeroo doesn't get a free pass, so naturally some people are gonna have a low opinion of him for what he's done. This isn't very good.' I like Slough Feg, even though their frontman has a bit of an ego, and I enjoyed the first season of Family Guy, despite Seth Mac Farlane being a douche. The guy's a criminal, a paedophile, a drunk and he seems to harbor some sort of strange hatred towards every other popular webcomic, but his work is just 'Meh. But that shouldn't factor into my opinion of the work he's created. There are comics he's made which would almost be kinda maybe slightly funny without WORDS, but he can't seem to recognise this. Seriously, the guy has some sort of word fetish. Oh, and I almost forgot: WORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSGODDAMNWORDS. He also has a habit of drawing the character providing the "punchline" with an INCREDIBLY smug grin. I laugh at them, but for the wrong reasons. He's started to use more cartoony expressions, which doesn't mesh well with the attempt at being more realistic. Characters often drastically change body shape and weight between panels, and every other pose is blatantly copied and pasted from an earlier comic. This is actually a lot more prevelent since he's tried to stop using B^U. The art style is the worst thing about it, really. Nothing like Moon Over June or Shredded Moose. They're certainly not funny at all, but they're mostly harmless. The alleged "TOTALLEH SERIUZ GUIZ" story arcs made me laugh quite a bit, but the normal strips are just.there. I don't think the comic is awful just bad. In the end a comedian keeps you on edge, but a friend you can relax and spend time with. It's got the same sort of humour a good friend has, doesn't have great drama, but if you get to know it you can care and become touched. The art is uncomplicated, a little copy and paste but helps to keep the light atmosphere.ĬAD is like a friend rather than a comedian. His silly plotlines are silly and all the fun that goes along with a story about martial penguins and his gaming jokes are definitely his best. The drama plotlines aren't good drama but I felt this was a lovely bit of character development and I hope Tim's able to produce stuff like it more and more often. Compare this to the typical aborted fetus joke appearing in most 'dark' webcomics.ĬAD is famously a bit wordy and often doubles up the punchline, this can either spoil the joke for you, or give it a wry edge, as if the second punchline is showing you the first isn't that serious. The only criticism you can make is maybe he didn't fully succeed in describing that, but that's a reason for not caring, not hate. He talked about it tearing apart the deepest of relations and never once did he portray it lightly or something funny. You can't even hate it for the miscarriage because it's clear the author knew just how serious something like that is. And sometimes he can come off as arrogant, but you can see he's not trying to and that should count for something.Īnd that's why I can forgive CAD, for all it's faults, it's always honest and always sincere. Faced with an internet of hate and his own forum kersploding as only a forum can, well maybe he didn't deal with it in the best way. He's a very ordinary person, honest and knows that what's happened to him is amazing. You love or hate PA, but with CAD you continue reading or stop.Įqually Tim Buckley isn't a monster. CAD is not like that, and of all the main gaming comics it's the least prone to obscenity and relying on shock value(there is violence, just less). Gasp, because they can be verbose, reliant on gore and really really dark humour.
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