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[V-Adore]

So, does anyone else out there read terrible webcomics as guilty pleasures? I'll freepy confess I do, although it's less for guilty pleasure than for schadenfreude; there's something reassuring about being able to say "man, my dog could crap a better comic than this."

If you do this too, what are your "favorites?" (If you don't... well, uh, don't judge me, man.) My personal schadenfreude read is Jack, (NSFW) which is wretched in basically every way a webcomic can be: "furry," incredibly inappropriate artstyle (extremely cartoony funny animals in a comic that's supposed to be Dark and Serious and Stuff), gratuitously gory and "adult" for no real reason, sophomorically written and crammed full of half-baked philosophizing, full of artist's friends' characters... and, of course, hugely popular. So much of what I know about how not to write came frm this comic. It's sort of a miracle, in a terrible way.

[mudokon]

The only webcomics I read semi-regularly are Achewood, Penny Arcade, and Superosity. So I guess the last one would be the black sheep. At least, no one I know admits that they read it.

[Bozack]

...My personal schadenfreude read is Jack...

What the...what...it's like Looney Tunes in Viet Nam!

[AlohaDawg]

The only other webcomic I read is Scary Go Round and actually, as a body of work I like it better over all but Onstad's 10 best strips are all funnier than John Allison's funniest.

However, the presense of TOUAMB makes it necessary for me to put ScaryGoRound below Acehwood in my life's priorities.

[JorgeFabregas]

That Jack comic is hugely popular? Is it hugely popular among a very specific demographic?

[AlohaDawg]

Maybe schadenfreude makes it hugely popular.

How else can you explain things like 'Fear Factor', 'Hillbilly Wife Swap' (AKA Trading Spouses), and Cops?

[aparrish]

My personal schadenfreude read is Jack, (NSFW)

Bless this man's heart.  He had a vision and he followed through with it.

As for you, V-Adore, why you would inflict this vision on other people - people who up until now had remained blissfully ignorant of it - only God knows.

Only God.

[V-Adore]

That Jack comic is hugely popular? Is it hugely popular among a very specific demographic?

Well, yes. I probably should have attached "among furries who want to think they're dark and intellectual" there. That's still way more people than makes me comfortable.

Bless this man's heart. He had a vision and he followed through with it.

As for you, V-Adore, why you would inflict this vision on other people - people who up until now had remained blissfully ignorant of it - only God knows.

Only God.

Well, hey, if Bobby can do it...

Besides, there was like a paragraph of context there to let you know that you were clicking on something that really, really sucked. I thought I'd successfully covered my ass in that regard.

[Ben-San]

Jack is the thing to read if you want a relatively illustration of "furry subculture as incomprehensible alien entity". Reading something like, say, Sabrina Online, you think "Okay, well, everyone is a skunk or a tiger or whatever, but I'm cool with that, it's basically a webcomic about a nerdy programmer working at a porn studio like any non-furry webcomic creator might make". And then you look at Jack and things just get steadily more divorced from any normal vision of the world, but not in the way the creator wants. It's not the death and divine punishment that shock and baffle, but the idea that it is totally normal for this character to be a third-generation mantis/deer/rabbit hybrid with butterfly wings, and that somehow, to someone, this is loaded with symbolic signifiers about the character. Or that "anyfur" and "everyfur" are logical and useful words. The vengeful fetus ghosts pale in comparison.

[aparrish]

there was like a paragraph of context there to let you know that you were clicking on something that really, really sucked. I thought I'd successfully covered my ass in that regard.

I understood that it was supposed to suck.  What I did not understand is that if I started at the beginning of the archives, I would meet Fnar, The Fetus Who Went To Hell.

I also did not understand that I would find all of it strangely compelling, thereby calling into question my most deeply held beliefs about my personality/tenability as an individual.

[Mantonio]

Diesel Sweeties and Questionable Content.

[jough]

I pretty much only read Achewood and Concerned, which is only funny if you've played Half-Life 2 and/or Counter-Strike for many, many hours.

Great game, great comic.

[Hobo Frenzy]

Hahaha, I just started reading Concerned jough. It's pretty funny but probably only because I play way too much CS and Half Life.

[JorgeFabregas]

My personal schadenfreude read is Jack, (NSFW)

Bless this man's heart.  He had a vision and he followed through with it.

As far as I can tell, all the comics are more or less the same
Panel 1: something vaguely positive or some neutral personal interaction happens
Later panel: something terrible happens. Someone dies, or it would seem they may die.

[Golfhaus]

I used to read Diesel Sweeties on the regular, but now it's pretty much just Achewood. I'll go back and read DS when I have an "Oh shit!" moment and remember it's there.