Todays rant: Sprite Comics.

As stated before, I am a bit artistic. A while back I had stumbled upon a website by the name of DrunkDuck. It's one of, if not THE largest webcomic hosting sites on the web. They have everything from published comics, to adult comics, to horribly drawn comics with no plot. Since its free to join, create a comic, upload it, and display it to the world, there seems to be quite a lot of the latter there, but some of the better comics make up for this in the long run. But since this blog isn't exactly about "the best of the web", I feel I should warn you about the dark side of DrunkDuck, "Sprite Comics".

For those of you who don't know what a "Sprite Comic" is, imagine you give a 12 year old with the attention span of a gnat a bunch of pictures of some old video game. Now say he takes these pictures, loads them into Microsoft Paint, and makes slight variations, such as adding a pair of horns, or changing the colors of the character. This "artist" then arranges the badly modified pictures onto comic panels, usually with backgrounds from some random video game as well. Now, this with decent writing could be bearable, but 99% of the time, it seems like a brace of howler monkeys on a three week heroine binge could bang out a better story on a keyboard with only 10 keys. I shit you not people, the following text is ACTUALLY from a popular sprite comic on DrunkDuck.

Picture Mario from SNES, standing on a random platform, there is a boomerang Koopa on another platform to the right.

Mario: Ha ha, your trapped on that island!
Koopa: You made the boomerand brother mad!
Mario: You cant hit me a ha!
At this point it seems the Koopa throws his boomerang.
Koopa: Well you dont know my power. I am really strong!
The boomerang hits mario in the face.
Mario: ow!
Koopa: It's all in the wrist stupid. man Im good!
End Comic. Grammar, and spelling kept as it is in the comic.

I remind you, this excerpt is from one of DD's more popular "Sprite Comics", and received such praise as "Mario got PWNed! One of the better comics so far."

Another thing that irks my nerves to no end is how the "artist" always seems to think he owns the rights to his recolored rip-off of an already copyrighted video game character. On top of this, they seem to always post this "copyright" on EVERY FUCKING SINGLE COMIC, usually saying "original character, do not steal". HERE is an example of these "original" creations, note the horrible grammar, and abysmal spelling.

But DD is not all horrible, despite the thousands of sprite comics that make it their home, there are lots of really hilarious, off the wall, over the top, artistic, well written, or for lack of a better word, awesome comics hosted and updated constantly.

Covert's Picks:
Le Farce
Last Place Comics
Nadya
Shiny Things
The Wrong Hero
Fridge Pals
Crow Feathers

This has been another rant, brought to you by "For lack of a better blog...", I'm out.

-Covert