Jan20

Twitter in Focus: The Lucas Brothers

by tonyd on January 20, 2016 at 12:01 am

Hey Bros!

Welcome to Twitter in Focus where media comes to die!  Today’s contestants are the always chill, Lucas Brothers, from the cartoon of the same name.  Let’s see what they’re tweeting in between bong hits.

@lucasbros

December 29th:  “black rob > the beach boys > the kinks > the beatles”

Black Rob.

December 29th:  “Killing a kid in less than 2 secs while not administering first aid constitutes manslaughter. This is absurd. ”

Surprisingly political.  I like it.

December 29th:  “ is a must watch for anyone who has doubts about the efficacy/partiality of our justice system. Great job! ”

I guess I gotta watch it now.

December 30th:  “Cosby finally getting arrested is another example of the justice system favoring the wealthy over the poor. He won’t see a day in prison.”

Probably.  Whatever happened to the days when people would just retreat from the public eye in shame?

January 14th:  “That new Oscar slogan just dropped ”

Bam!  Eh, the whole thing’s fixed, I think.

January 18th:  “FWIW, this is the 88th consecutive year that no twins have received any Oscar nominations. Our struggle is mad real.”

#TwintheOscars

Okay, let’s rate the Lucas Brothers.  I give him a 6 for Mustness, a 7 for Insanity and a 9 for Style.  That’s an overall score of 8.  Follow the Lucas bros and don’t miss their cartoon on FXX.

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Jan18

Webcomic Review: Pond Scum and Other Misc. Crap

by tonyd on January 18, 2016 at 12:01 am

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Webcomic:  Pond Scum and Other Misc. Crap

Creators:   Armando Avila

Format:  One to usually three panel color strips

Updates:  Monday, Wednesday, Saturday

Genre:  Comedy, autobiographical, puns

Themes:  College, poop, movies, autobiographical

Characters:  duck, Armando, his girlfriend

Archive:  Begins October 13, 2014

Armando has being doing this comic for a little bit over a year.  It began as a one panel gag and expanded to additional panels.  His comedy is hit or miss for me.  Sometimes the jokes are super specific and I’m either missing something or I just don’t get it.  The rest of the time, he’s pretty funny.

I think Armando’s reach exceeds his grasp.  Although the bar is a lot lower for the artwork with a comedy, Armando’s jokes are sometimes dependent upon the art and don’t totally measure up and hurt the joke.  This is probably because sometimes he posts the comic very small and it requires you to click on it so it can reload larger on another page.

I would suggest that Armando either make the strips proportionally larger or stack the panels and then the could easily be bigger and fill up a lot of the screen.

From an esthetic standpoint, the site could do with an update.  I would stream line the title of the comic to just Pond Scum.  (And Other Misc. Crap just undermines the comic and makes it sound like a half-hearted effort.)  Next, it’s time to add things like an “About” page, a bio page about the creator and maybe even a little bit about some of the characters.  Also, now that he has a larger library of content, it might be time to jazz up the archive a little bit and make it so you don’t to click through the entire year of strips.  Maybe add some milestones every few months or direct links to the important strips.

I think if Armando just streamlined his site a little bit, it would be more accessible to his readers.  I generally like the strips and would like to see more from this creator.  As always, I recommend to creators to do link exchanges with fellow webcomic creators.  It’s easy and brings in hits.

Previous Reviews

Dodgy Comics

Don’t Hit Save

Things in Squares

Heck If I Know Comics

Tower 25

Bearded Comics

Conspiracy of Birds

Toonhole

Existential Comics

The Sorrowful Putto of Prague

Cancer Owl

BarteNERDS

Oglaf

Bigfoot Justice

Pepper & Carrot

BREAKING CAT NEWS

Pete Meets

Dumbing of Age

Gone Into Rapture

Disco Slick

Tales of Absurdity

Apples & Swords

The Sisters

Basic Instructions

Downhill Rage

Buni

False Knees

Forming

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Spying With Lana

Romantically Apocalyptic

The Black Wall

übertool 

The Oatmeal

The Frumps

Lunarbaboon

Stupid Snake

Fowl Language

Holding Pattern

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Jan17

Your Fratoscope: January 17, 2016

by tonyd on January 17, 2016 at 12:01 am

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If your birthday is this week:  You’ll finally be too old to gawk at high school cheerleaders without someone talking about calling the cops.

Aries:  No matter how many episodes you watch, you still don’t understand Dragonball Z.

Taurus:  You’ll get punched in the junk by a little bearded person for asking him to join the Fellowship of the Ring.

Gemini:  Your castle staff will discover that you switched places with the real duke.

Lemini:  Your pants will malfunction at an inopportune moment.

Cancer:  You’ll finally sell that pair of joke pants to an unsuspecting Lemini.

Leo:  You will discover that Lemini is not a real astrology sign.

Virgo:  The stars say, beware because you owe the stars money and the stars wanna get paid.

Libra:  You will mispronounce most words this week.

Scorpio:  You’ll go on another drunken binge and add several items to the list of inanimate objects you had sex with.

Sagittarius:  You’ll discover that Pop Tarts are even better deep fried.

Capricorn:  Your roommate will eat all the decoy food, but use all the real toilet paper in the bathroom.

Aquarius:  A co-worker will slap you on the behind and say, “Nice job.  Now you slap me.”

Pisces:  You will discover that Vietnamese gum is no different than American gum.

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Jan16

Ten Things I Expect to Buy If I Win the Lottery

by tonyd on January 16, 2016 at 12:01 am

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All this lottery talk got me to thinkin’ and buying tickets.  What would I do with the money?  Buy some pretty ridiculous shit!

  1.  Buy the high toilet from Tosh.0:  This makes total sense to me.
  2. A bulletproof car:  There are going to be jealous people out there with guns.
  3. The most expensive bagel in the world:  I have no justification, I just want this.
  4. A private concert from Beyoncé:  Most so I could boo her.
  5. Pay people I don’t like to do really stupid things on camera.
  6. You know I love sushi, so I will be eating here a lot.
  7. Plus I’ll fly to eat here.
  8. I don’t want an expensive car, I’d rather have this weird grass car:  So my gardener would have to attend to my car first and foremost.
  9. Buy five million tickets and win again.
  10. I will own a volcano.  Has to happen.
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