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When a Webcomic goes to far.
Pedro Blandino \| 2:25 PM on 06.02.2008	48 comments

first, Calvin made this, not me!

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I think CAD just jumped the shark on this comic.

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43 comments | showing # 1 to 43

taumpytears

Tim Buckly does realize he writes a video game web comic and not Oprah guest fan fictions right?

king3vbo

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I HOPE SHES DEAD

king3vbo

Ok that was a little harsh...

taumpytears

Also the CheeShop from Riser will be epic.

MrSadistic

No, I agree with with you King. I hope she is dead.

liam2015

Bitch had what was coming to her.

liam2015

I mean uh...oh...the sympathy

Bob Muir

I know a few people who messaged me about this, since they know I read (but rarely enjoy) CAD. Frankly, even if this is supposed to be sad, I can't feel bad for the characters when I don't care about them in the first place. There's far too much cliche drama and not enough good laughs about video games.

Geoff Henao

It's kind of hard to shed the "video game" skin that's cast on you. I guess he's just trying to expand on the universe he's set his characters in.

free touch

midi linkin park... bawwwwwwwwwww

maybe some folks dig it, we don't bash whatever you do because it's maybe lame.

wait... nevermind, you are lawling because of the motivational part of this comic... I get it.

I approve. and I just farted.

GuitarAtomik

What? Was she pregnant or something....I'm confused.

MrSadistic

gas

Pedro Blandino

guitar, for a wile she was pregnant and tim buckly just killed a baby. granted its a "gaming" comic. but still theres somethings you just don't do in comics. :/

PrinceofCannedPeaches

I had a gf who had a miscarriage. Mine. I'm okay with it. Let Tim write what he wants to write.

Tubatic

I don't read the comic, but what it amounts to as a layman is that he just wrote himself out of a new character, via murder by Creator. That's what I kind of get, anyway.

Form what I gather though, this comic generally skewed more Family Circus than Garfield anyway.

JRisJunior

if you read his news post, he explains why he chose this to happen. it made me feel quite bad for her. it's not the smartest choice is the history of webcomics, but it's a choice that made the comic grow up a little bit.

UglyDuck

I don't think it's "going too far" in the sense that it's incorrect, and I don't really have a problem with the plot twist myself, but I can see what people dislike it. It's as pretentious as a webcomic can get. I found the responses to it funnier than I usually find the comic anyway, so I still got lulz out of it.

free touch

Smack, smack a baby,
make me go CRAZY,
Smack a baby.
I cry and I die
I cry, and smack a baby.

covah

I don't think its gone too far. As much as people seem to not like CAD here, if you read the post about the comic you will find out numerous things. This has been planned, and Tim has gone through it before. Its fine if you don't like CAD, but to sorta disrespect it because of this comic is ignorant in a sense. Its like a musician putting personal experience into a song.

It is depressing, but since Tim has dealt with a real miscarriage before, I respect him for putting it out there through his work.

godkow

I see no problems here.

ZekeThePlumber

Buckley doesn't have premade facial expressions to cut and paste onto babies so it had to be killed. Sad but true.

AnTi PRO

Maybe the baby has that syndrome where it's born without a face :p Only CAD readers would get that.

On another note I do agree CAD needs to be more about the gaming and gaming culture.

Electro Lemon

Fucking Tim Buckley.

king3vbo

Freetouch is evil, but awesome

Terance

<i>Buckley doesn't have premade facial expressions to cut and paste onto babies so it had to be killed. Sad but true.</i>

QFT.

I can't stand CAD, how do you people put up with it?

It's seriously DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA <b>VIDEO GAME REFRENCE</b> DRAMA DRAMA.

Early on, it wasn't so bad, but now, well, as you said.

Shark Jumpin', yo.

PrinceofCannedPeaches

Well. It is his fault that he didn't cultivate any sympathy towards his characters early on. He made it a comedy strip, and then three months too late he went, "Oh shit! I want a drama. Sowwy, guyses!". And now he has to go and make Ethan an hero.

Loki Power

Wow, I thought the poster was a shop at first, then I looked at the site.

It's not that I'm angry at him for doing this It's just that Ethan has never been a character who I could see going through these sort of things. He's always been to cartoonish to put him in a situation like this.

Eschatos

The comic would have gotten a lot worse if babies got involved.

Kryptinite

So, I did my usual thing when I get home:

Open up Firefox
Hit up the C-Blogs
Middle click on the mouse to open all the stories I want to read

And this fucking song came through the speakers. I didn't know where it was coming from and couldn't pinpoint the name of the song. It finally hit me that it was Linkin Park and I finally found the source of the music. Fuck you for making me think so hard.

Also, you are correct kind sir. The jump the shark.

Also, I didn't really mean fuck you.

EvilLemmy

blehman

I like how Mario is running along to the song in rhythm to the beat.

Nad Crusher

The music made the comic okay.

Terance

I cannot stop laughing at the Shoop.

Kryptinite

@blehman

Now I can't stop watching Mario run.

Conrad Zimmerman

Thank God that Buckley finally decided to make this a humor strip. About time.

free touch

shoop is a better comic.

where the fuck is riser at, we need his shoops

Qraze

ruthless

Big Z

His comic aside, Tim Buckley is an asshole. I have first-hand experience with his dickery, but it's longer than an elevator story and I won't bore you with it.

Maurice Tan

Well if we're shooping...

Spartacus

@Big Z

Do tell.

Spartacus

Wait, I just read his TL;DR news post. I still think he knows what he's doing.

DaedHead8

As a long time fan of CAD I was shocked by todays comic. Also I was slightly disappointed. I read CAD for the lols I get, miscarriage contains no lols.

AgentMOO

lolololololololo at professor pew

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