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Powerup Comics
Topic Started: Wed Feb 5, 2014 5:48 pm (129 Views)
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http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4990665/

Powerup Comics is one of my favorite parodies of bad webcomics. It starts off with a bunch of incredibly unfunny gaming and random humor, before slowly drifting into a focus on the troubles and insecurities of the (fictional) creators of the comic.

The main characters (both inside and outside of the comic itself) are Shadow and Chug. Shadow, who does the writing, wants a boilerplate gaming webcomic about how cool he is. He loves "edgy" humor, sometimes including racism, misogyny, and depicting the Wii as an anthropomorphic gay stereotype. Despite this, he is clearly insecure about a number of things, especially relationships, his friendship with Chug, and accusations that he is actually bigoted. Meanwhile, Chug does the art, which is obviously MS-Painted and copy/pasted.

I'll share some of my favorite comics here, but for the full experience I recommend checking out the full archive and reading the author's comments.

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4946728/

Now on to some "highlights:"

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4955686/

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4982447/

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4968694/

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4969417/

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4968710/

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Powerup_Comics/4987471/

Notably, even though it's one of the most obvious troll comics ever made (to the point that I just think of it as a parody) a fair amount of people took it seriously for the longest time. The comments can get pretty good too, things like

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Hmm, apparantly the drawings don't improve. ever. I saw the same PS2 way later in this horrible excuse for a comic. only he was facing the other way. and idiot here decided not to fix the backwards "PS2" logo. copy/paste is acceptable if not used every panel. you must have like, 10 drawings total you just keep reusing. Fucking idiot.


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Unless you want to accumulate a long list of examples of power up comics's acts of corruption and depredation, this letter may become a bit monotonous. However, I indeed do hope you read it all the way through because nearly all of the assumptions and statements made by power up comics are completely, absolutely, and totally wrong. The points I plan to make in this letter will sound tediously familiar to everyone who wants to ensure that this comic is removed from the internet. Nevertheless, it has had some success in destroying our moral fiber. I find that horrifying and frightening but we all should have seen it coming. We all knew that power up comics keeps bashing other races and homosexuals and this is a racist and sexist crime. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that. Maybe it's that power up comic's favorite scapegoats are Asians, homosexuals, African Americans, parents, teachers, and just about everything else. Am I aware of how power up comics will react when it reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because we must reveal the nature and activity of its blatant wrongs against society and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to remove this comic from the internet. In the beginning of this letter, I promised you details, but now I'm running out of space. So here's one detail to end with: Creating needed understanding is best achieved in a calm, rational environment. One of the many sick comics they produce.
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