How to Create the Most Popular Webcomic Ever [COMIC]
Basic Instructions is a twice weekly updating web comic that offers absurd advice on how to live your life. Some of those updates will be happening here on Cracked.
Previously Scott has taught us How To Make The Most Of Working the Early Shift and How to Describe Food So It Doesn't Sound Gross.
I don't like Derek Vinyard's comics.
ReplyBoo hoo hoo. I cam to this site of my own free will and clicked on a link by someone I didn't find funny! And then I didn't find him funny! Boo hoo hoo! Why does this guy want to waste my time? What have I done to him? Boo hoo hoo! The world must know he isn't funny! I have to tell everyone that nobody likes him! Then my ego will be healthy and nice again! Boo hoo hoo! (rough translation of comment section)
ReplyAh, the Cracked comments. Nearly entirely consisting of 'this was terrible, why doesn't the author kill him/herself', overt racism and misogyny, and spam. Cracked: let us turn it off please?
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesI gotta admit, even though I use it all the time, I have no f**king idea why Cracked has a comments section. I guess it'd be something different if the writers came by and said, "Why yes, good sir, that is a salient point. But to elaborate on that topic, I should remind you that dick jokes have existed for millennia before the birth of Christ." Or, "To the woman offering to have my babies, meet me on the corner of J street and 11th at 3 o' clock. I'll be wearing a trenchcoat and boots." But honestly, who would have the time to debate with and f**k everyone?
Me. Hire me. I'd love that job.
If they know what kinds of readers they have, they know where to set the bar.
i hate when sites like this dont have comment sections, and if you search comments, you can usually spot the things that help the writers quickly from the spam, comment conversations, and trolls.
I actually thought this was going to be all ironic and someone was going to show a bunch of examples of what ISN'T popular or funny... but it's just another horrible comic by Scott Meyer. I thought Cracked got rid of this guy?
ReplyMan, I never knew people could whine so much. :D
ReplyI love this, and I don't get what the big deal is - is there nothing else to do but complain?
Bah. Anyway, Irritable Bowel and Nervous Bladder sounds like an epic webcomic!
Came looking for joke, or pithy commentary, or hell at least a pun. Leaving disappointed.
Replywhat is funny? perhaps to understand the pavlovian aversive 'unreality' reaction, the laugh track is when someone says something true that no longer is, also deception around that as well? more complexity too, not all things simple down into the alignment, yet they do also
ReplyYour mom is funny.
The McFarlane code. Ha!
ReplyWhenever the power goes out it should go out at exactly 12 so you don't have to reset your clock.
ReplyI find that the opinion of 99% of the cracked comments section is full of an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
ReplyThese comics aren't necessarily funny, just observant, and well-structured. There's really just no arguing that.
"These comics aren't necessarily funny, just observant, and well-structured."
The word you're looking for is "bland".
The irony of a webcomic that so many seem to loathe writing about how to write a successful webcomic... Although I usually like these personally, this one I actually wasn't as fond of... lol
ReplyThen why the lol? WHY the poor overused lol?!?
Who wants to hear a magical solution to the problem of having to see this comic you hate enough to complain about it in the comments?
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesHere we go:
DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK.
It's very simple, probably simple enough for most of you, so take the advice.
i used to say that too but, honestly, this comic just doesnt belong on cracked. at all. make it go away.
But how can you know if you hate it if you don't click on it, huh? ANSWER ME THAT!
Yeah. I thought there was going to be a Basic Instructions that didn't make me wish for death. I WAS WRONG.
Follower of your own advice, I see.
ReplyI hereby revoke my click. Please take it off the record and refund any earned income to snorgtees.
ReplyHa ha! The Straw Man makes an innocently vapid comment. Then the Generic Guy who never takes risks sits back and prods Straw Man's comments with ham-fisted sarcasm!
ReplyBasic Instructions appears in local periodicals around the country. It's hardly struggling for attention. Maybe this is an opportunity to exhibit some fresh work from a struggling new cartoonist. BETTER YET, turn it into another community-submission thing in the forums. Either way, get rid of this garbage.
good point! and good observation about how repetitive this comic is
See. That's what I thought this comic was going to mention. You can't really point out a tired formula webcomics follow when your own comic is following an even more tired formula.
heh. McFarlane code.
ReplyNoway that was excellent!!!!
ReplyI laughed- I must be some kinda humour-connoisseur.
Doubt it. You're probably dyslexic.
This makes me wish I never learned how to read.
ReplyThink of all the other things you could have done yesterday instead.
Your comment makes me wish you had never learned how to type.
Well sir, based on the reactions in the comments section I would have to say that you are most certainly not qualified to tell us how to write a funny web-comic. In this case, irony does not win. Everyone FTL.
ReplyThe first quadrant sums up Basic Instructions.
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