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This Week! In Webcomics Boning: An Introduction

Ever since the dawning of mankind, webcomics have been a source of entertainment, annoyance, and charity-based profit for artists and readers alike. I have always been one to embrace the uninhibited work of amateurs, and the masturbatory pool of commentary it generates. But for all the discussion, community and horrifying cosplay, do we ever talk about the important issues? The issues people care about?

The boning?

I was poolside in Laguna Beach when Gary Tyrrell, Fleenâ€™s frontman, rang me up last month. He told me the internet was losing its edge, and I was inclined to agree. â€œGar,â€¿ I queried, â€œisnâ€™t it about time you featured something people actually want to read?â€¿ Five martinis later Iâ€™d hammered out the details of what would soon be the most significant venture in the history of webcomics journalism.

It didnâ€™t really look as great the morning after. Nonetheless! Letâ€™s get started.

The HOT ITEM! this week is that Oh No Robot founders Ryan North and T. Campbell are, as we say in the industry, splitting up. Lack of demand for an advertising department is cited as the reason for the separation. Sources say that North calls this parting of ways â€œa good breakupâ€¦ the kind of breakup where you still get to be friends, where you can meet each other at a party and laugh.â€¿

Campbell chimes in as well, saying â€œI’m still a huge fan of ONR, and a huge fan of [Ryanâ€™s]: he’s one of the finest minds and nicest people I’ve ever met.â€¿ The former couple will be dividing up the source code, and custody of the site will remain with North (though Campbell will have 24-hour visitation privileges).

$TUESDAY\'S TAKE$ Thereâ€™s more at play here than fancy scripts and adorable mascots. A relationship so ambitious in this business doesnâ€™t end on such heart-warming terms. (Once youâ€™ve worked closely with someone in webcomics, youâ€™ve accumulated enough bad memories to fill a GMail account.) But I commend North and Campbell for their ability to stay cool. Just so long as they know weâ€™ll eagerly jump on any rebound websites they might form.

Tune in next week for more boning! And please send us your dirt, because you know you want to.

Seems like you’re practicing tough love with the competition in this one, Tuesday. I guess I should feel flattered to have WCE referred to as an “annoyance,” but calling Websnark a “masturbatory pool” seems a little harsh.

I agree. Websnark is more like playing Seven Minutes in the Heaven with a blindfold. You don’t know what you’re getting, you just know it’ll be wet. Innocent but lascivious.

I shall create my own monkier, Thursday Green. I shall be vile and absurd to the point that NBC executives will purchase the rights to a show about my online life that will fail before the pilot is even taped.

That’s almost a shame that they’re broken up.

I’m glad ONR is sticking around. It has many potentials.

[…] Firstly, if you didn’t scroll down far enough yesterday, you may have missed the debut column by the scintillating Ms Tuesday Crimson. To silence the mutterings I hear in the dark corners of the internet, no, I didn’t write that. For starters, Gary Tyrrell does not refer to himself in the third person. Ms Crimson is a real-life girl, and will be bringing us all the news of webcomics boning each Thursday. […]

I think the This Week! In Webcomics Boning needs to have a (TM) by the word “Boning,” so it can look as official and proper as Parade Magazine, which sports columns like Walter Scott’s Personality Parade(tm) and Ask Marilyn(tm)(R).

There’s a competition?

Man. You just know Jeffrey Rowland will kill us all in a competition. He’s just that much man.

This column is the greatest thing that has ever happened to webcomics.

Thereâ€™s a competition?

Dang. No one ever tells me anything. First there was a war, and now there’s a competition.

Websnark calls dibs on “going back to bed, blearily eating saltines, and watching Dr. Who.”

Yay! We lose! And eat crackers in bed!

Man, that was easy. We should declare defeat more often! And eat crackers more often. Because I’m feeling ill too, and crackers? Crackers help.

God, yeah. Crackers are awesome. Crackers and vitamin water.

I miss American crackers something fierce, too. For a little while, saltines were a pricey American Import Item, and now you can’t find them at all. And the Ritz are the same shape, but that’s it.

YOUR CRACKERS AND OVERPRICED SUGAR WATER INFURIATES ME

As a webcomics journalist, I will not rest until I actually witness Eric and Wednesday make love.

[…] First off, Fleen has a new column called “This Week! In Webcomics Boning“. Much like this fellow, I don’t really like Fleen. I thought this column, however, was actually pretty funny. Until I noticed the columnists name: Tuesday Crimson. […]

[…] Since I started writing this post, I came upon some more Fleen-erbation. From La Casa Comics: First off, Fleen has a new column called â€œThis Week! In Webcomics Boningâ€œ. Much like this fellow, I donâ€™t really like Fleen. I thought this column, however, was actually pretty funny. Until I noticed the columnists name: Tuesday Crimson. […]

[…] So it’s been a couple weeks since Jeff was able to break radio silence; Tuesday’s been pretty busy, as well. And as much as I enjoy blathering on here, Fleen’s really set up to provide more than one viewpoint. So if you’re opinionated about webcomics, today is your lucky day. […]

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