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If you know ZP (Zero Punctuation written, drawn and voiced by Ben “Yahtzee” Crowshaw) then you know how much Yahtzee tend to hate pretty much everything. This week he’s firing his meat gun (Transmetropolitan reference, whoop!) at web comics instead of games and he’s gone for a biggy of the bunch CAD.
Now CAD (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) is a fairy big web comic. Has it’s own line of crap you can buy, series, fans and books and (in my mind) probably second biggest to Penny Arcade in terms of money turnover (that’s just my thinking though). The guy who dose CAD, a Tim Buckley who can be easily called a “lazy hack” at times due to copy-paste comic style and MASSES of text. He always limits himself to 3-4 panels and at times he tries to force too much in and ends up with a crap load of text.
This has not escaped the glare of ZP.
So, ZP went after his web comic (and others but mostly CAD) to tell the world what’s wrong with it. You know something, he’s crappin’ right too.
I’ve read CAD for a while now; I’ve pretty much read every single one. It all started lovely in the early days. The art was a bit wobbly but not copy and pasted. Everything was his (Tim Buckley’s) and you knew that it was. In recent years though, he seems to have either gone insane or lost it in some other way.
Let’s start with the 1st problem. Copying crap. This has happened a few times in CAD and he doesn’t copy other comic writers stuff, no no. He doses the student thing and half’s the work by using Google. This has happened a few times but the one I remember is the Home Depot comic. Where he used a back round nicked directly from Google and pasted into a comic. I’m only a student but that’s plagiarism isn’t it? Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it free. If it where a smaller comic maker then it wouldn’t be an issue but, Tim sells copies of the comic via a book as well. So that’s not really on.
2nd problem for Tim is, well … for a while he went insane. He bought about a story arch where the main female character became pregnant. All well and fine, I’m all for character development. Then in the space of a few weeks she miscarried. Bang done, now the comic is almost running back to normal. Pardon? Hold on that’s a rather major thing to happen then vanish. Worse than that there was no really reason behind it either. It just sort of happened. Then it ended with barely a whimper from Tim. Most of the web comics I’ve read tend to be in two camps. Either their a weird sort of diary of the comic writer (see The Fart Party, The Devils Panties) but this had nothing to do with anything and then went. Seems a bit detrimental to the subject matter really.
Oh well, that’s my view on the matter. I really think I’ll stop reading CAD just because it’s gone so off track and gotten so crappy now. Stick with Penny Arcade. It’s the BEST gaming web comic on the planet and the writers are proper nice chaps setting up multiple charities. That and I’ve got comic books 1, 2 and 5.
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