Comments on: The Webcomic Overlook #28: Applegeeks

By: DidNotDoTheResearch

DidNotDoTheResearch — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:27:20 +0000

A Microsoft-owned franchise, developed by Bungie, who were initially Mac developers and produced the Mac’s only series of FPS; Marathon.

There’s probably a “Microsoft steals everything from Mac!” subtext here, somewhere.

By: Anise

Anise — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:23:25 +0000

Late answer, but no, you are not crazy or sleepy. This comic is stupidly hard to read.

By: Jack McSlay

Jack McSlay — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:04:19 +0000

Isn’t it ironic how strip #154 shows the robo chick using a weapon clearly stolen from Halo, a Microsoft-owned franchise? The onomatopea even suggests the activation sound is identical

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:21:31 +0000

Johnny Wander is a nice comic, I was surprised when I found the link between it and Applegeeks. Maybe the problem really is Hawk, both the character and the person.

By: Kate Frizzell

Kate Frizzell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:46:33 +0000

I tried to read Applegeeks when originally linked there from Yuko and Ananth’s comic, Johnny Wander. I didn’t get very far. I have to agree with you that Yuko’s version of the comic is much more attractive and easy to understand, and I actually kind of want to read her version of it. But then after three pages it goes back to normal, and I can’t stand it anymore.

Ananth is a pretty good writer, but I cannot read Applegeeks.

Not to mention I’ve been living off of Windows for my entire 19 years of life, and it’s served me perfectly well. The only thing I envy in a mac is the quick photo-editing software, which I probably wouldn’t use much since I don’t actually take many photos.

By: supermanwich23

supermanwich23 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:30:46 +0000

http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=30
So… does no one else see the blatant rip offs of Mac hall?? The character and style are almost mirrored.. except they lack something….

I know.. this probably seems like an annoying rant but I just don’t have time for 2 nearly identical webcomics in this crazy, fast-paced world.

However… in the newer strips the art has evolved to branch out and Hawk’s style becomes much more unique. So… that’s good.

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:44:02 +0000

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By: Vorgatsuuin

Vorgatsuuin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:39:47 +0000

I prefer Ota’s style too – It looks more mature and retains nice expressions.

Anyhow, Ota has a comic here: http://www.fallencomic.com/

I haven’t read it, but you may review it if you want to.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:21:44 +0000

We’ll, I have Sims and Railroad Tycoon on my Mac, so there are some games. Other then that, I’ve only seen a smattering of games. I haven’t seen many third person shooters. I guess that status hasn’t changed. As for the artist perspective, I think the nifty advantage Mac has is the one-button mouse, which makes it easier to manipulate things.

For the longest time, though, I primarily conducted all my video and photoshop items on my PC, simply because I’d had my PC longer and I’d already bought all the programs for it (like Corel Paint and a Sony Video Vegas). I didn’t see any huge advantage between Mac and PC in that regard. Oddly enough, I used the Mac more for Microsoft Office applications, just because it had niftier backgrounds available in Powerpoint.

Now, as for the Applegeeks speech balloon layout … it is pretty awful, at least for the first 7/8ths of the comic. It’s probably another reason why it felt like such a torture to read. Tons of dialogue, most of it unnecessary, and scattered everywhere. I do think Haque and Panagariya finally figured out how to do a decent layout in the latest strips, but by that time they’d lost me.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:22:07 +0000

Okay, here’s a question: Are the panel and speech-bubble layouts in this comic really hard to understand, or do I just find them to be that way because it’s 3:00 AM and I’m sleepy?

In most of the examples you linked to, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out which order to read the speech bubbles in, or sometimes even who was talking to whom. It was like some sort of weird feeling of being outside time, and seeing all parts of a conversation at once.

I’ve been using the same PC for about 8 or 9 years now, so I’m out of the loop, computer-wise, but have they actually started making games for the mac, now? I guess they have that thing where you can run windows now, don’t they?

Incidentally, one thing Mac doesn’t have is a tablet computer. It’s very weird, since one of their main uses is for artists, and Mac still has that reputation as a computer for artistic types.