How Fanboys started out will never change, but what it is today has! Scott DeWitt’s art style has improved greatly, and I will give him kudos for continuing the comic after so long. It has become a much more visibly enjoyable comic. Scott DeWitt does not come off as pretentious at all, which I find very charming. It has grown from being just a video game webcomic, and that is what’s most important.

But now you’ve shown me someone who is the exact opposite of Tim Buckley in so many ways. Mostly in his acknowledgment of his faults and determination to start anew for the better, rather than acting like a total douche towards all negative criticism and allowing his comic to run into the ground and on again, like a soul trapped forever in hell running downhill after running into a brick wall in life and not noticing the transition.

I might have to add this to my list of gamer webcomics worth the read later. Probably between Awkward Zombie and Nerfnow (my obsession with Team Fortress 2 forces me to ignore its faults, I am ashamed yes).

At the end of the day every webcomic artist needs to accept that copying Penny Arcade will never work, but when they provide something original to the genre of gaming comics they have a chance of doing something good. Though they’re best off staying out altogether and trying instead to be the next Rice Boy or something. Gaming comics are a plague.

DeWitt went and did a huge update on his site, which made all my links obsolete. I fixed this review, and the random clicks seem to be going to right place. If you click on a link and it only pops you to the most recent strip (or to some other weird webpage), drop a note on this message board and I’ll fix it.

http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-031708.php

Yeah, she’s not the best at doing pudgy characters. My favorite Mario, by the way, is probably the one from Eegra’s Hilarity Comics. He’s just so happy and borderline psychotic.

http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/16

I wanted to check out the Mario one in Fanboys (I just remember Tingle being expecially creepy), but DeWitt seems to be in the middle of a site overhaul and I can’t read any of the archived strips.

Anyway, nice to see a reviewer who’s open minded and understands a bit more about the differences between demographics, and reviews things objectively(to the the extent anyone reviewing entertainment can). This is sorta the first article on the site I’ve read, but I’m definitely sticking around after this! Keep em’ coming!

On the topic of Fanboys, yes, I quite like that there are gamer comics like this out there that aren’t opaque to the non-gamer like myself.