It seems I have allies in my legendary crusade against the notion that I Can Has Cheeseburger? is a webcomic. Recently, The Digitial Strips Show Podcast devoted the first part of their segment discussing the controversy over T. Campbell’s rankings, where the ubiquitous website that hosts pet photos with somewhat humorous captions has somehow become the Number One Webcomic Site. The Digital Strips crew came to a unanimous decision: despite their visual similarities, LOLCats are just not webcomics. I especially liked how one of the commentators equated ICHC? with a bathroom wall with pictures of cats on it.
The critics among you may now be saying, “El Santo, you fiend! The only reason you hate ICHC? is because, deep down inside, you are an enemy of cats!”
Lies! Why would I ever hate anything with those adorable beady green eyes, those delicate paws with pointy talons, and a voice that sounds like the chorus of a hundred demons?
Seriously, though, while I don’t have any cats of my own, my girlfriend, or rather her mother, has three cats at her house, and they’re all quite affectionate. Irony of ironies, though, my girlfriend is allergic to cats, and she hates it when I get cat hair all over my nice cashmere sweaters. So maybe you’re on to something: perhaps I’m a bit gruff toward websites featuring kitty photos because, deep down inside, I’m a self-hating closet cat lover.
(Get your heads out of the gutter, people. That’s NOT what I meant.)
So, to show some good faith to cat lovers everywhere, today’s Webcomic Overlook reviews a series that features laugh-out-loud cats that actually qualifies as a webcomic … I think. Today, I review the comic that combines internet memes with illustrations of cats who are also hobos, Adam Koford’s Laugh-Out-Loud Cats.
