I read MT way back in elementary school and went through a “Manga/Japanese” phase due to my social awkwardness, and my D-Bag of a best friend who at the time, I thought was really cool.

As I grew older I had read a bunch of bad/good manga over the time and many I’ve dropped and killed for the sake of self realization, it was simply breaking a habit. All the while I read MT from day one, and you know what occurred to me? I still liked it, it isn’t the art that drew me in at first, but fell in love (okay a bit strong more like, favor) with, but rather how it went by.

LICD, Penny Arcade, and numerous other famous web comics started somewhere, and it wasn’t the imagery exactly but the content within each page and how we took it that took people for a journey. Many started with art compared to the dripping of a portable in a construction site.

As the story changed and people left, I still found it funny and enjoyable in some little sense, and… While the words I type here are trying to convey something to the world, I’m afraid I can’ quite piece it all in a whole that would be concise and clear. I guess I’ll essentially say that Mega Tokyo may be drawn out but it leaves a piece if you take the time and enjoy a break.

I understand that it is impossible to be completely objective in any review of an artistic medium (I am currently in a MFA program and I am just about thoroughly sick of over-analyzing every piece of work done by the hand of man) but I think you are being just a bit too subjective here. Maybe it’s nostalgia goggles (I am in my mid thirties so I remember when this all got started) that are preventing you from being objective enough.

While Megatokyo does not fail on the level of the worst webcomics (Hathor the Cow Goddess anyone?) it does have significant flaws in just about every area. The pacing has slowed down to the point where I fell like I’m slogging through a bog with no reward in sight for one.

As someone who is an artist (I’m not DaVinci but I am certainly capable) the artwork is flat, static and downright ugly at times. Fred Gallagher, while definitely not the worst artist, cannot draw a three-quarters head view without it becoming distorted and very flat. For all that he has drawn over the years his lack of progression on basic art principles is depressing. His pencil work is not minimalist, it is simply lazy. His work, as a whole, strikes me as someone who went in search of a style well before they established any solid foundation or basic understanding of artistic principles. If a house is structurally unsound then painting it up real nice does not solve the underlying problem.

I don’t grade webcomic artists by how pretty they draw, I try to judge them on how their drawings effectively convey their message. Gallagher’s art oftentimes gets in the way of what he is trying to convey.

Also, when you need accoutrements just to able to tell some of the cast apart you are crossing into a bad, bad place. The main gripe I have with Scott Pilgrim, for example, is that he has to write the characters names whenever they appear otherwise we would have no idea who they were.

I know this review is a bit older on your site but I just couldn’t let this go without opening my big, fat mouth. You are certainly entitled to your opinion but as someone who is seriously reviewing a certain medium I feel that you must have some objective criteria to at least get you into a rating range. By any unbiased criteria Megatokyo is simply not on the level of your other 5 star ratings.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying bad music, crappy food or whatever. I still have some awful albums from when I was a teenager and I still enjoy them. I know, however, that they aren’t very good. It’s okay to enjoy bad or mediocre things but to attempt to elevate them to the level of excellence is just plain silly. There, I’ll shut up now.

I tend to think you’re a bit biased, and some of these comics just baffle me. Like the lolcats one. Why? Did your funny bone break somewhere after Gunshow? Are you the same person that reviewed Dumm Comics? I thought to myself, “Surely this man sees through many facades. He’s not going to let Menage a 3 win him over. Certainly not Boss Noodle.” but then I see this. This.. Thing. This amalgamation of poor choices in all fields. The art that looks like it was drawn on the sides of someone’s biology notes. The characters cemented to a lifeless existence of bored expressions and roles you can see from a mile away. The mere premise illiciting a sea of groans from anyone IN and OUT of the fandom. This comic has all the oldest faults in the book, because it really IS the oldest webcomic. It IS THE BOOK.

I.. I just don’t know anymore. I’m just going to take this review as a momentary lapse of judgment from anime, like some sort of Weaboo’s Tourettes. I’m hoping the others are from slipped bills under the table from the Webcomic Mafia.

yeah his artwork isnt the best but to those of us who compare it to naruto(which btw isnt a webcomic) i believe that naruto is a pathetic excuse for an anime that should never even have been attempted….i have read some of the manga and watched some of the anime which still to this day i will say that naruto is complete and total shit!…but then again thats just me bitching about anime that should not have been born theres lots of them but none ever as popular as the ever growing naruto…though it may only be popular with kids ages 5-13… anywhos back to MT i love the artwork and his dedication to his work the story can be a little rough but overall it good as far as mostly impromptu storys go…so to all of you who have little or nothing good to say about MT….read somthing else and get over it!