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Web Comics Make The Small Screen

Posted by timothy on Tue Nov 16, 2004 03:31 AM
from the well-the-medium-screen-nowadays dept.
Media The Internet It's funny. Laugh. Entertainment
darkCanuck writes "A year and a half ago, three guys wrapped up a Flash-based story taking three years of work, spanning twenty-four chapters in twelve hours. This afternoon they began offering Broken Saints as a DVD set (four discs), the entire series at $39.99 US. It's been tweaked, to say the least, to 5.1 surround sound, updated art and effects for more than half of the production, subtitles in six languages and voice narration from such people as Cancer Man from the X-files (William B. Davis), among other notables. It's an impressive feat for any studio, in my opinion, but three canucks in their spare (and not so spare) time ... that's incredible. If you haven't seen it, check it out since the chapters are still available at the website." Just as pressing -- An anonymous reader writes "You can now buy all 100 Strong Bad Emails as a boxed set of 3 DVDs. If you live under a rock, Strong Bad is freakin' awesome. You can buy it here."
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  • Pleased (But Sticky) (Score:5, Insightful)

    by omghi2u (808195) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:33AM (#10827925) Journal
    I am pleased but sticky about this.

    Yes it is great these are coming to DVD.

    Yes it is huge for the sub-industry.

    BUT, as with what we saw happen to anime, eventually the sludge will come too.

    Beware!

    Doooomed! Dooomed!

  • fucking fanboys (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:33AM (#10827926)
    If you live under a rock, Strong Bad is freakin' awesome. You can buy it here."

    Right. Because if I have no idea what Strong Bad is, I've been living under a rock.

    And you wonder why they make that comic book store owner as annoying as they do on the Simpsons.

  • hmmmm (Score:4, Interesting)

    by cloudkj (685320) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:36AM (#10827934)
    What's the deal with Strongbad? People always send me links to go watch it, but I never get it. It seems like just a random cartoon, but isn't very funny at all...... I don't see the hype

    • Re:hmmmm (Score:5, Insightful)

      by omghi2u (808195) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:39AM (#10827945) Journal
      In the name of all the fans out there, let me serve as counsel.

      SB is part of the comedy nuvo, the online WTF OMGBBQ generation. For us, this kind of thing is just awesome.

      Sometimes something that makes no sense, is completely off topic, or just utterly stupid gets the best laughs.

      I know people who say out loud "Dot dot dot..."

      The same crowd who's into these things :D
    • It's funny to those of us who...

      remember typing on monochrome monitors

      watch enough anime to appreciate certain exaggerated features

      enjoy correcting and ridiculing spelling errors

      can identify with characters who are bullied in a playful way, and remind us of our youth

      used to own or play those pixelated console atari games

      owned a single-tone keyboard with that cutesy demo song

      can appreciate some clean humour

      <tim><

  • But for the rest of us ... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Soong (7225) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:39AM (#10827950) Homepage Journal
    If you live under a rock, Strong Bad is freakin' awesome

    But for all of us non sub-rock dwellers, Strong Bad is just a stupid wast of time.
  • I mean, I might have heard it among the thousands of ppl who visit fark, slashdot, homstarrunner, penny-arcade, user friendly, ad nauseam, but my break time has always kinda had a priority list that didn't want to fit in heavy flash stories, which is what this site looks like. The intro text sounds a lot like the intro from http://www.eccentris.com/ [eccentris.com]

  • Money from DVD? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Squideye (37826) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @03:52AM (#10827984) Homepage Journal
    Maybe they can be used to replace the poor, departed, Compy 386 [slashdot.org]. :'(

    And if you don't get Strong Bad, then you don't. Who cares? Crapfully yours,
    • Ah, crap. I meant departed Compy 386 [homestarrunner.com], not a link to a nonexistent Slashdot page...

      Anyway, if you want to get a sense of the site, check out "The Interview" on the "Shorts" page, perhaps the best gateway 'toon on the site.
    • Knowing Strongbad, he is always four computer generations behind.

      I expect he will find a 486sx with windows 3.1 or something like that.

      His first computer was a tandy 400 (tandy never made a 400) with a "green screen" that haunted him after he disposed of it in a rather uncaring way.

      Strongbad is an aquired taste like beer and olives. Occasionally he is a riot, like with today's email.

  • Better Link to Broken Saints Site (Score:5, Informative)

    by CritterNYC (190163) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @04:07AM (#10828027) Homepage
    The website won't work with most popup-blockers enabled, so here's a direct link [brokensaints.com].

  • Comics (Score:5, Funny)

    by tuxedobob (582913) * <tuxedobob@@@mac...com> on Tuesday November 16 2004, @04:15AM (#10828048)
    There's a REASON I hate comics. Print COMICS , that is. They randomly feel the NEED to put random words IN bold and italics. Usually, these WORDS are not what you would emphasize if you WERE speaking, and they're not ALWAYS of any importance. I find IT distracting. DOES anyone else?

  • Rathergood videos (Score:5, Informative)

    by Turn-X Alphonse (789240) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @04:32AM (#10828092) Journal
    http://www.rathergood.com/ [rathergood.com] Have been on TV for a while now. They make flashs to music and feature on channel 4 in the UK. Recently Weebl and Bob have also started to do many adverts (for anchor butter). Not to mention Rather good also doing some adverts.

    Flash is a very stylish art form, when done right it's fantastic to watch. But when it's done wrong it's like a 4 year old drawing.

    As soon as people catch on to this, everyone and their dog will attempt to do these because "Hey it can get me rich!"
  • The Happy Tree Friends [happytreefriends.com] has been doing this for quite some time aswell. Check them out as some of the episodes are hilarious. Currently they have released three DVDs.
    • I concur - Happy Tree Friends is great! Several orders funnier than HomeStarRunner, especially if you're into woodland creatures committing random acts of outrageous violence.
  • ...voice narration from such people as Cancer Man from the X-files
    You mean "C.G.B. Spender." As in spend. See, I was with you up until that point! I'm broke, you insensitive clod!

  • WTF is Broken Saints? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jonr (1130) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @05:18AM (#10828276) Homepage Journal
    The trailer seemed to be random rambling and cuts. Trailers are supposed to make movie more attractive, not less...
    • Yea I even skipped the trailer and went onto chapter 1. It still was not attractive. The drawings were sub-par. And the story is quite dull, It seems like a normal D&D Campaign to me. I get the feeling that they are trying to hard about making it artful that they forgot to make a story out of it.
      • exactly what i did and thats exactly what i thought of it. its pretty, tho im not into that style. i just kept waiting for something to happen. ive been reinstalling my box at the table across the room and have no trouble walking away from episode one of the broken saints stuff to check on it. the sounds are decent, the drawrings are ok, but the story is slow as hell. i dont know if its called cinemetography(i doubt it), but whatever its called, it was ok. appealing at least. but to beat a dead horse
      • It gets better. The thing was created over the course of more than 2 years. The artwork and programming in the early chapters seems clunky, especially today when cinematic Flash animations are pretty standard. As the series went on, it got increasingly better, and the second half is pretty much non-stop excellence. The biggest problem is it takes too long to get going. The first half of the series really should have only been the first third. Ultimately, though, it's quite rewarding if you have the pa
  • Don't forget Foamy over at Ill Will Press [illwillpress.com] -- that shit is available on DVD, too.

  • I can't handle Flash comics (Score:4, Informative)

    by Illserve (56215) on Tuesday November 16 2004, @08:29AM (#10829034)
    The whole point of the comic book format, with you know...the words, is that you can read at your own pace, speeding up or slowing down as your attention waxes and wanes. And if you want to go back and check something, you can.

    I'm sure this story is great, and the artwork is obviously excellent, but it drives me absolutely nuts when I'm forced to read at a slow measured pace. I'm willing to bet that this is the case for everyone but the most ardent fanboys.

    Also, being unable to pause for an 18 minute stretch is awful.

    My advice is that these guys collapse their production into a standard comic format, I'd love to read it then.

    • Re:Racism. (Score:2, Insightful)

      by hfis (624045)
      Flamebait?

      I don't mean to feed the troll or anything, but he/she has a good point. I have quite a few Canadian friends, and I'm sure if I called them 'Canucks' I'd get punched in the face quicksmart.

      Also, check out Dictionary.com [dictionary.com] - it lists 'Canuck' as an offensive slang.

      It's just a matter of time before someone else gets offended.
      • Are you serious? I'm a Canadian myself... and I don't think that the thought ever occured to me that the term Canuck was politically incorrect. That must be some weird thing that you yanks thought up.
        • That must be some weird thing that you yanks thought up.

          Another case in point. I my self am not offended by being called a Yank [wikipedia.org], and like the Canuck's there is a team named the Yankees [wikipedia.org].

          Yank is a funny case though. From a Southern American standpoint it technically refers to people from states that didn't break off to form the Confederate States of America, I.e. New England and other northern states. While states that border Canada are populated by people who typically don't mind the term Yank/Yankee,
      • Canuck is not an offensive word. Would a CANADIAN hockey team be called the Canucks [canucks.com] if it was a way of insulting us?
      • how do you explain this [www.tsn.ca] then?
        • Yeah... it's racist.... that's why we call one of our pro hockey teams the Canucks. Not that it matters this year.... :-(

          Yes, it would unheard of to call any professional team something that could be considered to be racially derogatory. Oh wait, the Washington Redskins [redskins.com]. D'oh!

          • so whats wrong with that? it refers to native americans, so? do they have reddish skin? yes. is that bad? no. now if it were the honkyskins, that would be different. hehe, no i wouldnt be offended then, either, that would just be funny.

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