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User Friendly turns ten
It seems that the User Friendly comic is now ten years old. Attentive readers will note a certain recurring theme between the original strip and the one which was posted ten years later.
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User Friendly turns ten Posted Nov 18, 2007 16:27 UTC (Sun) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] Usually you notice a lot of development in the author's drawing style/quality as the strip matures. Examples: Boasas: http://boasas.com/boasas/1.gif vs http://boasas.com/boasas/877.gif Penny Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1998/19981118h.jpg vs http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20071116.jpg I guess User Friendly has changed a little..
User Friendly turns ten Posted Nov 19, 2007 1:00 UTC (Mon) by N0NB (guest, #3407) [Link] I know that I've been reading for a number of years, but can't say exactly when I started, '99 or '00 seems about right. Sometimes it's a bit to gamer geek for me (I'm not a gamer by any stretch) and sometimes it hits a homerun with us at the office. Congrats to Illiad and here's to another decade plus!
User Friendly turns ten Posted Nov 19, 2007 9:35 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that it's so noticeable in Penny Arcade because Mike Krahulik was pretty inexperienced when he started drawing that comic. So what you're seeing in Penny Arcade is the development of his personal style as much or even more than it is the strip itself maturing. As far as I know the artists behind Boasas and User Friendly had been drawing a lot longer than Mike when they started their comics so you can't expect such a dramatic change/ improvement. [The other half of the team, Jerry Holkins, has improved too, that first joke wouldn't make it onto a comic today, the pacing is weak and the punch line doesn't punch. Friday's PA comic is, like the User Friendly example, the same idea as the first comic, but after almost 10 years the new joke is more subtle and better paced. Of course he couldn't have executed that subtlety if Mike's drawing wasn't an order of magnitude better too. You still have to be a hardcore gamer or read the accompanying explanations to get the joke, but that seems to work out OK for them so who's to argue? ]
User Friendly turns ten Posted Nov 19, 2007 16:09 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] If you want a *really* extreme example of improvement, look at Schlock Mercenary. The drawing at the start was hilariously bad (rescued by the plotting): after a few years the artwork moved through so-so to its current state of very-goodness.
User Friendly turns ten Posted Nov 20, 2007 17:48 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link] Oh... Dear... I missed the first two years of User Friendly, I think. I'm now Oct 25 1998 and can't stop reading until I connect with where I started. And I can't stop laughing.
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