Offense on a level seldom seen by man

June 9, 2008 12:15 AM

Electricretard.com is a webcomic that is likely to offend you without regard to your race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, disability, etc. NSFW cubed. I'm not joking. via

Eric Vaughn (website @ Sigvatr) also did the Competitive Spree Killing Organization and is working on a couple of games (Link-Dead and Berserker) found in this interview of him and his development partner, Michal Marcinkowski.

I apologize in advance.

posted by CuJoe (36 comments total)

No thanks. Can someone add "uninteresting," "unremarkable," and "deleted" tags?
posted by lumensimus at 12:25 AM on June 9

This isn't funny.

2nding the "deleted" tag.
posted by MaxK at 12:26 AM on June 9

Didn't this make the rounds of lesser web aggregators a few days ago?

MetaFilter. That's kinda the point.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:28 AM on June 9 [1 favorite]

Lame. Unfunny. Bad art.
posted by SansPoint at 12:30 AM on June 9

You know, Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:32 AM on June 9

It's like "Perry Bible Fellowship" except without the talent, insight, or humor. So I guess it's not much like PBF after all.
posted by Justinian at 12:35 AM on June 9

This isn't offensive. It's just stupid and badly drawn.
posted by optovox at 12:35 AM on June 9

Your art is bad and you should feel bad.
posted by ryanrs at 12:38 AM on June 9

I'll save some of your time. if you don't think calling somebody a "retard" is funny, you won't think this is funny.
posted by StandardObfuscatingProcedure at 12:40 AM on June 9

What a hollow tragedy of worthless spite.
posted by Abiezer at 12:40 AM on June 9

See you, Joe.
posted by sourwookie at 12:40 AM on June 9

I'm not joking

Here's wishing you were.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 12:41 AM on June 9

I can handle offensive content if there is some other merit to the piece. This is bad art, bad writing, just bad, bad, bad. It isn't even close to funny. In future, if you feel compelled to apologise to the Hivemind within a post, maybe you just shouldn't be posting it.

The sooner this hits the trashcan the better
posted by Jilder at 12:42 AM on June 9

Wow. A comic made by that weird, smelly kid who played with roadkill and liked to start fires. Or actually, more like a comic made by some boring douche who's trying really, really hard to appear to be that weird, smelly kid who played with roadkill and liked to start fires. This is the dumbest thing I've seen on the Internet in recent memory. Maybe ever. It's certainly the worst Metafilter post I can ever remember seeing. FARK would even think this is stupid. Delete with extreme prejudice.
posted by DecemberBoy at 12:43 AM on June 9

Eric, I can't possibly know what career your parents are trying to pigeonhole you into, but seriously, you should stop flailing and listen to them*.



* unless they want you to be a cartoonist
posted by maryh at 12:51 AM on June 9

Generally speaking, FPP's that contain pre-emptive apologies are usually really, really bad.
posted by Avenger at 12:55 AM on June 9

This is a brilliantly meta commentary on the state of media and entertainment in modern society. Our unwillingness to consider this work critically highlights our propensity to defecate upon the things that scare us.
posted by polyhedron at 12:56 AM on June 9

No need to apologize, CuJoe, just kill yourself.
posted by wendell at 12:57 AM on June 9

I've seen things more offensive that I thought were great, but this is just amazingly lame, and being forced-lazy kind of offensive isn't exciting enough to alter that fact.
posted by Jezztek at 1:00 AM on June 9

The problem with this post isn't so much the content (self-conscious in its offensiveness in a sophomoric way) but the "OMG! Offensive!" tone. You wanna link to goatse next, guy?
posted by Epenthesis at 1:00 AM on June 9

this fucking sucks

also the comment "this fucking sucks" is more a more trenchant, interesting, and important piece of art than any of the five cartoons i read from the link
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:01 AM on June 9

No.
posted by Sticherbeast at 1:03 AM on June 9

Fellow haters should check out the Helldump thread on this pathetic manchild.
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 1:03 AM on June 9 [1 favorite]

See, I don't find the inane attempts at shock/schlock value the most offensive thing here. I have been on this internet thing for a while now.

No, the thing that appalls me is the "oh I'm so clever, take that mum and dad" mentality of this Eric kid. You're not original Eric. In fact, being close to your age, I know thousands of kids like you. Each more shockingly 'original' than the last. The very least Eric can do is lose the ridiculous haircut. At least that way there is some surprise in the fact that he is 'Daddy's lawyer son that was'.
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 1:05 AM on June 9

Our unwillingness to consider this work critically highlights our propensity to defecate upon the things that scare us.

Scare us? Naw, it just has no merit whatsoever. I don't even dislike the comic, I dislike that something so bland has wasted my time.
posted by spiderskull at 1:05 AM on June 9

I've emailed the admins asking for a delete. This isn't a selflink and I don't know the guy. I made a mistake posting this. Just a brainfart, I guess. It looks like I make a better lurker than poster.
posted by CuJoe at 1:07 AM on June 9

I can handle far more offensive things if they are funny, interesting, trenchant or intelligent. This is amazingly worthless on all fronts, and I'll go so far as to say that the person who came up with them is incapable of being funny or interesting ever.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:09 AM on June 9

rar rar rar we don't like this rar rar rar
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:10 AM on June 9

I just know that if there is a Hell, I am going to end up locked in a room with this boring twit for all eternity.
posted by cmonkey at 1:10 AM on June 9

This is a brilliantly meta commentary on the state of media and entertainment in modern society. Our unwillingness to consider this work critically highlights our propensity to defecate upon the things that scare us.

I don't think I'd call it brilliant at all but in my opinion there's certainly more "art" to this than someone making a big fake crack in the floor and a lot of other bullshit people get called on here for questioning as art. At least these shit comics carry whatever meaning they carry. The crack on the floor is apparently about racism - try and draw that from the work without an artist's statement.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 1:10 AM on June 9

It looks like I make a better lurker than poster.

Don't despair and don't take some of the comments to heart. Just try again with better post material.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:12 AM on June 9

Tried. Looked for irony or some kind of message or point that made sense... or even nonsense.

I thought I was gonna get a meaningful twist on number... um.. 19...

But no. Pointless.
posted by rokusan at 1:15 AM on June 9

I believe we've found the only thing less funny than Carlos Mencia.

Please delete this, there is no redeeming quality to this. At all. Ever. It's not a matter of taste, it's just awful.
posted by cgomez at 1:19 AM on June 9 [1 favorite]

Fellow haters should check out the Helldump thread on this pathetic manchild.
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 1:03 AM on June 9

pro-click
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:21 AM on June 9

CuJoe, I'd probably have posted something similar myself in the past, but I'm sure it would have been deleted.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:21 AM on June 9

Ah, so that's what "trying too hard" looks like.
posted by dantsea at 1:21 AM on June 9