Comments on: Imagine The Oatmeal with better illustration, less SEO and actual humor. Can you?

Imagine The Oatmeal with better illustration, less SEO and actual humor. Can you?

oneswellfoop — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:28:04 -0800

Charitable Thoughts About Bedbugs from the new standard for random web infographic funnies, Lunchbreath. Since his last appearance here, LB has also offered useful lifestyle advice about Craigslisting, Home Security, Maslow's Hierarchy, Inadequacies, Designer Portfolios and Greenwashing, as well as less practical content about Business Lumberjacks, Underachieving AT-ATs, Cow Stomachs and Moose Lips.

But if you prefer a daily format that resembles a conventional comic strip but contains 3-to-5 times the punchlines, may I recommend Bug, which has recently covered Snappy Comebacks, Thrill-seeking, Fezes, Optimism, Home Security (yes, related to Lunchbreath's piece), Looting (also semi-related) and Graverobbing.

OR if you just want some single-panel pop-culture in a distinctive style, say Hello With Cheese. Now you can't tell me webcomics are totally boring for at least two weeks.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:35:18 -0800

And I almost forgot (again), the venerable Graham Annable, whose videos I Mefi-ed, is doing a webcomic too!

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:30:48 -0800

I've never had bedbugs but it doesn't sound so terrible. Oh man oh man oh man do I ever want to write a response-comic to this. But I guess it would just be a solid red page with the blinking words "HERE'S WHAT IT'S LIKE" in Papyrus while It's A Small World plays on repeat 24/7 for about 4 to 5 months.

By: mayhap

mayhap — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:44:56 -0800

So much fail in the bedbugs comic. Bedbugs do not "consider dandruff a delicacy"; they consume a strict 100% blood-only diet. They wouldn't be hanging out with you when you got home, unless you're working some pretty brutal hours, because they are nocturnal. Also, there is no mention of clawing your own skin off from the itching, which I think is a serious omission.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:46:59 -0800

Pog jokes?

By: DU

DU — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:18:02 -0800

Webcomics really should not enable comments. YouTubers are stupid, but webcomic repliers are sycophants.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:43:30 -0800

To me, there are few things that evoke the feeling of exhuming the dead (the main theme of that comic) more than references to Pogs. I LOLed.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:10:25 -0800

His sympathy for bedbugs aside, it seems like a lot of his stuff involves some extremely stupid puns, which means I'm really quite charmed!

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:35:45 -0800

I thought the "Bug" strip was quite funny!

By: mendel

mendel — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:19:57 -0800

I don't understand, Greg Nog. Extremely stupid puns are awesome.