It’s almost creepy how much this episode reminds me of the Digital Strips shows of years ago with Daku the Rogue and The Mighty Zampson. With the smart writer guy at odds with the lovable but dopey artist guy over a comic’s awesomeness. Fans of the old school podcast or the UFC shouldn’t miss it.

This time our two heroic hosts do battle over the strip Imagine This by Lucas Turnbloom. A classy looking gag a day full of great characters, personal violence and 80s nostalgia.

While we both had good things to say, Jason still felt the need to bring up a few issues that required me step up and defend the comic. A bloody podcast battle ensued and after an epic back and forth both parties were left sad and broken. And after all the work I put into finding a strip for him.

After such a betrayal of trust, I don’t know if we’re going to be talking anymore.

If this is a strip you’ve been planning on reading on your own, you may want to go a head and do it because cause there are several spoilers in the show, but if it’s new to you jump on in and see if we can convince you. I bet you two donuts that we can.

Show notes abound.
The Prehistory of the Farside
Least I could do
The System
Diesel Sweeties
Garfield
Get Fuzzy
Joe and Monkey
Calvin and Hobbes
Penny Arcade
Tall Tale Features
Legend of Bill
SuperFogeys
Dog Eat Doug
Gill

As always, we welcome and want your feedback, please leave it below.

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There seems to be strange new pattern emerging from Zuda Watch these days. Yours Truly, once the paragon of optimism and joy is finding more and more thinks to gripe about than every before. Meanwhile the Midnight Cartooner, a man once so bitter he was a few gray hairs from sitting on a bench and yelling at squirrels and immigrants, is beginning to sound a bit like a fan girl.

These episode we dig into another feast of Zuday goodness and lay it all bare before you. We do hope you enjoy it.

A while back some one told me it would be better it I had links to each entry in these notes so I’m going to give it a try. Also besides the name of each comic is the approximate time that we started reviewing it. Never say we Digital Stripists never respond to advice, it just takes us a half a year or so sometimes.

A Stinking Corpse 4:45
Absolute Magnitude 9:05
Antique Books 13:00
Artic 17:35
Bow and Arrow Detective Agency 23:00
Cards Kill 28:00
If you can see the hills 30:45
Octane Jungle 33:30
Psyicon 38:33
Rogue Royal 42:35

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You know those people who say that “less is more” and try to pass it off a deep wisdom, when really their just dicking you out of half of your fries? You should show them The System by Rosscott, because it’s an example of when less really is more, more funny, that is.

Jason and I had a heck of a time on this show, we were really in our element. You can take a listen and let us know if that’s a good thing or not.

Sites mentioned in this episode:
XKCD
Real Life Comic
CAD
Imagine This
Girls with Slingshots
PVP

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Guess what we did. I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with “Mooda Watch”.

That’s right, it’s time for another Zuda Watch episode. Jason and I take a look at all of the competitors over at Zuda this month.

So head on over to Zuda and follow along with us as we give our opinions of each comic and when your opinion doesn’t match ours, head on back and let us know. That’s what the comments are for.

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Ah and now here we are at every podcaster’s least favorite place. I have to write something intriguing to hook you guys into listening to our latest show, but really all I want to say is, “Hey guys, look. We talked for 20 minutes and now there’s a show.”

I’m not going to do you guys like that. Though. I’m going to say clever things like “This episode is cooler than the other side of a popsicle wearing sunglasses.”

Wow, that went poorly. Here are the comics we looked at this time.

Tails by Ethan Young
Cucuc by Cathbad and Mirlikovir

Hey look, actual show notes. This episode we mention the following:
Pandora
Hulu
Good Ship Chronicles
Horribleville
Hereville

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Have you ever wished you could go back in time so you could tell yourself not to put your keys down, thereby preventing the endless search that you are now enduring? I think thoughts like this are what led to comics like Chronillogical.

Chronillogical, by Jon Chouinard and Greg Poulos is the target of our critical laser this time around. It’s a silly strip with silly characters so we think we fit in just fine.

Let us know what you think of the strip and the show in the comments below.

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This show is not for the faint of heart, we say all kinds of words and phrases that my mother would not approve of. Of course my mother got on my case when I said “fart-knocker” so ample use of terms like “boobies” and “dick” along with phrases like “the c-word” (just the phrase the c-word, we’d never say the c-word) and “gay Barack Obama” would make her wonder where she went wrong.

Today we look at two glorious strips that are brand spanking new on the scene and that you should go out of your way to make feel welcome. They are:

I Love Tapes by Frank Gibson and Ned C Hugar
The Meek by Der-shing Helmer

Let us know what you think of these comics and our show in the comments below.

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It’s time for another review, this time we harken back to a simpler time when all a man needed to score a massive pile of golden coins and a bar full of wenches was a good loin clothe, a sturdy battle-ax and a loyal blue dragon companion. This is the world of The Legend of Bill, a comical romp by veteran creator David Reddick.

We spend a lot time talking about the comic, and also delved into deeper topic of some of the differences between Web comics and those you’ll find in your local newspaper. You should listen, or we’ll sic our barbarian on you.

Digital Strips 162

May was an interesting month for Zuda, but an even more interesting month for Zuda Watch. We don’t have Brigid around to keep us in line so right out of line we go as we battle for our favorites, jeer those we hate and say bad things about each other moms.

Good times, good times.

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