NOW we are getting in the interesting part of The Pixelated Window of the Past : The crap.
No, really.
As I said previously, when someone does something good, others follow trying to do the same thing. And then you'll find the bad and the ugly, which are often FAR more numerous than the good ones, but fortunately and thankfully also don't last too long because... it's not good. Sometimes the author will realize it on his own, sometimes others will give it subtle or less-subtle messages that will bring it down. And sometimes it'll keep going because the author still thinks that at least one person out there must find it funny.
Today, I'll talk about Megaman Interference.
It only lasted 5 strips, but the sheer amount of bad here made me want to see how far one can go down the rabbit hole. I'll be upfront here. In 5 strips he managed to hit just about ALL of the Rules. It's quite a feat, if someone had tried to do it on purpose they probably would have trouble. He did it so effortlessly that it deserves a medal. Since it's a small archive, let's link each of them and take them separately.
Strip #1... holy crap the pain
Rule #1, check, no point to making this comic.
Rule #3, check, it's pretty much straight out of B&G, so Rule #A and #C while at it.
Rule #4, check, balloons are terribly placed here.
Rule #5, it might not be trying to get pity (yet) but it's hitting itself here.
Rule #6, proportions are skewed.
Other things of note, characters don't touch the ground. Ever. They just float.
You also don't see it here, you'd need to visit the actual page, but there's some juicy text over there too. Under the title he wrote "
My first comic, my first megaman comic, my first comic that has a retextured sprites, and my first comic that I think will be good. Read it and be a fan!"
I'm still looking for the funny. Maybe next strip?
Nope.
At least he's using PNG. Oh hey, he's touching ground on one of them. No consistence though. And still haphazard placement of text bubbles, so much that I have troubles understanding in which order to read them. Really, it should always be obvious at a glance, not having to read it 4 times and try different orders until it make sense.
Not even gonna bother with the recoloring for the author here, barf!
And the text, oh my god. This is worst than self-inflicted humor, this is the right side of the brain telling the left side how stupid it is, but still going with it anyway. At least no poop jokes.
WHERE IS THE FUNNY!?
This isn't getting any better. The pacing is all broken up, that huge PAUSE makes practically no sense, Protoman is out of scale for no apparent reason in the second panel, and the '
enters with Roll' is the worst thing I've ever seen, and he couldn't figure out how to do any sort of scale to fit all 4 characters in a single panel so he squished them horizontally. Holy freaking god help me.
Bubble placement is is so terrible that you wonder if he wasn't trying to write it right to left like a manga, but no, he just sucks at placing things. I'm not even sure he knows how to horizontally flip the characters at this point, he just copy-paste them in without thinking about how it would flow.
Roll said probably the only sensible thing in this entire strip up to now. You're not the only one lost, Roll.
Go away 'Jace'.
He sorta listened to me?
Why is there a white background in that single bubble? Ugh. This is a waste of a strip, still nothing funny either. "Sometimes this comic is lonely"... it took you 5 SECONDS of blissful silence from your retarded author to already miss him? Megaman really is an idiot.
Someone took pity on us, this is the last strip. But it's still online to read, they aren't that merciful.
The 'conclusion' to MM Interference. The only conclusion here is don't make sprite comics if you have no talent at all. Even copy-pasting sprites together was beyond the ability of this boy (he must be about 10 years old).
Again the bubbles are in any random order, there's even a bubble to the right that I think belongs to Dr. Light, don't ask me what that black blob was supposed to be.
And then look at the banner, at some point he decided 'this banner's color needs to change', so used the paint bucket tool, and didn't even bother filling the INSIDE of the letters.
And after 5 comics, I haven't seen a single 'retextured' sprite. Maybe he meant recolored. That's not really showing his intelligence though. The only smart thing here was stopping after five. Thank god.
