The Unoriginal Comic

I'm disappointed as I was unable to find a badass image along the lines I described on the internet...also wondering what kind of hair rebel Cel would have...

Cel is now on the road to delinquency, next time we see him he'll have a leather jacket with a DQ Slime on the back and will be smoking maple syrup bacon while riding a moose.  Maybe a baguette instead of a crowbar or chain.

I've looked at just about every page on his website and I still can't tell for sure what that comic name is supposed to be beyond letters and random numbers. That gives you a good indication already.

So let's get to it. *takes a shot*


It starts well enough honestly. It looks like some effort was put into it at this point, there's a background, the text bubbles were there, although they seemed to not quite have the right size, I've seen worse. The background's size is wrong though, but it could just be perspective... Let's go with that.

He didn't make the mouth moves, but again that's not the biggest worry, sometimes it's just what you want.

But was this supposed to be funny? At least he didn't open up with a 'Hi, this is a megaman comic, please like me', and it seems like he tried to make a 8 robot master story. Okay, let's see where this goes.


A mettool from the Megaman.Exe series, different bittage here. Hrm. Okay.

Still not funny either. *takes another shot*

I'm not even gonna bother pointing every single spelling error in here, I could make another episode on these alone.


Okay, so that's what you're trying to do, right? It's funny because you're using music lyrics. That's two strips in a row, so that must be your thing, right?


Maybe he should have stuck to song lyrics, maybe that would have been more interesting. Nevermind that he just beat up two Megaman recolors with barely any effort, story, humor or ANYTHING AT ALL. And 2 bad guys in 2 strips, and only one gun shot.

And what's with the sound effects? I mean, they are accurate, but you couldn't, like, just use a different font rather than near impossible to read hand-written text with a mouse? You are using paint to make this, USE IT FULLY!

And no consistency either with the 'power up' screens. Two powers, two different games, and couldn't even properly scale it so it's squished vertically. And I can't be sure of what he's shooting down there either, it could be burrito, hot dogs, or shit shaped like burritos. But don't worry, he won't elaborate on this any further, so you can forget it as soon as you're done reading this strip.

Why do I do this to myself?


Then the author stops trying entirely from the looks of it. If this is funny, it's a humor that I don't understand. Is it because Wily's monsters can be beaten by the smaller inoffensive thing? Why snow? Someone wants to try to explain? Not to mention that he shot the ceiling with invisible bullets BEFORE he learned of the weak point? AUGH!

*takes another shot*


Was he following a strict schedule at gunpoint or something? Why even bother with this?

*looks at the bottle* I'm not sure I'm going to have enough of this for this comic to start being funny.


*shakes head*
*takes a shot* Still not funny.


Wait, what? What about the robot masters, or even the fight with Dr. Wily? Did Megaman just turn back and pretend? There was potential at first, nevermind the actual bad guys he beat up, but now he just stops everything completely without proper closure.

This isn't humor, this is mental torture.

Why is Wily on the side of the strip anyway? *takes another shot*

And I'm not kidding, that's the end of it. In the following strips he gets arrested by another Megaman recolor that he says is a police officer, gets thrown into jail and then broken out by a 32-bit Zero that starts to cry because he had the wrong one again.  I would care if there was some context to this, it feels like there's an inside joke that someone forgot to tell us before we started.


See, in one sentence I made this comic more funny. If you're going to do this, do it Monthy Python style or something at least.


At this point the author (or athor?) judged that 'yeah, this is crap'. Regardless of the rule breaking here, I would have ignored it if it meant that this comic got better.

Does it? Of course not.


And then it gets even better! I'm not sure if there was a problem on his side, maybe he lost the strips or something, but that'd be too much work to explain it to us.

Instead, the archives move from 20 to 49. Just in time to celebrate the 50th strip!


I'd link to the 50th Strip, but... no, go see it for yourself. It's not eye gouging, but it's entirely pointless filler with more random sentences that are disconnected from everything we've seen up to now.


The 7 next strips are not just 'nonsense'. It's not comics at all. Here, take a look.


This is pretty much the whole week, but change the sprites of whatever is chasing them. Fish Army, Evil Nurses, giant robots... this isn't nonsense, Megaman Sprite Comic was nonsense. This is a brain tumor.



Now TUC does in random, nonsensical too, Monkeys are Purple after all, but this is going beyond it. This is a kid that found the transparency option in Photoshop and faded a picture of fire at 90% so you can barely see characters behind. Not funny, at all.


Because Zero Wings references are hilarious, right? Add it to 'Hey guys, I just made our characters in 8-bit, look at this', and then forget that your background is in 16 bit. Hilarious.

Between Comic 65 and 70 he attempted to make some sort of story again. I can't even tell you what's going on, it's mostly Megaman.Exe trying to shoot the crap of the author while he's behind a shield and asking 'are we done yet?' only to pull out a bigger gun the next strip.

71's picture is missing, god knows what happened to it, but it may be the funniest of the entire archive. That broken image picture beats everything else I read here.

72, 73 and 74 are the same picture. My guess is that he made the HTML pages and forgot to change the URL of the picture, or maybe it's just placeholder. I'm not going to lose sleep over this conundrum though.

The rest of the archives seem to be side stories with different characters or background, like Megaman X and Zero. Because one story wasn't enough to contain all of his ideas, obviously, he had to make more comics.

That works only if the ideas of the first comic were good to start with, instead he's spreading the 3 brain cells he has left unto different 4 or 5 storylines.

I tried guys, but I finished this whole bottle and I haven't found any of these funny. Not even a smirk or a chuckle, just the feeling I wasted my time looking for it. Maybe I should have left the suck come to me instead of looking for it, maybe then it'd be funny.

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Edit, 3 days later, finally sobered from writing this.

I finally laughed reading this. Laughed at how stupid the whole thing is. The dial got spun so far into crap that it accidentally fell back into awesome for a very brief moment.

No, it doesn't mean you should read it, I think it just means that I lost my mind. This is still unfunny crap.

Yes. That's the title.

This is seriously messed up. I can't tell if it's good or bad because I think it's PURPOSELY made to be bad, like it's trying to make fun of sprite comics.


And honestly, it doesn't that adequately. The cast is a bunch of random crazy people living in a nuthouse cosplaying as Megaman characters. At least, that's what it seems like, and that might even be the intention behind it. To its credit, it also uses no copyright art. Yes, the sprite art is terrible, but that's obviously on purpose. And for how long this has been running, it must be doing something right.

The more I read about it, the more it reminds me of Cyanide and Happiness. It doesn't need to make sense to be amusing, it just says random crap with a barely existing continuity. If that's your kind of humor I guess it works. And If I dig enough I'm sure I'll find a few strips that make me laugh because they are so simple.


I have a hard time figuring out if it broke the rules or not, because I think it's all intentional. It's not self pity here, it's simple observation. This guy produces crap KNOWINGLY because there are people ENJOYING it. And I think the author is also surprised as to why people are liking it.

If a cook prepares poop for people to eat, it's not necessarily because he likes cooking poop. It may be because people asked him to do it. I know, it boggles my mind, but it seems that's what is going on here. He's the chef, and people actually like the poop he cooks.

If it hadn't been running for so long I'd immediately dismiss this comic on the humor alone. The art, while original, is barely more than copy-pasted from ones trip to another.


I'm not sure I can stand going through the rest of the archives at this rate. This was made on Tumblr, with about 5 posts per page. Most of the pages are filled with 3-4 reblogging (re-tumbling?) from the past, to remind people that he made a sprite game, or because it's a holiday and he hasn't made a new strip for it so he just repost the older one.

To each their own, I'm not touching this one again. If you read through it and wanna comment below, feel free.