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Breaking the 4th Wall – Gunshow

Jun 272012

Happy summer geekfans! That is why we’ve been kind of off on the updates. Worry not though, dear followers! We haven’t forgotten you. Although you guys could probably use a stint at the beach with some SPF Over 9000.

Do you have the right to tell someone to go out in the sun? I think if Webster’s Dictionary had a description of pasty nerd, it would be you. Are you sure you even saw the sun… like in forever?

I JUST HAVE A VERY FAIR COMPLEXION AND I BURN EASILY! IT RUNS IN MY FAMILY! LEAVE! ME! ALONE!

Anyway, let’s take a look at the comic we’ll be reviewing this week, shall we?

Gunshow by KC Green

Breaking the 4th Wall – Wasted Talent

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Jun 132012

There comes a day in every bloggers life where they must collaborate with some wanty subordinate to write a post. Unfortunately, this has become a weekly affair of which lies no escape. So I‘ll suck it up and keep on trucking while enduring my… uhg… co-writer Jess Lamarche.

No. You know what, you? “Sir?” Mr. so-called “Paul Ungar”? I don’t need this. This is too gorram much! YOU’RE NOT MY REAL BOSS!

Honestly, the sass is unbearable. It really drives the consumption of alcoholic coffee throughout my day and strangely my need to buy indie games off of the Steam marketplace. You just can‘t explain that.

Wasted Talent by Angela Melick

Breaking the 4th Wall – Johnny Wander

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May 302012

Happy End-of-May to you, our devout and loyal minions. It is time for your weekly fix of Breaking the 4th Wall. You’ll have to forgive Paul if he isn’t as…eloquent or wordy with this article… He had to be chained to the wall with his mouth duct-taped shut due to sudden onset murderous rage.

No tape could restrain me, and past relationships have taught me enough about chains for that to be a minor hiccup. Funny thing about safe words. Regardless, all I have towards you is… what’s a better word for contempt? Rage? Pure and unadulterated rage that would even have Atrocitus telling me to chill out. Rawr…

Apparently, taking the last of the coffee in the pot is a no-no, but watching him type with his feet while he curses a blue streak in two different (and I think I heard a third) languages is rather amusing. But moving on.

This week, we’ve chosen:

Johnny Wander by Ananth Panagariya & Yuko Ota

Breaking the 4th Wall – Questionable Content

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May 232012

We’re gathered here again for yet another webcomic review. Seriously folks, how many of these things are there out in the maze of tubes in the sky we call in the internet? Some might say more than we could possibly ever review… I might be inclined to agree as I have Ms. “deadweight before she has a gallon of coffee” Lamarche as my cohort on these.

Oh. Yeah. This coming from “gutteral noises and undeath before his caffeine IV”. Don’t even. And make a fresh damn pot while you’re up. Assbutt.

Jess looking for a new job aside, her insult is a great lead in to this week’s webcomc of choice…

Wait for it…

Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques

Breaking the 4th Wall – Cyanide and Happiness

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May 162012

Lately, I must admit, we have been cheating a little with the webcomics we’ve been choosing to review. The random, non-storyline based ones have been catering to both our laziness and our ridiculously busy schedules. Yes, we have lives OUTSIDE of you people. Imagine that. And so, this being the case once more, my “fearful” leader and I decide on a cop-out.

A life? That’s what you’re calling what you do before and after reviews? Oh, how times have changed. But for the sake of getting this review on the go I’m simply just going to nod my head and say nothing to the contrary.

Well…I would have a life if you didn’t keep me chained to this damned desk… Anyway, our favored cop-out this week is:

Cyanide and Happiness by Explosm.net

Breaking the 4th Wall – Doghouse Diaries

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May 092012

Some mornings I need a cup of coffee or two to get my day going, but on Wednesdays… uhg, Wednesdays… I need a gallon of the stuff to bring me into the office to mentally prepare myself for Ms. Jess Lamarche and her webcomic of the week. Sure, the 40 of whiskey I keep stored under the desk helps, but you start to get a reputation at the store when you’re picking them up by the case each week.

Speaking of which, “Mike” from the liquor store called. Your shipment is in. Shipment? You’re sharing this stuff, right?

Over my dead, probably still liquor’d up body you scurvy seadog. I mean that in the nicest way possible, I just speak pirate when I get upset. Anways today’s review is…

Doghouse Diaries by Will, Ray and Raf

Breaking the 4th Wall – The Oatmeal

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May 022012

Good Wednesday all and welcome to this week’s edition of Breaking the 4th Wall. As always, I am your lovely host, Jess Lamarche (no seriously. Check my Facebook, my Twitter, any of it. I promise you I’m pretty!) and also as always is the crumbs in my butter, the hair in my soup, the “occupied” sign when I really have to pee, Paul Ungar.

I find delight in your misery. Is that really a bad thing? At least it’s a better hobby then… I don’t know… knitting Ms. Lamarche?

Oh, whatever. I just linked your name to a silly picture of you. So there. Also you smell like pretentious aftershave. On second thought, that’s kind of nice.

MOVING ON!

We got a little lazy and we tried to think of something quick and easy to review. We’re exhausted, we’re sluggish, our actual PAYING jobs are running us ragged as of late. Then I remembered that we had recently gotten sloshed together and ended up laughing our aft torpedoes off at this webcomic:

The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman

Breaking the 4th Wall – All New Issues

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Apr 252012

Hey folks, it’s that time of week again where Jess and I choose to coexist and write one of these delightful webcomic reviews in the newest installment of Breaking the 4th Wall. Of course one of us needs to kick this off today or else these things would never get done. True story.

WHAT??!?! No. You do not get to pull the “lazy” card on me, while YOU’VE been out gallivanting, I have been here making the change-over to the new site layout more smooth and don’t you tell m-

Yap yap yap… I’m sure you get points for the witty retorts. Anyways, today we’re reviewing…

All New Issues by Dani O’Brian and Bill Ellis

Breaking the 4th Wall – Customer Servicer

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Apr 182012

Well well well, loyal fans and followers, it would appear that this humble little webcomic article has reached its 30th review! 30! That’s more articles than years old I am! Oh bugger. I’ve walked into a rather nasty age joke, haven’t I, young bossman Paul Ungar.

I mean, I wouldn’t go as far to call you old or anything of the sort, but how does it feel to be as old as trees? Not any trees in particular, but the concept of trees. Wait! It must be easy to remember your Social Insurance Number seeing it’s only one digit. I got piles of these. It’s probably best that we just continue with the review.

Need I remind you I’m working for free? You are so very lucky I value you as a person so much or s%#t would get explodey all up in here… Then I would heartily chuckle and dare you to find that “more efficient chimp” you keep threatening to employ in my stead. You won’t! ‘Cause I’m just too gorram awesome! Not to mention you’d totally miss me.

ANYWAY.

30TH B4W!!! WOOOOOOO!

So, for this auspicious occasion (omg I spelled that right the first go!) we have chosen:

Customer Servicer by Pat and Steve

Breaking the 4th Wall – Two Guys and Guy

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Apr 112012

Good whatever the hell time it is, in what ever part of the world where you are residing in your parents basements, with skin untouched by sunlight so much so that you are as pasty and transparent as my co-worker here. This is your host with the most (and by most I mean bad puns and 80’s and 90’s movies quotes) Josh McCombs, and with me as always is my fugly friend, the queen of unclean, Jess Lamarche.

Every time you show up, I forget why I ask you to do these things. I don’t really want to be reminded either, you uncouth son of a jackal… Get on with it.

This week we are reviewing a strip that actually doesn’t make me gag. Which is a surprise to me because normally the so-called “big wigs” or whatever self-appointed title they’ve given themselves (I resent that. …That’s the point. You’re pretty dense, aren’t ya.)over at Halfway Between Here and There only bring me in for the crappiest of crap comics. (OK! CHU N’ TOST WAS A ONE-TIME THING AND I TOLD YOU IT WOULDN”T HAPPEN AGAIN! GET OVER IT, GORRAM IT!) Not today; I picked this. So this one is part of “Josh’s Choice” brand of awesomesauce comics.

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Breaking the 4th Wall – Ménage à 3

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Apr 042012

Webcomics are one of those gems of the internet that make bootin’ up the old 56k modem and the ensuing two hours it takes to boot up Google worth it each morning. While they range from good to bad, it makes me all warm and tingly when you find a good one… or that could be the 9am brandy. I can never tell. And now the underling whose never seen a paycheck from me, Jess.

Please…for the love of MCP… I haven’t eaten in three days and my apartment is so c-c-c-cold… I just…need…to pay…heat and hydro… You cruel-hearted, caffeine-fueled, vest-sporting MONSTER!

I’m gonna let that slide (can you at least just…pass me your boot flask? Just for a swig? Don’t be a douche! You’re being a douche!), because today we’re reviewing…

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Breaking the 4th Wall – Three Panel Soul

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Mar 282012

Bonjour devoted internet fans! Welcome to this week’s Breaking the 4th Wall. As always, judgement shall be brought to you today by the over caffeinated and underpaying Paul Ungar who apparently “runs the joint” (eye-roll) and me, the trying-really-hard-to-be-bubbly-when-the-boss-gets-a-kick-out-of-feeding-me-only-decaf, Jess Lamarche. How ’bout a few words, oh great slavedri-uh, bossman?

In fairness I only give you decaf when you fail to meet deadlines… or when I think it’s funny… or if I get bored… or on days that end in “y”…. but mostly when I’m bored. I get bored a lot. A man can only play so much Tetris in a day.

As per usual, thank you for your repetitive pearls of so-called wisdom, chief.

Anyway, today we will be reviewing the true-to-its-name…

3 Panel Soul by Ian McConville and Matthew Boyd.

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