Dumbentia - Best of the Rest




	It seems that you can't have a web page without including a list of your favorite links. Unlike the idiot masses, however, I'll refrain from listing every web site I've ever visited. Instead, I'll list those sites that you might like if you have enjoyed Dumbentia (and, in the process, explain a bit about why I think these other sites are so good). Allied Chemical After looking at this site for a while, I began to think, "Someone has waaaaaay too much time on their hands." Someone has created a complete web site for a fictional chemical company, with great products like Blobster, All-Purpose Spray, and Happydale Hamspread. Inspired, strange, and funny! Trailervision Imagine movie trailers for movies that don't exist. In a way it sort of like Dumbentia, except with movies. Sometimes the trailers are parodies of actual movies; other times, they may be parodies of a genre (e.g., the trailer for a cheesy 50's movie names "The Moon Attacks"). Trailervision is sometimes raunchy ("Office Sex") but always funny ("Office Sex"). Goats The humor in this comic strip grew on me after a while, mostly because the characters have developed somewhat. While the strip is ostensibly about two beer guzzling idiots and their pet goat, Toothgnip, the evil, Satan-worshiping chicken named Diablo usually steals the show. BOFHcam This isn't exactly meant to be funny, but it is an uncanny imitation of the jenniCam, right down to the style of the site. Only in this case, you are following the real-life adventures of a Bastard Operator From Hell. Watch him type! Read the journal! Watch him pick his nose! More importantly, look for all the Dumbentia posters hung tastefully around the office. Space Moose What is it about the Space Moose comic strip that's so appealing? The title character is nasty, disgusting, and downright cruel to everyone around him. Sometimes it's hard to tell if I'm laughing because it's funny or because it's so awful. The strip will never win awards for outstanding artwork... and yet, I am always drawn back because author Adam Thrasher dares to go where no one else will. (Alas, there have been no new Space Moose cartoons for quite some time, but the archives of this twisted madness remain). Look What I Brought Home Scott and Amanda Kuehner have created what they call "the world's most hated comic." LWIBH follows the sexual adventures of two women so exceedingly homely that most men vomit rather than consider the possibility of sex with them. Wonderfully disgusting, and really funny about half the time... Some strips actually made me nauseous. Wow! The spiritual successor to Space Moose. The Bruno Daily Times This comic strip is about as far removed from Space Moose as you can get. Chris Baldwin has created a comic strip that captures the daily moments of a young, painfully idealistic woman drifting through life in search of a rudder. The moments of quiet banter among the characters will almost convince you that these are real people. It took me a while to "get" this strip, but I'm happy that I stuck with it. Now I'm hooked. Ozy and Millie D.C. Simpson has a good artistic eye and a great, often insightful, sense of humor. There is a sort of Calvin and Hobbes sensibility to this comic strip about school children who also happen to be wild animals. The whole series of cartoons about kids taunting other kids (Starting with the March 9, 1999 strip about wedgies) is particularly good. Kevin and Kell Here is how a professional does it. Bill Holbrook is already a nationally syndicated comic artist, yet he took a chance and launched Kevin and Kell, the "First Comic Strip Syndicated Soley in Cyberspace." A married couple of rabbit (Kevin) and wolf (Kell), and their children (including an adopted hedgehog) struggle with technology and the inevitable prejudices expressed at such a "mixed" marriage. (Kell's hapless brother, for example, is forever trying to turn Kevin into a snack). This is better than most of what you'll find on the comic page, mostly because, despite their differences, you can see that these characters have grown into a family. Bob the Angry Flower This comic strip is sometimes more surreal then funny, but when Stephen Notley is in good form, he's amazing. The artwork, some of the best on the net, is always inventive and dynamic. Everybody has a favorite. Mine are Magnetic South (the last panel is classic Bob) and Time For Some New Friends. The Jack T. Chick Parody Archives Have you ever been handed one of those cartoon religious tracts published by Jack Chick publications? Well, some inspired people have rearranged panels and entered new dialog, to hilarious effect. They can be fairly raunchy sometimes, but are often a laugh riot. To get the full effect, read the original first (there's usually a link to it) and then read the "revised" edition. Dribbleglass Scott Roeben is a funny guy. Among other things, he creates and collects images of parody billboards. He's got a host of other images, too, but the billboards are by far my favorite. They're brutally honest, tasteless, and funny. My kind of stuff! (A good example is the Budweiser billboard: "Sure, you could probably vomit without our help, but how much fun would THAT be?") User Friendly There is a reason I haven't done an Internet comic strip. If I did, the artwork would look like the stuff in User Friendly. That is to say, not that great, with a lot of obvious cutting and pasting of stuff to save time drawing. That said, the humor transcends the presentation. This is pure geek humor, and it works. If you're not a tech weenie, you probably won't get it. I, for one, couldn't stop reading the strips. If you're going to start reading the archived comics from the beginning, be sure to read the character synopsis first -- It helps to understand who these folks are, especially because a lot of the tech guys look pretty similar. Sluggy Freelance Sluggy Freelance is one cool comic strip. Besides being one of the best drawn strips on the net, there are well-defined characters who are consistently funny. Bun-bun the mini-lop makes the aforementioned Space Moose seem like a wimp. Mix humor with a good dose of fantasy, sci-fi, and just plain weirdness and stir vigorously.