June 17th, 2005
Thanks Penny Arcade People
Wow, who’d of thunk just by sitting here in the abyss and being honest about how we feel and calling people douches, that we’re totally rolling in friendly webcomic geek traffic. For all the shit I’ve heard talked about Penny Arcade in the tired Webcomics community, their fans sure are great.
Literally, I have too many e-mails now to answer. Most of them are people saying they’re bookmarking our stuff and praising our work here…. which damn, it does feel nice. Especially after butting heads with complete morons for the past two weeks.
Thanks for the link Tycho, and thanks to all the PA fans… damn…. Makes me feel like there IS hope for the future of webcomics. They’re not ALL douches and steaming sacks of fatbags afterall!
June 17th, 2005 at 8:54 pm
Awesome.
Welcome to all the new readers! A note: This will soon become the first webcomic you read every day. It’s true.
June 18th, 2005 at 12:43 am
Agreed. My first stop even before email.
June 18th, 2005 at 6:56 am
Definately. It’s perfect to look over while you’re wating for your inbox to load.
June 18th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
I just wanna say I’ve been reading Yirmumah waaay before all the cool kids from penny arcade started. Gawd, I’m so indie.
June 18th, 2005 at 5:25 pm
yirmumah deffinitley makes sitting at my desk with my four bosses hanging over me alot more tolerable..that and i have gotten pretty proficent at the whole alt-tab thing….
June 18th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
As a fellow Western PA cartoonist (although with no where near your traffic) it’s nice to know that this state has great talent and hopefully a nice future in cartooning.
And the Burger King comic is great. Awesome job.
Eric Poole
June 18th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
Yeah it just dawned on me that PA was Penny Arcade. I thought Pennsylvania…me=RETARD!!! Although, Pennsylvania does kick ass.
Whoops..My bad
eric poole
June 20th, 2005 at 9:09 am
I would like to say that I too have been reading Yirmumah long before the Penny Arcade kiddies came over here. Hell, I made an entire thread for the Save Greedo page on Obsidian Entertainment’s forums back during the Star Wars run.
Hell, I was here for the Last Minute Christmas Gifts comic (still one of my favorites).
EAT THAT PENNY ARCADERS!
June 20th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
Yeah, who’d've thunk indeed. I see that your clever plan includes feigning surprise as well. Whatever it takes to feed your family, eh?
Congratulations though.
June 20th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Figured I’d chime in here as well. I’ve been here since…well, seems like practically the beginning. Watching all the different incarnations of the strip…going from random gags, to the PV Comics format, to daily with full-color Sundays at the beginning of this year, to the start of the Grind, to the reformatting of the layout of the strips…
It’s been a fun ride watching Yirmumah grow bigger and bigger (yikes, that sounded better in my head than it looks on paper). It was only a matter of time for the word to get out to the masses and for Yirmumah to enjoy the success that it is seeing now (and it’s only going to get bigger from here).
June 21st, 2005 at 1:41 am
“Wow, who’d of thunk just by sitting here in the abyss and being honest about how we feel and calling people douches, that we’re totally rolling in friendly webcomic geek traffic. For all the shit I’ve heard talked about Penny Arcade in the tired Webcomics community, their fans sure are great.”
Mission accomplished, eh? Be sure to wipe the brown off of your nose at some point while counting those hits.
Seriously though, dont you ever feel the slightest bit of shame or frustration knowing the entirety of your work is based off of OTHER PEOPLE’S ideas? I mean really, that’s gotta bug you at night, somewhere, deep down in that soul you’ve buried in the quest to be the prettiest nerd on the block. Right?
Hey though, dont let my cynicism bother you. After all, I certainly wont get invited to be a guest at A CON any time soon! Oooo, just think about it: Free food and all of the PPV porn in your hotel room you’d like.
Good show, ambulance-chaser.
June 21st, 2005 at 3:22 am
Did you read what you just wrote man?? Sounds like you’re a bitter asshole is all. Our comics are based on other people’s ideas??? Are you high??? You must not be a regular reader at all. Just a bitter idiot, out floating on the internet with your own projects that will never even come close to success or making money.
You seem to be the world’s biggest ambulance chaser in webcomics, dillweed. After all, your name only rings a bell because you wrote for that lame Webcomics Examiner, and then wrote articles ABOUT PA and PvP hoping to get a link from them— you’re a laughable turd. Have a nice life, loserforce.
June 21st, 2005 at 4:04 am
Glad to see you’ll be getting some of the Penny-Arcade crowd. I don’t want this comic to disappear and the more traffic the better. By the way, you should also thank Daily Grind because I heard of them through Real Life who mentioned Daily Grind, which where I came across and fell in love with your comic.
June 21st, 2005 at 5:05 am
Just remember DJ, with every Penny Arcade hit you count say to yourself “I’m not a two dollar whore. I’m not a two dollar whore…”
June 21st, 2005 at 7:23 am
You know what, I’ve been thinking about it this afternoon and I realized that I’m being unfair towards you. Obviously you hold hits as having a lot more value than I do, and you also seem to feel that the adoration of other fanboys is important. Since it seems to have a lot of meaning to you, my shitting over you for it isn’t acheiving much. It’s like crapping on someone for their religious beliefs after they get a jihad message from their god.
So for that. I’d like to say sorry
Obviously I cant ask you to apologise for Kurtz, Holkins et al, for tossing a load of shit at the artists they feel threatened by, and then covering it up with that micropayment bull. (I mean really, if people who approach comics as art are so unimportant due to our lack of hits, why is there such a need to be so hostile?) But I dont think it’s too much to ask of you to be a man and apologise for your own shit tossing. If only to to show that you’re your own man and not some mindless fanboy.
What do you say?
June 21st, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Ye gods William, DJ is just stirring the pot, it’s what he does. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
June 21st, 2005 at 12:17 pm
Your problem is, you’re assuming that I toil around for these sort of links, when these “t-shirt salesman” you speak of actually READ my comics. So they obviously enjoy my rantings.
For the record:
I don’t care about hits. Readers are nice. New Readers are great… but remember, I’ve been drawing indendent comics since 1994, sometimes with little to NO readers. You think I’m doing it just for numbers?? Surely I could have done something more whoreish than get a link I didn’t ask for on Penny Arcade—- I don’t even read Penny Arcade or PvP — but I’m a smart enough businessman to know that THEY did something right when it comes to the business side. And it has nothing to do with VIDEO GAME comics. Even though you are obviously bitter at their success and looking to crap on anyone you can– it’s very transparent you know— You should MAYBE take a look at what they’ve done that works. And stop trying to do that thing OVERNIGHT. It seems like you had ambitions to have your own webcomic get big, and it never happened, for whatever reason….. and now you’re just trolling about looking for controversy or negative energy.
Well, you found it here, buster.
Another for the record…. WAYYYYYY before Penny Arcade or all this bruhaha over the documentary, I was slamming the crap out of TCampbell for his HISTORY OF WEBCOMICS thing, and it was the SAME discussion only a different source. So when Penny Arcade slammed the Documentary, I was happy to hear there were people out there with a similar point of view—
Please though, completely write us off here at Yirmumah, and please, leave and never come back if it bugs you so much. It seems to me you don’t have enough time to both TALK TOUGH and actually draw comics… you know? Go draw comics. It will serve you better. you obviously are one of those guys who can’t take an ounce of criticism and carry a grudge with you. That’s sad.
June 21st, 2005 at 1:24 pm
“..enough businessman to know that THEY did something right when it comes to the business side. And it has nothing to do with VIDEO GAME comics”
It’s true, their audience are all soccer moms. Mind you, this has nothing to do with anything.
“Even though you are obviously bitter at their success and looking to crap on anyone you can– it’s very transparent you know—”
Well, OBVIOUSLY. I mean, shit, why else would anyone think these comics arent very good aside from jealousy? Using your logic, does this mean you’re jealous of Cat Garza? He does keep pussies clean, you know.
“You should MAYBE take a look at what they’ve done that works”
Catering to fanboys?
“And stop trying to do that thing OVERNIGHT.”
Buh, what?
“It seems like you had ambitions to have your own webcomic get big, and it never happened, for whatever reason….. and now you’re just trolling about looking for controversy or negative energy.”
It’s true, it’s true. Cuz the internet has always been a hot bed for infrequently updated relationship comics. I have no idea why I didnt become the king of the shit pile.
“Well, you found it here, buster.”
Oh, I know that you’re pretty reliable when it comes to providing the negative energy.
“Please though, completely write us off here at Yirmumah”
No, I think you’d be fine once you pull your head out of your ass.
“It seems to me you don’t have enough time to both TALK TOUGH and actually draw comics… you know?”
Does this mean you havent been drawing lately, yourself?
Personally, I’ve been finding that ever since the sort of comics I make have become a subject of fanboy disdain, my art has been getting all that better, AND I’ve been finding the time to draw more.
You’re all the hot air filling my sails, DJ.
“you obviously are one of those guys who can’t take an ounce of criticism and carry a grudge with you”
OBVIOUSLY! That’s why I’ve been making appearences at every blog that complained that I was being a dick towards them and harassing the owners… Oh, wait! THAT WAS YOU! I get so confused, what with all of my threats and tough talk.
“That’s sad.”
No, it’s funny DJ. It’s funny that you can’t seem to take the same sort of garbage you spew at other people.
Seriously DJ, you do make an amusing webcomic. It’s just that your typing fingers get ahead of your brain and you post some of the stupidest internet fanboy crap I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen A LOT of fanboy stupidity over the last few of decades. And instead of going “Okay, maybe I stepped over the line” you just keep pushing it, and pushing it. It’s like you have some buring desire to see who you can make blink. Shit, even Kurtz has the decency to back down from some of his more extreme viewpoints at times.
But no, not you. You seem to live for the thrill of the internet dick-measuring contest.
So, if you were serious in email about kicking my ass in real life, you’re more than welcome to fly around the world to come and get me in South Korea. I’ll even meet your lethal ass at the airport.
June 21st, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Wow! Our first real site Troll! Awesome!
Seriously, you make me laugh. Because, I’m really not a fanboy of anything…well except Pearl Jam and Ukuleles…. but.. webcomics? Comics? Meh! hahahaha– I seriously find it funny you’d even go there, and I’m sure the regulars around here find it amusing as well. You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. And come on, if you knew HALF of anything about me, you’d know I can take the heat— and yeah, i respond to things, and at least I’m honest and don’t have to apologize for the way I feel.
Oh, you’re just egging me on because I gave you a little attention… which will now end… RIGHT THIS MOMENT. Go on back to your artsy fartsy webcomic pursuits while we continue the online dick measuring contests…. by the way…. NINE INCH HOO-HAH…
(that last line was for the REAL fans)
June 21st, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Ahh, more bullshit drama in the world of online comics. Gotta love it.
The best thing you can do, William G, is just read the comics, which you admit are amusing, chuckle at the blog entries, and realize that there are no battles to be won or lost in the comment section. Are you going to stop DJ from being loud and outspoken? Trust me, you’re not. From my experience with DJ, both online and in person, he’s going to speak his mind and move on to other things. Why should he have to back down and apologize?
DJ is DJ. He’s a solid cartoonist, a brilliant strategist, and a fucking loudmouth. That’s DJ. As to whether or not he cares about hits or other webcomics, who cares? If challenged, he attacks with the claws out. That’s all you need to know, other than his URL to read his damn comic.
He also gives a hell of a full body massage, but that’s another story…
b
June 21st, 2005 at 3:02 pm
“Happy Endings All Around!”
June 21st, 2005 at 3:05 pm
DJ! I love Willie G. He’s bitter, just like me. Don’t make him go. Making him go would be like declaring a loser at the special olympics.
June 21st, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Chad– It wouldnt be right of me, as president of the Fayette-Nam Bitter Asshole Society to ban another bitter asshole from my site. It adds flavor. It’s like having another ME around talking shit and stuff. It’s kinda cool actually.
I wonder what the “G.” stands for? Brandon told me “Ghetto”.
Gangsta?
June 21st, 2005 at 3:27 pm
My hunch is “Gabez”
1. gabez
A slang term used in various parts of Oxfordshire, England. It is primarily used to describe an individual that solicits and tries to instigate sexual conduct with those below the national age for it to be legal.
It is also used, though less commonly, to describe somebody that is computer savvy to an almost obsessive level - often never leaving their workstation unless it’s to replenish their stocks of food/drink or use the toilet.
June 22nd, 2005 at 2:58 am
I just read through all that crap that William was spewing, and all I gotta say is this. I stumbled across your comic about the same time I found the Daily Grind and I’ve been a steady reader ever since. You guys put out a funny comic that I and many other folks enjoy very much. Keep doin’ what you’re doin, DJ and I’ll keep reading. Thanks for all the hard work man.
June 22nd, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Um, yeah. I don’t have much to say, especially since I feel like I am a bit late to comment on this.
But, I was one of the PA “cross over” fans. And after many years of reading PA and then reading this, I think I can safely say this comic is great in an entirely different way.
This site made my bookmark bar by the second comic in the archives. (Not that it matters, but I like to bolster egos when I can.) But I just wanted to say: “Wow” and Thanks for the amusement. I was wondering, however, why there stopped being color comics? Was it because of the hatred of inkers, or.. just coz?
June 22nd, 2005 at 7:41 pm
Welcome Jess! And thanks for bookmarking us.
Yeah, I stopped the color comics because my time got cramped. I’m thinking about going back to full color though if enough people inspire me to put even more effort in. Hmm… I need to find the motivation to do it.
June 22nd, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Wow, a reply. In a timely manner. Dear god.
((chokes on own tongue))
I think the comic is great either way. Color is one of those wonky things. I dunno if I’d be treading on thin ice by saying perhaps you can handle color comics like a treat for the fans, like a certain other webcomic I frequent. Or not. Whatever. I enjoy the antics either way! Woo antics.
June 22nd, 2005 at 8:57 pm
I think this site and PA are equally as good, PA just appeals more to gamers than this site does, because that’s really the bulk of the humor on PA, but I LOVE the comedic genius behind some of the comics that I’ve seen on here, especially the Ass Kicking Pilgrim….OMFG that is HILARIOUS! :-p
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