WHOMP!

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Doesn't the comic derive it's name from him jumping off the roof?

>>88239716
that would explain where he got his fear

I want Agrias to be happy.

>>88239716
That one happened years after he started the comic.

>>88240393
How long before he actually had a website?

Didn't he start on the Penny Arcade forum?

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>>88240393
Chris Cross will make ya
>JUMP
<JUMP

>>88240263
And I want Ronnie to die because his cringe hits too close to home

>>88238453
>Ronnie has wimpy wacky brain problems LOL
>(Agrias is unimpressed)

>>88239716
>setup
>continuation
>LOUD NOISE MUNKY CHEASE FUNNY FACES LOL!!!
>(Agrias is unhappy with this comic's events)

What is even the point of this comic any more?

>>88241886
Whomp has always fluctuated

>>88239716
I always imagined it as a colossal fart, the kind Ronnie would be unable to suppress even in a crowded public area, no matter how hard he tried. As the appalled and contemptuous stares of the people around him bore into his already tear-streaked cheeks, he looks for an opening to run away, his only remaining hope that it wasn't wet.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE AGRIAS IN HER UNDERWEAR

THIS FUCKING WEBCOMIC GUY NEVER DOES LEWD AGRIAS

>>88242172
Yeah, I could really use some more Agrias porn.
Closest we've really got is the one that shows her nipples a bit.

>>88242020
i just view it as cast-iron proof that /co/ - much the other turds in this toilet website - are basically tumblr in denial.

'lol, as a hefty shut-in with brain problems i enjoy being able to relate to this patreon-funded content in an easily-shared format'

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>>88242376
>>88240747
>>88241886

you know Ronnie comes here right? you'll just make him sad with these comments

>>88238453
Fuck y'all, I laughed.

>>88242453
He is at his best when he is suffering.

>>88242453
i'm sure he's crying into his patreonbux right now. boo hoo hoo, he says as he looks into the mirror to get the ADULTING IS HARD expression just right.

>>88242508
rolling with the punches: at least they're laughing WITH you

>>88242376
For me, it's just the absurdity of Ronnie's troubles.

It's not just that he eats too much fast food. It's that he eats so much fast food that McDonalds actually celebrates him at Thanksgiving.

>>88242653
Ronnie gets $600 a month from Patreon, if you want to bitch about people you don't like making money go to fucking Buckley, the CAD Patreon is at $3,292 a month

>>88242653
>i'm sure he's crying into his patreonbux right now
He makes $602 a month, which is like $46 a comic. I get that you don't like Ronnie but goddamn criticizing his Patreon is a terrible way to go.

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>>88242775
>the CAD Patreon is at $3,292 a month
Who ARE these people?

>>88242678
that would be a perfectly fine, serviceable, funny comic in any other universe.

but when the entire comic is one absurd situation after another for Sad Fat Man to feebly wheeze and cry about, without even the fig leaf of an overarching plot to frame the hijinks and add purpose to his troubles, it kind of loses its pizzazz. these are just newspaper comics but for tumblrs-in-denial and i'm thinking, get the fuck over yourself ronnie.

>>88242775
i'm not allowed to criticise ronnie's Sad Fat Man Misadventures comics because Loss.jpg Dude makes more money? come on.

>>88242907
>Loss.jpg Dude
correction: Miscarriage Man, i kind of want to change my post to use this instead but the retard in charge of this garbage webside hasn't gotten around to making that part of the Gold Account featurelist yet

>>88242870
People that never left the early 2000's.

>>88242954
>he has a 4Chan Gold Account

>>88242907
>tumblrs-in-denial
You're just really stuck on that idea, aren't you?

>people calling ronnie "tumblr"

What the fuck happened to this place?

>>88242453
fuck you ronnie

>>88243107
Too many boogeymen. Reddit, Tumblr, /pol/. People don't know where to tell you to go anymore.

>>88243086
it's a handy frame of reference we both evidently understand, but by all means start spitting about 'projection' or boogeymen or whatever instead of telling me why you disagree. i think i've explained quite neatly why i dislike Whomp, maybe you could return the favour.

>>88242653
>crying into his patreonbux right now
>to get the ADULTING IS HARD expression just right

Real talk. I don't get this mentality. You aren't the only person I've seen on here or the internet as a whole who seems to have this reaction either. What is up with this thought process? What makes you feel this way about Patreon? It's literally just a way for artists to create free to consume content while making money to live while they do so. There's literally nothing wrong with it, and it's a completely adult thing to try and run your own media organization that takes donations from private investors for the creation of media.

>>88243245
Its just a comic bro.

>>88243265
>donations from private investors
>donations
>investors
These two don't fit together, Anon! Try a different word choice!

>>88242508
This. The 10/10 strips are exploitations of Ronnie's beautiful misery.

>>88242376
The humor of Whomp isn't that you relate to it. With a lot of slice-of-life comics, that is the punchline, that you understand the point. Whomp is great because Ronnie takes basic relatable things (some not even relatable), and exaggerates them beyond logic and reason. Humor is generally based in some truth, and that's why Whomp works, because instead of just expecting us to relate, it presents Ronnie's flaws on top of it.

>>88243265
because it's wrong and evil to make money, anon
instead of getting donations from people that like your work, you should put pop-up ads on your website instead

>>88243304
You can look at it in different ways, people who donate have an expectation of getting something back for the money.

>>88243265
i don't have a problem with how ronnie chooses to make money, or patreon as a platform, for the reasons you posted.

however, i think the subscription/backer model can lead to artists, designers, programmers, whoever, doing the safe reliable option to satisfy their audience, without experimenting or evolving or really going anywhere or doing anything.

this isn't ronnie's *fault*, or anything, but i think that it's clear he has one joke and that's 'lol comic-ronnie is broken and agrias is still there for some reason'. i'm also trying to work in a point about how a 2012 Whomp comic is pretty much indistinguishable from a 2016 Whomp comic, but i'm out of steam a little.

>>88243547
>however, i think the subscription/backer model can lead to artists, designers, programmers, whoever, doing the safe reliable option to satisfy their audience, without experimenting or evolving or really going anywhere or doing anything.

That's true of any method of making money creatively. Unless you have another source of income or are already wealthy, you're going to be dependent on catering to the whims of others.

>>88243304
a.) Nice job trying to take credence away from what I was saying by arguing semantics.
b.) A Donation is literally defined as "the act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution."

Giving someone money on patreon meets the definition of all these things. And an investor is someone who puts money, time, or resources into something that offers a return. Regardless of whether this return in money oriented. Donating or contributing money to someone who makes a comic and then receiving said comic, even when it's free to consume, is a form of donation investing. The comic wouldn't have been there otherwise. And even if it had, people are still free to donate their money as they see fit, you have no control over other people. My question wasn't even pertaining to this though. I want you to tell me why you take such offense to the concept of artists receiving money through Patreon for works that they otherwise might not be able to do for enough money to live on.

>>88243634
he doesn't even need to cater to the whims of others, as he's evidently found his comfy niche, audience, and means of support already and doesn't need to challenge himself or branch out or really change anything at all; just keep plodding away at his webcomic forever, rolling out the same old punchline until his arteries harden i guess

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>>88244138

>>88244138
hey now

>>88243547
I'm pretty sure Ronnie made a joke about that himself. I really think that what you are describing is one of the major flaws of most webcomics and of newspaper comics as well. I feel the only way for Ronnie to really do something creative would be for him to start a new project entirely.

>>88242870
People with excess income and need to put it somewhere to avoid getting bumped up the tax bracket.

>>88244955
He already made and then dropped Otaku Dad.

I do appreciate that he gave it a real ending, but I expected it to go a lot more places.

>>88245045
It was supposed to. His Patreon dropped below the Otaku Dad level, so he ended it. I too respect that he didn't just kill it outright.

>>88245131
>His Patreon dropped below the Otaku Dad level, so he ended it
that's inexcusable imo. like it's one thing to try something and have it miss, or people to 'not get it' or simply not enjoy it, you could justify ending it outright with that. whatever, stuff sometimes just doesn't work.

but tying that journey outside your comfort zone to some arbitrary level of income that ronnie himself chose, beyond what he's getting already is like, you're not even _trying_ to change or do something different. hence why Whomp hasn't changed or evolved or done anything at all, it's just a regular drip of comics with the exact same familiar list of punchlines ('ronnie is sad, fat', 'anime/videogame reference', 'ronnie wishes life was like anime/videogames', etc) produced more or less explicitly in return for income.

whomp is stagnant on purpose, ronnie filyaw is a fucking hack

>>88242907
As much as Whomp! has the same punchlines in its comics (Being fat, sad, weeaboo, etc) I get a good chuckle out of most of them. I don't need an overarching story for every single piece of media I see. Newspaper comics are mostly one offs because a lot of them are comfort food, likable, and you can put them down whenever, like a sitcom. And I don't think that's inherently bad, same way I think an overarching plot doesn't make a comic automatically good.
So get over yourself, please

>>88242775
Willis is $5000+ and Jeph Jacques is nearing 9K. Whomp gets samey at times but there's much bigger fish to fry.

>>88244138
The perfect woman. She tolerate Ronnie so imagine how well she can get along with anyone less pathetic!

Plus there's the no pooping thing.

That's a biggie.

>>88245641
It's not an excuse, but that's exactly how most newspaper comic strips have worked. Garfield is infamous for it; Jim Davis doesn't even make the strips any more.

>>88244748
you're an all-star

>>88245641
>it's one thing to try something and have it miss

trust me, otaku dad was a miss

>>88242954
Fuck you troll you nearly got me biting

>>88248098
Right? The way he capitalizes the meme name; the desire for frivolous features for his own benefit; talking about the gold account; all of it screams troll.

What got me first was the whole "retard in charge of this garbage website." Any decent troll would've made a crack about hiroyuki.

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>>88241886
>Joke is explained in green text
>IT IS NO LONGER FUNNY BECAUSE OF MY SARCASTIC TONE!!
I can do it too, faget.

>>88238453
>>88239716

Who is the chick always with the fat guy? His friend, relative, girlfriend, or what?

>>88250220
she is imaginary
he lives alone so the comics would be strange if all of them were only him talking with himself

>>88250220

she's his room mate, the ad mentioned loving anime or something as a common interest

six years later they're still sexless life partners

I wonder if Agrias even has a vagina to be honest.

>>88247899
But you'll never be able to eat a jolly rancher near her without it being weird

Also, no anal, possibly

>>88241886
The reason it never took off on Patreon is because it's wildly inconsistent. There are 10 great comics a year and then a pile of shit.

>>88253241
>There are 10 great comics a year
Basically whenever Halloween rolls around and the odd one here and there.

>>88253482

Not liking "Ronnie and Santa's Yearly Christmas Shameventure."

>>88242870
Same people who pay Jeph Jacques 10k a month, while Unsounded gets like 2k.

People who have been reading the same shit for a decade

>>88252557
Agrias is obviously a butt slut, dude.

>>88257661
No she probably doesn't have an anus, since she doesn't poo normally.

>>88257661
her holes have become one due to ronnie's immense girth