If you’re totally into disparagingly long periods of time in which a site doesn’t update, you’ll really love VG Cats. Okay, wait. Maybe that’s not fair. It’s not like Scott Ramsoomair, the comic’s creator, doesn’t totally admit to the fact that he hardly even updates any more. And in more fairness, it’s not like the quality of his comic isn’t up to par. In fact I chose VG Cats to celebrate the 25th week of Webcomic of the Week, which means I’m half-way to 50, meaning I’m a quarter of the way to 100. But back on topic, VG Cats is a strip about… yes, exactly, video games, wherein the main characters are two cats named Leo and Aeris.
My favorite part about VG Cats is just that sometimes it is the most violent, absurdly outrageous content that can be included and yet it isn’t forced upon readers the way some other comics do it. In a lot of cases, they’ll be beating you over the head with their point about the video game industry and all the things Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are doing wrong until it isn’t fun or funny any more. Not the case in VG Cats. For example, to capture some of the most absurdly terrible things the companies do with new game releases and broken promises Ramsoomair uses a series of delightful vegetable characters. To show the faults in the actual systems themselves he will use said systems as characters undergoing terrible travesties and hardships. And of course there is Leo and Aeris, who exist primarily to mock not only the game content but the people who buy certain things. Pokémon is investigated, Sonic the Hedgehog is mocked, and Left 4 Dead gets poked fun at. They cover all the ones you’d expect without too much of it being all that obvious or boring. He manages to jab these things very tactfully and quite interestingly.
It’s clear to see how over the years his art has improved. Not only that but the comic has gotten much funnier over time to the point where it has its own brand of wit. Like I said before though, he winds up getting pretty… distracted. He does a lot of conventions and outside work so I don’t fault him for it. I’ll see the strips when I see them. Of course that’s just me; I’m a very patient person. What’s nice is that he happens to have other comics, one of which I will likely cover in the future when it feels appropriate. But it’s all good, because I manage to still take some laughs away from old strips. It manages to maintain a freshness you’d be surprised by. So if you’re looking for one of the top video game strips out there you’ll like VG Cats. But don’t feel limited by that. You’ll enjoy VG Cats regardless of your stance on games. It’s just a purely fun comic.
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