@Kuro Fox: Y'know, you're probably right about that. Anthropomorphic animals have been something of a pet peeve (no pun intended) of mine for some time, I don't really know why. I can handle them well enough in contex (cf Loony Toons or VG Cats), but I found this jarring for some reason. Sorry.
NAME
over 13 years ago
I guess Pills hates watching bugs bunny or playing sonic, too?
Dude Chill
almost 14 years ago
You sound like some emo.
With mucho grande butthurt.
For that comment, I hope that more of them show up.
Like, thousands of them.
Just to make you go away.
Pills McMollies
almost 14 years ago
I GET IT. FOX NEWS. BUT PLEASE, NO FURRIES IN THIS GODDAMN COMIC, IT'S TOO GOOD TO BE FREAKING RUINED BY THE YIFF LEGION!!! THAT DAMN SONIC COMIC WAS GROSS ENOUGH Q_Q
Yayfur
almost 14 years ago
Fox news! Except now the newscasters can be easily silenced by a scratch between the ears! Awesome.
Neotamer1
almost 14 years ago
Panel taken , no more furfag jokes (Furries are enjoyable too, what about the catgirls?)
Irfon
almost 14 years ago
There is a rift in time and space there. Drives a few mad
DV
almost 14 years ago
Enjoyin the furry there :3.Haters gonna Hate X3
quixotic
almost 14 years ago
Wait, when did Tsunade-sama become a mother?
Tim Buckley
almost 14 years ago
I personally enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.
NOT FUNNY
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_57044]@Coolblue[/url]
Yeah that's cool bro but this shit is Buckley material, WORDS WORDS WORDS
Aron Times
almost 14 years ago
HAHAHAHA I didn't get it at first. Fox News indeed!
Lol
almost 14 years ago
He drew a anthro cartoon fox as a joke
must over react because people need to know I'm hip and trendy
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_57045]@LillySatou[/url]: I got the pun. It just wasn't funny.
Kethrian
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56975]@Narbodi[/url]: And so has war, alcohol, sports, drugs, sex, money, power, religion, hate, poverty, and several forms of mental illness. Basically, if humans are involved, so is violence.
LillySatou
almost 14 years ago
I like how people are completely missing the pun on "Fox News"
Coolblue
almost 14 years ago
@NOT FUNNY Not completeing your small life any faster.
P.S. Spammers gonna Spam
@Yep
almost 14 years ago
Furries have always and will always deserve every bit of hate they recieve.
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/3/35/Furfagsqg9.png
NOT FUNNY
almost 14 years ago
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almost 14 years ago
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almost 14 years ago
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Yep
almost 14 years ago
Wow, it's amazing how many comments turned to "oh look, a furfag" or how many people were suddenly blown away by Jo's choice to characterize FOX news as a Fox.
Seriously? Furries are STILL the pinnicle of nerd-rage? Isn't there other things to be all "OMGWTF" about?
Relax... seriously...
AckAckAck
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_57000]@psy[/url]
Daily Mail is kmown mostly by Britons, Jo is a Brazilian, me too don't know how high is the quality of that paper, we read that as a normal e-newspapers.
I too learn the hard way how Fox News act like an asshole to another countries, so my knowledge is better now to avoid them.
Kuro Fox
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_57003]@SomeoneElse[/url]: Dude, it's mostly a gaming comic with silly jokes. Having humanoid non-humans for the sake of a pun isn't anything new or different in drawn comedy. You might be over analysing things.
Blob
almost 14 years ago
AAwwww.. FOX news, I get it now.
JackDesert
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56881]@Tos[/url]
Believe me... Sweeps week is worse in my area
ABC: up next how to make a potato gun with enough power to pierce sheetmetal.
NBC: how 10 year old Michael made a pipebomb
CBS: Potatoes can make an untraceable poison
Each topping the others.
Roklam
almost 14 years ago
LoL. MBC (one of South Korean broadcasting station) test was truly suck.
roklam
almost 14 years ago
LoL. MBC (one of South Korean broadcasting station) test was truly suck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oko_RND_guw
Alasdair
almost 14 years ago
Lol, I totally didn't get why there was a fox in the third panel until I read the comments. I am slow. :)
Also, for Jo: the Daily Mail is just as biased and unreliable as Fox News (or most other news sources, really). Just an FYI.
Ranko
almost 14 years ago
Even if noone else blames the cupcake, I'M blaming the cupcake! If a cupcake gets THAT kind of reaction, then you should be checking the cupcake for drugs or other highly addictive substances! XO
ex-support
almost 14 years ago
I find it interesting how the highest stack of photo notes is on the reporter.
AckAckAck
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_57010]@wasd[/url]
Do you even read other comments? it's a pun for Fox News, either that or you don't know about Fox News.
wasd
almost 14 years ago
WHY IS THE REPORTER A FURFAG
I MEAN COME ON
Liro Raeriyo
almost 14 years ago
Eh... news really? jeez are you running out of ideas now or something?
That One Lurker
almost 14 years ago
Dang, I can't help but feel like this whole discussion is nothing more than an argument over politic parties without actually mentioning the political parties. I mean seriously? Everyone just wants to rant about which news station is the worst (newsflash: They all suck in their own special ways)?
SomeoneElse
almost 14 years ago
Continuing...
I question furries because of gut reaction and have found that people like to troll them for things only fringe elements of their fandom do (which I won't get into). I just need an excuse for humanoid versions of animals better than just for a pun.
Just my opinion.
SomeoneElse
almost 14 years ago
Continuing...
If the world is unusual but the logic is sound, it's something akin to fantasy or sci-fi.
Both unsound logic and an unusual world make it hard to get ones bearings... Not to say that it isn't funny, it's just that I react to furries like sparkly vampires. (to be continued)
SomeoneElse
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56999]@OyVey[/url]: Yeah, I get the FOX news joke. It's just that the author (of whom I know not the name) has added fantastical element has been added to what was otherwise just a comic based on bizarre logic.
If the reasoning is questionable but the world looks the same it makes for grand comedy.
Continued
psy
almost 14 years ago
Oh cmon it's the Daily Fail why are you even reading that shit.
OyVey
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56998]@SomeoneElse[/url]: Dude, seriously? Furries are, like, not even worth the trouble trolling anymore. Find better material.
Besides, it's a subtle jab at FOX news. Bit too subtle for you, I guess. Up on your current events?
[url=#user_comment_56960]
@Soofay[/url]: Oh, yeah, the famous telegram: 'And Saint David.'
SomeoneElse
almost 14 years ago
... Why is there a furry?
... Actually, I feel that way whenever I see gratuitous furries, I could join a forum full of furries with that as my signature. (Feel free to steal my idea here :p )
... And by the way, don't eat me, I'm full of preservatives :P
Painis Cupcake
almost 14 years ago
I will eat you.
>:D
almost 14 years ago
I'd troll that for a dollar.
Watch Watchers Watching
almost 14 years ago
When are we gonna see a F:NV comic? I mean, you're on to the news, the NEWS.
Booze Zombie
almost 14 years ago
@ Ze Spy
Sure we are... oh wait, no.
Isaac
almost 14 years ago
...what was in those cupcakes she wanted, crack?
Kuro Fox
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56967]@no[/url]: Hey boys, it's a troll!
McGack
almost 14 years ago
Yes the news media needs a aptly named "bogeyman" for the general public to buy into, these days its spilling into online networks like twitter/facebook etc, no one wants to hear a news report about violent abuse, but if its violent abuse over facebook argument nobody can get enough of it
Narbodi
almost 14 years ago
In short: Raise your child to be respectful, to understand what's real and what's not, and to keep their heads under any circumstances, and they should do the same for -their- children.
Too bad everyone's too busy screaming at each other to figure it out.
Narbodi
almost 14 years ago
Cont: Gaming communities tend toward the 'see/hear/speak no evil' mindset, but it's there. News companies play things up for ratings.
Neither bothers to consider that proper parenting would be more effective than bans or arguments. Ah, well.
Narbodi
almost 14 years ago
Video games have been indeed linked to violence.
PnP games, too, like DnD and Vampire: the Masquerade.
Jake'm
almost 14 years ago
@Ze Spy: God I hope you're being sarcastic.
Kal
almost 14 years ago
I'd expect this sh*t from Americans, not my own countrymen(or women)
no
almost 14 years ago
@lore blade: Furfag
lore blade
almost 14 years ago
i think the reporter is sexy ;)
dumdumdum
almost 14 years ago
Ooh so the reporter is a furry because it's fox.
Symbolisms man.
Soofay
almost 14 years ago
Interestingly enough the 1st of March is Saint David's day, the patron saint of Wales and a day to celebrate all things welsh xD
Moskau
almost 14 years ago
After reading the second panel, I was SO sure that this would be a comic about Dwarf Fortress and tantrum spirals...
Ze Spy
almost 14 years ago
Even from South America, people realized how the welsh (God I hate the welsh) are retarded.
They're the cancer of mankind.
Trolling Nerd
almost 14 years ago
Oh... nevermind.
Trolling Nerd
almost 14 years ago
What's with the Furry News Reporter?
TheMaskedMan
almost 14 years ago
Dead Herald clearly has nothing better to do today.
In other news old rich white guys tell everyone about how new things are evil and anyone who likes new things is clearly a witch and in league with the devil.
Dien
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: Stop getting so worked up over nothing. "The whimsy and cuteness of this site has been permanently marred..." Oh cry me a river. You're overreacting to one fucking comic strip. Come back in three days and find another instead of hanging around the site for a day arguing with everyone.
G-O
almost 14 years ago
Ah yes, Fox News. Run by a secret cabal of Christian Soccer Moms, they strive to snuff-out our way of life.
Anony
almost 14 years ago
Or CBS's whole stunt with the Ford Pinto, where they strapped on model rocket motors to force an explosion with their rear end demo, which a lot of people are still ignorant was a hoax?
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
Game, Set, Match, Tournament.
Anony
almost 14 years ago
What's Fox done that tops NBC's stunt where they covered the Ammo counter in Doom with the NBC logo and then pretended it was a point counter that rewarded the player based on kills to carry their dialogue in following up on one of the Columbine copycats?
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56945]@cupcakes[/url]: Everytime it happens people get their panties in a bunch for 30 second, then they go find something else to get nipple twisted about. I don't give a shit about the reactionary crowd, they have the attention span of a common hummingbird. You only give a shit because you think like they do.
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56945]@cupcakes[/url]: Yep, and I get enough of that from the mainstream gaming sites. I'd rather not see it here, the whimsy and cuteness of this site has been permanently marred now because I don't know if bullshit like this is going to appear. If I want news, I'll get it somewhere else.
40-Love
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
Do you disagree that if this happened at gamestop because there was no Halo that some commentator would comment that it makes sense because they play violent games? On the other hand nobody is going to blame cupcakes for a murder rampage. I hope...
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: This is a webcomic about video games that makes fun of how video games are portrayed in the media It does not have the same standard as a news station. Video games have been linked to violence. Past things like DnD and comic books have too saying they caused murder.
Kardlonoc
almost 14 years ago
Oh i get it... FOX NEWS!
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
30-Love
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56939]@cupcakes[/url]: I'm well aware that Fox failed to properly research the issue. There's absolutely no need to draw attention to something like this unless gamers plan to sensationalize it as well. Other outlets do stupid things like this with other issues, two wrongs don't make a right, they make a DERP!
Anonomous
almost 14 years ago
At first I was all...pointless furry?
But then I was like...oh hey, Fox.
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: I did not say only Fox news does this. I said Fox news does this more so than other stations which makes the comic's point valid. If there are an equal amount of poorly covered video games stories by other stations I would be interested in hearing about it.
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
There are real problems in the world sure. That does not make it ok for a news station to cover a subject poorly. With the Mass Effect story they told Lawrence it was like pornography wtf? You should be upset that Fox chooses to "cover" video games instead of real issues.
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56936]@cupcakes[/url]: And what makes you think I approve of that? It still doesn't give you the right to baldfaced lie and say no one else does it. It also still doesn't change the fact that this is an overblown issue and people like you contribute to that with equally reactionary bullshit.
15-Love
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: So because there are other problems in the world news should focus on blaming video games for social problems? School shootings lets blame video games, sex also video games. Instead of covering things accurately let's sensationalize subjects.
Maksio58
almost 14 years ago
Games may be yet to blame (as noticed by Solly a few comments down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBuggMdUbog
Dave
almost 14 years ago
overall graphics and quality. So: violent games -> more
violence itself -> less.
I'm not saying that videogames DEcrease violence, you can't make that assumption out of this. But it is fairly obvious that they are not INcreasing violence.
Dave
almost 14 years ago
Games don't generate violence. I'm biased, yes. BUT:
our (Germany's) police releases their annual records on crime statistics, which say that in the last 20 years, violent crimes, especially by teens have decreased. Whereas in the same time, the distribution of violent videogames as well as their
Why don't you go ask the people in Haiti what they think on this issue? Oh wait...
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56919]@cupcakes[/url]: Like I said, brats like yourself only spread shit like that because it your think you're entitled. You know there are other problems in the world besides the dumb bitch who cried rape. No one really takes her seriously, because the topic isn't worth taking seriously. Grow up, dipshit.
jasdero
almost 14 years ago
also I call bs since the last time video games where mentioned on fox news was the metal of honor putting terrorist in the game and the one before that was MW2 killing innocent people as you play undercover agent in a air port both dealing with terrorism not exactly video games as a whole.
AckAckAck
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56883]@Commander204[/url]
Ah yeah, that's true, that's why I always go headdesk everytime I heard that kind of news.
Or go to youtube and look at Jerry Springer, what is he thinking, making tv show like that.
AckAckAck
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56919]@cupcakes[/url]
Don't forget, Bulletstorm cause RAPE! more at 11!
jasdero
almost 14 years ago
wtg... instead of people seeing the comic about games being labeled evil you just switched the topic to fox news and furs ... your ether very clever or stupid
cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: Cry foul all you want saying that other news stations are also bias, but whenever a story blaming video games appears it's fox news usually, remember the Mass Effect sex scandal?
Dreamstate
almost 14 years ago
Also Fox News is not actually news. It's Fox ENTERTAINMENT News, meaning they can get away with shit like making stuff up for news stories that is entirely untrue or at the least based on conjencture, which they then exaggerate for 'SHOCKING NEWS', which they can do as it's ENTERTAINMENT, not NEWS.
Dreamstate
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56916]@Nuckel[/url]
It's a fox. you know. fox news?
Nuckel
almost 14 years ago
That furry is creeping me out... Looks somehow like TaleSpin's Rebecca Cunningham with some sort of a santa beard...
fishbulb
almost 14 years ago
People only blame videogames because they don't want to take responsibility for their crappy parenting.
nahala1
almost 14 years ago
damn, i've been to that cupcake shop, i saw it on a news website and was like "god damn! that lady seriously needs help!" you never really expect something like that happening in a little cupcake shop
Bisected8
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56861]@Marco[/url]: Yeah, my brother goes to uni there. It's worth the effort to visit. ^p^
Welshman
almost 14 years ago
Huh, I'm surprised not only to see my home town on this site, but that an event I witnessed is referenced. I honestly thought her one kid was a daughter though.
Serathis
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56848]@Blur[/url]: The only news site to have any credibility is Onion News Network, we all know that.
MrTerrorist
almost 14 years ago
At Cardiff? Shouldn't they have called the Doctor, Captain Jack or Sarah Jane to deal with this?
foducool
almost 14 years ago
but you can't deny they're always trying to link any murderous rampage to videogames
pretty sure if jack the ripper lived in our time, they'd say he played too much cooking mama.
"yeah ! you gut it ! mama is so proud of you"
Idaho
almost 14 years ago
Furries, rage and muffins of doom.
Today's secret ingredient for breaking news.
KoshiI read
almost 14 years ago
Cardiff and my mind went straight to Torchwood and Dr. Who
BBC
almost 14 years ago
Breaking news. We have just learned that the violent cupcake mother once walked past a store that sold the video game Cooking Mama. With this new evidence, calls are growing worldwide for a massive video game ban to halt the violence.
V4Voracious
almost 14 years ago
It's a witch! Kill the lights!
Memory
almost 14 years ago
Foxy lady.
aRatFlail
almost 14 years ago
This is definitely nooooot a joke. I work at a Panera. People go ape-shit if we don't have something that gets made once a day, fresh, in estimated quantities.
Corronis
almost 14 years ago
Eh, the only reason fox news gets so blasted for the same bias all of the networks have is because it gets the highest ratings, and thus better name recognition.
A Bag of Pain Cupcakes
almost 14 years ago
True words, Solly...
*Whisper* ...true words...
Solly
almost 14 years ago
Pain is Cupcake.
Commander204
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56867]@AckAckAck[/url]: Heh, that kinda stuff is normal. xD Up next, a bi-sexual, bi-racial, hermaphrodite couple have quadruplets!
Watch Watchers Watching
almost 14 years ago
The only thing video games and Marylin Manson and comics do is aggravate previously existing stressors into tipping, and rarely that. Mor often, they only impose methods of said attacks.
Tos
almost 14 years ago
The reason media outlets play up possible game violence is for ratings. That's it. They'll say anything to get people watching their channel.
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
Honestly Jo, I'm ashamed of you for selling out to this tunnel vision mentality.
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56843]@Godot[/url]: Oh, fuck off. Every modern news institution is filled with bias and corruption. FOX, CNN, NBC, New York Times, BBC, all biased. Gamers only bitch about FOX News because they only care that their toys don't get taken away. And thus let idiots like Colbert fill in the blanks for them.
Phantom
almost 14 years ago
Nobody's made a Wryyy joke? Hmm.
SHE'S RAGE QUITTIN'!!
almost 14 years ago
Go for the breast-milk flavo(u)red one!!
T209
almost 14 years ago
Have anybody see on NBC criticism on online (and I pad ) game called Smuggle Truck? This is the e.g on Liberals on Videogames (just like Joe Lieberman and Holary Clinton! Don't blame it on Conservatives pick liberals too!
I ma Moderates!
Kargathia
almost 14 years ago
Well, to be perfectly fair: Marilyn Manson got poked because the guys who shot up Columbine high school were fans.
One of Rammsteins clips apparently inspired a massacre in Germany a while back. According to politici and popular news channels that is. Music gets flamed all right, just not as much.
steven
almost 14 years ago
Fox news...unfair and biased!
Black Dragon
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56843]@Godot[/url]:
Mainstream media says hi :/. What's funny about that is that Fox is just as biased as everyone else, but the difference is that they're less subtle about it.
AckAckAck
almost 14 years ago
That costumers fury reminds me of some funny or face palming story from this http://notalwaysright.com/ where some people just act unbelieveably stupid or moronic.
About news, yeah, they love to feed on fear of people, something vaguely threatening found? FLASH NEWS EVERYBODY PANIC!
Liam Riordan
almost 14 years ago
Cardiff of all places? My capital (city)?
Though choosing the right cupcake in a recession is kill worthy.
Marco
almost 14 years ago
I live in Cardiff and in all fairness that that woman they do damn fine cupcakes there.
Mecha Jesus
almost 14 years ago
Damn must be a pretty freaking awesome flavor of cupcake.
Commander204
almost 14 years ago
Heh heh heh... at first I thought it was gonna be an old or new Starcraft comic from the title.
Jake'm
almost 14 years ago
Just so you know, not everyone in Wales is like that.
We have the occasional nutbar, but we're alright.
StarPilot
almost 14 years ago
*reads comic while munching on carrots*
MasterOfMagnet
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56843]@Godot[/url]: FOX NEWS is the biased network?
SRG
almost 14 years ago
missing in the second panel is the child limp body which was used to break the counter.
also I sense a Dio brando joke coming
I am a faggot
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56848]@Blur[/url]
Fox has about as much credibility as a North Korean newspaper.
Bob
almost 14 years ago
JO IS A FURRooooh, I get it.
Crazy lady. Even though this wasn't caused by video games, you can bet that someone will make a game based off of it.
Also, it has to be done...I'm so sorry...
The cupcake is a lie.
Blur
almost 14 years ago
[url=#user_comment_56843]@Godot[/url]
Oh yeah, because the other major news networks have any credibility...
Mac
almost 14 years ago
The English... so perfect, so well thought out and well written.
Bravo Jo!
Godot
almost 14 years ago
@Dead Herald: You know perfectly well that Fox News is a network of obvious bias and reactionary bullshit. Stop acting like it has any shred of credibility anymore.
Talcon
almost 14 years ago
This comic isn't Buckley material, but sure as shit isn't funny
Lobster
almost 14 years ago
Ooooh. I get it. FOX. Not just an arbitrary... OK, carry on.
Paladino do Cerrado
almost 14 years ago
Pois é... depois são os jogos.
Nice games have same problem! HAHA
Dead Herald
almost 14 years ago
I was really hoping this issue would remain out of this comic. Now I have to hear all the Obama-fanboys crying here as well.