Bummer's Art Shack

[Zachilles]

Anything with Mythbusters is awesome, and that is no exception.

 

[Aerrow]

Brilliant.

 

[Lemonade]

XD That is awesome

nitpick back the first page w/ Alakazam and the cube:
7 minutes is slow. ~7 times too slow. But the comic was hilarious nonetheless

 

[Arcticblast]

Poor Ponyta.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

ouch, poor ponyta. wonderfully done yet again.

 

[Fulgrate]

LOL @ the Shedinja myth. XD

 

[Bummer]

Thanks guys!

For the next subject: Is this a good idea for a strip, or will it only result in people complaining about how I don't understand economics?

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nitpick back the first page w/ Alakazam and the cube:
7 minutes is slow. ~7 times too slow. But the comic was hilarious nonetheless

Yeah, people kept pointing thgat out, so I changed it to 78 seconds on my site. The one in the first post must be the old one.

 

[Aura Guardian]

From my layman's viewpoint, I see no problem with it.

EDIT: vonFiedler, I think part of the point is he's exaggerating how much can be found.

 

[vonFiedler]

It's not an economy thing so much as a gold thing. I get the joke is that you find a lot of gold in Pokemon, but that stuff is still mined irl. Yet the gold standard remains stable (or something like that). Point is finding a few nuggets in Pokemon isn't equivalent to building a Philosopher's Stone. If someone sold crates full of gold irl it would do nothing to the price of gold at all, at most you'd just be suspected of selling blood gold.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

lol "lemonade more expensive than ever".

and from a supply/demand point of view the reverse is actually true; more supply pushes up the price.

 

[supermarth64]

Unfortunately, I have to say I don't understand the lemonade bit of that strip (unless it's just filler text).

Also TEA_DEMON, you're thinking about quantity supplied. Since the main character's a new supplier, it would push the supply graph to the right instead of traveling along the line, decreasing equilibrium price.

 

[Mekkah]

My guess was that as Gold becomes worthless, other more directly useful things become more expensive. I didn't really think into it any deeper.

 

[Bynine]

Lemonade is ridiculously expensive in vending machines. It costs more than a Poke Ball, iirc, which doesn't make much sense.

 

[Bummer]

I get the joke is that you find a lot of gold in Pokemon

Nope.

Since the main character's a new supplier, it would push the supply graph to the right instead of traveling along the line, decreasing equilibrium price.

Bingo.

Yet the gold standard remains stable (or something like that).

If someone sold crates full of gold irl it would do nothing to the price of gold at all, at most you'd just be suspected of selling blood gold.

This is what essentially kills the joke. Even though the game world is much, much smaller in comparison to our own, and therefore easier to affect, that point is difficult to come across or ellaborate in three mere panels, so that's the limitation of it. Or at least judging by the response here.

I have a Plan B where the third panel can be subsituted with something different, along with a changed dialogue. That way the two former panels won't be in vain. I just might end up posting both versions close to each other though, I'll see how much time I have available. Especially so since my bike decided to blow up the back tire this weekend!

 

[Bummer]

You encountered an over-used joke!

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(bikes are expensive)

gg next strip

 

[Rackham]

Brilliant <3: These are priceless (pun somewhat intended)! Luvdisc'd

 

[GlassAbsol]

I adore the fact that in the last strip everything has a smiley face. I think that the comic could have been improved if there were 4 panels, the 3rd being the bike whizzing past an old man then 4th showing it to be the president of the Pokefanclub holding the Bike Token looking depressed. However the way you've done it is still very good, and the majority of the joke is in the 2nd panel anyway. Good strip :)

 

[Crafty Scrafty]

Great stuff, keep up the good work!

 

[Bummer]

Thanks for liking the edit, guys!

I think that the comic could have been improved if there were 4 panels, the 3rd being the bike whizzing past an old man then 4th showing it to be the president of the Pokefanclub holding the Bike Token looking depressed.

It's usually for the best to focus on one aspect of a joke at a time. Trying to squeeze several punches into one packet makes for messy comics, in my experience.

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Ah, to be fabulous

 

[Xaqwais]

I've never looked at Masquerain's wings as eyes...

Woah.

 

[Bummer]

I've never looked at Masquerain's wings as eyes...

Antennae. And yeah, took a while for me too when Gen III was released, although that sure explains its given ability!

 

[Mr. Munchlax]

I just added your site to my Favorites. Awesome comics.

 

[Falgaia]

Dang. And here I thought it was called "Entertainment"...

 

[HR.]

These are brilliant, I love how you have extracted all the ridiculous concepts in the games and put them into the comics. Keep it up!

 

[TEA_DEMON]

anything with masquerain is instantly awesome.