Runkkula (OFFENSIVE WARNING)

[Raccoon Sam]

A few months ago I wanted to create a comic that challenges the traditional norms of a (web) comic by introducing absurd and abstract structure. I don't wish anyone to comment "I don't get it", because sometimes "getting it" means not getting it.
Do not expect the traditional build-up, build-up, punchline-composition from all comics. Several are very open to interpretation.
I came up with "Runkkula", a portmanteau of the words "Runkku" which means wanker/masturbation and "-la", which is the suffix for a place or a setting.
Here are the original comics for Finnish readers.

Here are all of them, translated. I apologize for the shoddy fonts in the first 19. I drew them by hand and don't have really the resources to retouch them perfectly. The 20th and the first colored strip is where I began digitalizing everything so the quality is better in every way in every strip after that.


then dad left


and he won


customer is always right


typical bunny antics


....


the road is also rocky and very long


and you know we could like tax it and profit the state


jerry is a single dad


employee of the year


a two-day ticket is 60 euros
I left this one untranslated on purpose.. I didn't feel like doing the job needed for it.
The small note says "queue here" and the huge billboard upon the doors says "COCK LAND"


i think this is one of those dad's games


and besides i think this is softer concrete than usually


(it actually was right there and he was serious)


i was born in Tampere but when me and my parents moved to Runkkula when i was 4 or 5. it was 4 i think. can't remember


but yeah i guess i manage


not againnnn


midsummer is the season for loving


so deep


20€ fine


thank you for your wisdom o guru


and now it's fucktime


nA.´éE K RR? R?op &


where is present

[Chutzpar]

cyanide and happiness called



they said you're even less funny than they are

[Gwen]

I liked a few of them a lot :C

[Gors]

cyanide and happiness called



they said you're even less funny than they are

I have a question, do we need to be this harsh to convey an opinion?


not joking, I am genuinely asking this

[Raccoon Sam]

I dunno, I don't want to be the one who shouts omfg it's my style, fuck, c&h didn't invent stick figures or anything, and I get that a lot, which is ironic since I really got most of my inspiration from Buttersafe and Gunshow, but I can definitely see why some people see Cyanide and Happiness in this.
I don't personally like C&H too much and I'm not saying it's shit, but I don't see what you're after, Stabsinthe..

I just wanted to be original, in some way. Not necessarily in the way of how I convey things with mere imagery, but with how I try to.. like, get some kind of a message through(?)

[Chutzpar]

it's primarily stick figures relying on tired shock-humour

that's
pretty much cyanide and happiness' schtick

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really not sure how else you'd want me to phrase it gors when i genuinely can't see much salvageable. the humour's tired, the artwork is stick figures and wonky perspective

comics are a medium about images and words and in these, neither are good
plus it's not really experimental to do what's already been done before

i mean are you really asking me to give reasonable and incisive criticism to something called wank-place

[Gors]

yeah, I know, but for some reason that felt more acidic than normal to me. Hm.


Okay then, I'll end the discussion here.

late complement to my post

it's just that this seemed like 'harsh C+C on someone's sprites', only for comic strips. I understand that those comics are bad and have problems but the first post could be very better if you included what you said in the second post. Nothing against you, really, but I, for one, have been talking with others about how we should give C+C to people and this is exactly what I am avoiding.
It isn't sugar-coating, but rather giving genuine help to others. Just my two cents, no need to reply me. If someone really wants to talk about this, drop me a PM.