#obscure webcomic poll

[obscurewebcomictournament]

...and the most obscure webcomic is...

The Embodied!!!

congratulations and or sympathies to our winner, and to our second place ties Senhyakkin and Arestis City, as well as our third place, Penance. It's been a good show!

[prokopetz]

I guess the problem with trying to put together an "obscure webcomics" bracket that's actually true to its name is that by the last few rounds it would have no meaningful polling audience. Like, how are you going to get useful data out out a poll where the matchup is Catball & Clown Girl versus The Lil World of Meekerz?

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[bludragongal]

Before you say that "some of these obscure webcomics are definitely not obscure" I must ask you to imagine that you interrupt several men who are debating each other about basketball and mention the least obscure webcomic on the list to them. Estimate the likelihood that any of these people has ever heard the name of the comic, never mind has an opinion on it.

If it was "big in the 90s", before the vast majority of the world had ever seen a smartphone, or heard the phrase "social media", then it may be, in fact, one of the most obscure things on the list.

Maybe Homestuck. Maybe basketball dudes have vaguely heard of it like some distant legend from the dread land of gets no bitches, because people still will not shut up about it, and they may have seen people in crazed costumes while on their way to some normal-people shit, and asked what that's all about. Maybe.

I must also remind you that you are posting on a website considered "dead" by the public for at least five years. It's just onion layers of obscurity, is what I'm at, here.

I'm very sorry but you kinda undermined your own metaphor by pointing out exactly where this poll is taking place. No basketball fans are seeing or voting on this "tournament." The users on a "dead" site who have heard of many of these titles and don't think of them as obscure are.

[sephiramy]

both of my webcomics are in the Obscure Webcomic Tournament along with such baffling "unknowns" as Ava's Demon and xkcd and Questionable Content and Nimona so now I don't know how to gage my own visibility

that being said it was actually fun to look through the brackets and be like MY FRIEND MADE THAT ONE

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group B Round 2

[image ID: the first image is of Nero, a boy with light colored medium length hair, a black jacket, and a backpack with a bed roll. the second image is of Sheila, a mermaid with a seashell bra and green, blue, and purple hair. her tail is purple and blue and she has starfish and bows in her hair. the third image is of Queenie, an elderly woman with large, wrinkled hands, sharp teeth, large round glasses giving off a bright glare, and hair gathered up into a point. she's wearing an antiquated full-length dress. end ID]

Nero

Local schoolboy is isekai'd TO HELL. now he has to fight in the demon battle tournament to get a wish from the devil to escape! Follow this squishy bean as he learns to kill people with magic knives! As the illusion of home grows more and more distant! As he wonders whether this is all worth it! Read now for one boy haunted by his own actions for the rest of time. Character development where it's ambiguous whether he gets worse or better. He just Survives. [additional propaganda 1]

Sheila

pretty mermaid lady!! she asks claire (mc) to collect her scales for her after she lost them, and is generally very polite! i think claire and sheila can kiss. as a treat

Queenie

battle grandma [additional propaganda 1] [additional propaganda 2]

[planetnine]

shit should i not have submitted her? :( i just like her a lot

NO WORRIES! It was just very funny to me :)

[yeehawkins]

[slams fists on the table] How To Be A Werewolf was made for me

-shadowy wolves with pure white eyes

-gay lanky scruffy guy

-magical lesbians/bi gals

-depeche mode reference in flavor text of a page

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

mutual 1: sorry the update for my webcomic this week is a bit late! i really had to rush it so it prolly looks really sloppy lol [some of the most sophisticated comic art ive ever seen]

mutual 2: call me uterine lining the way astarions cervix got me bleeding profusely

mutual 3: do you think nanowrimo will give me a posthumous pity publishing deal if i mention it in my suicide note

mutual 4: okay fine i finally started revolutionary girl utena

mutual 5: does columbo know the service he did for butch lesbians. for all of us

mutual 6: wish you were here [blurry picture set of conifer woods in early autumn evening, taken as if frantically running down a winding trail]

mutual 4: im pretty hardy i dont need the trigger list but thanks for looking out for me guys

mutual 7: good morning lovelies another day the wizard tried to best me and another day i successfully locked him in the spare bathroom lol hope u like drinking shampoo fucker

mutual 8: here is a zip of every yuri manga scan i have and here is a backup in case i get dcma'd. the himejoshi lifestyle will never die

mutual 9: i wish i could go back in time to the shinzo abe assassination and ask to hold the doohickey

mutual 10: here's my essay on how wanting to be loved is the same as wanting to be eaten. three paragraphs in you'll find out that this is 100% tied to an obscure beauty and the beast manga i've been reading lately and how much i want to fuck the beast

mutual 4: oh thats why there was the trigger list.

mutual 11: YOU CAN'T LOCK ME IN THIS BATHROOM FOREVER

mutual 12: why do i have to defend my thesis to people i dont even respect. im not dickriding you just give me the degree

mutual 13: its just me and this scab ive picked into my scalp against the world

mutual 14: my little dragon got glazed and is ready to go into the kiln! everyone wish him good luck!

mutual 3: nvm i am a beautiful genius. perhaps the most beautiful genius of all

mutual 15: i think we should give david lynch rpgmaker and whatever happens happens

mutual 16: kpeyboaatrds brpokem gpuys

mutual 17: also heres my work in progress glossary of mixtec words! i still have a long way to go but i love being able to preserve my roots even in this small way

mutual 4: i just finished the black rose arc. question: what

mutual 18: i need emet-selch to be my wife

mutual 19: i need glados to be my husband

mutual 20: visited the ocean today!!! <3 beach pics!!! there is a darkness growing within me

mutual 21: the forms for my legal name change came in. pls vote in this poll of what my middle name should be: Dill Pickle (Dickle for short), Optimus Prime, Tumblr User Gorgonicteratologist, Smeve

mutual 22: just finished my 100th book of the year! this weeks read was the uses of enchantment by the psychologist bruno bettelheim,

mutual 23: reeses penis butter cups lol

mutual 4: i need to hunt akio for sport

mutual 24: oouugghhrgh. hot. dog.

mutual 25: your favorite character or fictional other would want you to brush your teeth and wash your face so you're well rested and wake up feeling refreshed! make them proud!

mutual 26: being a delivery driver isnt the worst job ive ever had but i do keep wondering what itd be like to drive off into the wild blue yonder one day and not come back

mutual 27: weird dog? [phone picture of critically endangered stork]

mutual 28: i think the two phone line polls in front of my house are having a lovers tryst. no way to prove it tho

mutual 4: WHAT

mutual 29: while you bitches are balduring your gates or finalling those fantasies im doing what a REAL gamer does. playing a b tier rpg that came out in 2004 for the 18th time

mutual 30: ^ real. hamtaro ham ham heartbreak is a masterpiece of interactive art. im not even going to call it a video game at this point

mutual 4: THAT'S HOW IT ENDS?! ANTHY?

mutual 31: can you help me pick which drawing looks better: 34% overlay or 36% soft light?

mutual 32: new video essay out. its called disability in video game narratives: final fantasy 14's most reliable fault. i churned the script out over an all-nighter and my mic crapped out halfway through but by god i did it

mutual 33: my new zine bundle is out! if you buy it you also get a discount on all my game jam games! i really cant wait for you to play them!

mutual 4: yall should watch revolutionary girl utena

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

Collecting for 'Best Furry Media' tourney help out

What is, in your opinion, the best piece of furry media? It may be a standalone story of any medium (IE Videogame, book, movie, webcomic, etc) or a large franchise with multiple entries (IE a film series, a book series, etc).

In order to be considered sufficiently furry, it must heavily feature or star animals or animal people, with a human-esque degree of anthropomorphization. Wiggle room is allowed here, and both feral and anthro, as well as media starring fictional animals may be included. If you think I will be unconvinced, feel free to argue for it.

Nothing is too obscure. Everything will be accepted, barring outright porn (Unless it's funny). Submit as many times as you like. Initial polling will last one week, but I may extend depending on results. When enough results are gathered, Tourney will begin.

Even if you do not intend to play along with the tourney when I open it, I highly suggest throwing in your hat if you have an opinion. I highly look forward to seeing what we can collect.

Please notify me immediately if there are issues with the form.

[cansofbeans]

To whoever put Cans of Beans on here, thank you, I didn't even know this was a thing going on lol

Obscure Webcomic Tournament Bracket

Alright with our winner crowned for the fancomics, time for the main event! The bracket is separated here in to 16 subbrackets (A-P), because the full bracket is massive.

You can find the complete list can be found here. This includes links and the descriptions, exactly as given in the submissions (except when there were multiple submissions, in which case they were combined.)

The bracket was seeded by date of first publication - so the oldest comics (we've got a few from the 90s) are going up against the newest (from just the past few months!), etc. (and if anyone else is insane enough to run a seeded 512 bracket the sheet is automated and you're free to copy it).

There will be 8 polls coming out daily, starting (hopefully) Monday, May 29th, and will be tagged #obscure webcomic poll and #webcomic round 1 and like the previous the rules will be Vote for the One You Don't Know.

[prokopetz]

I enjoy the idea of those "obscure webcomic" polls that are going around, but it's pretty clear that the people actually responding to them make up a very particular readership. Like, there'll be a matchup where the first webcomic is a mass market gag-a-day strip that's been running for thirty years, is so widely distributed that you can check out printed collections from your local public library, and has been syndicated internationally in mainstream news media, and the second webcomic is an artsy autobio piece that's fewer than fifty pages long and last updated in 2014, and according to the numbers the majority of respondents have heard of the second one but not the first one.

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[whoishotteranimepolls]

Major Update

The request will be opening soon because I'm down to like the most obscure requests that I'm actually struggling to find photos for. So in preparation of this I have to get a lot of announcements out of the way so this post might make a lot of people angry. Might make some of you happy But I need to get this out of the way before I open up the request again.

Let's start with the things that I know are going to piss people off as of right now. No. Webcomics no. Webtoons. Yes, I do know several webtoons/webcomics have been turned into anime. Those will be allowed but that's because they're anime now. Also no mechs. However, this is just for now. Remember I've only been doing this blog for maybe 3 months. So let me get more into the groove of things before we add on all of those things. So maybe when I've been doing this for 6 months to a year we can start allowing that Web comics, webtoons and mechs but I'm already struggling with keeping up with requests and keeping enough stuff in the queue as is. So I don't want to complicate things even further and make things as easy as I can on myself. Now there is a reason for this because I may be changing jobs soon and I don't want to have to put the blog on temporary hiatus during that transition.

Now on to the next thing and this is probably going to make a lot of people happy but people please do not make me regret this decision. But, after hearing the many lamentations from mostly the Naruto fandom, much personal debate and seeing how a similar blog handles things. I have decided to lower the minimum age for the polls to 16. Now that means minors can and probably will be matched up against each other and against 18+ characters. Please don't come at me about that choice, these characters are fictional. You can't hurt them, and a blog like this isn't going to normalize preying on minors. YES it's wrong in real life, but anime teenagers are not normal teenagers. I literally just finished an anime about a assassin trying to get back to his wife. He was 16 and had a wife I swore he was at least 20 sometimes anime ages don't make sense. Please don't start anything or I will start blocking. But for those of you who don't want to participate in those polls, I will make a special tag so you can block all polls that have confirmed 16 and 17-year-old characters So you can block the tag so you don't have to see it and participate You will be able to find it when I update the rules post in the next day or two when I have everything finalized. Now this is subject to change if people do not behave. So do not start attacking me because I allow this or I will bump that age back up to 18. Do not make me regret this

Now when it comes to requests you have 10 characters and can request up to Four-way matchups. I don't care how you break that down so you can do two four-way polls and a two-way poll or request five two-way polls don't care. Figure it out. I'm pretty sure everyone can do math but the max is 10 characters However, you want to break it down with two-way, three-way and four-way polls.

I'm also setting a limit on how many times you can request a day. Please only do it twice. That's up to 20 characters. So everyone gets a chance to request polls

Remember Six-Way polls are not something you can request directly. They are something I make as a special thing, when the queue leans too much into one character or fandom. However, you can suggest a theme. I have done fire and ice powers. You all seem to like the goth girl and the anime men in suits. You get the idea. You can always put some theme ideas at the bottom of your request. So I can add them to my list of themes that I have saved when I need to make a six-way poll

I think that is all the major announcements So now with these updates everyone can start thinking of the new matchup request because they will be opening up soon and that request box fills up fast