I've been up and down this great strech of road on the information superhighway they call 'webcomics' from your standard Real Life (reallifecomics.com) to your lesser known but still funny as heck Dragon Tails. (dragon-tails.com)  However there was one webcomic that nearly EVERYONE has read that I still haven't laid a single finger on, Fred Gallagher's MegaTokyo. (megatokyo.com)

So today I decided, "aw what the heck, might as well at least read the archives" So that's what I'm doing now. I'm up to 132 right now and so far it's been quite the interesting experience, from what I've gathered I think I'm still in the part where Piro still considers MegaTokyo to be a Gaming Comic. Still, you can really tell that he wants to go in a more soap-opera-y direction. 

I don't know what to call this but it frusterates me. For lack of a better term I'm going to call it the MegaTokyo syndrome. What happens is that a comic will start off with a genuinely humorous premise and then, for some reason or another, decide that they would rather go for a more serious tone. This ends up frusterating the Humor-mongers to no end because by the time they realise what's happened, they'll be too caught up in the story to just stop reading. It's still enjoyable, but not for the same reasons that had when you started reading. This isn't just MegaTokyo either. In fact, for me, MegaTokyo is the most recent in a string of comics and whatnot I've seen.
Heck, even Mel Gibson is on this train with the movie "What Women Want" (You can't tell me you didn't see a case of MegaTokyo when you were watching that movie, and if you do You're a big liar. Do you know where Liars go? That's right, to the movies.)

But when it comes right down to it, MegaTokyo's been around longer than most (Oooh.. four years.. whoo!) and they helped to introduce the standard Steryotypes [misspelled] and they still do them the best. What I guess I'm trying to say is P|-|33r 7|-|3 b33r.

-Walrus