Cheer Up, Emo Kid is a webcomic centered around life, love, and loss; whose mission is to bring to light the rarely acknowledged humor found in the most terrible of situations — be it heartbreak, depression, social awkwardkness, loneliness, or anything in between; and something to keep you company when no one else will.
Cheer Up, Emo Kid contains violence, nudity, strong language, lowbrow humor, and suggestive themes including but not limited to revenge, sex, drugs, depression, suicide, racism, cannibalism, beastiality, and the constant, relentless ridicule of fat people. It is not suitable for anyone.
Cheer Up, Emo Kid is currently not being updated regularly.
Last semester in our introductory Flash class our final project was completely open-ended in the sense that we could make anything we want, as long as it applied all the things we learned during the semester. Although I already was fairly familiar with basic animation, I was absolutely illiterate when it came to the Flash Actionscript language, so it was all new to me. The end result was a short introductory ‘demo’ for a proposed Cheer Up, Emo Kid flash game. The premise was it would be a point-and-click RPG adventure of sorts, and in the tradition of Andrew Hussie’s MS Paint Adventures, I was hoping I could integrate some sort of user-interactivity where readers could continue the story by deciding what the character would do next.
Well anyway, let me know what you think of it so far — also, it ends when his mom comes into the room, just to let you know in case. . . like, you sit and stare for hours waiting for something to happen.
Would you rather see a Cheer Up, Emo Kid animation, or a Cheer Up, Emo Kid flash game? It’d be something along the lines of a point-and-click puzzle adventure RPG or something. We’ve actually started the concept and have actually come up with a ‘demo’ of sorts, where you take up the role of Zeke in an epic quest to save humanity. Would anyone be interested in seeing this?
We should probably be working on getting our t-shirt shop online, too. In all fairness, that’s coming soon. Like, real soon. Promise.
In other news, there’s apparently a workprint (unedited) version of the new Wolverine movie floating about somewhere online (*cough*PirateBay*cough*). While I don’t care much for arguing about the ethics of piracy, and while Hugh Jackman is totally hot, the guys over at Fox are total jerks. In case you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of months leading up to the release of Watchmen, they sat on the rights of the movie for, like, a decade or two, and after Warner Bros. obtained the rights and actually began making a movie that looked like it would be a success, Fox was all like, “yo, dudes, that’s not cool. We, like, still technically own the rights to this movie, man.” Or whatever. People are greedy, man.
But I digress. I’m sure Mr. Jackman wouldn’t mind since apparently he’s being picked up by Broadway, but otherwise, Fox can kiss my nonexistent ass.
Kim out.
If anyone got that, that was an obscure Starcraft reference, you know? Whenever you finished building a Terran Battlecruiser, it’d pop up and the Commodore would yell, “Battlecruiser Operational!” Yes? No? I’m lame, you don’t have to tell me three times.
Anyway, after about a month’s worth of designing the site (the layout was actually for a final project) and pushing code around, it’s up and functional, as far as I can see. I’m going to put the artwork section back up as soon as I can find a WordPress image gallery plugin that doesn’t shit on my face whenever I try to update it (I used to use NGG gallery – I wouldn’t recommend it). So here it is. I was looking at the websites of so-called “emo” bands and subcultures and wanted to do a slight parody of their somewhat predictable styling in my design, but I don’t think I pulled it off too well, instead of looking ridiculous like I intended, it just blends in. Oh well. I mean, that’s why I’m going to school, right.
What do you think? Don’t mind me, as an aspiring web/graphic designer I tend to get sick of a design five minutes into completing it. It sucks. So in retrospect, here’s something complete unrelated — a picture of a koala in a bucket.
Currently listening to The Offspring – Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?, The Outfield – Your Love, Ras Kass – Interview With a Vampire, Fall Out Boy – America’s Suitehearts, and Super Mash Bros. – I’m an Adler Girl.
Anyway, cheers!
First off, an extremely inappropriate poster/t-shirt concept.
Now I don’t know if anyone of you follow MSPaint Adventures, the brainchild of Andrew Hussie, but if you do, you’ll know that the epic saga of Problem Sleuth ended today after a year of several-times-daily updates. That’s a metric fuckton of art, and that doesn’t even take into account the storyline.
For those not in the know, MSPaint Adventures is an interactive comic strip. In the tradition of old-fashioned DOS games that you would progress through solely by typing actions into the command prompt, MSPA would progress in its story solely through possibly command prompts, all suggested by readers. Well, while Hussie still maintains some control over the storyline, he states that at least 95% of it was user-generated.
This is hugely inspiring and I’ve always wanted to do something along these lines. Maybe start it off in the forum to get an initial story going, and then proceed from there. Would anyone be interested in contributing to this?
Well, you know, lemme know. It’s lonely on that forum.
So the entire last week was spent migrating webhosts which explains all the downtime and stuff (I’m new to all that technobabble, so, apologies). As a result, though, the site has undergone a few backend upgrades, with a brand-spanking-new design in the works that should be up in the next week or so!
Anyway, to the point: THE RSS FEED URL HAS CHANGED. As far as I know, this is important. As I’ve been told to do through tutorials I’ve read, I set up a 301 redirection at the location of the old feed, but I’m not sure how that works really, so uh. The new address is HTTP://WWW.CHEERUPEMOKID.NET/FEED and will be permanent for the most part. For those who don’t know what the hell this is, think of it as a bookmark that alerts you when the website has been updated. I think. Anyway, that’s important, I guess, so, please update your bookmarks!
Also, the Cheer Up, Emo Kid Forum is up at http://forum.cheerupemokid.net. Feel free to sign up and start some discussion because I’m pretty tired of talking to myself.
In other news, you should definitely watch The Watchmen movie if you haven’t already. I mean, people either love it or hate it apparently, but either way, it’s something to talk about! Unless you don’t have friends, then that’s just kind of sad.
I’d write more but I already posted up my Rihanna rant so here’s some sugary goodness for the day.
Oh, and in case you’ve been wondering, that goofy-looking dude on the left is the guy behind LoveIsAStory, which has some pretty good music, as well as a sweet cover of Imogen Heap’s “Hide & Seek”, or the song that everyone would be familiar with more as the song in that SNL Skit, “Dear Sister.” Mmmm, what you say? Mmm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did. That one! That one.
This guy was jerking it when his mom suddenly called him on Skype, which was apparently set on aut0-answer, with the webcam set to auto-start. [via boredatwork.com, via ubersite.com]
Is this real? Watchmen was made into a Saturday morning cartoon at one point? Oh dear god. [via todaysbigthing.com, via youtube.com]
This is Frank in real life. [via fmylife.com]
And I’m spent. Be sure to check out the forums, I don’t think I’m gonna be posting links up here anymore since it’s up.
