Of windfalls and iPhones

Super Smash Brooker

I just couldn’t get past Level One of Games Wipe

Published in 06/10/09 edition of The Student

After fifteen years of conspicuous absence the prodigal son of videogame journalism has returned home with one-off special Charlie Brooker’s Games Wipe. Just don’t expect to be feasting on a pixelated fatted calf. Instead, how about some stale leftovers and bland insights pulled from the back of Brooker’s fridge? It’s a shame but Games Wipe is a rather joyless look at videogames and the people who play them.

“Videogames: bleeping, blooping masturbatory aids for emotionally crippled outcasts. Videogames are for losers like me,” Brooker sets up the stereotype in his charmingly cynical way but then inexplicably chooses to leave it alone and not expose it for the gibberish that it is. Granted, as a kid I would spend hours with Tomb Raider in awe of Lara Croft’s polygonal fun-bags, but by not talking about gaming as it stands today, Games Wipe feels like it’s been broadcast from twenty years ago.

Pimpin’ The System

The System is the most entertaining comic on the web. Written and drawn by a frustrated graphic designer, The System showcases a certain level of creativity that is not to be seen among the daily deluge of bland panel strips that litter the web.

During the summer The System was looking for guest comics so I sent in an original CPWilson Comic ^TM, marking my entry into the notoriously sexy world of comics. Due in part to many litigation issues involving, above all else, a distinct lack of talent on my part, issue #001 was never used.

Thankfully the long and tiring legal battle is finally over and I am now free to show the world the strip that never was because what it was was shit.

CPWilson Comic TM #001. Prints still available (£3.99 per panel)

I know! What was he thinking?

Go read The System.

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