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If you love hating webcomics, you probably remember this one. Its author Thunt (Tarol Hunt) was sadly born without a sense of aesthetics, but that did not stop him from realizing his confusing and gory vision of a Dungeons and Dragons comic where humans are the villains, goblins dindu nuffin and paladins are racist terminators. Here's a primer.



(or go to the Bad Webcomics Wiki)

It's garbage in its most glorious form. Anyway, after Thunt had a complete meltdown in 2014 (accompanied by some interesting vent art), Goblins slowed down to a crawl. Why is it relevant again? Thanks to Kickstarter it might be back, in pog animation form!



Those aren't just empty promises either, some of those voice actors are in the Kickstarter video and are already tweeting about it. What's your favourite Goblins moment that you want voiced by Phil LaMarr (Hermes from Futurama), Jim Cummings (Winnie the fucking Pooh), Steve Blum (all of anime) or Billy West (Fry from Futurama)? Here's mine.



As a side note, some people disliked the rape-y villain and Thunt's reaction basically was "no it's cool, the story is based on my mom's rape".

Not sure if they'll reach their goal ($465k), but Thunt is an expert at milking his dumb fans. In the past, he ran a series of comics where he'd essentially hold a character named "Tempts Fate" hostage, threatening to kill him if his fans didn't donate enough money. And of course, they did - he made around $55k from this in total. For added fun, he never finished the last comic as far as I know, eventhough people donated around $37k for that one alone. The complete mental breakdown probably didn't help.



He also has some not-so-great history with Kickstarter already. In short, his fans donated almost $180k for a Goblins card game, but whoops, it never got finished because the developer took the money and ran. Here's Thunt's since deleted blog post about it that goes into more detail. But enough about that, let's hand that guy $500k for a cartoon already.

So yeah, let's see how this goes. Share your favourite fucked up and/or retarded moments from Goblins if you want or freshly discover the glory that is Thunt. And if you haven't already, give Goblins a read, it quickly becomes hilarious for all the wrong reasons. When it starts getting wordy, just skim-read and watch the rubber people cry and explode.



Update on the Kickstarter:

Cyber Bowling said:

They pulled the Kickstarter due to it getting nowhere near enough funding. They're going to relaunch it on IndieGoGo sometime next week. It'll have a lower goal, and instead of being for a full episode, it'll basically be for a 5 minute trailer that they'll use to pitch to studios/people that actually have money.

I heard that they did some Q&A stuff before giving up on the Kickstarter. They have no plan whatsoever with how to convert the webcomic to a new medium. It sounds like they think they can just directly take the panels and use that as the basis for the animation/the script. They were also promising Jennifer Hale and Tara Strong as part of the VA team to play female characters, despite said characters not appearing until way later in the comic and them insisting that they wouldn't want to deviate from the normal storytelling in the comic. That also includes keeping all of the rapey elements of the story, which makes it incredibly unlikely that a studio would consider picking them up.

Even some of the diehard fans had reservations about the project, both because of the sheer scope and due to the last kickstarter failure. Naturally, these people were condescendingly spoken down to and shockingly, that did not help with them reaching their fundraising goal.

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