The Greatest Webcomic: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

[punishermax]

Every once in a while we as a generation are privy to something incredible. The moon landing. Sputnik. The Hindenburg. Choco Tacos.

Our generation. The internet generation, have seen so many things in our lives on this wide world of the web that we have become jaded to the majesty that would shock many around the world. But every once in a while something comes along to shock us and show us that majesty and wide eyed wonder than we were able to have before we become our broken and darkened selves.

That something.....is Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.



Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is the inspiring story of two friends who live their lives with wonder, magic and love. They also like to play video games.

Sometimes they even enter the realm of politics.



If you like Penny Arcade then perhaps this story of love and friendship is not.....pedestrian enough for your tastes.



So perhaps if you find yourself wondering if there exists a comic that is on par with the works of Alan Moore and, dare I say it, Miller at his best you can find yourself drawn to this powerful work of art.



Neither can I Jeff......neither can I.


Medium: webcomic Title: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff Creator: Andrew Hussie

Comments

[gehayi]

Doesn't do a thing for me; the art is ugly and ill-drawn and the jokes, if that's what they're supposed to be, aren't funny.

YMMV, I guess...but I don't get the appeal.

[karthzon]

It's a satire of "satiric" bad webcomics. It's a comic ostensibly drawn by a character from another, much better webcomic, who tries to do everything "ironically", including making a deliberately bad webcomic and laughing at the people who believe it's in earnest and like it. The ultimate joke is that webcomics that try to parody bad webcomics are, in the end, nothing but another bad webcomic.

Except that SBaHJ is SO bad and lazy that it's become a meme of its own on the forums of the comic that spawned it. There are about five or six pieces of original "art" in the entire thing, nothing ever gets erased, only cut and pasted, and every image is saved in the lossiest JPEG format possible at every single stage of the "creative" process. The grammar and spelling is bad without being obviously deliberate and the end result is so incomprehensible that it's almost Dada.

We don't laugh at the jokes in the comic, we laugh at its existence without having to temper our mirth by reminding ourselves that it was drawn by a real person with probably massive issues, because it wasn't, or by being offended at something, because it's never offensive, just plain bad.