Score: 7

"Progressive"

submission: Awesome Cracks Down

date: May 30, 2009

Your art improves with every short, but the jokes need to be a little more creative.

Score: 0

"Ridiculous"

submission: Brawl Funnies [Dick 1]

date: May 28, 2009

You know, there's funny satire, and then there's coat tail riding disguised as pointless bashing. Guess what this is?

How this ended up on the front page is beyond me and just another example of how backwards Newgrounds is.

Score: 3

"A few unpolished gems"

submission: Street Fighter Collab

date: May 22, 2009

Sketchodie, your short turned out looking fantastic and I was happy to voice Sean for you, and I chuckled at the joke, it was just clever enough that a Street fighter newbie like me could still appreciate it. Props to Chio as Dan and whoever played Akuma. Chakra, I laughed out loud at your short, especially when Zangeif KO'd Sakura. Again your joke was genuinely funny and not an in-joke (aside from the KOF cameo) and you managed to implement a sex joke without it being ridiculous.

There were a few others I thought deserved praise. The short with Ego voicing Ken as he's whacked by the barrels, only to turn into his alternate costumes from the games was clever and had me laughing in an "Oh, haha, I get it" kind of way. The short with Ryu Hadoken-ing Ken's face off while he screams bloody murder was funny in a "that was random" kind of way, plus, the animation was unbelievably gorgeous.

Tthe presentation is fantastic and the menu is great, but the actual contents of the collab (i.e. THE MOST IMPORTANT PART) just falls short. With the exception of a very few (EgoRaptor, TheChio, and you can figure out the rest), all of the voice acting was embarrassingly bad. It's hard to completely ruin a short with bad voices, but doggone it if the majority of the authors didn't. Some of the entries were poor in the animation department and probably shouldn't have even been considered.

It's a turd with a few gems embedded in it, but it's still a turd.

And the lack of credits for the rest of the crew is also a big disappointment, although I personally won't lose any sleep over not having my name associated with this one.