CAD - or Control-Alt-Delete is a (free) web comic Drawn/Written by Tim Absath.
I only discovered the comic about 18 months ago, upon referral by someone (I forget who, probably Brett or Paul). It only took a little while before I was hooked - I read the entire back archive too.
Anyway, When in December last year Tim mentioned there would be an animated series, I got interested - very interested. Since I liked the comic well enough, I thought it’d be an interesting experiment. Plus, the 1-year sign up discount was pretty nice too.
The Animated Series was to be the crown jewel of a new “CAD Premium” service - we’d get exclusive comics, wallpapers, and concept art drawn especially for us “Premium” people.
Well, it’s been about 10 months on, we’ve got episode 10 delivered (a bit over a week late), and to be honest - I’m not finding it so great.
The first four or five episodes were great - well written, funny, and leaving me wanting more. However, it seems like Tim (or whomever is writing them) got bored - and decided to just do anything.
No where was this more obvious than last months episode - Episode 9, which was several minutes of a random character getting run over repeatedly in (I presume) Battlefield.
With the other items - well, they did keep their promise, technically.
- Exclusive Comics - Two. (One seems like it was an ad for PC Gamer, the other for WoW). And they were only added recently.
- Exclusive Wallpapers - Twelve
Although, I think all but three or four were actually released on the public website previously. - Art - Nine collections
Admittedly, One of them is a 10 strip Comic for “Analog and D-Pad” - basicly CAD but with different hair colour. The others are all pretty lame half hearted attempts, or things from abandoned projects. - Other Stuff - I think there was one Video Cast from Tim about how he was going to be doing more “soon”.
Honestly - I think the Penny Arcade folks are doing a far better job - Yeah, they have a bigger audience, and there are two of them - but they provide it all for free. (And when they had a “Pay” thing- their PA Presents was a pretty good deal, from what I hear - you actually got mailed out exclusive bits of art).
Then there’s this:
The developer managed to figure out the “toLower” function for the “please enter…” message, but not for the actual authentication portion of code - very smart. It took more effort to write the error message, than to just correct the input.
All in all, unless the last two months are seriously kick ass, or there’s some really compelling other content, I won’t be re subscribing. Tim - You’ve had your run - you havn’t delivered.
