The Dangers of “World of Warcraft”

by Joey deVilla on June 16, 2006

Paging Joi Ito! Paging Catspaw! Paging our CEO Elliot! Are you aware of The Dangers of “World of Warcraft”? The comic below will show you what they are!

(If you hadn’t figured it out, the comic is a repurposed “Dangers of Alcoholism” comic from the 60s or 70s.)

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{ 78 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Anonymous June 17, 2006 at 6:21 am

lol i saw this on wowbreak.com … Funny stuff man

2 Anonymous June 17, 2006 at 6:13 pm

Hilarious. :)

3 Anonymous June 20, 2006 at 7:09 am

Pfft. Elliot’s figured out the way to avoid such family troubles due to WoW: bring the family into the game with you!

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5 NewLifeFromHeaven November 17, 2007 at 12:47 pm

That is a pretty intense cartoon. Yikes!

6 Bas November 17, 2007 at 12:47 pm

Ahahaha. Very funny! :D

7 Ranvir Singh Bassi November 17, 2007 at 3:21 pm

I don’t know anyone that plays world of warcraft. Least they don’t admit it. Now I can see why

8 Karma November 18, 2007 at 2:03 am

that was great. thanks for sharing this. I have friends who are addicted as hell to that crap game

9 Gaming Television November 18, 2007 at 11:02 am

lol nice tokenism at the end!

10 CooLMaN November 18, 2007 at 12:07 pm

“Mary got worse THEN john”?
WTF? Learn English!

THAN

11 Soar November 18, 2007 at 12:07 pm

This is awesome. I shared the link on my forums. xD I used to play WoW, and it was fun. I think I get to play again this summer… I may have to re-consider. Lawl.

12 Best WoW November 18, 2007 at 12:10 pm

I’ve seen this before … and it gets more and more awesome ever time I see it. FOR THE HORDE!!! lol

13 abcdefg November 18, 2007 at 12:27 pm

lmfao

I’LL SHOW YOU PVP BITCH

14 Writer November 18, 2007 at 12:39 pm
15 Foo November 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm

Serioulsy?
A spell checker would be useful!

16 rex follett November 18, 2007 at 1:05 pm

LOL This is hilarious I personally can relate.. You all should check out this hilarious about us on our site.. Its great!

17 cman November 18, 2007 at 1:05 pm

hahahah, WoW should really be considered a disease.

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http://www.mildlyhotpeppers.com/technology/the-lego-usb-driveand-not-just-a-brick/

18 ghtfh November 18, 2007 at 1:22 pm

ill show you pvp bitch!ROFL

19 Bob Kelso November 18, 2007 at 1:24 pm

@Ranvir Singh Bassi

With a name like that, go figure.

20 WOOOwER November 18, 2007 at 1:41 pm

I’ll show you pvp bitch!!
lawl

21 Dusin November 18, 2007 at 2:14 pm

FOR THE HORDE!!!!!

22 Clown Soup November 18, 2007 at 3:01 pm

“Mary got worse THEN john”?
WTF? Learn English!

THAN

***

Don’t you mean Than?
Here’s a primer on capitalization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization

And by the way, ‘WTF’ is an abbreviation, not a fucking acronym and should be written as W.T.F.you grammar school dropout.

23 bob November 18, 2007 at 4:40 pm

This comic is about 1-2 years old.

24 Anonymous Coward November 18, 2007 at 5:08 pm

effected -> affected

25 LoW LiFeS November 18, 2007 at 5:42 pm

all you nigga need to get a fucken life and play cs fuck WOW WOW gay ass fuck u geeks ass fuck oWN U GUYS IN CS damn TWEAKERS BRAKE THE GP AND SMOKE SOME WEED AND GO OUT U MORONS TWEAKERS

26 WoW News November 18, 2007 at 6:56 pm

great comic. I’ll link this page from my Site.

27 Amplified November 18, 2007 at 7:45 pm

Go to http://www.aionblah.com for the latest up to date information on the upcoming NCsoft MMORPG, Aion: Tower of Eternity.

28 illogical operation November 18, 2007 at 8:49 pm

lol, this was on our site a year ago

29 yes November 18, 2007 at 9:31 pm

try spelling words right, it helps.

30 Jow November 19, 2007 at 2:53 am

reminds me of the D&D propaganda(or whatever the fuck it was) that was given out by Christians(I think)…fucked up shit….

31 OMG WTF BBQ!! November 19, 2007 at 7:51 am

Absolutely brilliant, “John can be an asshole” cracked me up big time.

well done :)

32 igolg November 19, 2007 at 10:34 am

lol,a good funny comic.

33 Xtreme GamerX November 19, 2007 at 2:01 pm

That is some funny shit. Someone really took a few minutes out of their day for that one.

34 ryan November 19, 2007 at 5:00 pm

i guess slamming your car into a tree is one way to end the addiction.

35 jhml November 20, 2007 at 8:34 am

You got boing boinged – nice one :)

36 Dian3 November 20, 2007 at 8:43 am

hahahaha great!

very funny

and “for the Horde” part is so LOL.

Great

37 Ron November 20, 2007 at 1:13 pm

Now that is hilarious!

38 Joey deVilla November 20, 2007 at 1:16 pm

Just so you folks know, I am not the creator of the comic; I just found it and posted it here. Any misspellings and grammatical errors are that person’s, not mine.

Still, it’s hilarious, isn’t it?

39 Kip W November 20, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Interesting art. It’s Kurt Schaffenburger, but it looks like Vince Colleta inking. [/comic geek]

Oh yeah, funny stuff, too, I guess.

40 Markymark November 20, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Lol WoW is an alright game if you don’t get addicted to it. Whoever says its a crap game imo probably sucks at it.

41 Kip W November 20, 2007 at 1:54 pm

[comic geek back on]
Wait! That looks like Wood inking! I was fooled by the last panel. Woody, forgive me! [/comic geek]

…Hey, why are all the WoW addicts suddenly looking like they feel sorry for me…?

42 prozacula November 20, 2007 at 2:38 pm

liked the comic, good find!

on a side note about comment #14 from one ‘Writer’

I went to your site. You’re going to blog about being a blogger. My, how…postmodern. Yet incredibly boring.

good luck with that.

43 jjc November 20, 2007 at 3:49 pm

not bad, but the “effected”=>affected misspelling almost ruined it for me. also, was it supposed to be “Mary got worse then John” or “Mary got worse _than_ John” ?

44 Google Payload November 20, 2007 at 10:28 pm

Me and my wife play wow together so this really is how things go around my house. Well, maybe not quite like that. Hilarious…

45 John V November 20, 2007 at 11:05 pm

Haha… funny stuff!

Also:
@Clown Soup (#22)

You are an idiot.

“And by the way, ‘WTF’ is an abbreviation, not a fucking acronym and should be written as W.T.F.you grammar school dropout.”

I find it highly amusing that you are wrong about this. ‘WTF’ is an acronym, not an abbreviation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation

46 Clown Soup November 21, 2007 at 10:20 pm

To John V

Did you even bother to *read* your reference links?
And if so, did you comprehend the information?

47 Tim November 23, 2007 at 7:16 pm

@Clown Soup

Please show me one person that actually types “W.T.F.” or “R.O.F.L.”

Yes, it’s grammatically correct to have the periods in there, but you really need to find something more significant to fuss over.

Anyways, coming from someone who has never played WoW, that comic is funny and sad at the same time. I’m sure it’s a fun game all in all, but to think people would go to such lengths just to be able to play it…

48 amanda November 24, 2007 at 1:09 pm

In defense of “Clown Soup”…
His/her post was in response to the earlier oh-so-cool commentary of;

CooLMaN
Posted November 18, 2007 at 12:07 pm | Permalink
“Mary got worse THEN john”?
WTF? Learn English!

THAN

And, in other words, grow up spelling and grammar trolls, you are boring, unwanted, and usually just plain wrong.

49 sturdy November 24, 2007 at 2:51 pm

AHEIUHAOEUI.
Very funny stuff!

50 totmur November 24, 2007 at 10:56 pm

This comic blows dick. Maybe if the person who made it could use some actual humor and not spell common words wrong, it would be better. Fucking stumble button wasting my time taking me to this site. May as well make it worth my time and bash your site for blogging it. Thumbs down!

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