Gribbie , 20 August 2007
The internet is littered with the photo-shopped wit of children and fat lonely men everyday. They call their 4 panel upstanding member of society love/video-game parody/self insertion a “web comic” and fight for the title of internet-famous.
One of these so called artist, is a man named Tim Buckley. Tim Buckley is the artist and author behind the video-game based comic, mainly about himself, “Ctrl+Alt+Delete”. In 2002, Tim Buckley was a poor artist struggling with his sexuality, poor gaming skills, and poor art skills, when he came across Penny Arcade. Realizing that Penny Arcade and VG Cats hadn’t suckered everyone in yet, there was a possible gap in the market for yet more atrocious gaming webcomics. At first, Ctrl-Alt-Delete’s readers were easily amused by such new and refreshing lame slapstick gags as people being shot by arrows and rude language. Sadly, Tim saw this low-level popularity as akin to internet fame, and everything started to go downhill from there.
But as of yesterday, Tim has recently met a horrible fate. Some dear old fan had discovered Tim’s IP address. Seeing what fun he could have with it, the fan thought he’d see what Tim’s been up to in the world of Wikipedia. Upon inserting Tim’s IP in a website known as “wikiscanner”, software scurried across the famous internet encyclopedia know as Wikipedia, hunting for any digital footprints left behind by dear old Tim.
As it turns out, Tim has been editing, trolling, vandalizing and attacking, his own personal Wikipedia entry, as well as the one about his own comic. Then, after posing as the crazed vandal, he would then pose as concerned fans, trashing the Vandal and hailing Tim as the digital Jack Kirby. In other words, Buckley has low self esteem.
