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ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN
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Oh! Anything Could Happen, I have this on my favorites list. Why, you say?because it's frickin' hilarious!

danthemancartoons (the author) is a master of his craft and with this strip you literally feel like anything could happen. Each day a three panel surprise awaits you as each comic holds no relation with the next.

The art is quite simple, a nice cartoony look with flat coloring, but it's very pleasing and consistent throughout the whole comic. The characters extreme expressions fit very well. Take this second panel for example, the guy's arm may not be anatomically correct, but it ads a lot to the expression: http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=258295

The "Funnymeter (R)" fluctuates a lot though. Here you'll find some of the funniest crap on Earth, but sometimes the strip is too random and has you scratching your head thinking if you should laugh or cry. Take this for example: http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=239794 I really don't quite "get it".
This is another example of randomness, but this actually made me giggle: http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=251023

I wouldn't change much about Anything Could Happen, it's a pretty solid comic!

PROS and CONS
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PROS:
- Daily updates.
- Hilarious art and situations.
- Again, hilarious.

CONS:
- Sometimes random.

SCORE/FINAL WORDS
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4.3/5

This comic is definitively recommended to anyone who has a sense of humor. I invite you all to add it to your favorites for your daily dose.

I review this thing here, right? Hope so...


So, Anything Could Happen is one of those newspaper type comics that, although they are supremely short and have no storyline whatsoever, keep you reading until your eyes hurt so bad you can't blink. And then you realize it's like 4:21 in the morning... But seriously, ACH is a comic strip in the most literal form of the word. Short, sweet, and even funny sometimes!

Okay alot of the time. Overall, the art isn't all that good but it's not horrible. You can tell that it's not that the creator can't draw better, but that that's just the style of the comic. Of course, I'm not the creator, so I could be totally off here. It's cookie-cutter clean and the color does add some pleasing elements.

However, it could still be improved. Like a lot of comic's out there, it tends to lean more heavily on one side of the comic balance between writing and art. The writing's good, not awesome, but good. And the art is, well, lacking. It just seems to need some more effort put in.

One other thing that could help ACH would be to add some variety to the coloring. Not in the color scale, but in shading. Though it IS colored, it's flat. It gives you almost no sense that the comic could ever exist even in it's own world. It's hard to draw the reader's in with writing alone if the art feels so...fake. Once again, effort is required sometimes.

All in all, Anything Could Happen is a good comic. Not a great comic, but a good comic. There's definately room for improvement. On a scale of 10, I'd give it about a 6. This could easily be improved through simply a larger amount of effort on the creator's side. If that's the best you can do, then I guess that's it. But I think he could do better.

Anything Could Happen is quite the comic, really. It's a newspaper styled comic geared towards being funny. And the question on everyone's minds is...does this comic succeed at being funny? Why yes, yes it does.

When I look at this comic, it reminds me of Perry Bible Fellowship quite a bit, but then you get into it and discover that it has originality of it's own. Not all of the jokes are funny, but they're delivered well, and that's a good thing. Some jokes are true, some are random with true elements, and some are just random as hell.

The art is not anything to get google-eyed about, but it supports the jokes very well. It's quite sufficient, and it has progressed a lot since their first episodes. I enjoy some of the experimental strips.

Anything Could Happen is satisfying, it's a grand comic and it's professional looking enough to fit nicely on the newspaper.

4.5/5

Oooh, this is a good one. Funky!

Art: Nice flat pop-art aesthetic. And I really dig the way Dan draws his faces. It's clear that that the guy has some skills in stylization and caricaturing things in interesting ways. I especially like the cartoony shape people , much more than the realistic looking people in fact. The newer layouts are great too. If I had to criticize anything it would be that sometimes the line work can get messy, but its a minor complaint.

Writing: Definite Larson influence is apparent on some strips (especially the one panels), which may (and already has) draw comparisons to another Larson influenced comic, Perry Bible Fellowship. But while PBF is mostly focused upon sex and death, ACH gravitates towards the just plain weird . The writing is consistently creative and surprising, ranging from surrealism, observations , to just good old fashioned random humor . Not all the jokes work, some were too tame for my tastes, others were far too oblique. Some seemed to have no apparent point at all . I don't care for these as much as the rest. Still, well above average in the writing department.

Overall: Odd, thoughtful, and original. Definitely my favorite of the ones I've reviewed so far.

Art: 4.5/5
Writing: 4.5/5
Overall: 4.5, I'd give it a five, but there is some room to improve.

EDIT:
Nah, change my mind. 5/5.

All right...

Title: 'Anything could Happen'
Style: Color/Newspaper 3 panel

Initial thoughts:
Upon the reading of the first few strips, I was smitten with a grin that boggled my mind for I don't normally go for 'random-comics', but for some reason I was taken aback by the overall simplistic humor that the comic spews.

Further readings:
Upon further investigation I found out what this un-cut diamond in the rough had waiting for it's inevitable readers: it had what I refer to as, 'the far side-aura'. This is normally why I tend to stray from 'random comics', as they try to emulate the classic and enigmatic 'far side,' but this comic had a flare to it that broke the norm and actually kindled a spark of joy that 'the far side' left behind when it disappeared from the funny pages.

This one: http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=249285 practically made me laugh aloud and so did quite a few others. The writer really has a novel grasp of situational humor turned askew and how it can give rise to that long sought after smile that many comic readers sorely lack nowadays (from a newspapers' comics page at least).

While I initially compared this gem to 'The Far Side', this was just for an initial glance through 20+ comics (on my first glance), but doing this comparison at this point in a review would redoubtably diminish the quality presented in this comic. Let me explain...

While I not only judge a comic based on the writing, art, and presentation, I also tend to judge a comic based on it's 'duds,' the comics that tend to fall flat of the greater strips in the creator's collective work.

For example, I believe a few of these fell flat:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=259382

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=261768

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=262721

While these examples redeem the comic further than the 'duds' (imho) could diminish:

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=225020

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=232911

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=232913

http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=244989

and last updates: http://www.drunkduck.com/Anything_could_happen/index.php?p=268987

I give these examples to show the creator's good and bad, but also to show that the creator's good far outshines his 'bad'.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this comic and shall be adding it to my favorite's straight away.

if you need a score, then: 9.5/10

It took me a while to like this strip, truthfully. The shockingly odd gag strip has been done so well by Perry Bible, Red Meat and the huge host of Larson imitators that it's easy to dismiss a new one.
But as I read through these, I grew to like it more and more. There's a rhythm in this experimentalism, a philosophy that underpins much of the humor.

that is one of my favs to bad its done
well anyway its good because it short and sweet no anooying plots to follow though sometimes theres a few mini stories color art in the new ones just fun a little short but that dosent matter
1-10 = 9

Anything Goes is an easy comic to read and like, but a hard comic to love. I think I'll have a hard time elaborating on that point for the length of a review, but let's go for it.

It's pretty funny, but not consistently. I could estimate that three out of five strips are funny, and maybe one of those three is laugh-out-loud good. Those numbers aren't exact and determined hard figures, just an idea that it's not really, really funny all the time, but it is occasionally. And since the strips don't take all that much time or effort to read, it's easy to click through them until you get to one that DOES make you laugh. Just as a for instance: okay , not so good , , good all within a few strip run.

The art is good and cartoony; it must be fun for the artist to draw since the figures are generally good exaggerated and just humanlike enough to get the joke across.

You can spend an afternoon clicking through this and not feeling upset about the time used. Nothing too heavy, just some good, quick, easily digested gag strips. When it works well, it's funny, and when it doesn't it's no big deal. Grade B.

I looooove this. I love that the stories are short and sweet. I love that the comic relies on its drawings to be funny while still having good writing. I also love that, like the title suggests, anything could happen. If a story gets too boring it doesn't make you sit through it. It's over before you know it! Sometimes this can be what makes it flawed as well- like when you're just getting into a story. I wanted to know more about Timmy... oh well!
Before I end this I just want to say again that I love the drawings. The artists that understand how to make appealing cartoony pictures are my favorite.

9 points out of 11.

Gawd, I love this comic.

Art - 10/10

Obviously, this type of comic doesn't need extravagant details/art, but it's still so very professional and neat. I can't find any reason to take points away.

Story - 9/10

Sometimes the strips are random (though randomly funny). However, if story's definition was 'humor in a strip', this would be a 10/10. The characters are wonderfully funny, the situations are wonderfully funny, and... well, I think you get my point.

Overal; - 9.5/10

LMAO.