Having just seen The Darjeeling Limited about a week ago, this is pretty much the most awesome video ever.

Oh, and that one guy does pretty much the perfect Owen Wilson voice. Pretty impressive really.

Italian Spiderman will still always be better though. Sad truth.

Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Catchy too!

Another winner from John Lajoie. There is a surprising amount of truth here, especially in regards to Al Gore and global warming.

Hopefully you’ve all heard the pretty hilarious Ocarina of Rhyme, the infamous rap/Ocarina of Time music mashup by Team Teamwork (If not, here’s the link: the band’s BandCamp page is currently down, but it should come back within 24 hours or so, otherwise just find the tracks on youtube.). Well, Team Teamwork are back with an even better mashup collection, this time adding rap to one of the best game soundtracks of all time, Final Fantasy VII. The darker music of FFVII fits far better with rap music that OoT, leading to great tracks like the Jay-Z “Lucifer”/Mako Reactor mashup, or the Clipse “Fast Life”/Sephiroth’s Reunion track. One the flip-side, the hilarious mashup of Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paintjob” with the Gold Saucer theme is fucking addictive and silly as all hell, a perfect marriage of two songs to create an ironic masterpiece.

The full album is available to download here, and it’s free if you want, so go to town. Here are my two favorite tracks for preview’s sake.

Jay-Z – “Lucifer” (Mako Reactor)

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Dorrough – “Ice Cream Paintjob” (Gold Saucer)

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Your nominations are in, and what we have on our hands is a catch-22. That’s because no matter which way we slice this list, we’re still stuck with a whopping 22 webcomics that are vying mightily to be crowned Best Webcomic of the Past Decade.

So now, ‘Riffs readers, it’s time to do some serious slicing.

Last week, Comic Riffs put out the call by asking: What are your favorite webcomics of the past 10 years? Readers soon responded strongly and passionately (via comments and Facebook and Twitter), nominating hundreds of titles. (For the uninitiated and even for the true fan, it made for a healthy wealth of recommended reading.)

Many of the comics that made the cut were deadlocked — and among some of the worthy titles that just missed the cut were: “Anders Loves Maria”; “Cat and Girl”; “Goats”; “GPF”; “Templar, Arizona”; and “Wondermark” (that excellent exercise in “illustrated jocularity” that had ties to the print world, too, appearing until a coupla years ago in The Onion.).

Now, we’ve got the Big Ballot — and it’s time to vote for your faves as we all narrow this down to a handful of finalists. Balloting will close midnight Wednesday. (And if not all these strips fit your definition of a “webcomic,” feel free to sound off on that interminable kerfuffle, too — some obviously have seen the light of print at times.)

So support your favorite webcomic below: It’s fast, it’s free — and it helps drive more eyes to some of the best cartoonists working today.

This started up about a week or more ago, but the reason I post about it now is because the current standings are hilarious. And also because Penny Arcade and Perry Bible Fellowship are, respectively, my two favourite web comics. So go on, have yourself a look at the screen cap.

As you can see. The disparity between PA, PBF and absolutely fucking everyone is about a billion. I like this. I find this quite entertaining, but also, I am confused. Because aside from Penny Arcade, Perry Bible, Xkcd and PvP. I haven’t even HEARD of any of these other web comics. But I don’t believe that means anything, they are probably reasonably prolific or else they wouldn’t be on this list. Especially the list of a news agency such as the Washington Post. (Not exactly internet people).

So that’s it really, not a lot of other commentary to make besides the fact that this list makes me very happy. The massive lead that PA and PBF now hold can’t even be contributed to an “early start” of some assortment, because, at time of polling (lol, polling) there have been 475,497 votes. So take that, Steve Kuntz.

P.S.
Oh hey there, poorly endowed little xkcd. It appears digg users don’t actually represent as much of the internet as they’d like to think.

Post P.S.
Go click on that image to get linked to the poll, where I ask you to politely, vote for your favourites to try and keep this shit interesting.