Bump because I didn’t think this warranted its own thread.
I’ve recently spent a fair chunk of my vacation time on Nerf Now!! (the exclamation points are integral), the main subject of which is author Josue Pereira’s video game experiences. The tremendous majority of it has to deal with online multiplayer team fighters, in particular DOTA2 (I forgot what that means) and Team Fortress 2, but he also has a number of pet subjects, including Street Fighter, Sonic The Hedgehog, and the entire Mario canon. In the early days there were extensive story arcs, but now it’s more focused on individual subjects and the continuous drama of the characters.
One strange thing I noticed about Pereira’s work is that while there’s plenty of skin…bikinis, hot pants over leotards, competition swimsuits, etc., not only is it always completely out of the blue, he always explicitly calls it out (“FANSERVICE! THIS IS THE FANSERVICE!”). It’s like he’ll do it, but he doesn’t like in and is only in it for the money. This is reinforced by the fact that he never, ever shows an areola or a bit of genitalia, and on the extremely rare instances those areas are uncovered, the space is left blank. Frankly, I dispute the effectiveness of “teases” if you do it every single time over the course of literally thousands of episodes…like, even the most degenerate videogamer is going to catch on eventually…but it seems to be well received, so who knows.
The thing I most have a problem with (aside from the fact that I was never into MMORPGs) is the undercurrent of mysogyny framing the always-annoying author power fantasy. The author insert, Jo, a purple tentacle (don’t ask), is the lord and master of his domain (which is amazingly luxurious for whatever work he supposedly does, I might add), with the women in his home literal slaves who must serve his every whim under the constant thread of banishment. (Or in extreme cases, “just a joke” murder. 
) He throws his first lady companion, Engie, out, then watches her struggle to get back on her feet before tormenting her with an April Fools gag. 
I’ve seen this with Black Hat Guy in xkcd, but his terrorist rampages were only a very small part of the comic, and Randall Munroe did eventually tone him down considerably. Jo’s ironclad tyranny is part and parcel of the strip. Good lord, how utterly pathetic does your life have to be that you get your jollies abusing your own creations?
In fact, once you delve into it, you really get the sense that Pereira is against women having any power or self-determination. Granted, it’s a lot subtler than the usual misogynist takes; he isn’t against feminism so much as he isn’t even aware of its existence. The idea of a woman striking back, standing up for herself, or controlling her own destiny baffles him. And that, in a sense, is even worse. If you say “women are evil and want to hurt men”, I get that. I disagree, but I get it. If you way “women are incapable of being evil or hurting men”, you’re an alien to me.
It’s a shame because in most other respects, Pereira is actually pretty chill. He has a no-nonsense common sense position on subjects like Candy Crush, Bitcoin, and DLC. He’s against flaming and trolling. He understands that it’s just a game and no one should take it too seriously, but throwing “tryhard” at players who do take it seriously isn’t productive. In every respect except his treatment of women, Nerf Now!! is a perfectly readable webcomic and certainly one of the better video game-themed webcomics. But I’m sorry, I just can’t get past that. I get headaches from reading that crap. Sorry, pal, I’m done, and you don’t get my money.
Any, my recommendation is 2721, which has the best recommendation regarding the first Sonic movie I’ve seen anywhere. Definitely going to save this one!