Overcompensating

"OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality."

- Page Title

"Hey. My name is Jeffrey Rowland and I am an actual dude. I used to live in Oklahoma but now I live in Northampton, Massachusetts. I got problems like everybody does. I got a few stories to tell you."

Overcompensating Is the sometimes fiction other times auto-bio web-comic by Jeffrey Rowland. Rowland is also the creator of other web comics When I Grow Up and Wigu Adventures as well as the founder of TopatoCo, a t-shirt company specializing in selling web-comic based merchandise.

The strips feature a collection of characters, some fictitious, some based on people Rowland knows in real life (quite a few are real web-comic creators), with the main character being an Author Avatar. The subject matter of a strip generally falls into the below subjects:
 * What happened last night?
 * A humorous take on whatever is in the news now.
 * Some horrible fad that can't possibly be real, but is.
 * Some horrible reality that all humans have to face despite the fact that it's so soul-crushingly horrible it's a wonder we all get out of bed each morning.

If you came here for the other type of overcompensating, the page you want is Compensating for Something.


 * Alt Text
 * Anthropomorphic Personification The G0D of Internet.
 * Art Evolution In the comic itself, also can be compared to When I Grow Up to REALLY see how far Rowland has progressed.
 * Author Avatar
 * Author Tract: Frequently, and without shame.
 * Guest Strip
 * God Makes frequent appearances as well as his son.
 * God Is Evil Sort of, God and Jesus can be dicks at times. Also they both live in a trailer park for some reason.
 * Grotesque Cute - Butt-cats!!
 * Hollywood Hacking - Weedmaster P attempts to determine what flight Jeffrey is on in this strip. Possibly played straight, given what Weedmaster P is wearing and part of what he's saying. Possibly averted given that some of what he's saying are actual computer terms including looking for a backdoor. Subverted when Baby finds a note in the toilet with the flight info.
 * It Got Worse - This strip, done on purpose with hilarious horrible results.
 * Libation for The Dead - Okay, so not a straight example, but there is a Jim Beam-drinking, undead cat from Hell.
 * Life Embellished
 * Mundane Fantastic - Topato, the flying, super-strong, made-out of poison, potatoes occasionally shows up from his home dimension to yell at Jeffrey.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero - Part of reality had to be deleted to prevent ALL of reality collapsing. Happens in a cross-over with Wigu Adventures.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot - Robot Monkey Pirate Zombie Mummy Ninja Hobo Cowboy, "the greatest cartoon character in the history of Earth."
 * Ramp Jump
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * Run for The Border - Choices are in short supply with almost any situation involving five gallons of ticks.
 * Strawman Political: Hoo boy.
 * Take That The site frequently takes shots at society and politics, however this comic attacks neither but still hits Kid Rock, his fans, and Tim Buckley pretty hard.
 * Andrew Hussie's brief appearance lightly mocked his workaholicness and his tendency for animation that doesn't particularly add anything to a panel
 * With Friends Like These... - Weedmaster P.