Ctrl+Alt+Del

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Ctrl+Alt+Del is a Two Gamers on a Couch Web Comic, following the adventures of two guys, a girl, and a robot who alternate between sitting around playing video games and getting up to wacky hijinks.

The comic tends to alternate its updates between story-based strips and video game-specific ones.

Not to be confused with the three-finger-salute/Vulcan Nerve Pinch.

You can read it here.

There is also an animated adaption, 'Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series. Its site is here.


Tropes used in Ctrl+Alt+Del include:

Ryan Sohmer: We produced Ctrl+Alt+Del season one. Never again. Lost HUGE amounts of money.

  • Art Evolution: An incredibly slow one, but it's happening nonetheless, at least with regards to using some different angles and new expressions.
  • Atomic F-Bomb: Ethan lets one loose in the cartoon.
  • Author Avatar: The main character, Ethan, has an outstanding physical resemblance to Buckley, and Buckley admitted he based the character on himself just how most of the cast are based on real life friends of his.
  • Axe Crazy: The Four Players, but mostly Two and Four.
  • Becoming the Mask: Meta example, but the current Something Awful mock thread has moved on to drawing fan art (ban art) of Buckley's characters, often in an attempt to fix the flaws in his writing/art/characterisation. This has led to the horrible realisation:

We are the CAD fans!