Webcomic Discussion

[CivCube]

Hey now! This is the thread to talk about that great medium known as webcomics. Do you read them? If not, why not? Let's get some discussion started about our favorites.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Great topic. Here's hoping I can pick up a few new ones from this. Here comes a listing, but first a tip:

www.comic-nation.com is the solution to keeping track of most of your comics.


First Tier
El Goonish Shive - wonderful stuff, written by an author running on what is called Liquid Genius, a highly controlled substance. Relationships, some magic, some sci-fi, lots of good writing, gender jokes, and an incredible degree of maturity both in the comic and the community. Very good. Promotes openmindedness.

Questionable Content - the art starts out strange and improves dramatically. There are a great many obscure references and lots of witty remarks. Geared towards a slightly older audience than EGS.

Irregular Webcomic - Puns. Lots of them. Bad puns. Many plotlines. Random tidbits of learning. Definitely something for everything. Cameos by the author in a way that doesn't mock the fourth wall.

Miracle of Science - mad science, futuristic setting, blogging authors, large amounts of cool. Sort of like seeing Matrix for the first time.

DMFA - Furries, lots of good jokes, a very continuous storyline.


Second Tier
Order of the Stick - D&D parody, but has become more general now.
Dominic Deegan - about a seer having to solve everybody's problems.
Schlock Mercenary - the name says most of it
General Protection Fault - whoof, the current storyline is long. Good comic.
Two Lumps - The lives two cats, with lots of dry humor.
Disassemblance - religious/social commentary and humor.
Vexxarr - stumbled across it recently, liked it. The adventures of some poor alien schmuck.
Bruno the Bandit - something of an inverse Asterix, only longer.
Casey and Andy - satire, insult, some mad science, no respect for continuity.
Freefall - very old, very good.

Third Tier - they're not really worse, I just can't be bothered to give more descriptions.
Queen of Wands
Rob and Elliot
Venus Envy
The Mansion of E
Gunnerkrigg Court
MISFILE
The Tao of Geek
8-Bit Theatre
Seraphic Blue
Zortic
The Joy of Tech
The Wotch
Sins
Inverloch
The Noob
No Rest for the Wicked
Abby's Agency
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
TwoKinds
Exterminatus Now
Chugworth Academy
The Realm of Kaerwyn
Shadowfolk
Strange Candy
Comedity
Zebra Girl
Combustible Orange
Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
Catena
Reuben Dante: Time Vagrant
Anime Arcadia
Alien Dice
Everything You Know is RIGHT!
Peter is the Wolf
Kagerou: An Electric Manga

 

[Kozmos]

http://www.gigaville.com/characters.php - MGS prequel sort-of.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/index.php - Its CAD....nuff said.

 

[Urederra]

WOW.... Thanks Erik and Cleric for the links... First time I heard about webcomics... I thought there no life beyond Marvel and D.C.

 

[jamiethearcher]

Great topic. Here's hoping I can pick up a few new ones from this. Here comes a listing, but first a tip:

www.comic-nation.com is the solution to keeping track of most of your comics.


First Tier
El Goonish Shive - wonderful stuff, written by an author running on what is called Liquid Genius, a highly controlled substance. Relationships, some magic, some sci-fi, lots of good writing, gender jokes, and an incredible degree of maturity both in the comic and the community. Very good. Promotes openmindedness.

Questionable Content - the art starts out strange and improves dramatically. There are a great many obscure references and lots of witty remarks. Geared towards a slightly older audience than EGS.

Irregular Webcomic - Puns. Lots of them. Bad puns. Many plotlines. Random tidbits of learning. Definitely something for everything. Cameos by the author in a way that doesn't mock the fourth wall.

Miracle of Science - mad science, futuristic setting, blogging authors, large amounts of cool. Sort of like seeing Matrix for the first time.

DMFA - Furries, lots of good jokes, a very continuous storyline.

Questionable Content is GREAT - I read it daily.

 

[Corlindale]

My favourite webcomic is www.qwantz.com
It's about dinosaurs that discuss various subjects, and it's often pretty hilarious. An extra twist is that(almost) all the comics have completely similar pictures. Perhaps the artist is a bit lazy, but I think it just adds to the fun.

 

[Kozmos]

El Goonish Shive

Godamnit Erik, that's just plain sick freakish comic *shudders*

 

[garric]

http://www.thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip001.html

This one is my favorite. A parody of MMORPGs.

 

[Caprice]

General Protection Fault
gpf-comics.com

I guess it is a "geek" comic...

 

[CivCube]

WOW.... Thanks Erik and Cleric for the links... First time I heard about webcomics... I thought there no life beyond Marvel and D.C.

You're in for a ride.

Megatokyo, by Fred Gallagher - This was the strip that got me into webcomics. I still consider it great. Gallagher is creating a very interesting story.

Penny-Arcade, by Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins - The ultimate gamer strip. What more needs to be said.

Scott McCloud's site - I am an acolyte of Scott McCloud. When I first read Understanding Comics, my eyes were opened to the possibility of equal media. Highly influential on the webcomic community.

Real Life Comics, by Greg Dean - Sorta a blog comic, sorta not. Great fun.

Nowhere Girl, by Justine Shaw - Winner of the Web Cartoonist Choice Award for Best Comic.

Scary Go Round, John Allison - I haven't gotten too far into this one. Various supernatural events revolve around various characters in England.

Instant Classic, by Brian Carrol - A comic about movies.

Copper, by Kazu Kibuishi - Beautiful art. Kibuishi is also the instigator of the Flight anthologies.

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, by David Hellman and Dale Beran - Very arty strip. You'll be surprised.

Sluggy Freelance, by Pete Abrams - One of the older webcomics. Not much more I can say about it at this point.

Reman Mythology, by Amy Kim Ganter - A fantasy webcomic about a girl who travels to an alien world. The strip has now ended, but you can read the archives.

Girly, by Josh Lesnick - Lesbians and quirky humor. Very quirky humor.

Alpha Shade, by Chris and Joe Brudlos - Powered by Flash. Great art and war-oriented.

It's Walky!, by David Willis - Oh god. I love this strip. Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive describes it as "Men In Black" meets "Dawson's Creek".

E-Merl.com, by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey - Experimental comics. I highly recommend "The Mr. Nile Experiment" and "Externality" to see what this medium can do.

Something Positive, by R. K. Milholland - Haven't read too much of this.

The Perry Bible Fellowship, by Nicholas Gurewitch - Wicked humor. I laugh my butt off with every strip.

Errant Story, by Michael Poe - A fantasy epic about a sulky teenage girl.

Demonology 101, by Faith Hicks - Demons and their ordinary human lives.

Shortpacked!, by David Willis - From the creator of "It's Walky!". A very wacky webcomic about toy store employees. "Never presume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal!"

PvP, by Scott Kurtz - Another oldie. Kurtz has created a respectable strip that also appears in newspapers.

Starslip Crisis, by Kristopher Straub - If this strip is anything like "Checkerboard Nightmare", I'd like to read this.

Melonpool, by Steve Troop - I bust a gut laughing. It's funny.

Derek Kirk Kim - Amazing artist. He has won several Harveys and Eisners for his work.

And of course, you must check out Comixpedia for news in the webcomics world.

 

[Tycoon101]

I like Bob and George and 8-Bit Theater. Plenty of humor there.

My only problem with wecomics is that there are so many to read, and so little time.

 

[Dionysius]

Megatokyo, by Fred Gallagher - This was the strip that got me into webcomics. I still consider it great. Gallagher is creating a very interesting story.

good choice.

Order of the Stick
this is excellent.

and of course Sinfest

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Penny Arcade
MegaTokyo
Questionable Content
Loserz
Applegeeks
MacHall
VGCats
Post-Nuke
Chugworth Academy
Misfile
Neko the Kitty
InSonicNia
Yu+Me
Theatre Hopper
Lowroad75
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Bunny!

Think I got them all

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Godamnit Erik, that's just plain sick freakish comic *shudders*

I did say "promotes openmindedness" on the label. Do you want to explain what you dislike about it, or do you just want to sit there and be freaked out?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The only webcomic I read is El Goonish Shive.

 

[steviejay]

my favourites Userfriendly it's brilliant. I also like Cyanide and Happiness, but that's just cause I have a sick streak to my sense of humour

 

[IglooDame]

My daily webcomic check is:

Userfriendly
El Goonish Shive
The Wotch
Zortic
Abstract Gender

I've just replaced Zortic with Questionable Content, though.

 

[Ellipsis Jones]

Achewood - A cartoon of modern life as lived by a ******** otter, an alcoholic tiger, and two bears.

 

[Gladi]

My daily webcomic check is:

Userfriendly
El Goonish Shive
The Wotch
Zortic
Abstract Gender

I've just replaced Zortic with Questionable Content, though.

Bright day
You cannot read those every day as they don't update so often.

Well most of my staples have already been mentioned so I will add

Penny and Aggie
Pawn
Errant Story
The Midlands
And there was this webcomic with sadistic rabbits and immortal squirrels that I lost address to

 

[IglooDame]

Bright day
You cannot read those every day as they don't update so often.

You're correct, I don't read them every day, but I do check them daily.