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Post by CrazyMrLēo on Dec 17, 2006 1:36:56 GMT -5
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Post by BlazeHedgehod on Dec 17, 2006 2:21:09 GMT -5
Lackadaisy Cats - So startlingly professional, you feel guilty that you aren't paying any money to read it. It's about... Cats. In the 1920's. During prohibition. And they're mobsters. Really, it's amazingly good. Wondermark - Man uses old tyme clipart to make hilarity. Gunnerkrigg Court - As Leo said, kind of weird. Kind of like a slightly more realistic Harry Potter, sans all that "YOU'RE TRAINING TO BE A WIZARD, HARRY" stuff. Shortpacked! - Nerds in a toystore do nerdy things and discuss topics like... homosexuality? Um. Well. You just have to read it. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja - At this point, if you need to be introduced to Dr. McNinja, you are somewhat out-of-touch. Written by two Something Awful Goons, these are the tales of a ninja doctor who has a giant Gorilla who speaks sign language as a secretary. What else is there to say? Lancaster the Ghost Detective - Sort of like a "one-man-band" version of Ghostbusters in a way. Lancaster makes a living dealing with ghosts - but he's strictly against killing them. Eventually he ends up kicked out of his home town and becomes a wanderer, facing off against a group of evil ghostbusters who destroy ghosts rather than rehabiliate them. Alien Loves Predator - A tale of Preston and Abe, an Alien and a Predator who share an Appartment in New York. Reads a little bit like a nerdy comic book version of Seinfeld. I dig it.
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Post by Night the SR on Dec 17, 2006 7:40:30 GMT -5
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Post by J on Dec 17, 2006 12:11:30 GMT -5
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Post by Evan on Dec 17, 2006 16:59:47 GMT -5
Girly, lols I dunno if this one's popular or not but either way PLUG-A-CHUG-A-LUG
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Post by Keith Stack on Dec 17, 2006 17:23:57 GMT -5
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Post by Sauko on Dec 17, 2006 17:47:04 GMT -5
Penny Arcade - A comic that mostly revolves around gaming. Ctrl+Alt+Del - Similar to Penny Arcade, only more violent. Ozy & Millie - A comic that uses anthropomorphic animals instead of people. Someimtes the comic makes fun of how stupid people can be, sometimes it's political, sometimes it's just a regular webcomic. I Drew This - It's done by the same guy that does Ozy & Millie, only this one is more focused on politics Bob and George - A comic that's about the megaman series, except the characters ( including especially the Robot Masters) have personalities. 8-Bit Theater - A comic that follows the events of Final Fantasy 1, with a lot of humor put into it. VG Cats - Another comic about video games, but two cats replace characters in the games. Spamusement It's not exactly a "webcomic". On the front page, the author describes it as "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines", which sums it up perfectly.
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Post by Sz on Dec 17, 2006 18:07:59 GMT -5
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Post by Joshi on Dec 17, 2006 19:04:33 GMT -5
xkcd is the only one I read that's worth mentioning that... hasn't already been :<
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Post by Toxic on Dec 17, 2006 19:37:13 GMT -5
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Dec 17, 2006 21:07:28 GMT -5
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Post by Ultra Magnus on Dec 18, 2006 0:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by Matsrik on Dec 18, 2006 1:20:47 GMT -5
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Post by Kulock on Dec 18, 2006 2:16:23 GMT -5
Regularly I read: Better Days - I.E. "Jay Naylor likes military stuff and drawing furry MILFs." But it's an interesting, non-traditional storyline, good artwork, and a lot of it is pre-scripted, no "pulling it out of his ass as he goes along" or to pander to fans. (Supposedly.) So you're getting a narrative, not a staggering storyline with constantly changing priorities. Faux Pas - I don't know, it's just kind of cute. Too bad the artists have been getting sick/injured a lot lately, it's really caused the flow of the comic to be screwed up. Sabrina Online - Although anymore it's "Sabrina's Adventures with Zig-Zag and some Transformers". I still like it, but some of the updates are murder when he only posts two or three comics for the month, and some are weak filler. Zelda Comic - Best Sprite Comic ever. (The one currently up is sort of a filler/joke character one, Diminutive Mega Man #2.) Trouble is, he updates less than _I_ do anymore. And he's very grumpy about being reminded to update. So you stop paying attention for a while, then come back and there's three comics you missed. Then he updates once regularly while you're paying attention, and then... he's off again. His hand-drawn stuff is also great, though. Less often I read: The Adventures of Link and Friends - Purely worth it for the awesome interface. Look for all the hidden features and quirks available. There's even a comic-maker! Dr. McNinja - Huzzah. Jack - So friggin' far behind on this. Dark thing, but well written. Or at least it was. I can't say about recently. Penny Arcade - Sometimes they're really funny, but sometimes they just don't care if they have a punchline, or even cohesive dialogue that applies to anything. Don't always agree with the blog posts, but they are interesting and often amusing to read. Shortpacked - I really liked this, but I haven't been back to read it since first discovering it and tearing through the archives. Maybe I got frustrated with not having a lump of comics to read at once. Spamusement - I still have lots of the archives I haven't gone through. Great idea, great execution. VG Cats - I like it, but it's a bitch to get the comics to load on dial-up sometimes. There was also a Sonic comic I remember reading and enjoying the early issues of, but that's all I think I've seen of it. And of course I dug several of the MCer-made comics, I just don't read most of them anymore since I've already read all there is to them. (What? Space Devil? ViR?) But one never stops being a fan of Life of a Goomba, do they? |
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Post by NeroKid on Dec 18, 2006 3:35:54 GMT -5
Dominic Deegan I used to read then I grew up:
Existing on the line between Harry Potter for Megatokyo fans and Megatokyo for Harry Potter fans. Just naughty enough that you can consider the characters dignified. It's porn for people afraid to admit to themself they passed puberty. The art's improved a lot since the first strip, not instead of looking like he traced from a christopher hart book, it looks like he traced from somebody who actually read a christopher heart book, but then fell into a coma.
Dinosaur comics:
Is very good, actually, read this.
White Ninja:
Was a lot funnier when he didn't talk.
Perry Bible Fellowship:
is to webcomics what family guy was to tv shows.
Scary Go Round:
Bobbins, dropping the sitcommy feel in exchange for a bit more adventure is one of my favorite comics that I can't be bothered to regularly read because it's got a huge archive. A weird charismatic non-lateral rotating cast of people sexy as me having equally sexy adventures in the modern age. The people quickly adapt to the surreal with style and english class, and that makes them cooler than any of you. Serious, stylistic adaptation to a given situation is what coolness is all about.
8-Bit Theatre:
Is one of the most well written comics on the internet and the best (maybe only) example of Spirte Comics done right. That is to say, it's a sprite comic because that fits the context of the storyline, and often breaks molds with externally sourced artwork assembled with more talent than some of my favorite traditional artists use to draw. The biggest disadvantage of this strip is how easy it is for people to put Black Mage into their signatures without context and make the strip look less colorful than it really is.
Dr Lobster and Steve
Was the best webcomic. Seriously, it redefined agressive self-indulgence, passive anti-marketted. The authors regularly tried to make their readership go down, and not in some gimmick to get more readers. Although there was the awesome gimmick where they actually sold the strip, had the buyer do most of the strips for like a month, then stop for another month because it sucked and ljalkj;gadd it was really just an incredibly well performed hoax. and another time they let readers vote on who to ban from the forums, and anybody could vote an infintie number of times. There was also a short live fake-spinoff called Gamer Hotties. It's like Sore Thumbs only Sci-Fi instead of political, and instead of being terrible, it was the exactly right kind of wrong.
VGCats:
I've said it a million THOUSAND times. You don't need to read VGCats. Because if you go to more than 6 forums, there's a 100% chance that somebody at one of them will always post the latest one if it's more than half amusing. I used to read it for the expressive character faces but then I noticed that there's only 4 faces. This strip isn't above using "OVER 9000" as a punchline, it just didn't because unfunnier webcomics beat it to it.
Triangle and Robert:
Carries no pretense of art. It's written with class as the (technically present) author does what he can onscreen and offscreen as situations and events escalate and decline with Noser sometimes seeming he he's more interesting in writing whatever is easier to write, while the two main characters watch with charm.
Sinfest which I don't actually read.
Will validate you if you want to convince yourself you aren't a child anymore. Those of us who are more self-assured about that can go read strips that are actually funny. Look, sinfest is Stylish, MTV stylish, but stylish anyway. It just is as banal as Garfield ever was, it's mid-nineties marketting material that takes a Looney Toones character and has him rap while playing basketball. Only in Sinfest he's also smoking. Look, look at Bobbins, look at all the weird shit that happens, and the characters flow with it. If you took a Sinfest character and put him in another good webcomic, they wouldn't cope, they'd just form a defensive wall of catchphrases to carry them through four panels a day.
Fint:
You had to be there, I mean it was that funny when the strips occured in real time with all the context. It's not as funny now, just weird, but it's neat how I see the words Teepee Nigger and others are "uhhhh" while I remember the conversation and crack up. If you're a big mind able to conceptualize the conversation that might be off-panel, there's a chance you could enjoy it.
Girly:
MUCH MUCH MUCH Better than Cute Wendy (see: not so preoccupied with being cute) and amazingly better than crappy Wendy which was just porn. It's big fun adventure, and some sex and kittens everywhere and loud laughter and read this comic it is good. It won't make you smarter* but it's not boring, and the art is just done enough that the chicks can technically qualify as psychially appealing. If you can name a better comic that derives a storyline and character development from a quick doodle of an elephant humping a car, I doubt it'll be good as girly. god of hats.
* This is a lie this comic actually inspired me to look up what the word "pertinent" means
Shortpacked:
LOL NERDS TAKE NERD STUFF TOO SERIOUSLY NOW LET'S BE NERDY TOGETHER. It's a fun comic when it's not caught up in the author validating his own sense of coolness by forcing a contrived barrier between himself and people who don't care enough to be offended by insults.
Somebody is keeping their toys MIB! OMG WHAT A GEEK I HAVE A HEADACHE enough bullshit, civilians claiming to be diehard fans despite their ignorance, doesn't change the taste of ice cream. While the background becomes a chalkboard for Walky to list topical jokes, memes of his own, if you will. Just wishing that some fans take a gimmick and run away with it, then he can lament how it's been overdone to the point of lameness while smiling on the inside. A CLEVER PLAN.
Alright. That was mean, I'm not saying I don't suspect it might maybe kinda possibly could be true, but aside from "LOL NERDS ARE GEEKS" this comic is to Transformer fans what Penny Arcade is to gamers. uhhh considering my comments on Penny-Arcade, I guess that's mean too.
What I'm trying to get to is that when Walky is able to forgethimself and his forums, it can actually be a really funny comic that attacks the attributes of geekmedia. Attributes that not enough people noticed needed attacking. Like He-Man's high-heels. Now don't you regret reading this? (faz is great)
Bigger than Cheese:
almost as Nerdy as Shortpacked, almost as manly as Dr. McNinja, almost as adapting-groove as Bobbins, and almost as edgy as Penny Arcade. Values dynamically balaced so that Goon can do whatever he wants at any time without fear of growing stale. I don't write a comic because I'm afraid it would just come off as a clone of this. You don't have to really give a fraction of the crap about the characters (I don't) to just understand which one is the ID, the ego, and the Superego. Read this. READ IT.
Adventures of Dr. McNinja:
Why aren't you reading this?
Bob and George.
kjlkljlkjkljl it's a lot more like garfield than comics should be, I'm not saying it's not funny though. But I am saying that the world needs less so-so Megaman sprite comics and more so-so sprite comics made using graphics from Eternal Champions.
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Post by Sz on Dec 18, 2006 3:42:31 GMT -5
Not "getting" Sinfest is a sign of shallowness unto itself.
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Post by NeroKid on Dec 18, 2006 4:45:36 GMT -5
I got it, I enjoyed it, I read it for a few months and then I didn't need anymore of it. That was back when it was on keenspot. You could put the strips in any order and nobody would know the difference. At least Sexy Losers is willing to go ahead and show a nipple when it fits the context. If I wanted adorable and cute characters defying the cute archetype, I'd go watch Powerpuff Girls. And if I wanted Sacrelige, I'd go read Battle Pope. If I wanted ironic reinforcement of cultural stereotypes as passive self-indulgence, I'd watch the first season of The Man Show before they switched hosts. Sinfest just takes these basic elements and rolls them around together in a balanced formula the kids love because attaching to the life of a player is as good as having one. Sinfest is A Roaller Coaster. Go try to read Bigger Than Cheese. I'm not saying Tatsuya doesn't have skill, I'm just saying he's inspired as Gasoline Alley. lol thats funny as rpgworld but if you disagree with me I'm sure you can find thousands of people who support your opinion if you just look on myspace. |
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Post by Sz on Dec 18, 2006 18:13:02 GMT -5
I like Sinfest for the comics that cannot be classified into any of your catagories.
IE -- most of them.
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Post by Sofox on Dec 18, 2006 18:14:34 GMT -5
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures is my favourite webcomic. You do have to get past the bad art and the seemingly whimsical plotlines of the early part of the archives but once you do, trust me there is just something special about this strip. Hmmm, most of my other strips have already been posted, I occasionally check out Tom the Dancing Bug and of course look up Nemi. The Wotch is nice and the classic of Zebra Girl with it's great art and awesome themes is checked when I can (early archives have a bunch of 4th wall distractions but they fade away). Hmmm, I think that's me for the moment.
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2006 19:00:00 GMT -5
Erm, lemme think..... Apart from stuff already mentioned (Achewood, McNinja, Dominic Deegan, VGCats, Punks 'n Nerds, and very occasionally 8bit theater and Bob and George).... -God Mode www.godmodeonline.com/It's a gaming comic that started a little over a year ago. It occasionally tries to throw in a storyline, but it's mostly gaming 'n stuff. -Elf Only Inn www.elfonlyinn.net/It's a comic about a fantasy-themed roleplaying chatroom. Except that half of the recurring visitors are more into science fiction/anime/shoot 'm ups. I dunno what caused me to start reading this comic, but I guess I sorta started liking the characters. It went on a very long hiatus somewhere last year I think, but it just started again last month or so. -Freefall freefall.purrsia.com/default.htmTake one kleptomaniac alien starship captain, an anthropomorphic wolf engineer, a hyperactive robot, and a ship computer that has the sole wish of ending its aforementioned captain..... and.... uhm.... well, I suppose you'd get something along the lines of this. -Slightly Damned www.raizap.com/sdamned/index.htmA comic about demons, angels, and the "slightly damned" souls (souls whose balance of evil only slightly outweighed the good). -Hookie Dookie Panic www.hookiedookiepanic.com/index.phpIt's.... well, fun. Occasional gaming, occasional geekiness, but mostly just plain humor. -Polymer City Chronicles polymer-city.com/index.shtmlOnce upon a time it was a comic about gaming. And a very large woman. Then it got character development. Then it somehow formed a story. I.... really haven't read this in a while anymore, but I ought to catch up on it. Also at some point I read Sore Thumbs ( www.sorethumbsonline.com/ ) but it keeps getting all political on me and I'm all like "oh man dog i'm dutch how am i supposed to know what you're talking about" |
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