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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Captain K. on December 25, 2007, 04:44:18 AM
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Link to any webcomics you want to spread the word on.
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www.misfile.com is still awesome. Boy gets turned into a girl via mixup in heaven. Also has copious amounts of car racing if you're into that. It starts kind of weak, but once they get past the "hur hur, the angel uses pot" stage, you get a rather good exploration of gender dynamics.
Oh, and the boy/girl's father is a gynecologist.
http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=877
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http://www.mitchclem.com/mystupidlife/
New comic, but looks pretty promising. Seems this guy has done a lot of other comics - I'll have to check them out as well.
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http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=296424
Powerup Comics is the best gaming webcomic ever.
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http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=296424
Powerup Comics is the best gaming webcomic ever.
Some of the comments are actually pretty funny.
Then I got to the people trying to defend it, and my brain kinda puked on itself.
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Holy shit, I never bothered with the comments before. I love this comic even more.
Edit-Jesus fucking christ these must be the people who overanalyze PBF comics.
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www.qwantz.com
DINOSAUR FUCKING COMICS
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http://www.explosm.net/
You can't go wrong with Cyanide and Happiness!
Actually, wait, yeah you can. It takes a certain sense of humor to enjoy CaH, and if you don't have it you will probably just think it is crude and pointless. Only one way to find out whether you'll like it or not, eh?
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Everyone in this thread fails for not mentioning http://www.xkcd.com/
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Best one-panel (usually) comic on the Internet?
http://smbc-comics.com/
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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www.drmcninja.com
He is an Irish-American Ninja who is also a doctor with a Gorilla receptionist and a little boy bandito sidekick. He has a raptor. His family is currently fighting a ghost wizard who is also a senator. Ben Franklyn's clone was killed but thanks to an immortality potion Dracula helped him create he came back alive (along with everybody else in the cemetery, including the original Ben Franklyn), with the catch that now he must eat human hair else turn into the headless horseman. He is being stalked by a horse.
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Always been a huge fan of Slackerz.
http://theslackerz.com/index.php
Don't forget to read through the Old Slackerz archive.
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http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=296424
Powerup Comics is the best gaming webcomic ever.
This....is so staggeringly unfunny that I almost suspect it's intentional. It's like someone set out to make the webcomic equivalent of Family Circus.
Anyway, I only follow a couple regularly:
Slow Wave, a four-panel comic derived from dreams submitted by readers. As absurd as you might expect: http://www.slowwave.com/index.php
Dresden Codak, updated infrequently and more amusing when it didn't have a plot, but still quirky (somewhere, Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and immortal): http://dresdencodak.com/index.html
Antihero for Hire, half-serious, half-satirical take on superheroing as a regulated industry: http://www.antiheroforhire.com/
Kid Radd wrapped up years ago, but I'm still hyping the thing in case anyone missed it. Sprite comic done right, with all original designs: http://www.kidradd.com/
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http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=296424
Powerup Comics is the best gaming webcomic ever.
This....is so staggeringly unfunny that I almost suspect it's intentional. It's like someone set out to make the webcomic equivalent of Family Circus.
Ding ding ding. I was wondering when somebody was going to figure it out.
http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=13204&start=0
Though I can understand why it would be hard to see it's a satire, it does such a wonderful job of emulating actual terrible gaming webcomics in so many ways without getting too obvious.
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...Get ready for a long list.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
Why is this not here yet?
http://www.bunny-comic.com/
You can't tell me this isn't at least as awesome as xkcd.
http://goblinscomic.com/
Updates may be sporadic, but it's still an awesome read.
http://captainsnes.com/
...Yep, this is awesome too. A serious sprite comic - I don't know how he did it, but it's done.
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/
My opinion that Ozy and Millie >= Bunny.
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http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/
Irregular Webcomic. Done with legos and gaming minis, and running multiple themes. Everything from Ye Olde Standard Fantasy Gaming Theme to Lego Mythbusters to an Indiana Jones-esque theme to a What If Shakespear Were Born In the Modern Times thing. One of my favorite webcomics all around.
Also, seconding the Girl Genius hype.
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www.qwantz.com
DINOSAUR FUCKING COMICS
HELL YES.
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Uh people had to actually think about that Power Up thing to get it? I read through the whole thing last night and it is pretty damned funny in the intentionally unfunny way. Not worth reading more of ever or reading regularly, but it is still funny by not being funny.
Get more post modern. How can people like Dada comics like Dinosaur Comics and Dr McNinja and not get Power Up is beyond me.
Now DM of the Rings everyone should have read already.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14
Guy running through LotR movie screen caps and playing them out as a cliche D&D session. Very funny after he gets in his stride.
Which brings up Chainmail Bikini http://www.feartheboot.com/comic
Which is the same guy branching out into drawn comics rather than screen caps (with an artist obviously). Funny in and of itself and funnier to read the comments that accompany each comic.
And to tie things together with Gate's post
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/darthsanddroids/
The guy from Irregular Webcomic doing the same thing as DM of the Rings but with Star Wars, still on Episode 1 at the moment.
Edit - Oh yeah and some day there might be someone else that likes Chopping Block.
http://www.choppingblock.org/
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http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20020604
Scary-Go-Round. It is awesome. And British, but mostly awesome.
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Uh. Wait. You mean that people didn't get that Powerup was supposed to be intentionally bad?
Kay...
Re: Chopping block
The one for today was pretty good, the others I've read not so much. Might be something there.
Re: Bunny-whatever
...Seriously, guy? As awesome as xkcd? This comic sucks.
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Chopping Block isn't great for once off laugh out loud stuff and often uses kind of stale jokes at times. It wins with cold hearted relentless determination and art style. There is only so many jokes you can make about the human condition and with serial killer archetypes, it is how each one is approached and portrayed that gets it. Also the pain staking work put into each individual comic is pretty cool as well.
If it had been in any other format I would have stopped reading it a long time ago, but the short sharp one panel humor works really well for what it is. Kind of Familly Circus style done in a way that makes sense.
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Going to have to give chopping block a shot. I like the style.
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Best one-panel (usually) comic on the Internet?
http://smbc-comics.com/
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Replace that question mark with a period, and you've got something.
Also, http://www.thebookofbiff.com/ (http://www.thebookofbiff.com/) is worth a shot. Pretty uneven ideas, but if you like the execution, you'll find a lot to like.
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Besides the ones already mentioned (including a resounding repeat of Kid Radd - watch. NOW.), here's my recommendations: http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html (http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html)
Order of the Stick, and Erfworld. The former's a pretty popular D+D campaign style, while the latter is my view of the hellish world I shall cast all ye Fire Emblem lovers into once I become omnipotent.
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I like Erfworld, but it's starting to drag. Plus updates only once a week - if you're lucky.
OotS is good at the beginning, has been fairly lame for a while.
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Dunno if people share most of my tastes for webcomics, but here goes.
http://crownprince.bubonicpress.com/jg-bp2/2005/09/01/1-finally-back-from-the-war/
Might have found this one on old forum here? Either way, owns.
http://www.plusev.net/d/20060811.html
Poker comic, doesn't update much any more... probably because it's going downhill. Earlier/mid stuff is decent though.
http://www.marrymemovie.com/main/2007/02/14/page-1-ex-boyfriends/
Romantic/Comedy... not bad and reading the comments amuses the evil inside of me. (I'm banned from posting on most of my IPs)
http://www.sinfest.net/
Think most people have at least heard of this one, it's been around for ages.
http://www.sorethumbsonline.com/d/20040308.html
Also been around for ages, politicalish humor oftentimes.
http://www.shd-wk.com/index.php?strip_id=0
Spiky Haired Dragon Worthless Knight. Title says it all.
http://www.stripteasecomic.com/d/20000930.html
Seven years old. First year kinda meh, next five solid, most previous year meh again. About people who write comics.
http://emi-art.com/twtyh/1_01remake.html
Schools in Japan are weird. Not sure why I like a story about guys who sing with makeup on, but I do!
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Have been reading through Kid Radd. It's okay. I'm up to the Earthbound Spoof. Fairly generic anime-influenced comic, though the writing is decent enough, if... typical.
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www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html
Handpainted weekly comic depicting the mostly noncontinuous adventures of an omnipotent nine-year-old (or thereabouts) girl. Recently, there have also been zombies.
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http://talesofmu.nfshost.com/story/book01/1
I'm somewhat hesitant to hype this. It's strange, even by my (admittedly lax) standards. It's an ongoing story, rather than a webcomic. There is some good writing and character development, but you have to suffer through the unpleasant lesbian sex of the first book before you get to it. And yes, I did just say "unpleasant" in front of "lesbian sex".
NSFW, by the way.
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Off to bed in a few, so not bothering to read the other posts right now. Favs of mine are www.xkcd.com and www.explosm.net (Cyanide and Happiness). Dunno if they've been mentioned already, but if they have, they deserve another mention!
BTW, xkcd can be reallllllly nerdy at times, and C&H, just read a few. You'll then know if its for you or not.
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Since even the people I thought would aren't reading it, I have to recommend Anime News Nina on ANN. Funny in awesome ways. The artist really does some ridicuously hilarious things with facial expressions. It's all anime based though.
Link to the latest.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anime-news-nina/2008-04-02
This is the one I mean specifically dealing with funny facial expressions
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anime-news-nina/2008-01-30
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http://www.basicinstructions.net/
Some fairly amusing stuff to come by, since everyone else already mentioned the ones I've been checkin' out on a regular basis.
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http://www.darthsanddroids.net/
I think I already linked to this in this very topic. Star Wars Episode 1 screen shots put together as a comic to parody the movie and PnP RPG tropes.
They just finished the pod race scene and managed to make it awesome.
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http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/
This was interesting, linked to on Lore's blog thing. It was mmmm pretty good. I don't think it will be something I favourite, but what is out so far was worth reading.
Explicit sex acknowledge to exist and while displayed it is as narrative rather than pornographic. I dunno, it is good in the same way that Tom Waits or some songs like How to Save a Life by the Fray are I guess.
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I have to hype this week's Anime News Nina. I've hyped this comic in the topic before, but no one seems to listen to me. So... go on not listening, I guess?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anime-news-nina/2008-06-25
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I have to hype this week's Anime News Nina. I've hyped this comic in the topic before, but no one seems to listen to me. So... go on not listening, I guess?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anime-news-nina/2008-06-25
...was I supposed to tell you that I've read it? Read all the comics up till now, pretty good fun for someone like me who was an impressionable child when Toonami first started showing anime, and grew up learning about it.
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Check www.misfile.com today. Chris and wife had their baby six weeks early due to complications.
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Ryogo's post in the WGAYP topic reminded me of this one. Bumping it for Erfworld hype and gems like this:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0139.html
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Ryogo's post in the WGAYP topic reminded me of this one. Bumping it for Erfworld hype and gems like this:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0139.html
Yeah, its an awesome one. Along with Order of the Stick, which is on the same site :D
Others I'm now reading:
8-Bit Theatre (http://www.nuklearpower.com/) - Adventures of a party of 4 becoming the Light Warriors a la FF1 to save the world. Except everything they do is a screw-up/evil.
NerfNow (http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/4) - Webcomic focusing mostly on TF2, though from time to time the author does other story arcs (StarCraft, Left 4 Dead, and MegaMan are the ones I can think of off the top of my head). Very little dialog in strips, and is less than a year old. But its very well done and hilarious if you like TF2. Read the comments/photo comments too. Some of them are hilarious.
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I'm gonna mention xkcd again, just because of it's sheer awesomeness. :D
Also, quite surprised nobody's mentioned this one - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php
Bit of a storyline going back from it, with the occasional random comic - usually games-related - and overall, utterly awesome. Kept me laughing for a good few days as I read through all the old comics. ^_^
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Here's a webcomic I read years ago and then forgot about.
www.sinfest.net
Awesome webcomic. Reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes somewhat, except much more adult themed.
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http://questionablecontent.net/ - Not really gaming related but more something like indie music or something. Sometimes the references thereto go way over my head, but it can be amusing, dramatic and fun at times.
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Caught up 8bit a week or two ago. It's still the same thing it was 8 years ago. This isn't a bad thing, it's still funny and doesn't try to be something it isn't material wise. He's finally in the Temple of Fiends, took long enough.
Ctrl+Alt+Del- As I understand it, it's become popular to bag on CAD in some circles. There's a very good reason for this. An abortion/miscarriage storyline in a gaming webcomic? Really?
Oh yeah, he's also hilariously wrong about the medical stuff in the storyline to boot, which is just sad.
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This just in, CAD is shit and the only reason to laugh is because it is trainwreck that is double plus sweet because the author is a douche.
It isn't "become popular to bag" something if what is there is shit. That is just people making fun of things that suck.
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I don't think the problem is that people start hating CAD, it's that people stop being 13 years old.
ps Tim Buckley's internet antics have something to do with it as well
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No idea about Buckley personally. What's the story there?
And yeah, I've enjoyed reading CAD from time to time but the author takes himself way too seriously.
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Back in the day he used to frequent a website that involved a bunch of underage camwhores. He took a picture of himself with the name of one of them (Jackie) on his malformed penis and sent it to her. She was 14-15 at the time.
Eventually this got back to his forum, specifically one where rules were more relaxed. The picture was found and posted in a topic. When Buckley found out, he not only banned the person who posted the pic, but everyone who posted in the topic, period, even the ones who were defending him. When people complained about it he banned them. When moderators asked him to tone it down he banned them. Eventually one of the admins of the forum got pissed enough to start constantly unbanning people that he banned and the whole forum was in turmoil. His reponse was to completely close down the entire forum, ban everyone, then completely delete the forum the picture existed in and pretend that nothing happened.
If you want to join the CAD forums your screename and information is reviewed by two administrators before you can post. Any mention of what went on results in an instant ban.
Also:
This is so great.
A fan sent me a condolences gift yesterday to try to lift me up. Boy did it ever. Apparantly there is a site called Wikiscanner, where you can look up someone's IP address, enter it into the site and it will show you every Wiki entry and edit they have ever made.
This fan had an email from Tim Buckley and used his IP address to wiki-search him.
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/list_edits.php?ip1=68.60.213.27&ip2=&ip3=&ip4=#
My favorite: Tim deleted the enitre wiki entry for PvP and replaced it with "pvp sucks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=32072999
If you look, you'll see that at various points, Tim vandalized his own page anonymously, then posed as CAD fans admonishing the vandalism. This was like Christmas, and my birthday all rolled into one email.
Dear fan who wished to remain anonymous. One thing Mike Wieringo LOVED to do with me was gossip like a fucking bored housewife. He would have FUCKING LOVED THIS SHIT!
Thank you for this. It made a difficult day better.
There's more if that's not enough for you.
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How about this one for his personality Super. He is the kind of guy THAT MAKES A MISCARRIAGE PLOT SEQUENCE IN A VIDEO GAME COMIC.
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Only thing that bothered me about the miscarriage sequence is the entire "lolneverhappened" way the characters act right now.
also nidz moar vidya gaymz, less stupid store and underage humour.
"lol boobies"? Seriously?
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I'm really enjoying the comic Subnormality (http://"http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html"). It's a text heavy most of the time, and veers into the pretentious and artsy, but not often and well I'm a pretentious and artsy kind of guy. Also, hey, most comics are funny to people outside that demographic! Or not funny, because of the text. Or... oh hell you know what I mean. Better than CAD.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17315_4-more-equally-unlikely-mythical-creatures-comic.html
EDIT: This one, also.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17267_truth-behind-obnoxious-assholes-4-pie-charts.html
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Thanks for that one, Zenthor - enjoying it. Outta curiousity, is it random update times?
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It's pretty infrequent, I don't know because I only check it about once a month, and that's about it.
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http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/04/27/fcbd-09-page-1/
Atomic Robo's Free Comic Book Day installment for 2009.
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Hyping Erfworld again. The first book is almost complete, and they now have their own website separate from giantitp: www.erfworld.com
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Hyping Erfworld again. The first book is almost complete, and they now have their own website separate from giantitp: www.erfworld.com
Here here! (or is it Hear Hear?)
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http://www.caracarn.com/bc/ Online Bloom County comic strip collection. Surprisingly topical at points- and then he drops a Gary Hart joke and you remember how old these strips are. Still a fun read.
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Dammit Super now I'm going to be reading those all day. *shakes fist*
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It stops about halfway through, sadly.
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Everyone in this thread fails for not mentioning http://www.xkcd.com/
I figure this is the place to point out xkcd's new commemorative layout...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH MY EYES
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Bwahahaha.
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Geocities shutting down?! Yes! Maybe now all my past mistakes with website design will be forever lost to the sands of time (and not easily found with a Google search)!
Maybe... >.>;;
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What's funny is that geocities layout is only a quarter as bad as some of the designs I've seen.
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man, went to the forum to comment on xkcd and y'all had me beat. dang.
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http://www.pantheracomic.com/
Captain Planet + furries. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
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http://www.vgcats.com/super/?
Super Effective, basically a webcomic that follows the Pokemon story and lampoons it. Figure it's a win with this group. The comic that won me over: http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=29
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http://nedroid.com/
Why haven't I linked this before.
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http://www.vgcats.com/super/?
Super Effective, basically a webcomic that follows the Pokemon story and lampoons it. Figure it's a win with this group. The comic that won me over: http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=29
Speaking of Pokemon-related strips, while I don't like brawlinthefamily in general, this one I found funny:
http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1047
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www.darcomic.com
A slice-of-life/diary webcomic that's over now, but is still a good read. The last comic sums it up better than I could. Warning: The front page (including the final comic) is work-safe, but most of the site is not.
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Welp. Here's a gem of a comic that's been around since 2006 that I somehow only discovered yesterday.
Sociopathic superheroine has wacky adventures. Art is reminiscent of E-surance commercials.
http://nonadventures.com/
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http://www.harkavagrant.com
WARNING: Awesome. Also history.
Add to the list of "WTH hasn't this been linked yet."
EDIT: Speaking of that list...
http://overcompensating.com/
WARNING: Misanthropy.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
WARNING: Dramacomic
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Randomly stumbled on to something amusing, thought I'd share.
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/2010/02/22/02222010/ (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/2010/02/22/02222010/)
Called Manly Men Doing Manly Things, it is about a temp agency for video game characters with more biceps than brains. Sadly, Captain Falcon has yet to be more than a cameo.
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Why is it so funny when Dr. McNinja characters don't use contractions?
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http://www.sevenextraordinarythings.com/chapters?pid=88+&cid=7#chapterpagestop
Pretty interesting story about art college.
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/
In so many words,
Dave: Retrieve Dead Bird.
Dude, that bird is long gone. It probably won't last long in this heat anyway.
You don't even know what's up with this sick heat. The sun threatens to set but won't step off. It's staring you down, like the big red eye of a hot needle skipping on a groove its tracing 'round the earth. While lingering in midair its heat seems to suspend time itself, stretching it like warped vinyl. It's meant to rain this season but there ain't been a drop in sight. Even a little drizzle would help. Might help to fizzle this sizzle a little bizzle, set the record straight on this global turn-tizzle.
"So don't change the dizzle, turn it up a little
I got a living room full of fine dime brizzles
Waiting on the Pizzle, the Dizzle and the Shizzle
G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo
When the pimp's in the crib ma
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot..."
-English Romantic poet, John Keats
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Spinnerette has been consistently amusing. Uwe Boll's "Oregon Trail".
http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20091231
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Spinnerette has been consistently amusing. Uwe Boll's "Oregon Trail".
http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20091231
Way to kill the DL, jerkface.
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You just lack the ability to appreciate Uwe Boll's artistic vision, you troglodyte.
As mentioned at Contenders, Order of the Stick has gotten good again:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html
And Seven Extraordinary Things ended its run. Good stuff, check it out. Looking forward to his next project.
EDIT: Next project is go. www.douglefler.com
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http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws1/
Long-running series about girls, dating, and lots of alcohol. It's like if mc and Zenny teamed up to make a webcomic.
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http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/store.html#minus
I can't remember if anybody but Tai and myself were fans of minus when it was running, but it's a gorgeous, whimsical, and sadly-concluded webcomic...that's now available in expensive-but-worth-it book form.
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Obliged to mention some of the more glaring omissions from this thread.
Templar, AZ (http://templaraz.com/) -- Starts good, remains good.
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/babbage-and-lovelace-vs-the-client/) -- What it sounds like.
Band Vs. Band (http://kathleenjacques.com/sketchbook/about-band-vs-band) -- Good art and lots of band fights (http://kathleenjacques.com/sketchbook/archive/introducing) interspersed with crucial, sobering messages about environmental responsibility (http://kathleenjacques.com/sketchbook/archive/a-very-important-public-service-announcement).
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http://penny-arcade.com/404
there ought to be more of this in the world.
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http://battlepug.com/
This is Battlepug. It is about what would happen if Conan the Barbarian grew up in Candyland.
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Homestuck's End of Act 5 was posted. Within minutes, it crashed Newgrounds. Now it's available for download.
So, you know. That's a thing.
I think it may have been the DL that first turned me on to MSPaint Adventures toward the end of Problem Sleuth's run, in which case, all of the gratitude, all of it. I feel increasingly confident in calling Homestuck my all-time favorite piece of media, although it hasn't given me quite the "nothing will ever be the same again" feeling Final Fantasy 6 did.
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http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=1
Rather good sci-fi comic featuring a giant Tom Baker.
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www.powernapcomic.com
A pretty well-told story of a world where only one guy sleeps, and occasionally has shark-dogs thrown at his face. Written by the author of College Roomies From Hell, but with a new artist.
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http://www.namesakecomic.com/
People enter fairy-tale worlds. Stuff happens.
Some of the artwork is stunning, particularly the issue covers.
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http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
Warning: Extremely NWS language.
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http://formalsweatpants.com/journal/2011/11/27/the-final-test.html
http://formalsweatpants.com/journal/2011/11/16/the-return-of-trolley.html
http://formalsweatpants.com/journal/2012/1/16/tebow-time.html
http://formalsweatpants.com/journal/2011/4/15/call-center-fantasy.html
http://formalsweatpants.com/journal/2011/6/13/american-hero.html
A representative sampling. I love the facial expressions. (Check out the look on Jesus' face in the last panel of the third one.)
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Guilded Age (http://guildedage.net/)
Standard D&D/WoW party stuff, with good characters. And then there's a big twist.
Wizard School (http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1031)
Harry Potter gets replaced with Rob. I award this comic many, many points. (http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1500)
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Bumping this so I can find it.
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http://bvbcomix.com/
New site for Band vs Band
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(http://calmblueoceans.com/comics/2011-08-04-047.jpg)
http://calmblueoceans.com/47/
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Warning, yaoi: The Young Protectors (http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/archive/ete_title_page/)
Young superhero falls for UOM supervillain. Nice production values on this for a webcomic.
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http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/
Despite the name it is not an uber-feminist manifesto. It's actually a very well-written deconstruction of the super hero genre.
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Fisheye Placebo
http://tapastic.com/episode/2139
Some really good art. The plot is some totalitarian state stuff that I don't dig. But the art is good enough to make me follow it.
Grey Is...
http://greyismanga.com/
Niu is disappointed when he found out this not BL. But it still has two men living under the same roof, so Niu won't complain.
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Bumping this up and I'm also requesting anything new and worthwhile. I haven't read a new webcomic in 5 years and I'm still reading the ones that have been mentioned in this thread that I like. I'm looking for something to read while I'm doing something tedious at work and preferably it'd be funny without being overly verbose.
For reference, my favorites have been perrybiblefellowship, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Hark a Vagrant, Dinosaur Comics, and Married to the Sea.
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Hmm, I should probably drop a couple on here that I picked up recently. But am too lazy to get links.
As for the question posed by the Duck. I have to ask, have you tried Scenes From a Multiverse (http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/14/parenthood/)? Seems like it's in your wheelhouse. It's by the guy who did Goats, but every day cuts to a new multiverse with a single comic with a decent joke and is occasionally kinda deep at the same time.
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http://www.asofterworld.com/
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http://www.asofterworld.com/
(http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/cleansheets.jpg)
(http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/parka.jpg)
(http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/bus_stop.jpg)
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Yeah, I remember Strags recommending asofterworld back in the day. Good stuff.
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Yeah i only read a softer world, smbc and dinosaur comics anymore
I liker doghouse diaries well enough as a less good form of humour but it really turned to shit lately. And i say this about nothing but the simpsons basically.
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Came my way via random Facebook share. There's enough Disney fans here that it's worth a link. Some are gold, especially the most recent one.
http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/tagged/Pocket-Princesses
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Does anyone still understand like more than one xkcd strip out of four?
It's funny how this popular , nerdy but still understandable comic has become this ridiculously exclusive thing. it still has the same fanbase , that now tries to pierce the meaning of every comic together over at "explain xkcd" like it's a riddle instead of a comic, because trying to get the joke alone is now a fool's errand.
I can't say this makes for particularly fun times.
I think most of the fanbase is still sticking around because once in a while you get a ridiculously ambitious, innovative comic.
Btw pbf has started re-updating lately. Pbf, still great, etc
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Uh, really? I haven't read it in a while, but going back the last ten comics...
1489 - Physics joke that I get enough from context to get the joke (though not find it funny) even though I only really know the names of the forces beforehand.
1488 - Flowchart joke
1487 - Joke about Tornado hitting a merry go round being fun
1486 - Haha Vacuum has TWO meanings
1485 - Hahah OK this one is pretty great just go read it yourself (http://xkcd.com/1485/). No a priori knowledge needed to get the joke (maybe only funny to native English speakers / Americans?)
1484 - Knowledge needed to get the joke is at the header of the comic. Wordswordswords but pretty funny.
1483 - Ha, ha, language changes!
1482 - I guess if you don't know that music is comprised of notes ... or I guess don't know note names, this would be obtuse?
1481 - Point to Fenrir, I don't understand any of the API gobbledy gook, but I'd argue that that is the joke itself.
1480 - Hipster anti-anti-SuperBowl comic. Americans only I guess.
1479 - Ha ha, computers do stupid things.
1478 - Point to Fenrir
Yeah some of them are obtuse but most of them have jokes that are pretty easy to understand even if you're not knowledgeable in the field they're drawing from. I'd argue that the bigger problem with XKCD is that except for the one I linked none of them are really that funny.
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I might have used hyperbole, and there might be times when I think there has to be something more than the joke I'm seeing.
Look at that stupid flowchart though
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Does anyone still understand like more than one xkcd strip out of four?
Yes. Helps if you're a computer programmer and/or have a casual knowledge of physics, though, for the two biggest wells of jokes.
As Zenny already said, the bigger issue with xkcd is that it isn't always all that funny. Like, throwing in a cool geeky reference on the side? Great, people who notice it will find it funny and it'll be invisible otherwise. (Munroe does this way better than so many other writers, who can't bear the thought of someone missing any of their precious content.) However sometimes it's all just a dumb "check out this reference" thing, and sometimes it's just randomly preachy but not in a way I agree with. (The Super Bowl PSA was fine because it was an interesting thought, for example, but if it was something I disagreed with, eh.)
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Enough talk about shitty xkcd, Let's Speak English instead!
http://www.marycagle.com/index.php?id=1
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I don't remember if I've mentioned Paranatural before or not, but yeah, it deserves a mention for this if nothing else. Frieza backpack.
http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=335
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Captain K... has stolen my bookmarks.
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and your heart
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Moving on from Daleks that know way too much about my heart, I present to you all Tower of God. (http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/tower-of-god/list?title_no=95) It's a Korean comic about a boy called the 25th Bam who enters a tower that's kinda a cross between HunterxHunter and SaGa 1. As such, nifty martial arts fighting happens fairly often, complete with some low key mystical powers. However, there's two main twists. First, most of the fights are part of tests or competitions, which means that each one has something going on besides "Beat the other guy up" which changes the tempo and makes for nice twists. Also, the person who writes it obviously likes intrigue, so why everyone is doing what they're doing is important. This also leads into the key themes, trust and betrayal.
The first season is really just a gripping introduction to the world and how things work. While the second season (It feels like it should be on the third season, but season 2 is still chugging along) introduces the main plot and widens the focus.
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This makes way too much sense: http://nonadventures.com/2015/06/20/the-some-of-all-fears/
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Sometimes, Wonderella manages a quietly brilliant streak amid its outrageously deconstructive fury.
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Nice.
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Just want to note, Canada has been trying to do that for decades now with the tech shootings. It has taken a real push from some real douchebags to keep the shooters name relevant.
Also just 2 comics later Wonderella drops some more truth bombs
http://nonadventures.com/2015/07/04/whine-enthusiast/
That shit is ice cold.
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If you haven't been reading The Last Halloween you should be.
http://www.last-halloween.com
But she also writes a random/blog comic
http://www.jspowerhour.com/
which is occasionally brilliant:
http://www.jspowerhour.com/comics/73
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This is a great little story.
http://www.broken-telephone.com/comic/cover
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Today is a godawful tragedy.
The last page of Dr. McNinja (http://www.drmcninja.com/) has been posted.
If you never checked out it, now would be the time. The comics were always best read in chunks, and now all the chunks are there. Go read it.
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Today is a godawful tragedy.
The last page of Dr. McNinja (http://www.drmcninja.com/) has been posted.
If you never checked out it, now would be the time. The comics were always best read in chunks, and now all the chunks are there. Go read it.
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https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies
doot doot new Christopher Hastings webcomics