Webcomics, Discussion And Recommendations

[PsihoKekec]

Here are some of the best webcomics by my opinion

Schlock Mercenary - a long running space opera in it's final story arc. Bring your own plasma gun, for archive crawl is massive

Girl Genius - action, romance, mad science and plot hook pileups.

Something Positive - more like something snarky, can get downright depressive at times

Stand Still, Stay Silent - 90 years ago a 99,999% of humanity was wiped out by misterious disease, this story is set in the changed world, author's previous comic is also worth a look

Port Sherry - funny, sometimes thought provoking comics

The Whitboard - paintball and mad scientist, what could go wrong

Vexxarr - after failed invasion of Earth, Vexxarr has to go on the run from the Bleen Empire, one of the most hillarious comics to me

Terminal Lance - everything you didn't want to know about Marine Corps

Ended or on hiatus

Exterminatus Now - antromorphic animals inquisiton team. Very British humor

The Adeventures of Dr. McNinja - balls out ludicrious, author used all the cliches and he used them with gusto

Chopping Block - single panel commics about life and work of hockey masked serial killer Butch R. Mann. Very macabre humor.

Casey and Andy - every day shennigans of two mad scientist friends living together, along with their girlfriends and long suffering neighbour.

 

[Chaos Marine]

The Perry Bible Fellowship - Often surreal, strange and funny. The Birthday strip is my favourite.

RandoWis - A very good web comic with odd humour and there's a monthly MMO side-comic that is 90% feels.

Drowtales : Moonless Age - Sumptuously drawn and complex story about a Drow society experiening an uprising.

Nerf NOW!! — Sniping in TF2 - An entertaining gaming web comic with surprisingly wholesome cheesecake characters.

Darths & Droids - Web comic in which the Star Wars movies are done as a D&D campaign.

Giant In the Playground Games - A great D&D to web comic series.

Goblins - Life through Their Eyes - Thursday, August 17, 2006 - Another D&D web comic following two parties, one of goblins and another of a human and a dwarf though they've done the dreaded splitting the party thing.

Sluggy Freelance - Another oldie but goodie, it's slowed down with the updates recently but still an entertaining read.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Giant In the Playground Games - A great D&D to web comic series.

Completely forgot about Order of the Stick, is Durkon still a vampire?

 

[Chaos Marine]

Completely forgot about Order of the Stick, is Durkon still a vampire?

Spoiler

No, He showed the vampire a singularly unselfish, good act completed by his mother, confusing it as to why it would ever actually do something so selfless. He then forced all his memories and experiences into the vampire... parasite? Consciousness? Forcibly turning it into himself and then wrecking the vampire's plans. I'm not doing how badass it was nor the levels of feels involved any justice so I highly recommend continuing on with it.

 

[Argent]

So I only read a few web comics and you list most of them. But I enjoy Girl Genius and even bought the light novels and comic books. I also read Dow Tales, Order of the Stick.

I do have to say that unless you play d and d Order of the Stick does lose a lot of its humor. So it is definitely one for d and d fans.

One that is older is Sanfu comics. It takes or favorite cartoons network characters and gives stories with a twist.

 

[Chaos Marine]

So I only read a few web comics and you list most of them. But I enjoy Girl Genius and even bought the light novels and comic books. I also read Dow Tales, Order of the Stick.

I do have to say that unless you play d and d Order of the Stick does lose a lot of its humor. So it is definitely one for d and d fans.

One that is older is Sanfu comics. It takes or favorite cartoons network characters and gives stories with a twist.

I remember that, the release schedule got so sporadic that I stopped following it though. There were a lot of good comics that ended without any closure unfortunately. VGCats, TSOALR, Omake Theater, EataTau recently ended this year too.

 

[Argent]

I remember that, the release schedule got so sporadic that I stopped following it though. There were a lot of good comics that ended without any closure unfortunately. VGCats, TSOALR, Omake Theater, EataTau recently ended this year too.

It still is. I check maybe once a month and can see an update at most.

Some others I use read are Misfile, the Wotch and el goonish shive but lost interest in them all.

I may pick up Misfile again if life settles down since it was some interesting charater driven slice of life. But it moved so slow that I started checking it weekly. Over time I just got busy and it fell off my radar.

I also tried multiple times with Girl Power. I like the art style and it has some funny jokes along with a decent amount of unrealized potential. But it makes Day of Our Lifes look like a fast move drama. They definitely need an editor because they have yet to learn the value of time skip and show instead of telling.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Didn't TSOLAR end several years ago?

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Goblins - Life through Their Eyes - Thursday, August 17, 2006 - Another D&D web comic following two parties, one of goblins and another of a human and a dwarf though they've done the dreaded splitting the party thing.

Thunt's antics grow real tiresome after a while.

 

[Laskar]

It still is. I check maybe once a month and can see an update at most.

Some others I use read are Misfile, the Wotch and el goonish shive but lost interest in them all.

I may pick up Misfile again if life settles down since it was some interesting charater driven slice of life. But it moved so slow that I started checking it weekly. Over time I just got busy and it fell off my radar.

Well, Misfile wrapped up a few months ago. There's a sequel currently being written, but I can't be arsed to read it.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Two more that are updated ... sometimes

Lackadaisy - a comic set in prohibition era with antromorphic cats as the cast. Very good art.

Gone with the Blastwave - after nuclear armageddon three sides fight ... to win a war I guess. Comic follows two soldiers of the Reds as they deal with absurdity, insanity and survival.

 

[Argent]

Well, Misfile wrapped up a few months ago. There's a sequel currently being written, but I can't be arsed to read it.

Well maybe I will have to take a look snice it is ended.

Two more that are updated ... sometimes

Lackadaisy - a comic set in prohibition era with antromorphic cats as the cast. Very good art.

Gone with the Blastwave - after nuclear armageddon three sides fight ... to win a war I guess. Comic follows two soldiers of the Reds as they deal with absurdity, insanity and survival.

Gone withe the Blast Wave is funny. But it is dead last time I looked. It basically ran in to the problem being short jokes with very little plot to drive the comic foward. This means that the author ran out of places to quick.

But stil worth checking out for anyone that has not read it before.

 

[PsihoKekec]

I have too much time on my hands today, so I just found out that Legostar Galactica is back. It's mix of Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars, made in Legos.

 

[Darth Robbhi]

If you can handle some VERY NSFW guy on guy action, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is excellent. It covers a cross-country road trip from Berkeley to Providence in May 2008. Very moving. I reread it once a year or so.

Pascalle Lepas' Wilde Life, about the supernatural goings on in Podunk, Oklahoma, is another good one. A horror comic, it still tugs at the heartstrings.

 

[Scottty]

Some webcomics are "a new strip a day, every day, with a double one on Sundays"
eg: Schlock Mercenary by Howard Taylor.
Dilbert by Scott Adams.

And some are the opposite - each episode is a multi-strip page, but the updates can be months or sometimes even years apart.
Order of the Stick being an example.
Another such is Dresden Codak. - it has a futuristic, sometimes quite surreal theme. Both stand-alone short stories and long complex ones starring a cyborg girl called Kimiko Ross. But don't expect the next episode to be anytime soon.
Some comics have an interesting storyline going, but then the author just abandons his work, for whatever reason. Example: this OOTS-inspired one: Anti-Heroes.
(As with OOTS, start at the oldest, lowest-numbered episode to get into the story)

 

[Laskar]

Kill 6 Billion Demons is well worth a read. In my opinion, it was one of the greatest webcomics on the internet. Just look at that art. Look at it.

The premise is that Allison, the girl shown above, was about to go all the way with her boyfriend Zaid when a dying knight appeared in her bedroom, pursued by fiery skeleton cavalry. Though they cut the knight's head off and abducted Zaid, the knight forced a key into Allison's forehead, plunging her into the decadent ruins of Heaven that lie at the hub of all reality.

With me so far? Girl with a key in her forehead that gives her mystical powers, boyfriend who is abducted by demon angel skeletons, and the hellish heaven Throne filled with demons and the rotting corpses of gods. Oh, and that heaven is ruled by seven demiurges who usurped the old King and seek the key in Allison's head.

The early chapters were sublime. Allison was a stranger in a strange world, and those early chapters were a slow nightmare of staring eyes and clammy flesh and teeth. IMO, the latest chapter is weighed down with relationship drama between Allison and a demon*. And since there's been a timeskip and Allison has gotten used to Throne, the art is tamer and less weird.

*Yeah, sure, the fans are going wild because lesbians are cool and representation and such. Meanwhile, I'm put off by the fact that Cio is a pint-sized beetle-demon who was ancient and powerful but now presents herself as a schoolgirl. I'd call it freaky-creepy no matter what Human was bumping uglies with her.

 

[Argent]

Kill 6 Billion Demons is well worth a read. In my opinion, it was one of the greatest webcomics on the internet. Just look at that art. Look at it.

The premise is that Allison, the girl shown above, was about to go all the way with her boyfriend Zaid when a dying knight appeared in her bedroom, pursued by fiery skeleton cavalry. Though they cut the knight's head off and abducted Zaid, the knight forced a key into Allison's forehead, plunging her into the decadent ruins of Heaven that lie at the hub of all reality.

With me so far? Girl with a key in her forehead that gives her mystical powers, boyfriend who is abducted by demon angel skeletons, and the hellish heaven Throne filled with demons and the rotting corpses of gods. Oh, and that heaven is ruled by seven demiurges who usurped the old King and seek the key in Allison's head.

The early chapters were sublime. Allison was a stranger in a strange world, and those early chapters were a slow nightmare of staring eyes and clammy flesh and teeth. IMO, the latest chapter is weighed down with relationship drama between Allison and a demon*. And since there's been a timeskip and Allison has gotten used to Throne, the art is tamer and less weird.

*Yeah, sure, the fans are going wild because lesbians are cool and representation and such. Meanwhile, I'm put off by the fact that Cio is a pint-sized beetle-demon who was ancient and powerful but now presents herself as a schoolgirl. I'd call it freaky-creepy no matter what Human was bumping uglies with her.

I have started reading that when it was suggested to me a while back on SB. Overall I like it and the art style sells it to me.


That is one thing about Web Comics. A lot of them think any art stlye can work or just use werid 3D figures. But certain types of comics and art styles work better together. I doubt that Gorl Genius would work with the same art style of the Order of the Stick. The art style matter because it can draw or repel readers before the frist page. Even main stream comics have this problem with cool cover art and badly or cheaply drawing insides.

 

[Laskar]

That is one thing about Web Comics. A lot of them think any art stlye can work or just use werid 3D figures. But certain types of comics and art styles work better together. I doubt that Gorl Genius would work with the same art style of the Order of the Stick. The art style matter because it can draw or repel readers before the frist page. Even main stream comics have this problem with cool cover art and badly or cheaply drawing insides.

Very much so. And to be honest, the early art for Girl Genius... takes a little getting used to.
I think what sells Girl Genius isn't just the characters' ability to emote, but the vibrant backgrounds and the little jokes. Rich Burlew's stick art is very developed, but still pretty limited. It couldn't sell the horrifying absurdity of Girl Genius's mad science. I don't think it would match Phil Foglio's humor, but it works very well for Rich Burlew's humor.

 

[Brutus]

A Miracle of Science Mad Science in the Solar System

Crimson Dark A Space Web comic started in 2006 still on going.

 

[Argent]

Crimson Dark A Space Web comic started in 2006 still on going.

I remember that one from way back. I lost track of it but I am happy to see it again.

I will have to start rereading it.