Well, the best Webcomic that you didn't hear about until it ended is Kid Radd. It's kind of a pseudo-sprite-comic (it looks like a sprite comic, but everything in it is custom-drawn). The story is pretty typical, but also pretty well-written; most of the humor is character driven and on the most part they stay away from "pop culture" humor. It ran for two and a half years, covering 601 strips, and ending because the storyline ended. View it with IE or the latest version of Mozilla; it does a lot of things with animated .gifs that aren't supported under some browsers.
My personal method of self-flagellation is reading lots of bad sprite comics, but against all odds, occasionally one that crops up which is actually good. If you can stomch the shame of actually reading a sprite comic, you might want to check out How to Make a Sprite Comic in Eight Easy Bits. It's a somewhat self-referential comic about a poor, nameless author attempting to start his own sprite comic. The "art" is a step up from the typical sprite comic- a sprite from Megaman is only used as filler, and I've yet to see anything from Sonic: the Hedgehog- and the writing's pretty good. Be forewarned that the current strip is Halloween filler still.
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: What you *should* read
T, you should be reading Bruno the Bandit. It's well-drawn (sometimes the art itself makes me laugh) and, I think, brilliantly written. Ian McDonald does gentle satire, and very little escapes the skewer. There are six years' worth of archives, and it's worth reading all of them. There has been no drop off in quality in that time, IMO.
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 114 Location: Waterloo, ON
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:
I strongly recommend Triangle and Robert. The ongoing story of a triangle and a rhombus, already five years deep, that has no business being as intelligent, complicated, and funny as it is. _________________ "Does this dress make me look fat, Walky?"
"You're beautiful, Joyce. It's the WORLD that looks fat."
Here are a couple of comics I really like.
I'll assume you know of the really big ones already, but I have included some moderately well known ones just in case you've missed them.
Regular updates: Gods of Arr-Kelaan
Excellent story about the crew of a spaceship which find themselves stranded on an unknown planet - as its new gods. Divine powers included.
A Miracle of Science
A male Earth agent and a female Martian psychologist travel all over the solar system in their hunt for a sufferer of Science-related Memetic Disorder (mad scientist, in layman's terms)
Angels 2200
After a deadly plague, over 99% of Earths male population is gone, leaving the problem of who controls the battleships.
That's right. Lesbians in space. Only there's significantly more story than there is naked skin.
Tonja Steele
Funny strips about a tough female cop, her wacky friends and her adopted daughter.
Squinkers
Daily funnies centered on a Bed & Breakfast farm and the family running it.
Seldom updated: Absurd Notions
Hilarious strips about a couple of people living in the same apartment.
Kagerou
The usual "let's import a champion from Earth" fantasy story - with a twist.
Sea of Insanity
College boy finds that his new shared apartment comes with an assortment of Greek mythology. And a lake in the middle of the living room.
Ended/hiatus Unicorn Jelly (See also Pastel Defender Heliotrope by the same author)
Now this is what I call a REAL alternate universe.
The Call of Whatever
Upon discovering his considerable talent in the forbidden arts, Francis Black promptly quits his normal tech support job - starting an occult helpline instead.
Dragon Tails
I don't usually go for computer-generated art, but on the other hand I love cultural deconstructionism.
I hope you find these links worth your time.
Love the comic, by the way _________________ - Is this glass half full or half empty?
- I dunno. Are you filling it or emptying it?
Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 1666 Location: 59°20'N 18°03'E
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject:
Golden Age is about a supposedly retired gang of adventurers on the lam from the old folks' home and the fledgling adventuress hired to catch them and bring them back. Persevere through the early weak art and you'll get to enjoy some very good Pratchett-flavoured humour.
Or you could just watch my forum signatures for the next several weeks.
http://www.tsunamichannel.com - Tsunami Channel. Currently on hiatus, but it's one of the few manga-style comics on the web drawn by a Japanese artist. He's pretty good, too. It's a take on "dating sims" and their various scenarios (though the comic is strictly PG13).
http://www.krakowstudios.com - Krakow. There are two comics, 1.0 and 2.0, but 2.0 is close to completion and can be found at http://www.marilith.com. 1.0 is silly stuff and is normally updated MWF until recently as the artist has decided to pursue 2.0 with more vigor until it ends.
http://www.jushin-manga.com - Rules of Make Believe. Drawn by Julian, this is done in the old Hong Kong style of comics with realistic character designs and heavy pencil shading. The artwork is BEAUTIFUL. It's the story of several strangers in the slums of a fictional Asian country whose lives are connected to a game called "Gorge Fusion" which is operated at a seedy arcade called the Harlot. There's San, one of the Harlot's janitors who has familial ties to GF's founder; Jem, a caustic and secretive girl who somehow possesses a legendary GF fighter called "Dusteena Sleigh;" and Aida, a waitress at a night club who is trying desperately to earn money to pay for her younger brother's education.
However, it's not just "another gaming comic," since Ju fleshes out the world around the game and focuses mainly on the characters rather than the game specs for the comic. There's gang warfare, witch doctors, stoned playboys, and other fascinating tidbits. She has a thread in her forums dedicated to answering any and all technical questions; the game system mechanic has been COMPLETELY thought out, which is rare. So it appeals to fans of beautiful art, story, and technical details. Updates infrequently.
http://www.sgvy.com - Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki. It's "mahou shoujo" anime plus "Norse mythology." Done by the same artist who did "The Jar," SGVY has such hilarious things as Loki possessing the body of a plushie to move around, Odin in a fedora (ala American Gods), and the Auroch getting certain "parts" removed with a hammer. Ouch.
Phew. That's all off the top of my head. Do you read MegaTokyo at all?
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:01 am Post subject: Webcomic recommendations
Scarygoround at http://www.scarygoround.com ; wonderful wonderful funny as hell British comic that annihilated any reservations I had about computer-generated comic art.
Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 420 Location: Opatija, Croatia
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:
I'll chip in a vote for Count Your Sheep _________________ Ride The Wild Wind - Push the envelope, don't sit on the fence
Ride The Wild Wind - Live life on the razor's edge
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 660 Location: Jefferson City, TN
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject: A Post I Had to Wait 36 Hours to Make
Fuzzy Knights on the Kenzerco Games website. Even though the cast is all plushy animals, Noah Chinn compensates with good writing and imaginative storytelling techniques and plenty of fresh humor.
I'm also into the online Nodwick, Full Frontal Nerdity (also on the Nodwick site), PS 238--although that one seldom updates, and Dork Tower.
Sabrina Online has been a favorite for some time too...Eric Schwartz has a way of combining Disney/Warner-variety funny animal artwork with modern humor and a mostly believable cast. In that same vein, The Suburban Jungle also delivers, tho' its artwork isn't as polished. (But SJ updates several times more often than SO, so it balances out.) There is also NeverNever, originally by the same artist as SJ but now with a new artist who's very close to the original art style...but updates to that webcomic have been spotty.
I wish Alice! would return soon. This New Age Peanuts deserves a bigger audience and its playful reverence for artwork in general and old comics in particular is refreshing. The archives are very much worth a read. _________________ Stephen "FPilot" Bierce
Pilot's Log: http://frustratedpilot.livejournal.com/
El Goonish Shive - as their banner ad says, "It's Really Weird" but it's good.
Dominic Deegan - good comic that updates 5 times a week (soon to be everyday)
Errant Story - great artwork and story. I actually just found this one two weeks ago.
Antihero for Hire - "future" city with insane villains. Read "Adventurers" by the same author if you're into gaming strips
RPG World - another good one if you like gaming comics.
Men in Hats - more of a gag a day (or rather, three a week) strip than story based _________________ "There's this brick wall where understanding stops, and you're consumed and forgotten" ~ Dina, It'sWalky!
Ctrl-Alt-Delete is good along the vein of gaming comics.
Hypocritical Hero was good in its first vein, and now the author appears to desire starting from a new beginning. I'd check it out. Worlds of Gods and chaos, magics, etc.
Radioactive Panda, a comic i first stumbled across from a link at Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Mad Scientists, experiments, and a very large basement. Witty humor all around.
Van Von Hunter, updates every sunday. Hunter of Evil Stuff. The art is good, and it involves a large degree of humor. I'd recommend it.
VG Cats. If you don't mind the occasional disturbance that totally hurts your head.
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It's the story of several strangers in the slums of a fictional Asian country whose lives are connected to a game called "Gorge Fusion" which is operated at a seedy arcade called the Harlot. There's San, one of the Harlot's janitors who has familial ties to GF's founder; Jem, a caustic and secretive girl who somehow possesses a legendary GF fighter called "Dusteena Sleigh;" and Aida, a waitress at a night club who is trying desperately to earn money to pay for her younger brother's education.
