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I do a webcomic called Abstract Gender (abstractgender.com) and I know Rym and Scott are webcomic fans, so I figured I'd start a thread for people to talk about the comics they read.
I recently read one called Inverloch. It seems rather popular from what I can tell. The art is great, and the story I think is equally as good. It's a fantasy comic with a lot of dialogue and not a whole lot of action, but its more about telling the stories of the party of characters then it is about having cool action scenes.
I'll post a list of everything I read later, hopefully after the thread gets some posts.
I recently read one called Inverloch. It seems rather popular from what I can tell. The art is great, and the story I think is equally as good. It's a fantasy comic with a lot of dialogue and not a whole lot of action, but its more about telling the stories of the party of characters then it is about having cool action scenes.
I'll post a list of everything I read later, hopefully after the thread gets some posts.
Comments
Inverloch is great. I don't know what I like about it, since the story is quite generic, but I like it to the point that I bought the first volume of the print (all of which I had read) when I saw it in a store near me. The story is... wolf-thing leaves home on quest, meets people, does stuff, weird elf-shit, weird elf-shit gets them in trouble, weird elf-shit is main point of story, weird wtf-shit saves girls life. Even so, I love it. It has charm and extremely beautiful art which only gets better.
PS. sorry if grammar sucks, it is late.
Comics I love and read regularly:
Perry Bible Fellowship
8-bit Theatre
Order of the Stick
Dr. McNinja
A Lesson is Learned, but the Damage is Irreversible
Boy on a Stick and Slither
Scary Go Round
Questionable Content
VG Cats
Penny Arcade
Sam and Fuzzy
Fallen
Errant Story
Dominic Deegan
Comics I still read, but wouldn't likely pick up if I'd found them now:
Megatokyo
Eversummer Eve
Real Life
Okashina Okashi
College Roomies from Hell
El Goonish Shive
Comics I used to read that ended:
Thin H Line/Sexy Losers
Exploitation Now
The Bad Boys of Computer Science
Reman Mythology
Parking Lot is Full
RPG World
Comics I actually stopped reading:
Sinfest
Skirting Danger
Sunday Morning Coffee
Dub This
Edit: Added comics I forget to mention as other people mention them, thus reminding me ;^)
VG Cats
Penny Arcade
Megatokyo
Questionable Content
Fallen
Real Life
MacHall
Staccato
The Wotch
Cheer!
Apple Geeks
8-Bit Theater
Two Kinds
Misfile
Chugworth Academy
Punks and Nerds
Discordia
Alpha-Shade
Las Lindas
Better Days
Anime Arcadia
Angry Zen Master
Seal of the Devil
My Extra Life
Poisonwood Ink
Inverloch
Comics I read, but wouldn't likely pick up if I found them now
El Goonish Shive
Soroka Refugees
Sins
Yosh Comics
Questionable Content is by far my favourite, though it hasn't been as good lately (still the top, though!)
Megatokyo: I agree. I like it, but wouldn't pay money for it.
I'd like to point out I was being very harsh with inverloch's story. What I said was like saying, for Star Wars: A New Hope: "Geek kid is told he's cool. meets cooler dudes. Old dude dies. Girl is safe." Technically correct, but misses the flavour.
With Errant Story, I read it for ages. Then there was a mini story that ran for too long, and I didn't notice when the real story came back, and haven't read it because I don't know what's going on and can't be stuffed going back. How lazy am I?
I could give you the full list of what I read, but I don't know how many posts it would take
Currently my favorites are probably Fallen and Inverloch. I've loved Fallen since I read it, and I wish Aido would make more, but I know she's busy. Inverloch though will fill my fantasy comic gap until there is more Fallen I guess.
Boasas
8-bit Theatre
Penny Arcade
Dr. McNinja
Order of the Stick
Webcomics I read regularly, but wouldn't if I discovered them today:
Megatokyo
Real Life Comics
Webcomics I read whenever someone sends me a link:
Perry Bible Fellowship
VGCats
Webcomics I would still be reading if they didn't stop making strips:
Bad Boys of Computer Science
Webcomics I stopped reading:
Bob + George
I know there are more comics that either died or I gave up on, but it was so long ago that I forget.
www.dubthis.net
I used to read upwards of 60 comics at one point. Now I only read two regularly: Dominic Deegan and Penny Arcade. I also occasionally read No Rest for the Wicked, VG Cats, andPBF.
More than one person has suggested No Rest for the Wicked, and Emily turned me on to Inverloch. If their archives are as addictive, I may have to update my list yet again. ^_~
I'm waiting untill Sky and Winter McClould (daughters of Scott McClould) start a webcomic. It'd better happen: They're just too lively to not try somthing like that. I was really impressed talking to Sky at Scott's talk here at RIT yesterday. She was way more confident, vocal, and verbose than any other 13 year old I've met, and if her father has had any affect she's bound to do good work. Probably be another 3 years or so, though.
I'll recommend No Pink Ponies and Girls with Slingshots as two really good comics I found/read recently.
Rob and Elliot is a fun one, follows the buddy formula of Penny Arcade but good nonetheless.
Achewood, hilarious.
Concerned for the HL2 buffs (I can't believe no one has mentioned this one)!
Gone with the Blastwave, needs an editor but has amazing art and is only about 25 panels long so far, well worth a peak.
Bunny is fun when I am bored to tears at work.
Oh, and props to Rym or Scott for mentioning Wondermark in, I guess, the MOCA episode. Humor at its finest, if I do say so myself.
Comics I love and read regularly:
Penny Arcade
8-bit Theatre
Zebra Girl
Fallen
Family Man
Digger
Cascadia
No Rest for the Wicked
VGCats
Dr McNinja
Comics I still read, but wouldn't likely pick up if I'd found them now (or comics I pick up every few months):
Strange Candy
Megatokyo
Machall
RealLife Comics
Realms of Ishikaze
Sinfest
Errant Story
Inverloch
Comics I used to read that ended/hiatus:
Return to Sender
RPGWorld
Exploitation Now
There are probably more but they don't come to mind just now... I'm looking forward to Brimstone Soup. :D Haven't heard much news about it for a while though. But if it's still being mentioned by people here then I guess I can safely continue looking forward to it. ^_^
Current: Order- alphebetical, that's how they are in Firefox
5ideways
AG
BlackBird
ASPS
Comedity
DD
Ever After
Friendly Hostility
Gorgie Porgie
Hunting Party
Inverloch
Khadgaros
Lakadaisy
leveL
Life og Buddha
Mac Halls
MT
Modern Sorcerer Shishiro
Myralice
No Crap!
No Rest for the Wicked
Pandect
Papercut
Kitsch
OOTS
Venus Envy
VG Cats
Getting Caught Up
Little Gamers
Schism
Niklear Power
PPG Doujin
Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Sporadic
Shounen-Ai Kudasai
Hybrid Genesis
Finished
Boy Meets Boy
Arcana
Given Up
Incubus
others
finally, there's the waiting list. i get incredibly about getting through the getting caught up that some stuff gets deleted due to the fact i don't want to look at it or the links die. i'm not typing those out
It's one sick, disgusting, bad quality web comic that is absolutely hilarious.
Also, I am disgusted by the fact that none of you read Copper!!
It is by far the most beautifully drawn webcomic that I have ever seen...
Quest to Nowhere: Wanwamar
Its fairly new, but we seem to have a pretty good number of readers.
Good goddamn, I've been reading that for as long as I can remember having more than two webcomics on my Daily reading list.
I won't type out the whole thing - I'm lazy - but there are about 60-odd on the list.
- VG Cats
- 8-bit Theater
Comics I read for no particular reason:
- Fanboy$
- Mistakes of Youth
Comics I read despite the fact that they scare the hell out of me:
- Tomoyo42's Room
Comics I like, but am waaaaaaaaaay behind on:
- Megatokyo
Currently, after having trimmed down my 40 webcomic bookmarks a few weeks ago, my bookmarks are (in order):
Applegeeks - Awesome comic. Love the art and is hilarious.
Applegeeks lite - Applegeeks lite. Can't say more really.
Comedity - Awesome comic. Love the multiple personalities a lot. Random Trivia and Ninja are the most win, then Prime and Inner Cool guys shirt.
Better Days - Comic about a brother and sister and their lives and how they deal with it. All characters are anthro and the writer doesn't back away from explicit content. The current page is the sister and her friends at a strip club for women.
El Goonish Shive - It's insane. Bookmarked it when just having found out about webcomics. It's going slow and isn't that awesome when the pace is slow. Catching up is fun... but it needs speed and momentum.
The Phoenix Requiem - It's just starting, first five pages are up. The artist behind this recently finished Inverloch, a nice fantasy webcomic, and now is starting this.
Misfile - Somewhat the same as Abstract Gender only with cars and angels and stuff. From the about cars page: "(for Christ's sake, it has a POT SMOKING ANGEL IN IT)"
The Dreamland Chronicles - Afaik all is made in a 3D enviroment. Looks nice, is about the land of dreams where kids go of to at night. Now put an adult who spent a damn long time of his childhood nights there back in Dreamland.
Abstract Gender - Kiey's comic. Needs faster updates! Latest artist is the best imho.
KIWIS BY BEAT! - Painted comics about Minus, a young girl with magic powers. It has awesome art and awesome stories about the 'daily' life of Minus (and the occasional friend)
Orneryboy - Hmm... Started reading this after having seen an avatar with the zombie in it. Brian is awesome! And the main force driving me to keep following this comic.
Mistakes Were Made! - Urban Dead inspired comic. Having played UD myself for ages I like it. Art's decent, it's at the start of the second story arc one could say.
Gone with the Blastwave - Awesome arts, really really awesome. No set update pattern, it updates when it updates. Found this comic through a signature version of the image that made the artist start this comic. All they could find was a spoon.
Looking for Group - Fantasy comic. Good art, good story, awesome Richard.
Bolt City... which is the link to Copper - Awesome art, Copper is awesome.
Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life - Story about robots after humanity has died centuries ago. Follows 2 friends travelling from planet to planet. Was dead for some time, recently updated so... let's hope it continues updating. It's supposed to have some psychological stuff in there.
Order of the Stick - Still catching up on this one, if I want to read it.
xkcd - Catching up, when I read some.
chopping block... - A webcomic (mostly single panel) about a serial killer. Very nice. Apparently it's still being updated, still have to backtrack through all the comics... There are LOT!
And yes she's the best artist yet easily.
Cyanide & Happiness
Questionable Content
Penny Arcade
Uhmmm... I participated in one, Studio 64, and I didn't do very well. I can really only do paper comics...
Ones I read:
Ctrl Alt Del
Dueling Analogs
Punks and Nerds
Marry Me
Ones I stopped reading:
Goobs
8 bit theater (only because it'll take forever to catch up)
Ones I loved but they stopped:
Mallmonkeys
PPG doujin
minus
Minus is pretty great. The art is very nice - it uses watecolors, and it's pretty distinctive. In terms of story, it's very much "whimsical, early-newspaper style dream-like adventures", except with a bit of a bite. The guy writing it describes it: "With this comic I am pretending I am making a comic strip for a newspaper in the early 20th century. A special newspaper that lets me use as much color as I want, because real papers have limitations on that sort of thing. Or maybe they did in the past I'm not sure!"
Dresden Codak
Dresden Codak is good, but it has some major flaws. First the good stuff: The artwork is pretty incredible, the characters are pretty interesting, there's at least some intellectual background to it, and probably quite a lot, and it's still funny most of the time. The bad stuff: the layouts are often impossible to follow, it seems like a lot of the intellectualism is almost faked, and there's a vibe of fanservice - one gets the impression that the creator only does certain things because he knows they'll be appreciated by a large audience. Still, it's worth a look.
Templar, Arizona
Templar is great. It has very well done art, but the writing is what does it for me. The characters really strike home as realistic, even though the comic is set in a very odd, non-existant town in Arizona. The only real problem is that it updates at a glacially slow pace. Still, it's very good, and I highly recommend it.
Overcompensating
Overcompensating is often very, very funny, and the art is distinctive but good. Give it a chance.
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gunnerkrigg is a really good story comic. It's about Antimony Carver, a young girl who attends a rather odd boarding school, Gunnerkrigg Court, and her friends. there's also an overarching plot about the division between the school and the nearby forest. It's really not as similar to Harry Potter as it seems. The art style is a really cool cartoony thing (it's currently on a brief hiatus, so what's up right now is in-character art by the main characters). Neil Gaiman Recommended!
Achewood
I absolutely love achewood, but it's very much an acquired taste. Still, give it a chance.
Bad Wecomics Blog
I love this man.