Webcomics

[Anthile]

I don´t really know where to put this thread, but due to the gaming topic I decided to post it right here.
In my opinion webcomics are a very creative and fresh medium.

Anyway, which ones do you read?


I have recently "finished" (read to the newest strip) Order of the Stick, a humorous webcomic about roleplaying, but at the same time with a serious plot, that´s worth reading.

xkcd, I guess, is very famous among INTP. It´s absolutely brilliant.

Looking for Group started as a WoW/RPG-parody but turned soon into a semi-serious epic fantasy story. Very nice artwork.

And I am currently reading 8-Bit-Theater (four sociopaths are trying to save the world, but killing thereby even more innocents than the villains) and 1/0, which is just weird.

 

[Jesin]

I am currently reading [...] 1/0

Yay! It worked!

 

[sagewolf]

I like 1/0, too, and XKCD is just brilliant.

If I had to recommend one, and only one, it would be The Makeshift Miracle. It's about Cody, who's in a depressed rut until he finds a strange girl in his backyard and travels to another dimension with her (it's been a while since I last read it, though.) Every different page in monochrome, but in a different colour each time, and it looks brilliant. The plot's good too, of course. ^^

But Outside The Box is great too. It's flash-based (only for panel transitions, though); the plot is split up into the first, longer story and a second, shorter story-- that's called One Shot, and that's what it is. Again, I like the art style a lot, and the plot I find incredible.

 

[VGD]

Giant in the Playground, home to Erfworld, parody of tabletop games that evolved into it's own, and Order of the Stick, humorous parody of DnD, although the author's been stuck in a rut lately with his current arc
Penny Arcade, THE video game webcomic to read, also one of the first
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC), laugh your balls off
Legorobot Comics, MS Painted hilarity
Sinfest, updates once everyday, decent art, interesting commentary on religion, politics, art, and everything else in between
Thinkin Lincoln, interesting webcomic drawn in Flash by tracing the visages of famous figures, while having said figures act like 10 year olds.
Horribleville and BeePower/ComicsWithoutViolence, both done by KC Green, the former on a hiatus with the latter ended, insanely random (not the shitty Invader Zim type) humour
Perry Bible Fellowship, although ended, a MUST read for anyone that reads webcomics
A few others:
Wondermark
Bigger than Cheeses
Misfile


You lose the INTP name if you read mindless dribble such as Ctrl-Alt-Del or Shredded Moose.

 

[Kidege]

Girl genius
Questionable content
and all the stuff by the SugarSkull Comics Collective. Like Goodbye Chains... it's a left leaning slash oriented western. Awesome stuff.

 

[bdubs]

I'v been enjoying http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1

It might give you a bit of a Harry Potter vibe, but it feels a lot deeper then that story line. All I can say is that I reccomend reading a chapter or two.

 

[flow]

I might have to check some of these webcomics out...hmm

 

[Aces High]

My god, I read a few from Ctrl-Alt-Del and the Shredded Moose, and I believe my IQ just dropped a few points.

 

[Kuu]

Its been a while but Dinosaur Comics were fun

Perry Bible Fellowship was the best! It never failed to bring out a morbid cackle. Definitely worthy of an archive binge.

 

[Fordy]

I'm currently getting well into Questionable Content.

And does nobody else read Cyanide and Happiness?
Not exactly a clever webcomic, but it's still funny.

 

[Ogion]

Xkcd.
I read for a while Questionable Content, but i couldn't really get into it, because i have no connection to "Indie" Music/culture...
1/0
Crimson Dark, a Scifi with 3D-art, computergenerated images.
There were a few others, but right now i can't really remember.

Ogion

 

[boku]

And does nobody else read Cyanide and Happiness?
Not exactly a clever webcomic, but it's still funny.

Really love those, but there were also a lot with forced randomness imo.

 

[Waterstiller]

xkcd
1/0
PBF
A Softer World
Venus Envy/Misfile/Abstract Gender

 

[JoeJoe]

Here are some funny German comics, but without story, just single pictures.

 

[Anling]

I have a whole huge list of webcomics that I read. One that I really like, but is finished, is Miracle of Science. Mad Science is a contractible memetic disease in that comic and Mars is a group mind.

 

[Jesin]

El Goonish Shive. Read, or the owl will eat you!

 

[Da Blob]

doo not know if this is useful but ...
Welcome to Comic Strip Archive!
Chttp://www.comicstriparchive.com/

 

[gameshow]

Has anyone mentioned dresden codak? Someone could have. I am notorious for skimming through things. I don't care if people call it pretentious. I am all about pretentious shit.

Now I will explore my handy collection of new tabs.

 

[FacetiousPersona]

The 'xkdc' series is interesting.

 

[Vexbeast]

Hmmm...

xkcd
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Cyanide And Happiness
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Captain SNES
Penny Arcade
Sinfest
Girl Genius
Gone With The Blastwave

 

[abandonship]

http://www.perfectstars.com

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Webcomics, what do you read?

I've just discovered this:
http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_041.html

Of course this makes me very happy.

Oh, and yada yada yada yada bla bla bla
Webcomics something something bla bla yada?

Do I really need to make an effort here?
I figure you're all smart enough to figure out the purpose of this thread.

SELF GRATIFICATION, ah I'm so honest.

Edit:
I think I'm falling for the main female protagonist of this story... what? We are all geeks, of some sort, let me indulge in a little fanboyish veneration; that or I'll declare war on the Final fantasy universe, I'm already beating up Christianity on a regular basis.

 

[Anthile]

Re: Webcomics, what do you read?

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Re: Webcomics, what do you read?

I'm in a good mood.
(That was an honest, happy smile, really it was)

...
If this changes, doom.

 

[loveofreason]

*merged threads*

 

[Artifice Orisit]

... doo,
*returns to a passive ambience*

 

[Fukyo]

Ahh,well Jesin got me hooked on EGS...
Gotta pick up on that again...

 

[Weneolan]

What Birds Know updates sort of infrequently, but the story's pretty fascinating and rather creepy.

Rice Boy and Order of Tales are absolutely worth a read for anyone with the slightest inclinations toward the surreal. The first has been wrapped up, and the author is in progress with the second.

I get a big kick out of Darths & Droids, having been a Star Wars nut for years.

And of course MS Paint Adventures, which will be at the end of its current story once the author finishes up with the epilogue.

 

[saffyangelis]

]
And of course MS Paint Adventures, which will be at the end of its current story once the author finishes up with the epilogue.

I read that (on and off) for about three days, and I still haven't finished it.

In fact, I have no idea how far I was.....

(It was funny though)

and now, I'm trying to archive binge on all of the ones posted here. This could take a while. Wish me luck =P

 

[Insanity]

I love to read CTRL-ALT-DEL...great comic, been reading it for years.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

8-bit theatre
smbc <-- kickass
SNAFU comics
The Phoenix Requiem <-- best story comic I've read
do red vs blue comics count?
Holy Bibble<-- Two people rewrite the bible-very funny. If you go, read the old webcomic or nothing will make sense.
Questionable Content<-- if you can stand indie references and that its basically friends.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Dr McNinja, great artwork & story, also pretty funny.
http://drmcninja.com/

 

[Thaklaar]

Sam and Fuzzy - Started as a pretty normal strip about a cab driver and his best friend, a psychotic teddy bear. Got weird from there.
Schlock Mercenary - Travel the galaxy! Meet fascinating life forms...and kill them. Epic sci-fi. Epic archive.
Templar, AZ - Just like Arizona in our world. Except, no, it really isn't.
Achewood - Well, there's this cat who's depressed and this other cat who always wears a thong for some reason and a bunch of stuffed animals and they all use just mad cusses all the time and...no, you know what. There's no way to make this comic sound good. But it is, okay. Trust me.
Something Positive - If you hate people like I hate people, you'll love Something Positive. The misanthrope's best friend.

 

[Anling]

@Cog
Dr. McNinja is hilarious. More people should experience this.

 

[Chronomar]

1/0 and xkcd. I would read more, but I have been focusing on traditional literature recently. It works like a pendelum for me, for about a month I will do not-very-traditionally intellectual things, and then for another I will be entirely absorbed with the classics. Same for music...Talking Heads one week, Beethoven the next. Anybody else have that?

 

[Anthile]

My new favourite at the moment: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

 

[thoumyvision]

Abstruse Goose
Some might say it's an XKCD ripoff, but I think it's different enough and awesome in its own way.

Hijinks Ensue
A humorous tribute to geeky pop culture.

Hipster Hitler
What if Hitler had been a hipster? It eventually boils down to the same joke over and over again, but amusing for the first 20 or so.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Looking for Group and Robert Jordan!
WOOT!!!

 

[Cogwulf]

Looking for Group and Robert Jordan!
WOOT!!!

links would be useful.

 

[a detached retina]

@ Thaklaar in regards to "something positive"

Hear "You're the good things" by Modest Mouse lyrics:

...You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake
You're the extra ton of cash in my sinking life raft
You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep
You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out
You're the good things(x3)...

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Reference to Robert Jordan on two levels. http://lfgcomic.com/page/33

 

[420MuNkEy]

http://almostmakessense.com/

 

[Nauiz]

ifeelawesome.net

Just in case anyone feels like plunging into an existential abyss,full of moody far-out thinking, PAW's is really quite good. (Lots of apathetic social commentary). Sometimes I can't tell with Pete Toms, whether he's being really sarcastic, or really deep....

 

[duke of new york]

Nowhere in this thread has marriedtothesea.com or toothpastefordinner.com been mentioned? Those are brilliant, and I thought pretty well-known. The author wrote a book, too, which is pretty good. I think I'm gonna go post a thread about it in the literature forum.

 

[Amagi82]

I tend to only like comics if they use stick figures. I'm not sure why, but it's been nearly universal so far.

I follow Order of the Stick and XKCD, which have been mentioned several times. I also like Cyanide and Happiness sometimes, and The Magnificent Whatever has occasional moments of brilliance (though it often sucks).

 

[duke of new york]

I tend to only like comics if they use stick figures. I'm not sure why, but it's been nearly universal so far.

Then you should definitely try toothpastefordinner.com. It's not exactly stick figures, but it's even better.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I haven't followed these for awhile, but I consider them all pretty good

SMBC
xkcd - A lot of the hard science stuff goes over my head
plastic Brick Automaton (formerly Lego Robot Comics) - I remember reading the Reese's strip back in 2008, it's crazy how it ended up a meme
Cyanide & Happiness

 

[TheSirSuperb]

I think you guys will like MSPaintAdventures. http://www.mspaintadventures.com/

 

[Oedipus]

^

Also http://www.threewordphrase.com/

 

[Cognisant]

"BASIC" has received the Cog stamp of approval, give it some love.

"Will save world for gold" is also really good, but it already updates daily.

"BASIC" is just starting, if it isn't nurtured by regular visitors it may die in it's infancy.