Comics List

[kane_magus]

(Minor list updates: 02-04-2009 09-05-2010)

I watched Yahtzee's rant on webcomics the other day. He's pretty spot on, as usual. Not saying that I'm going to stop reading web comics because of him, but he's still pretty much right. That's the weird thing about Yahtzee. He can utterly destroy a game (usually it's a game that he's ranting about, instead of an entire medium of entertainment) that I thought was absolutely awesome (e.g. Super Smash Bros Brawl or Mass Effect or Super Mario Galaxy, etc.) and yet I still think he's funny and often makes some good points about the games he's ranting about. I like Yahtzee for the same reasons that I like the Angry Video Game Nerd, the Nostalgia Critic, and Spoony. (Oh, and the fact that Yahtzee has made several awesome adventure games using AGS is another reason I like him, but I digress.)

However, I wasn't aware that Yahtzee was, apparently, ranting on a specific comic. I haven't read Ctrl+Alt+Del yet, but it's in my big "Comics To Maybe Try Later" bookmark list. After reading this article, I'm not sure now if this will put me off of ever trying it, or if it'll simply make me more likely to pick CAD sooner rather than later out of my "Comics To Maybe Try Later" list. *shrug* In this case, it's kinda like how the government and Jack Thompson and FOX and so on all talk about how horrible and disgusting GTA is, but it mostly just ends up as free publicity for Rockstar, you know? Makes one a bit curious to see what all the fuss is about, it does.

And now, just for the sheer utter hell of it, I'm going to post the list of comics I'm currently reading. It hasn't changed all that much from when I did it before, but whatever. I'll try to provide a bit more commentary this time than I did before to maybe liven it up a bit. Unless stated otherwise, assume that I like the comics in this list. (I wouldn't be reading them if I didn't, one would hope.) In (very rough) descending order of how much I like them relative to one another (aka the order they are in my bookmarks). Long list is long, so putting it behind a cut.

(Updated as of September 5, 2010)

I'm currently doing an archive binge through xkcd, so it's at the top of my bookmarks for the moment. It'll probably get moved down to a more appropriate position once I'm done with the archive dive.

• Penny Arcade. I think this may be the first comic I started following on a regular basis, though I'm not sure. It may have been Megatokyo. Anyway, I like it quite a bit. It's one of the few where I actually read the blog as well as the comic itself. Oh, and I bought their video game too, which is actually pretty good (it sucks balls that they're not going to continue the story in video game form, however). My favorite characters are probably Twisp and Catsby (can't have one without the other), or perhaps Annarchy. I tend to like non-main characters more so than the mains, as will probably become clear.
  
  
• MegaTokyo. I'm one of those who actually like it better now that it shifted away from the gag-a-day thing it was originally and became the more drama themed comic that it is today. Tohya Miho is my favorite character.
  
  
• It's Walky!. Well, I still follow the weekend-only Joyce and Walky free strips, but I haven't bothered to pay the pittance to get access to the weekly strips though. However, with that said, the main archives to the original Roomies-turned-It's Walky! are still available, and are awesome. Mike Warner is my favorite character.
  
  
• Shortpacked!. By the same author as It's Walky!, this one is set primarily in a toy store and is less an humongous epic story-line themed comic and more of a gag-a-day strip (though they do have continuing storylines, they don't seem to be as big a focus as IW!). Again, Mike Warner (same as above) is my favorite character.
  
  
• Axe Cop. This one is new since the last update. It is a comic that is written by a 6 year old boy and drawn by his 30 year old professional comic-artist brother. It's awesome. My favorite characters are probably the Baby Family.
  
  
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. Started reading this one fairly recently, i.e. within the past few months. The title basically says it all. Dr. McNinja is a doctor and a ninja. It was Gordito, but now my fav has to be King Radical.
  
  
• Clan of the Cats. This one's kind of on-again-off-again as far as updating goes, but it's still cool. The current story line in particular, involving Dracula, I find interesting, as it was long teased and so far hasn't failed to deliver (though it's been dragging on forever). I'm partial to Gustov in this one, though he hasn't been seen much lately. It's currently on hiatus, but the author still updates from time to time with some random art stuff.
  
  
• College Roomies From Hell!!! A long twisty tale of college roomates and their battles (eventually) against Satan. Can't really describe it any better than that. Sorry. Another comic where one of the mains, Mike Green, is my favorite. He's currently in an... interesting state of existence. He's alive and well again.
  
  
• Errant Story. A typical fantasy comic on the surface, there's enough little details in this one that makes it interesting to me. Jon Amraphel is my fav in this one... okay, so maybe it's not so rare that I like main characters in my comics. His little sister Sara is growing on me as well.
  
  
• Fans. This one had stopped updating for a long while and was, ostensibly, finished as far as I could tell. However, I heard recently that it had started updating again, so I put it back in my list. The main overall story is about the members of a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan club who are drawn into crazy and interesting adventures. It's cool. I'd have to say that Tim is my favorite in this one (not to be confused with Tim the Fanboy, another character in the same comic. I don't like him so much, for reasons that will become clear if you read the comic). Oh, and Tim's a main, too, so I guess my misconception that I tended to like non-main characters holds little water. Of the new crop of characters, either Hilda or Zaha (at least before she traded her body away, anyway).
  
  
• El Goonish Shive. This one is new since the last update. A comic about normal everyday high-school students, except that some of them have magic and super-powers and transgender ray-guns and get into increasingly freaky and epic adventures.
  
  
• Flipside. A fairly typical fantasy-esque adventure comic. The main character is a girl with a semi-magical jester outfit, whose personality totally changes when wearing it. She's extraordinarily outgoing when it's on, but pretty shy and timid when it's off. I'd have to say that Maytag, the main character, is my favorite. The more I see of Suspiria and her development, the more I'm liking her as well.
  
  
• Girl Genius. It's a kind of fantasy comic, except that instead of magicians, there are "Sparks", which are people who are incredible inventors/engineers, apparently able to make outrageous equipment and doodads out of pretty much anything. It's basically magic. Krosp, the emperor of all cats, is my favorite in this one. He hasn't played much of a role lately, though. :(
  
  
• Menage a 3. This one is new since the last update. A very NSFW comic, this is the story of three roomates (two girls and a guy). The guy's a virgin, one of the girls is a nympho who has made it her mission to get him laid (although she hasn't tried the obvious solution as of yet), and the other is an incredibly beautiful, but somewhat naive, tall blonde bombshell who has recently discovered that she's probably a lesbian. Hilarity ensues, and all that.
  
  
• Eerie Cuties. This one is new since the last update. This one hasn't been around all that long, from what I can tell, and is drawn by the same artist that does Menage a 3. It's a fairly typical comic about a high-school, except that all of the students are mythical creatures like vampires or werewolves or succubi and such.
  
  
• Girly. Another... odd comic in a line of odd comics from the same author. It's about two girls who go off on adventures together. Really strange adventures. Even though they're just bit characters and are rarely seen, my two favorite characters are Mariacho and Lambeda, the brothers of El Chupacabre (better known as Chuy). "WE ARE BROTHERS!" It's either them or Team Fast.
  
  
• Wandering Ones. A sort of post-apocalyptic story, it's about a clan of vaguely Native American-seeming scouts who are trying to make it in the world after everything went crazy prior to the beginning of the comic. It's kind of slow at time, but is still pretty cool. Don't really have a favorite in this one... maybe Jack Crow.
  
  
• Candi. It's a story about college friends doing college-type things. It's fairly typical as far as that goes, but I still like it. The author was (and I guess still is) a regular on the It's Walky! forums, which is how I found out about it, otherwise I probably would never have heard of it. I tend to not bother with comic forums so much anymore these days, though. *shrug* I guess I'd say that Menjou the ferret is my favorite in this one, as he's the only one who isn't a typical college student.
  
  
• Three Panel Soul. Made by the guys who used to do Mac Hall. It is what the title says it is: a three panel strip about whatever the author and artist feel like doing a strip about at the time. No real favorite character in this one, as it's not really that kind of comic.
  
  
• Dueling Analogs. Another gag-a-day video game comic in the same vein as Penny Arcade. That's pretty much it. I saw a link to it once on Destructoid, and they said good things about it, so I started reading it. That about sums it up. No favorite character in this on either.
  
  
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. A comic in the vein of Perry Bible Fellowship which is, in turn, in the same vein as comics such as The Far Side. Surrealist stuff. No favorite character, as there aren't really any recurring characters in this one.
  
  
• Nerf Now. A comic mostly about Team Fortress 2 (even though I have never played, and probably will never play, that game). It often features strips about other games too, though, which is why I keep it in my list. (The TF2 comics are pretty good as well, even if I don't get it sometimes.)
  
  
• Alien Loves Predator. Like Twisted Kaiju Theater, this is a "photoshop images of toys and make it a comic" comic. This time with an Alien and a Predator as the main characters, instead of Godzilla. It's pretty funny, but sort of erratic with the updates, which is why it's so low on the list. I like Abe. He's funny.
  
  
• Twisted Kaiju Theater. This is one of those comics where the author takes photos of toy figures, photoshops them, and turns it into a webcomic. Despite that, this one is rather good. The focus is on kaiju (aka giant Japanese monsters, like Godzilla). It's mostly about the gag-a-day humor, but it often features semi-serious, dramatic storylines as well. Space Hojo is my favorite in this one.
  
  
• Everything Jake. Back when this comic updated regularly, it was awesome. Nowadays, however, the author tends to update for a few weeks, then stop updating for seemingly months at a time, then comes back and starts the cycle over again. Favorite character is probably Megoth, but he hasn't been seen in forever, since the Senior Year story started. I'll be glad when that one (which is a prequel to the previous stories) wraps up and it gets back to the college timeline. It's back on the college timeline now, which is good. It still updates only sporadically though, which is bad.
  
  
• Sugar Bits. A original comic by the author who did the following comic as well. It's because of that comic (as well as another one he used to do but stopped updating) that I found out about this one. Favorite character is quickly becoming Robin, the fox girl. The closet furry in me approves. Apparently on hiatus at the moment.
  
  
• Power Puff Girls Doujinshi. Made by the author of Sugar Bits and GTFDB, both listed above. This is how I became familiar with this particular web comic author. Unfortunately, he stopped working on PPGD in favor of GTFDB, which he later stopped working on in favor of Sugar Bits before coming back to it (GTFDB). He stopped PPGD itself at a fairly good point, though it was still something of a cliffhanger, but then posted two pages of a follow up comic called "The Forgotten" which died pretty much as soon as it started. This one's updating again as well, along with Sugar Bits and GTFDB. Apparently on hiatus (again) at the moment.
  
  
• Alpha Shade. Another comic with alternate universe stuff going on. It's set in a kind of steampunk-ish environment. This one updates slow as molasses though, which is why it's not higher in the list. There are so many characters and the plot is kind of convoluted, so I don't really have a favorite character in this one. The art is incredibly good, however, which is why I continue to follow it.
  
  
• Lizzy. This one's interesting in that it's a flash based comic, complete with sound and (limited) animation. I don't have the slightest clue what's going on with the story, but I'm interested in finding out, at least for now. Don't really have a favorite character, but I kinda like the guy who's loosely based on Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies. Currently on a hiatus. I think it might be updating again now?
  
  
• VG Cats. Ostensibly about cats who play video games. Most of the strips seem to be random game-related stuff not fitting with the cats theme, though. It doesn't update very often, which is why it's not higher in the list. Otherwise, it's pretty good. Don't really have a favorite character in this one. It updates like a glacier moves, though, which is why it's currently at the bottom of the list.

And now, here is the list of comics that I used to read but don't anymore, because they stopped updating (either because they were actually finished, or because the author just got bored and stopped updating altogether). I'll be sure to note which is which. Some of these that had stopped updating may actually be updating again for all I know, but I haven't bothered to check any of them in forever, so I don't know.

• 8-bit Theater. Sprite-based comic based on the original Final Fantasy. Very roughly based. Sure, the sprites are from the game, and the overall plot vaguely follows the plot of the game, but that's about it. Rare in that one of the mains, that being Black Mage, is my favorite.
  
  
• Exploitation Now. By the same author as Errant Story, listed above. This one was finished, and not just stopped mid-stride, even if that ending seemed slightly abrupt to me. I think the author was a bit impatient to start working on Errant Story. Favorite character was Jordan.
  
  
• Cutewendy. By the same author as Girly, and of which Girly is a sort of sequel. This one came to an end, so to speak, but the comic was rather random anyway and so... yeah.
  
  
• Wendy. By the same author as Girly and Cutewendy. Stars a character who looks almost identical to and shares the same name with, but is apparently not the same as, the character in Cutewndy. But some characters in Wendy are in Girly. It's kind of confusing. This comic just kind of trailed off and died. Girly was started at first as an interim comic until the author's interest in Wendy returned, but it never did and so Girly became the main comic. It has a fairly extensive archive, though, and may still be a good read for anyone interested. Sadly, the author has removed this one from the Internet. Bits and pieces can maybe still be found on archive.org, but it's mostly just gone now.
  
  
• Alice. Um, okay, this comic used to have an actual site and not just an index listing, but apparently not anymore... Okay, it has a normal page again, for what it's worth. I think this comic did come to an actual ending eventually, but I stopped following it after the author entered one of those "go for several months without updating" kicks. I may come back and re-read it someday, assuming it doesn't disappear entirely.
  
  
• The Perry Bible Fellowship. Sadly, PBF no longer seems to update. Can't really say that it came to an "end" per se, since all of the individual comics are stand alone and don't relate to one another at all. Like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, it's way on the surrealistic side. I preferred it to SMBC, honestly.
  
  
• Bob and George. A Mega Man sprite comic. Involving lots of convoluted and really hard to follow time travel. Rather funny. It eventually came to a logical conclusion (as logical as it could be, I guess). The author is now currently re-running the archives as though it were a new comic, which is kind of confusing, but the full comic is still available by accessing the archive page directly, luckily.
  
  
• Bradley Star. A weird comic by the author of Everything Jake. It didn't get very far, because apparently people just didn't get it. I kinda liked it though, but I wish he'd have worked on EJ instead of this.
  
  
• Mythos and Magic. A spin-off of Clan of the Cats. It eventually just stopped updating, and there's not really that much of it there, but what there is there is somewhat interesting.
  
  
• Mac Hall. By the same author as Three Panel Soul. A much bigger comic in scope, it was based on the antics of a group of guys in college, for the most part. It was pretty good. It kind of just stopped, but the author did "officially" end the comic, and didn't just wander off like some seem to do.
  
  
• Avalon. Another college based comic, this time set in Canada. This one just sort of petered out in the end, with the author going increasingly longer between updates before finally stopping altogether. He eventually posted a text script on the site to tell how the comic would have ended, so there is that, but it's just not as satisfying.
  
  
• As If!. The main gist is a group of high-schoolers doing high-school-ish things. Set in the 80's. Archives are available only in zip format now, but still, it's worth a read. *sigh* This one appears to have just completely disappeared off the face of the Internet. Oh well.
  
  
• RPG World. A comic with intentionally stereotypical RPG characters set in an intentionally stereotypical RPG setting. It was good while it lasted, but near the end, the author just stopped updating. Apparently, from what I've been able to gather, the goers of the forum for this comic were collectively huge assholes, and the author just got fed up with it and stopped bothering. I could easily be wrong about the reasons for him quitting though. Maybe the forum goers became huge assholes because he became ever more infrequent in his updates, I dunno. Though the website is still up, it appears that all of the actual comics are just broken images now.
  
  
• NSFW Warning: Ghastly's Ghastly Comic. Again, NSFW warning, because the comic on the main page is, well, NSFW. This one came to an abrupt end due to real life circumstances in the author's life. It's a rather quirky and very risque comic, but I liked it on the whole.
  
  
• King of Fighters 2001. Another aborted attempt by the author of Sugar Bits, GTFDB, and PPG. Only 13 strips.
  
  
• Star Cross'd Destiny. I'd read through this one a while back up to the end of the archives, and then it kind of stopped updating for a really really long time, but now that it's updating again, it's back in my list. Based in modern times, but with characters who possess magic-like abilities. Seems to involve alternate universes and such, but the plot hasn't really opened up yet. Based on what little I've seen of the characters so far, Pike is my favorite character. This one hasn't updated in forever, though, due to apparent hard-drive crashes and other personal life issues of the author. If it ever starts updating semi-regularly again, I might move it back up to the active list.
  
  
• Grim Tales From Down Below. By the same author as Sugar Bits. It's a sort of uber-crossover comic. It's based mostly on the cartoon The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but includes characters from other sources ranging from The Nightmare Before Christmas to Todd McFarlane's Spawn comics. The author had originally stopped updating this one in favor of Sugar Bits, which was annoying, but has since started updating both of them again. Favorite character is probably the new, much older Mandy. The inner perv in me approves. This one has finished.
  
  
• Book Elves. Or Alfheim. I dunno what it's actually called now, really. This used to be called Elf Life. Now, there's, like, three or four different, but related, comics running at the same time. The main storyline just kind of stopped a few years ago, and for the longest time it wasn't touched, while the author started on a prequel comic, but then the author started another new comic set an indeterminate amount of time after the point at which the original one stopped. So I don't know what's going on with it. He also has a tendency to just stop updating altogether rather often. I'm tempted to give up on this one. I've pretty much given up on this one altogether. Dunno if it still updates or not as I haven't checked it in forever.
  
  
• Fantasy Realms. Another "would be good but it hardly ever updates" comic. This one is a rather typical fantasy-themed comic, but the art is good, so I keep it around. I'm tempted to give up on it though. I've more or less given up on this one as well, as it hasn't updated in almost a year or so. No, this one has pretty much officially ended, or been abandoned, however you want to look at it.

And now, because I'm still awake and not yet sleepy, here is my ginormous list of "Comics To Maybe Try Later". Bare minimum of commentary here, because I know very little about most of these. Basically, when viewing the comics listed above, a banner ad for another comic would catch my eye. Or else I'd see someone mention the comic on a forum or in a LJ post or in IRC from way back in the day or something. Or saw them in Wikipedia's list of web comics. Or whatever. And then I'd surf to that new comic. And if it piqued my interest enough, I'd throw it in the "Comics To Maybe Try Later" list. Every once in a while, maybe every three or four months or so, I get bored and go through the list and pick whichever comic looks most interesting to me at the moment and start reading it. Most recently, Girl Genius was the lucky comic to get moved from the "Comics To Maybe Try Later" list to my list of comics that I actually read. I'm always adding new comics to this list, and I will never ever actually read all of them, but oh well. At any rate, going through this list now in order to put them in this LJ post will give me an opportunity to prune out or update any dead or misdirected or duplicate links that may have accrued since I last checked them. Anyway, long list is long, so also behind a cut.

Wow, I'm actually glad I still have this list here in this LJ post, because I'd lost the list of bookmarks when I switched computers a few months ago. Don't know if I'll ever get a chance to get around to trying most of them, but it's nice that it's there.

• Lowest Common Denominator. This comic crossed over with Clan of the Cats on more than one occasion, which is why it's here. I've just never gotten around to reading more than a few dozen strips though.
  
  
• Dinosaur Comics. I've actually read quite a few of these, but I don't like moving them from this list until I've actually finished their archives up to the current time, thus it's still here. It's pretty good what I've read of it, though.

Okay, beyond those two, I don't really know much of anything about the rest of the ones on the list aside from the fact that something or another about them caught my eye and got them added to the list, so few, if any, comments and mostly just a big ass list. This is where you, the reader of this post (assuming there are any at this point, or will be after this point), comes in. If you've read any of the comics on the list below that you particularly liked and want to recommend (or particularly hated and want to anti-recommend) lemme know.

• Earthsong
  
• Demonology 101
  
• Ghost Hunters
  
• Haru-Sari
  
• Nowhere Girl
  
• AppleGeeks (via MegaTokyo)
  
• Aoi House
  
• Chugworth Academy
  
• Ctrl+Alt+Del (ah, the one that prompted this post, albeit indirectly)
  
• Dominic Deegan
  
• El Goonish Shive
  
• General Protection Fault
  
• Melonpool (via a crossover with It's Walky! back in the day)
  
• Metroid Third Directive (via Bob and George)
  
• PvP (via several mentions on Penny Arcade and elsewhere)
  
• Saturnalia
  
• Sexy Losers
  
• Penny and Aggie (via Fans and others)
  
• Sinfest
  
• Sluggy Freelance (I think this may have been the first comic that I'd ever heard of even before Penny Arcade, but I've just never gotten around to actually reading it)
  
• Something Positive
  
• Tsunami Channel
  
• Unicorn Jelly (another one I heard about long ago, but just never got around to reading, for whatever reason)
  
• Wish³
  
• You Damn Kid
  
• Girl Heroes (author was/is a regular on the It's Walky forums)
  
• Clone.Manga
  
• Devil's Gate
  
• Templar, Arizona
  
• 9th Elsewhere
  
• Abstract Gender
  
• Aikida
  
• Alien Dice
  
• Angel Moxie
  
• Argon Zark
  
• Radioactive
  
• Full Frontal Nerdity
  
• Questionable Content
  
• Misfile
  
• Sore Thumbs
  
• Striptease
  
• Æther
  
• Talismen
  
• Kagerou
  
• Airshell (seems to be currently out of service but not totally dead?)
  
• Tangle
  
• Sarah Zero
  
• Moonlit Battles
  
• Hikari
  
• Wicked Powered
  
• The Echo Chronicles
  
• Planet Karen
  
• Edwitch
  
• Zap
  
• God Mode
  
• Abby's Agency
  
• Devil's Panties
  
• Out There
  
• No Pink Ponies
  
• Darken
  
• No Room For Magic
  
• Count Your Sheep
  
• Paradigm Shift
  
• Maq #041
  
• Mystic Revolution
  
• Purgatory Tower
  
• Ethos
  
• Sin Angel
  
• No Need For Bushido
  
• Exiern
  
• Pinky TA
  
• Dresden Codak
  
• Juathuur
  
• Project ROL
  
• Two Rooks
  
• Silvarta
  
• Triquetra Cats
  
• Erfworld
  
• The Dreamland Chronicles
  
• The Last Days of FOXHOUND (via Bob and George, iirc)
  
• Tales of Pylea
  
• Half Assed (likely the reason this guy isn't updating Everything Jake as often as he could be)
  
• Digital Unrest
  
• Key
  
• Khaos Komix
  
• Lola
  
• Roza
  
• Lulaby
  
• Captain N: Tales of Videoland (I think this one was recommended by my nephew a while back, iirc)
  
• Xylia
  
• Breaking the Magic
  
• Studio 7
  
• Antiseptic Poetry
  
• Titus and Mal
  
• Red String
  
• Renaissance
  
• Gun Baby
  
• Garanos
  
• The Zombie Hunters
  
• Wayfarer's Moon
  
• Anders Loves Maria
  
• Gunnerkrigg Court
  
• Nobody Scores
  
• Fatebreaker
  
• Blackbird
  
• My Guardian Angel
  
• The Prime of Ambition
  
• The Broken Mirror
  
• Downfall
  
• Daisy is Dead (via Girly)
  
• Akashik
  
• Sorcery 101
  
• ExtraLife
  
• Strange Someone
  
• Cwens Quest
  
• The Cyantian Chronicles
  
• Last Blood
  
• Angels 2200
  
• Menage a 3
  
• Electronic Tigers
  
• Vampire Phantasm X

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...right.

Yeah.

I think that deserves a hearty W. T. F.

Okay, long list was most definitely long. Much longer than I was expecting it to be, in fact. This exercise ended up being one of those "I'm so tired, but I started this and now I'm gonna finish it, by god" things. Except that I'm not going to go through and double- and triple- check each of those links like I usually do for my posts right now. I'll leave that for tomorrow.

I even managed to just make it all the way through the entire 4:10:09 of my Persona 3 playlist (see Current Music, above).

(And to think that the last two in that list are two that I added during the whole process of doing this).

Comments

[ex-narumi508.livejournal.com]

add Queen of Wands (which has finished) and Punch n Pie to the need to read list as they crossover with Something Positive and the Main Character of QoW ended up as a side char in Something Positive. (The two authors like to torture each other in rl)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so the second is the sequel to the first one? Looks interesting. I'll check it out.

[ex-narumi508.livejournal.com]

yeah PnP is a sequel to QoW sorta...it goes with side chars, not the main cast

[yamen.livejournal.com]

Whoa. You really really need to be reading xkdc (.org) It's overtaken Penny Arcade and Cyanide & Happiness as the comic that is most likely to make me laugh. It's got lots of very nerdy humor, but it's done extremely cleverly. One of my favorites includes the line "Is this the vet's office? Hi. I just took the Fourier Transform of my cat.."

(Also, remember to read the Alt-Text on every comic by mousing over it)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

So I just checked Cyanide & Happiness because I hadn't heard of that one either), and apparently it started on my birthday (1-26-2005). Neat. Both have been added to the list.

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

You should read PvP (http://www.pvponline.com/) and Sore Thumbs (Thumbs) right away. The reasons for this are because (1.) they are awesome and funny and (2.) "Sore Thumbs" draws many of its jokes from current political events, so they kind of have an expiration date.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I read a few months into the Sore Thumbs archives a while back, but just kind of trailed off after a while. It did seem a bit dated, true enough. Not that I didn't like it, but I just got distracted by something else and haven't yet gone back to pick up where I left off, and didn't want to move it out of the big To Try Later list as per my entirely arbitrary policy. Though at this point, since it's been quite a while, I'd probably just start over from the beginning again.

[sailorzeo.livejournal.com]

I think you can get most of Sore Thumbs on Wowio, if you want a somewhat faster read than clicking through archives. I started it, but lost interest fast.

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

i tried sore thumbs, but it just wasn't that funny. ah well. Marry Me by the same writer (i think) was very very good for what it was.

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

Hurray you read Flipside and Girl Genius and Grim Tales from Down Below! My favorite Flipside character is Bernadette, though I totally agree with you on grownup Mandy. ;)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Bern's pretty awesome too. I'll be glad when she gets that second magic sword and they can finally get rid of Bloody Mary. I don't like BM all that much. I mean, she's a good villain and all, but she's a bit too grotesque for my taste. >_>

[sailorzeo.livejournal.com]

GPF. Totally. Huge archives, been going for a long time, and while the creator had to take a fairly long hiatus/reduced schedule for about a year, year and a half following the birth of his first son, he's back up to three days a week. It's mostly storylines, with one HUGE year-long storyline a few years back, and it's very well done. Lots of geek-humor, programming, science fiction, fantasy, time travel, and parodies.

Templar, Arizona is good, if you like odd things. Spike's a little slow on updates, especially when she's working on getting a new book together, but the pages are worth it. I enjoy it.

I like Penny and Aggie, as well as Cool Cat Studio and Menage a 3, all by the same artist. I believe P&A and CCS have the same writer, too? I'd have to check. Menage a 3 just started, so the archive is only 5 strips. :) CCS and P&A are also available on Wowio for "back issues." Sometimes, it's faster to read the pdfs than the archives.

No Pink Ponies is fun, even if Eisu went on hiatus during the time he was drawing Marry Me (again, it was "cute," but the ending seemed too rushed to me for what Bobby Crosby wanted--boy's ambitious. The website is "marrymemovie.com")

God Mode is on its third artist/writer. It's gruesome, gross, and disjointed. Meh.

PvP: Totally. Read it now.

Sluggy Freelance: the original webcomic gateway drug. The early years were best. I went back and caught up on it, but IMO, it's now a mess.

Striptease: Good read

Wicked Powered: a "sponsored comic," sponsored by Wicked Lasers (thus having plugs and placement throughout it), the sponsorship ended, and it's now in a "time loop," aka, reruns. What there was before the time loop started was okay.

Dreamland Chronicles: Beautiful rendering, and when the storyline's not in the middle of a battle, good writing. But it can be S-L-O-W, because the author definitely writes in book-style, not daily-style. There are weeks where all that happens is maybe one setup and explosion. Again, one for Wowio downloads, read in batches, rather than a daily reader.

My thoughts.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks. I tend to move the ones for which I get personal recommendations (as opposed to "Ooh a banner ad. Neat. Clicky.") further up in the list so they'll be more prominent when I start going through looking for a new comic.