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Webcomics- Good and Bad, what are you reading?

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:38 / 16.09.03

The Good

Achewood

It's been dullsville for a year now but it used to be so so so good. Any strip with Todd or little Philippe in is awesome. Anything with the tiresome fucking cats (Ray and Roast Beef) is dull as hell. Still cracks me up from time to time.

White Ninja Comics

This is the funniest thing ever. Quality varies but I nearly pissed myself laughing so many times over this. (Example of why this is the funniest thing ever

The Bad:

Uncanny X-Sprites

I hate these people forever. Mega Man sprites you say? Geeky UXM in-jokes you say? Fuck you, I say!

Jack Fear

15:39 / 16.09.03

This has come up before (a couple of times, in fact). The two above-linked threads will led you to an interesting cross-section, I think.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

18:55 / 17.09.03

Dude. I love Roast Beef.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

06:37 / 18.09.03

Roast Beef is the Wolverine of Achewood in many ways.

Overused.

I still love Achewood though- I made this:

The Strobe

06:50 / 18.09.03

You're not allowed to be hating on Achewood. It's better than it's been ever at the moment, really - we're getting a comic every day for starters!

Beef and Ray are great. Stop hating. And Wolverine may be overused, but he's still fucking sweet so where's the argument?

Jrod

08:35 / 18.09.03

Agreed, Achewood is the shizznit. Lie Bot is great role model for children.

Speaking of geeky sprite comics, I gotta mention 8-Bit Theatre. Sometimes stupid as hell, sometimes pure genius, usually funny. Example 1, example 2, example 3, respectively. Unless, of course, they're all stupid as hell.

Sword-chucks, yo!

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

08:57 / 18.09.03

Yeah. With Beef it's all about hearing his tiny voice.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:10 / 18.09.03

Ray and Beef are really good when used in a larger cast- see the classic "party" arc and most of the first year, but recently they've been hella overused and the strip suffers. Plus it seems to be moving towards hacker humor and oh god no. I miss little Philippe. And Ultra Peanut, she was the fucking shit.

Remember when Phillippe was possessed by Billy Idol? The times we had?

The Strobe

09:30 / 18.09.03

It is not a bicycle, Phillippe.

It is a SEX BICYCLE.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:40 / 18.09.03

You'd better believe I have wicked sack Todd

Jack Vincennes

21:38 / 19.09.03

Don't thank me, thank Anarchy! Yes, Achewood is good.

So is Diesel Sweeties - daft, trivial, and so consistently both of the above that it ends up being very funny. And rstevens doesn't take days off because he decides he can't draw (the reasons why this is the case should be fairly obvious from the comic...)

I also read Wigu, although I am not always sure why.

grant

14:36 / 05.12.03

I tend to read lots of Wigu once every two months or so -- it seems to work better that way.

I have just discovered this:

A Softer World.

And it is beautiful.

grant

14:43 / 05.12.03

(for the record, i resized that strip to fit the post -- the original is slightly larger and much more legible.)

Doctor Singapore

22:32 / 15.12.03

Sluggy Freelance (mentioned on prev. thread) is a classic.

I'm also a big fan of Scary-go-Round which is the sequel to Bobbins, (also on the past thread).

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:27 / 22.12.03

Scary go Round always reminds me of Ladytron for some bizzare reason. Hmmmmm.

Wigu tends to be shit unless you read it in big lumps. Like New X-Men!!!!

LOL J/K!!!!! etc.

malpractice

16:01 / 22.12.03

Young Bottoms in Love is fantastic - the best gay comic on the 'net. In fact, the best gay comic in THE WHOLE WORLD ever.

matsya

05:10 / 23.12.03

you must read:

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I S O M E T R I C

plus this humble cartoonist would be gratified if you visited his own webstrip (see below)

Jack Vincennes

09:17 / 23.12.03

The artwork for Scary-Go-Round is so good that I've tried for ages to get into it, but never really liked the writing particularly... the current plot arc is brilliant though, and now that I know who the characters are I'm probably going to keep reading it.

Does anyone else read Death To The Extremist? You have to read some of the archives to make it worthwhile, but there's something inherantly good about a comic about two static quarter-spheres...

Happy Dave Has Left

09:41 / 19.06.07

I thought Lithers would appreciate this webcomic - The Guy I Almost Was. It's awesome, and the site it's on looks like it has some really nice other comics too.

_Boboss

11:02 / 19.06.07

i'm sure there's been a barbelink to Sound of Drowning before, but it certainly bears repeating. personally i think the quality of the strips varies wildly, but at its best, i.e here it's one of the finest things i've read this year, right up there with alice in sunderlnd and in a not too dissimilar vein. nice chap too by all accounts.

Rhayader

09:38 / 26.06.07

I have to share this with you Nintendo nerds:

Nintendo Super Squad

There are 62 strips so far, and it's probably the best ongoing strip I'm reading for the past few months. The art is insanely diverse, and it portraits famous Nintendo characters like some perverse maniacs.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:53 / 27.06.07

I still like Cat and Girl's randomly surrealistic stuff, although it tends to swagger into overly-hipster territory sometimes and loses the funny a little bit.

But I like this one, and this one's my absolute favourite.

CameronStewart

04:29 / 27.06.07

Plug Mode Engage!

My own webcomic has just gone online and will be updating weekly. It's part of a new webcomics group called Transmission-X, featuring stories by members of my studio and a few others. The site is still being ironed out and some content from the contributors is still missing, but it's basically operational...feedback from webcomics aficionados would be appreciated!

wicker woman

05:30 / 27.06.07

Looking for Group and Dark Legacy Comics (www.lfgcomic.com and www.darklegacycomics.com)- the pinnacle of WoW-related funny stuff. LFG is definitely more plot-driven and somewhat more serious than DLC.

Octopus Pie (www.octopuspie.com) is a fantastic new one. There's only been about 20 strips so far, so it's easy to catch up on. It's very much 'this is my life' with the funny added.

The Perry Bible Fellowship (www.pbfcomics.com) - Think an evil, sardonic version of Chick tracts.

As for video game comics you might not have heard of, VG Cats (www.vgcats.com) is brilliant. More reliable than Penny Arcade for the funny. The strip he did on Spore was the best video game comic EVAH.

dinosaur comics (www.qwantz.com) -... yeah, I'm not even going to try and explain this one.

Crestmere

06:45 / 02.07.07

www.lowbright.com

Derek Kirk Kim.

Love his stuff. One of the people who made me broaden my creative horizons to include comics again.

And he is apparently doing something for the DC Minx line soon.

I'll happily take otehr recommendations and check them out.

Mooot

14:41 / 02.07.07

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Thank you so much.

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