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Miscellaneous => General Discussion => Topic started by: thirtyseven on October 21, 2012, 01:03:56 am
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What are some of your favorite webcomics? Inb4 xkcd. That's actually not even in my top 10 (I know, heresy ::)). Here are my top 10, in alphabetical order, with the two in bold being my overall favorites:
1. Buttersafe (http://buttersafe.com/)
2. Channelate (http://www.channelate.com/)
3. Cowbirds in Love (http://cowbirdsinlove.com/)
4. Doghouse Diaries (http://thedoghousediaries.com/)
5. Invisible Bread (http://invisiblebread.com/)
6. Left-Handed Toons (http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/)
7. My Cardboard Life (http://mycardboardlife.com/) (characters are actual cut-outs, cool stuff)
8. Optipess (http://www.optipess.com/)
9. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (http://www.smbc-comics.com/)
10. Toothpaste For Dinner (http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/)
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My favorite webcomic is Dinosaur Comics. Others I enjoy which you didn't list would be Cyanide and Happiness and the Oatmeal. And I agree that xkcd is overrated.
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The only ones that I actually follow these days are Goblins and Khaos Komix (NSFW). I used to read a lot more back in the days. I prefer story based rather than strip based ones.
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My favorite webcomic is Dinosaur Comics. Others I enjoy which you didn't list would be Cyanide and Happiness and the Oatmeal. And I agree that xkcd is overrated.
I enjoy those three as well. Dinosaur Comics I enjoy but don't follow because I prefer comics with fewer words. C&H I follow but it's not in my top 10... it's often too vulgar and immature to be funny. The Oatmeal could easily be in my top 10, but I wanted to include My Cardboard Life for its novelty and Toothpaste for being the first webcomic I started following. xkcd is hit or miss, really.
Edit: BTW I'd also try to put Bizarro in my top 10, but it's not technically a webcomic although it's in my Google Reader.
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Man I dunno what kind of webcomic hipster you have to be to call xkcd overrated. I kid, but I personally don't think anything else touches it. I like most of the ones mentioned, but I'd also add PHDcomics, Abstruse Goose, Amazing Super Powers, and Nedroid Picture Diary. Daisy Owl was also fantastic while it lasted. Oh, and Perry Bible Fellowship of course.
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xkcd is like what Nedroid is now: Amazing when it's good, but most of the time it's average.
Dinosaur Comics, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal are pretty good. MS Paint Adventures and Gunnerkrigg Court are nice if you're into story arcs and world-building. Have to give Gunnerkrigg the nod over MSPA, if only because MSPA takes a long time to catch up on.
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Recently discovered and reading through from the beginning:
Board 2 Pieces
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The Secret Knots (http://www.thesecretknots.com/).
it updates very infrequently. it's deeply indebted to Gaiman in style, particularly the Sandman. it's evocative and lovely.
And of course Homestuck.
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I used to love XKCD, still do, in fact. Just that in last year or so (maybe more), quality has drop drastically. It gets a gem here and there, but no more recursion DnDs and asking for game pointers..
Not mentioned, but I love Oglaf (http://oglaf.com/cumsprite/) - Warning, NSFW More often than not.
Little League (http://limbero.org/jl8/1) - was cutesey.
Cyanide and Happiness I don't follow, but it gives me a laugh often (and PLEASE, never abbreviate it as C&H, when talking about comics, that's Calvin and Hobbes). http://wumocomicstrip.com/ I used to read, not anymore. Order of the Stick I quit very early. Oatmeal I wouldn't classify as a "webcomic".
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Only following xkcd (really like it, although i agree the quality has dropped), but great idea for a thread, now i have something like 15 new comics to try.
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I read xkcd, Dinosaur Comics, Penny Arcade, SMBC, Doghouse Diaries, Perry Bible Fellowship.
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I mostly read XKCD, but occasionally SMBC. Not exactly sure why people think quality has slipped recently considering many recent (http://xkcd.com/1116/) comics (http://xkcd.com/1110/) and stuff (http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/), but each to their own I guess.
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For what it's worth, I like the new XKCD "What If" series (http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/) a lot. It reminds me of the best XKCD comics.
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great idea for a thread
Thanks!
The Perry Bible Fellowship (http://pbfcomics.com/) is excellent and high-quality, and would be in my top 3 if it updated regularly. Everyone should check it out if they haven't already.
Another one I enjoy is Super Mega Comics (http://www.supermegacomics.com/); its absurd humor and stick figure drawings are hilarious to me. I forgot to consider it in my top 10 because it's not in my Google Reader (no rss feed).
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I don't think xkcd is bad by any means. I actually like it and follow it. But it's still overrated when people treat it as this holy grail of webcomics. There are just a bunch of others which are consistently better in my opinion. I mean, I don't know the last time I've actually genuinely laughed at xkcd. I still occasionally find it somewhat clever or he does something cool like that click and drag world, but it's very rarely funny to me anymore. Though I do agree that the what if series is very entertaining.
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The only ones that I actually follow these days are Goblins and Khaos Komix (NSFW). I used to read a lot more back in the days. I prefer story based rather than strip based ones.
See I'm the opposite. I feel the webcomic medium is particularly bad for telling a long story. The most obvious comparison would be graphic novels, which I have read before and enjoyed, but webcomics are sort of like only reading one page at a time. I find it difficult to really get invested in the story when it just comes in such short spurts. And the other issue is that because each days comic has to function somewhat as a standalone thing, the overall flow of story is just very rough and choppy. And this is very obvious to me when I try to go through the archives of story comic.
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I used to read like 40 every day. No joke. I've scaled back considerably.
Now, I read:
Dumbing of Age
Shortpacked
Questionable Content
Homestuck
Wondermark! - makes me laugh out loud more than any other comic
Dr. McNinja
Dresden Codak
xkcd
Sluggy Freelance (because you never forget your first)
Bad Machinery (Scary Go Round, highly recommended)
Gunnerkrig Court
Spacetrawler (also highly recommended)
Dinosaur Comics
SMBC
Dead comics I loved:
Triangle and Robert
Beaver and Steve
A Lesson is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible (I did one of my major profile assignments for J-School on Dale Beran and he was amazingly fun to hang out with)
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Rice Boy
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Also, not a comic per se, but the Comics Curmudgeon (http://www.joshreads.com) is hilarious.
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For what it's worth, I like the new XKCD "What If" series (http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/) a lot. It reminds me of the best XKCD comics.
The new What If! Are brilliant.
I used to write stuff like that for my website back in the day under the title 'Ask Ozle' (i even had a 'what happens if everybody jumps at once question) , except mine was all made and intending to be humerous rather than proper science!
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Oh man, my list of webcomics used to be huge, but it's dwindled over the decades (three of them now, though obviously not 30 years). I still read:
xkcd
SMBC
Schlock Mercenary (surprised not to see this listed by anyone yet!)
PVP
Penny Arcade
Questionable Content
And used to read:
Sluggy Freelance (I stopped at the yet-another-alternate-universe thing a couple years ago. Cerebus syndrome without the plotlines to back it up.)
Girl Genius
Dr. McNinja
User Friendly
Least I Could Do
Something Positive
Two Lumps
Plus some defunct comics:
Miracle of Science (still online but story ended)
It's Walky! (still online but story ended)
Queen of Wands (still online but story ended)
Acid Reflux
Repository of Dangerous Things
Catharsis
...and others that I've probably simply forgotten.
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Only following xkcd (really like it, although i agree the quality has dropped), but great idea for a thread, now i have something like 15 new comics to try.
Exactly, now if I'm ever lacking in things to do, I have plenty of hour-wasting enterainment. Thanks dudes!
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The only ones that I actually follow these days are Goblins and Khaos Komix (NSFW). I used to read a lot more back in the days. I prefer story based rather than strip based ones.
Random fact - a friend of mine is the web designer for KK.
I have a massive list of webcomics in my RSS folder, but I don't have access to that at the moment. There are also a very small handful that don't have RSS feeds that I check when I still remember they exist.
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Plus some defunct comics:
Miracle of Science (still online but story ended)
It's Walky! (still online but story ended)
Queen of Wands (still online but story ended)
Acid Reflux
Repository of Dangerous Things
Catharsis
...and others that I've probably simply forgotten.
If you liked "It's Walky," you should really check out "Dumbing of Age" the new college reboot of the Walkyverse. It's really good.
I also met David Willis and his wife once at a Ben Folds concert in Columbus.
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Dilbert.
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Man, I've been so out of webcomics for a while.
I did follow along Something Positive for a while. I'm actually surprised to not see it on here more often. It's geeky, but it's also snarky and jaded. If you read the first comic and enjoy it, then the rest of the series should appeal to you. If you don't like the first comic, well, the rest isn't necessarily as crude as that, but maybe you're not into meanness.
I also enjoyed Order of the Stick, but I think you pretty much have to be a role-player to appreciate that comic, especially D&D.
Nodwick was a lot of fun to read. It's also an RPG-themed comic.
If you're not into RPGs, PVPOnline might be your cup of tea. It mostly dealt with online gaming, but there were still stories focusing on other facets of geekery.
I read Ghastley for a little bit. It's not so much that it's good, but it's bizarre and offensive. It pokes fun at most everything, especially things in Otaku culture. Also, there's plenty of blasphemy to go around.
I also enjoyed the Parking Lot Is Full. A lot of it was just wacky bizarre shit that didn't exactly work, but when it did work, it was lovely. I believe that series has ended.
I no longer keep up with webcomics, so I can't say anything about the quality of those nowadays or if they're even still being updated.
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I can't believe I left OOTS off my list! One of my all time favorites!
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Buttersafe and SMBC are by far my two current favorites. I still read Dr. McNinja, Questionable Content, and XKCD, but they've all slipped in quality over time and I may give them up at some point. I feel like I ought to regularly read Kate Beaton, Dinosaur Comics and A Softer World, but only look at them occasionally.
There are others I used to read, but no longer. The two worth mentioning, because they stopped updating rather than me losing interest, were Perry Bible Fellowship and Nobody Scores!
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Nobody Scores! was great.
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I feel like I ought to regularly read Kate Beaton, Dinosaur Comics and A Softer World, but only look at them occasionally.
a softer world! second only to dinosaur comics in my book. totally worth your time, especially because they are so short.
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2. Buttersafe / xkcd / penny arcade etc.
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For a great story-driven comic of epic length, 8-bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-going-where/) is a lot of fun. My introduction to the series was a flash video adaptation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIzjHgrvog) of the few dozen episodes.
edit: And apparently some guys made a video version where they're just reading the comic 10 episodes at a time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwgPqCadw6M&list=PL9C2ADFEAAB4D21A0&index=1&feature=plpp_video). It's not animated, but it might beat just reading it for some people.
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Hi, all -
I'll have to check out several comics mentioned... some of the ones I read have gotten stale.
Only one not mentioned here yet is Skin Horse - generally not LOL-funny, but I find it quite entertaining (and daily updates!).
- Matteo